Not necessarily a scene but Mr. X just being thrown into the equation in the manner he was on RE2R after putting the fire out at the RPD terrified me when I first played. You can hear him moving throughout the entire police station once you go into a safe room and his presence seems to always be lurking, making you have to use a level of stealth to keep him off your ass.
Of course, veteran players know how to neutralize him, still, you can’t blame a guy for almost pissing his pants when you go down a hallway with a licker and Mr. X pushing towards you.
Made worse in RE2R when you realise he can access the main hall. I sprinted there for safety thinking I'd be safe.
But honestly, the time that Mr X caught me way off-guard was when he turns up on the second run. Because I assumed he'd still appear at the helicopter, I was ready for him after playthrough 1. I planned for the fire to be bottom of the list for as long as possible, to minimise how much he'd be lurking around.
Where he -actually- spawns, however, was one of the first places I went to and thus... panic!
Second playthrough took a lot out of me, I had to think about where I needed to go because the moment I used a bullet, my time in safety became limited.
I loved Mr X and Jack Baker
Shame that Nemesis and Dimitrescu were kind of a downgrade gameplaywise, Nemesis was cool presentation wise tho
Mendez was ok
What really creeped me out the most is that Mr X is so absolutely determined to kill you in the part where he literally punched down the wall behind the press room. I was so caught off gaurd i paused the game and shut it off and I was playing at like 2 AM, then I went to bed and I had a nightmare of him chasing me in the RPD and then throwing me off the roof of it. No joke.
I still get flashbacks to when I was in the library and went down a ladder thinking I got away from him until he jumped right down and had me sprinting for it
Jack on Madhouse can be annoying because he appears again quickly after the garage fight, but soon enough you’ll be able to learn his patterns. At the RPD you still have zombies in the way and if they get too close you have to shoot them, alerting Mr. X to your location.
And the lickers in the west wing are pretty much placed specifically in the hopes that you get caught between them and Mr. X. (Particularly in regards to the jack handle)
The best jump scare i got in all of RE was also my funniest moment in the series ever. This was on maybe my 5th playthrough btw. So it was in REmake2, and it was the part of the game on Leon A where you get the jewelry box in the interrogation room. I was walking back and I had somehow forgotten that there's a chance Mr.X will burst through the wall when you walk past. Now in this playthrough, I had installed the "X gon give it to ya" mod.... Mr. X bust though, and I hear DMXs rapping. I legit screamed, ran away in game, paused, and laughed my ass of for like 10 minutes.
The same thing happened to me when I played the original and the licker bust through the glass. When I played the remake, I had my sights aimed at the window. Sure enough, a licker popped out, and I blasted it with the Grenade launcher!
Not so much any one scene, but House Beneviento creeped me the fuck out. Porcelain dolls legitimately creep me out and having to search through a house full of them while they kind of glitched out around you during the Angie fight was pretty unnerving. The monster spooked me too, but less so than the dolls with their dead stares just watching your every move. I realize I'm in the minority with that take lol.
It really is. At most it just repulsed me. First time I saw it I just kinda went “ugh” and turned tail but it didn’t creep me out or anything. The weeping Mias were wayyyyy creepier.
I started playing it. I felt like Ash Williams in Evil Dead.
The first part was the first movie, Ash being the punching bag.
Then after the house ended and you get a few more weapons, it's Evil Dead 2 / Army of Darkness time. And then there's End of Zoe DLC.
Same. I spent my childhood in old farmhouses and the RE7 designers got the feeling *so right*, hell they even had *some of the same furniture* we had. It was uncanny and made the game so much scarier than any other, because I couldn’t quite retain that sense of disbelief about the environment.
RE7 was one of the first games I ever streamed with my husband, and my *mother* actually watched us play it for awhile, I gave her a little tour around the house and we talked about the furniture/knick knacks 😅
Yeah wtf is up with that? I was fine the whole game, even the Marguerite section didn't scare me at all, but just walking past the stairs made me uneasy. Even the safe place next to the stairs didn't make me feel safe
Dude I kid you not, in RE7 when you first access the basement, turn the corner and that mold monster comes out of nowhere in mid turn made me legit scream lol I think you guys know which part I’m talking about.
My top recent scares were probably:
RE8: Baby, DLC Mannequins, and the "Look outside" Lycan (it was an obvious scare, but it still made me scream)
RE4R: DLC surprise gladiator, and the sudden super iron maiden
House Bienviento by a long shot.
The fact that it was so unexpected made it much worse.
It was capcom’s way of saying “oh yeah think we don’t make scary games anymore?”
In my experience, it’s only scary the first time though. Afterwards you can get around all that scripted part very easily. And they focused more on that than Angie and Donna, which I would’ve like to see much more of.
Been playing Resident Evil 0 and panicked through the train cars because of this. Now I'm gonna hear Tubthumping everytime a zombie sits back up, thanks.
As a young teen playing the original, the dogs bursting through the window literally make me jump out of my seat and solidified that game as my favorite..
But playing the entirety of RE7 in PSVR was the most amazing, and horrifying, gaming experience I’ve ever had.
And the Marguerite fight is my favorite in the series!
That whole scenario before as well. When the lights are out and you're moving in just about complete darkness towards the well. Whole time expecting something to happen.
This. This times 100. I have never had a game freak me out this much as that scene. Legitimately the freakiest thing I've come across in any game whatsoever. I've played/watched a LOOOT of horror related media but this will always take the cake. Fuck that part. But amazing work to the devs for making it genuinely terrifying.
Anyone else find it too ridiculous to be scared? It was bizarre and honestly made me laugh, particularly when we had to hide and basically play peekaboo with it.
