Boy of Silence in Bioshock: Infinite. Just an amazing cap to a very creepy level. Also, the Yeti jump scare in Uncharted 2. Great use of camerawork and lighting.
Not really a Horror game but I had quite a jump scare in RDR2 when I was travelling through Swamps during nighttime on horseback, saw a body hanging from a Tree, shot the ropes and looted the body to see if it had any letters and was attacked by bunch of Nightfolks
The NIght Folk have a few good jump scares. That's a good one, and the one with the crying woman in the swamp who suddenly stabs you before several Night Folk run at you. The Lemoyne Raiders had a pretty good one with the exploding wagon ambush, too.
The nightfolk are creepy as fuck though. The manbear amalgamation gave me also very powerful creeps. Man I'd love for the devs to make it that when you enter on a later time, the creature is gone. You being unsure if you could encounter it at night or something. Much lost potential.
@@LeProphicthose Lemoyne Raiders are also funny I escaped one of their ambushes they said "that's the son of a bitch that took the Belle!" I lost it hearing that.
I remember as a kid I would always get up to the invisible enemies. They freaked me out more than the lil girl or nasty imagery. Loved that game, wish I still had a way to play it.
@@butwhataboutdragons7768if the insane asylum part from the DLC didn’t exist, I would have picked the ladder too. Also RE4 the spiky guy getting up from the table is another good one.
The Evil Within 2: when you're in town Hall and have to take a picture of the mannequin and something (or someone) flashes across the camera. That got me real good.
The crappy thing is its gone pretty much and there is no way to really recreate it because there is still so much unknown. I wish we actually got silent hills.
Jump scare that got me, as i was absolutely not expecting it was in Bioshock Infinite and turning around in the Warden’s office and coming face to face with a Boy of Silence / Alarm Head, and him screeching into your face. 👍😄👍
Hahahahaha. The PT jump scare in THIS VIDEO STILL MADE ME JUMP 😂😂. Oh…and the game “Madison” does a VERY good job of emulating the eeriness and vibe of PT….love it.
Manbat scared the crap out of me the first time I played Arkham Knight (and later Joker did too), but the funniest thing was when I showed the game to my son (who was in his twenties at the time). He wasn't even playing the game, but when I grappled to the top of a building in that area and Manbat leaned over the edge and screamed, my son jumped and shouted "Holy Sh*t!" I laughed my ass off.
That bastard "Whoo guy" in Sekiro definitely got me.. Was wondering where that sound was coming from, then just lost 2/3 of my health. One that I would say got me first time through the game as well, that wasn't listed, was those bodies that scream at you in the Irithyll Dungeon in Dark Souls 3. Definitely did not see it coming the first time it happened.
The RE1 hallway/dog scene made it so that you REALLY thought the unexpected was around every corner; and nothing could be trusted. I've been chasing the dragon for that kind of immersion ever since lol
I've put countless hours into Arkham Knight, it's one of my all time favorite games and it still looks magnificent. But the Man-Bat and the Joker scene get me every single time. In the game, you've already been around the Gotham Herald building many times so when it happens, it freaks you out.
Something that made PT so great was that feeling of going into the experience with absolutely no idea what it was. It was just done so well! One of the best parts of that experience was walking around the corner to see her just standing there motionless, only to have her disappear as you approached. I’ve kept my PS4 just so I can still access PT!
The experience that sticks with me is when Lisa is just vibrating on the second floor. Horrifying. Not a jumpscare in the classic sense, but I don't remember why I even looked up there, and SHE WAS THERE NO THANK YOU GOODBYE
I just love you guys for your love of Condemned and I love to see it popping up frequently in your lists! Much love, so that we have it four times. Keep up the great work guys 👍
Thank you for including that closet jumpscare in Condemned , i can never forget this one because i was so invested in that game back then and when it happened i remember backing off the screen so hard i flipped off my chair. it was chaos!
100%. I haven't played that game in over 20 years but that scene still made me shudder when Falcon mentioned it. That's a game that really sticks with you... I still remember some of the rune word combos!
My favorite Jump Scare is the lake monster in RE4, if you stand on the dock and shoot in the water you get attacked, forgot about and replayed the game in VR, and scared the crap out of me.
The Sons of Silence in Bioshock Infinite, The T-Rex encounter in the Dino Crisis Office scene, and the majority of Doom III (due to the flashlight/or gun mechanic) were all pretty impressive too.
16:31 What a great list. Gaming needs more of these moments. Evil within had a great jump scare similar to the safety you assume at a save spot that I'm surprised didn't get a mention here.
