Nah, the town itself never turned red. Only the interior locations of Silent Hill 3.Sniper Team 4 said:
Did any games ever give you nightmares
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If it makes you feel any better Devil May Cry was originally Resident Evil 4 (then a prequal to RE, then just DMC) so don't feel too bad. It got a lot of the ideas that didn't make it into RE4, like the puppets.
And I remember having nightmares about Nemesis when I was kid.
And I remember having nightmares about Nemesis when I was kid.
My scariest moment(s)?
Bioshock 1 + 2. All of it.
Seriously, they had a VERY creepy atmosphere.
But out of all the moments in those games, the opening to Bioshock 2 takes the proverbial cake.
Since seeing that, it just "stuck" in my mind, almost haunting my mind.
Hearing that Little Sister scream as her protector fell was just, haunting.
Combined with the music, it still haunts the dark corners of my mind to this day.
It. Is. Just. Mindblowing.
PS, if you don't know what i'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWpSjD1QIlw&list=FLEhkdn4ho0iIxR_49sxUq9w&index=21&feature=plpp_video
Bioshock 1 + 2. All of it.
Seriously, they had a VERY creepy atmosphere.
But out of all the moments in those games, the opening to Bioshock 2 takes the proverbial cake.
Since seeing that, it just "stuck" in my mind, almost haunting my mind.
Hearing that Little Sister scream as her protector fell was just, haunting.
Combined with the music, it still haunts the dark corners of my mind to this day.
It. Is. Just. Mindblowing.
PS, if you don't know what i'm talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWpSjD1QIlw&list=FLEhkdn4ho0iIxR_49sxUq9w&index=21&feature=plpp_video
Duke Nukem 3d, i remember it was the 1st game i played that just blew my mind. I remember getting an issue of a pcgamer that came with the full version on the demo disc.
It was the most immersive thing i've ever played (was about 11) and just the complete vibe of the game (from the constant waves of aliens, the strung up mutilated babes, playful misogyny, the space episode....god i hated that shit LOL!)
always just dreamt that i was in dukes position with the gun poking out in front of me trying to stay alive....me sucking at the game didn't help....couldn't even beat episode 1.
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The pacing of that game was awesome! It just took you on an adventure, it took what was available (the lock keys, guns, and cardboard like npc's and objects) and just made the perfect game!
It was the most immersive thing i've ever played (was about 11) and just the complete vibe of the game (from the constant waves of aliens, the strung up mutilated babes, playful misogyny, the space episode....god i hated that shit LOL!)
always just dreamt that i was in dukes position with the gun poking out in front of me trying to stay alive....me sucking at the game didn't help....couldn't even beat episode 1.
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Side Note:
The pacing of that game was awesome! It just took you on an adventure, it took what was available (the lock keys, guns, and cardboard like npc's and objects) and just made the perfect game!
This is kinda embarrassing...
When I was younger, whenever I played Sonic 2 before going to bed, I would have trouble going to sleep and even have nightmares. What did it, was the second level. I believe it was in Act 2 that the poisonous water started rising. It was really different from normal water, but just the rising water kinda freaked me out. Yeah, dreams about rising water. And no, I don't fear water, though I don't think I could swim at the time.
Never liked the ghosts in Sonic an Knuckles, but they were just annoying.
When I was younger, whenever I played Sonic 2 before going to bed, I would have trouble going to sleep and even have nightmares. What did it, was the second level. I believe it was in Act 2 that the poisonous water started rising. It was really different from normal water, but just the rising water kinda freaked me out. Yeah, dreams about rising water. And no, I don't fear water, though I don't think I could swim at the time.
Never liked the ghosts in Sonic an Knuckles, but they were just annoying.
I thought I was the only one who had a Twisted Metal fueled nightmare.Vanbael said:
The first and only time a game has ever induced a nightmare was after playing Twisted Metal Black and seeing No-Face for the first time.
I think you just explained where some of the weirder dreams I've had over the years came from; I've had a few dreams in the past where I've died violently, feeling like I was falling asleep as my blood drained out, before suddenly being back in the action. Considering what you mentioned there, I think they may have been Tetris effect dreams brought on by too many late night FPS matches. Weird.Jedoro said:
OT: I can't say a game has ever given me a nightmare; Tetris effect stuff similar to what I described above (although usually with less dying and more asskicking), but no nightmares. In fact, I almost never have nightmares. I remember reading an article a few years back that talked about how gamers have more dreams with violent and frightening content on average, but very few of them describe it as a nightmare, instead feeling in control of the situation and more like they were playing an action game or watching an action movie than having a nightmare. That certainly seems to match my experiences as a gamer who dreams.
Minecraft man.... Minecraft. I was in a deep dark cave, and I was trapped. I tried to get out, but there were so many creepers. I just barely escaped from them every time. I almost got to a safe point, but then I heard I heard the creepers hiss it makes when it is about to explode. I realized it was behind me and BOOM!, I woke up.
I remember when i player this really old game called "Carnivore" where you got to hunt dinosaurs and shit, I played it once and it scared the shit out of me when i missed the shot on and enraged t-rex, which than suddenly ate me.
And then in my dream i was running away from the same t-rex when i jumped in the water(a lake i think) and watched as its massive head peered into water as i waited for it to go away. I waked up before I resurfaced though.
