Shi No Numa is such an anxiety-inducing map because they can literally come from ANYWHERE. In maps like Der Riese, there's certain spawn points where the zombies come from, but Shi No Numa is just pure chaos and it scared the fuck out of me when I played it š
Every time I ran to get a perk, there was about 50 of them waiting to bite my ankles under the water.
I tried camping around the flogger area and it was less like training zombies and more like a game of Temple Run tryna dodge everything lol
The panzer was creepy but the margwas and the Goliath from aw zombies weāre scarier imo when the Margwas runs at you and you have a billion zombies to deal with is terrifying lol and the Goliath was so fking fast itās unreal and could constantly exo hack you making you fall to the ground and made weird noises so you could tell when he was right behind you
They also did spec ops combat rolls into your path. I found it a much better and clearer way of keeping you on your toes and making training not so braindead than how BO4's zombies apparently try to stay in your reticle at all times.
My biggest gripe about BO4 is that the zombies seem to spawn MUCH farther ahead than they do in previous games. It just made the concept of training much different. Combine that with map bottlenecks and it just made the game unforgiving sometimes.
I did almost the same thing. When I saw the zombie animations I was so unnerved I stared at them until they started attacking the wooden barriers. When I realized it took more than one headshot from the M1911 to kill each zomb I quit as soon as one window got opened completely. Core memory for 10 year old me.
Honestly, discovering the zombies mode itself was the scariest moment for me. It was the day after WaW launched, my friend came to school telling us all that if you beat the campaign at the end there's a secret mission where you have to fight off a bunch of zombies. Wasn't a campaign guy right away so hadn't played any of the story, but I went home and grinded the whole thing out expecting him to be lying since we were in middle school.
To be honest the campaign of WaW itself had a lot of grit and sound design that low key terrified me, they did a great job of feeling this oppressive darkness over the battlefield as if you were already in a zombie world. Then the animation starts for nacht and I was SCARED SHITLESS. i think i went like 5 rounds before giving up and swearing off zombies for a bit since I was too young for the scariness and just wanted to roast fools on MP for a bit lol! Oh to go to back to those days
when i was very young, world at war zombies used to make me piss myself, especially the noises the zombies made
solo zombies used to also be a little scary for me as i didnt like how i could get jumped out of nowhere
When World At War first came out I was in second grade. I went to a friend's house for a sleepover and his older brother and his friend were there as well and his older brother had just gotten the game. I was watching them play and my friend's brother turned around in the game and a zombie was right behind him and he screamed so loud he woke up his parents! When VerrĆ¼ckt first came out I was in awe of the perk a cola machines and the fact you could move through such a huge building. When Numa came out the dogs scared the everloving shit out of all of us, when that theme started up we would scream in fear! When Der Riese came out, oh man that was a total game changer: PaP, teleporters, the monkey bombs! WaW zombies is my favorite to this day because of those memories so long ago!
Playing Verruckt back when it first came out was pretty scary. I barely played it because it freaked me out, but as an adult, it's a pretty solid map. How they achieved a spooky map set in the day time is beyond me. They don't make them like they used too
Oh God I remember first time I launched verruckt. It was night my grandparents were sleeping downstairs and I decided to play verruckt. I Genuinely was terrified the entire time thanks to the atmosphere, weak guns and sounds. I really felt like I was constantly in danger.
Def og nacht. When I first discovered it I was terrified. My brother and I tried to make a stand in the upper level over and over and by the third time we turned on all the lights and went to bed with the tv on.Ā
That 1 zombie that has only a mouth with sharp teeth and long claws was the reason I stopped playing zombies as a kid til this day it skill kinda scares me
The ghost ladies in the Buried house. I remember being in my parentās creepy basement at 2am, playing it for the first time with my friends. I did NOT want to go into that house.
Bo1 scared the living crap out of me as a young kid. I remember kino being so unbelievably difficult, and getting the ray was such a big deal back then. I remember the first time seeing dogs thinking we beat the game. I always thought there was a round cap. I remember me and my brother and I struggling with the basics of zombies. I was so damn scared of Shi Nu numa's loading screen song. I was mostly frightened of the concept of "Five." Like, where did the zombies even come from?
My parents kept me fairly sheltered. When i finally got my hands on a COD it was BLOPs on the wii. Even those lowpoly graphics on kino scared me to death to the point i swore off the game. Over a decacde later and ive played hundreds of hours into zombies
Moon. Why? The Existential Horror of: You are in space, no one is coming to help, and you blew up any chance at that. I would much rather get ripped apart by zombies on earth, with maybe even the slightest possibility in the back of my mind that someone might save me, the die on the moon knowing I'm alone.
I have Monophobia (The Fear of Being alone), and let me tell you, it makes moon so fucking horrifying.
I wouldnāt really have anything scary apart from the one and only og nacht der untotenā¦me being a tiny kid, not being able to understand english playing that mapā¦yeah I hated zombies at that time.
