Does anyone have "In-game Fears"?

[dodo1331]

Escort missions.

Everytime I see one I die a little inside and then multiple times in-game. And scavenger hunts suck a lot too.

 

[Howtheturntables]

I was told that when I was young I would cry and hold my breath every time a game would require me to go underwater

 

[Garaw]

Falling. I first ran into this in WoW - whenever my character falls from a great height, my pulse quickens, the bottom drops out of my stomach, and I want to stand up out of my chair.

It's like my fear-of-falling response is purely visual and games trigger it regularly.

 

[GenericAmerican]

Anything that i cant kill with a gun, or a BIG knife. I also hate being indoors in any shooter, always get shot in the back. Spiders, traumatized early on in the legend of Zelda when one of those big spiders dropped down in front of me, i fell out of my chair. Also having to fight some monster or go into some cave or something without backup because the game developers though it would be funny to kill off all your teammates. But after you play through something it isn't scary anymore, like L4D, first time i played it it was scary, now its like "meh, more zombies...BANG, alright moving along...oh s#$@ TANK!!!" Tanks in that game get my blood pumping. And the number one thing im scared of is being online and having to do something that I have never done before; because then i get yelled at or look like a moron...like taking the flag and having no idea where to take it

Edit: also hate in far cry 2, if your just wandering around the jungle and you hear something; that something is nothing, but you dont know that because the enemys tend to come after you from across the map if you make so much noise as dropping a pin on the ground. Radscorpions in Fallout 3 scare me. Slow zombies scare me, the fast ones usually die fast but the slow invinvible ones scare me, because your death is approaching...slowly.

 

[The Austin]

Open water. You just know some giant fish is going to eat your face.

Beware Mario 3.

Was that the one with the giant eel?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

I'm scared of really fast enemies in really dark places. Dark or really fast, fine. BOTH. Fuck that!

Like the tar monsters from Condemned 2.

And the Assassins from F.E.A.R. series.

Unrelated: And Cliff Racers. Always ambush me in swarms. Outta nowhere. Startles me like fuck.

 

[Reg5879]

Open water. You just know some giant fish is going to eat your face.

Beware Mario 3.

Was that the one with the giant eel?

No, that was New Super Mario Brothers, in Mario 3 there's a fish that does worse than eat your face, it swallows you whole.

 

[Nouw]

Open water. You just know some giant fish is going to eat your face.

Try Gears 2

OT: In a game that not too many people know, someone becomes a surprisingly balanced "Super Spy" Mini-gun, flame thrower and rocket launcher. When I see one I get the chills.

I actually don't really care in water because, its not even scary for me or unnerving! Batman:AA Killer Croc wasn't near scary. Batarang time!

 

[Singularly Datarific]

water... dude it scares THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF ME.. and in real life sometimes when im alone in the water and/or at night i still get scared.
Those sharks at half-life 1 where really scary.. i think those traumatized mee

They weren't sharks, they were worse.
Any section with limited air or the like, I hate the asphyxiating deaths in games, and then swimming away from a giant squid, while trying not to asphyxiate.
EDIT: although, I love swimming and being underwater in real life. It is so natural and easy in real life, video games still haven't figured out a decent way of controlling under water movement because it forces a 3D control scheme unsuitable for any of our controllers.

 

[The Austin]

Open water. You just know some giant fish is going to eat your face.

Try Gears 2

OT: In a game that not too many people know, someone becomes a surprisingly balanced "Super Spy" Mini-gun, flame thrower and rocket launcher. When I see one I get the chills.

I actually don't really care in water because, its not even scary for me or unnerving! Batman:AA Killer Croc wasn't near scary. Batarang time!

You think I haven't played Gears 2? You insult me.

I, good sir, am a massive Gears of War fanboy.

.....And personally, Killer Croc was a wee bit unnerving for me.

 

[The Austin]

Open water. You just know some giant fish is going to eat your face.

Beware Mario 3.

Was that the one with the giant eel?

No, that was New Super Mario Brothers, in Mario 3 there's a fish that does worse than eat your face, it swallows you whole.

These are the things in which my nightmares are made.

 

[USSR]

..everything in Penumbra scares me.

 

[Reg5879]

Open water. You just know some giant fish is going to eat your face.

Beware Mario 3.

Was that the one with the giant eel?

No, that was New Super Mario Brothers, in Mario 3 there's a fish that does worse than eat your face, it swallows you whole.

These are the things in which my nightmares are made.

Indeed lol.

 

[Beastialman]

The only real time I've been scared by a game is Pikmin 2. The giant tar frog thing, mainly because I didn't know what I had to do and didn't want all my Pikmin to die.

I get scared by Pikmin yet find Left 4 Dead hilarious.

 

[orangebandguy]

Those bastard giant rad scorpions sneaking up on me. Makes me jump everytime because they're right in your face.

 

[Joggi]

Poison headcrabs... Ugh!