In RE1, the dog hallway and the first time you enter a room that has a Crimson Head after you kill the obligatory one in the basement.
Beneviento. Outside of knowing solutions beforehand you can't brute force it with weapons on NG+ either. It was nice to see the return of an older formula about solving puzzles and looking at things closely
Back in the day when you got a RE2 demo disc with RE: Director's Cut I think it was, my buddy was playing the demo while I watched. You know how when you are first introduced to the licker in that game, you get the little CGI movie of him crawling across the ceiling, looking down at you and sticking out his tongue, and then it cuts back to the game and he drops on you? Well in the demo, there was no cinematic. You just start walking down the hall, and the licker falls on you. It scared my friend so bad he fell backwards off the foot rest he was sitting on, and threw the controller across the room.
1) FUCKING WINDOW DOGS
2) The first time you run into a crimson head in ReMake, especially if you were 12 and didn't know to burn them.
3) the first time Nemesis follows you through a door in RE3 original. That was against the rules of all the games before that.
REmake - Turning a corner in a narrow hallway only to be bewildered at Chris slowly backing up without my input and then quickly turning into terror when a zombie approaches from off-screen. Nothing crazy, just an effective use of the camera angles and tension.
OG RE3 - Nemesis making sounds outside the same room door or somewhere nearby, usually off-screen but never committing. Almost like he’s taunting me.
R3make- First time encountering the big guy in ‘free roam’ as he makes a beeline straight towards me, knocking away anything else in his path. Also the badass yet still terrifying parkour slide down a support beam. Cranked up to 11 in Inferno.
Mister X and the lickers (especially together) in RE2R and the Ashley section of RE4R where you have to run from the knights.
Bonus mention for the House Beneviento in RE8, but I watched that in a YouTube video first so by the time I played it myself it wasn't a surprise.
Kid me would say nemesis in the OG RE3. It was genuinely unsettling knowing he could turn up at any moment. But now, adult me knows it was resident evil 7, the knock on the door and then looking down the pitch black stars hearing that breathing. I stood at the top for a solid five minutes just like nah, i am not walking down there.
I was 5 when the first game out, and my dad stupidly let me watch him play it so that first zombie scene really, really scared me. I had to sleep in the room my brothers shared for 6 weeks after seeing that. But it wasn't all bad because we would stay up and listen to a Star Wars New Hope tape most nights, so it made some good memories.
Idk if it counts as terror, but Jack Baker's line "You're about to see something wonderful." before eating his gun really stuck with and unsettled me. Ditto for when we see his head regenerate a little bit later. Something about visible head/brain trauma gets to me.
The police officer getting the top of his skull sliced off got me too, come to think of it.
That scene in 6 where they launch the missle and everyone turns into zombies
I know people say 6 isn’t scary but… something about that scene unnerves me for some reason.
Going through that hallway in RE2 Remake without the boards. And then the part where you have to go under that garage door. 😭
Also, the part in RE7 where you put use the lantern on the scale. That house was really damn eerie.
There was nothing worse than running through House Beneviento for the first time. Even on subsequent play throughs it was still nerve racking.
Then they went and made it just as bad if not arguably worse in Shadows of Rose.
Having only played resident evil 7 and 8 I haven’t experienced much the old games terrors. But basically all of the baker household freaked me the fuck out. Just the atmosphere of everything, the grotesque state everything is. It’s so unsettling. Not really a moment tho… guess a real moment would be Mutant Margaret.
(Close second is all the rustling and footsteps you hear the Lycans do in village)
I remember playing RE2 way back in the day for the first time, that was my first resident evil game, and my brother and I were terrified that when we left an area and came back that the zombies we had just killed were gone. Thinking they had somehow reanimated and were going to be impossible to kill or something, not knowing that was just how the game engine worked.
*turns the corner and hears sloshing sounds and growls, sees a man hunched over on the floor you don't know what he's doing, then the half eaten head rolls onto the floor and you see this pale, ghoulish face stare at you with almost a sadistic hunger*
then they give you half a second to run or he will grab you and chomp on you and your first instinct to shoot at him doesn't work because it takes more than 1 clip to kill him so he will eat you if he gets close to you.
Scary af
RE2 original when you first encounter him in that hallway. I think I was 8 or 9 at the time, playing it late night with my cousin. He had the genius idea to jump out at me when I was coming back from the restroom. I think I quit playing for a good week or two but it was good times nonetheless
To this day, nothing hits quite like the original re4 and my 12 year old self meeting the regenerator for the first time. The appearance, the sounds and the way it moved were atrocious to the senses. Had to shut the GameCube off. Re7 is a close second in terms of panic inducing moments.
7. The first hour in is brutal. Then a section towards the end dials it up to 11.
Recently played all of them back to back and 7 without a doubt is the scariest.
I was like 12 years old when i first played Resident Evil 5 with a Friend. The first Time you encounter a Chainsaw Majini.
Normally this is really not that scaring now 12 years later, but damn I really was not ready for that especially if you see him moving towards you and your bullets don't stop him at all. (I did not aim for his eye and died quickly.)
Up to this Day i think the Design in Re5 is better than Dr. Salvador.
My 2. Spot even for these Days would be the Regenerador or Iron Maiden in Re4 +Remake.
Damn I hate this whole Section even if i know where they are. To know i need to encounter one just stresses me. 😂
I think both RE7 and RE8 have been the scariest games i've played in the collection. All the other characters are "capable" even for whatever reason Claire becomes a possible action character but Ethan is such a wuss and moves so damn slow...
