Just recently, I started another playthrough, and I was in a subway system, walking into one of the bathrooms. I looted it clean(I was just trying to get as many caps as possible, I had just started). I was exiting it, and -- a molerat jumped out from the left, scaring the crap out of me. My heart literally skipped a beat.

And you guys? What are your scariest moments in FO3?

For me nothing beats the first time I entered Super-Duper Mart on my first playthrough. I felt so disgusted and horrified at the way Raiders live, all those poor wastelanders who were tortured and killed by Raiders and had their mutilated corpses hanging by meat hooks. Even the music as I explored the hideout made me feel scared. :cold:

It's amazing to think how I used to be so terrified of the Raiders considering they're one of the weakest human enemies in the game.

The first time a baby stroller blew up in my face...

The first time I set off a floor trap...

The first time I crossed that covered bridge in Point Lookout...

The first time I crashed into an Enclave outpost as melee spec with nothing better than a sledgehammer that had 3 soldiers and sentry bot...

One was the entering the Springhill Elementary School and seeing all the blood and carnage.

The next one was Dunwich Building

The first time I entered a metro and heard the sound of freaking feral ghouls echoing down from the dark depths of the tunnels. I'm not afraid to say that I was freaked the hell out by that.

Also the first time I entered Springvale Elementary from the front entrance. It was basically a walk-in with a "Holy [censored] !" and then running the hell back out of there because I didn't want to see what had mutilated those bodies.





hehe....

My first VATS encounter with a Vault 101 security guard. I went at him with a police baton, vaguely hoping to be able to knock him out Deus Ex-style, but instead his head exploded. I was horrified, and didn't stop panicking 'till I reached the Vault door.

i was wandering the wasteland at night when i hear the battle music but i didn't see anything so i went into vats mode and there was a freaking yaou gou thing in my face i jumped so hard but i was so relived when its head was reduced to brains :flamethrower: and not to mention i was creeped out by that head on top of the desk in the Dunwhich building

Interestingly I've not really been scared by FO3, although I've jumped in fright a couple times. It's wierd cos Oblivion used to scare the hell out me and I'd run off to the nearest city like a right proper scaredy khajiit! :bolt:
I think is because I always used to play bliv in the evening, in the dark, in the cold, on my own with eveyone else in bed and headphones on.
Now with fallout its usually in the daytime, with the wife popping her head round the door, and using speakers.

Maybe it's like when you watch a horror film at 11am and don't find it at all frightening. That or I've completely desensitised myself :whistling:

This was me in a nutshell.

Maybe not the scariest (the only things that scare me in games are things that jump out at me 'surprise b*tch' style, be they a molerat or a reaver), but definitely the most memorable:

The first time I went to Seward Square while looking for Reilly's Rangers hideout. There was the big mutants/Talons/whoever else battle going on, and I got myself cornered by some four muties and three centaurs or the like. I wasn't very high level so I thought it wise to pump at least four different drugs into my system. I managed to get out of my corner alive, then ran into a master with a minigun. Then the drugs started wearing off, with the blurring, distortion and red haze screen effects, so I ran blindly forward, following my marker, and then I heard voices, bizarre words echoing in my head... I took a turn into an alley, going all WTF?! and then sh*t started blowing up like mad around me - mines, cars, everything. It was crazy. I survived though, crippled and 20 hp as I was...

Dudes, I seriously thought I was trippin' balls... :laugh: It wasn't until later that I learned about the crazy preacher and his minefield.

_{Actually, I was kind of disappointed those were not the effects of overdosing on chems, it would have been pretty cool.}

Spoiler just in case

Sneaking in an underground with Silent Running so I was going fast. I round a corner and come face to face with a Reaver. I literally jumped out of my chair. Damn thing was not on the radar. Luckily for my character, he was wearing the ghoul mask. I forgot my character was wearing it.

There are a lot of scary things in Fallout 3.

The scariest part was in a metro station.

It was dark, at night, and I heard feral ghouls giggling, and ran back out again in fear.

I don't like feral ghouls.