In System Shock 2, while there were no jump scares, there were these subtle unnerving sounds in the background perpetuating thru out the ship giving the game the perfect cadence.
Piggsy in Manhunt. You're hiding in the shadows as you do the entire game. And piggsy comes around where you are, sniffs the air... sniffs the air again... stares directly at you... then turns and walks away... OR OUT OF NO WHERE HE STARTS UP HIS FUCKING CHAINSAW AND STARTS SQUEALING AND SLASHING WHILE YOURE STUCK IN A CORNER. Absolutely random whether he does it or not. It's been 20 years, and it still gets me every time.
The lights cutting off at the start of the first story in Stories Untold was pretty good as well. I never expected that honestly, it wasn’t even anything scary from a technologically speaking standpoint, it was just very VERY unexpected.
Fiona's scream from Haunting Ground isn't exactly a jumpscare but it might as well be, 'cuz the first time I played it, and her first time panic, literally made me panic as well. That blood curdling scream she does and combined with the visuals. Bro, my 8 year old mind was not prepared for that.
I cannot fathom how RE2, Licker busting though the one way window wasn't on this. I can't think of a jump-scare to this day that has traumatized me more.
Bioshock, the doctor in the room that fills with fog, then is just... behind you when you turn around. That one got me. He doesn't even attack right away because he knows you dropped your controller. XD
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines Ocean House level gets me every time. The music is pitch perfect and immediately gets the hairs on my arm to spring up. The biggest scare for me is after you first enter, if you head all the way to the left and then turn right and go to the end of the hall, you will hear that ethereal whisper say, "He's behind you!" Man, I am starting to get goose bumps just thinking about that level.
The Prey call out! That Calibration jumpscare absolutely floored me. I get frightened really easily, even when I know it's coming, so on my attempt at playing Outlast, the first jumpscare when you're slowly opening a door, and the guy comes out of nowhere and throws you... I absolutely peed myself. I just can't handle that shit 🤣🤣🤣
Hell yeah that part in the witcher was not only terrifying but as a fan made me so happy. The cinematic trailer featured a bruxue which is a type of vampire. But the entire base game didn't have one. This was so well done I had to forgive them for making us wait so long
I'll remember this jumpscare for the rest of my life. I literally fell from my chair because I got so scared. My bro regularly mentions that when we discuss Resident Evil. Not my proudest momen haha.
Biggest jump scare for me were the Dogs when you open the front door of the Mansion in the first Resident Evil game. And the Licker jumping through the two way glass in Racoon City Police station in Resident Evil 2. Not many jump scares have scared me since then. And the rest dont stick out to me like those two.
Those and when you first enter the sewer area the camera angle extensuates the giant spiders that run across the other end! First time I saw that I was like bloody hell!
Resident Evil 4: the flaming Militia guy that suddenly bursts out of an oven and runs towards you really got me back in the days. I recognized the oven-like door instantly when I played the RE4 Remake and was still surprised!
Great list. Love the scary ones. I would argue from Sekiro the more terrifying jump scare is “MY NAME IS GYOUBU MASATAKA ONIWA!!! Far out playing this in the dark at 2.30am headset on completely immersed, not expecting anything remotely scary to happen & this booming bloody voice man. Damn near had to peel myself off the roof I jumped that high! Horror games are my favourite but this was by far one of the biggest jump scares I’ve ever had gaming.
@@GMan56M dang man, it’s been too long. I don’t remember. I do recall that you end up in sort of an encampment eventually. You’re wandering around it and exploring, then suddenly the music pumps, alarms go off, and I just completely lose my composure for some reason
The key part of the dog scare in RE1 is that it's the second time you go down the hall, so you've already been through it and seen that it's a safe and innocuous room, which really puts your guard down.
They did that to mess with players of the original. They show up the first time you go down that hall in that game, and they change it just enough to get you in the remake. It's not just the second time you enter the hall--it's first time you come back through from the other direction.
Playing Skyrim and I was at the College of Winterhold. I came out of the Hall of Attainment into the courtyard...and without warning, a Legendary Dragon landed right on top of me, one foot either side. Winterhold (especially the College) was a common dragon spawn point, but this one must have appeared just as I entered the interior cell. I defeated it, but only after I had stopped melting off the couch onto the floor. 7,300 hours in that game and I'll never forget that.