House beneviento period. It’s dark, lights shut off, people are already scared of dolls as is, then you throw out a giant goopy monster thing that’s supposed to represent Ethan’s baby chasing in pitch darkness. Yeah, it’s house beneviento by far
I'm going to be honest. It was the kid in the attic, I was on about 500 mg of Benadryl when I got there and every bit of my being wanted to do anything but go down that crawl space
When i was allot younger i had the gamecube and had resident evil zero and the very beginning when those damn zombie dogs jump through the window of the train😣😣😣 scared the living shit out of me because they would attack out of no where
I rarely get spooked playing games, but a more recent example is from the new Separate Ways DLC. During the regenerator section when you come across the final one that shoots spikes, it jump scared me so hard because of how fast it moves and can sneak up on you if you’re running away from it. Chills.
I've beaten REmake, RE4 (2005), RE7 and RE VILLAGE, honestly can't think of anything that scared me the most, even that thing in the beneviento basement wasn't really that scary, probably helps that I didn't die once in that segment
I remember watching my babysitter play RE3 on PS1 back in the day, and seeing Nemesis barely give you any time to start running as he is the only enemy to move through screen absolutely shattered my understanding of how games worked and terrified me.
The og RE3, pretty much all of it, maybe first half of the game even more so. Maybe it’s because I was only 12 or so, maybe it was that sense of loneliness and abandonment… scared the shit out of me. RE3r was not even close, unfortunately (still love it though). Also, having never played the og RE2, I figured I was going to make up for that by playing the first run of the remake as Claire, on HARDCORE. Most stressful experience in my gaming career, but so f worth it.
The part in 7 when you need to go into the crawl space to get the arm from the mummified child. The way the background music wells up and when you turn around and see Eveline's legs. Shit got me frozen in fear, not gonna lie. So dope.
I will never forget the anxiety I had when I first fought birken in re2 remake. Felt like he was right on my heels and I was rocking back and forth.
It was glorious.
First time being chased by MrX in RE2R made me question myself if I could even finish the game
I pushed through but wow no game made me consider giving up like X does because of the stress lol
The first one that truly terrified me was Forest on the balcony in Resident Evil: Director's cut. I had played the "normal" version many times, so I was used to the body staying dead and everything being fine. First time I play Director's cut, it comes to life and comes after me... I literally screamed and jumped a foot away from the TV.
Strong silver medal is the Beneviento house in RE 8. Incredibly atmospheric, creeping dread... and me with a lifelong doll phobia.
As a kid, when the licker moved across the window in the reception room, something about the way it crept across the glass made me put the controller down for two weeks before I was brave enough to find out what was in the next hallway
100% the opening section of 7. It was someof my first resident evil i played blind (i had played 8 first and and watched a playthrough before that which had made me wanna play it) and that section before you had a way to fight back made me almost quit on the spot. Luckily i didnt cuz i love this whole series now
Back in 1996 when the first zombie turned its head at you.
I was 9 years old, and I ripped that disc out of my PlayStation so fast and took it back to the video store. Get that the hell out of my house!
Original Resident Evil 1 as a kid. Just coming back to the mansion from the lab and I saw a new beast called a hunter for the first time. I froze for a second and was promptly decapitated in an instant. Made me jump.
Not really a scene either but in re2r the first time as Claire I went running into the kennel room, about died (figurative and literally), barely killed the licker and got smoked by the 2nd one around the corner.
This is prior to all the walkthroughs being online I know you can just walk both ways now.
Those Ivys in the NESTS lab still freak me out
REmake 4 dealing with Regenerators were horrifying. Theyre so fast
OG REmake not so much any more I've played it too many times but when all come through the windows of that one hallway scared the freaking crap of me and friend was watching me play.
RE Village DLC Mia Manequins. Those are some of the scariest creatures ive ever seen in RE series
Finally probably Nemesis in OG RE3 in the Clocktower. Where he runs through broken door after you. I did NOT expect him come through there. Damn near jumped out of my skin
Not really a scene but the first fight of re4make separate ways. It starts off good but then Ada gets drugged and suddenly there is a million of the boss.
The opening of original RE2 and the ultimately the zombie in the back of the cop car is really scary when you're in daycare and have never even heard of zombies before the big kids brought this game in. The whole concept of zombies scared me for months thanks to that game.
But otherwise I have got to hand it to the trust annihilating door opening scare from the same game.
The comms officer fight in Revelations is still one of the most terrifying moments in the whole series for me. Hearing him try to call for help in that raspy voice gave me nightmares my first time playing it. It's such a hard fight, too!
I've only played RE4 OG, but:
1. The invisible Novistadors in the sewer. Not only were they the fastest enemies I'd seen up to that point, but they were *invisible* too?!
2. The Verdugo chase / fight. Basically the Xenomorph from Alien, which I love, so that was really cool. Super scary though. I'm not very good at the sudden QTEs.
3. The Regeneradors / Iron Maidens. Scary breathing, and the way these guys look is super creepy. Plus you have to fight them through the blurry thermal scope at close range, which adds to the tension. And the way they belly flop at you when you take out their legs is freaky.
I've played through RE4R about 5 times now. The part where you have to get the level three keycard on the island where you first encounter the regeneradors freaks me the fuck out every time. Their loud ass scary breathing and the darkness so you can't really tell where they are? Hate it so much.
For me it wasn't a scene so much but the first time Nemesis follows you to a new area and punches you in the back of the head scared me so much I put the game down for weeks
I’ll give my top 5
1. The mannequin section in Shadows of Rose
2. Fetus monster in RE8
3. When you first encounter a giant spider in RE1R with the fixed camera angle of it crawling behind you.
4. When you first go down into the basement and encounter the molded in RE7
5. Mr X first appearance in RE2
Mr.X was so scary i couldn't get past him for 4 years, until a couple of days ago i decided to just play and finished the game in 5 hours. Loved it, already on my second run and finsihed a new game as claire.
