Skeevers scare the crap out of me in this game. I never see them coming.

"Oh look, a deer. I need some pelts..."
*crouch*
*notch arrow*
"Let me get a little closer.... Almost there...."
SKEEVER STOLE YOUR SWEET ROLL, B****!!!

I'm not sure about scary but I find Skyrim, as I did Oblivion, extremely creepy.

The only Daggerfall noise I remember is the monotonous rat squeaking behind a door or wall I could not find. EEEEH EEEH EEH, EEEH EEH EEH!!

This post reminds me of Redeads from Ocarina of Time.
If Redeads didn't scare the piss out of you when you were 10, I dunno what's wrong with you. :cryvaultboy:

The Hagravens freak me out for some reason, I dont like getting too near them.

Torches do expire in Skyrim, but agree, they are more or less useless in the game. In Oblivion they were useful.

Of course, in reality any tomb would be entirely pitch black and there would have to be some sort of serious game mechanic designed around lighting of torches, fires, lanterns, etc.

I was REALLY hoping that you could use a lantern in this game, since they are an item you can pick up...

Well when I'm walking through a dungeon and turn around only to see a skeleton in my face I jump, but the thing that gets me is the draugers kicking open their coffins I tend to piss myself especially since I'm wearing headphones turned up fairly loud.

Thanks for this tip. So when come across coffins I can pretty much expect this to happen?

Not every time but when I see one I prepare for it to happen but sometimes they are over to the sides, around corners or you/I are just distracted and don't see it and that's when it catches you off-guard.

Lol... Skeletons take like 1 arrow/hit to fall apart and die... They are most likely just jokes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RowCk3_KtN8

Imagine it with the volume right up, gives me the heeby jeebies!

Bears when you are level 5 and alone and a mage are very scary. Run all the way from Ivarstead to Riften without looking back kind of scary.

I would normally agree with this statement. However, after exploring the dungeons and caves that I have so far in this game, I want to be able to see in them so I can appreciate the beauty and the work that went into them.

LOL, that's funny because I walked past a small shack with some Hagraven called "Moira", and although she was clearly there to assign some sort of quest to me, I overreacted and immediately blasted her with everything I had... oopsie!

Bonelords in Morrowind were quite creepy at times.

While on the topic of monsters from past TES games, am I the only one who thinks Mannimarco looked better as a http://images.uesp.net/5/59/DF-King_of_Worms.png than he did rendered in http://images.uesp.net/thumb/6/6e/OB-npc-Mannimarco.jpg/600px-OB-npc-Mannimarco.jpg

If you're talking about how awesome he looks, then yea. I like the sprite better. Though the 3D model has much more detail, it has nothing to show off in comparison.

Daggerfallftw.

Skeleton warriors, for me, are really epitomized by the Children of the Hydra in Jason and the Argonauts.

Scary, and tough.

I don't think they should be stupidly weak. It would be nice if they had a "reanimate" feature, where, after being killed, they could rise once or twice more in combat to make things more interesting.

Anyhow, Children of the Hydra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yYeZMx1Y7U

I do love how the skeles fall apart when you kill them!

I think theyre creepy. Along with the bone rattle they have a heavy breathing noise.

Skeletons have never been scary. But those freaking zombies from Oblivion? Eugh...

Draugr don't scare me. Yes, they give me the oh [censored] moment. But that isn't fear, that's oh [censored] this guy is powerful.

Zombies in Oblivion though. They give me the creepers. Absolute creepers. The sound of their squishy flesh, the moany, the way they look. One time playing a mage character in Oblivion I turned around a threw a fireball at my own conjured dread zombies because I forgot he was behind me. It gave me quite the scare.

I like them as they are now. Would be better if they swarmed more often though

Skeletons have never been scary for me. They're much less scary than zombies on the scariness scale, and zombies aren't that scary for anything but a lone, unarmed person surrounded by a group of them.

I think it's because my first depictions of skeletal fiends was probably in the old clash of titans or some such movie, where they looked silly the way they moved given the limited technology of the time. I'm sure it looked amazing when it first came out, but I had already seen stuff like Star Wars and Jurassic Park by that time.

I like how they are in Skyrim, because it makes no sense for a mere pile of dry bones to be so strong. They would also only weigh like 10 pounds. Well, I'm exaggerating, but basically they'd be easy to destroy if not knock around. I think the next step should just be to do away with skeletons.

Then zombies, because a sack or rotting flesh is only marginally better than a pile of dry bones. Give us some really scary enemies to populate all these caves and crypts.

Though I will say the only time I've nearly jumped out of my seat in Skyrim was when I turned the corner in a dungeon and a Skeever flew at my face. Yes, a skeever, but I had no idea it was there and as soon as I turned the corner its nasty open jaws were literally filling my screen.

Edit: I also find it kind of funny that skeletons can generally wield weapons and use armor when they have no muscles and no brains, whereas zombies generally don't have any weapons and armor and they might still have at least some of their brains intact. I just think it'd be best to put these fantasy tropes to rest. At least giants and "dire" creatures like dire wolves make some sense. Take something dangerous and make it bigger (even if physics say it wouldn't actually work, but this is fantasy).