You know what got me in Arkham Knights…? It was the 1st time the Joker shows up… Turns out, of course, he’s Batman’s “head Joker,” but IIRC, it’s during some scene where Batman is deactivating some kind of bombs in sequence when… just out of nowhere… the Joker pops up, bitch-slaps poor ol’ Bruce, and says “Miss me?” I literally jumped almost out of my chair…
The two that gets me every time is in RE2 remake, in the interrogation room, the licker jumping through the window and when you leave and head down the hall back to the stairs Mr X breaking through the wall. Or when you open a door and he's just lurking on the other side
The loot chest in warzone during Halloween always scare the hell out of me. You need the loot so you have to open them, and its just frequent enough to make you really hesitate opening them.
I don't recall where, but there absolutely is another "trick" Bruxae in W3:B&W, because I encountered this one recently (my first playthrough), and I when I saw a creepy crying woman all alone I thought "oh, I bet this is another one of those, let me try to force her to reveal herself".
Funny enough in the Arkham Knight game you know he is flying around the city just by listening to the street thugs and you can hear him in the distance. Somehow it still caught me off guard. And if I recall there are 2 times, he does a jump scare if your system is on Halloween time and date.
I watched the Sekiro clip like 5 times. lol that's awesome. I was going to play through Sekiro too bad this wont be a surprise to me now but it I still love how he comes swooping in yelling "WOOOOAAA!!"
Helldivers has some jump scares too. You're fighting an enemy and looking one way then you get stabbed by an enemy from behind. If you're on a planet at night and the area is covered by fog, it can be even more intense.
I played the Boomershooter Cultic recently and the floating dudes with the bags over their heads that use telekinesis to hurl things at you also can start choking you so long as they have line of sight, the screen shifting and sounds during that time are so sudden and jarring that its basically a jump scare the first time it happens to you especially if they see you first lol.
For Arkham Knight, I think I'd give it to the 1st person Commissioner Gordon sequence in the Batcave/Theater. Even when you know the jumpscare is coming and even trying to trigger it without getting jumped, it still messes with you.
The last jumpscare that got me was when in Cyberpunk 2077 during one of the endings for Phantom Liberty you have to hide from this creepy bot thing that stalks you throughout the entire section. When it gets you it's surely effective. Also as honorable mention that one time in Skyrim I got jumped by a giant spider in a cave. That thing just dropped down from right above me. As a person with extreme arachnophobia I always make sure to be slow and check caves for spiders or send my companion in first to deal with them after this.
Man-Bat is the best jumpscare I've ever encountered in a game, period. Even the Joker one later in the game is great. Its almost smug, like Rocksteady is just rubbing in how well the first one worked. Should give an honorable mention to Alan Wake 2 though. Those scary flashes were always really well timed to make me jump.
Not really a jump scare exactly, especially since you can predict it each time, but the boss in Sinistar on Sega Genesis. When the Sinistar is complete, its digitized voice announces "Beware, I live" and Sinistar chases the player's ship while making threatening remarks: "Run! Run! Run!", "Beware, coward!", "I hunger!", "Run, coward!", and a loud roar........... That roar messed me up as a kid. A close 2nd to that was the Pterodactyl from Joust on Sega Genesis. The noises it made almost always made me jump compared to the rest of the sounds in the game.
The first one I remember is from Unreal. Right at the start when you walk into the ship and the 'dead' person moves when you get close. Simple but very effective at the time.
For me, nemesis busting through the walls in re3 was one of the biggest jump scares because although it had been done before, it was after you thought you were pretty safe and here he comes with a rocket launcher in a hall that you have almost no time to react 🤣 but often run came to mind after fumbling with the controller.
The biggest jump scare for me in REVII was when Marguerite jumps out of nowhere when you’re going to the attic right before she throws you into the pit. That got me big time… I was also in VR
so I gave a talk at my job about "what makes a game scary" and this video pretty much proves my point. Jump Scares are more succesful and much scarier when they dont just stop at the jump. When its a jump scare you then have to deal with in some way, it makes it much more memorable and also then youre scared of the sudden threat. The dogs in the hall of RE1 werent just "oh man, dogs! I jumped!" It was "Oh man! Dogs! I jumped!... Oh shit now I have to deal with dogs, the faster enemies I havent dealt with up to this point!"
Funny Story: The very first Time, when i played RE7 in VR and i got to that Point you mentioned, i managed to avoid getting seen by Jack entirely, simply by moving slowly backwards while he was turning his Back towards me. Lucky me was so startled that i slowly walked backwards from where i came and avoided him entirely. Even achieved a Trophy for that Stunt. 😂👌
One that is stuck in my memory is from Silent Hill 1. Early in the game you are exploring the school and inspecting some lockers. You check one and walk away..then the door rattles. You go back to check it and a cat jumps out at you.
