What we’ve learned: Andy is afraid of lovecraftian horror. Jane is afraid of gore and jump scares. Luke is afraid of atmospheric horror. Ellen is afraid of everything.
I dunno, Andy reacts (genuinely) really viscerally to the jump scares in their other horror lets plays. But I think you're bang on about what the overall themes are for them as far as "what exact kind of horror scares the OX Team?" Also I 100% agree with being afraid of Cosmic/Lovecraftian horror as a general defining personality trait one can possess. Which is weird because I love stealth games probably as much as Andy does but if my anxiety is already up from other stressors, I'm not gonna play Thief or some other atmospheric but ultimately Cosmic horror type thing until that's calmed down. (Lemme tell you running into the ghost wailing in Lemoyne in RDR2 *before* the Internet/most of RUclips had posted about it, was Not Fun. I wasn't expecting it and I think I pivoted my horse on the spot and ran out of there so fast the dust would have settled by the time you realized I'd been there.)
@@Crisjola oh I completely agree. There is an oddly appealing factor with cosmic horror though, because it’s equally horrifying and fascinating. It’s why lovecraft has become so popular, because the horror isn’t in the gore or the atmosphere, it’s in the fear of something beyond our comprehension and it’s terrifying, but it’s also fascinating because it appeals to our innate curiosity. It’s a shame though, since I haven’t seen a lot of mediums outside novels, whether it be through tv or video games pull it off very well. Also I’ve never played rdr2, but I can see how that’d be horrifying since I used to get scared during some of the missions in new vegas.
Reminds me of the time my sister watched the ring movie and as the phone rang in the movie telephone rang and freaked her out. This was before caller identified on phones and cell phones and blockbusters was still a thing. So it was legitimately scary.
I hope she only talking about game level. My second school was scary, opressive, grinding down and rusty (changing rooms, basement, attic...) it was only missing "covered in blood" part :)
My favorite "quit" came along with one of my favorite achievements. I started playing the Amnesia collection. Right after the prologue of the 1st one, I quit while actually saying out loud "NOPE". Then I hear the achievement sound and the title is actually "NOPE" and you get it if you quit in the beggining.
I accidentally got this achievement as well cuz I started the game got halfway through the first cutscene and remembered I had just downloaded another game I wanted to try and decided to try that first so I quit and bam achievement xD I was like “what 😮”
I love how Andy and Jane were both mostly picking very very scary games like Outlast, Eternal Darkness, etc., While Luke and Ellen chose Tomb Raider and Ocarina of Time 😂 Protect Luke and Ellen!
The first wolf in the first tomb raider scared our shits back into our esophageal area. But then it was also at the same time that people had their sexual awakening to triangle tits.
it's more of a betrayal when you get scared in a non horror game. When you start a horror game you know that you're gonna get spooked, that's the point. When you start a puzzle platformer or an adventure game, you don't expect to be spooked, which makes it scarier.
I played Silent Hill just after turning 11 in an unfinished basement during a winter storm and I don't think anything could ever scare me that much again.
I had a very similar experience. I was 9 when it came out and first played it. At that time we still had our tv and gaming consoles in the basement, we oringally had the NES, SNES, and Atari in one of the upstairs rooms but moved it down to the basement when we got a PS1 and N64 to better fit more people (and so my dad could play). Our basement was partially finished and had that old horror movie vibe (it gave a lot of the kids an uneasy feeling to the point I had to be the first to go down when friends came over). Open back steps and at the bottom was a coal room. Basically a big dark hole where the previous owner fashioned an old wooden door that didn't quite cover all the imperfect edges, so my dad sealed the corners with plastic to prevent the breeze coming through. On the far end of the opposite wall sat the tv, so we'd sit in metal folding chairs with our backs to the coal room and off to the side was a ramp leading down to another room divided by a brick wall, that the light from the main room didn't quite extend to so it was dark, unless you were to walk in and pull the chain on the hanging light on either side of that room. Well enough build up, one day I was down there by myself playing the game, I was at the hospital basement and the coal room behind me creaked open. I looked over my should and saw what seemed like the black abyss on the other side of the hole and was like "nope" and ran upstairs as fast as possible. I didn't even turn the game off (had to do it when my mom went down to do laundry) and didn't touch the game again until I was able to get the tv in my bedroom... two years later.
I played eternal darkness when I was little kid. I beat it eventually, but what nightmare fool stayed with me as a kid was the mantis creatures that would climb into your mouth and took your body over... or the idea of the many fates worse than death unit lol.
@Viktor Samoja "severed head reciting Hamlet, that's some Monty Python level stuff" I had the exact same thought. It doesn't help that graphics were so blocky back then. Even today, I have yet to see a video game with graphics realistic enough for the kind of immersion a horror story requires.
Honestly anyone scared of alien isolation.. Is just ridiculous.. That game is seriously just fucking door opening the game, and the Xenomorphs ai is a joke
What made me laugh is that while other stuff in the game freaked me out, that particular thing happened a few times and I got to the point when I was like 'ugh, head fell off again '
How about the "water corridor" in Amnesia? That freaking invisible, slow, but unstoppable monster following you whenever you fall into the water made me uninstall the game!
For me it was the next level, in the basement, the very first time you can get killed by one of the monsters. Threw my headphones on the floor and didnt come back for a few days.
Dude the first time I encountered that all I heard and saw was the splashing of its feet moving towards me and I totally lost my shit. I was so not prepared for that.
Exactly looking for this comment. I was surprised this game didn't even make it through their list. The scariest game I have ever played. I still haven't finished it till now.
@@user-fm1do5cz8t this is probably the best horror out there. Alien Isolation is right next to it, but they made a major flaw- allowed the player to defend himself. So basically Amnesia TDD is the scariest horror ever made. Oh, and also Outlast is so overrated, like holy crap, that game's not even spooky
Ellen in this video: “I’ll have to have someone sit with me who’s better with their nerves, cos I wanna play it!” Ellen in Fear Academy: Plays Alien Isolation joined by Mike, the worlds most unflappable man. She got her wish!
The way to "beat" PT is to get a baby laugh to trigger 3 times... but the triggers are these crazy random things like wait and watch the phone for 30 real-world seconds. I believe yelling the letter "J" into the controller is also one trigger.
I think it was ”wait near the clock until it turns to midnight” ”Youll hear lisa and this distorted music and then wait until it stops. Once its stopped take 10 steps.” ”Your controller will start shaking and you have to stay completely still” ”Say a males name that starts with J. Ive heard that Jareth works best” ”A phone will start to wring and you have to answer it and youll be done” Something like that
I had to take Amnesia: The Dark Descent in multiple sittings. I noticed the longer I played the game, the more paranoid I became and it was giving me really bad feelings to the point that I was sweating. That was a great game though
The first time I got caught by a monster in that game it glitched so that I didnt die. It just kept hitting, and hitting and hitting. It was nearly traumatizing
Brilliant moment watching someone play a platformer puzzle in Amnesia, staying out of the water. They then had to open a bulkhead by spinning the release. But the game went unresponsive if you spin the wheel too fast. So here the player was freaking out as the monster approached, having to methodically move the mouse despite panicing. So much fun to watch.
When I was younger, I got tired of watching my older sisters play Tomb Raider. I tried playing myself and she went into the doors of the dungeon and the bats came out and I shut the game off. I've never played it after that. I was about 5 years old and terrified. What was I going to do when the dinosaurs came out?!
Of course Mike wasn't in this video, robot that he is. In that PT segment he seemed more surprised at Andy and Jane's reactions to the jumpscares than the actual jumpscares!
I love it the most when all the other members talk offscreen (and it's subtitled) and I loved the Ellen: Isolation bit the most because everyone was making a conjecture on it.
As a sim racing fan, my greatest fear is getting a setup in dirt slightly wrong but realising it when I m already one stage into the rally. Dirt can be really frustrating when you re not feeling it...
Ellen is basically me with RE7, I literally had my bf finish two thirds of the game while just being rolled in a blanket, terrified of pretty much anything.
That's exactly what I did, I had my roommate play the rest of it in front of me after I tried for 20ish minutes lol. I just took the controller for the boss fights, except of course Margaret because that shit was scary as shit.
@@dillpickle59only way I completed the creepy bunker section of the first uncharted game trapped with those mutant things was shouting the whole time and spraying bullets at anything that moved like a madman I think that as it wasn’t quiet I felt safer - it worked well
My first ever nope out of a game was in Spyro - A Hero's Tale. Crocovile swamp has you walk through tunnels to the next bit, where far too detailed spiders lunge out of the walls at you. Small Caitlin threw their controller and ran out the room. I still hate that level to this day.
the furthest i got in outlast was into the basement when the guy starts walking around looking for you. i got to that point when i was alone, and then when i was with a few friends they wanted a go so we started the game again and all of us had a go, huddled around my laptop, and we still didn’t get any further!
I can relate to Luke. I, embarrassingly, was scared away from Ocarina of Time by the Lizalfos in Dodongo's Cavern... Let's all pretend I was at an age where this was reasonable.
@@felixc543 I can relate too lol, I was a very timid child, easily frightened. I was scared of the damn skeletons that would pop out of the ground at night in Hyrule Fields, to the point that I would make my mom cross the fields for me if it was nighttime. I always hated going from Kokiri Village to Hyrule Town after the first dungeon because there was just barely enough time to get there before sunset and the gates closed and if the gates closed you were locked out all night with the friggin' skeletons...
