The fears you really can''t put into wordsare the scariest. The Old Ones in H.P Lovecrafts stories
is a good example. Ancient, omnipotent so on and so forth. The monsters tha verify that
you as a human is nothing more than an insignificant little bug, the universe belongs to them.

/trysil



"A witty and slightly sarcastic quote from an unkown source"
-- The generic SIG

/trysil

I don''t know about everyone else... but I big nasty hairy spider really freaks me out. I think most of America shares that view =)

quote: Original post by trysil
The fears you really can''t put into wordsare the scariest. The Old Ones in H.P Lovecrafts stories
is a good example. Ancient, omnipotent so on and so forth. The monsters tha verify that
you as a human is nothing more than an insignificant little bug, the universe belongs to them.

/trysil



"A witty and slightly sarcastic quote from an unkown source"
-- The generic SIG

/trysil

Yeah the Gmork was quite a beast.
The beast in "The Thing" and in "Alien1" are also very nice.
A good mood can make a harmless thing looks scary. (cf. Res. Evil, Silent Hill and co. or Poltergeist)
Sorry this is all movie related :-(

FF

[tasteless joke]
Hey Shaun, I woulda thought most Americans would be more afraid of planes than spiders...
[/tasteless joke]

All the monsters everyone mentioned are pretty kul in there own right. But does anyone remember the boogy man from the ghost busters cartoon show? He had a long face and kind of looked liked the joker, with his lower torso being like a horse. I think he was the best monster, if anyone can capture the feeling that the boogy man used to create, he would make an awesome game villain.

Failure is not an option!

The Daleks from Dr Who. When I was little I had to watch the TV from a crack in a half closed door so I''d get a head start.

"You will be ex-term-in-ated"

What I''d like to know was why did I watch it if it made me so scared??

I think Super Metroid had some of the best designed enemies ever seen in a video game. Mother Brain, Kraid, the giant wasp thing and of course, the Metroids themselves.

When I played Silent Hill for the first time, always starting a session with the lights off, alone at night.. curtains drawn.. The creepy piano bashing in the reverse school struck me the most.

Its not even a monster to fight but it got me so ready to fight something massively evil. :\

I think if you want something memorable, as someone said: change the rules. Disorient the player. That is what H.P. Lovecraft did in a way by disorienting readers. ''You thought humans were top of the food chain- guess again!''

I think Final Fantasy games used to exploit this with the bad guy at the end, then you find out he''s being controlled by the REALLY bad guy. E.g. Zeremoth controlling Golbez in FF2(4japan). Hm, I really don''t think it works when you exploit the idea like that since no one has mentioned Zeremoth or Golbez.. and no one has mentioned Dracula from Castlevania 1.

You need more sublty. :\

I have to agree with all the earlier posters, the blue thing from Half-Life is one of the best monsters. The fact that he can take an unbelievable amount of damage, that you are frequently unable to deal out, and generally required other ways to defeat him was a first at the time for FPS''s, and so it gets my vote.
The aliens from the Alien(s) films are also excellent.

The more creepy monster is :

LAWYERS