The last big jump scare I got in a game was actually I’m pretty sure a glitch, and was in a non horror game lol. It was when I was swimming down into a dark, narrow passage to get into an underwater cave in Oblivion where there’s the biggest slaughter fish in the game. But as I was approaching the dark passageway a normal sized slaughter fish darted out of it at me with its mouth open, and the loud slaughterfish noises it makes, and then disappeared. Scared the shit out of me and because I wasn’t expecting it at all it made it that much more effective. My husband was watching and he lost it lol. We both tried to see if that was an intentional jump scare for that area specifically but we couldn’t find anything. So I just got “lucky” and it was a random glitch that scared the crap out of me lol.
Dead Island 2 has been getting me recently with the damn zombies behind the door. Open a door to get supplies, zombie jumps out, grabs me and, in my panic, I hit start and now have the pause screen of shame up
Left 4 Dead - the Witch. The first time I played the game, I was playing it solo, came across the Witch and heard it sobbing, listened to the in-game NPCs say to stay away and not attack it. I end up "startling" the Witch and the scream it lets out as it turns, charges, and then pounces on your character as it rips you apart got me. After that you encounter 1-2 a level so I knew what to expect, but that first time got me.
The other one that gets me in Prey is when youre tasked to knock on the window to get the attention of a woman who is outside the space station. Her appearing from around the corner gets me every time.
The dog hallway in RE was the one that got me the hardest as a kid in high school not knowing anything about the game. I literally just turned the Playstation off and never played it for years afterwards.
Hi Falcon, It’s folks!
Hey
Whose that?
Lol ❤️
@@alfie6129 folks means "people"
Det be crazy if he was GD folks tho ☠️🤣
Boy of Silence in Bioshock: Infinite. Just an amazing cap to a very creepy level.
Also, the Yeti jump scare in Uncharted 2. Great use of camerawork and lighting.
Yes, I freaking LITERALLY jumped at the Boy Of Silence one. Caught me completely off guard
That was one of the first that came to mind for me too.
Not really a Horror game but I had quite a jump scare in RDR2 when I was travelling through Swamps during nighttime on horseback, saw a body hanging from a Tree, shot the ropes and looted the body to see if it had any letters and was attacked by bunch of Nightfolks
The NIght Folk have a few good jump scares. That's a good one, and the one with the crying woman in the swamp who suddenly stabs you before several Night Folk run at you.
The Lemoyne Raiders had a pretty good one with the exploding wagon ambush, too.
Bear in the house also
The nightfolk are creepy as fuck though.
The manbear amalgamation gave me also very powerful creeps. Man I'd love for the devs to make it that when you enter on a later time, the creature is gone. You being unsure if you could encounter it at night or something. Much lost potential.
@benriddick7038 that was unexpected as hell. Out of nowhere, In this random shack, is a bear which is twice the size as you
@@LeProphicthose Lemoyne Raiders are also funny I escaped one of their ambushes they said "that's the son of a bitch that took the Belle!" I lost it hearing that.
The original F.E.A.R. from 2005 was chock full of these. First playthrough I refused to play without all of the lights on.
I was certain that ladder scene would be here at least. But yeah lots to choose from.
That game was insane I remember playing the demo before it released which scared the hell out of me and so did whole game
I remember as a kid I would always get up to the invisible enemies. They freaked me out more than the lil girl or nasty imagery. Loved that game, wish I still had a way to play it.
I'm surprised no mentions of Outlast were on here, I played for like 45 minutes and must've nearly shat myself like 4 times
@@butwhataboutdragons7768if the insane asylum part from the DLC didn’t exist, I would have picked the ladder too. Also RE4 the spiky guy getting up from the table is another good one.
Bioshock 1 when you go to the dentist's office full of fog.
gets me every time ^^
The Evil Within 2: when you're in town Hall and have to take a picture of the mannequin and something (or someone) flashes across the camera. That got me real good.
Yeah I remember that and it freaked me out to 😳
PT’s fall into obscurity is one of the biggest tragedies in gaming.
Some game developers are using the pt demo as inspiration for their new games
The crappy thing is its gone pretty much and there is no way to really recreate it because there is still so much unknown. I wish we actually got silent hills.
Only cause it reminds us of what could have been and what actually happened 😢
I'm so mad that I never got to play it
@Confuseddalek don't be buddy. It was only available for a short amount of time and you had to have a PS3 at the time.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who accidentally let the dead space tentacle eat me because I thought it was a cutscene lol
Can't believe you left out the ladder scare in F.E.A.R. Deffo gave me a heart attack.