First time I played Oot, I was really young and too freaked out by the first dungeon in the deku tree, especially the last two Rooms which is the Queen Gohma boss battle and the room before where 3 mini gohma bug creatures drop down on you from the ceiling. There are plenty of things that are creepy in oot but I don’t know about the water temple. I can see it being unpleasant and annoying but scary?
Oh man, this. Yeah, the Ghost and Sea Dragon leviathans are objectively more dangerous, but there's nothing that quite sparks that "Oh *_SHIT"_* reaction like the Reaper's terrifying "I SEE YOU" roar.
ah yes subnautica my old friend why did I buy it when I am scared so easily underwater. The old Farsky was the same when you had not notice it was getting dark and you turn around staring into a open shark mouth nose to nose.
Or just swimming with nothing but the deep dark abyss below you with no clear idea whether or not a reaper will come up and kill you. Noped out of there quick
@@thomasallen9974 Oh God, the first time I ever saw that thing. I actually screamed, almost peed my pants, and got out of Dodge crying repeatedly "Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"... A true hero! I was terrified sometimes, but didn't quit. Awesome awesome game.
I never got through the first Resident Evil for Playstation One. Once the "tyrant" jumped across the room and beheaded me, I was like, "Nope! All done here."
This happened to me in Resident Evil directors cut.....It was one of the only games I got for my ps1 and I had literally just started the game......There was this scene early on where you are searching the mansion you are stuck in and I went upstairs turned a random corner and a cutscenes starts showing what looks like a guy freaking out but it's a zombie straight up eating a dude and it turns towards you......I saw that shit and was like NOPE.......And till this day never played it again......Never had a moment like that since
You literally were soooo damn close to the most satisfying part of the game and you tapped out?? Sorry bruh, if you have bad memories of RE it's totally on yourself lol
My personal favorite “WTF WAS THAT???” moment was also in Eternal Darkness, during the Colonial Era flashback. You use a smoothbore muzzleloader pistol, and there was a chance that during a reload, the guy would finish the reloading animation, then shoot himself in the head, and then give you the flash to white and back outside the room. That game did a VERY good job of messing with your sanity, excellent 4th wall breaking mechanics!
i often feel like i'm the only person who ever played that game. i loved it so much! the sanity mechanics were startlingly clever. i'm not sure i ever got the head reciting hamlet one though.
In one of the chapters, you try to use a talisman to heal but before it finishes the process you're cut in half. Then the screen flashes and you're just standing there not having used it yet.
Slightly ridiculous BUT - the first time I swam through the tunnel in Clanker's Cavern in Banjo Kazooie to be greeted by Clanker himself... I never swam so quickly backwards and retired from the game for a LONG time... To then replay it on the 360 to find Clanker to be a real nice guy! Moral of the story - don't judge a massive cyborg shark by it's scary grin
It was the way they made the pipe frame and angle him. You're just swimming along and suddenly THERE IS ONLY TEETH. I was a relatively savvy teenager (well, okay, I was a teenager, "relatively savvy" is a total lie and I was still terrified by the prospect of being scared) and I still had a visceral "ahhhh nooooo" when that happened.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one! Although I still kept playing, just avoided Clanker's Cavern like the plague! Also, the music when you're underwater in that level is tense, like you can feel the water pressure! I was ONE button press away from triggering Clanker's dialogue! Because of this, I finished Banjo Tooie first! Click Clock Wood was worth this struggle though!
When I was younger me and my friend watched my older cousin/babysitter play... I can't remember. But we thought the neighbour was gonna send his dogs at us afterwards. We held little plastic golf clubs when near the front or back door
April Fools Idea: Make a video called “10 games where the main character dies” but then put a spoiler warning at the beginning of the video with upcoming games or games that recently came out just to see if people get pissed off.
I know that this list is several years old, but man, Subnautica would have been a perfect addition to this list. I played it after first having watched several let's plays of it, but if I hadn't, you better believe I would have merrily swam out to the Aurora, right into the jaws of a Reaper and then never played the game ever again. Despite the fact that I have since finished the game several times, and it ranks very highly on my favourite games list, the Reapers are still the most terrifying things I've ever come across in a game. Just hearing that roar is enough for me to turn my seamoth around and head on home.
Same here, I quit the game after a number of times I had to go off the deep end where the shelf ends into the still and the dark and I know there is a leviathan heading my way, and it was the horror the likes of which I never felt. Even remembering it makes me sweat.
I also saw a Reaper at the ship, and quit, haha. I was like, "You have an excellent evening, now." and uninstalled. That game is truly _too good_ at what it does.
He stopped at the water temple, that means he stopped before the scariest part of the game. Although I found the canyon in Majora's mask much more eerie
There were no scary temples in LoZ:OoT. The water temple is 1 of the shortest and not that complicated. The shadow temple is annoying when you have to use the lens to see floors, but neither scared me.
Better than Ellen DeGeneres isolation, where you're on a horrible day time talk show to plug a movie your in and every time you talk the host riffs improv over the end of your commentary...😐
I played the first Silent Hill while temporarily living in an RV. Alone. With no lights. And the sound running through the RV speakers. Including unconnected, strange noises coming from the back bedroom area. Alone. With speakers in the window behind me. Alone. With no lights. I think that's when my first gray hair started coming in.
Sh2, I lived in Dundee at the time which can have some really thick fog. Opening your curtains the next day to really thick fog made me want to stop the game of life
Mike said recently that laughing is his coping mechanism to fear. That and saying "it's okay. we'll be okay. we're fine. We are ok." It's how he deals with fear. He is not in this episode because it's probably not his genre. That or they are going to fire Mike. He has been left out of so many things this year I fear there is something bad going on with mike and the show.
as someone who's terrified of anti-piracy screens, Andy getting freaked out at an error screen on P.T. is something I completely understand because it would've freaked me out too 😅
I watch my sister playing Fatal Frame Franchise from 1, 2, and 3 and it was the most fun horror game but let me tell you, it is scary as fuck when you meet the boss and you don't know what the fuck you doin. My sister is the one who play it but my cousin and I watch her play it get scared especially the boss where you must Hide in Fatal Frame 2 (that girl who have red string)
YES! A friend bought me Fatal Frame II as a gift and I tried so hard to play it but ultimately was far too freaked out. You did the most damage to the ghost the closer it came to the camera but you had to hold up the camera and watch the ghost come at you...it was too much.
Yes!!! The entire game was terrifying but the first time you encounter Sae and the Kusabi made me take a break, lol Sae's crazed laughter gave me chills for the entirety of the game.
I remember the first time I saw long arms. He backed me into a corner so I just rapid fired at him. I had 6 pics of him opening and closing his mouth in stop motion. It was funny afterward but not when it happened.
I remember playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas when I was younger and finding the more creepier locations in those games that unsettled me. However, going through any of the vaults like Vault 106, 87, or 22 were especially the more disturbing places to explore. There's just something so ominous upon entering the vaults in those games, and I think it's in part because of the chilling screeching sound they made everytime you opened them. So, when you first enter a vault, you can be greeted to any number of things, but in general, the place is in total disarray and is worn, rusty, and rotten. Then, as you proceed to explore the vault, you might find yourself lost as they have many narrow passages that can leave you confused as to where to go. As you're exploring, you also come across the vault's denizens who are either dead, driven completely insane, or worse. After those encounters as you explore even further, you'll then uncover the history of the horrible experiments and atrocities that were committed there. And all of this with a pervading eerie silence that adds even more to the atmosphere (aside from the occasional monster or insane survivor that attacks you). Going through the vaults in Fallout 3 and New Vegas are still quite creepy experiences for me, but I think that back when I was younger, I guess I wasn't fully able to comprehend just how truly disturbing the vaults and their experiments really were, and for me this just added more to the sinister mystery each vault comes with. I was very spooked as a kid. Lol
One of the first games i've ever falled in love with was: Alone in the Dark. The original DOS game. It was so terrifying that when me and my coussin came to a new room, we would switch to press W and who ever took the last step and entered the room, had to deal with it 😅
I actually had Ellen’s Alien: Isolation experience. The second the Xenomorph showed up at the top of the stairs I just closed the game and never reopened it.
Oh but it's soooo good! Watch a let's play maybe and after that maybe have a go at it yourself. That way maybe you're better prepared for what could happen ^^
This is basically me in any horror game. I'll watch let's play's and such just fine, but the moment you put me behind the controls my spine dissolves. Which sucks, because I actually love horror games.
Yeah I get that, even though silent hill shattered memories always found it so cool how things changed in the game based on the form you filled in at the beginning of the game and the psychological sections in the game that quietly profiled you
Corrupted Save Files can be just as bad, not only did you lose progress in a game that you likely played for hours or even years but if you don't delete the corrupt file within a certain amount of time, it's stuck there, forever taunting you
I distinctly remember playing a Nancy Drew PC game when I was little, and I was doing well, but after someone tried to blow up your boat, you go to sleep that night and then out of the windows, you see a bunch of ghost wolves that are trying to get through the windows, and for some reason that freaked me out so much that I literally threw the game away.
Thief: Deadly Shadows - Robbing the Cradle level (first part). Only game I've ever had to stop playing (temporarily) because the tension was giving me chest pains.
