Games that make you jump

[kasavien]

At the risk of people taking the mic out of me, does anyone else avoid playing a game because it will make you jump? I've just started playing Bioshock, and I had trouble going down the first set of stairs after the plane crash because there was no light! I hate things jumping out at me so later on in the game when the lights go out and I turn round to find a splicer trying to chew my face off, I jumped a mile. Having said that the game is awesome, I'm really enjoying it, I just wish it didn't make me jump!

So does anyone else avoid playing games for the above reason, or am I a nervous wreck alone in the dark as it were?

[Jasp]

Only game that ever made me jump was AVP2, played at midnight in the pitch black as marine really did set the atmosphere lol.

[Englander]

When I was a fair bit younger I wouldn't do most of the temples/any of the boss battles on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask. Thinking back, I would never ever ever venture into The Lost Woods, either because they were pretty damn scary!!

[TAKTAK]

We used to have some really jumpy moments on resi 4 when there was a group of us, i.e. open a door and there is a spiky regen running at you. Mainly jumpy because of the ambience

When i was really young, i didn't want to play anything like doom etc, in-case i died...


Thinking that i would die IRL

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

FEAR had some jumpy moments in it!

[Hicks12]

i do avoid some games but i havent avoiddd any recently, avp2 made me brick it so many times when i played it i was only like 7 and played it in pitch black with loud sounds god those were fun timds, the new avp made me jump a few times as a marine when i get trophey killed or hear an alien behind me, cant wait for full game of it now.

[eshrules]

I can't remember how long ago this was, but I played it on my first system (1998 onwards?)....System Shock 2, scared the living bejuses out of me at several points!

[Cheapy]

Thief Deadly shadows with the burnt down mental hospital level.

I first hit the level at night, 10 minutes in I quit because of pure fear. I next came back to it next day played it in full daylight with volume almost turned off as thats only way i could get thought the entire level. I played it that once and even now years later I still carnt bring myself to do that level again.

That and STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl in the under ground bit. Mind you the underground bit is like a summers day in the park compared to Thief.

[jackvdbuk]

FEAR had some jumpy moments in it!

the start of the game where that man jumps out from behind a box on the roof = jump off chair moment!

[kasavien]

I feel better now I'm not the only one btw how hard are the Big Daddies!

[Jay]

EVE Online, when you are on a gate and 50 reds jump in.

[Dingo]

Only GIRLS jump.............real men, um, hide behind the sofa until their wives say it's okay to come out!!

[Ferral]

Fear gets me, bit on the ladder then when you make it to the bottom, Doom 3 REALLY gets me, the level where you have to take the big lift down where you have to get it working theres a lot of dark areas, also the bit where you escort the scientist in the dark.

Same bit got me on Bioshock but found that was the only bit.

Resident Evil (first one) where the dogs jump through the window in the corridor.

Scariest game I have ever played though has to be Siren : Blood Curse on PS3, complete brown trousers time with that one. Couldn't play it in the dark in the end got to me so much

[danroyle]

doom 3 was great for making you jump until a bunch of wimps made the mod so you could add the flashlight on your gun!!!

[Ferral]

Do you think that mod was made by the complete wimps that couldn't hack the fear induced by the game. Yeah it was a bit of a pain getting the flashlight out but that actually added to it I thought, made it more tense

[badass]

I love jumpy FPS games. Turn off the lights, turn up the speakers and prepare to have the bejesus scared out of you. Doom 3 was good. Fear was better :nod:
Some games are not really jumpy but good for atmosphere. Stalker was Ok in some bits for making the player a bit nervous.