Jump scare that got me, as i was absolutely not expecting it was in Bioshock Infinite and turning around in the Warden’s office and coming face to face with a Boy of Silence / Alarm Head, and him screeching into your face. 👍😄👍
Hahahahaha. The PT jump scare in THIS VIDEO STILL MADE ME JUMP 😂😂. Oh…and the game “Madison” does a VERY good job of emulating the eeriness and vibe of PT….love it.
I enjoyed Madison for the most part. Even more so in VR & seeing my nieces & nephews reaction letting them play 😂
@@candelarioreynosojr9787 Madison in VR would be INSANE
@@Prayalone515 It really is 😁 You should try it if you have the VR
The wheelchair guy in Outlast always gets me. I jumped out of my chair!
I was scared of my own shadow exploring the vaults in New Vegas lol
Especially Vault 22.
Gaaaryyyy…
Arkham Knight Manbat got me good
Manbat scared the crap out of me the first time I played Arkham Knight (and later Joker did too), but the funniest thing was when I showed the game to my son (who was in his twenties at the time). He wasn't even playing the game, but when I grappled to the top of a building in that area and Manbat leaned over the edge and screamed, my son jumped and shouted "Holy Sh*t!"
I laughed my ass off.
I so never expected it in a Batman game and as Falcon said was really seamless. Need more like these in other games.
Sekiro in the thumbnail means a view from me. 👍
The ape boss resurrecting after you behead him could be considered a jump scare if you dont pay attention.
That bastard "Whoo guy" in Sekiro definitely got me.. Was wondering where that sound was coming from, then just lost 2/3 of my health.
One that I would say got me first time through the game as well, that wasn't listed, was those bodies that scream at you in the Irithyll Dungeon in Dark Souls 3.
Definitely did not see it coming the first time it happened.
The bodies that scream in Ds3 are just plain obnoxious and really have no point being in the game. I love Ds3 but they irritate me every playthrough.
100% agree with you there! Took me until probably my 3rd time through the dungeon to remember it was going to happen with the bodies -_-
The room filling with blood and your character's disconnection from the mirrors in that one Silent Hill bathroom got me.
"Don't touch that dial now, we're just getting started."
Just reading that gave me a nostalgic shiver
A jumpscare that got me good was Red Dead Redemption 2, checking out the serial killer's lair and he finds you. Still recovering from that. 😅
The RE1 hallway/dog scene made it so that you REALLY thought the unexpected was around every corner; and nothing could be trusted.
I've been chasing the dragon for that kind of immersion ever since lol
Chasing the dragon...?
Drugs are bad, mmkay.
I've put countless hours into Arkham Knight, it's one of my all time favorite games and it still looks magnificent. But the Man-Bat and the Joker scene get me every single time. In the game, you've already been around the Gotham Herald building many times so when it happens, it freaks you out.
Something that made PT so great was that feeling of going into the experience with absolutely no idea what it was. It was just done so well! One of the best parts of that experience was walking around the corner to see her just standing there motionless, only to have her disappear as you approached. I’ve kept my PS4 just so I can still access PT!
The experience that sticks with me is when Lisa is just vibrating on the second floor. Horrifying. Not a jumpscare in the classic sense, but I don't remember why I even looked up there, and SHE WAS THERE NO THANK YOU GOODBYE
I just love you guys for your love of Condemned and I love to see it popping up frequently in your lists! Much love, so that we have it four times. Keep up the great work guys 👍
I'll never forget the jumpscare in the original Silent Hill on PS1. That damn cat in the locker. It might be one of the most well set up jumpscares.
I'll always remember that as the first real jump scare I had in a video game
The body falling out of the locker gave me a cardiac arrest.
@@dansmith16 that was a prime example of false sense of security. "Oh it's just a ca.... NO IT'S NOT!!! NO IT'S NOT!!!"
Thank you for including that closet jumpscare in Condemned , i can never forget this one because i was so invested in that game back then and when it happened i remember backing off the screen so hard i flipped off my chair. it was chaos!
Maaaaan crazy you mentioned the bathtub from eternal darkness!! Hands down the worst a jump scare ever got me in my life.
100%. I haven't played that game in over 20 years but that scene still made me shudder when Falcon mentioned it. That's a game that really sticks with you... I still remember some of the rune word combos!
9:44 Good line Falcon, very good comedic timing and editing
My favorite Jump Scare is the lake monster in RE4, if you stand on the dock and shoot in the water you get attacked, forgot about and replayed the game in VR, and scared the crap out of me.
No matter how many times I replay Arkham Knight, the Man-Bat/Joker jump scares always freaks me out
In RE 4 and Remake, that freaking Zombie in the Furnace made my heart stop for a couple seconds. 😅
Finally someone who mentioned it
Jack Baker is even scarier on Madhouse difficulty; he appears in places he normally doesn’t and it scared the shit outta me 😂
The Sons of Silence in Bioshock Infinite, The T-Rex encounter in the Dino Crisis Office scene, and the majority of Doom III (due to the flashlight/or gun mechanic) were all pretty impressive too.