Imagine Alien Isolation in VR....wait don't imagine that, the Xenomorph is terrifying enough in the normal version Getting killed by the Xenomorph in VR would probably kill them IRL
You can download a free vr version of it somewhere on the internet! It was originally made to be In VR and had some of the code in it! Its a little buggy when saving your body does this weird clipping for example but its still terrifying because when you are in a locker you can actually lean forward and see the alien walking around A LOT better than in the real game which is terrifying!
Shadow of the Colossus I was little and didn't really know how to play so I was just having fun riding the horse and shooting arrows then I stumbled across a colussus
@@outlawsaul9969 So Quadratus gave you the spook of a lifetime? Understandable, since he literally bashes his way out of a cave right in front of you and you barely have any time to react. Luckily, he's slow. The three fastest bosses - Dirge, Celosia, and Cenobia - scared the shit out of me and caused my heart rate to spike.
I don't remember ever being scared when playing Shadow of the Colossus, but then again I was probably older than you. I played it on a PS2 emulator too. What a brilliant game.
I tried playing Majora’s Mask when I was a kid and the first time the moon fell creeped me out. I didn’t understand how to stop the moon, so two replays later had me even more scared. I played Majora’s Mask again in my late teens-early 20s and ended up beating it after realizing I could prevent the moon falling.
I played thief until they threw that outlast section at me. I was young and just wanted to be a sneaky thief and they send me to a god damn asylum. Felt pretty betrayed...
Yup. That fucking keyhole. I mean master class of jump scares though-do it in something that you have become accustomed to and with no warning. Fuuuuuck that.
narutiuzimaki How about the school side quest in Ultra Sun and Moon? I’m over thirty, and the combination of rising tension and the Silent Hill-esque music utterly creeped me the f- out. And then there’s the twist ending...
I remember when I was super young, I used to borrow my moms 3DS to play super mario 64 and i genuinely got scared by the signs about some creatures in the courtyard in peaches castle. xD I never saw these, and it scared me.
The first encounter with a librarian in Metro 2033. It broke my gas mask and I spent a good hour panicking in the tunnels trying to find another one with no luck. I was too stressed to go much farther after that.
@@matalahm9295 whaaaaat? Oh snap, I always blasted them or avoided them, didn't even know you could just stare them down... Now I feel dumb. I haven't finished the game though... Maybe I should, it was a good one.
@@tomaszwota1465 Yeah the game isn't the most upfront about telling you that you don't have to shoot them. They're quite a pain to have to gun down as they are absolute bullet sponges. I got lucky and noticed it wasn't attacking me so I just kept my distance while keeping an eye on it. Sometimes they will try to walk up to you and they'll still attack so you have to make sure you're not too close to them, so don't accidentally back yourself into a corner either
@@matalahm9295 Actually, Colonel Miller tells you outright to stare it down, so if you just pay attention to the dialogue, the game is very upfront about telling you how to deal with them.
I have never gotten past the second level of Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. It’s been over 15 years, and I’ve visited it periodically and still can’t beat that shark. Still terrifies me to this day trying to play it, with or without the Jaws-esque background music
I love these longer, more personal, less scripted lists so much! It's great to get some real insight into how you all play games differently. Keep them coming, please!
I see your Water Temple, but have you considered the existential horror that is the Shadow Temple and/or the Bottom of the Well? Invisible scythes. Dead things. Torture devices. Blood. Dead hands. Redeads. The music...
100% agree. There were plenty of scary things in that game, but the Water Temple was never one of them for me. However, I refused to do the Shadow Temple for the longest time.
I’m personally confused on why Luke said that he was scared by the Water Temple. Like the Shadow Temple is scary, and sure Link can drown in the Water Temple, but that’s only if he is wearing either the Kokiri Tunic or the Goron Tunic and if he is also wearing the Iron Boots. Like the Water Temple is more confusing instead of being scary. And besides, Water Dungeons in Zelda games aren’t known for being scary.
I totally get the temple in one sitting mindset. I took a break during the shadow temple, but when I came back I had NO clue where I was or how to make any further progress. I did another run through years later and as it turned out, the shadow temple was really easy
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Pretty much everything in the Evil Within made me want to stop. Specially that room with corpses and ritual tables....
Honestly, last of us scared me to the point I wanted to quit. All the jump scares (especially the unnerving clickers) nearly did me in, and by the time I finally beat it, I cried, both from the ending and the raw nerves (i beat it in a single sitting, morning to night).
I'm usually freaked out by underwater sections in videogames, but the Water Temple was actually pretty fun for me. Also yes the shadow temple and the Well were truly terrifying for me at least.
Andy saying "that was funny and good what you did their" makes me think of the story about that kid with the magic powers who had an entire town captive with his mind control powers and whenever weird shit happened everyone had to be like "it's good that he did that"
The Twilight Zone episode "It's A Good Life" (November '61). Anthony is played by Bill Mumy, who went on to have a massive career as an actor (including three seasons as Will Robinson in Lost in Space and some time as Lennier on Babylon 5) and a musician (as half of Barnes and Barnes...singers of "Fish Heads"). In fact, he reappears as his character Anthony in one of the rebooted Twilight Zones alongside his daughter (the episode is entitled "It's Still A Good Life").
The first game I remember scaring the hell out of me was Halo 1 on original Xbox where the flood is introduced. I had no idea they were coming and panicked when I had to fight them lol. I also remember the opening of Doom on PS2 scaring the crap out of me and my brother too lol. Ellen should definitely livestream Alien Isolation with Andy!
Halo was the first game I played that had separate controls for movement and camera, so I was a little disoriented when my friend handed me the controller. I immediately got jumpscared by something coming around a corner and never played it again.
I remember first buying Gmod(before I bought hl2) and spawning some zombies out of curiosity and being scared out of my skeleton, It took me 2 weeks to get over that fear
I believe that was the first horror game I've ever played and I was hooked. I think what made it so effective was the fact that it was just a normal shooter up till that point. It was so unexpected and terrifying. I would love an entire Half Life spinoff of just Ravenholm.
I clearly remeber being up in the terrace of a building in Ravenholm and some unleashed creatures like the Xenos from Alien 3 showed up in the distance... I knew they saw me, but I thought "they wont be able to climb up here. Ill just snipe from afar". And then the pipe on my left which went all the way to the ground started shaking as they climbed...
@@AlmightyPolarBear you got a point. If you can make a game that scares mike then you've got a hit! Maybe some game company should throw some ideas his way and see if any strike a cord.
I am still terrified by the hand in Zelda Twilight Princess. In the Twilight Realm you had to collect these heavy, glowing eggs from a giant hand. After you've left the room, the hand starts to follow you with this intense music. I got so scared as a kid, I still haven't finished the game.
Somewhere between fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4, feral ghouls went from funny doddering things to GOD AWFUL shambling creatures that sprint at you, death rattling and emeting the whole time Not to mention the teleporting mole rats and giant poisonous scorpions. There's a reason i carry like ten guns everywhere i go now
Somewhere between Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Deathclaws went from being pushovers to horrifying death machines... ironically, it was in 3 that one made me jump so hard that I had to turn off the game for the day to recover. I thought I snuck away but I was unaware that fucker or another one saw me when I stood up and was following me for a good couple of minutes until I stopped and turned around to have it’s face covering my entire screen mid pounce attack. Killed it while having a panic attack, saved while still panicking, and promptly turned off my 360 to watch TV instead while my heart was racing.
Yes and when you're on survival in a dark claustrophobic subway and you think you're safe, than Dogmeat "finds an enemy" and starts walking towards it...
@@LockeWick on the one hand, Deathclaws in Fallout 4 are solitary creatures. On the other hand they 1) actively juke and dodge bullets 2) can survive having their head blown off. There's nothing more awful than seeing a monster's head come off, immediately press reload so that you can deal with whatever comes next, then be stuck in reload animation while the headless monster claws your guts out
What made me stop playing Ocarina of Time when I was young was the wallmaster in the Forest Temple. The sound and the growing shadow scared me so much that I panicked as soon as it happened.
I've never beaten Bioshock myself, I always play through the beginning plane crash and cutscene, and then right after that guy gets killed from that splicer while you're in the bathysphere I always turned it off.
Ohhh yeah, I quit after that, then I tried playing it once more after months but it was still scary, I did played like 2 hours but I was terrified and died a lot and haven't continued the game for more than a year now. I feel like people lied to me when saying how BioShock is a good action game when all I'm seeing is a survival horror
@@zeynatura what's crazy is I actually bought the bundle pack or whatever it is, I've had it for years, Barely tried playing it a couple weeks ago and it's so stressful. I played up until the first sister and yeah havent played since! I moved on to Batman Arkham Knight haha 😂
For me, it was when I was playing Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It was that one cut scene with all those Links. I was just so unsettled, even now I hate thinking about it.
Similtaneously, my husband and I went "What about Parasite Eve?!" I was 6 years old when I saw the rat transform into a monster backstage in the beginning. Gave me nightmares for WEEKS!!! The whole game did actually!
That game TERRIFIED me - the rat especially! Though I'll never forget talking to that clown, him leaving the room, a scream, then finding his charred corpse. Messed me right up.
