Lol. Have you tried just staring back at him? He will NEVER move unless you move. LOL.
~Mari.
Lol. Have you tried just staring back at him? He will NEVER move unless you move. LOL.
~Mari.
Oddly enough, I think the scariest one for me was something a fluke the first time I played through the game:
At the very beginning, you go into the restrooms and there are a bunch of stalls. One is boarded shut, but I never noticed it when I walked in. Anyway, I get to the end of the stalls, find a med pack, and am making my way back stall by stall, checking for loot. I had the lights out and headphones on, and I fumbled my mouse so it switched from my wrench to the lightning plasmid, and all of a sudden, as I slide to the next door, BAM!!! the door blasts open and a splicer jumps out in front of me and screams "I'lll GET YOU!". THAT made me jump... that and the first time you see the houdini splicer.
This was my first horror game, and when I first started playing the demo, I tried to find everything to stay away from the splicer that you see in the beginning. I was freaked out of my pants(That was my scariest! After that, it just got very disturbing). But I WANTED MORE!!! And that's why I bought the game.
I took a lot of flak for saying the exact same thing when the game first came out. I don't play horror games, either, and I really didn't want to get out of that diving bell. My girlfriend laughed because I kept firing up the game, getting scared in that first room (where she is taunting you from the shadows), and turning it back off. Getting that kind of feeling from a game--sort of like being on a great roller coaster--is unique and wonderful.Originally Posted by Farisnet
This was my first horror game, and when I first started playing the demo, I tried to find everything to stay away from the splicer that you see in the beginning. I was freaked out of my pants
Medical Pavillion at the Painless dental. A bunch of friends were watching me play the game and then as i picked up the tonic and turned around and that splicer was just standing there apearing out of nowhere. We all just screamed and jumped lol.
Totally the same for me.
I had walked up to the bench (my 'puter is in the basement and I have the lights down pretty low when gaming) and then suddenly I see a flippin' shadow appear on the wall in front of me with the "hello beautiful" as noted above. Spin around...whoosh...gone. I actually jumped.
The most sickening & scariest moment in the game was when I realized the last fight scene was the end of the game and the big let down and depressing moment that with all the great scenery along with exploring everything possible came to a predetermined lame arse ending. hopefully the prequel sequel will be better.
The statues. My husband was playing, went into the room with the row of six, we werent paying any attention. Come back out, and he swears there was a guy in the chair facing the wall. Nothing. So he heads back into the room, and the guy was right there!
That, and once we were listening to an AD, he turned around and this splicer just freaking stared us down. Creepy stuff!
Yeah, that's exactly true. I didn't think I 'd like an horror game so much, but if I start playing, the only thing that stops me is a stupendous neck ache. Damn you, neck aches!!!
Definetly the beginning...
I am not the best on horror games either. And yeah... I REALLY didnt want to step out of that diveing bell.
You had no weapons or anything... against some clearly insane acrobat that just evicerated someone right infront of you.
"Is it someone new...? YAAAAAH!!!!"
*shudders*
I almost **** myself the first time I played this part. Later when I was replaying the game, I knew he would be there, so I just turned around and stared at him. I thought he wouldn't move, but after a while he attacked me.
OMG, that was SUPER scary. I didn't want to step out of the bathysphere either. Lol. The VERY beginning freaked me out too. When you're inside the lighthouse and the lights flicker on. Made me jump. Lol.
Really? I stood there forever. I even left it there and took off for a cup of water. Came back and he was still there. I was probably gone for about ten minutes. Lol.
~Mari.
Sander Cohens face up close :P naah id say the doctor bit too lol. i just stare at him for like 2 mins then moved to the left and he screamed and attacked me! lolz
Ok, The last time I posted I had only played the demo. Now that I'm playing through the original game, I'm thinking that NONE of the other moments people have listed as making them jump are really that shocking. I mean, the doctor part... ok, I walked around the wall and WATCHED him get in the trap door. I then calmly walked around the other side, took out my shotgun, and blew his face off. VERY calmly. Then the part where all the lights go out except the one in the middle, and then you get surrounded... that was just boring! I mean, maybe I;'ve just become innured to it after playing so long in the dark with my headphones on, but...
So far for me the scariest parts have been totally random... like in the fisheries when you go back up the stairs near the first LS after killing/saving her... one of the splicers just suddenly popped out from around the corner. THAT made me jump.
What a messed up chump! He kinda freaked me out a few times. When you're in Fort Frolic and you're in one of the shops in the mall. You go in the back room and listen to The Wild Bunny poem. I just knew something bad was going to happen at that moment but it never did. The anticipation alone sorta scared me!
Also, in the beginning of the game when you're locked in that room with the projector/movie screen and several splicers are behind the screen trying to claw in. The damned door is locked and "Atlas" barely opens it in time....you know Fontaine was probably laughing his arse off the whole time!
yeah, the part with the splicers trying to break through the glass was even scary when I first saw it - on TV on "Attack of the Show" I think.
The scariest moment for me was in the Medical Pavillion.
There is a part in the game where you enter a morgue. As you advance there is a part of it filled with shallow water. Once you walk on it and head straight you see a shadow and the lights go off. When you go to see who it is, he isn't there. Later when you want to leave one of the doors where the keep the bodies flies open and a splicer attacks you o.o
I almost ☺☺☺☺ myself.
When that Houdini splicer that suddenly appears behind you in Arcadia. He scared the hell out of me
Also, the funeral home in the Medical Pavilion had an eerie scene, where you knew there was a splicer around the next corner (having seen his shadow on the wall) and just as you came to the corner, the lights go out.......
I only really ever got scared during my first playthrough of the game. Then,everything just became cute,cuddly,and I had no reason to be afraid whatsoever. For example;When the splicer is trying to hack away at your bathosphere,(Sorry,forgot how to spell it.
LOL. I get scared everytime I play.
Since most of the splicers are random, Sometimes I don't see them coming and they freak me out.
~Mari.
My scariest part in the game was when you go into the funeral home. You walk down a flooding hallway, see a shadow of doctor working on a patient,lights out. I continue to walk, I see a corpse and a tonic
I'm just re-playing through now - one that always scares me even though I know it shouldn't. Right at the beginning, just after the new year's party place type thing, in the toilets. That guy's shadow - made me pee my pants.#
And there's a lot to be said for the ghost things...
The scariest part about that, is the fact that he bloody vanishes when you go round the corner and you don't know where he is.My scariest part in the game was when you go into the funeral home. You walk down a flooding hallway, see a shadow of doctor working on a patient,lights out. I continue to walk, I see a corpse and a tonic
i went into the "abbandened apartment" in mercury suites and i went all the way in the back into a bathroom kinda room. there was a dead body on the floor with bulletholes in the wall above him, the entire wall was covered in blood. i rounded the corner and a splicer got off the floor and yelled at me shooting a machinegun at me. it made me jump off my couch.
Definetly the doctor was the scariest. I got the tonic and turned around and screamed. lucky for me i had my shotgun out blasted him like 4 times, re-loaded and kept shooting. Frickin crazy
I did the same thing, even when he was dead
In the demo, in that men's bathroom is where the incineration plasmid is (it's at the end of the bathroom). After you pick it up and walk back, a splicer walks out of a previusly closed stall, and when he looks at you, he says, "I didn't touch her!" or something along those lines.
But OMG, after reading these, I'm REALLY glad I didn't buy this game
The Medical Pavillion was definately the scariest. When you enter the dentist's office and you see an empty operating chair, your screen becomes foggy and a dead splicer is now laying on the chair. Then a few seconds later after you pick up and audio diary the room fogs again and you turn around to a splicer literally face to face with you.
It wasn't even a bit scary. FEAR is scary, The Suffering is scary, Half-Life 2 Ravenholm part was scary. But not BioShock. Even System Shock 2 wasn't scary. It just had that uncomfortable, almost claustrophobic feeling.
Those few scenes with light and shadows are nothing. I'm no fan of horror games but BioShock didn't do anything to me. In FEAR and The Suffereing it felt very uncomfortable sometimes. Mostly because you never knew what kind of creature is going to jump on you...
I wouldn't say the game is scary, but it is pretty creepy and disturbing. Hearing "Not what she wanted" kind of put everything into perspective, as far as how things quickly went to hell in a hand basket. But sticking to the theme of this thread, I did jump in the beginning of the game where a Splicer comes running by scraping and shovel or pipe on the ground. He left a trail of sparks, and then I couldn't find him until he clobbered me a few times.
Scariest bits for me in Bioshock was where you are first introduced to the Houdini Splicers in Arcadia, I saw one of their masks lying on a desk in a corner of the room, when I did a 180 turn to go back the way I came, the Houdini was standing right in front of me, totally wasn't expecting it.
The other one was in Hephaestus, I was in a corridor where there are a load of bodies on the floor, the lights turn off, when they go on again they're gone, when you get to the end of the hallway, you see 3 or 4 more bodies only this time they jump up and start attacking, very scary.
Shotgun
For me it was definitely the 1st time you get the shotgun. The lights go out, and you find there's no rounds loaded in the shot gun. Splicers coming out the walls while your trying to reload the dam thing! I LOVE IT!!
I have had a few scary moments.
1. The doctor, everyone freaks out at that.
2. The statues.
3. Anytime when your walking and hear something and you look behind you and there is nothing there, then you turn around and wrench to the face.
4. Scariest for me was the beginning. Everything is so dark and you dont have any weapons or anything. Also I did this at 2 in the morning.
I think someone already mention this earlier but the autopsy room in Little Wonders just creeped me out. Seeing the child-sized autopsy tables and the ghost of the little girl begging Suchong not to put her on the table made me feel horrible. Made me hate Suchong even more.
The scariest moment for me was when i just started playing the game and you went to the medical pavillion. You had to wade through water where you could see the shadow of a splicer operating. the lights go out
then the shadow is nowhere to be seen.
The second most scariest bit for me was in a room near the end of the game where I went to the far end of it. Collected items from a safe then turned around and there were all these statues. They didnt attack me when i walked right through them to the door but when I turned around again they were gone.
I would have to say the play-dead splicers and plaster spider splicers. They're the gifts that keep on givin'
But for actual scares, I would have to say the doctor and dentist.
That's hilarious! wow lol
Im not married , but the rest of that story pretty much summed up my reaction when I got to that part. lol i felt like a total wimp!!
haha
I found i got more scared in system shock 2 than bioshock, but there were some definate moments when i wasn't happy to go forward!
Hi, just like to say i've just this forum, and I'm glad i did!, Bioshock has to be my favorite game, after super smash brothers ^_^
I'm on my fourth playthrough, and i've finally decided to go through it on hard lol, and the moments that have been scary for me so far have been listening to the various recordings, especially "the wild rabbit" by Sander Cohen and a recording of Dr Steinbeck operating on a patient, scary ****!
One of my creepiest encounters in the game was thus: I was in Arcadia, I believe, about to enter a pool of water when I saw the splashing of footsteps, running through the pool. They stopped abruptly. I knew it had to be a Houdini Splicer, so naturally I shocked the water to fry the loon. As soon as the electricity hit the water, I expected a crazed Houdini to appear and be electrocuted, but there was absolutely nothing in the water. The electricity fizzled on the surface and went away, and I just stood there for a moment, wondering where the hell this splicer had gone. It never attacked me, it never actually teleported away, and it did not have time to get out of the water. I was baffled and a bit on edge after that.
At one point where I was attempting to procure the three Spider Splicer pictures for Peachy, I missed the Security Bullseye plasmid when falling from above (I eventually got it on a save revert). But while trying to climb a set of boxes fruitlessly, I heard the whale-like call of a Rosie and the its earth-shaking footsteps, from somewhere nearby. For the next ten minutes or so I was treated to the sounds of an unseen Big Daddy, until I finally restarted from a previous save point. The thing is, I never actually saw the monstrosity, even though it sounded like it was in the same room as me the whole time.
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