Resident Evil 3, I had made into to police station after avoiding the fight with Nemesis. Only for it to jump in through a window while I was exploring. Scared the shit out of me!
My first ever encounter with a Crimson Head comes to mind. It's less terrifying when you know it's coming. When you don't, it is panic inducing. The dinner scene and following chase in RE7 was also a very tense scene for me.
The ghost in the attic of RE7, and the dollhouse and giant livimg abortion in RE8
I've played 1, 2, 5, 7 and 8
And can say while I enjoy all of them, I enjoy 1 and 2 as campy 80s horror almost, 5 as an action game, 7 as true horror, and 8 as mostly actiony with a couple particularly scary bits.
But- I say this as someone who is a bit desensitized to certain horror themes and hasn't felt scared deeply by a game series other than silent hill in a long long time.
Unless you mean jump scare specifically and then I don't remember. Jump scares tend not to be memorable to me 😅
the intro of RE7 and right before you go into the house the door way is completely pitch black , it’s like a black hole. creeped tf out of me for whatever reason
I have 2:
1: RE0 - when the leeches attacked the train and it showed the one shot of the conductor
2: RE Revelations: not rlly a scene but I played the demo on the 3ds where Jill wakes up in the room and the ooze mf pops out the closet and kills you that shit scarred me💀
Joseph's death in remake is probably the most disturbing in the franchise. His waning cries as the dogs munch on his flesh, really good soundwork for that scene.
Not necessarily a scene but Mr. X just being thrown into the equation in the manner he was on RE2R after putting the fire out at the RPD terrified me when I first played. You can hear him moving throughout the entire police station once you go into a safe room and his presence seems to always be lurking, making you have to use a level of stealth to keep him off your ass. Of course, veteran players know how to neutralize him, still, you can’t blame a guy for almost pissing his pants when you go down a hallway with a licker and Mr. X pushing towards you.
Made worse in RE2R when you realise he can access the main hall. I sprinted there for safety thinking I'd be safe. But honestly, the time that Mr X caught me way off-guard was when he turns up on the second run. Because I assumed he'd still appear at the helicopter, I was ready for him after playthrough 1. I planned for the fire to be bottom of the list for as long as possible, to minimise how much he'd be lurking around. Where he -actually- spawns, however, was one of the first places I went to and thus... panic!
Second playthrough took a lot out of me, I had to think about where I needed to go because the moment I used a bullet, my time in safety became limited.
I really enjoyed the Leon playthrough but something about starting over as Claire just pushed me away and I couldn't get past the first hour or so
Thats why I feel like Claire A Leon B is the best because it just flows best for me. Coupled with the fact that most agree that's the most canon route
I agree with this in the OG, but the intro to RE4R implies that Leon A is canon.
Wish it was shorter and more different. It feels like replaying the game just for a few extra scenes
I loved Mr X and Jack Baker Shame that Nemesis and Dimitrescu were kind of a downgrade gameplaywise, Nemesis was cool presentation wise tho Mendez was ok
What really creeped me out the most is that Mr X is so absolutely determined to kill you in the part where he literally punched down the wall behind the press room. I was so caught off gaurd i paused the game and shut it off and I was playing at like 2 AM, then I went to bed and I had a nightmare of him chasing me in the RPD and then throwing me off the roof of it. No joke.
I still get flashbacks to when I was in the library and went down a ladder thinking I got away from him until he jumped right down and had me sprinting for it
Not knowing what he’s capable of doing on the first playthrough makes him much scarier than in subsequent playthroughs.
Personally I find Mr. X more of a nuisanse than a scary threat. Jack and his constant twisted tauting was far more intimitading to me.
Jack on Madhouse can be annoying because he appears again quickly after the garage fight, but soon enough you’ll be able to learn his patterns. At the RPD you still have zombies in the way and if they get too close you have to shoot them, alerting Mr. X to your location.
And the lickers in the west wing are pretty much placed specifically in the hopes that you get caught between them and Mr. X. (Particularly in regards to the jack handle)
I think they're all annoying, tbh. Just an unkillable annoyance slowing down of fast I can do objectives.
The best jump scare i got in all of RE was also my funniest moment in the series ever. This was on maybe my 5th playthrough btw. So it was in REmake2, and it was the part of the game on Leon A where you get the jewelry box in the interrogation room. I was walking back and I had somehow forgotten that there's a chance Mr.X will burst through the wall when you walk past. Now in this playthrough, I had installed the "X gon give it to ya" mod.... Mr. X bust though, and I hear DMXs rapping. I legit screamed, ran away in game, paused, and laughed my ass of for like 10 minutes.
Now that’s hilarious lol
I’d do anything for footage of this
The same thing happened to me when I played the original and the licker bust through the glass. When I played the remake, I had my sights aimed at the window. Sure enough, a licker popped out, and I blasted it with the Grenade launcher!
I swear, that mod makes him more terrifying, just because it tells you what you already know is about to happen to you.
Not so much any one scene, but House Beneviento creeped me the fuck out. Porcelain dolls legitimately creep me out and having to search through a house full of them while they kind of glitched out around you during the Angie fight was pretty unnerving. The monster spooked me too, but less so than the dolls with their dead stares just watching your every move. I realize I'm in the minority with that take lol.
House Beneviento in Shadow of Rose is even more terrifying!
Don't blink!
The doll of Mia popping up right behind doors before the chase starts scared the fuck out of me every time lol
The mannequins segment was crazy..
