Hell Is That Noise/Video Games: Difference between revisions

** The gurgling baby-talk noise the Cherubs make is ''terrifying'', especially when you can't tell where it's coming from.

*** "''Mama. Maama. Maa-ma.''" Now imagine that coming with a distinct insect-like quality. Yes, it's that disturbing.

** The sound repeating is not because of a glitch, it's because the rats get stuck behind obstacles. [[Paranoia Fuel|But you can't tell if they're behind you or ahead of you...]]

** The hissing voices of {{spoiler|the nightmares. If you thought Boyd's were bad, wait 'till you find the hidden ones in Milla's mind. ''They're speaking to you.''}}

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn4-auF2MQs The Drowning Music] from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''.

** De...de...de...de...''de...de...de...de''..de..de..de..de..''de..de..de..de''..de-de-de-de-''de-de-de-de''-'''de- de-de-de-de-de-de-de-DE-DE-DE-DE-DE-DE-DE-DE-DEDEDEDEDEDEDEDEDEDEDEDE''DE!''''' BWOP... ... ... ... ...blub-blub-blub-blub-blub-blub...

** Topped big-time with the endless staircase at the end of the game, with its [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwZIF9VCfvc&feature=related chromatic xylophone scales '''OF DOOM'''].

*** Guess what else? It was remixed and put into Mario Strikers Charged. Sure, it lessens the creepiness, but it's the theme for Boo, so there you go.

** There's also that sound Bowser makes in the background the first time you enter Peach's castle or when you ran into a door when you didn't have enough stars to open it, or if you die: DAH DAH DAAAAAAAH NAH! BWOAR WOAR! HAR! HAR! HAR!

** The main background music for the "Big Boos Haunt" level is creepy enough but there's also the piano with teeth. If you get close enough it comes after you angrily mashing its teeth together along with something that sounds like someone angrily banging their fists on the piano keys.

** The sound of Gruntilda's evil laughter that you hear when you hit the "Save and Quit" option in Banjo-Kazooie or sometimes when you die.

** The first game works an evil laugh into the beginning of the "Grunty's Lair" theme and all its variants, which restarts every time the music loops back to the beginning.

*** Oh no, the noise from those two is much worse then Vader's. His is just in and out, creepy but simple. Their's is this [[Nightmare Fuel|Godawful gasping, wheezing breath. Like someone who's drowned or what one would imagine someone with their throat cut sounds like.]] [http://youtu.be/NwVYeQLO-R8 Sweet dreams]

*** What, nobody still cringes to this day at the sound of a chainsaw and "Te voy a matar!"?

*** In ''RE5'', the distinctive pitter-patter of the lickers walking on metal catwalks (and the metal ''ceiling'' will also have you aiming your shotgun in a frantic 360.

** There's also the horrible screech of the Reapers. I've emptied magnums and machine guns into the walls because of that sound.

* The motion sensor in the Marine campaign of ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]''. In the remake, they also use the [[Scare Chord]] from the movies whenever xenomorphs appear in the Marine Campaign.

** Also the sound of xenomorphs bursting out of air vents; that combination of clattering metal and alien screech, after a few ambushes, can swiftly induce emptying the clip of whatever weapon you're holding while screaming swearwords incoherently at your monitor.

** The second half of "White and Red Carousel". Where did that horn come from?!

** The failed homunculis' gibberish.

** It's even worse in the second game, where the sound of Scissorman's scissors can be heard even if he's in a different room. Not to mention how they changed it from a somewhat loud *SNIP* into a ''very'' loud *SHING*. The music that accompanies this is pretty scary on its own.

* ''[[Blood]]'': The Choking Hand's squeaking "I'll swallow your soul!" Once you hear it, the proper response is to leap in panic at the nearest table or run away into a corner while blasting randomly at the floor.

*** Especially since by that point in the music you should be to the point where ''something'' happens.

** The sounds of certain enemies, especially when off screen. In particular the lightning from Horrors and the chittering of Trappers.

** As has been mentioned in developer interviews, upon hearing the poison headcrab hiss playtesters would often compleatly ignore anything and everything else in order to find the poison headcrab, even going so far as to throw all their grenades and empty entire weapons' worth of ammo.

** Or the sound of the headcrab zombie moans. Or even worse, the poison headcrab zombie moan. And in Episode 1, Alyx thinks it's funny to freak you out by imitating one.

