Ok, I don't know if I would really say it's been the scariest, perhaps not, and perhaps compared to stuff like "Amnesia: The dark descent" this might seem a rather lame choice, but the fact of the matter is that it's still one of the scariest moments I remember, and I'm talking about the last two missions in "Jedi Knight Dark Forces II: Mysteries of the Sith"; you know, where Mara Jade has to enter this Sith Temple (and eventually, its very catacombs) in the planet called Dromund Kaas to find Kyle Katarn.
I know it's now quite an old game, but still those two last missions seem to me even today to preserve a lot of that frightening atmosphere that freaked the wits out of me back then, when I was innocent and carefree...well, a tad more than I am nowadays, anyway.
The first one, where you entered the Sith temple, was already bad enough, but the last one, where you had to follow Kyle to the catacombs of the damn thing, was just scary as hell.
With all those lightsaber-bearing Sith statues that sprang to life whenever you passed them; those damn lethal Vornskrs (you know, those large wolf-like creatures with horns and spikes all over them and which would jump at you from many feet away and would kill you after beating your sorry a$$ only one or two times!; those zombie-like Sith lords that would attack you with some truly badass Force Lightning, among other stuff, they were also some of the toughest missions in the game.
And the ambience was also very frightening, especially in the catacombs with all those eerie screams and air currents all over the place... :S And the lighting which, while not like that you usually encounter in say, "Doom 3", still made you wish you had brought at least some freaking flashlights with you!
But there was one more factor that made it even scarier for me, I think: a bug with the game music! For some reason that beats me to this day, it just wouldn't play. And while in most missions, it wasn't terribly bad, in those last two (or three, perhaps) it made things a lot more frightening and oppressive than they were with at least the game music playing in the background; sure, the music wasn't exactly cheerful as some of Haydn's piano sonatas, or Beethoven's "Rage over a lost penny" rondo , but it was something already. Without it, well... :S
What about you guys? What are some of the scariest moments you've had?
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