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The 10 Most Terrifying Video Game Enemies of All Time

cracked.com — Since the Golden Age of Atari, there have been video game enemies who are so unpleasant that they made us question the existence of a higher power. We at Cracked pay tribute to the rogues' galleries of yesteryear with this list of the 10 most trouser-soiling bad guys in gaming history.

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  • cmuwriter, on 05/13/2008, -1/+82Yeah those headcrabs in HL2 sure were a bitch, it was a good thing you usually got back most of your health after they bit you.
    • mywhitenoise, on 05/13/2008, -1/+22Those are the only enemies in a video game that have really scared me. I'm getting a headache just thinking about them.
    • DaMacGamer, on 05/13/2008, -0/+104The fast zombies (that run at you and screech) scarred the living ***** out of me even more.
      • macweirdo42, on 05/13/2008, -0/+33God... That ***** screeching... It still haunts me. I can handle anything else in the Half-Life series, but damn, I hear the echoes of the howling of fast zombies in the distance, and I just freeze up.
      • mcballz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+44Yes the running/jumping zombies from HL2. Those were terrifying. The poison head crabs were pretty manageable.
      • StealthMonkey, on 05/13/2008, -0/+36The first time through Ravenholm, when I saw (and heard) those guys for the first time... I ***** everywhere.
      • Atomic05, on 05/13/2008, -0/+20Scary as hell the first few times. There you are just finding out you can cut zombies in half and light them on fire and set traps that light them on fire or cut them in half and then those scary ***** start jumping out of every dark alleyway to rattle their way up storm drains and make horrible noises at you.

        The worst was that one street you have to run down with the two black headcrab zombies at the end, the regular zombies that keep spawning, and the single trap that seems to offer refuge and then ***** breaks. And thats all *before* fast zombies start running at you over the rooftops.
    • gwaggy12, on 05/13/2008, -0/+13*Administering Antidote*
      • 8bitflu, on 05/13/2008, -7/+1*Wanting a Poison head crab to latch onto gwaggy12*
    • meister94, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7I always wait until they jump and nail them with the crowbar. It always kills them in one hit.
      • Vapor17, on 05/13/2008, -1/+13you must have balls the size of grapefruits
        • dougmc, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3You know, they can treat that now. It's not debilitating for the rest of your life like it used to be.
    • macweirdo42, on 05/13/2008, -0/+18Doesn't matter if you got your health back though, does it? Because the instant you heard that noise, that noise that indicated that they knew where you were, and you didn't know where they were, you froze up and soiled yourself.
    • Narishma, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5Sure they are scary, but I don't think they actually can kill you. If they bite you your health goes down to 1, but then it starts regenerating. I stoped being afraid of them when I figured they couldn't kill me.
      • D4rkDrago0n, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10but everything else can!

