Does anyone have "In-game Fears"?
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Timed missions. I just get really nervous. This is actually the reason I didn't play Dead Rising.
when instead of shooting something you have to outrun it. and not like sonic the hedgehog its just a boulder or something but a huge impossibly killable monster
Whenever it seems like something may be coming up to attack you from behind. I can't quite explain it, so I'll just give a couple examples. In Fallout 3 there where several Vault computers I would read, and they would detail the tenants going slowly insane for some reason or another. Another instance was in Fable 2 where you when into this cozy looking cottage in a "Winter Wonerlandish" area behind a Demon Door, and as you passed over the threshold, there was a shriek and the house turned into a burn't out ruin. This just startled me, but I got genuinely creeped out as I walked through every intact room of the house, looking for some sort of enemy and only finding skeletons, and a crappy sword.
Underwater levels, Regenerative Monsters that only die through some plot device or game mechanic (thank you, Reisdent evil 3, you started this trend!) and heights.the protaginist said:Due to an upcoming retrospective review i'm writing, I needed something to compare Twilight Princess's graphics to. Now, I have not played Shadow of the Colossus since my PS2 broke, so I was a little hazy on the details, and from my memories they looked remarkably similar. But, memories fade, so I found myself on Youtube looking up SoTC videos. The one I watched was the fight against The Fifth Colossus, the bird-like one on the lake. Now as I watched Wander swim to the beast, I found myself getting nervous. In life, I love being in or on the water. In games? It scares the living daylight outta me. For one thing, you can't see if somethings coming out from under you until it's too late to get away. You can't hear anything, period. You can't access your arsenal underwater, thus rendering you defenseless.
Mine is a fear of open water in gaming: what's yours?
TLR Version: What makes you scared in games?
I hate when games make you tiptoe across small beams (damn you sonic unleashed and mirror's edge).
Moral choices. The evil one always lets you live and prosper, the good one forces you to become a sacrifice. However, I think KotOR did it right, where even if you went good you could still live.
Water sections in pretty much every game that includes one, because the designers are almost always asshats and include sharks or other giant fish that want to eat you, and of course you can't actually defend yourself, that would be too easy!
Heights also sometimes bother me, though more because I hate cheap 'jumping puzzle deaths' rather than the heights themselves - unless it's heights and cheap jumping puzzles set over water that has giant man-eating fish in it like Dark Forces 2 had at one point... *shudder*
Heights also sometimes bother me, though more because I hate cheap 'jumping puzzle deaths' rather than the heights themselves - unless it's heights and cheap jumping puzzles set over water that has giant man-eating fish in it like Dark Forces 2 had at one point... *shudder*
I don't fear games, because they are just that. However....
I still remember Doom 3, the first time I played it. I was at a LAN and we all shared it and started to play, at like 2am, headphones on. I got through to the comm station and then all hell broke loose. Running through the facility with all the comm chatter, screams and growls and all that shit, I turned the game off and was just shaking. Not so much an in game item or place, but the atmosphere just totally freaked me out.
I still remember Doom 3, the first time I played it. I was at a LAN and we all shared it and started to play, at like 2am, headphones on. I got through to the comm station and then all hell broke loose. Running through the facility with all the comm chatter, screams and growls and all that shit, I turned the game off and was just shaking. Not so much an in game item or place, but the atmosphere just totally freaked me out.
Underwater sections, there is always some huge shark thats gonna pop out of nowhere and eat ya.
That and the green headcrabs and fast zombies from HL2.
That and the green headcrabs and fast zombies from HL2.
Long corridors with flickering flourescent lights. I actually have a reason though. I was in a hospital for my brother's surgery, and something went wrong with the power, and the lights went off, except for one. The only person I could see under the light was a doctor with blood on his hands.