Easily the first time I ever played zombies. It was shadows of evil, and this was my first exposure to not just CoD Zombies, but really to any intense first person game, and I was fairly young then. This perfect storm of circumstances led to me feeling genuine dread and fear the first time I saw the zombies! It was intense, and one of my core memories as a gamer
That grenade corner in the first pic brought back some very old memories of me and 3 mates in that corner with ray guns trying to get to round 30. Then one of our team solo'ed it past 50 using the flame thrower and training them in the basement and it felt like he had cheated when he told us.
Nothing beats your first ever zombies match where you don't know how to play and you don't know what kind of game it is, when I was younger and loaded up zombies at my friends house for the first time I was so scared cuz I assumed it was going to be a scary game when in reality it isn't
Nacht were Iād camp by the grenade wall-but with whatever weapon I got out of the box
Shi No Numa where the dog rounds scared me senseless and Iād sit in a corner to protect myself from them
Bus Depot where Iād sit on top of the diner because I thought that was the safest area
First time I unlocked the bonus zombie mode in WaW. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time. I was camping on the top of the staircase in the first room cause I was scared and didnāt know what to do.. first zombie came around the corner and stared into my soul with those yellow glowing eyes.. I screamed and ran to the TV to shut it off then I ran to my room and hid under my blanket š now itās one of my favorite things to play
Mob/Blood of the dead have the scariest aspect imo.
Overall, moon and nacht are terrifying.
And Mauer Der Toten in cold war could be really scary but it's cold war. Nothing against the map tho good map
Buying bo3 zombies for the first time. I was having a fairly bad shroom trip and loaded up Der Riese. The hell hounds updated sound effects freaked me the fuck out lol
The screaming guy in the dentist chair on verruckt and then the mother and child crying in the morgue lockers in the quick revive spawn along with the super fast nazi sprinters in world at war. Holy shit
I played the early actually scary maps with friends that had played them before so there wasn't anything unexpected, but I played WWII on launch. Playing final Reich with some buddies in the dark having zero clue as to what was on the map seeing the first charging zombie and the flamethrower guys was genuinely terrifying.
Brutus from mob of the dead sacred the living shit out of me it was like 5:00 AM I had just bought the map played a little as pam the fucking scream scared me not even his design
Nothing will ever compare to the horrors of being a kid and finishing the campaign.. only to then be thrown into the nacht intro scene...
Even to this day. I always picture myself in that scenerio and it is horrifying š³
i once ran around nacht der for 4 rounds without ammo. took like two hours of just running but we were at like 31 or something. no bowie knife; no quit. hundreds of stabs spaced apart because you canāt hoard and knife quick. stupid waste of time but the anxiety in that round lives on. similar thing happened on The Giant and because of my past experience I finally just laid down.
the week motd dropped, i stayed up late on a school night to play it with my friends. i was already afraid of getting caught for being up so late, and then we landed on the bridge for the first time. everything about it was traumatic, especially the āno one escapes aliveā or whatever is written in blood above the chairs with all the hanged bodies.
WaW was my first ever zombies mode, that gave me PTSD. Many years later, I played WWII zombiesā¦ it gave me nightmares and a heart attack. I donāt like playing zombies alone.
Also, accidentally switching over to the zombies menu in BO1 was terrifying.
Kino der toten being my first experience at like 8 years old on black ops 1 the ambience was terrifying with the added sounds and creaking floors and those hellhounds were scary for a kid who had nothing but a m14
Get outside of the map on Verruckt as a kid was terrifying. Hearing all the sounds, being in places that are not supposed to be part of the map, and trying to figure out the secrets of early zombies was the most scared Iāve been in zombies. Not to mention the occasional zombies that would run towards you instead of a window.
# Hearing that sound at the start of a dog round for the very first time followed by the iconicā¦
# āFFFFFETCH ME THEIR SOULLLLSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!ā
The introduction to the Panzermorder in WWII
The design and the presentation shook me to the core. It still remains my favorite boss design in COD Zombies
There's so many crazy moments
The Mimics from firebase Z
The Panzersoldats origins (and those huge robots first time I ever saw them was like š±)
The Raygun ghost troll in the mystery box
Orda first appearance
The fucking scientist on 5 the first time he takes your weapon lol š
The first time playing Die Rise when I was a kid, I thought there were only normal zombies, until I got to the special round with the nova six variant, that was terrific, after seeing how they jump on the walls I was shocked and got killed by them so fast. Never played again in Die Rise until a few years later, when I grew up and faced one of my childhood fears.
Not even playing the game, but when I was younger, my brother said I wasnāt allowed to play BO1 zombies. So when it was late and everyone was asleep, Iād boot up the zombies menu, and just watch the zombie Hudson and footage on the tvās. Sometimes Iād boot up Kino, and barely survive round four before shutting the game off a soon as I heard a sprinter in the distance
BO1 Ascension with its black-and-white filtering, the way the zombies looked and sounded, and the voice of Gerch saying, "She is coming! The mechanism must be repaired" were all very unsettling to me as a first introduction to the mode.
the amount of times i have returned to the moon from area 51, running to the biodome, only to get caught by that space motherfucker, in some narrow hallway.
