Does anyone have "In-game Fears"?
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The worst is when I'm going through a particularly difficult section of a game, and while I'm running low on health and ammo or whatever, there is the foreshadowing of a massive boss fight in the near future without any relief in sight. I really hate it when that happens.
Mine was in bio shock when i was merrily running around killing stuff when i head a scream so I decide "huh ill go check that out" so i walk round the corner and see a shadow with a splicer ripping someone over, I sneak round the corner and BLAM lights go off. I just think to myself what the hell and walk back towards the door when BOOM one of little metal refrigerator things you store body's in door fly's off and a splicer is coming to eat my face off. That scared me a bit so now im always paranoid of things like that in games.
Everything in doom 3. Period. Noises in games designed to scare you really really kill me inside. Im a VERY cautious gamer in doom. Every corner is checked every corridor is cleaned. One of my main senses in games is hearing. Im good at it on CS and in cod i listen for footsteps. Therefor in doom i HATE it when it fucks with my mind by making creepy noises especually since i play at 11 at night with all the lights off on hard for effect. Il stop for a few mins and check around me slowly which makes the leaping demons even more surprising. Childs laughter is the main thing here.
Open water gets me, i hate swimming in games it annoys me beyond belief.
laboritories. I HATE THEM! It makes me think "oh shit zombie/mutant/experiment time". Gears 2 did it, doom did it, fallout did it, the list goes on. Anything with cryo chambers gets me with the rpime example of doom
. Seeing an enemy in stasis for some reason so you cant quite get them but they could easily break out if you were awake. In doom theres a cryo chamber with a full demon floating in it. You go near and BAM! it pummles the glass without escaping. Makes me really nervous.
Flickering lights, especually red ones. Doom (AGAIN DAMMIT) does this a lot. They unerve me to the point where i just stand in front of the doorway deciding if i should go forward.
Open water gets me, i hate swimming in games it annoys me beyond belief.
laboritories. I HATE THEM! It makes me think "oh shit zombie/mutant/experiment time". Gears 2 did it, doom did it, fallout did it, the list goes on. Anything with cryo chambers gets me with the rpime example of doom
. Seeing an enemy in stasis for some reason so you cant quite get them but they could easily break out if you were awake. In doom theres a cryo chamber with a full demon floating in it. You go near and BAM! it pummles the glass without escaping. Makes me really nervous.Flickering lights, especually red ones. Doom (AGAIN DAMMIT) does this a lot. They unerve me to the point where i just stand in front of the doorway deciding if i should go forward.
a checkpoint which doesnt save and a sneaking sequence in a fps the only one i ever liked was the cod4 one as it is a good sequence, but i dont like ones that are in gears of war .
Being snuck up on. Especially right when you begin to think it's all clear, or when what snuck up on you is not generally very sneaky... bloody poison zombies..
I hate fields with long grass so you cant see more than 1 foot in front of you. They scare me, L4D blood harvest does this, at least in corridors you can watch around you pretty well.
Holy crap man, exact same fear. I was coming here thinking it was kinda silly and people might laugh but I never knew that it was something scary to more than just me. My friends never understood. But anyway, this is my fear. Even in Windwaker and Phantom Hourglass I didn't like the sailing because monsters could just pop out of nowhere, in the water.the protaginist said:
Bugs and insects. Just...any kind of bugs and insects in any game. God, I hated those Radroaches.
I also hate being overwhelmed by massive groups of enemies. It's very unsettling to be playing, say, Left 4 Dead on Expert/Advanced and quickly be utterly overwhelmed by shrieking zombies, which pummel your character over and over again, screeching, as the screen fades to black...
I also hate being overwhelmed by massive groups of enemies. It's very unsettling to be playing, say, Left 4 Dead on Expert/Advanced and quickly be utterly overwhelmed by shrieking zombies, which pummel your character over and over again, screeching, as the screen fades to black...
I used to play fishing games where when you cast, the camera zooms in on the damn hook/lure. It The sight of a big fucking fish coming at me with the intent to EAT ME just fucking scares me.
This son of a bish DID NOT help that fear AT ALL!
DAMN YOU CLANKER FOR GIVING ME THREE WEEKS OF NIGHTMARES!
This son of a bish DID NOT help that fear AT ALL!
DAMN YOU CLANKER FOR GIVING ME THREE WEEKS OF NIGHTMARES!
I think what that symbolizes to me is "Oh shit, retardedly difficult underwater section ahead!"Xyphon said:I used to play fishing games where when you cast, the camera zooms in on the damn hook/lure. It The sight of a big fucking fish coming at me with the intent to EAT ME just fucking scares me.
This son of a bish DID NOT help that fear AT ALL!
DAMN YOU CLANKER FOR GIVING ME THREE WEEKS OF NIGHTMARES!
For me it's that horrible jarring sound that happens when they try and mind-control your soldiers, especially when they're unseen, and you just know it's going to be the guy with the Heavy Plasma ideally placed to shoot your ranking unit in the back...Arbeiter said:
Christ I hate Ethereals...
And Chrysalids *shudder*
Hmmm, that might be a good idea. The combat music was especially annoying when, even though I escaped some monsters, it just kept on playing - well after I got out of the danger zone. When I was just trying to enjoy the HDR sunshine and all the pretty flowers.That One Six said:
One of the most 'scary' (in a way) games I played was Life and Death 2, an old brain surgery simulation from the DOS era. Scary in the sense that, while blowing off zombie skulls with a shotgun is a-ok with me, I couldn't force myself to take the scalpel and cut the patient's head the first time I played it, years ago. I chickened out, even though it's just a game. I recently downloaded it as abandonware and even now it took some getting used to. I mean, would YOU drill that pretty bald head?
Oh and I forgot, the floating boxes in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
This the only thing that ever got me to jump out of my chair: on the first playthough, I hear a screech sound behind, lookg behind and bam ! I just have time to see the box hit me, the screen go red and my character dieing
So the first times, I played that level leroy jenkins style: running like a madman and screaming "aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa !" until I reach the cinematic. :-D
This the only thing that ever got me to jump out of my chair: on the first playthough, I hear a screech sound behind, lookg behind and bam ! I just have time to see the box hit me, the screen go red and my character dieing
So the first times, I played that level leroy jenkins style: running like a madman and screaming "aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa !" until I reach the cinematic. :-D
Those crystals in Ayleid Ruins on Oblivion you know the ones that shoot Frost Spells at you, I ran into one that turned out to be a Necromancer hideout and the crystals were located in Varla Stone cages so I was like ok there's got to be a way to close them so I can continue here but no button was found so I ended up hiding in that dungeon for like three hours.
Flickering lights in long corridors, just because i know at one point something is going to appear and disappear at the end of it.