16:31 What a great list. Gaming needs more of these moments. Evil within had a great jump scare similar to the safety you assume at a save spot that I'm surprised didn't get a mention here.
In System Shock 2, while there were no jump scares, there were these subtle unnerving sounds in the background perpetuating thru out the ship giving the game the perfect cadence.
Jack bursting through the bathroom door in RE7 is scarier
Piggsy in Manhunt.
You're hiding in the shadows as you do the entire game. And piggsy comes around where you are, sniffs the air... sniffs the air again... stares directly at you... then turns and walks away... OR OUT OF NO WHERE HE STARTS UP HIS FUCKING CHAINSAW AND STARTS SQUEALING AND SLASHING WHILE YOURE STUCK IN A CORNER.
Absolutely random whether he does it or not. It's been 20 years, and it still gets me every time.
The lights cutting off at the start of the first story in Stories Untold was pretty good as well. I never expected that honestly, it wasn’t even anything scary from a technologically speaking standpoint, it was just very VERY unexpected.
Fiona's scream from Haunting Ground isn't exactly a jumpscare but it might as well be, 'cuz the first time I played it, and her first time panic, literally made me panic as well. That blood curdling scream she does and combined with the visuals. Bro, my 8 year old mind was not prepared for that.
I cannot fathom how RE2, Licker busting though the one way window wasn't on this. I can't think of a jump-scare to this day that has traumatized me more.
Bioshock, the doctor in the room that fills with fog, then is just... behind you when you turn around. That one got me. He doesn't even attack right away because he knows you dropped your controller. XD
Zombie baby creature in RE Village when it comes through the door to the basement. Nightmare fuel!
Finaly someone else mentions it. That was a legit scare.
I DO NOT like that level still!
Cougars that attack you out of nowhere in Red Dead Redemption
In Arkham Knight, playing as Joker and turning around to see Batman scared the shit out of me.😂😂😂
I'm surprised that outlast wasn't mentioned here 😢
Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines Ocean House level gets me every time. The music is pitch perfect and immediately gets the hairs on my arm to spring up. The biggest scare for me is after you first enter, if you head all the way to the left and then turn right and go to the end of the hall, you will hear that ethereal whisper say, "He's behind you!" Man, I am starting to get goose bumps just thinking about that level.
Glad to see Condemned get a mention, i just beat it for the first time the other day
Great video ❤ I love your content mate 😊
The Prey call out! That Calibration jumpscare absolutely floored me.
I get frightened really easily, even when I know it's coming, so on my attempt at playing Outlast, the first jumpscare when you're slowly opening a door, and the guy comes out of nowhere and throws you... I absolutely peed myself. I just can't handle that shit 🤣🤣🤣
Hell yeah that part in the witcher was not only terrifying but as a fan made me so happy. The cinematic trailer featured a bruxue which is a type of vampire. But the entire base game didn't have one. This was so well done I had to forgive them for making us wait so long
Dude Manbat and the sekiro one actually made me fling my controller upward and somehow catch it while playing those games.
I definitely think Nemesis bursting through the Police Station window deserves a mention.
That wasn't Nemesis, it was a licker.
@@DefinitelyNotBenderhe means the original RE3
I'll remember this jumpscare for the rest of my life. I literally fell from my chair because I got so scared. My bro regularly mentions that when we discuss Resident Evil. Not my proudest momen haha.
Biggest jump scare for me were the Dogs when you open the front door of the Mansion in the first Resident Evil game. And the Licker jumping through the two way glass in Racoon City Police station in Resident Evil 2. Not many jump scares have scared me since then. And the rest dont stick out to me like those two.
Those and when you first enter the sewer area the camera angle extensuates the giant spiders that run across the other end! First time I saw that I was like bloody hell!
Resident Evil 4: the flaming Militia guy that suddenly bursts out of an oven and runs towards you really got me back in the days. I recognized the oven-like door instantly when I played the RE4 Remake and was still surprised!
Great list. Love the scary ones. I would argue from Sekiro the more terrifying jump scare is “MY NAME IS GYOUBU MASATAKA ONIWA!!! Far out playing this in the dark at 2.30am headset on completely immersed, not expecting anything remotely scary to happen & this booming bloody voice man. Damn near had to peel myself off the roof I jumped that high! Horror games are my favourite but this was by far one of the biggest jump scares I’ve ever had gaming.