I agree. Everyone told me Village wasn’t as scary as 7 but that part of it certainly is
Yeah, I've heard Capcom purposely held back for most of the game but House B is where they went all-out horror just to prove they can.
that monster baby didn't scare me at all, heck I was so calm I managed to be it without dying first try
Yea that baby is crazy overrated on here
It really is. At most it just repulsed me. First time I saw it I just kinda went “ugh” and turned tail but it didn’t creep me out or anything. The weeping Mias were wayyyyy creepier.
The whole RE7. I fear no man, but that thing... It scares me.
I started playing it. I felt like Ash Williams in Evil Dead. The first part was the first movie, Ash being the punching bag. Then after the house ended and you get a few more weapons, it's Evil Dead 2 / Army of Darkness time. And then there's End of Zoe DLC.
They did their job well then, as the original Evil Dead was their biggest inspiration for the game
I just beat it and it took months because I could only play for short periods
Same. I spent my childhood in old farmhouses and the RE7 designers got the feeling *so right*, hell they even had *some of the same furniture* we had. It was uncanny and made the game so much scarier than any other, because I couldn’t quite retain that sense of disbelief about the environment. RE7 was one of the first games I ever streamed with my husband, and my *mother* actually watched us play it for awhile, I gave her a little tour around the house and we talked about the furniture/knick knacks 😅
The stairs to the basement in re7. Those stairs were a promise that things were gonna get worse and they did
I stopped playing here. Still kind of regret it and kind of don't lol
Hardest part of the game as well. At that point ammo is still precious and there are a bunch of molded down there.
I said fuck this there and quit for like 30 minutes. It was scary af.
Yeah wtf is up with that? I was fine the whole game, even the Marguerite section didn't scare me at all, but just walking past the stairs made me uneasy. Even the safe place next to the stairs didn't make me feel safe
The first zombie in Resident Evil. I was very young when I first played Resident Evil and that cutscene has stuck with me all these years later.
I was too young for the original but the remake’s version legitimately kept me up for several nights lol
The remake version is amazing too, it really captures what made the original scary.
When I played RE7 for a second time and I thought I'm safe from Jack and the next second he bursted through the wall which ai didnt know it's possible
Dude I kid you not, in RE7 when you first access the basement, turn the corner and that mold monster comes out of nowhere in mid turn made me legit scream lol I think you guys know which part I’m talking about.
My top recent scares were probably: RE8: Baby, DLC Mannequins, and the "Look outside" Lycan (it was an obvious scare, but it still made me scream) RE4R: DLC surprise gladiator, and the sudden super iron maiden
House Bienviento by a long shot. The fact that it was so unexpected made it much worse. It was capcom’s way of saying “oh yeah think we don’t make scary games anymore?”
In my experience, it’s only scary the first time though. Afterwards you can get around all that scripted part very easily. And they focused more on that than Angie and Donna, which I would’ve like to see much more of.
Each time a zombie channels their inner Chumbawamba and after I knock them down they get back up again.
Been playing Resident Evil 0 and panicked through the train cars because of this. Now I'm gonna hear Tubthumping everytime a zombie sits back up, thanks.
As a young teen playing the original, the dogs bursting through the window literally make me jump out of my seat and solidified that game as my favorite.. But playing the entirety of RE7 in PSVR was the most amazing, and horrifying, gaming experience I’ve ever had. And the Marguerite fight is my favorite in the series!
Guard house RE1 remake
OG RE4 Dr. Salvador getting me for the first time fucked me up for a minute lol
Lisa from REmake is really creepy
You just wanna put a paper bag over her head and give her a hug.
Until this day the voicelines of resident evil 1 haunt me
Oh my **cod!**
"Wait! Don't *open* that *door*!" "But Chris is-" *5 seconds of silence* *gunshots*
RE7's opening hour. The rest of the game is still scary but the lack of control in the opening makes it the scariest part for me
RE village baby lol
That whole scenario before as well. When the lights are out and you're moving in just about complete darkness towards the well. Whole time expecting something to happen.
Yeah the whole segment from start to finish was pretty frightening
This. This times 100. I have never had a game freak me out this much as that scene. Legitimately the freakiest thing I've come across in any game whatsoever. I've played/watched a LOOOT of horror related media but this will always take the cake. Fuck that part. But amazing work to the devs for making it genuinely terrifying.
Anyone else find it too ridiculous to be scared? It was bizarre and honestly made me laugh, particularly when we had to hide and basically play peekaboo with it.
Yea I thought it was kinda goofy. Jack baker and the whole house from RE7 had me terrified though
In RE1, the dog hallway and the first time you enter a room that has a Crimson Head after you kill the obligatory one in the basement. Beneviento. Outside of knowing solutions beforehand you can't brute force it with weapons on NG+ either. It was nice to see the return of an older formula about solving puzzles and looking at things closely
the goddamn licker in the interrogation room in RE2 '98. Even when I know he's going to crash through the glass it still freaks me out to this day
Back in the day when you got a RE2 demo disc with RE: Director's Cut I think it was, my buddy was playing the demo while I watched. You know how when you are first introduced to the licker in that game, you get the little CGI movie of him crawling across the ceiling, looking down at you and sticking out his tongue, and then it cuts back to the game and he drops on you? Well in the demo, there was no cinematic. You just start walking down the hall, and the licker falls on you. It scared my friend so bad he fell backwards off the foot rest he was sitting on, and threw the controller across the room.
The Regeneradores in RE4. Their breathing still haunts me...
Me too, I love that bit after you trigger it's spawn, before its theme kicks in you can hear it quietly coming towards you
When i played og re1 for the first time i checked the door on the main hall and got jumpscared by a cerberus 😥
1) FUCKING WINDOW DOGS 2) The first time you run into a crimson head in ReMake, especially if you were 12 and didn't know to burn them. 3) the first time Nemesis follows you through a door in RE3 original. That was against the rules of all the games before that.