Or metro stations.

I went back in the daytime.

Not as bad now I have the Ghoul Mask. No more fighting Feral Ghouls for me unless I have to.

The first time I met a Yao Gaui it was dark and I was at the Moonbeam Theatre.

I really fast I heard a charging noise than a roar and something slamming me and I turned round and there was a Yaou Gaui right behind me. Scary.

Old Olney is scary.

Always full of Deathclaws. :cold:

The sewer under Older Olney is scary.

I went in underprepared and was forced to go through it.

I saved at every door and expected a Deathclaw to come charging through every door or be waiting at every door.

In the room in the middle, I opened the door and there was a Deathclaw waiting for me outside. You could hear it walking round near the door, waiting.

Out exploring west of Megaton at level 3 and running into a charging Behemoth while armed with a 10mm pistol with 60+ rounds and an AR with 10+ rounds. :nope:

Guess who won that fight?

Mine would have to be when im in the Dunwitch building and you turn around and BAM a ghoul is right in your face. Gives you a heart attack.

This topic came at a very good moment for me. I've just found the Dunwich building and entered it for the very first time. I don't know, but I am finding it profoundly creepy. I turned on the Enclave station so I wouldn't have to hear the ruin noise. But I swear a door slammed behind me when no one was around and I heard something slithering. Anyway it is late and dark here and I am all by myself, so I turned off the game.

Hey guys, please tell me this ruin really isn't that scary and I am imagining things, right?

It is that scary and you are not imagining things. I went through the Dunwich building late at night on Halloween (without knowing what it was) and I'm not ashamed to say that it was one of the freakiest moments I have experienced when playing a game or even watching a movie. Keep Enclave radio on and let Eden be your savior through the darkness, because it only gets creepier. Also....














....Don't look behind you

Probably the first time I went into the Metro tunnels. It was dark and claustrophobic, with no way of making a quick escape. It was then I heard that hideous gurgling sound, followed by the slapping of feet. At the time I didn't know what was causing it or where it was coming from. Before I knew what was happening two ghouls had jumped me.

I admit, it made me jump out of my seat a little.

Good times.

The first time I went into dunwich...also happened to be the first I had MMM increased increased spawns. Also had ghoul rise on too.

Then there was this incident with a Teddy bear.

For me, the first time I explored Vault 106, I was playing it at night and I didnt't know what I'd find then I kept seeing things like James and the Tunnel Snakes walking around, it creep the h"ll out of me. The terminals all talked about never wanting to leave, like the vault was getting in my head. I guess it was because of neurotoxins released in the air by Vault Tec, which I think makes all the creepier.

lol yah that place gave me the [censored]. Crazy. I was like "oooo another bulding to explore lets go in " little to my knowlege this was not a building but a NIGHTMARE!!

and also watch this if you think thats scary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmVaq_Kt2A

The Dunwich Building is the most horrible, scary place in the entire game.

I went there once and it was horrible!

I refuse to even mention it now.

I am never, ever going back, ever again! Never again, in any other playthrough!

What is at the bottom is horrible.

I strongly advise you to turn back now and never go back.

You are not imagining things and it is that scary.

First time I found Old Olney. I managed to sneak quite close to the centre of town, assuming the red blips were just raiders or something. I round a corner and come face to face with a deathclaw, I turn and run back around the corner only to find two more charging me.

I didn't last long. :tongue:

I will also add.

Vault 106.

I thought there were ghosts or time slips with the blue mist.

They probabely are.

But it is freaky.

The part were the freaky messages appear in the vison terminals. :S

A bit like the Scarecrow sections in Batman Arkham Asylum.

BAA is a terrible, overated game. But it has ok scarecrow sections.

I humbly disagree with your laststatement on B:AA being terrible, it was a joy and its only problem was that it was too short. I guess I can only wait until B:AC. Back on topic, the blue mist is a drug or gas or something that Vault-Tec tested on the unfortunate ones who lived there, and it made them hallucinate. My scariest moment was my first time playing, not knowing what horrors lie in wait in the Wasteland.