I’ll start: centaurs. Always freaked me out

Besides them, my second creepiest choice is:

TW jumpscare

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      Ghouls aren’t even that scary to me, but resources in fo3 are so scarce you feel like it’s a life or death situation with multiple of them sometimes.

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        The reavers when first meeting them in presidential metro. When not using unofficial patch they are scary due to how they move.

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        Yeah, the actual Ghouls themselves aren’t too scary, but Bethesda definitely wanted to make the Metro a mini horror game.

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    Centaurs are creepy and unnerving, but when actually playing the game, a sprinting Deathclaw is what gets the heart going.

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      God don’t fucking remind me of that, fallout nv’s deathclaws are the worst

      fuck the quarry fuck the quarry fuck the quarry

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        Watching a video, they don’t seem threatening, but when you’re actually playing, fuckers are out there at a 30 mph sprint, and there sure as shit ain’t 30 miles between you and them.

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    The giant hermit crabs. I was walking down the road in F76, and happened to pass one that was hiding in its “shell” without even noticing it was there. That was the first time I had seen one, and I about shit myself.

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    It’s not so much an NPC, but the lore behind them: the Keller Tapes from F3. It leaves a lot to the imagination of how horrifying running from an atomic bomb would be.

    Edit: it’s F3 not F4

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      Hearing the fear in candace’s voice, and the monotonousness of ralph is pretty chilling. Alex was a champ, though

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    Creature? Mirelurks in the dark, those things are sneaky little shelly bois and have spooked me on more than one occasion.

    NPC? Cook-Cook. The absolute worst of humanity and satisfying as fuck to destroy.

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      Mirelurks are at their worst in the swamp dlc shudder

      Cook-Cook is horrible, but myron takes the cake for me. Fuckin’ hell even killing him in game gives +5 karma lmfao, that’s how bad he is

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    Honorable mention to the giant crabs from 4/76. First time I came across one I was doing one of those animal defense missions in 76.

    squints

    “…is that a bus bobbing in the distance?”

    notice a giant angry crab come into view from behind the forest

    “OH GOOD HEAVENS.”

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      Oh lordy, first time I met one in far harbour I was terrified. I was like how did it fit inside and how could it mutate that big.

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    Easy answer, nightkin. Specifically in the fly me to the moon quest where you have to clear the basement of them