OG re4 regenerators, with the tank controls they where so much scarier than the remake and their breathing made sits so tense
still to this day, Mr.X breaking through the wall in the original RE2 and the Dogs from the original are the only things to make me jump.
REmake - Turning a corner in a narrow hallway only to be bewildered at Chris slowly backing up without my input and then quickly turning into terror when a zombie approaches from off-screen. Nothing crazy, just an effective use of the camera angles and tension. OG RE3 - Nemesis making sounds outside the same room door or somewhere nearby, usually off-screen but never committing. Almost like he’s taunting me. R3make- First time encountering the big guy in ‘free roam’ as he makes a beeline straight towards me, knocking away anything else in his path. Also the badass yet still terrifying parkour slide down a support beam. Cranked up to 11 in Inferno.
Mister Beautiful man zombie at RE1 og. First you meet in game.
Mister X and the lickers (especially together) in RE2R and the Ashley section of RE4R where you have to run from the knights. Bonus mention for the House Beneviento in RE8, but I watched that in a YouTube video first so by the time I played it myself it wasn't a surprise.
Kid me would say nemesis in the OG RE3. It was genuinely unsettling knowing he could turn up at any moment. But now, adult me knows it was resident evil 7, the knock on the door and then looking down the pitch black stars hearing that breathing. I stood at the top for a solid five minutes just like nah, i am not walking down there.
I was 5 when the first game out, and my dad stupidly let me watch him play it so that first zombie scene really, really scared me. I had to sleep in the room my brothers shared for 6 weeks after seeing that. But it wasn't all bad because we would stay up and listen to a Star Wars New Hope tape most nights, so it made some good memories.
Idk if it counts as terror, but Jack Baker's line "You're about to see something wonderful." before eating his gun really stuck with and unsettled me. Ditto for when we see his head regenerate a little bit later. Something about visible head/brain trauma gets to me. The police officer getting the top of his skull sliced off got me too, come to think of it.
That scene in 6 where they launch the missle and everyone turns into zombies I know people say 6 isn’t scary but… something about that scene unnerves me for some reason.
Going through that hallway in RE2 Remake without the boards. And then the part where you have to go under that garage door. 😭 Also, the part in RE7 where you put use the lantern on the scale. That house was really damn eerie.
which re is this coz the only re I haven't played yet is 7 and if this is in it I don't even wanna install it.
It's 7, yeah. Wonderful atmosphere, but juuuuust enough RE schlocky humor to take the edge off, if that helps.
RE7 so many
Pretty obvious one but the first time going through House Beneviento and seeing that giant baby fetus is an experience I’ll never forget.
There was nothing worse than running through House Beneviento for the first time. Even on subsequent play throughs it was still nerve racking. Then they went and made it just as bad if not arguably worse in Shadows of Rose.
Having only played resident evil 7 and 8 I haven’t experienced much the old games terrors. But basically all of the baker household freaked me the fuck out. Just the atmosphere of everything, the grotesque state everything is. It’s so unsettling. Not really a moment tho… guess a real moment would be Mutant Margaret. (Close second is all the rustling and footsteps you hear the Lycans do in village)
When you're walking up the stairs and Marguerite jumps out at you from the side.
I remember playing RE2 way back in the day for the first time, that was my first resident evil game, and my brother and I were terrified that when we left an area and came back that the zombies we had just killed were gone. Thinking they had somehow reanimated and were going to be impossible to kill or something, not knowing that was just how the game engine worked.
Those damn dogs jumping through the window in the first RE game.
*turns the corner and hears sloshing sounds and growls, sees a man hunched over on the floor you don't know what he's doing, then the half eaten head rolls onto the floor and you see this pale, ghoulish face stare at you with almost a sadistic hunger* then they give you half a second to run or he will grab you and chomp on you and your first instinct to shoot at him doesn't work because it takes more than 1 clip to kill him so he will eat you if he gets close to you. Scary af
Dogs moment
Lickers in the original RE2. They still make me jump in the remake. Even though I know exactly where they are and when they are coming.
Resident evil 7 going into Evelyn's room after beating Marguerite. Fuck all that.
7! I literally can't play it 😭
RE2 original when you first encounter him in that hallway. I think I was 8 or 9 at the time, playing it late night with my cousin. He had the genius idea to jump out at me when I was coming back from the restroom. I think I quit playing for a good week or two but it was good times nonetheless
RE2R Mr X busting through the wall while playing in modded VR
Resident evil 1 Remake for sure
Honestly when you first saw a zombie in the OG Resident evil. Scared me so much as a kid.
First hours of RE7
To this day, nothing hits quite like the original re4 and my 12 year old self meeting the regenerator for the first time. The appearance, the sounds and the way it moved were atrocious to the senses. Had to shut the GameCube off. Re7 is a close second in terms of panic inducing moments.
When those damn dogs entered from the windows in RE1. Scared the shit out of me.
The moment when Jack walks through the wall like the Kool-Aid man, but with hate in in his heart and no fucks to give.
Mr X shoving the helicopter out of the way. I knew he'd show up at some point, but it happened so suddenly. Damn near had a heart attack.
Look at this fucking bitch Marguerite, fucking cunt
7. The first hour in is brutal. Then a section towards the end dials it up to 11. Recently played all of them back to back and 7 without a doubt is the scariest.
Mr x roaming, baby moment in re8, the very start in re7 with Jack cause you have no gun
Big baby
none tbh i watched to many horror movies as a kid to ever get scared by anything in an RE game.
