Is Half-Life Scary to you?

[r_rr]

I was startled a few times, and I do tend to panic on that antlion guard chase. Other than that I wasn't really scared.

[dallozdoppler]

It wasn't really that scary but its definitely creepy and disturbing. I find that just the idea of earth beeing run by the Combine scary in itself. Ravenholm was stressful and quite scary the first time. And I gotta to say that the first time I played Half-Life and you arrived on Xen and you were chased by the Gonarch, that was really stressful, I actually had to stop for that.

[scotland1]

Ravenholm scared me (I was 11).

[Danimal]

When I first played Half-Life 1, I think I may have been 13, I felt a generally scary overtone from the game though eventually the action side of things took over.

The only thing in Ravenholm that made me jump was the first fast zombie encounter. I had no idea it was coming.

[Freols]

Never scary, but definitely creepy and disturbing. It presents a very believable dystopian future (aliens aside!!), and the bleak locations and music help.

[BillNyeGuy]

Half Life 1, which drew inspiration from Stephen King's Myst and the Doom and Quake Series, tried to a scary but compared to a lot of games it is more of a sci-fi shooter then a horror game. HL1 only scared me a little when a headcrab jumped out from a hidden spot or when we had to face those HUGE underwater fish things. It only scared me because we could only use the pistol and the crossbow and he swims up all fast and close. It definitely does not end up being either a horror shooter or a psychologically trippy shooter.

Half life 2 is not scary at all. Some of the art from Raising the Bar show a more psychologically scary world that they abandoned for a much more normal feel. Games like Gears of War, Condemned, Dead Space, Resistance 2, and Bioshock work better as horror shooters or are more psychologically scary games then any of the Half Life games.

Overall I agree with others that the series is Story and Action driven. In some sense it is kind of eerie but compared to the majority of shooters out there, it is only minimial at best.

[Wanted Bob]

I thought I had been through it all and would never be scared by Ravenholm. Turns out I was wrong.

During the first fast zombie encounter, I ran back into the building and closed the door, curious as to how they would react. I could still hear those snarling noise outside, really close by so I figured they were all trying to run through the closed door. Then I realized I could hear another snarl that wasnt coming from outside. Turned around just in time to see a fast zombie leap up from the stairs right into my face. The sucker had actually climbed down the roof he was on, and ran through the whole building just to get to me. Was totally not expecting it.