*** Also, some of the caches you need to hide in are filled waist-high with blood, causing you to squelch with each step.

** That loud 'PHFREEH' noise Acid Antlions make. Especially when it's coming from behind.

** The weird digital horn sound that the Striders make.

*** Anything by the Striders is unnerving. The loud BURKABURKABURKA of their machine guns, the ''thunp'' they make when they walk, and the ray-gun sound their lasers make.

** Speaking of the first ''[[Half Life]]''... The Ichthyousaurs' horrible growling as they charge at you. BMABMABMABMABMABMA

** Speaking of ''[[The Suffering]]'', The Creeper from ''Ties That Bind'' has a very... distinctive voice. If it doesn't do this to you just from sounding really creepy, it will start getting this reaction once you get to know him. Not what he says, mind you -- that's creepy enough all on its own, but not what we're talking about -- just the sound of his voice.

** The Gorgers. When they were eating something, it was the most sickening sound I've ever heard.

** Huh? What's that clicking sound? It's coming from behind—OHFUCKRUNAGIANTRADSCORPION!

** ''Everything'' inside the Virulent Chambers section of the Dunwich Building. If you actually go all the way down, and get into a certain passageway, you end up at a weird monolith that seems taken out of H.P. Lovecraft's literature. Then the background sound starts sounding ''very creepy''.

** It Gets Worse. First, if those aren't lap-pet sized Young Cazadors, those are bigger than coyote-sized wasps. Then, it goes Up To Eleven with the boss-level unique Legendary Cazador and Specimen 73, which are considerably larger than you are, and faster than a freaking Deathclaw. Plus, they have LETHAL poison, and without an sprayed full-auto or a shotgun, you're going to be missing often if the bastard knows where you are. This Troper's pretty damn good with this, and he still stims up and brings out his Riot Shotgun if I hear that damn noise.

** BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEBEEBEE. Especially on Hardcore.

** Nightstalkers. Take a perfectly good coyote, [[Lego Genetics|splice a rattlesnake head and tail onto it]], and then make them highly-damage pack hunters that half of your bullets [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|will just pass through for no reason.]] Finally, while they aren't as fast as cazadors, they can close the distance fast enough that all you will see in VATS is [[Personal Space Invader|a mouthful of sharp, horrid teeth.]] [[No Kill Like Overkill|And they're poisonous.]] Point is, you now have ''more'' reason to fear the sound of a rattlesnake's rattle.

** The wheezing sounds of the Ghost People. Similarly, the weird, metallic noise the holograms make when they spot you.

** Also, strangely, the sound of someone knocking on a door that repeats throughout the first game's [[Dream Sequence]].

*** Let's not forget the [[Most Annoying Sound|baby crying]] during that.

** In ''[[Thief]] : Deadly Shadows'', '''the whole damn''' [[Bedlam House|Shalebridge]] [[Orphanage of Fear|Cradle]] level, often acknowledged as not only the most horrifying level of the series, but of gaming history as well! The banging sound of a door at the attic.

*** If you dare, you can listen to the Cradle's ambience [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md0FLVpdPnw here]. Don't say we didn't warn you. Prepair lots of [[Brain Bleach]]...

** '''KA-TING!''' ''Chomp chompy chomp''

** '''BWAAAAAA!!!!''' [character] took mortal damage!

* ''[[Okami]]'', in the Sunken Ship. Baww. Look at the cute dollies. Wait... are they giggling? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q1np17yEUE Oh god make them stop.] (1:30 in is the best quality.)

** Also the music that plays when you enter the spider queen's lair before fighting her. You know shit's about to go down when you hear [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bBUfLeBEmc this.]

** Let's not even get ''started'' on the Splicers' insanely creepy [[Madness Mantra|Madness Mantras]] ....

** "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so..."

** "In the house of upside-down...cellar's top floor...attic's ground..."

** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cx-QiGElx4#t=0m34s "Big Sister doesn't want you playing with me..."]''

* ''[[Eversion]]'': {{spoiler|[[Sugar Bowl|Ta-naaaa, na-na-na-na]]--'''[[Wham! Episode|DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!]]''' [[Sugar Apocalypse|Ta-na-na-na na-na-na-na...]]}}

** To clarify, you get past obstacles in this game by, essentially, turning the universe inside out. {{spoiler|In level 3, you're walking along, probably in the aforementioned [[Sugar Bowl]], and suddenly you're involuntarily shifted into a darker realm with accompanying music and accompanying [[Advancing Wall of Doom]]. This is even worse in level 7, since the music for the level you're shifted into is a ''very'' [[Dark Reprise]] of the [[Sugar Bowl]] music.}}

*** Actually, most of these accounts of the wailing and crying after Giygas' defeat also claim you can only hear it if you're playing the actual cartridge, therefore you can't hear it with emulators or by watching videos directly recorded from a SNES.

