10 Video Game Enemies That Scare the Crap out of You

It’s the moment in a video game that you do not expect and are not happy about.   You come across some kind of enemy that you don’t quite know how to kill not to mention it’s something that scares the hell out of you.

I guess it’s a good sign when said character does in fact scare you.  It means the game creators did a good job.  Still though, it’s uncomfortable.

This isn’t a new topic but we came up with our own list of 10 video game enemies that scare the hell out of us….

Thanks to Cracked, Listverse, and Joystick Division for their respective lists that helped us form this one.

Cherubs in Doom 3

You have to go back to 2004 to remember these guys.   It was Doom 3.  The game sucked.  Let’s get that straight.   However, you have to admit these guys were a little frightening when you first came across them.

Goro in Mortal Kombat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9-jO8M0OI4

I don’t know about you guys but I remember the first time I came across Goro on the Genesis version of Mortal Kombat.   It scared the living shit out of me.   Seriously.   I guess once you learned to take him on he wasn’t so bad but what an intimidating force.

Anything Water Related in Sonic

Can you remember a sound that was scarier than the water countdown in Sonic?  I can’t.

Piggsy – Manhunt

Piggsy only thinks he’s a pig. In reality, he is a mentally ill man who is locked away in an attic who wears a pig head mask and nothing else.  Kind of reminds me of that crap Saw wears.

Lisa Trevor – Resident Evil: The REmake

She was the human test subject on numerous experiments that mutated her both mentally and physically. The Spencer family researchers gave her “type-B” Progenitor virus, along with her mother, who received the “type-A.” Lisa unfortunately survived this infestation.  Ouch.

Poison Headcrabs – Half Life 2

When you first see these things jump at you it’s not a good moment in your life.

Evil Otto – Berzerk

Looks harmless right?  Wrong.  Did you know that two gamers actually died of heart attacks in the 80s after getting a high score?  Yeah.

Kusabi – Fatal Frame II

Call me crazy but this guy is definitely related to Shang Tsung.

Pyramid Head – Silent Hill II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOlrZVuU83s

He appears as a strong, tall dude that wears a big sheet around his waist. His head is adorned in what looks like a torture chamber that has a single slit drilled into it.  Seems scary enough to me.

Crimson Head – Resident Evil

If you happen to forget to set a zombie on fire after lighting it up, it will stand up, red with anger.  In other words, don’t piss this guy off.

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43 Comments

  1. one game that never gets a mention on these lists is The Suffering and its sequel. those were the most messed up and frightening games i’ve played. the spider made out of a mutilated person with machine guns attached to the front like front legs was insane and really hard to kill, especially later when there were three or four of them. i think they should do a third installment of that game.

    and also, i thought that Piggsy wore a full pig carcass, not just the head

  2. Also watched most of the Silent Hills being played ( because I was too chicken ) downloaded the 4th one and played for about 4 minutes seeing that I was in a dark abandoned hospital… uninstalled.

  3. has none of your played dead space? that game scared the &%$# out of me. it was mostly the atmostphere. playing it in surround sound didnt help either. great sound mixing in it. but the monsters were horrifying too. the regular sisscor handed guys were ok when you got used to them, it was the big rhino ones that chased u that scared me.

  4. i always found the scrap monsters in “metal arms :glitch in the system” scary. you murder them they reform and sprint at you twice your running speed slashing at you.

  5. I have no mouth and I must scream beat these. I couldn’t finish it when I got to the Nazi concentration camp hospital scene and it was an adventure game.

  6. lol HORRIBLE list.
    The guy who made this list isn’t really even a gamer..
    Your missing out on the new games, which have WAY scarier creatures. Even if its is from cracked and other sites.

  7. ONe of the scariest things I played when I was a child was “The 7th Guest” and the scariest part of that game was navigating the maze in the basement. Hitting those dead ends freaked me out.

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