        you just need a chair to fall on you and you'd die.
    • Pake, on 05/13/2008, -2/+2Scary? Hardly. I actually got tired of running into them because they are more nuisance than anything. The Trites from Doom 3 make the headcrabs look like a child's toy..
      • jgtg32a, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2True they weren't overly scary they just would always get your undivided attention, never mind the 30 zombies around you kill that head crab.
        • Pake, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Eh, never really gained my undivided attention either. They were easy to avoid by just looking every couple seconds and constantly moving. I saved killing them until the end of the battles since they were really no threat.
    • sab0tage, on 05/13/2008, -0/+10I think the poison headcrabs are more of a nuisance, however the fast zombies coming up the drain pipes still ***** me up. That howl they have and the glimpses of their silhouette against the sky was a great precursor to their attack, which made Ravensholm one of the best bits of Half Life 2, I couldn't wait for it to end though.
      • joegibes, on 05/18/2008, -0/+2Ravenholm is one of the best bits in GAMING, ever.
    • locriology, on 05/14/2008, -2/+2Poison headcrabs are definitely but they are nothing compared to Barnacle. I shat myself every time I saw that tongue hanging down from the ceiling, or discovered why I was mysteriously floating towards the ceiling.
      • grimward, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1And that panting sound.. augh... CHOP.. ***** now I've got the willies.
    • monoa, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I'm getting sweaty palms just thinking about them. Time to fire up HL2 *again*....
  • P4NNY, on 05/13/2008, -3/+65Almost every mutant from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Shadow of Chernobyl was terrifying. Especially the bloodsuckers, controllers and snorks. And the first rat you encounter in Oblivion :)
    • jawagas, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Indeed, most of stalker is very creepy.
    • SuperVepr308, on 05/13/2008, -4/+4I played that on a friend's PC and it looked awesome. I wish it would have come to the 360:(
      • sexybobo, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7If you are really in to FPS like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I would invest in a good pc. FPS just arn't the same when they are on a console.
    • StealthMonkey, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8S.T.A.L.K.E.R. should totally make the list... some of the stuff in that game puts the scary running zombies from HL2 to shame.
      • spawnfree, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3agreed.
        hunting a squid face for ten minutes around old derelict shacks, all the time being able to hear its distant breathing, then turning around to find it looming over me made me jump harder than any game ever has
    • Enasni1212, on 05/13/2008, -0/+12Ahhh, STALKER... You go through the beginning of the game only worrying about the mutant dogs and boars, which could be pretty damn scary at night (try playing the game with the darker night mod). Then I was walking though the sewers under the military base, fighting bandits and military... and then I hear something shriek at me, and promptly got raped by a bloodsucker. I was at low health on Master difficulty, and the thing came up behind me and just killed me in one or two hits. That was probably the single scariest moment in my gaming career. I didn't play the game after that for days.

      Of course, it only gets worse, what with the snorks and controllers and possessed scenery. I literally ducked the first time a bucket got flung at my head in the first lab. What a great game.
    • Viriatus2, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5the most terrifying scene is when that field near the lab is full zombies. The sound they make is horrible and they are pretty hard to kill. A fast shot to the head is the only good solution.
      • jgtg32a, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2A fast shot to the head is always the solution.
    • Fixion, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5The first time I encountered a controller was under the military base in the sewers, I almost crapped my pants. After a while the controllers weren't bad, but the invisible monsters still scare me.

      That was one of the best games I've played so far.
    • grimward, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1My nephew whose never scared of anything (he went through doom 3 laughing most of the time)
      told me he nearly shat his pants the first time he got raped by one of those invisible demons underground :D

      Personally, I felt that the most scary portion of the game was when you had to go up against the brain scorcher/ghosts ... and the times you wandered into a rad field.
  • Carrot1991, on 05/13/2008, -2/+58What about that moon thing in super mario bros 2 that would chase you if you got the key? Or the gibdo in majoras mask?
    • jawagas, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7The music that played with those moon things in super mario bros 2 haunted my nightmares for years.
    • Zarokima, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5The Dead Hand (I think that's the name) from OoT. It's that white thingy with all the white hands from the ground you have to fight at the end of the Kakariko well and in the Shadow Temple, where you can only beat it by letting it grab you then it comes up to eat you and you have to shake free and slash at its grotesque, protruding face.
      • SaiaRiddle, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Oh hell... I thought I had blocked that from my memory. I HATE that bloody thing.
      • KingBabi, on 05/16/2008, -0/+2Yeah, OOT was ***** terrifying. ReDeads were awful as well. In all their Link-humping glory.
    • chromecast, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5"Phanto" was the name of that think from SMB2
    • jglaser, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5I also never liked the angry sun in SMB3.
      • thebigbradwolf, on 05/23/2008, -0/+1add to that the guy in the cloud that throws spikey backed things at you.

        The only time the sun was a problem was in the dark part of world 8, until of course, I found out you can go down the quicksand at the beginning.
  • mentallyinhell, on 05/13/2008, -2/+23Man, I really hated those headhumpers.
  • paulg2000, on 05/13/2008, -8/+22Dugg for Out of this World alone. I love(d) that game!