*** And, of course, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj8nv5sk1Kc#t=3m25s Giygas music itself], in all its horrific, discordant, jarring glory. If an [[Eldritch Abomination]] became a song, this would be it.

** The intercom chime in the Fourside Department Store.

* Your reward for defeating {{spoiler|Marx, zombified}} in ''[[Kirby]] Super Star Ultra'' is a cut-your-ear-off scream as the boss splits into two halves. Followed by {{spoiler|[[Mood Whiplash|Kirby holding all three Arena trophies and a victorious fanfare]].}}

** ''Kirby 64'' has the music on Ripple Star, stage 2, also known as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=029GLL15qig Ripple Star Catacombs]". What makes this even worse is that [[Mood Whiplash|the level right before it was extremely cheerful]].

** There's a track that only plays on dark floors that ''starts'' with a long, drawn out, eery gurgling sound.

** The original is even worse in this regard. While the noises don't match enemies, it almost makes them scarier because of the fear there may be a new enemy just around the corner. On top of that, many of the songs are primarily dissonance. Without a doubt, though, the worst of it all is The Little's theme. The remake's was terrifying enough, but it's nothing compared to hearing babies laughing then slowly falling into a faint cry in the original.

** And the River Twygz. If the bony hands weren't disturbing enough, the background music is a jumble of distorted noises that ''will'' haunt your nightmares.

** The various sounds in Forever Forest from the first Paper Mario: The rustling of trees, bat wings, owls, ''laughter''...

** And then there's the scream of a [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Banshee]]. ''You will learn to fear this scream.''

** The sound of a [[Demonic Spiders|Cerberus turret]] firing.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK84iaAjI2c 'Who... Are You?'] from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. It's a relatively simple chord played on a saloon piano, on an infinite loop. It's known to cause old-school ''FF7'' players to panic if they hear it with the lights off.

** Or the infamous 'gong', a loud shrill note thundering over and over. That's when you know that ''[[Oh Crap|really]]'' [[Oh Crap|bad shit is going to happen]].

* In ''[[Parasite Eve]]'', the song that plays when the final boss chases you on the ship.

** The "DUN DUN DUN" noise increases in speed to match the weakened Ultimate Being's final, futile attempt to catch up to and kill you. DUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUNDUNDUN ''DUNDUNDUNDUN''...!

** Ditto the death cry of [[Final Fantasy V|Syldra]]. [http://www.destructoid.com/the-memory-card-18-syldra-s-final-cry-46685.phtml It'll haunt you forever.]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-nHIY-ahn8&feature=related Prisoners of Fate], which is initially played over a big [[Tear Jerker]]. Then it becomes the battle theme for [[That One Boss|Miguel]], and you associate it with [[That One Attack|TurnBlack + HolyDragSwd]].

* So you're wandering through an underground tunnel in [[STALKER|post-Chernobyl Russia]], when you see something in the distance, vaguely humanoid, lit from behind and thus completely in shadow. And a noise begins to fill your mind [[Mind Rape|as you're drawn into it...]]

* [[Irem]]'s old shmup X-Multiply has a lot of music that falls somewhere in the "eerie" spectrum (makes sense, considering that the entire game takes place in an [[Body Horror|alien-parasitized]] [[Womb Level|woman's body]]), but the first version of the st. 3 theme "The Rolling Worms" really takes the cake. Oscillating synth in the foreground, rapid liquid bass line in the background, all the while with you surrounded by rampaging larvae and [[Eyes Do Not Belong There|eyes studded in the surrounding tissue]]...Brrr.

* ''[[Starlancer]]'' has the impossible-to-describe torpedo launch noise, which generally lead to a mad rush to blow up the launched torpedoes before everything went to hell.

** Whenever your copilot screams "THE ION CANNON IS TARGETING US! GET OUT OF ITS RANGE!".

** And the original Playstation has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjS3LGzHrI0&feature=related number] of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hox6hB0sy1k creepy] things happen when the disc fails.