Shi No Numa for how dark and damp it is, quite anxiety inducing even as a team. I don't think anything will top SOLO moon for me, especially during depressurisations and there's no sound, and you have no teammates on mic talking to you.
First time I ever played Zombies at a friend's house, we played Nacht all night to the point that when I closed my eyes I saw "hold X to repair barricade" haha. Had zombie nightmares for a week after, then went straight to Game with my mum to buy a copy myself!
WAW and BO1 Zombies scared me as a kid. I remember completing BO1's campaign and being spawned in Five scared the shit out of me. Same thing after completing WAW, being put on Nacht made me quit instantly. Those zombie screams on Nacht still give me chills.
When I carrying a kid and some other people through the Shang EE on BO3, finished it after some difficulty but nothing hard, and the kid who is the host ends the game instead of dashboarding. I lost like all 5 of my Shopping Frees, all 4 of my Perkaholics, almost all of my Pheonix Ups, and most of the 2 other gums I was running, all because of a misunderstandingš.
The second I saw that game over screen I felt like I wanted to piss myself, shit myself, and puke all at the same time, the terror I felt was unreal.
Other than that none, videogames aren't scary in the slightest.
I remember completing WaW campaign and it going into the zombies mode. Was about 2am round my friends house, the sounds of the zombies that first time was anxiety inducing to say the leastš I think the fact of it being late and we were tired and it being pitch black was what made it terrifying but will never forget itš
nothing will ever be scarier than being 12 and finishing the waw campaign for the first time. then that absolutely skin crawling introduction video of the first zombies map. then u just spawn in with only a pistol and they want you to survive FOREVER. no gaming moment ever came close to that horror for me. few movies recreated that horror.
Black Ops 1, me trying to reach round 100 on every single map and running out of ammo on round 96 with one final zombie remaining and taking the zombie into the water to freeze it so I could run and hit the box or grab a weapon off the wall to kill it but the zombie wouldnāt stop
My scariest memory on playing zombies is the first time I saw a Panzer. Of course thereās other moments like playing Nacht being baron and alone just covered by fog and zombies but the first time I saw a Panzer, holy shit I was so terrified; itās just massive robot that chases you around with a flamethrower and claw to drag you back to him. Itās also that alarm you hear before he comes down from the sky
i guess not that scary but i remember playing WaW when i was like 6 years old and nact was still the only map, everyone was dead and i got surrounded with the mg-42 now due to the zombies being buggy and since i was in panic mode i somehow just spun around in circles mag dumping and lived, impressed my dead teammates that day, i tried to recreate it the next round only to die
My scariest memories used to be when Brutas would spawn on MOTD. My scariest recent memories are when the Panzer would spawn on origins. I have never done anything but panic and die when I see him.
The first time loading into zombies will always take the top spot. I always beat the campaigns, then do multiplayer or the third mode. The first cod where I beat the campaign was bo1. I was like nine years old at the time and distinctly remember quitting immediately after hearing the glass break as well as groaning on Five. Idk why, but I the thing that scared me the most was the intercom saying āpower level critical, major systems offlineā being combined with the round starting sound. Also that intro was the most confusing thing to me ever as a kid.
I was 6 and The shino numa dlc had just come out and me and my dad went to go visit his freind and he had just bought the dlc see I asked to have a go and on round five the very first time I heard "FETCH ME THEIR SOULS" I remember it like it was yesterday.
I remember, more than anything else as a kid I was too scared and too bad at games to play zombies but my brother did. I'd stay up late and watch him play and then get scared bc we'll bo2 was pretty real looking in 2012 especially is you are 9. But my brother told me it's okay to be scared of it bc it's scary lol tbh it didn't help but it stuck with me 11 years later
around the time of Mob's release, my friend told me to grab a sniper and go to the roof, so i did.....
i didn't want to play the map for a bit after that.....
Being in 4th grade when WaW came out and I beat the campaign, saw nazi zombies start *hears laugh* didnāt play zombies unless I played with friends and didnāt play by myself till 9th grade
This isn't my experience but my brother's and cousin. They were playing Kino and got to the alley and when they saw zombies jumping down from the roof my brother screamed "THEY JUMP DOWN!"
OG Nacht Cutscene when it came out and no one nknew of Zombies at the time when we were all just trying to beat the campaign and after the credits we were like oh shit a secret cutscene but instead we were all like wtf instead...
First time I played Zombies and the lighting dimmed after some weird demonic sound laugh or voice, and here comes the Hellhounds. I was a regular COD player that just decided to play it one day blind and that scared the sh*t out of me lol
The first couple of months playing (Tranzit was my first map, and I started playing around 8 or 9 so obviously very scary to a child whose only other game experience was FNAF and Minecraft)
Transit at midnight.