    Which reminds me: http://digg.com/gaming_news/Another_World_Out_of_t ...
    • MSstar, on 05/13/2008, -7/+2nice try, but dugg down
    • Viriatus2, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3yeah i remembering playing that game in a IBM PS/2 at a friends house. It was the first game i played with samples. It is awesome to play it even today.
    • mustang460, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2thx for the link, out of this world was one of my favorite snes games
    • punkcat, on 05/13/2008, -2/+2Out of This World deserves a big FU from me. oh you forgot to get the key from screen 3 and now you are on screen 4? well looks like you're going to have to restart the whole thing.
  • soundsofreason, on 05/13/2008, -13/+1Don't know why I thought of this after reading the headline, but I'd give anything to have Jack T., Hillary, and Bill O'Reilly as villains in a game... or pedestrians that are more than capable of sucking on missiles from my boom stick.
  • SarahSue, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Oh, how I hated that dog!
  • Lephtovermeet, on 05/13/2008, -0/+31Sinistar was ***** invincible
    • yohnstoppable, on 05/13/2008, -0/+11Beware, I live!
    • thephosphorbox, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I loved that game in the arcades as a kid!! I remember it took me forever to figure out how to harvest up the little pellets by bumping the asteroids LOL
    • thetanbark, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Not to mention a voice so evil it makes grown men cower.
    • Coffeedemon, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1That was my first time in an arcade - think I was 8. I thought I was just playing Asteroids with more ships when I heard "I Hunger" spooked me pretty good.
    • numlok, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Run Coward! Run! Run!
      RRRRWWWWAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!
      =:-o
  • navster15, on 05/13/2008, -3/+41The Samus clone from Metroid Fusion scared the everloving crap out of me. You're all alone in this desolate space station trying to contain a parasite when all of a sudden you are hunted by yourself, only with all the weapons you've lost and near invulnerability. Hell, I was still scared even when I finally got the power up to kill it because it was just so freaky.
    • gutistg, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I loved that game. Now I have to play it again.
    • chromecast, on 05/13/2008, -1/+6Samus clone scared me too. How about Link's Shadow in Zelda II: The Adventures of Link?
      • Enasni1212, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4That thing wasn't so much scary as bastard hard. Until, of course, you find out that fighting it near the tree makes it slower. It killed me pretty quick the first time I encountered it. The second time, the battle took like 15 minutes before I died. Then I figured out the trick. It was kinda disappointing, in a way.
  • Lambach, on 05/13/2008, -0/+15Scissor-man from clocktower on the PlayStation was by far the scariest enemy of a game. Somehow he could hide in the same locker you just checked 2 seconds ago. Of course I was like 12 when that game came out ,but none the less. That game was scary as hell.
    • paidhima, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2RAmen, brother. Every time I heard that "ka-shing, ka-shing" sound I died a little inside.
    • Kadratis, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Same here. I even seeked out the game a few months ago and eventually got it. Still as scary as it was 10-ish years ago!
  • yohnstoppable, on 05/13/2008, -0/+32Those headless ***** in Serious Sam. It is the anticipation, when you don't know which direction they are coming from (usually all directions). All you can hear is "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
    • Viriatus2, on 05/13/2008, -1/+1booooMMMMM
    • mookieXL, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3"Aaaaah youself...uh-oh!"
    • LegomanArt, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2I'm just happy to see that some other people in this world were genuinely freaked out by those mother *****.
  • xdeliriumx, on 05/13/2008, -2/+65Pyramid-head! HELLO!
    • Tyorant, on 05/13/2008, -1/+7And what about the Heaven Smiles?
    • someidiotinnj, on 05/14/2008, -0/+7What about almost any monster from Silent Hill?
    • 30Seconds, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Heaven Smiles are the *****.