Man-Bat its always got me. even when i started playing the second game i forgot that man-bat was there hahaha
I’ve never been scared in games, but surprisingly, there was a scene in Firewatch that got my heart pumping wildly.
Which scene? I played through that game about a year and a half ago and really enjoyed it.
@@GMan56M dang man, it’s been too long. I don’t remember. I do recall that you end up in sort of an encampment eventually. You’re wandering around it and exploring, then suddenly the music pumps, alarms go off, and I just completely lose my composure for some reason
The key part of the dog scare in RE1 is that it's the second time you go down the hall, so you've already been through it and seen that it's a safe and innocuous room, which really puts your guard down.
They did that to mess with players of the original. They show up the first time you go down that hall in that game, and they change it just enough to get you in the remake. It's not just the second time you enter the hall--it's first time you come back through from the other direction.
Playing Skyrim and I was at the College of Winterhold. I came out of the Hall of Attainment into the courtyard...and without warning, a Legendary Dragon landed right on top of me, one foot either side.
Winterhold (especially the College) was a common dragon spawn point, but this one must have appeared just as I entered the interior cell.
I defeated it, but only after I had stopped melting off the couch onto the floor.
7,300 hours in that game and I'll never forget that.
You know what got me in Arkham Knights…? It was the 1st time the Joker shows up…
Turns out, of course, he’s Batman’s “head Joker,” but IIRC, it’s during some scene where Batman is deactivating some kind of bombs in sequence when… just out of nowhere… the Joker pops up, bitch-slaps poor ol’ Bruce, and says “Miss me?”
I literally jumped almost out of my chair…
I thought I was the only who got scared from that joker scene when he first came so unexpected
The two that gets me every time is in RE2 remake, in the interrogation room, the licker jumping through the window and when you leave and head down the hall back to the stairs Mr X breaking through the wall. Or when you open a door and he's just lurking on the other side
Incredible video as always!!
Man, I knew the jump scare was coming with the PT clip, and it still gets me. Most terrifying 'game' I've ever played.
Oh this dialysis treatment is gonna be good now! Thanks, Falcon!
The loot chest in warzone during Halloween always scare the hell out of me. You need the loot so you have to open them, and its just frequent enough to make you really hesitate opening them.
The final entry still got me even with you narrating it 😂
I don't recall where, but there absolutely is another "trick" Bruxae in W3:B&W, because I encountered this one recently (my first playthrough), and I when I saw a creepy crying woman all alone I thought "oh, I bet this is another one of those, let me try to force her to reveal herself".
Funny enough in the Arkham Knight game you know he is flying around the city just by listening to the street thugs and you can hear him in the distance. Somehow it still caught me off guard. And if I recall there are 2 times, he does a jump scare if your system is on Halloween time and date.
The woo guy on a blind Sekiro playthrough was so good.
Agree!
Nice video and subnautica levithan was very terrifying
I watched the Sekiro clip like 5 times. lol that's awesome. I was going to play through Sekiro too bad this wont be a surprise to me now but it I still love how he comes swooping in yelling "WOOOOAAA!!"
Helldivers has some jump scares too. You're fighting an enemy and looking one way then you get stabbed by an enemy from behind. If you're on a planet at night and the area is covered by fog, it can be even more intense.
I played the Boomershooter Cultic recently and the floating dudes with the bags over their heads that use telekinesis to hurl things at you also can start choking you so long as they have line of sight, the screen shifting and sounds during that time are so sudden and jarring that its basically a jump scare the first time it happens to you especially if they see you first lol.
T-Rex bursting through the window in Dino Crisis almost gave my friend a heart attack!!!
The jump scare that still effects the way I play and where I should "feel safe" to this day is the necromorph in the elevator in Dead Space 2.
For Arkham Knight, I think I'd give it to the 1st person Commissioner Gordon sequence in the Batcave/Theater. Even when you know the jumpscare is coming and even trying to trigger it without getting jumped, it still messes with you.
The last jumpscare that got me was when in Cyberpunk 2077 during one of the endings for Phantom Liberty you have to hide from this creepy bot thing that stalks you throughout the entire section. When it gets you it's surely effective.
Also as honorable mention that one time in Skyrim I got jumped by a giant spider in a cave. That thing just dropped down from right above me. As a person with extreme arachnophobia I always make sure to be slow and check caves for spiders or send my companion in first to deal with them after this.
Dude the PT bit still got me
Man-Bat is the best jumpscare I've ever encountered in a game, period. Even the Joker one later in the game is great. Its almost smug, like Rocksteady is just rubbing in how well the first one worked. Should give an honorable mention to Alan Wake 2 though. Those scary flashes were always really well timed to make me jump.