** [[Sarcasm Mode|Some lovely person]] put a [[Screamer Prank|screamer]] on the end of one [[YouTube]] version of this message. Needless to say, this Troper has a hard time watching it now.

* ''[[Gradius]] Gaiden'''s announcers, on you dying in later stages: "Get outta here, forget about it!" [[Evil Laugh|"HAHAHAHAHA!"]]

** The penultimate boss of ''Gaiden'' doesn't get background music. Instead, you get ''constant klaxons.''

** And then in AAI2, you have {{spoiler|Bansai Ichiyanagi}} who's somewhow manages to be worse that the two above examples ''combined''.

* In ''[[Lands of Lore]]'', the Throne of Chaos. The player cannot wander off the paths into the scenery - but apparently the monsters can. Even when you [[Nothing Is Scarier|can't see anything around, you can hear them pacing]]. TEP-TEP. TEP TEP TEP. TEP. The worst part is that when you clear an area out for real, the pacing stops. But if you can't find the monsters...

* Several of the creatures from ''[[System Shock]] 2'':

** Hybrids running towards you while they scream things like "Kill me, KILL ME"

** The psychic monkeys are also really creepy, their screams echo throughout the halls.

** And the spiders. Spiders don't make noise, right? ''Right???'' Then why do they make this unassuming sound of water gently trickling down a small rivulet? [[Demonic Spiders|OH GOD THEY'RE NEAR!!!]]

** The malfunctioning protocol droids say friendly things as they saunter towards you...

* The Sound Effects of the Loputousu and Naga Spells in ''[[Fire Emblem]] 4''. Both very similar, both very creepy. Worse on an most Emulators, because the effect can only be done properly with the SNES's Hardware... [[SNES 9 X]]'s attempt at them is noted for being pure [[Nightmare Fuel]]... and it should be noted, that the [[Final Boss]] fight usually consists of the spells going off against each other repeatedly.

* The part in [[Dragon Age|Dragon Age Origins]] where Hespith is reciting her kid's song style poem from behind the walls of the passageway - about betrayal, cannibalism and rape.

** ''Marathon Infinity'' went crazy with this. Since the first level the sounds of metal rattling and ominous roaring sort of justified the [[Eldritch Abomination|W'rkncacnter]]'s existence.

* ''[[X-COM]] Terror From The Deep''. Imagine these two noises happening at the same time.

* Two things in [[Mitadake High]]. The sound of an axe hitting a door, because it either means that somebody is a bad roleplayer, [[Axe Crazy|or sombody's lost it.]] And [[Nightmare Fuel|Ramiel's Music.]] 'Nuff said.

* The makers of [[Call of Cthulhu]] [[Dark Corners of the Earth]] used a lot of very creepy ambient sounds, some of them very subtle, to back up the "sanity loss" mechanisms. They did their job ''very'' well, possibly too well: playing the game at midday through cruddy laptop speakers=unnerving; playing it at 3AM, with a decent 4.1 set of speakers? Pretty soon the ''player'' will fancy checking into that hotel with the rubber walls and those dashing jackets with the extra-long sleeves.

** Also, the roar of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Deviljho]] that sounds more like a cannon just went off, signifying that [[Oh Crap|you're about]] [[Hopeless Boss Fight|to wish that was the case.]]

** Conversely, you can inflict such a noise on some monsters in the form of a Sonic Bomb. Take the aforementioned Diablos for example: if you toss one while it's burrowing/tunneling (and it's [[Oh Crap|not enranged]]) you can cause it to prematurely surface and get stuck for a while.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVKa9weI-e4 Cougars]. Just... [[Red Dead Redemption|cougars]].

* The music and moaning heard just before fighting {{spoiler|Necron}} in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]''. Even creepier in the Black Mages' remixed version.

* In ''[[Splinter Cell]] Conviction'', if you hear the distinctive ping of an active sonar and know it isn't from Sam's goggles, prepare for {{spoiler|enemy Splinter Cells.}} The enemy has LOS on Sam and detected sounds are also harbingers of Bad Stuff.

* ''[[Painkiller]]'' has Daniel's grunt when you get hurt, with the blurred screen only making it worse.

* ''[[DJMAX]] Technika 2'': '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_yVCYoo0bo#t=1m45s YOU FAILED!]'''