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
    • ZenMojo, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Pyramid head raping the mannequin legs scarred my little brother for life. (That's what he gets, I told him not to watch me play.)
    • grimward, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1I remember when I played through SH2 the first time, all I could think of at every turn was "oh ***** please don't let pyramid head be there" it turned from "explore your surroundings" to "RUN LIKE HELL!"
      Seriously, if somebody had gotten a very realistic suit of PH and scared me with it, I would probably die of fright, I have such deep fear for that enemy.... and it won't go away.
  • lordtyros, on 05/13/2008, -1/+45What about the Regenerators from Resident Evil 4? I dropped the controller when one I thought was dead did that horrific fish flop and sunk its teeth into my neck.
    • macweirdo42, on 05/13/2008, -0/+13I swear to God, those were the first things I thought of when I saw the title. ***** bastards.
    • blueishraptor, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5My sister freaked out when she saw that happened. That bastard Regenerator...
    • Enasni1212, on 05/13/2008, -0/+15Whoever designed those should get an award. Or get shot in the head. Everything about them was creepy as hell. That wheezing noise they make. The way they shuffle at you. The regeneration, of course. The way their heads and limbs just kind of inflate back to life after getting blown off. The way they squirm towards you when you blow off their legs. the way they just kind of latch on to your neck if you've blown off their arms. Ugh, fighting those things always made me bloody nervous.
    • warispeace21, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7I can hear their raspy breath in my dreams.
    • Muncher, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Oh yeah, I remember those.
      *assumes fetal position and begins sobbing*
    • L4WL3RS34L, on 05/14/2008, -0/+5If you're going to be talking about Resident Evil, then Lisa Trevor from the original and remake of RE1 was by far the creepiest thing ever. I pissed my pants when I saw her, but I just laughed at those stupid regenerators.
      • koob, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2that cabin she lives in. . . you go in see the fire going and think "oh a save place here in this nice cabin". then you read the journal. . . and hear the lurching noises. she was awful.
    • TaylorSmythe, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I had to stop playing Resident Evil 4, it just made me too uncomfortable.
  • scecilio, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I was killed by the chandelier the first time I fought the Poultergeist in SplatterHouse. The hall of mirrors was also scary because the first time I kept posing in each mirror until one of the reflections came out and tried to kill me.
    • warispeace21, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1All of the bosses in Splatterhouse were freaky as *****.
  • suzywang3000, on 05/13/2008, -8/+8no way, Mike Tyson was the scariest. He can bite ears off and stomp on your children's testicles.
    • johnnyblazepw, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1I agree, Mike Tyson should have been on the list. He was by far the hardest boss fight Ive ever had
  • duggtodeath, on 05/13/2008, -1/+109I'll only admit that in HL2, Ravenholm scared the ***** out of me. Doom 3 was a ***** cartoon by comparison.
    • Divals, on 05/13/2008, -1/+51When I first played HL2 I had never heard anything about the Half-Life series, never heard anything about Ravenholm or those bloody fast zombies, and I was playing at 3 AM with the lights off. I almost had a heart attack I was so scared.
      • iet2004, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Ravenholm was my worst nightmare. It was the first time I ever used cheats in a video game. i looked up all the codes to generate ammo cuz I just knew that I'd hang myself from a ceiling fan before getting caught in there w/o bullets. ***** integrity!
        • sexybobo, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3impulse 101?
          I forced my self to play through it the first time. Was really fun when you find out you can start chucking things at them with the gravity gun instead of just shooting of course i found that out after i was down to 2 USP Match rounds left.
        • tyywebb, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Well I just played on easy so I guess I suck pretty bad.
      • abadonn, on 05/13/2008, -1/+4When you hear the storm drains rattling quickly for the first time and you go "Whats that?" and two seconds later it's "OOOOOH FUUUUUCK"

        It wouldn't have been so bad if I wasn't always out of ammo.
    • JAFFA, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Very scary! Those super-fast-spacking-out-things were mental. I spent most of the time squinting through one eye and blasting away like a loon at ANYTHING on the screen.

