What video game or game music scares you the most? I think Doom is kinda scary :shock:

Silent Hill is well known for its scary soundtracks, and of the four installments I've played(1-3, Origins), it's not disappointed.

The Resident Evil REmake is also masterful in its music. I think it was the only RE game where music, rather than the absence of it, gave more shivers.

The Zombie theme in Conker's Bad Fur Day after you killed Batula. Not really sure if you can call it music, but it was indeed creepy as hell. You could hear moaning and children laughing, and the zombies popped out of nowhere.. the sound of it couldn't be described.

I agree with Silent Hill.

What video game or game music scares you the most? I think Doom is kinda scary :shock:

The reason I think Doom is scary beacause of the monsters trying to sneek up on you and surprise attacks.
I haven't played the game, but I've watched my Dad play it when I was little, but I wasn't really scared that time.
I know it's weird.

As for music, the organ playing on the way to Ganondorf in Ocarina of Time is kinda creepy, but it really suits the mood of suspense.

The drowning theme from the Genesis-era Sonic games. lol

There are a couple others that I'll add when I can find links to them.

Castlevania 2 - Within These Castle Walls (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MonTop4558A)
Castlevania 3 - Anxiety (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1r3UBsXX6U)
Friday the 13th - Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-WSYyoV08)
Magic of Scheherazade - Talking with Sabaron (http://www.flyingomelette.com/mos/music/fo-mos-sabaron.mid) (midi)
Sword of Vermilion - Dungeon 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubbG74MUFW0) (7:07)
Super Metroid - Mother Brain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J6-44Kd4GM)
Metroid Prime - Parasite Queen Battle (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYp2qca3O4)

Plus, I agree with the Silent Hill recommendation.

Castlevania 64

i choose silent hill....

Lol, no one mentioned the final boss battle against Giygas from EarthBound yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYb9kSCkjE8&feature=related

Silent Hill was definitely scary. There was also Fatal Frame (1-3) and Siren. As for music, some of the stuff in the Xenosaga games was pretty scary.

I always hated this song (or considered it scary):
Metroid - Kraid's Lair (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UGKCvIrF_o&feature=related)

The music when you battle the final G-Virus form of William Birkin in Resident Evil 2 had a distinct creepiness to it. Along with a shrill almost possessed opera singers voice to top it off. The early resident evils had a great way of freaking you out :)

This may seem silly, but The Sub-Gate Of Closer Woods from Rockman Dash always sent a chill down my spine (I always thought it sounded like moaning in the distance).

This WILL seem silly, but the music for the 'Generator Room' level in Crash Bandicoot 1 always scared me.

You know, as an addition, I'd have to say: if not for its overall silliness, some tracks from Zombies Ate My Neighbors could qualify as scary.

Come to think of it, there were even some levels that were scary...need I mention the TOURISTS?!? And the levels that went to night within 4 minutes of you starting?

Fatal Frame (series) has some pretty good jumps.

Silent Hill 2

Banjo-Kazooie (N64) - Gloop and the Giant Key (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6V2ZcgBILs&feature=PlayList&p=E54CC18179554B82&index=34): Try not to laugh. This track was scary as hell when you were navigating deep underwater, desperate for air. On a side note, it's damn near impossible to collect 2D bubble sprites in a 3D environment.
Banjo-Kazooie (N64) - The Haunted Church (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mz4VAHjgmw4&feature=PlayList&p=E54CC18179554B82&index=69): I remember first hearing this music watching "snippets" of gameplay on the title screen. Leave it to a kids game to conjure up images and thoughts of death.

Eternal Darkness (GC) - A Purpose (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqC6W61Gyl4&feature=PlayList&p=6CC2B4CEEE8E69A7&index=0) (starting from 2:00): I can't believe no one has mentioned this yet! This is the music that played when your sanity meter was running low. Positively bone-chilling!
Eternal Darkness (GC) - The Gift of Forever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JC13_TlBaRw&feature=PlayList&p=6CC2B4CEEE8E69A7&index=2): I might actually have enjoyed this track if it weren't for that voiceover at the very beginning. Share that line with anyone in a decent mood and they're in for a bonekill the likes of which they've never seen.