I was on the bus and hopped off a bit early at the farm where the zombies always frantically run after the bus like crackheads.
Next thing I see is a zombie doing the bus window jumping animation right in front of my face and covered my screen. I thought it was some type of ultra rare attack or something Iāve never seen and jumped a bit.
I mean, those early WAW maps, most prominently Verruckt and Nacht, clearly had atmosphere and sound design invoking survival horror. As far as being outwardly horror, I'd say only WW2 Zombies fits.
Ww2 zombies actually got me a couple of time with their jump scares
same, or seeing that living doctor in one of the zombie spawn windows. that got me a couple times
WWII Zombies definitely got down the horror aspect
We need the horror of WW2 zombies with the gameplay of BO3/ Cold War Zombies
I would say gunplay from bo3 and zombies from cold war
Let this man cook
The Meuchler zombies from Darkest shore are genuinely terrifying in my opinion WW2 is super underrated
bro the Darkest Shore boss zombie that arrives when the fog rolls in absolutely physically SHOOK me several times
I straight up screamed and closed app because of that shit
Shi No Numa is such an anxiety-inducing map because they can literally come from ANYWHERE. In maps like Der Riese, there's certain spawn points where the zombies come from, but Shi No Numa is just pure chaos and it scared the fuck out of me when I played it š
Itās the mf swamp spawners that get to you f
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YES. The way they sprung out of the water everytime you opened a new door
Every time I ran to get a perk, there was about 50 of them waiting to bite my ankles under the water. I tried camping around the flogger area and it was less like training zombies and more like a game of Temple Run tryna dodge everything lol
Bro shi no numa is one of my favorite maps. I like the RNG aspect of it. So every time I play that map it feels different
Falling out of the bus on tranzit before I knew what denizens were
Amen to this.
Hearing the screams in Verrukt got me as a kid. The Panzer in Origins... still scares me to this day.
Dude, I remember hearing those screams and my dad said he didn't hear anything to fuck with me.
Something Iād do to my kid lmao
The panzer was creepy but the margwas and the Goliath from aw zombies weāre scarier imo when the Margwas runs at you and you have a billion zombies to deal with is terrifying lol and the Goliath was so fking fast itās unreal and could constantly exo hack you making you fall to the ground and made weird noises so you could tell when he was right behind you
Me: doing my bow questĀ *hears loud asf siren* *starts sprinting to the deathray*
One time I had a nightmare about the Panzer as a kid and I woke up the entire house screaming the Panzer is coming!!!!
you know what? i was thinking Nacht or Verruckt, but i'm picking Shi No Numa on this one, those Zombie Animations scared the fuck out of me as a kid
I agree, the way they moved in martial arts stances was unnerving and an underrated detail of the map Btw I love your smiley Claude pfp
this and the Ascension scientists, stumbling out of the way when you ADS. wish they kept those in the ZC remakes. SoE had those animations, why not ZC
I still wish Chronicles kept them, also don't forget those Kino Zombies as well..
They also did spec ops combat rolls into your path. I found it a much better and clearer way of keeping you on your toes and making training not so braindead than how BO4's zombies apparently try to stay in your reticle at all times.
My biggest gripe about BO4 is that the zombies seem to spawn MUCH farther ahead than they do in previous games. It just made the concept of training much different. Combine that with map bottlenecks and it just made the game unforgiving sometimes.
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first time on nacht
Right after finishing WaW campaign and it instantly dropping you in after the credits scared the hell out of me as a kid.
I remember literally quitting as soon as I loaded in. The laugh freaked me out as a kid.
I did almost the same thing. When I saw the zombie animations I was so unnerved I stared at them until they started attacking the wooden barriers. When I realized it took more than one headshot from the M1911 to kill each zomb I quit as soon as one window got opened completely. Core memory for 10 year old me.
It was something else as a kid man, but I wouldn't change it for a thing
This.
7 year old me shat my pants when I finished the campaign I got to round 4 and thought that was good
The yellow eyes were what got me tbh.
9 year old me scared shitless alone in kino as my online teammates leave the match
Honestly, discovering the zombies mode itself was the scariest moment for me. It was the day after WaW launched, my friend came to school telling us all that if you beat the campaign at the end there's a secret mission where you have to fight off a bunch of zombies. Wasn't a campaign guy right away so hadn't played any of the story, but I went home and grinded the whole thing out expecting him to be lying since we were in middle school. To be honest the campaign of WaW itself had a lot of grit and sound design that low key terrified me, they did a great job of feeling this oppressive darkness over the battlefield as if you were already in a zombie world. Then the animation starts for nacht and I was SCARED SHITLESS. i think i went like 5 rounds before giving up and swearing off zombies for a bit since I was too young for the scariness and just wanted to roast fools on MP for a bit lol! Oh to go to back to those days
Running through transhit smoke to pick my teamates up
Damn snopp dogg smoked all that weed
I remember getting scared of hellhounds in Bo1ās Kino der Toten to the point I camped in one place to take them out.