      Pure terror!
    • cryonix, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2when i first played Ravenholm it freaked me out, then my girlfriend played it, i just sat and watched. when she was through i asked how it was... "not that bad"!!! she is one tough girl. "those spider things were getting annoying though"
    • sexybobo, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2I will admit first time through ravenholm I stooped playing and went to sleep after that chapter and all night i kept waking up thinking i was hearing those damned zombies and headcrabs. Only video game i ever had that problem in.
    • stoneking2312, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2credit where it's due, ravenhom is freaking awesome. But calling Doom 3 a cartoon is a stretch... its the only game (short of resident evil 2 back in the day) where I had to take a break to catch my breath... personally though, I blame the lack of proper lighting for that one.
    • burketo, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2when i played HL2 the first time i had never heard of ravenholm or head-crab zombies.... that ***** freaked me out so much. i remember catching a glimpse of the pipe moving and having just long enouh to go "what's happening? is the building about to collapse or something?" when one of those nippy bastards leapt out. from that point on it's all hell until you get to that cemetary. best scene in a FPS ever.
    • paidhima, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7Ravenholm is a masterpiece. It really showcases the developer's ability to create a multi-level confined world. It's so claustrophobic, but very large. I get the same feeling in Nova Prospekt.
    • Fixion, on 05/14/2008, -0/+0The rooftop in Ravenholm was the scariest part in the whole game, but the graveyard made up for it. I just went to town cutting the zombies in half with some saw blades I found. Somehow I managed to get through Ravenholm without ever getting hurt by the fast zombies.

      I stopped playing Doom 3 half an hour into it.
  • Gamer2k4, on 05/13/2008, -1/+83Why wasn't the Yeti from SkiFree on that list? Darn thing startled me every time.
    • wrxpert, on 05/13/2008, -2/+1Or the polar bear in IceClimbers.
    • jbettineski, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Why wouldn't they just let you keep skiing down the mountain? Why'd they have to have a yeti come eat you so you'd go back to the top?

    • amadeusdemarzi, on 05/13/2008, -0/+11I was just about to post this. That thing scared the living ***** outta me. Hands down the scariest video game villain ever.
    • kslodic, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0Sorry it's Geocities, but there's an entire site dedicated to the Yeti (or the Blik as I guess it's called): http://www.geocities.com/fearofblik/contents.htm
    • TaylorSmythe, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1SkiFree was so fun! With the rainbows.
  • goldenhearted, on 05/13/2008, -1/+74"#4.
    Any Body of Water from Sonic the Hedgehog 2"

    Jesus christ, now that they mention it, I remembered how my bro would shout "GO UP! GO UP! GO UP!" when the countdown came up with the Jaws-like music playing in the background while he watched me control Sonic to swim up the purple chemicals to survive.

    I can't deny, it was panic inducing and if you can't find a bubble to replenish your time underwater in Sonic 2, you're screwed.

    Good times.
    • fishbeef33, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7Sonic 2 was actually the easier one in terms of water, unless you count the icky toxic purple stuff in Chemical Plant Zone. Sonic 1's Labyrinth Zone and Scrap Brain Zone Act 3 were the hardest of the "Sonic in water" levels.

      Of course, in Sonic the Hedgehog for 360 and PS3, standing in shoulder-deep water is enough to kill the poor guy. It must be his old age.
    • SaraSu, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1No it's so true. That was the killer for me on the list. The green water on the Dreamcast was a bitch. And then he would just die and float to the bottom of the level... :( *sad*
    • BrokenVisage, on 05/13/2008, -3/+1Yeah.. that water was TERRIFYING! /sarcasm

