The poisonous headcrabs have that effect on me, but bug winged demon babies, and screaming flaming heads + all the other crap was just scarier for me. HL2 is fun and feels "sciency" not as scary for me.
Doom 3 I was a bit underwhelmed. It had it's scary moments, like the mirror, but it got real repetitive - enter room, shoot demon, find key to door, unlock door, enter next room, repeat.
i was serious though, i damn well would pay good money for some quake sequel action. demons and slipgates and ranger and such. OR! maybe a game from Sarges perspective, before he got sucked into the arena. eh? eh??
well i guess its the fact that i could race forward in doom 3 without fear of dying that mostly tore it down for me. in half life, if you ran in 1 direction, sooner or later you'd run right into an ambush you'd have no hope of escaping. so on many occasions you had to ease forward instead of run along the one corridor like…
For me Doom 3 was, arguably, some the best parts of Doom revisited. What I remember fondly about the Doom series wasn't the hordes of demons to be mowed down, but the fear I felt as a young kid playing it a 2am with the lights out. Every imp grumble and door hissing open & shut was a shiver down my spine. D3 had its…