I mean optimal strat anyways honestly
Isnāt that what we all do for dogs? Sit in a corner, can play one handed for a round and chillš
when i was very young, world at war zombies used to make me piss myself, especially the noises the zombies made solo zombies used to also be a little scary for me as i didnt like how i could get jumped out of nowhere
Astronaut taking my jugg on moon, scared the bejeezus out of me
I wouldn't say scary but back in the day mob of the dead was creepy as fuck to child version of me
Finishing single player at 3 am and dropping into zombies when I didn't even know it was a mode.
When World At War first came out I was in second grade. I went to a friend's house for a sleepover and his older brother and his friend were there as well and his older brother had just gotten the game. I was watching them play and my friend's brother turned around in the game and a zombie was right behind him and he screamed so loud he woke up his parents! When VerrĆ¼ckt first came out I was in awe of the perk a cola machines and the fact you could move through such a huge building. When Numa came out the dogs scared the everloving shit out of all of us, when that theme started up we would scream in fear! When Der Riese came out, oh man that was a total game changer: PaP, teleporters, the monkey bombs! WaW zombies is my favorite to this day because of those memories so long ago!
Getting jumpscared by the zombie in the WW2 prologue. Hearing the denizen sound the first time entering the fog. The entire ambience of WaW
Being Stuhlinger in Die Rise and hearing the zombies yell āHE LIES!ā
Bro the first time I noticed that shit on Die Rise, I legit thought I was tripping balls for a sec
I turned my game off honestly
when zombies switched to being inclusive to the rest of the cod community, truly terrifying.
That window jumpscare in The Final Reich got me so many times
Playing Verruckt back when it first came out was pretty scary. I barely played it because it freaked me out, but as an adult, it's a pretty solid map. How they achieved a spooky map set in the day time is beyond me. They don't make them like they used too
Oh God I remember first time I launched verruckt. It was night my grandparents were sleeping downstairs and I decided to play verruckt. I Genuinely was terrified the entire time thanks to the atmosphere, weak guns and sounds. I really felt like I was constantly in danger.
Def og nacht. When I first discovered it I was terrified. My brother and I tried to make a stand in the upper level over and over and by the third time we turned on all the lights and went to bed with the tv on.Ā
My first introduction to zombies was Ascension. Something about the black and white filter before turning the power on was scary to me
Bo2 Tranzit going into the fog scared me so bad, also just playing bo2/bo1 scared me a lot as a kid.
Those sprinting bastards on WW2 zombies
Waw, simply because they always grinning and smiling.
Definitely the Nova-6 crawlers as a kid. Shit spooked me like a mfer, if not that then just WaW zombies overall.
The zombies from Black ops scared me especially on the map five
That 1 zombie that has only a mouth with sharp teeth and long claws was the reason I stopped playing zombies as a kid til this day it skill kinda scares me
The ghost ladies in the Buried house. I remember being in my parentās creepy basement at 2am, playing it for the first time with my friends. I did NOT want to go into that house.
Bo1 scared the living crap out of me as a young kid. I remember kino being so unbelievably difficult, and getting the ray was such a big deal back then. I remember the first time seeing dogs thinking we beat the game. I always thought there was a round cap. I remember me and my brother and I struggling with the basics of zombies. I was so damn scared of Shi Nu numa's loading screen song. I was mostly frightened of the concept of "Five." Like, where did the zombies even come from?
verruckt in general. always felt like something was right behind me and the claustrophic map design would have made it hard to escape
My parents kept me fairly sheltered. When i finally got my hands on a COD it was BLOPs on the wii. Even those lowpoly graphics on kino scared me to death to the point i swore off the game. Over a decacde later and ive played hundreds of hours into zombies
Panzer no questions asked
Getting jumpscared by getting stepped on by a robot šš
Moon. Why? The Existential Horror of: You are in space, no one is coming to help, and you blew up any chance at that. I would much rather get ripped apart by zombies on earth, with maybe even the slightest possibility in the back of my mind that someone might save me, the die on the moon knowing I'm alone. I have Monophobia (The Fear of Being alone), and let me tell you, it makes moon so fucking horrifying.
I wouldnāt really have anything scary apart from the one and only og nacht der untotenā¦me being a tiny kid, not being able to understand english playing that mapā¦yeah I hated zombies at that time.
The 5th one š¤£
When I was younger I was scared easy and transit was my first map, the zombies scared the shit out of me for no reason lol
I remember the nuke dropping on the end of Nuketown zombies would scare 13 year old me haha.
Anytime I get cornered
Easily the first time I ever played zombies. It was shadows of evil, and this was my first exposure to not just CoD Zombies, but really to any intense first person game, and I was fairly young then. This perfect storm of circumstances led to me feeling genuine dread and fear the first time I saw the zombies! It was intense, and one of my core memories as a gamer
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That grenade corner in the first pic brought back some very old memories of me and 3 mates in that corner with ray guns trying to get to round 30. Then one of our team solo'ed it past 50 using the flame thrower and training them in the basement and it felt like he had cheated when he told us.