* Some songs by [[Beatmania IIDX|DJ Yoshitaka]] (specifically, ones done under his [[The Four Gods|"Suzaku"]] alias) have a signature [[Scare Chord]]. You can hear it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EuE5oW9YDg#t=4m17s here], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NxoeB2jenk&t=1m28s here], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9jy1Sau-dc#t=21s here].

* On Pogo.com's ''Yahtzee Party'' game, at the end of every game you get a bonus "Free Play" round. If you don't score any points in this round, it makes an awful, jarring wolf-howling sort of noise.

* '''[[Donkey Kong 64|GET OUT.]]'''

* Special mention for [[Final Fantasy XI]] in the Gusgen Mines. One of the creepier sections of the game, an old haunted, abandoned mineshaft with a vaguely-defined horrific tragedy in its past. You can occasionally see the ghosts of miners or children walk right through you in places, and it's loaded with a variety of undead. Still, it's a great place to prospect for ore...and then the evacuation/emergency siren goes off, and a random mineshaft will be haunted by one of several similar bosses that can threaten you even if you brush off the regular enemies around here (apparently the vengeful ghosts of various miners killed in cave-ins). They're also remarkably aggressive at seeking you out, and you can't really run or it brings down tons of undead on you.

* ''[[Limbo]]'' has buzzsaws with disturbingly realistic sound effects. And you'll have to dodge some of them really close.

** "Everything is black...everything..."

* Horrifically done and well executed in the semi-obscure RPG [[Live a Live]]. {{spoiler|The [[One-Winged Angel|true form]] of Orsted, the final boss of the game}} uses a move which emits a terrifying, high pitched wail that sounds like a woman in distress...while a sprite of a woman's face melts into an enraged, screaming skull with a mouthful of fangs, with no warning the first time you see it as to what will happen. Thanks Squaresoft.

* The ''O2Jam'' song "Electro Fantasy [[Harder Than Hard|HD]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZX0nGBhBKg starts off] with a [[Scare Chord]]. It's the song's way of telling you, [[That One Boss|"You are going to die."]]

* Anyone who has been playing too much ''[[Command and Conquer|Red Alert 2]]'' '''will''' cringe at the sound of Tesla coils discharging AKA the "[[You Suck|You just lost tanya. Game over.]]" [[Leitmotif]]. Don't even ''start'' me on the Gatling guns from Yuri’s Revenge.

** Or if you are an [[Fan Nickname|Engy]], the sound of your kit getting sapped.

** Hell, hearing the sound of a Spy's cloak. You might only have a second to respond before you get a knife in your spine.

*** Or, if you're the heavy, the *chk-chk-chk* when you're out of ammo

** What about enemy Spies that cloak and abuse their voice commands to frighten the hell out of the other team? The worst one is the Spy's hiss. ''Especially'' if you hear it while playing on a Zombie Fortress server.

** What about the radios? If you pick one up and move it around the music turns to static followed by beeping.

*** Even worse, the noise the radios make if it goes through the Material Emancipation Grill.

*** Take a turret through an Emancipation Grill sometime. It terrified me the first time I heard it. Very unexpected.

*** [[G La DOS]]' agonized, autotuned shriek {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LovYNScgReY&t=4m50s as her head module gets ripped off]}}.

*** How about that one Den found in one of the earlier chambers of the game? Get too close to the wall and you begin to hear a man psychotically chanting.

* The sound of a Droideka unfurling in ''Battlefront 2''. ''Click-clik-chunk'' followed shortly by ''deedeedeedee'' followed by death.

** You can hear most monsters before you see them. The low, demonic growl of a rabid dog, or the shuffling of a spider getting closer...

** Particularly the slow, grating sound that begins to play as you lose sanity. Nails on the blackboard, and hugely freaky. And then you realise what it is: [[Fridge Horror|your character's teeth grinding together as he loses his grasp on sanity]].

** ''Amnesia'''s DLC ''Justine'' has some [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiRpfH0w868 even more terrifying monster encounter music].

*** {{spoiler|Malo, the third Suitor}}. Being blind, he can only detect you by noise, and it's highly unnerving when he shambles past your cowering form and says in that unearthly voice "Hide and seek, hide and seek..."

** The sound of a nailgun being fired, when it's not your nailgun. Usually accompanied by a pain sound from the Ranger.

* The [[Avernum]] series' Vahnatai make unearthly, bloodcurdling shrieks as they die.