And then in my dream i was running away from the same t-rex when i jumped in the water(a lake i think) and watched as its massive head peered into water as i waited for it to go away. I waked up before I resurfaced though.
Descent: Freespace.
The Shivans were creepy, that's certainly part of it, but I really think the problem was that the Lucifer became a metaphor for my own helplessness in my life. It was a bad time for me, constant fights with peers in school and no shortage of general troubles. I probably only narrowly avoided a felony assault conviction that year or the next.
And, of course, I couldn't leave. It was high school. You kinda have to get through that, more or less. Some people do okay without, but it's a rare circumstance.
The Lucifer bore a refinement on the Shivan shielding technology which was, to all human technology to date, impenetrable. You simply couldn't scratch the Lucifer. That ship became the scourge of the setting, carving a swath through the human and Vasudan territories.
As the gameplay takes place exclusively from the cockpit of a small fighter or bomber, it's no surprise that's where I found myself in dreaming. One night I dreamed I was escaping a massacre. My whole wing was lost, and my only refuge was a blind spot in the Lucifer's firing arcs: Inside the Lucifer itself, right into the fighter bay. I had a limited set of reference points, so it ended up closely resembling a Nebulon B Frigate from X-Wing. That's a blind spot for those, too, but parking even an A-Wing in there... Yeah, never mind.
So here I am, waiting in terror. If I try to leave again, the guns will take me down, or the fighter screen that's battling the last remnants of the fleet outside. If I stay, the Shivan fighters will eventually return and gun me down. I fire a few shots to see if I can take down the Lucifer from within, and discover the shielding is internal as well. I can even fly right through the round tunnels they use to get from point to point, an miraculously don't encounter any living Shivans, but the tunnels are just deadly habitrails for me. If I meet a Shivan, it can lase me to death. (They were nasty that way.) I even just start firing the guns as I fly through the tunnels, and nothing comes of it.
Helpless. Trapped. Hopeless, and soon to be dead.
Pretty nasty dream, really.
The Shivans were creepy, that's certainly part of it, but I really think the problem was that the Lucifer became a metaphor for my own helplessness in my life. It was a bad time for me, constant fights with peers in school and no shortage of general troubles. I probably only narrowly avoided a felony assault conviction that year or the next.
And, of course, I couldn't leave. It was high school. You kinda have to get through that, more or less. Some people do okay without, but it's a rare circumstance.
The Lucifer bore a refinement on the Shivan shielding technology which was, to all human technology to date, impenetrable. You simply couldn't scratch the Lucifer. That ship became the scourge of the setting, carving a swath through the human and Vasudan territories.
As the gameplay takes place exclusively from the cockpit of a small fighter or bomber, it's no surprise that's where I found myself in dreaming. One night I dreamed I was escaping a massacre. My whole wing was lost, and my only refuge was a blind spot in the Lucifer's firing arcs: Inside the Lucifer itself, right into the fighter bay. I had a limited set of reference points, so it ended up closely resembling a Nebulon B Frigate from X-Wing. That's a blind spot for those, too, but parking even an A-Wing in there... Yeah, never mind.
So here I am, waiting in terror. If I try to leave again, the guns will take me down, or the fighter screen that's battling the last remnants of the fleet outside. If I stay, the Shivan fighters will eventually return and gun me down. I fire a few shots to see if I can take down the Lucifer from within, and discover the shielding is internal as well. I can even fly right through the round tunnels they use to get from point to point, an miraculously don't encounter any living Shivans, but the tunnels are just deadly habitrails for me. If I meet a Shivan, it can lase me to death. (They were nasty that way.) I even just start firing the guns as I fly through the tunnels, and nothing comes of it.
Helpless. Trapped. Hopeless, and soon to be dead.
Pretty nasty dream, really.
Oh boy the night I finished ME3 (or morning rather) I didn't sleep a wink either. Final moments shook me to my core and honestly, in a way, it all was kind of disturbing and unsettling in its own special way.Vault101 said:
exactally (especially when shepard ends up in the first part of the citadel..with all the dead bodies)Evan Halfmann said:
I was like "don't think about....don't think about it...WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?..no really what the fuck was that?"
that morning I woke up at 6 because I couldnt sleep (on a weeked) thankfully watching some indoctrination therory helped
How has know one mentioned Condemned 1 & 2. In Condemned your a alcoholic ex cop who is losing his mind. There is a bit where your walking through a clothes store and their are manikins everywhere. The lights are flickering, you see flashes of movement out the corner of your eye. You swear the manikins moved but when you look at them they are dead as stone. You finally get close and they attack. You kill them. You never trust manikins again.
Also after going through a big Nazi Zombie stage had crazy zombie dreams for a couple of weeks.
Also after going through a big Nazi Zombie stage had crazy zombie dreams for a couple of weeks.
When I was a wee lad everything used to give me nightmares. The worst however, were the Visceroids from Command and Conquer. Those shits were serious business.
Yep that's the moment for me when my stomach turned upside down. Also, if I recall correctly, one of the first things Shepard says to Anderson when he ends up in the room with the bodies is "I feel like death" or something similar to that. It's very morbid the way he says it. Indoctrination theory did help me as well but unfortunately for me, I chose to control..Vault101 said: