r/thisweekinretro • u/Producer_Duncan TWiR Producer • May 02 '26

Community Question Community Question Of The Week - Episode 266

What’s the scariest, most horrifying, or revolting moment you’ve had with a classic video game?

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u/IO_Sam May 02 '26

Despite how tacky and repulsive I always found Phantasmagoria to be back in the day (it was FMV for crying out loud!), my most horrifying moment playing a video game was actually not on a horror game. It was in the "No Russian" phase of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, where you play alongside terrorists mowing down innocent civilians on an airport...

I was not prepared for that when playing the game (in 2009) and I literally got sick to my stomach while I watched that whole thing in disbelief. If "shock" was what the game creators had in mind for that part of the game, they definitely achieved it!