* [[Eve Online|"You cannot warp because you are warp scrambled"]]

* The ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series has a [[Scare Chord]] that plays when you don a cursed item that can [[Your Mileage May Vary|scare the pants off]] of an unsuspecting player, especially when it's their first time equipping a cursed piece of equipment.

** You'll also hear that tune in the NES games if one of your save files gets erased.

** In the [[Turbo Grafx 16]] version, it sounds like "glitch chiptune".

* The Taken from ''[[Alan Wake]]'' are constantly talking. What they're saying isn't scary...but their words are slurred, halting, and often dip alarmingly into an [[Evil Sounds Deep|almost incomprehensible growl]]. And they always talk when you can't see them...

{{quote| CARL...''Stucky''. Pleased...{{smallcaps|to ''meetcha''}}.}}

** The noise made by Elite Taken when they're running around, almost completely invisible and moving to fast for you to hit them, is quiet, constant, and nerve-wracking.

* While not exactly a creepy tune, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybWTXKEfXww Mr. Resetti's music] in ''Animal Crossing'' leaves the player with just the right amount of regret and that they could have ''just saved the damn game'', even after multiple occurrences.

** Also from ''Animal Crossing'': that horrible [[Scary Scorpions|rattling]] [[Giant Spider|sound]] you hear on summer nights... pretty creepy on its own, but combined with the fact that there's one of the two scariest insects in the game out there with you...

** If you're in Hellfire Peninsula, a buzzing rumble that rises to a mechanical squeal is a [[Boss in Mook Clothing|very bad sign]].

** "Bask in his power! Rise as an agent of the master's rage!" This is a sign that Corla has turned either one of your party members or one of her cultists into a drakonid under her command, and you will likely wipe unless you're in a good group and/or on a well-organized attempt at the achievement.

* From [[Runescape]], the loud WAWAWAWAWAWA noise that heralds a [[Demonic Spider|Revenant]] attacking. Any veteran Runescaper knows the first thing to do is lunge for the run button and the prayer tab the moment you hear that.

** Also, if you're in a PVP area, that hideous screeching Ice spells used to make.

* There's the quirky SNES sci-fi RPG ''Idea no Hi'' (''"Day of the Idea"'', a spiritual sequel to [[Maka-Maka]]) which starts with the protagonist getting tortured in a lab by means of some kind of machine. It's accompanied by a truly awful [[Sensory Abuse|rending, glitchy noise]] that really lets you sympathize with him.

* In the (defunct) MMO [[Tabula Rasa]], the sound of an incoming Bane dropship, especially the part where it came complete with indecipherable whispering.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' has the series' iconic '''"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P5qbcRAXVk !]"''' [[Scare Chord]].

* [[Shivers]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwaV62m6Jf0 has] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJQ6JtVro5c quite] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVeehWzyyB8&feature=related a few] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlO1kyWA3Tk&feature=related for] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zlJhedCr4w&feature=related background] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUwlvdiPIf0&feature=related music.]

** For some, the "Bwoom, Bwoom, Bwoom..." of the disappearing blocks. Play it for any old school player, and you'll see a look on their faces that might remind you of somebody experiencing a 'Nam flashback.

** And as if that wasn't bad enough, the robot often comes in too early, so since you're under so much pressure, you ''jump'' too early.

* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'': "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1szPFxgQVk0 Psycho Siren]." The experienced player knows there are only two proper responses to those dissonant opening chords. An electric cage appears? [http://ui03.gamespot.com/738/11-98716_2.jpg Death Scissors] are attacking, pull out your shotgun. Nothing apparently happening? ''A [http://images.wikia.com/devilmaycry/images/d/df/Shadow.jpg Shadow] is about to skewer you from offscreen'', '''''JUMP!'''''

** Somehow, the echoing cries during [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f34v5KLTA7g Mental Machine] make the fights against the amorphous Nightmare that much more, well...[[Nightmare Fuel|nightmarish]].

** Even worse is that if you listen closely and don't fire a shot, you can hear them ''whispering something...''

* The grinding noise heard when running out of HP in ''Yoshi's Story'' -- surprisingly scary for a game aimed at a young audience.

* If you ever had to walk anywhere on foot in [[Far Cry|Far Cry 2]] you understand how scary a revving car engine can be, especially when it's behind you.