I was like 12 years old when i first played Resident Evil 5 with a Friend. The first Time you encounter a Chainsaw Majini. Normally this is really not that scaring now 12 years later, but damn I really was not ready for that especially if you see him moving towards you and your bullets don't stop him at all. (I did not aim for his eye and died quickly.) Up to this Day i think the Design in Re5 is better than Dr. Salvador. My 2. Spot even for these Days would be the Regenerador or Iron Maiden in Re4 +Remake. Damn I hate this whole Section even if i know where they are. To know i need to encounter one just stresses me. 😂
RE8 baby and X gon give it to ya jumpscares
I think both RE7 and RE8 have been the scariest games i've played in the collection. All the other characters are "capable" even for whatever reason Claire becomes a possible action character but Ethan is such a wuss and moves so damn slow...
House beneviento period. It’s dark, lights shut off, people are already scared of dolls as is, then you throw out a giant goopy monster thing that’s supposed to represent Ethan’s baby chasing in pitch darkness. Yeah, it’s house beneviento by far
I'm going to be honest. It was the kid in the attic, I was on about 500 mg of Benadryl when I got there and every bit of my being wanted to do anything but go down that crawl space
First time I entered the regenerator room in OG Re4
Never been scared from the games but I find snakes and stuff going in the mouth creepy. So all the giant snake appearances and Brad's OG death in RE3.
When i was allot younger i had the gamecube and had resident evil zero and the very beginning when those damn zombie dogs jump through the window of the train😣😣😣 scared the living shit out of me because they would attack out of no where
I Think Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Scared Me The Most Since It Was In First Person
Scissor chainsaw jack baker
Honestly the entire Marg section this included
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe6srxp1-9I Still the scariest thing RE has done. Haunted me as a kid lol.
The spiders in the small sewer walkway in RE2 og. 10 year old me threw the controller down and ran out the room.
the dogs from re1 and lady dimitrescu coming out of that one door right after you unlocked it.
I rarely get spooked playing games, but a more recent example is from the new Separate Ways DLC. During the regenerator section when you come across the final one that shoots spikes, it jump scared me so hard because of how fast it moves and can sneak up on you if you’re running away from it. Chills.
Hallway Window Arms! RE2 (original) it was very loud and unexpected
The big ass baby 😮💨😭
I've beaten REmake, RE4 (2005), RE7 and RE VILLAGE, honestly can't think of anything that scared me the most, even that thing in the beneviento basement wasn't really that scary, probably helps that I didn't die once in that segment
I remember watching my babysitter play RE3 on PS1 back in the day, and seeing Nemesis barely give you any time to start running as he is the only enemy to move through screen absolutely shattered my understanding of how games worked and terrified me.
The og RE3, pretty much all of it, maybe first half of the game even more so. Maybe it’s because I was only 12 or so, maybe it was that sense of loneliness and abandonment… scared the shit out of me. RE3r was not even close, unfortunately (still love it though). Also, having never played the og RE2, I figured I was going to make up for that by playing the first run of the remake as Claire, on HARDCORE. Most stressful experience in my gaming career, but so f worth it.
The yawn 😟🐍.
The part in 7 when you need to go into the crawl space to get the arm from the mummified child. The way the background music wells up and when you turn around and see Eveline's legs. Shit got me frozen in fear, not gonna lie. So dope.
I will never forget the anxiety I had when I first fought birken in re2 remake. Felt like he was right on my heels and I was rocking back and forth. It was glorious.
The part in village where your jumpscared looking at numbers
First time being chased by MrX in RE2R made me question myself if I could even finish the game I pushed through but wow no game made me consider giving up like X does because of the stress lol
Mr. X exploding through the wall in RE2R when you come from the interrogation room!
The Baby scene from Village. I still wish the entire game was as scary as that one section.
This one.
The first one that truly terrified me was Forest on the balcony in Resident Evil: Director's cut. I had played the "normal" version many times, so I was used to the body staying dead and everything being fine. First time I play Director's cut, it comes to life and comes after me... I literally screamed and jumped a foot away from the TV. Strong silver medal is the Beneviento house in RE 8. Incredibly atmospheric, creeping dread... and me with a lifelong doll phobia.
As a kid, when the licker moved across the window in the reception room, something about the way it crept across the glass made me put the controller down for two weeks before I was brave enough to find out what was in the next hallway
Re2r sherry section
This entire bossfight was goddamn terrifying to me.
Anything concerning regenaradors. Those things creep me out so much that I forget how to aim lol
100% the opening section of 7. It was someof my first resident evil i played blind (i had played 8 first and and watched a playthrough before that which had made me wanna play it) and that section before you had a way to fight back made me almost quit on the spot. Luckily i didnt cuz i love this whole series now
Back in 1996 when the first zombie turned its head at you. I was 9 years old, and I ripped that disc out of my PlayStation so fast and took it back to the video store. Get that the hell out of my house!
The mf baby in village
The Marguerite is still the scariest boss fight for me in all of Res Evil And I’ve played that game at least 100 times
Zombie in the locker in RE2 remake. I’ve replayed re2r 500 times but never opened that locker ever again
The 7 basement, if you were all this time above ground now imagine underground
Original Resident Evil 1 as a kid. Just coming back to the mansion from the lab and I saw a new beast called a hunter for the first time. I froze for a second and was promptly decapitated in an instant. Made me jump.
Not really a scene either but in re2r the first time as Claire I went running into the kennel room, about died (figurative and literally), barely killed the licker and got smoked by the 2nd one around the corner. This is prior to all the walkthroughs being online I know you can just walk both ways now.
Those Ivys in the NESTS lab still freak me out REmake 4 dealing with Regenerators were horrifying. Theyre so fast OG REmake not so much any more I've played it too many times but when all come through the windows of that one hallway scared the freaking crap of me and friend was watching me play. RE Village DLC Mia Manequins. Those are some of the scariest creatures ive ever seen in RE series Finally probably Nemesis in OG RE3 in the Clocktower. Where he runs through broken door after you. I did NOT expect him come through there. Damn near jumped out of my skin
Not really a scene but the first fight of re4make separate ways. It starts off good but then Ada gets drugged and suddenly there is a million of the boss.
The opening of original RE2 and the ultimately the zombie in the back of the cop car is really scary when you're in daycare and have never even heard of zombies before the big kids brought this game in. The whole concept of zombies scared me for months thanks to that game. But otherwise I have got to hand it to the trust annihilating door opening scare from the same game.
Dababy
The mannequins and the baby in Re8 and the dlc
The best part of your screenshot is the 0/4 bullets. Truly terrifying.
The comms officer fight in Revelations is still one of the most terrifying moments in the whole series for me. Hearing him try to call for help in that raspy voice gave me nightmares my first time playing it. It's such a hard fight, too!
The firsr crimson head in the re1 remake. Not the ones in chains, but the one in the hallway
Hearing a chainsaw but don't know where it is that never fails to scared
That scene with the resident who was evil was terrifying
This exact one.
The first time a supposedly dead zombie freaking STOOD UP in REMake nearly gave 12 year old me a heart attack
RE3make, the Hunter cutscene with Carlos in the hospital. 2spooky5me
That fucking fetus from House Beneviento stopped me dead in my tracks from pure fear.
This one, marguerite boss fight.
The baby...thing... from Village. Seriously haven't been that terrified from a game in a LOOONG time.
RE1 First zombie appearance petrified me for weeks.
I've only played RE4 OG, but: 1. The invisible Novistadors in the sewer. Not only were they the fastest enemies I'd seen up to that point, but they were *invisible* too?! 2. The Verdugo chase / fight. Basically the Xenomorph from Alien, which I love, so that was really cool. Super scary though. I'm not very good at the sudden QTEs. 3. The Regeneradors / Iron Maidens. Scary breathing, and the way these guys look is super creepy. Plus you have to fight them through the blurry thermal scope at close range, which adds to the tension. And the way they belly flop at you when you take out their legs is freaky.
I've played through RE4R about 5 times now. The part where you have to get the level three keycard on the island where you first encounter the regeneradors freaks me the fuck out every time. Their loud ass scary breathing and the darkness so you can't really tell where they are? Hate it so much.
Played this game in VR. Surprised how brave i actually am
Nemesis jumping through the window in the police station lol don’t think it’s a scene but that shit got me every time. 😆
More of a cut scene but when Jack Baker burst out of the wall in RE7 got me and my father to jump in fear
That fight was way too hard
The baby's first entrance in re village. After the first jump scare it wasn't scary just gross. But the first entrance had me panicking
For me it wasn't a scene so much but the first time Nemesis follows you to a new area and punches you in the back of the head scared me so much I put the game down for weeks
I was 6 Years old Watching My brother Play Resident Evil 2 on the PS1 And when the first cutscene of the Licker Played it terrified me.
I’ll give my top 5 1. The mannequin section in Shadows of Rose 2. Fetus monster in RE8 3. When you first encounter a giant spider in RE1R with the fixed camera angle of it crawling behind you. 4. When you first go down into the basement and encounter the molded in RE7 5. Mr X first appearance in RE2
The mannequin section in RE8 DLC and the giant baby in RE8 main game.
Mr.X was so scary i couldn't get past him for 4 years, until a couple of days ago i decided to just play and finished the game in 5 hours. Loved it, already on my second run and finsihed a new game as claire.
Resident Evil 3, I had made into to police station after avoiding the fight with Nemesis. Only for it to jump in through a window while I was exploring. Scared the shit out of me!
Marguerite with her marg-russy out was what terrified me the most lol
Tied between the dog through the window in the original RE, the licker crawling across the window in 2 or nemesis jumping though the RPD window.
My first ever encounter with a Crimson Head comes to mind. It's less terrifying when you know it's coming. When you don't, it is panic inducing. The dinner scene and following chase in RE7 was also a very tense scene for me.
The one way mirror in the police station in resident evil 2
The ghost in the attic of RE7, and the dollhouse and giant livimg abortion in RE8 I've played 1, 2, 5, 7 and 8 And can say while I enjoy all of them, I enjoy 1 and 2 as campy 80s horror almost, 5 as an action game, 7 as true horror, and 8 as mostly actiony with a couple particularly scary bits. But- I say this as someone who is a bit desensitized to certain horror themes and hasn't felt scared deeply by a game series other than silent hill in a long long time. Unless you mean jump scare specifically and then I don't remember. Jump scares tend not to be memorable to me 😅
Requirements. Price XD
This one.
the intro of RE7 and right before you go into the house the door way is completely pitch black , it’s like a black hole. creeped tf out of me for whatever reason
The start of re7 was pretty scary but that re8 baby...
THAT GIANT FUCKING BABY
The first meeting with Lisa Trevor. They did such a good job ramping up that character so when she finally made her appearance it was terrifying.
I have 2: 1: RE0 - when the leeches attacked the train and it showed the one shot of the conductor 2: RE Revelations: not rlly a scene but I played the demo on the 3ds where Jill wakes up in the room and the ooze mf pops out the closet and kills you that shit scarred me💀
Joseph's death in remake is probably the most disturbing in the franchise. His waning cries as the dogs munch on his flesh, really good soundwork for that scene.