I think a cool and scary thing would be to make somewhere haunted, like that place with flashbacks in Fallout 3 or something. Ghasts werent really that scary in oblivion, unless you were really low level or something. Id like to see ghosts and dark figures walk through corridors and scary voices. Figures which walk from one room to another. You know, the [censored] scary stuff.

There would be just moonlight beaming through the windows with dust floating in the air. Sometimes the dust would be disturbed which will make everything a lot scarier.

Id love to just turn around and see a face staring at me through the window or a few handprints coming on the mirrors (like in the film Mirrors). I want to hear doors creaking and footsteps getting louder.

Aside from this, in a dungeon or something Id love there to be a ghost or something that you cant kill, but will take away all of your inventory and disperse it around the dungeon. IT would be something to run away from

I'd like for some really scary themed dungeons as well. Not everywhere mind you; this isn't a horror game, but just a few places that could really scare the crap out of you.

hell yes finally i want something like this so bad!!!!

I want some of the dungeons // caves ect. to be scary, just to get my adrenaline going.

I want to step into a pitch-black dungeon and hear a blood curdling scream. That would be so cool.

But yeah, the ghosts in Oblivion were kind've lame.

Yeah id love just a pitch black dungeon (no mobs) but with voices and figures in the corner. youd be holding a torch too

I'd love for a haunted mansion type place to be in Skyrim. I can imagine a dark, emboding place high a top a snowy mountain. I always love places like that. I'm going to give a shout out to Luigi's Mansion here.

Haunted Castle on the top of a mountain? partially destroyed with creepy lighting coming out from it?

YES PLEASE!

The zombies always freaked me out the most, them and their spongy feet. The sound of their feet when they walk still makes me shudder. I've gotten better at it though after playing games like RE5 and Dead Space and other zombie like themed games. :biggrin:

I agree, the ghosts were a little flat. Not to mention they just looked someone had draqed a tattered sheet over them.

I like this idea about having a few dungeons or castles being scary so as from the first moment you step in, you just want to run back out. Maybe a few objects move by themselves, a table comes crashing towards you or a whole bookshelf tips over directly in front of you. Or maybe you yourself get moved by some unseen force. A blood curdling scream and someone sobbing gently in the background. You hear footsteps rushing behind you, a deep moan, a shadow on the wall, but nothing is there. . .well, yet, anyway.

I hope we have some interesting above-ground dungeons. In Daggerfall, you could encounter some pretty interesting dungeon entrances such as mansions and abandoned castles. Their interiors were obviously the same procedurally generated underground labyrinths that every other location had, but it was still a nice touch and it'd be nice to see it executed properly in Skyrim.

I would like to see something like this. Oblivion never actually scared me so i want to see things popping out of corners and sneaking up on you.

they do need to add some sort of scary medium...it'd go well with the terrible theme of a dark, savage atmosphere that they're going with.

I am in no way a designer, so I have to ask...is is possible to make it so that ghosts can actually pass through walls? I have to admit I found it strange that ghosts had to use the door like me.

I would love to see a massive, haunted mansion with all sorts of weird/creepy stuff. Not a small keep or something, but a sprawling castle with over 30 rooms...something like Castlevania!

Ohhhh! It just reminded me of my first playthrough of "Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines" and [spoilers ahead] the haunted hotel section early on.

I was a mass-murdering, armed to the teeth, tenth-Generation vampire - a Ventrue, no less - the most badass of the Camarilla clans (sure, there are the Brujah and some remnants of the Gangrel, but only a Ven calmly takes a clipful of bullets, cracks a smile, and then, with a single mind-crushing word, makes you lap-dance for her). In short, I was ready for anything, and yet... after five minutes, I was utterly scared of ghosts. Notably, there was not a single defeatable enemy in the whole building, yet still the entire time my trigger-finger was trembling. Then there were the ghostly whispers, the movements that I thought I saw with the corner of my eye, the axe-carrying ghost suddenly popping up behind me and disappearing a second later only to have me waste a whole clip of ammo in the meantime, the poltergeist rage in the kitchen, the reality-warps, the child's drawing and, oh! The laundry room - when the washing machines finally stopped working and one of them opened of its own accord... it took me a few minutes just to gather my courage and see what's inside (and the disturbing contents of the old newspapers lying around had done nothing to soothe my imagination).
Suffice it to say, I left that place with a sigh of relief!

And the whole effect was mostly achieved by unforgettable atmosphere and skilfull stimulation of imagination - I can only dream how much more awesome it would have been with Skyrim's technological capabilities at the designers' disposal.

I would love a few seriously terrifying places. Horror would definitely be a positive addition to Skyrim's atmosphere.

Absolutely possible.

That has a dungeon that goes deep within the mountain itself!

scary story bro
if they are taking a few lessons from bioshock they definitally need to include this, the opening to bioshock almost made me pee my pants

Fund it then.

Villagers in the town nearby are terrified by the rumors of the caste, some have gone to explore and never came back?

Yeah that scary house in Skingrad was pretty cool. Ghosts weren't very scary but zombies are always creepy.

^^^This. Zombies (especially dread zombies) sneak up on me then when i turn around, these ugly things moaning and shiz like that appear.

How about a giant castle with a secret passage into the mountain its on top to a very deep dungeion.