Ravenholm almost made me stop half life 2 but father grigori gave me the strength to see it through. As an adult I'm pretty sure he was popping around opening doors behind me and letting zombies through though. I found a couple paths that were completely blocked at the beginning but open later, lends credence to "we don't go to ravenholm" because even the guy there who appears to be the guide is actually a big reason people don't make it through. He needs more sheep for his flock.
In Final Fantasy XII there's an alligator that opens its mouth in thirds. The top third goes up and the left and right third go over and down a bit. Very freaky enemy.
For me the moment would be Luigi's Mansion when it's time for Luigi to clear the very first room. The second those paintings starting talking it made my heart begin to pound to the point where I lunged for my GameCube and shut it off just as the first ghost appeared. After 2 days I tried again and got pretty far thinking that the game wasn't scary anymore. Then I encountered Bogmire for the first time...I had trouble sleeping that night.
Does it count before even starting one? Because I refuse to play any of the FNaF series or Slenderman. Other its PT. I can handle gore just fine; not so good when the horrors makes me think.
What we’ve learned: Andy is afraid of lovecraftian horror. Jane is afraid of gore and jump scares. Luke is afraid of atmospheric horror. Ellen is afraid of everything.
I dunno, Andy reacts (genuinely) really viscerally to the jump scares in their other horror lets plays. But I think you're bang on about what the overall themes are for them as far as "what exact kind of horror scares the OX Team?"
Also I 100% agree with being afraid of Cosmic/Lovecraftian horror as a general defining personality trait one can possess.
Which is weird because I love stealth games probably as much as Andy does but if my anxiety is already up from other stressors, I'm not gonna play Thief or some other atmospheric but ultimately Cosmic horror type thing until that's calmed down.
(Lemme tell you running into the ghost wailing in Lemoyne in RDR2 *before* the Internet/most of RUclips had posted about it, was Not Fun. I wasn't expecting it and I think I pivoted my horse on the spot and ran out of there so fast the dust would have settled by the time you realized I'd been there.)
You forgot Mike being weirdly calm
And Mike fears nothing for he is a soulless machine
@@Crisjola oh I completely agree. There is an oddly appealing factor with cosmic horror though, because it’s equally horrifying and fascinating. It’s why lovecraft has become so popular, because the horror isn’t in the gore or the atmosphere, it’s in the fear of something beyond our comprehension and it’s terrifying, but it’s also fascinating because it appeals to our innate curiosity. It’s a shame though, since I haven’t seen a lot of mediums outside novels, whether it be through tv or video games pull it off very well. Also I’ve never played rdr2, but I can see how that’d be horrifying since I used to get scared during some of the missions in new vegas.
@@michaelselph3530 oh but that’s the thing, mike IS the horror
Tbh I was freaked out with the p.t error message too
My bro banged on my door, DIRECTLY AFTER I got the error message
I’ve never screamed so hard
Oh man! That must've been awful!
Reminds me of the time my sister watched the ring movie and as the phone rang in the movie telephone rang and freaked her out. This was before caller identified on phones and cell phones and blockbusters was still a thing. So it was legitimately scary.
I did that to my little brother or I had someone do it
Basically I did what they did on the video I texted our other brother
"School is scary, oppressive, grinds you down, rusty and covered in blood" Are we sure Jane is only talking about that Silent Hill level?
Jane has a masters in physics, so, probably yes, only about the game level.
Sounds like my secondary school experience haha, maybe I should check I don't exist actually exist in a hell dimension or something...
I hope she only talking about game level.
My second school was scary, opressive, grinding down and rusty (changing rooms, basement, attic...) it was only missing "covered in blood" part :)
Ivan Ivanoff guessing you never checked the janitors office
I remember playing down the halls of that level and thinking why do they have this level, it's already scary in real life...😅
My favorite "quit" came along with one of my favorite achievements. I started playing the Amnesia collection. Right after the prologue of the 1st one, I quit while actually saying out loud "NOPE". Then I hear the achievement sound and the title is actually "NOPE" and you get it if you quit in the beggining.
And then everyone clapped
@@thunder176 Definitely not the creators of Amnesia cause I still haven't played the game.
@@JonezeeTG Haha, I understand, was just being cheeky tho, I tapped out in the basement with the water monster😂😭
@@thunder176 Damn same dude,same
I accidentally got this achievement as well cuz I started the game got halfway through the first cutscene and remembered I had just downloaded another game I wanted to try and decided to try that first so I quit and bam achievement xD I was like “what 😮”
"A ghost lady. And then a talking bag. And a fetus in a sink"
Me: is this a Shakespeare play?
I was eating when they showed the fetus. totally lost my apetite
To be, or not to be. That is the question.
I was eating a fetus and that showed up and I got hungier
Why dear god did I write those words
@@mrraccoon4949 Lol😂😂
I love how Andy and Jane were both mostly picking very very scary games like Outlast, Eternal Darkness, etc., While Luke and Ellen chose Tomb Raider and Ocarina of Time 😂 Protect Luke and Ellen!
The first wolf in the first tomb raider scared our shits back into our esophageal area. But then it was also at the same time that people had their sexual awakening to triangle tits.
That’s because they both played those games when they were very young
it's more of a betrayal when you get scared in a non horror game. When you start a horror game you know that you're gonna get spooked, that's the point. When you start a puzzle platformer or an adventure game, you don't expect to be spooked, which makes it scarier.
"AAAHHHH BOOK MONSTER!" is one of my favorite Andy fright reactions of all time.
I wish they finished that game. :')
Came to the comments to say just that! I will never get tired of it.
I also loved his later description of it as "All the books came together to form Book Voltron" Book Voltron: Defender of the Library
I can't get past that bit on Alien Isolation when you're looking at it on the Steam Store.
I only made made it to the part where it’s in your Epic library
Same
@@crackofdawn805 Epic launcher lel
I played Silent Hill just after turning 11 in an unfinished basement during a winter storm and I don't think anything could ever scare me that much again.
I had a very similar experience. I was 9 when it came out and first played it. At that time we still had our tv and gaming consoles in the basement, we oringally had the NES, SNES, and Atari in one of the upstairs rooms but moved it down to the basement when we got a PS1 and N64 to better fit more people (and so my dad could play). Our basement was partially finished and had that old horror movie vibe (it gave a lot of the kids an uneasy feeling to the point I had to be the first to go down when friends came over). Open back steps and at the bottom was a coal room. Basically a big dark hole where the previous owner fashioned an old wooden door that didn't quite cover all the imperfect edges, so my dad sealed the corners with plastic to prevent the breeze coming through. On the far end of the opposite wall sat the tv, so we'd sit in metal folding chairs with our backs to the coal room and off to the side was a ramp leading down to another room divided by a brick wall, that the light from the main room didn't quite extend to so it was dark, unless you were to walk in and pull the chain on the hanging light on either side of that room. Well enough build up, one day I was down there by myself playing the game, I was at the hospital basement and the coal room behind me creaked open. I looked over my should and saw what seemed like the black abyss on the other side of the hole and was like "nope" and ran upstairs as fast as possible. I didn't even turn the game off (had to do it when my mom went down to do laundry) and didn't touch the game again until I was able to get the tv in my bedroom... two years later.
@@XenogearSolid Seems like you dodged a bullet lol
"and when my head fell off and started reciting Hamlet" is not a sentence I was expecting to hear today
Eternal Darkness is a crazy mess. It is a journey you cannot complete in one sitting and claim to be okay. Nope nope nope
I played eternal darkness when I was little kid. I beat it eventually, but what nightmare fool stayed with me as a kid was the mantis creatures that would climb into your mouth and took your body over... or the idea of the many fates worse than death unit lol.
@Viktor Samoja
"severed head reciting Hamlet, that's some Monty Python level stuff"
I had the exact same thought.
It doesn't help that graphics were so blocky back then. Even today, I have yet to see a video game with graphics realistic enough for the kind of immersion a horror story requires.
Honestly anyone scared of alien isolation.. Is just ridiculous..
That game is seriously just fucking door opening the game, and the Xenomorphs ai is a joke
What made me laugh is that while other stuff in the game freaked me out, that particular thing happened a few times and I got to the point when I was like 'ugh, head fell off again '
How about the "water corridor" in Amnesia? That freaking invisible, slow, but unstoppable monster following you whenever you fall into the water made me uninstall the game!
For me it was the next level, in the basement, the very first time you can get killed by one of the monsters. Threw my headphones on the floor and didnt come back for a few days.
Dude the first time I encountered that all I heard and saw was the splashing of its feet moving towards me and I totally lost my shit. I was so not prepared for that.
Exactly looking for this comment. I was surprised this game didn't even make it through their list. The scariest game I have ever played. I still haven't finished it till now.
@@user-fm1do5cz8t this is probably the best horror out there. Alien Isolation is right next to it, but they made a major flaw- allowed the player to defend himself. So basically Amnesia TDD is the scariest horror ever made.
Oh, and also Outlast is so overrated, like holy crap, that game's not even spooky
@@paulertjustice You're absolutely right. Amnesia TDD is the ONLY TRUE LOVECRAFTIAN horror game to date.
Ellen in this video: “I’ll have to have someone sit with me who’s better with their nerves, cos I wanna play it!”
Ellen in Fear Academy: Plays Alien Isolation joined by Mike, the worlds most unflappable man.
She got her wish!