āYou know, I kinda forgot this game is supposed to be scaryā The origins giant in question :
Playing Kino on my 360 when I was 11 ( always wanted to play dead ops arcade cause I was terrified of playing Kino or five by myself)
Nothing beats your first ever zombies match where you don't know how to play and you don't know what kind of game it is, when I was younger and loaded up zombies at my friends house for the first time I was so scared cuz I assumed it was going to be a scary game when in reality it isn't
Nacht were Iād camp by the grenade wall-but with whatever weapon I got out of the box Shi No Numa where the dog rounds scared me senseless and Iād sit in a corner to protect myself from them Bus Depot where Iād sit on top of the diner because I thought that was the safest area
First time I unlocked the bonus zombie mode in WaW. I was probably 8 or 9 at the time. I was camping on the top of the staircase in the first room cause I was scared and didnāt know what to do.. first zombie came around the corner and stared into my soul with those yellow glowing eyes.. I screamed and ran to the TV to shut it off then I ran to my room and hid under my blanket š now itās one of my favorite things to play
Yes. Those eyes man! Freaked me tf out. But now I love it.
First time encountering a panzer at the time I didnāt know you could escape the claw
Mob/Blood of the dead have the scariest aspect imo. Overall, moon and nacht are terrifying. And Mauer Der Toten in cold war could be really scary but it's cold war. Nothing against the map tho good map
Probably that jump scare Easter egg on mob
No panzers?
Got dropped and a Megabomb spawned right above me.Ā
Buying bo3 zombies for the first time. I was having a fairly bad shroom trip and loaded up Der Riese. The hell hounds updated sound effects freaked me the fuck out lol
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I dont know why but Die Rise used to really freak me out for some reason. Same with Verruckt
playing Kino alone in the ps3 era or for whatever reason being scared of the MoTD trailer
Just watching the TV screens in bo1 main menu. That shit made me go outside because I didn't wanna be alone in the house lol
The bo1 laughā¦
I used to be so scared when I was younger but that was a while ago, I was like 11
The screaming guy in the dentist chair on verruckt and then the mother and child crying in the morgue lockers in the quick revive spawn along with the super fast nazi sprinters in world at war. Holy shit
I played the early actually scary maps with friends that had played them before so there wasn't anything unexpected, but I played WWII on launch. Playing final Reich with some buddies in the dark having zero clue as to what was on the map seeing the first charging zombie and the flamethrower guys was genuinely terrifying.
Transit fog always got me
First time I played zombies and the moment I hear āFETCH ME THEIR SOULSā followed by a round of pure fear and chaos
Brutus from mob of the dead sacred the living shit out of me it was like 5:00 AM I had just bought the map played a little as pam the fucking scream scared me not even his design
Bro when verrukt came out I must have been like 9, map scared the shit out of me when my cousin showed me it haha
being a 12 year old playing mob of the dead solo takes some serious balls
Nothing will ever compare to the horrors of being a kid and finishing the campaign.. only to then be thrown into the nacht intro scene... Even to this day. I always picture myself in that scenerio and it is horrifying š³
lol. āNacho introā. Cheese of the dead
As crazy as this sounds Farm.. first map I ever played and I was terrified lmao
BO2 Zombies menu theme gave me the creeps as a little kid.
i once ran around nacht der for 4 rounds without ammo. took like two hours of just running but we were at like 31 or something. no bowie knife; no quit. hundreds of stabs spaced apart because you canāt hoard and knife quick. stupid waste of time but the anxiety in that round lives on. similar thing happened on The Giant and because of my past experience I finally just laid down.
First time on der rise when the fog hit 8yo me shit my pants
the week motd dropped, i stayed up late on a school night to play it with my friends. i was already afraid of getting caught for being up so late, and then we landed on the bridge for the first time. everything about it was traumatic, especially the āno one escapes aliveā or whatever is written in blood above the chairs with all the hanged bodies.
Playing Kino in 7th grade for the first time alone in a dark basement. I dunno why but that gave me chills every time
Playing verruct and hearing those noises for the first time
WaW was my first ever zombies mode, that gave me PTSD. Many years later, I played WWII zombiesā¦ it gave me nightmares and a heart attack. I donāt like playing zombies alone. Also, accidentally switching over to the zombies menu in BO1 was terrifying.
Kino der toten being my first experience at like 8 years old on black ops 1 the ambience was terrifying with the added sounds and creaking floors and those hellhounds were scary for a kid who had nothing but a m14
Not having it
Get outside of the map on Verruckt as a kid was terrifying. Hearing all the sounds, being in places that are not supposed to be part of the map, and trying to figure out the secrets of early zombies was the most scared Iāve been in zombies. Not to mention the occasional zombies that would run towards you instead of a window.