      Get a clue, Cracked.
    • nikkesen, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Oh god! Oh god! Oh god! O___O I still have nightmared about those levels. I hear the music in my sleep! That music and that water! Evil... evil!
    • joegibes, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1I'm sort of embarrassed to say that I could do the Chemical Zone water escape level nearly with my eyes closed... Freaking ridiculous.
  • relic180, on 05/13/2008, -4/+16Most of that list I didn't get, a lot of those baddies were boring at best, none were really "scary" at all. What happened to the guy in the rabbit suit in manhunt? Or the mutants in System Shock 2? Or how about something from the Silent Hill series?
    • cesclaveria, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4I think this list as aiming for the freaky/weird kind of scary.
      Although, I would put the Big Daddy and little sisters somewhere on the list.
    • blackbeardtron, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3Or Jason from the Friday 13th NES game. ***** invincible.
      • paidhima, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1I was totally expecting to see mention of Jason.
    • antdude, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Monkeys and droids from System Shock 2. :/
    • Cebo, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Those mutants form System Shock 2 are called hybrids and yes, scariest ***** of all time.
  • whatthefu, on 05/13/2008, -2/+20pyramid head
    • Deficienze, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Seriously. Where the hell is he?
    • Stormwern, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2idd, also most of the mobs from resident evil, everything from avp and the shambler from quake.
  • BoonTobias, on 05/13/2008, -21/+41this list = fail
    • willk281, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3no doubt, plus i think there was one exactly like it a couple of weeks ago
      • myststrngr, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3Hi you must be new here, welcome to Digg.
    • quakeIII, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3All it's missing are the Trilobites from Ecco the Dolphin, but the writer probably never got that far into the game to experience them.
  • CertifyedGoon, on 05/13/2008, -8/+7What, no Pinky, Inky, Blinky or Clyde?
    • synthoid, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Those aren't scary. Go plant your head in a pile of dung.
  • RadiatedAnt, on 05/13/2008, -1/+9The only two thing that ever scared the hell out of me was
    A.) Resident Evil 1 the zombie that was hiding in the closet. The menacing music as soon as he pops out is absolutely horrifying I dropped my controller.
    B.) Syphon filter 1 the part where you're in the colapsed tunnels and a burning man yells this horrible shreak as he runs towards you. this actually made my brother run to the room I was in as he thought i was being tortured.
    • pjkli, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I HATED that ***** zombie in the closet! It was right after you got done reading the diary you find in the bedroom. As the camera gets back into position from the zoom in on the diary BLAM a ***** zombie bust out of the closet about 6 inches away from your character.
      ***** that game creeped me out.
    • ericrous, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2The one splicer in the bathroom in Bioshock who pops out of the stall, and comes running at you screaming "I'M NOT A BAD PERSON!!!" really creeped the ***** out of me.
    • soloman747, on 05/14/2008, -1/+1My brother would have ran AWAY from the room I was in and been halfway down the street... *sigh* family.
  • Cyberbladewolf, on 05/13/2008, -2/+27How about the Moon from Majoras Mask. Sure, it started out on day 1 innocently enough, visible but not frightening, but by the end of day 3 you didn't even have to look up to ***** yourself.
  • PueSi, on 05/13/2008, -1/+26That ***** hand from Zelda freaked me out so much, that and the screaming zombies. Thank god for the Prelude of Light.
    • nickerbocker, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3The zombies are even worse in Twilight Princess.
    • Gathalimay, on 05/14/2008, -0/+3You mean the Sun's Song? Prelude of Light was the one that teleported you to the Temple of Time. Man, those guys were creepy as hell, especially in that well when you are a kid. It takes so much effort to kill them w/o the biggoron sword.
    • KingBabi, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1screaming zombies are ReDeads, just so you know.
  • Mooney79, on 05/13/2008, -1/+16There should have been at least one of the monsters from F.E.A.R. That series was scary as *****.
    • paidhima, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Hell yes. F.E.A.R. was one hell of a scary, atmospheric game.
    • smoothmann, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1***** the monsters