In terms of fear, Mike and Ellen are opposites: Mike will talk on end about creepy kittens in a game, I'm sure. But actual scary things? Nah
@@astridposeyAlien Isolation did get his heart pounding. The demo had him scared AF.
The way to "beat" PT is to get a baby laugh to trigger 3 times... but the triggers are these crazy random things like wait and watch the phone for 30 real-world seconds. I believe yelling the letter "J" into the controller is also one trigger.
I think it was ”wait near the clock until it turns to midnight”
”Youll hear lisa and this distorted music and then wait until it stops. Once its stopped take 10 steps.”
”Your controller will start shaking and you have to stay completely still”
”Say a males name that starts with J. Ive heard that Jareth works best”
”A phone will start to wring and you have to answer it and youll be done”
Something like that
00:40 - P.T. (Andy)
05:12 - The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Luke)
09:30 - Silent Hill (Jane)
13:51 - Alien: Isolation (Ellen)
17:40 - Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem (Andy)
22:25 - Tomb Raider (Ellen)
25:20 - Outlast (Jane)
Bless your heart 💕
lifeincolour09 I love You please keep it up You’re loved
I always get the two girls mixed up! XD *goes back to edit comment*
I had to take Amnesia: The Dark Descent in multiple sittings. I noticed the longer I played the game, the more paranoid I became and it was giving me really bad feelings to the point that I was sweating. That was a great game though
The first time I got caught by a monster in that game it glitched so that I didnt die. It just kept hitting, and hitting and hitting. It was nearly traumatizing
I played it for like 40 minutes, 9/10 years ago. Never played it again and never will.
Haha least you loved it
Your sanity meter goes lower the more you play :^)
Brilliant moment watching someone play a platformer puzzle in Amnesia, staying out of the water. They then had to open a bulkhead by spinning the release. But the game went unresponsive if you spin the wheel too fast. So here the player was freaking out as the monster approached, having to methodically move the mouse despite panicing.
So much fun to watch.
When I was younger, I got tired of watching my older sisters play Tomb Raider. I tried playing myself and she went into the doors of the dungeon and the bats came out and I shut the game off. I've never played it after that. I was about 5 years old and terrified. What was I going to do when the dinosaurs came out?!
Of course Mike wasn't in this video, robot that he is. In that PT segment he seemed more surprised at Andy and Jane's reactions to the jumpscares than the actual jumpscares!
I love it the most when all the other members talk offscreen (and it's subtitled) and I loved the Ellen: Isolation bit the most because everyone was making a conjecture on it.
Ellen: Isolation?
@@yoviyudoyudanto4243 xD I guess he meant Alien: Isolation
@@yoviyudoyudanto4243 17:05
I loved that I was laughing along with all of them.
Yovi Yudoyudanto Ellen degeneres has changed
Guess they couldn't show Mike's greatest fear: inaccurate responses in a racing sim ;-) .
that or racig games that are not compatible with his racing equipment
As a sim racing fan, my greatest fear is getting a setup in dirt slightly wrong but realising it when I m already one stage into the rally. Dirt can be really frustrating when you re not feeling it...
Lol, that or the dreaded engine management light
Lol, and two years later, Jimmy from FMV horror At dead of night actually managed to scare Mike!
Ellen is basically me with RE7, I literally had my bf finish two thirds of the game while just being rolled in a blanket, terrified of pretty much anything.
That's exactly what I did, I had my roommate play the rest of it in front of me after I tried for 20ish minutes lol. I just took the controller for the boss fights, except of course Margaret because that shit was scary as shit.
@@dillpickle59only way I completed the creepy bunker section of the first uncharted game trapped with those mutant things was shouting the whole time and spraying bullets at anything that moved like a madman I think that as it wasn’t quiet I felt safer - it worked well
My first ever nope out of a game was in Spyro - A Hero's Tale. Crocovile swamp has you walk through tunnels to the next bit, where far too detailed spiders lunge out of the walls at you. Small Caitlin threw their controller and ran out the room. I still hate that level to this day.
Ellen's experience with Alien: Isolation reminds me of my attempt at Outlast. 20 minutes. Didn't even get to the actual crazy people.
That's still more than me. I watched the first few min of a playthrough on RUclips and had to walk away. Though I eventually finished it.
the furthest i got in outlast was into the basement when the guy starts walking around looking for you. i got to that point when i was alone, and then when i was with a few friends they wanted a go so we started the game again and all of us had a go, huddled around my laptop, and we still didn’t get any further!
I got to the gate in Outlast. Never went in. Quit immediately.
it was like..i waaaatched lets plays of it. and still couldnt play on after the first bad scenes. xD
Same. I got to the guy watching a static TV. We're bros just hanging out forever now
I feel this. I love horror, but am a huge wimp when it comes to the actual scares.
Andy: *fetus in a sink, “I’m heading there now”*
Luke: so y’all know link, yeah?
I can relate to Luke. I, embarrassingly, was scared away from Ocarina of Time by the Lizalfos in Dodongo's Cavern... Let's all pretend I was at an age where this was reasonable.
You know the only bit in ocarina of time e that scared me was the "under the well" and shadow temple bit of the story
@@felixc543 I can relate too lol, I was a very timid child, easily frightened. I was scared of the damn skeletons that would pop out of the ground at night in Hyrule Fields, to the point that I would make my mom cross the fields for me if it was nighttime. I always hated going from Kokiri Village to Hyrule Town after the first dungeon because there was just barely enough time to get there before sunset and the gates closed and if the gates closed you were locked out all night with the friggin' skeletons...
I thought the redead were terrifying as a kid, still not overly fond
First time I played Oot, I was really young and too freaked out by the first dungeon in the deku tree, especially the last two Rooms which is the Queen Gohma boss battle and the room before where 3 mini gohma bug creatures drop down on you from the ceiling. There are plenty of things that are creepy in oot but I don’t know about the water temple. I can see it being unpleasant and annoying but scary?
Subnautica... like all of Subnautica.
Specifically, the first time you get a glimpse of a Reaper Leviathan once you get near the Aurora.
Oh man, this. Yeah, the Ghost and Sea Dragon leviathans are objectively more dangerous, but there's nothing that quite sparks that "Oh *_SHIT"_* reaction like the Reaper's terrifying "I SEE YOU" roar.
ah yes subnautica my old friend why did I buy it when I am scared so easily underwater.
The old Farsky was the same when you had not notice it was getting dark and you turn around staring into a open shark mouth nose to nose.
Or just swimming with nothing but the deep dark abyss below you with no clear idea whether or not a reaper will come up and kill you. Noped out of there quick
@@jafd239 Just go beyond the map boundries, BIG Ghosties live out there. I mean really really big
@@thomasallen9974 Oh God, the first time I ever saw that thing. I actually screamed, almost peed my pants, and got out of Dodge crying repeatedly "Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"... A true hero!
I was terrified sometimes, but didn't quit. Awesome awesome game.
I never got through the first Resident Evil for Playstation One. Once the "tyrant" jumped across the room and beheaded me, I was like, "Nope! All done here."
Well you made it far. I never got passed the giant snake.. I was only a little kid back then.
The dog through the window in the beginning. Tapped out. Have beat every RE since, except 1.
This happened to me in Resident Evil directors cut.....It was one of the only games I got for my ps1 and I had literally just started the game......There was this scene early on where you are searching the mansion you are stuck in and I went upstairs turned a random corner and a cutscenes starts showing what looks like a guy freaking out but it's a zombie straight up eating a dude and it turns towards you......I saw that shit and was like NOPE.......And till this day never played it again......Never had a moment like that since
You literally were soooo damn close to the most satisfying part of the game and you tapped out?? Sorry bruh, if you have bad memories of RE it's totally on yourself lol
I got as far as the rolling boulder before rage quitting. Never able to finish it because I lost my save file.
Andy screams in the first minute! This is gonna be a great video
Poor Andy, he looks so broken in the first ten minutes.
I think he needs new pants after that one lol
My personal favorite “WTF WAS THAT???” moment was also in Eternal Darkness, during the Colonial Era flashback. You use a smoothbore muzzleloader pistol, and there was a chance that during a reload, the guy would finish the reloading animation, then shoot himself in the head, and then give you the flash to white and back outside the room. That game did a VERY good job of messing with your sanity, excellent 4th wall breaking mechanics!
Yeah that game does really clever meta things that mess with your mind still plan to play it myself at some point
i often feel like i'm the only person who ever played that game. i loved it so much! the sanity mechanics were startlingly clever. i'm not sure i ever got the head reciting hamlet one though.
@@irishrunner27 I’ve only seen short clips showing these moments in the game but it really makes me want to play the game so cool
In one of the chapters, you try to use a talisman to heal but before it finishes the process you're cut in half. Then the screen flashes and you're just standing there not having used it yet.
Slightly ridiculous BUT - the first time I swam through the tunnel in Clanker's Cavern in Banjo Kazooie to be greeted by Clanker himself... I never swam so quickly backwards and retired from the game for a LONG time...
To then replay it on the 360 to find Clanker to be a real nice guy!