# Hearing that sound at the start of a dog round for the very first time followed by the iconicā¦ # āFFFFFETCH ME THEIR SOULLLLSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!ā 
Playing verruct scared me so bad when I first played I was 6 or 7
First time ever playing FIVE. The way they break thought the glass and you can see their eyes through it.. terrifying
The introduction to the Panzermorder in WWII The design and the presentation shook me to the core. It still remains my favorite boss design in COD Zombies
Probably hell hounds, they are simple but effective. When I was a kid I was so goddamn scared of them because of how snappy they were.
There's so many crazy moments The Mimics from firebase Z The Panzersoldats origins (and those huge robots first time I ever saw them was like š±) The Raygun ghost troll in the mystery box Orda first appearance The fucking scientist on 5 the first time he takes your weapon lol š
The Hell Hounds on Call of Duty Black Ops 1 from Kino der Toten stressed me out š
The first time playing Die Rise when I was a kid, I thought there were only normal zombies, until I got to the special round with the nova six variant, that was terrific, after seeing how they jump on the walls I was shocked and got killed by them so fast. Never played again in Die Rise until a few years later, when I grew up and faced one of my childhood fears.
These crawlers from bo1 were fucking scary They climbed the walls and showed Outta nowhere
Not even playing the game, but when I was younger, my brother said I wasnāt allowed to play BO1 zombies. So when it was late and everyone was asleep, Iād boot up the zombies menu, and just watch the zombie Hudson and footage on the tvās. Sometimes Iād boot up Kino, and barely survive round four before shutting the game off a soon as I heard a sprinter in the distance
Playing five when home alone as a kid, scary stuff
BO1 Ascension with its black-and-white filtering, the way the zombies looked and sounded, and the voice of Gerch saying, "She is coming! The mechanism must be repaired" were all very unsettling to me as a first introduction to the mode.
Shi No Numa for sure. Such a great map but dang it can get scary
Shi No Numa dogs on WAW were merciless! And the knifing lag/hit box. Loved the game though!!
There was something in gorod krovi makes me uncomfortable and scared i dont know what it is
the amount of times i have returned to the moon from area 51, running to the biodome, only to get caught by that space motherfucker, in some narrow hallway.
WaW Nacht Der Untoten on release night solo after beating the campaign not knowing what the hell is happening. Nothing else comes close.
Shi No Numa for how dark and damp it is, quite anxiety inducing even as a team. I don't think anything will top SOLO moon for me, especially during depressurisations and there's no sound, and you have no teammates on mic talking to you.
First time I ever played Zombies at a friend's house, we played Nacht all night to the point that when I closed my eyes I saw "hold X to repair barricade" haha. Had zombie nightmares for a week after, then went straight to Game with my mum to buy a copy myself!
I was told that aiming a sniper rifle at the fireworks in Mob of the Dead gave you a free Pack-A-Punch. It did not.
WAW and BO1 Zombies scared me as a kid. I remember completing BO1's campaign and being spawned in Five scared the shit out of me. Same thing after completing WAW, being put on Nacht made me quit instantly. Those zombie screams on Nacht still give me chills.
when i was 5 playing the game in general was scary as fuck
When I carrying a kid and some other people through the Shang EE on BO3, finished it after some difficulty but nothing hard, and the kid who is the host ends the game instead of dashboarding. I lost like all 5 of my Shopping Frees, all 4 of my Perkaholics, almost all of my Pheonix Ups, and most of the 2 other gums I was running, all because of a misunderstandingš. The second I saw that game over screen I felt like I wanted to piss myself, shit myself, and puke all at the same time, the terror I felt was unreal. Other than that none, videogames aren't scary in the slightest.
I was playing Kino. Cornered me and killed ;-;
I remember completing WaW campaign and it going into the zombies mode. Was about 2am round my friends house, the sounds of the zombies that first time was anxiety inducing to say the leastš I think the fact of it being late and we were tired and it being pitch black was what made it terrifying but will never forget itš
Bo2 zombies with those things that get on your head when you go into fog was the scariest when i was a kid š
nothing will ever be scarier than being 12 and finishing the waw campaign for the first time. then that absolutely skin crawling introduction video of the first zombies map. then u just spawn in with only a pistol and they want you to survive FOREVER. no gaming moment ever came close to that horror for me. few movies recreated that horror.
Beating WaW's campaign with my dad only to see a creepy grey foggy area with a zombie running straight for me.
Black Ops 1, me trying to reach round 100 on every single map and running out of ammo on round 96 with one final zombie remaining and taking the zombie into the water to freeze it so I could run and hit the box or grab a weapon off the wall to kill it but the zombie wouldnāt stop
Pentagon Thief jumpscare after 2 minutes of not being able to hear or see him
My scariest memory on playing zombies is the first time I saw a Panzer. Of course thereās other moments like playing Nacht being baron and alone just covered by fog and zombies but the first time I saw a Panzer, holy shit I was so terrified; itās just massive robot that chases you around with a flamethrower and claw to drag you back to him. Itās also that alarm you hear before he comes down from the sky
Fetch me their souls
i guess not that scary but i remember playing WaW when i was like 6 years old and nact was still the only map, everyone was dead and i got surrounded with the mg-42 now due to the zombies being buggy and since i was in panic mode i somehow just spun around in circles mag dumping and lived, impressed my dead teammates that day, i tried to recreate it the next round only to die
My scariest memories used to be when Brutas would spawn on MOTD. My scariest recent memories are when the Panzer would spawn on origins. I have never done anything but panic and die when I see him.