* You wouldn't think that an infant would ever be able to utter one of these, but ''[[Pathologic]]'' accomplishes it. The game is game already known for being one of the most horrific experiences ever created ([[Cult Classic|by the few who have heard of it]]) and it has this gem: if you kill an innocent person, you get treated to the disturbing sound of a baby crying. The fact that this means your [[Karma Meter]] just took a hit (in a game where keeping it high is [[Nintendo Hard|problematic]] and ''very, very important'') doesn't help matters. The sound that plays if you kill an evil person (a boy laughing maniacally and applauding) is arguably even ''worse''.

* [[Game Boy Camera]] had [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIkGS_a97A4 "who are you running from?"] which is Hell to every sense.

* ''Company of Heroes'': [[Death From Above|on map Artillery]], [[Macross Missile Massacre|Nebelwerfers and V-1 Rockets]].

** The roars of the [[High Octane Nigh Invulnerable|Hunter]]. ''Especially'' when it wasn't attacking you, because you ''knew'' it could sense you, was hunting for you, could at any moment pop out an-'''[[Jump Scare|ROOOOOOOAAAAAAGGGGHHHH]]'''

** Near the end, when Issac reaches {{spoiler|the marker he built}}, the noise generated is terrifying to say the least. '''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_GgoqiF-_k#at=2m21s MAJOR SPOILER WARNING]'''

* [[Spyro the Dragon|Nyeh Nyeh NyehNyeh Nyah!]]

* [[Baten Kaitos|Just try and escape ME!]] '''[[Early Bird Boss|THRASHINGALE!!]]'''

** [[That One Boss|Those foolish enough to defy his rule will not be pardoned!!]] [[Oh Crap|All those in rebellion WILL PERISH!!]]

* The DANGER noise in ''[[Endless Ocean]]: Blue World''. Partly because it ''usually'' means there's a predatory or territorial creature within a certain range, but also because, while it's going on, you can't salvage anything. It's especially bad if you're in an area with tons of aggressive sharks, or even in the Mangrove Maze, where instead of sharks, you have electric eels that move around -- including bumping carelessly into you -- and can't be made harmless by the Pulsar.

* [[I Wanna Be the Guy]] has at least TWO for sure, with one even [[Ludicrous Gibs|leading directly to the other]]: the SHANNNNNNNNNG sound that spike walls make as they bear down (and up, and from either side) on you, and the out-of-nowhere metal riff that plays as the screen surprises you with GIANT letters telling you "GAME OVER - PRESS 'R' TO TRY AGAIN."

** ''[[Scary Scarecrows|Get outta here... get outta here... get outta here...]]''

* ''[[Summoner]]'' had the noise of howling wind, which always accompanies the worst of the [[Wutai|Orenian]] [[Humanoid Abomination|bosses]]. Gives you a real scare in a couple places when you think you're about to encounter such a boss, and then it turns out to ''actually'' be the wind.

* ''[[Skyrim]]'', the flapping of wings informs you of any imminent dragon attacks. Brought up in the prologue, where soldiers comment on wondering what that noise was.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEq6cnHBk7Q&feature=related This] charming scene from [[Drakengard]]. Warning, massive spoilers for one of the endings. Also, here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbouw4HSigE for the setup to said spoilerific ending]. Yeah, [[Crapsack World|perfectly normal in the world]] of [[Drakengard]].

* [[Terraria]] has the noise burrowing enemies make when nearby. Not too bad when it's a giant worm, terrifying if it's the [[Segmented Serpent|Eater]] [[Asteroids Monster|of Worlds]]. The worst part? As they get closer, it gets ''faster''.

* [[Ghostbusters the Video Game]] was loaded with these.

** The library, dear lord the library. Especially once you hit the children section. The disembodied sounds of children laughing, playing, crying... pleading. Goodbye!

** And who could forget the noise the [[Demonic Spiders]] make? Yes, those laughing little cherubs. On higher difficulties you certainly won't be laughing very much.

* ''[[Touhou]]'' is not immune. In the eleventh game, after you've fought your way to the Hell of Blazing Fires, you are greeted by a cute little crow girl, her [[Badass Boast]], and her [[Awesome Music|sweet battle music]]... periodically interrupted by ''freaking air-raid sirens'' whenever she pulls a spellcard. What the hell is that noise? It's the sound of [[I Love Nuclear Power|YOU'RE ABOUT TO GET NUKED]].

* ''[[Mortal Kombat Deception]]'': Shao Kahn saying "[[Finishing Move|Hara]] [[Driven to Suicide|Kiri]]!"

* The alarm in [[DEFCON]] that sounds whenever a nuke is launched.