Resident Evil (GC) - Vacant Room (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BsPyu8jQ4w&feature=channel_page): I think one of the first images you see when this music first plays is a moose's head mounted on a wall. Whose eyes, by the way, glow red when you turn off the lights. Yikes.
Resident Evil 5 (X360) - Executioner (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQSfyYmoHo&feature=PlayList&p=0DB42B60626735D6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=20): You don't even need to play the game to understand why this ranks high on the chill factor. The screeching violins are reminiscent of the original Psycho soundtrack.

One of the creepiest games that I've played was Condemned 2: Bloodshot for the PS3. "The Underground is Abuzz Mr. Thomas. Fear... Travels Fast." God. I almost wet my pants when I was in the toy factory. Those !@#$ dolls would just crawl out of nowhere ~shivers~. Even the voices were scared...

I think Silent Hill

I have to say Realms of the Haunting, despite its age, is tremendously atmospheric and as such also manages to produce some proper chills when played at night. You can listen to the main theme which accompanies your roamings through the mansion here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gugzEuBmTPk).

Dude... That's creepy. I can just imagine playing the game in a dark room in the middle of the night while all alone and just hearing that music and then have something just pop out and kill me via heart attack. The beat in the background even reminds me of a heart pounding.

The original RE has some unforgettable creey themes. It's what practically made the game, for me at least.

The music in Dead Space is creepy

I'd have to say the RE Remake. I haven't played it personally, but I've watched other people play it...and it's damn creepy.

The Zombie theme in Conker's Bad Fur Day after you killed Batula. Not really sure if you can call it music, but it was indeed creepy as hell. You could hear moaning and children laughing, and the zombies popped out of nowhere.. the sound of it couldn't be described.
that remind me of a joke that I made to a cousin of mine, I made her to make a close ear on the TV while I purposedly made a zombie attack me, after she heard the scary music.............. you can imagine what happened :colbert: XD

I hated Friday the 13th when I was younger. It always scared the crap out of me. I jumped every time Jason popped out in the house (And probably still would). If you haven't played it, try it.

Dead Space is rather unsettling and jarring.

Thief: Deadly Shadows soundtrack sends shivers up my spine just listening to it.

Lol, no one mentioned the final boss battle against Giygas from EarthBound yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYb9kSCkjE8&feature=related

From all the songs posted this has to be the creepiest one. I never finished Earthbound... Never knew the last boss was so intense for such a happy looking game.

The drowning theme from the Genesis-era Sonic games. lol

OMG, i thought I was the only one. That song made me panic so hard when I was a kid. The way it speeds up to let you know that your death is immanent

RE4 'Regenerators' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_SVyZY-zuc) - Say what you will, but everything about this moment in Resident Evil 4 was scary for me. Just add in the sound of the Regenerators breathing sounds, and you will have one creepy track.

This.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgq5sgL6DTs&feature=related

Also:
http://www.kevinriepl.com/music/gow2/GOW2_10_Leviathan_A.mp3

And for those who're wondering, yes, there is an original Gears of War 2 soundtrack by Kevin Riepl that never made it to the game. In my opinion, it is far superior to the official soundtrack by Jablonsky.

http://www.kevinriepl.com/music/gow2/

people are strange by the doors, in the film the lost boys i was freaked out when i first saw it :P

Also X-COM music (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=11F99869C8858B14).

Also X-COM music (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=11F99869C8858B14).

Yessir the first 2 X-com games had some creepy ass music especially playing a terror site

An Undertaking from the folklore/soul soundtrack

I'd say the music from the Silent Hill series, although not scary at all IMO, but sometimes unnerving and/or tense. Same with scores for games like Dead Space and the earlier Res Evil games.

As for games itself, never really played a game I'd call scary, although the atmospheres in games like the Silent Hill games, Dead Space, the Siren games can be tense, but not scary. When I was much younger like 10-12 years ago, I always found the original PSX Clock Tower creepy. The crap controls and the music didnt help.

Dead Space for sure. . .very unsettling music. Although for me, some of the music in Star Wars: Republic Command was kinda eerie in some ways, especially on the later levels like the ghost space vessel and Kashyyyk.

I'm a huge fan of horror music!
Siren, Clock Tower, Resident Evil, Eternal Darkness, Rule of Rose, Silent Hill(series), Fatal Frame, Dead Space, and Obscure! All very, very, very, good and creepy.

You guys forgot about the music from shadowman, especially the new york apartment level song.

Majority of game over tunes on NES....They leave you with a really bad eerie feeling.
other then that. Game music doesn't scare me with exceptions of game over and ending tunes. Ending screens to Splatter house 1 and 2 give me the creeps.

The music from Higurashi is pretty scary. Well, maybe not scary, but it does fill you with a sense of impending doom.

The main room music for Resident Evil.
Also, all the subgate music in Megaman Legends.
Creepy as shit.

Plok! - Flea Pit has always stuck out in my mind.

Gotta be Eternal Sonata...absolutely terrifying!

Hahahaha....no, just kidding...it's Silent Hill 2.

Nothing (book, game, film) has ever freaked me out like that game did.

I would have to say the scariest video game I have played is the Fatal Frame series. There's just something about that game that just creeps me the hell out. Even the soundtrack gives me the creeps. It's mainly just noise though.

But if I have to go with scary music that sounds musical, I'd definitely have to say the Silent Hill series.

Right HERE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67cTIWDuKXM

The mansion tunes from the first Resident Evil get my vote for scariest game music.

Resident Evil First Floor Mansion Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvcHAbZ7zcI&feature=related)

Resident Evil Second Floor Mansion Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGC_i1mdjos&feature=related)

I still won't play that game at night just because of the creepy music, and playing it with the sound muted isn't an option since the only way to detect monsters most of the time is to hear them shuffling towards you...

Zelda: Ocarina of Time Shadow Temple Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=offOj6D_jbQ

The music alone is enough to send shivers up your spine, but when you remember the temple itself.... it's really creepy, especially the Wall Crawlers (can't remember the name)

The Game Over theme from Casltevania: Symphony of the Night. Imagine the Twilight Princess Game Over theme, but scarier.

Zelda Minish Cap - Royal Valley
Zelda Majora's Mask - Ikana Canyon
SM64 - Haunted House

a really scary song that'll give you goosebumps:
Moi Dix Mois - Dispell Bound (from Dixanadu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmkPW2WtNuY

Dead Space is rather unsettling and jarring.

Agreed.

Maze Garden in Castlevania 64. its like having one of the RE doggies chasing you around, except this dog is 2X larger tan you, immortal, made of stone, and still so fast that if you stop to attack the nearest skeleton he will rip you so fast you ain't got time enough to say "WTF?" EVEN AS AN ACRONYM. And then there's the quest with Malus...

DEAD SPACE SCORE...

Silent Hill. Period.

Dark Althena's Chant - Lunar Silver Star Story
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTk0QJzUuDU

Now how could we forget this?

Silent Hill 2 - The Darkness That Lurks In Our Mind (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGUi6spQ9M0)
Dino Crisis - The Place is Deserted Though... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh51ZpBjo94)
Diablo - Tristram (a.k.a Town) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2evIg-aYw8)
Body Harvest - Something In The Air (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3sK8Dvv8xY)
Shadow Hearts - Meltdown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm59oxJ9k5E)



Tristram has a insane theme. I think it's a mix of morbid+creepy+suspenseful+sad all together in a epic music.

Rule of Rose!

Mausoleum Suite - Halo 2. When i first played through it was unsettling to be sure.

Scary music is silent hills for the series(obviously) but the scariest single had to be shadow Hearts from the new worlds game over song.

Funny considering the game is bright except for that.

All from EarthBound:
Cave of the Past (Past) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRL5TWF_0eU)
Giygas' Lair (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91zLgJ2Rtpk)
Giygas Stirs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEmqG-wz6Ks)
Giygas is Wounded! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi97ugRHB1M)
Giygas is Fatally Wounded! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKoUvEFevLg)
Giygas' Intimidation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JlxMa__CfQ)

some games don't even intend on being scary but are.

they usually have a tense omnious and forboding feel about them.

Earthbound for sure! (End Boss, after some cool guitar theme it goes into its creepiness) and also that zombie town song...

Shadow Temple.

I also think that the Gameover sound from Chrono Trigger is freaky when it said something like,"but the future refused to change"...

The music for alone in the dark 4 has to be some of the creepiest and atmospheric iv ever heard. aaaa the memories.....shivers

I've uploaded a bunch of Dead space audio ripped from the game if anyone wants to check it out. Most of it isn't included in the soundtrack.
http://www.youtube.com/user/astarothification#p/c/95D15778D05AD2E9

DEAD SPACE title.

doom is kinda scary if you turn the music off, but doom 3 is always scary

Fatal Frame series for me. I was watching my sis play it one night. When a ghost jumped her, she screamed loud enough to rattle glass (ok, I exaggerated here, but you get the point),threw the controller to me and ran away like a real ghost was chasing her. I had to play through the entire thing in the dark, with only the TV providing the light.....alone.

resident evil when the door going open (you never know whats behind it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plw6XEPBlU0

Somari has one goal
He's going for your soul
Soon you will not be whole...

If lyrics are necessary! XD

Who thought the sonic theme could be so creepy?

"Albedo" from Xenosaga Episode I: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAQGCM-IyOE

I've had more than one friend say that it "freaked" them out. (Though I've never thought that; I think it's just fantastic.)

Oh, and to really get the (really) creepy music from the Silent Hill series, you have to check out the complete rips. Most of the pieces on the OSTs don't rise to the level of "creepy" that the unreleased tracks do.

Back at the days .. Turrican 2 - the alien level .. you hear only eerie noises & an evil wind howling :>

and of course DOOM on the PSX !! .. cant believe nobody mentioned this one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYX-7juLBUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4Tl8fAY3MI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpc8gbnhB4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EpmID8GSQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87fl2b0YdFo

imho one of the spookiest ost ever...

anyone interested in the real thing can get the music 4 free at http://195.197.184.88/~doomdepot/music.html

..

on the other side the DOOM-Music on PC wasn't spooky at all..(those midi-files) ^^

regards .. hugo

Plenty from the Mother series.

Even some tracks from the Kirby series are quite scary-- which is one of those sorts of factors that makes the series unique.

Yume Nikki's soundtrack is certainly terrifying, but also quite depressing and oppressive.

I'm pretty sure everyone else has mentioned anything else I would have.

Plenty from the Mother series.

Even some tracks from the Kirby series are quite scary-- which is one of those sorts of factors that makes the series unique.

Yume Nikki's soundtrack is certainly terrifying, but also quite depressing and oppressive.

I'm pretty sure everyone else has mentioned anything else I would have.

I know I was scared the first time I heard earthbound zeros game over.

Somebody even did a remix of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpV62-H2vuA

Ah, I find that song to be more sad than scary. From Mother 1, I find the underground theme to be the scariest. It's a very foreboding song, especially for the NES. Then again, Hirokazu Tanaka was easily the best at mood pieces on the NES (see also: Metroid), for sure. He's the reason the first two Mother games had such a surreal or dark atmosphere about them at times.

Homeworld has some pretty eerie music. Well, it's more ambient, but still. Hell from Worms Armageddon is a bit creepy as well.

The Resident Evil REmake soundtrack is, in my opinion, one of the scariest and sanity-wrecking collections of music out there.

There are a couple of evil musics composed by koji kondo and nobuo uematsu that deserve a mention here but ill only list the top two:

Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec ( orchestral arrangement) by Nobuo Uematsu for Final Fantasy 8 Orchestra.. (not sure of album title) <- imo the scariest music ever.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCfHBoQa-M

the part at 3:57 froze my computer


then the second one is boss dodongo from zelda ocarina of time, that song has some purely satanic chords

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHbcyPQ4Z3c

no matter the cornyness, at 0;50 u can totally imagine some baby demons dancing to a human pyre or something horrible like that pretty awkward creepy if you give it analysis


then again nr 1 is way more evil in my opinion, the voice does the trick...

stairway to heaven backward lyrics what a joke... : p

There are a couple of evil musics composed by koji kondo and nobuo uematsu that deserve a mention here but ill only list the top two:

Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec ( orchestral arrangement) by Nobuo Uematsu for Final Fantasy 8 Orchestra.. (not sure of album title) <- imo the scariest music ever.

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRCfHBoQa-M

the part at 3:57 froze my computer


then the second one is boss dodongo from zelda ocarina of time, that song has some purely satanic chords

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHbcyPQ4Z3c

no matter the cornyness, at 0;50 u can totally imagine some baby demons dancing to a human pyre or something horrible like that pretty awkward creepy if you give it analysis


then again nr 1 is way more evil in my opinion, the voice does the trick...

stairway to heaven backward lyrics what a joke... : p

You forgot about Heresy from ff8, time compression(ff8).

Devil Survivor: Demoniac fusion, and deep darkness

You forgot about Heresy from ff8, time compression(ff8).

Devil Survivor: Demoniac fusion, and deep darkness


heresy is simply unenjoyable, but not that scary imo, and time compession i actually like xD but didn't scare me that much.

In Silver Surfer on the NES, in the last stage I find all those defomred mouths creapy

Otogirisou (SNES).

Definitely: Clock tower for me, that game series scares the bejesus out of me everytime.

I'm looking for Ms Mary - Clock Tower (SNES) - YouTube - Clock Tower - I&#39;m Looking for Mary (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Glw0GrUAwDo)
-Just hearing this song makes me look around

Scissorman's Theme - Clock Tower (PS1) - YouTube - Clock Tower-Scissorman (Reprise) PS1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CylxDpJaoU)
-this one would creep up my spine bc I would listen carefully for the soft fade in to know he was coming

Ghost Dance - Monkey Island 1 (PC) - (no link :( )
-This one sounds silly, but the chimes toward the middle always made me jump

Agreed, RE's music is pretty scary. When I played Ocarina of Time as a kid, that one particular dungeon that exists under the graveyard in Kakariko Village freaked me out, with especially chilling music. Still kind of does.

Not to mention a few tracks from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask:
Majora's theme
All battle themes against Majora, especially the first one.

dead space

For me, Clock Tower. Dear God, the dead silence....hearing nothing but your own footsteps.... not knowing when and where Scissorman will come out... The bgm made it even worse. :ashine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F6E_XfB-t8
I've only heard 2 seconds of this and I had to pause it. I just don't want to listen to it.

all 3 fatal frame OSTS.
i mean, you cant get creepier than that.

For sure that game was the scariest and most enraging game i ever played. Love the soundtrack but cant seem to find it....

I found the fatal frame soundtracks! Links are here:

Litoxgamer OST Station: Fatal Frame Complete Original Soundtrack (http://litoxsoundtrack.blogspot.com/2011/03/fatal-frame-complete-original.html)

BTW i'm not sure if im allowed to post links here, if not i'm sorry and ill never do it again xD

I don't have many horror games but the menu music on Return to Castle Wolfenstein PS2 scared the crap out of me way back when.

:-s

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I don't have many horror games but the menu music on Return to Castle Wolfenstein PS2 scared the crap out of me way back when.

:-s

Michiru Yamane's Requiem of the Gods from Castlevania Symphony of the Night. Something about the grinding organs and wind instruments really suits the setting of the Royal Chapel, and is even more spooky going through the room with the church interior background scaling as you move (all the while trying to avoid being skewered on the damn Poltergeist Swords). Erie, haunting and oh so good. :)

Castle Zvahl by Naoshi Mizuta from FFXI would probably run a close second. The theme of the Shadowlord's haunted mansion is definitely oppressive and spooky, especially as it doesn't actually play til you reach the actual inner Keep of the Castle, having just spent nearly an hour navigating the labyrinthine outer Baileys to arrive in the castle proper. And what a theme it is.

I still remember the first time I heard it while on my way to fight Raogrimm's demonic alter ego in 2007. I nearly wet myself in fear hearing the dark oppressive piece suddenly come through previously quiet speakers. I remember thinking; "Oh shit. I'm screwed. Utterly, totally, screwed."

Definitely fitting for what was the final dungeon of the game originally. Still an awesome piece of music. :)

I N S I D I O U S!!!

Resident Evil 2 library music freaks me every time, just has that eery feel to it, great for reading King or Koontz to!

dead space of course