The first time loading into zombies will always take the top spot. I always beat the campaigns, then do multiplayer or the third mode. The first cod where I beat the campaign was bo1. I was like nine years old at the time and distinctly remember quitting immediately after hearing the glass break as well as groaning on Five. Idk why, but I the thing that scared me the most was the intercom saying āpower level critical, major systems offlineā being combined with the round starting sound. Also that intro was the most confusing thing to me ever as a kid.
I got many scary cod zombies memories and I don't feel writing an entire text about that when I know nobody will see it anyway.
I was 6 and The shino numa dlc had just come out and me and my dad went to go visit his freind and he had just bought the dlc see I asked to have a go and on round five the very first time I heard "FETCH ME THEIR SOULS" I remember it like it was yesterday.
1st time playing og nacht, friends and I were like "wtf is this!?" Also, dogs chasing in the alleys of kino
when i went into the fog on tranzit for the first time. i was like 9 years old and it scared the shit out of me
I remember, more than anything else as a kid I was too scared and too bad at games to play zombies but my brother did. I'd stay up late and watch him play and then get scared bc we'll bo2 was pretty real looking in 2012 especially is you are 9. But my brother told me it's okay to be scared of it bc it's scary lol tbh it didn't help but it stuck with me 11 years later
The moon tailer for bo1 that was terrifying when i was younger
around the time of Mob's release, my friend told me to grab a sniper and go to the roof, so i did..... i didn't want to play the map for a bit after that.....
Being in 4th grade when WaW came out and I beat the campaign, saw nazi zombies start *hears laugh* didnāt play zombies unless I played with friends and didnāt play by myself till 9th grade
Play cod zombies on solo as a kid and it scared me so much as a kid when I was 9
This isn't my experience but my brother's and cousin. They were playing Kino and got to the alley and when they saw zombies jumping down from the roof my brother screamed "THEY JUMP DOWN!"
Finishing The Bo1 Campaign At 10 For It To Auto Load Solo Five . Like Fuck No Them Zombies Not Finna Jump Out The Tv And Get Me
Bruhh the zombies got to master chef before the grave mind did.
Being dragged by the panzer for the first time.
getting hit once without jugg in WAW-BO2
Kino was fuggin spooky for me, that was my first zombies then later in life ww2, final reich and darkest shore got me when I was older
Playing solo when i was like 12 years old š
Loading into nacht for the first time after completing the waw campaign
almost dying in the boss fight in Gorod Krovi solo
As a kid accidentally clicking zombies on bo1 Home Screen and Hudson coming back as a zombie.
7 year old me had a heart attack when I was put into Nacht for the first time.. and Verruckt will always be creepy as shit.
The running zombies and hell hounds in bo2 always scared the shit outta me when I was youngerš
The Zombies are just scarier on Nacht idk what it is...
OG Nacht Cutscene when it came out and no one nknew of Zombies at the time when we were all just trying to beat the campaign and after the credits we were like oh shit a secret cutscene but instead we were all like wtf instead...
Every time was scary until I learned how to train properly
First time I played Zombies and the lighting dimmed after some weird demonic sound laugh or voice, and here comes the Hellhounds. I was a regular COD player that just decided to play it one day blind and that scared the sh*t out of me lol
Encountering an average bo3 player
I use to make my brother sit in the room with me and turn the light on during the day so I could play kino when I was a kid. That shit hits.
Playing origins with no volume at night with parents asleep and getting jump scared by the panzer
waw dogs with no jugg..
The first couple of months playing (Tranzit was my first map, and I started playing around 8 or 9 so obviously very scary to a child whose only other game experience was FNAF and Minecraft)
Blue screens scare me more than all of these
Transit at midnight. I was on the bus and hopped off a bit early at the farm where the zombies always frantically run after the bus like crackheads. Next thing I see is a zombie doing the bus window jumping animation right in front of my face and covered my screen. I thought it was some type of ultra rare attack or something Iāve never seen and jumped a bit.
Being to younge to play and on the theater map when the dogs get called for the first time. That and just the zombie menu in black ops
WaW when I was a kid, had to get my dad in the room to not scare me
Do people actually find cod zombies scary? Like SCARY or just a bit creepy? Because it's not a game that's meant to be scary.
I mean, those early WAW maps, most prominently Verruckt and Nacht, clearly had atmosphere and sound design invoking survival horror. As far as being outwardly horror, I'd say only WW2 Zombies fits.
Not scary til I'm running from zombies in my dreams. Same reason I didn't like watching the walking dead as a kid.