Now, I’m not the biggest fan of horror games. It’s not that
I don’t like them, I’m just not that interested in them. If it has a lot of
zombie shooting, there is a chance that I won’t play it since I kinda of want
more than that. That doesn’t mean I don’t like horror themed games. I own
Vampyr on the PS4, and I think The Wolf Among Us could be considered to be horror.
By the way, I finally was able to finish that game. I wish it got a sequel.
I think I like it
more when RPGs include horror elements. Heck, most RPGs tend to mix in a lot of
genres together to make something pretty memorable. So, I’m going to go into
detail about 7 scary moments from non-horror video games. I was going to go all
out and make this a longer list, but I then hit a block when it came to finding
scary moments in non-horror games. Besides, this just leaves me to get a little
more detailed on these moments and levels. So, let’s start out with what’s
probably my first big scare in video games.
1. The Final Level from Spider-Man
“RAWR!!! DIIIIIEEEEE!!” Imagine hearing this for an hour.
That’s how long it took me to beat a pretty short final level on the PS1
version of Spider-Man. I hadn’t even ate food for Thanksgiving yet because this
thing held me up! In the level, all you gotta do is swing away from the pretty
freaky combination of Dr. Octopus and Carnage (Carn-Ock? Doc Carn?). Beating
those two separately was hard enough, now I gotta face a merged version of
them? While it would’ve been interesting to actually fight them, running from them
kinda sounds better.
Anyway, while running like a coward sounds simple, you have
to swing, climb, and run your red and blue butt off. You’re jumping over pipes,
climbing walls, and running. I think there were a couple of times where I was
like “All right, take me!” or something like that. I think I also only got to
really beat this once since my PS1 ultimately gave out on me. It’s definitely
one memory from I PS1 days I have still held on to.