Moral of the story - don't judge a massive cyborg shark by it's scary grin
It was the way they made the pipe frame and angle him. You're just swimming along and suddenly THERE IS ONLY TEETH. I was a relatively savvy teenager (well, okay, I was a teenager, "relatively savvy" is a total lie and I was still terrified by the prospect of being scared) and I still had a visceral "ahhhh nooooo" when that happened.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one! Although I still kept playing, just avoided Clanker's Cavern like the plague! Also, the music when you're underwater in that level is tense, like you can feel the water pressure! I was ONE button press away from triggering Clanker's dialogue! Because of this, I finished Banjo Tooie first! Click Clock Wood was worth this struggle though!
The eel in Mario 64 freaked me out
Thank you SO MUCH for adding captions for the off camera portions! It really helped! Thank you for that additional work!
Really does help. A small novelty that makes a huge difference :)
6:22 yeah younglings don’t have the best luck with temples
"I understood that reference"
And so did Palpy
Ouch...
He’s saying young Link. Not youngling. The characters name is Link, later in the game you your grow older. Hence “Young”.
@@davidlee8870 he said "when I was a youngling" first
@@davidlee8870 he said youngling first, then Andy said Young Link as a joke and they ran with it
Me and my friend used to watch his babysitter play resident evil and my friend made me guard the door with a plastic gun while he pooped.
You’re a good friend
When I was younger me and my friend watched my older cousin/babysitter play... I can't remember. But we thought the neighbour was gonna send his dogs at us afterwards. We held little plastic golf clubs when near the front or back door
U were ready from the word go 😁😁👍
April Fools Idea:
Make a video called “10 games where the main character dies” but then put a spoiler warning at the beginning of the video with upcoming games or games that recently came out just to see if people get pissed off.
Calm dow, spawn of satan.
Top 1 books where nape kills dumbledore
remind them in 8 months!
Yaas 😂
@D Adams No, preople were always this mad, they're just better at showing it now.
30 minutes of outsidexbox? What did we do to be blessed with this.
@Kevin G Yes but NEW Outsidexbox.
We need MOAR
No clips of Andy's nervous singing scary game coping technique?
Shannon Olivas I go back and watch the Slenderman play throughs just for that.
I know that this list is several years old, but man, Subnautica would have been a perfect addition to this list. I played it after first having watched several let's plays of it, but if I hadn't, you better believe I would have merrily swam out to the Aurora, right into the jaws of a Reaper and then never played the game ever again. Despite the fact that I have since finished the game several times, and it ranks very highly on my favourite games list, the Reapers are still the most terrifying things I've ever come across in a game. Just hearing that roar is enough for me to turn my seamoth around and head on home.
I hadn’t watched anything and yup, got got by a reaper when I swam to the wrong end of the ship and quit
Same here, I quit the game after a number of times I had to go off the deep end where the shelf ends into the still and the dark and I know there is a leviathan heading my way, and it was the horror the likes of which I never felt. Even remembering it makes me sweat.
I also saw a Reaper at the ship, and quit, haha.
I was like, "You have an excellent evening, now." and uninstalled.
That game is truly _too good_ at what it does.
The scariest thing ever is the Sonic the hedgehog drowning music that still gives me nightmares 28years later (almost 28 years)
Thank you for reminding me of that childhood trauma.
@@sorenromano7 your welcome and am sorry😂
Or the letter you get from Bowser in Super Mario Bros. 3.
Oh good god that was the worst.
Relatable.
Apparently the Water Temple music is a remix of the Shadow Temple music, which explains why the water Temple can sound really creepy.
Also underwater is freaky. The shark in the cage in the old guys pool scared me so badly. I hate the eel from Mario 64 too.
i just watched this part and im still asking this question why is zelda on here HAHAA
He stopped at the water temple, that means he stopped before the scariest part of the game. Although I found the canyon in Majora's mask much more eerie
There were no scary temples in LoZ:OoT. The water temple is 1 of the shortest and not that complicated. The shadow temple is annoying when you have to use the lens to see floors, but neither scared me.
Interesting I never knew that.
Ellen: "I'm not good with scary games." I remember your Bioshock & Dead Space videos on your channel. You definitely still did your best.
Matthew Doel The Bioshock ones were great. Would have loved to have it continue.
And now, in March 2020, Ellen is again playing “Ellen: Isolation” 😂
Good one you deserve a medal that says "Sean Ellis comedian of the year"
And in small letters "have you *sean* Ellis?"
Better than Ellen DeGeneres isolation, where you're on a horrible day time talk show to plug a movie your in and every time you talk the host riffs improv over the end of your commentary...😐
Ellian isolation
And today, she’s actually playing Alien Isolation.
Oh this comment hits hard and it’s December quarantine
Remember the simple times when we thought it was only gonna last a month or two
I guess we know what the next Let's Play is going to be: Alien Isolation with a Fearful Ellen
More like, Alien Isolation with occasional glimpses of Ellen as she hides behind the chair.
@@shotgunshells2 yeah that's more likely haha
Please, Xtra, please do this.
Yess make this happen !!!!😄😄😄
I want either Luke or Jane to sit with Ellen. That would be funny.
I played the first Silent Hill while temporarily living in an RV. Alone. With no lights. And the sound running through the RV speakers. Including unconnected, strange noises coming from the back bedroom area. Alone. With speakers in the window behind me. Alone. With no lights.
I think that's when my first gray hair started coming in.
Smiley Psyykotic that game is still the scariest game I have ever played.
I feel bad for laughing.
Sh2, I lived in Dundee at the time which can have some really thick fog. Opening your curtains the next day to really thick fog made me want to stop the game of life
I presume Mike isn't here because he feels no fear? Seriously, the man laughs in the face of terror.
You misspelled "unflinchingly smiles like a robot"
Like Shane in Buzzfeed Unsolved, the man has know fear, well except getting injected with drugs in the street by a stranger.
He certainly laughs in the face of Andy.
Mike said recently that laughing is his coping mechanism to fear. That and saying "it's okay. we'll be okay. we're fine. We are ok." It's how he deals with fear.
He is not in this episode because it's probably not his genre.
That or they are going to fire Mike. He has been left out of so many things this year I fear there is something bad going on with mike and the show.
The only thing Mike "Balls of Steel" Channell fears is stuffing the Ginnetta again. Man has no fear whatsoever.
as someone who's terrified of anti-piracy screens, Andy getting freaked out at an error screen on P.T. is something I completely understand because it would've freaked me out too 😅
Fatal Frame scared me back in the day. The louder you played the sound the more ghost you would hear. That was creepy.
I watch my sister playing Fatal Frame Franchise from 1, 2, and 3 and it was the most fun horror game but let me tell you, it is scary as fuck when you meet the boss and you don't know what the fuck you doin.
My sister is the one who play it but my cousin and I watch her play it get scared especially the boss where you must Hide in Fatal Frame 2 (that girl who have red string)
@@shafwandito4724 soo True i never played game but watching gameplay it scared shit out of me Fatal Frane 2 was most scary for me
YES! A friend bought me Fatal Frame II as a gift and I tried so hard to play it but ultimately was far too freaked out. You did the most damage to the ghost the closer it came to the camera but you had to hold up the camera and watch the ghost come at you...it was too much.
Yes!!!
The entire game was terrifying but the first time you encounter Sae and the Kusabi made me take a break, lol
Sae's crazed laughter gave me chills for the entirety of the game.
I remember the first time I saw long arms. He backed me into a corner so I just rapid fired at him. I had 6 pics of him opening and closing his mouth in stop motion. It was funny afterward but not when it happened.
I remember playing Fallout 3 and New Vegas when I was younger and finding the more creepier locations in those games that unsettled me. However, going through any of the vaults like Vault 106, 87, or 22 were especially the more disturbing places to explore. There's just something so ominous upon entering the vaults in those games, and I think it's in part because of the chilling screeching sound they made everytime you opened them.
So, when you first enter a vault, you can be greeted to any number of things, but in general, the place is in total disarray and is worn, rusty, and rotten. Then, as you proceed to explore the vault, you might find yourself lost as they have many narrow passages that can leave you confused as to where to go. As you're exploring, you also come across the vault's denizens who are either dead, driven completely insane, or worse. After those encounters as you explore even further, you'll then uncover the history of the horrible experiments and atrocities that were committed there. And all of this with a pervading eerie silence that adds even more to the atmosphere (aside from the occasional monster or insane survivor that attacks you).
Going through the vaults in Fallout 3 and New Vegas are still quite creepy experiences for me, but I think that back when I was younger, I guess I wasn't fully able to comprehend just how truly disturbing the vaults and their experiments really were, and for me this just added more to the sinister mystery each vault comes with. I was very spooked as a kid. Lol
The first time I ran into a feral goul in f3 I was like nooooo but then I murdered them
Ellen you need Mike to sit with you through Alien Isolation. He'd be a beacon of calm lol.
One of the first games i've ever falled in love with was: Alone in the Dark. The original DOS game. It was so terrifying that when me and my coussin came to a new room, we would switch to press W and who ever took the last step and entered the room, had to deal with it 😅
You didn’t play alien isolation...you played isolation
that made me laugh more than it should have
"It gets worse, there's an alien!" had me laughing very loud. Solid stuff
"Ellen: Isolation" got me even more
I actually had Ellen’s Alien: Isolation experience. The second the Xenomorph showed up at the top of the stairs I just closed the game and never reopened it.
Same, there is a very thick layer of dust on that case.
Oh but it's soooo good! Watch a let's play maybe and after that maybe have a go at it yourself. That way maybe you're better prepared for what could happen ^^
It's not actually the xenomorph until you turn off a security alarm much later on what you got scared of was a human
I never finished that game...
ForestRaptor I actually got it because of a Let’s Play! No issue watching it or anything else scary, I just can’t play it.
Of course Mike the robot could not participate in this video :P
You mean "Mike the Fearless".
I wish the outro is just Mike sitting there going "ehh...."for 20 seconds, thinking of the last time he has been lightly spooked by anything.
Lol. He doesn't even flinch a little. Gives zuckerborg a run for his money in terms of being robotic. Mans a tank!
Being literally fearless is a paladin class feature, after all :p (well in 3.5 at least)
This is basically me in any horror game. I'll watch let's play's and such just fine, but the moment you put me behind the controls my spine dissolves. Which sucks, because I actually love horror games.
Yeah I get that, even though silent hill shattered memories always found it so cool how things changed in the game based on the form you filled in at the beginning of the game and the psychological sections in the game that quietly profiled you
Before: Nothing scarier than a scratched disc.
Now: Nothing scarier than a 15 GB day one patch.
Corrupted Save Files can be just as bad, not only did you lose progress in a game that you likely played for hours or even years but if you don't delete the corrupt file within a certain amount of time, it's stuck there, forever taunting you
I bought silent hill used (20 years ago) but the second disc was scratched beyond playability. I still can feel the terror to this day.
Having your mom buy you a off brand memory card because it is cheaper, and it cannot keep a save file to save its existence.
Please connect online.
@@JargonMadjin or spreads to other files. I lost half a PS1 memory card to that
I really like these more candid talking heads type videos, gives a more personable view of the OX gang.
I don't mind them as a change of pace, but I much prefer the silly scripted ones.
Tf does that mean candid
smellymeadow hel look it up you ignorant tit.
I can't believe Luke left Link trapped underwater in a saved game for twenty years.
Ah, don't worry. If you save and quit in a dungeon in Ocarina of time, you end up back at the entrance once you load the save again.
I can’t believe he got scared at the water temple instead of the shadow temple. Shadow temple is creepy on a whole other level for me.
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Shadow temple is awesome though. The well dungeon. That was scary too
I cant believe it was the water temple that scared him and not the arm thing
Still better than when a certain WWII veteran went down for 70 years under ice
I distinctly remember playing a Nancy Drew PC game when I was little, and I was doing well, but after someone tried to blow up your boat, you go to sleep that night and then out of the windows, you see a bunch of ghost wolves that are trying to get through the windows, and for some reason that freaked me out so much that I literally threw the game away.
"Ghost Dogs of Moon Lake"? I remember watching the walkthrough of it by Arglefumph. He does other walkthroughs, but I remember the Nancy Drew ones.
Thief: Deadly Shadows - Robbing the Cradle level (first part). Only game I've ever had to stop playing (temporarily) because the tension was giving me chest pains.
Imagine Alien Isolation in VR....wait don't imagine that, the Xenomorph is terrifying enough in the normal version
Getting killed by the Xenomorph in VR would probably kill them IRL
You can download a free vr version of it somewhere on the internet! It was originally made to be In VR and had some of the code in it! Its a little buggy when saving your body does this weird clipping for example but its still terrifying because when you are in a locker you can actually lean forward and see the alien walking around A LOT better than in the real game which is terrifying!
No thanks Lari, I don’t want a virus in my computer
Also if you have your headset connected and it has a mic attached it can hear every noise you make outside the game.
Shadow of the Colossus I was little and didn't really know how to play so I was just having fun riding the horse and shooting arrows then I stumbled across a colussus
What colossus
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@@outlawsaul9969 So Quadratus gave you the spook of a lifetime? Understandable, since he literally bashes his way out of a cave right in front of you and you barely have any time to react. Luckily, he's slow. The three fastest bosses - Dirge, Celosia, and Cenobia - scared the shit out of me and caused my heart rate to spike.
I don't remember ever being scared when playing Shadow of the Colossus, but then again I was probably older than you.
I played it on a PS2 emulator too.
What a brilliant game.
I tried playing Majora’s Mask when I was a kid and the first time the moon fell creeped me out. I didn’t understand how to stop the moon, so two replays later had me even more scared. I played Majora’s Mask again in my late teens-early 20s and ended up beating it after realizing I could prevent the moon falling.
I played thief until they threw that outlast section at me. I was young and just wanted to be a sneaky thief and they send me to a god damn asylum. Felt pretty betrayed...
fr lmaao that fucking keyhole before u enter was enough for me to stop
Me too I was even 18 yo. It came out of left field and never finished it
Yup. That fucking keyhole.
I mean master class of jump scares though-do it in something that you have become accustomed to and with no warning.
Fuuuuuck that.
Oh man that bit with the keyhole made me straight up yelp
I thought i was gonna get trapped there forever
Literally everyone: Things that are genuinely scary at a young age
Me: "You know that ghost in Pokemon X&Y?"
narutiuzimaki How about the school side quest in Ultra Sun and Moon? I’m over thirty, and the combination of rising tension and the Silent Hill-esque music utterly creeped me the f- out. And then there’s the twist ending...
I remember when I was super young, I used to borrow my moms 3DS to play super mario 64 and i genuinely got scared by the signs about some creatures in the courtyard in peaches castle. xD I never saw these, and it scared me.
The first encounter with a librarian in Metro 2033. It broke my gas mask and I spent a good hour panicking in the tunnels trying to find another one with no luck. I was too stressed to go much farther after that.
NextResistance it’s been a while since I played metro. What’s a librarian? Is it the ape thingy?
@@matalahm9295 whaaaaat? Oh snap, I always blasted them or avoided them, didn't even know you could just stare them down... Now I feel dumb.
I haven't finished the game though... Maybe I should, it was a good one.
@@tomaszwota1465 Yeah the game isn't the most upfront about telling you that you don't have to shoot them. They're quite a pain to have to gun down as they are absolute bullet sponges. I got lucky and noticed it wasn't attacking me so I just kept my distance while keeping an eye on it. Sometimes they will try to walk up to you and they'll still attack so you have to make sure you're not too close to them, so don't accidentally back yourself into a corner either
@@matalahm9295 Actually, Colonel Miller tells you outright to stare it down, so if you just pay attention to the dialogue, the game is very upfront about telling you how to deal with them.
I have never gotten past the second level of Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future. It’s been over 15 years, and I’ve visited it periodically and still can’t beat that shark. Still terrifies me to this day trying to play it, with or without the Jaws-esque background music
I love these longer, more personal, less scripted lists so much! It's great to get some real insight into how you all play games differently. Keep them coming, please!
This is my favourite format for videos to, I find them strangely relaxing and therapeutic.
I love the way they communicate in this video and not always making those corny jokes lol
I see your Water Temple, but have you considered the existential horror that is the Shadow Temple and/or the Bottom of the Well? Invisible scythes. Dead things. Torture devices. Blood. Dead hands. Redeads. The music...
100% agree. There were plenty of scary things in that game, but the Water Temple was never one of them for me. However, I refused to do the Shadow Temple for the longest time.
@@stealthbonus I noped out of Shadow Temple multiple times... even now the music still unsettles me.
I’m personally confused on why Luke said that he was scared by the Water Temple. Like the Shadow Temple is scary, and sure Link can drown in the Water Temple, but that’s only if he is wearing either the Kokiri Tunic or the Goron Tunic and if he is also wearing the Iron Boots. Like the Water Temple is more confusing instead of being scary. And besides, Water Dungeons in Zelda games aren’t known for being scary.
I totally get the temple in one sitting mindset. I took a break during the shadow temple, but when I came back I had NO clue where I was or how to make any further progress. I did another run through years later and as it turned out, the shadow temple was really easy
Pretty much everything in the Evil Within made me want to stop. Specially that room with corpses and ritual tables....
For me, the scariest part of PT was the sign over the doorway. 'Forgive me Lisa'. At a passing glance I thought it said 'Melissa' my name. 😖
Jane explanation on how she loves horror but questions why she dose this to herself is how I am with horror
Honestly, last of us scared me to the point I wanted to quit. All the jump scares (especially the unnerving clickers) nearly did me in, and by the time I finally beat it, I cried, both from the ending and the raw nerves (i beat it in a single sitting, morning to night).
I feel like the dungeon under the well in Ocarina was way scarier than the Water Temple...
FINALLY, someone agrees! I hated Dead Hand!
Well Bottom of the Well is at least supposed to be scary, at least if you're a little kid I guess? Dead Hand is rather creepy after all.
It used to give me an uneasy feeling for sure. But so does the Shadow Temple and that’s prolly my favorite one
I'm usually freaked out by underwater sections in videogames, but the Water Temple was actually pretty fun for me.
Also yes the shadow temple and the Well were truly terrifying for me at least.
Same, the Water Temple wasn't that scary
"The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself...."
... AND axe-wielding maniacs. =)
So Elle from Playstation Access.
Dead Space.
Buy game -> Install -> Play intro -> See necroholycrapwhatevers -> Uninstall -> Burn disc.
Money well spent.
I HATE ALL KINDS of horror games but i wanted to play this one for the story cuz it was marvelous but nope that game scared me too much
Dead Space definitely has some incredibly disturbing scenes.