Not really a jump scare exactly, especially since you can predict it each time, but the boss in Sinistar on Sega Genesis. When the Sinistar is complete, its digitized voice announces "Beware, I live" and Sinistar chases the player's ship while making threatening remarks: "Run! Run! Run!", "Beware, coward!", "I hunger!", "Run, coward!", and a loud roar........... That roar messed me up as a kid. A close 2nd to that was the Pterodactyl from Joust on Sega Genesis. The noises it made almost always made me jump compared to the rest of the sounds in the game.
The best part of woo guy in sekiro is you dont initially realise the source of the scream and when you finally do its over for you
Killin it like usual Falcon. I find it odd you guys aren't saying anything about the south park game
The jump scare in Boston’s infinite has to be one of the most unexpected and effective jump scares I’ve ever experienced.
The first one I remember is from Unreal. Right at the start when you walk into the ship and the 'dead' person moves when you get close. Simple but very effective at the time.
Another glorious day of asking for any sort of coverage on Gigantic rampage edition!
For me, nemesis busting through the walls in re3 was one of the biggest jump scares because although it had been done before, it was after you thought you were pretty safe and here he comes with a rocket launcher in a hall that you have almost no time to react 🤣 but often run came to mind after fumbling with the controller.
The biggest jump scare for me in REVII was when Marguerite jumps out of nowhere when you’re going to the attic right before she throws you into the pit. That got me big time… I was also in VR
so I gave a talk at my job about "what makes a game scary" and this video pretty much proves my point. Jump Scares are more succesful and much scarier when they dont just stop at the jump. When its a jump scare you then have to deal with in some way, it makes it much more memorable and also then youre scared of the sudden threat. The dogs in the hall of RE1 werent just "oh man, dogs! I jumped!" It was "Oh man! Dogs! I jumped!... Oh shit now I have to deal with dogs, the faster enemies I havent dealt with up to this point!"
Funny Story: The very first Time, when i played RE7 in VR and i got to that Point you mentioned, i managed to avoid getting seen by Jack entirely, simply by moving slowly backwards while he was turning his Back towards me.
Lucky me was so startled that i slowly walked backwards from where i came and avoided him entirely. Even achieved a Trophy for that Stunt.
😂👌
That Batman jumpscare is number 1 for me. I literally almost fell out of my chair it was so unexpected.
One that is stuck in my memory is from Silent Hill 1. Early in the game you are exploring the school and inspecting some lockers. You check one and walk away..then the door rattles. You go back to check it and a cat jumps out at you.
The last big jump scare I got in a game was actually I’m pretty sure a glitch, and was in a non horror game lol. It was when I was swimming down into a dark, narrow passage to get into an underwater cave in Oblivion where there’s the biggest slaughter fish in the game. But as I was approaching the dark passageway a normal sized slaughter fish darted out of it at me with its mouth open, and the loud slaughterfish noises it makes, and then disappeared. Scared the shit out of me and because I wasn’t expecting it at all it made it that much more effective. My husband was watching and he lost it lol. We both tried to see if that was an intentional jump scare for that area specifically but we couldn’t find anything. So I just got “lucky” and it was a random glitch that scared the crap out of me lol.
My favorite jump scare was in Fear. Getting on a ladder animation, you look back up and the "girl" is bent down right in your face.
Dead Island 2 has been getting me recently with the damn zombies behind the door. Open a door to get supplies, zombie jumps out, grabs me and, in my panic, I hit start and now have the pause screen of shame up
The Licker jumping through the mirror in RE got me better than any other the first time I played it.
that got me too the first time 🤣 also the crows in RE1 that swarm you on the balcony when you take the grenade launcher 😱
I love how pt was #1 I loved playing it during it was live
The fact that the PT jump scare stull got me in this video, proves that this was a great game that we never got
Left 4 Dead - the Witch. The first time I played the game, I was playing it solo, came across the Witch and heard it sobbing, listened to the in-game NPCs say to stay away and not attack it. I end up "startling" the Witch and the scream it lets out as it turns, charges, and then pounces on your character as it rips you apart got me. After that you encounter 1-2 a level so I knew what to expect, but that first time got me.
The other one that gets me in Prey is when youre tasked to knock on the window to get the attention of a woman who is outside the space station. Her appearing from around the corner gets me every time.
The Man Bat one is one of the few jump scare that actually got me in games or movies.
The dog hallway in RE was the one that got me the hardest as a kid in high school not knowing anything about the game. I literally just turned the Playstation off and never played it for years afterwards.