      That little girl is creepy enough
    • bmcnally, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1How about just the girl? Like when you turn to go down the ladder AND SEE HER FEET RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU!
    • Vaelkar, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I've played alot of games.. I don't believe anything is more terrifying than F.E.A.R. when it's 3am, pitch black, and your desk is facing a corner of your room.
    • jerrycan, on 05/14/2008, -0/+2Yes. That little girl doing her crab walk thing toward you from the cubicle. I work form home now.
  • Merendino, on 05/13/2008, -7/+1Yeah that was buried... not that funny, didn't have the green guys or the huge spiders from the first resident evil game, and most of the ones they did have were just a joke. Annoying as hell, sure... terrifying though? ***** no.
  • idavidtang, on 05/13/2008, -0/+12I'll never look at a smiley the same again thanks to evil otto.
    :(
  • wrxpert, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2What no mention of the last enemy in Bubble Bobble?
  • Funpolice2050, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5I don't know his name but this mother ***** from Super Metroid used to scare the ***** out of me. http://www.cubed3.com/staff/jesusraz/smetroid01lg. ...
    • stevealford, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1That's not a "he." That's the mother brain from the first game with a fancy new robotic body upgrade.
  • playuhh, on 05/13/2008, -12/+10how the hell is this front page material?
  • macweirdo42, on 05/13/2008, -0/+9*****, what about Doom 3 lost souls? I swear to God, I had to quit the game when I first saw one - that scene where the woman's head and spine just ripped clean out of her body freaked the hell out of me. Oh, and of course the head spiders... Goddamn, every time I see one, it makes me think of John Carpenter's "The Thing."
  • VIPAccess, on 05/13/2008, -1/+61Never liked the Sun from Super Mario Bros. 3.
    • chromecast, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3he sported a unfriendly scowl.
    • rockandrollmark, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7yeah. he was a dick
    • nikkesen, on 05/14/2008, -1/+3That thing was the embodiment of everything evil.
    • KingBabi, on 05/16/2008, -0/+1I first played that game when I was 6 or so. I remember staring at that sun of a bitch (awful pun) until the clock ran out I was so scared. It was his expression...I wasn't sure if he was going to kill me or just beat me half to death.
  • Mizerooskie, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1The lambent wretches in Gears of War deserve some mention. Those little ***** cause havoc.
    • nevermind13, on 05/13/2008, -0/+0I actually though General Raam on expert was pretty badass. One mistake and you exploded.
    • DivineComedy, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1What about the bloody Kryll?!
  • cmiller1, on 05/13/2008, -1/+5My list:
    Giygas from Earthbound
    Nurse Edna from Maniac Mansion
    Medusas from any Lolo game
    Trappers from Eternal Darkness
    • chromecast, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Shodan from System Shock
      The Flood from Halo
      Samus Clone from Metroid Fusion
      • dougmc, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Shodan wasn't particularly scary. You only directly faced her at the very end, and once you knew what to do she wasn't even particularly hard to beat. She was sort of creepy but not actually deadly until that point, so maybe I agree with you.

        The Cyborg Midwives and the Rumblers were a lot more in-your-face scary. And even the Hybrids were a serious threat -- even in the later parts of the game, they could kill you if they surprised you.

        Actually, what really scared the crap out of you in SS2 wasn't the monsters at all -- it was the alarm system. If it ever went off, you had to find a good place to hide, and if you didn't find one, you were dead. I guess that makes the #1 terrifying video game enemy Xerxes.
      • tyywebb, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1The Flood? Really?
    • gryphon50, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Trappers were creepy but they could be useful too...
  • JBurds, on 05/13/2008, -3/+13Buried. No Silent Hill.
    • MrQuoz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Everyone I know that has played that game has screamed like a little girl and thrown down the controller at some point.
  • mrdeathgod, on 05/13/2008, -0/+6Vores and Shamblers from the original Quake....