Did you also spread the ashes...? Or it might come back you know... The Necromorphs do...come back.....
The 2nd hospital like level in Dead Space forced me to stop and take a break. I was terrified.
Burn the disc to make a copy? You fool, you’ve MULTIPLIED the problem!
Andy saying "that was funny and good what you did their" makes me think of the story about that kid with the magic powers who had an entire town captive with his mind control powers and whenever weird shit happened everyone had to be like "it's good that he did that"
The Twilight Zone episode "It's A Good Life" (November '61). Anthony is played by Bill Mumy, who went on to have a massive career as an actor (including three seasons as Will Robinson in Lost in Space and some time as Lennier on Babylon 5) and a musician (as half of Barnes and Barnes...singers of "Fish Heads"). In fact, he reappears as his character Anthony in one of the rebooted Twilight Zones alongside his daughter (the episode is entitled "It's Still A Good Life").
The first game I remember scaring the hell out of me was Halo 1 on original Xbox where the flood is introduced. I had no idea they were coming and panicked when I had to fight them lol. I also remember the opening of Doom on PS2 scaring the crap out of me and my brother too lol.
Ellen should definitely livestream Alien Isolation with Andy!
same here i didn't complete halo until 4 years later haha
Halo was the first game I played that had separate controls for movement and camera, so I was a little disoriented when my friend handed me the controller. I immediately got jumpscared by something coming around a corner and never played it again.
My first big spook was Half Life 2: Ravenholm. I didn’t listen to the warning
*”we don’t go to Ravenholm”*
I remember first buying Gmod(before I bought hl2) and spawning some zombies out of curiosity and being scared out of my skeleton, It took me 2 weeks to get over that fear
Good God, Ravenholm. The poison headcrab sound still triggers my fight or flight.
I believe that was the first horror game I've ever played and I was hooked. I think what made it so effective was the fact that it was just a normal shooter up till that point. It was so unexpected and terrifying. I would love an entire Half Life spinoff of just Ravenholm.
I clearly remeber being up in the terrace of a building in Ravenholm and some unleashed creatures like the Xenos from Alien 3 showed up in the distance... I knew they saw me, but I thought "they wont be able to climb up here. Ill just snipe from afar". And then the pipe on my left which went all the way to the ground started shaking as they climbed...
Hears static voice saying don't go 2 ravenholm c'mon gorden we gotta go to ravenholm
How apt is that Mike is not in this video?
He never gets scared so he would have had nothing to say!
Maybe he should talk about what he would like to see in a scary game.
@@AlmightyPolarBear That would be like watching one of the really bad Saw films and I am here for that.
It's true. The closest thing to fear Mike has ever felt is the tension from playing Alein Isolation.
@@seanmcelroy9738 And even in that, his heart beat jumped only when he saw the flamethrower. 😂
@@AlmightyPolarBear you got a point. If you can make a game that scares mike then you've got a hit! Maybe some game company should throw some ideas his way and see if any strike a cord.
I am still terrified by the hand in Zelda Twilight Princess. In the Twilight Realm you had to collect these heavy, glowing eggs from a giant hand. After you've left the room, the hand starts to follow you with this intense music. I got so scared as a kid, I still haven't finished the game.
Somewhere between fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4, feral ghouls went from funny doddering things to GOD AWFUL shambling creatures that sprint at you, death rattling and emeting the whole time
Not to mention the teleporting mole rats and giant poisonous scorpions.
There's a reason i carry like ten guns everywhere i go now
God just think of how bad crawling around the metros in Fallout 3 would have been this the Fallout 4 ghouls.
Somewhere between Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Deathclaws went from being pushovers to horrifying death machines... ironically, it was in 3 that one made me jump so hard that I had to turn off the game for the day to recover.
I thought I snuck away but I was unaware that fucker or another one saw me when I stood up and was following me for a good couple of minutes until I stopped and turned around to have it’s face covering my entire screen mid pounce attack. Killed it while having a panic attack, saved while still panicking, and promptly turned off my 360 to watch TV instead while my heart was racing.
Yes and when you're on survival in a dark claustrophobic subway and you think you're safe, than Dogmeat "finds an enemy" and starts walking towards it...
@@LockeWick on the one hand, Deathclaws in Fallout 4 are solitary creatures. On the other hand they 1) actively juke and dodge bullets 2) can survive having their head blown off. There's nothing more awful than seeing a monster's head come off, immediately press reload so that you can deal with whatever comes next, then be stuck in reload animation while the headless monster claws your guts out
@@thisisjames4474 NOOOOOOO
"Thats unusual for the music room"
Well crap. I always thought that was normal. Either that or someone spiked my flute.
I have played a horror game at night then the scariest part was when it was coming after me the game crashed so the sound keep going.
Playing a scary game in the basement and then the power suddenly goes out.
Fluffymiyster ...And you didn’t save earlier...
Playing a scary game in the dark then have your roommate come in and turn the lights on
What made me stop playing Ocarina of Time when I was young was the wallmaster in the Forest Temple. The sound and the growing shadow scared me so much that I panicked as soon as it happened.
I've never beaten Bioshock myself, I always play through the beginning plane crash and cutscene, and then right after that guy gets killed from that splicer while you're in the bathysphere I always turned it off.
Ohhh yeah, I quit after that, then I tried playing it once more after months but it was still scary, I did played like 2 hours but I was terrified and died a lot and haven't continued the game for more than a year now. I feel like people lied to me when saying how BioShock is a good action game when all I'm seeing is a survival horror
@@zeynatura what's crazy is I actually bought the bundle pack or whatever it is, I've had it for years, Barely tried playing it a couple weeks ago and it's so stressful. I played up until the first sister and yeah havent played since! I moved on to Batman Arkham Knight haha 😂
Is it someone new?..
@@emptycradle1304 that line solidified it for me, although I can say I have beaten it now!
@@kellieluvsall3 my sister is the same way, I think she would love the game but she can't get past the intro
Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one that just hung out at Croft Manor. Lmao
For me, it was when I was playing Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It was that one cut scene with all those Links. I was just so unsettled, even now I hate thinking about it.
Yea one of the creepiest moments in Zelda.
April 2020: Now Ellen IS in isolation I assume. So she must be playing Alien, right?
Similtaneously, my husband and I went "What about Parasite Eve?!" I was 6 years old when I saw the rat transform into a monster backstage in the beginning. Gave me nightmares for WEEKS!!! The whole game did actually!
hospital level. that is all im saying
That game TERRIFIED me - the rat especially! Though I'll never forget talking to that clown, him leaving the room, a scream, then finding his charred corpse. Messed me right up.
Yo I almost forgot about the clown... I think it's a core reason I'm not a huge fan of clowns.
kind of like a scifi/resident evil JRPG, are there any modern games like that?
@TheDaleeria I forgot there was a clown in the game, tho I blame Pennywise for mine.
I would have loved to see his reaction with the red screen and the knocking happened at the same time. Haha
Jane be evil! In other obvious news.... Water is wet. And it rains often in London.
Wait... If wet is a state of being covered in water, then how is rain wet? It is just water.
@@acidtrippystick8102
Descriptive term for a type of water.
Ravenholm almost made me stop half life 2 but father grigori gave me the strength to see it through. As an adult I'm pretty sure he was popping around opening doors behind me and letting zombies through though. I found a couple paths that were completely blocked at the beginning but open later, lends credence to "we don't go to ravenholm" because even the guy there who appears to be the guide is actually a big reason people don't make it through. He needs more sheep for his flock.
Jane "very spooky and scary and oppressive and just grinds you down" me "yes I remember school well enough " >:p
I absolutely see how "alligator" makes sense with the split-head
In Final Fantasy XII there's an alligator that opens its mouth in thirds. The top third goes up and the left and right third go over and down a bit. Very freaky enemy.
That's not nice. Those furry gators are honestly cute. The zombies and ghosts are actually a bit eerie.
For me the moment would be Luigi's Mansion when it's time for Luigi to clear the very first room. The second those paintings starting talking it made my heart begin to pound to the point where I lunged for my GameCube and shut it off just as the first ghost appeared. After 2 days I tried again and got pretty far thinking that the game wasn't scary anymore. Then I encountered Bogmire for the first time...I had trouble sleeping that night.
I think that's a cool start, really sets the tone for the game, great atmosphere, but I wouldn't call it scary.
That damn baby was the creepiest thing I’d ever seen when I was little, I hated it
I was looking through the comments to make sure I wasn’t the only one afraid of Luigis mansion lmaooo
What can you say? Nintendo knows how to mask Scary behind Cheerful.
Personally, the first bear you encounter in Tomb Raider scared me more. I fail that jump almost every time and then get mauled to death.
The point where you NOPE TF out of a videogame
Parasite eve 2, being surrounded by nmc's.
Resident Evil 1 remake, encountering the spiders.
Layers of Fear when I turned around and DOLL HEADS. I actually screamed. So embarrassing.
Does it count before even starting one? Because I refuse to play any of the FNaF series or Slenderman.
Other its PT. I can handle gore just fine; not so good when the horrors makes me think.
In Mass effect 3, during gunfights when you heard banshees screaming in distance as they coming towards you is also one of the stressful moments.
When I played Eternal Darkness, my sanity meter went down way faster than the game's
This is a good episode it is not about research it is about every ones personal experience it is wholesome