  • leerayIG88, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Doom....
    A Teleporting CyberDemon when playing the "cat and mouse" bonus level.
  • SuperVepr308, on 05/13/2008, -1/+12I have to vote for the Big Daddy. That "clump! clump! clump!" of the boots always got me paranoid (kind of like the Steam Demon in DooM). The infected humans in HL2 crowding into a room with you when you are nearly out of ammo is a good one too.
    • stereoa, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8Yeah but the big daddies wouldn't attack unless you attacked them or the little sisters.
      • centran, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7or accidentally left a trap bolt somewhere they walk. That was the scariest moment in BioShock for me.
        All of a sudden a Big Daddy comes rampaging in and heads straight for me after a broke into a safe. After panicking, dodging his attack then elctro chemicaling his ass I finally realized he must have run into a trap I set on the complete opposite side of that level.
        • dafragsta, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3I have yet to take a Big Daddy down. I need to finish Bioshock.
          • SuperVepr308, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Truly a great game and the ending is pretty nice. It all makes sense then...
        • tyywebb, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Hmmm. I need to get that game.
        • SharkyTech, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1That is one of the stupid things in the game. How does he know its your bolt, and how does he know where you are to run straight for you?
      • paidhima, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5The thing about the Big Daddies wasn't the direct threat, but the implied one. You knew they wouldn't attack you, but there's an ingrained feeling of dread whenever you see such a large, menacing figure. The fact that, should he aggro, he could easily stomp your ***** was enough to make me paranoid whenever it was around.
        • SuperVepr308, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1You are dead on. The biggest deal was that they weren't necessarily going to attack you unless you screwed up and presented a threat. I thought that was a great way to present them. You are worried you might piss them off and not even have meant to...
      • joegibes, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1But the red eyes...
  • mcballz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+5Resident Evil (remake on Gamecube) - Crimson Heads, and the little girl in chains
    • AppleGeorge, on 05/14/2008, -3/+1Atleast get her name right. Lisa Trevor. Say it with me. Lisa. Trevor.
  • stereoa, on 05/13/2008, -0/+7Paramites from Oddworld.
    • redneckblues, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Scarabs are scarier to me, but good to see Oddworld mentioned.
      • Jaryd2006, on 05/13/2008, -0/+2Id take Scarabs and Paramites any day. ***** Fleeches.
  • anchorman, on 05/13/2008, -1/+3That little tiny alien ship from Asteroids... man did that thing stress me out!
  • worldofool, on 05/13/2008, -2/+4Nothing made me panic more than hearing the boogie man in Toe Jam and Earl.
  • chromecast, on 05/13/2008, -10/+3Why is it suddenly trendy for people add old, antiquated, or retro things to to a list and think they stand up to things of today?
    • jbettineski, on 05/13/2008, -2/+0This is nothing new. It helps to remind people of the past. If nothing else, it reminds them of a time when it didn't take so much to freak us out.
  • modularsky, on 05/13/2008, -0/+12the kraken in shadows of the empire for N64 scared me the most
    • mcballz, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1yeah that thing was creepy... same goes for the little baby krakens
  • timfitz99, on 05/13/2008, -0/+8Dugg for Sinistar... unbeatable for scariness. Another contender from the golden age would be the hall monster from Venture.
    • dougmc, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Condition Red from Bosconian? Not an actual enemy, but a condition where they came at you full force!
    • anachronaut, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1Pretty much the only reason I checked this list was to verify that they had Sinistar at a suitably high-ranked spot. The first time I ever played that in an arcade I practically dropped a load, and it never really got all that much less terrifying.
  • tenrandomdigits, on 05/13/2008, -3/+16What about the snow monster in SkiFree?
    • pdavda, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3LOL I used to love that game, they should have included him - far scarier than some of the crap they mentioned in this list.
    • JBobtheGr8, on 05/20/2008, -0/+1Resident Awesome: "Was that the thing from SkiFree?"
    • DivineComedy, on 05/21/2008, -0/+1I thought exactly the same thing as soon as I saw the title! He always made me jump when I was younger.
  • chesscat, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2I don't know, I think pinkie from DOOM 3 was scarier, especially the scene where you are in that room and he comes crashing through the glass after unsuccessfully trying the door.
  • Chronological, on 05/13/2008, -0/+4Doom II's Arch-vile.... http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Arch-Vile
    • stoneking2312, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1I hate those monster resurrecting bastards
    • StillAnonymous, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1I always thought the mancubus was the scariest. Just that creepy sound he makes.
    • grimward, on 05/18/2008, -0/+1Mooaaaah *que burning sound* that haunted me something fierce!
  • RainNIU, on 05/13/2008, -1/+2Cracked is blocked from work - but my vote goes to the aliens in AVP for the PC. My God, those aliens scared the everliving crap out of me when all you could hear was the sound of your motion detector and knowing something was getting close...
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