How do you deal with your Fears when playing a Video Game?

[Zeema]

like many of you i cannot wait for Skyrim im trying to know as little about the game as possible so i enjoy it more by exploration means. Anyway when i watched the original trailer there was something that me and many others were made quite upset.

im talking about 'Spider's' i am FUCKING SCARED OF SPIDERS. i couldn't beat Twilight princess due to that bloody spider and the worse part was how they fell from the ceiling.

Forest temple: cool this will be fun dum dun dum oh look a big room [walks forward] Spider: 'SUP BRO'. Trezu has Fainted.

anyway i have decided that everyday i will look up screen shots of Skyrim Spiders in till im not scared of them. when i see him i cover my eyes but covering your eyes is alright when u have a machine gun, but a sword nope.

in the hopes that i get over my fear of Giant Spiders in games, but i still hope that Spider's won't be a frequent enemy in skyrim.

Also what is your fear and how do you deal with it when you play a video game?

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Not really afraid of anything, but I occasionally would get a little nauseous when looking down from great height, or during a long fall. Prototype beat that out of me pretty well; vertigo was pretty much a game mechanic.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

It took me a long while to play Bioshock after that spider splicer gutted the man outside of the bathysphere,...and then tried to get in! I hate them. They skitter, howl, and some make weird giggly noises. I remember just going for it one day. At first I yelped a lot when they'd just pop up. I still got weird feelings in my stomach when I could see them crawling, upside-down on the ceiling, right towards me. But then I knew I'd get the satisfaction of setting them on fire and pummeling them to death with a wrench. But nothing creeped me out more, then the singing spider splicer. I had to get away from that singing, and fast.


In Fallout 3/New Vegas I tend to get the most creeped out by two things, vaults and feral ghouls. Vaults because they usually have feral ghouls in them, and feral ghouls because they skitter and howl. I know I need to finish the quest, so I run in, shoot everything that's running at me, grab what I need and run out. I've probably missed a lot of loot in the process, but oh well. lol

 

[Sariteiya]

I have a pretty bad heights fear, but usually it isn't too bad in games. Assassin's Creed made me uncomfortable on more than a few occasions though. I'd just synchronize as fast as possible and then cheese it.

 

[Canus]

I couldn't keep playing amnesia: the dark descent in the jail level (arguably the scariest part of the game) until I grabbed a barrel buddy. I originally grabbed this barrel as mobile cover to help looking around corners. Within a couple minutes of carrying it around, I was talking to it like a companion cube, and I became fearless, going so far as to run up to a monster and chuck the barrel at it then run away laughing (after hiding until the monster wandered off, I got barrel buddy back).

I think Valve really came up with something special in assigning a personality to an inanimate object. They are more comforting than any real co-op player.

 

[Cyrus Hanley]

I used to turn off the console, take the game out and never play the game again.

I don't do that anymore.

 

[Mr Thin]

Well I don't have any unusual fears, so nothing in the games I play is ever very frightening. When I was younger though, there were a few things that scared me, such as the Mooshoo Pork level in Gex 64, or the sewer level in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. You know the thing that tried to kill Luke in the garbage compactor? The sewer level was full of those, and there was a giant one at the end, and it had a mouth that it tried to pull you into and IT WAS TERRIFYING.

Unfortunately I had no special way of dealing with them; I either hardened up and played the game anyway, or I waited until I got older.

 

[DustyDrB]

In Fallout 3/New Vegas I tend to get the most creeped out by two things, vaults and feral ghouls. Vaults because they usually have feral ghouls in them, and feral ghouls because they skitter and howl. I know I need to finish the quest, so I run in, shoot everything that's running at me, grab what I need and run out. I've probably missed a lot of loot in the process, but oh well. lol

I guess you're like me and you stay the hell out of Vault 34 now...

 

[daunchy]

Over the years, murdering tons of monsters in video games has removed more fears of mine than it could ever have created. Try murdering your fears!

 

[Blue Hero]

If I'm playing a tense or sorta scary video game, I listen to some Joe Esposito while playing it.

 

[Creator002]

I'm never really scared of video games. I get frightened (well, startled) now and then, but I don't remain scared for long.

With the exception of Silent Hill 2. I will NEVER complete that game.

EDIT - Oh, the posts about Fallout above remind me. Yeah, feral gouls. They're not scary, but they're creepy. I have actually been scared by one in a subway tunnel while playing at night to actually need to pause the game to go to the toilet. I swear, it came out of bloody no where.

 

[Bishop99999999]

Play while wearing nothing but bunny ears and socks covered in glitter.

Have you ever heard of ghosts attacking naked people wearing bunny ears and socks covered in glitter? No, you haven't. It's ghost-proof.

 

[Kingsnake661]

I don't really have any true "fears", or phobias per say. I suppose hights and spiders are as close to a "fear" as i get, but, again, it's not really a phobia, because, dispite having a fear of hights, I enjoy confrounting that fear, I'm constentally challanging it when i ride rollercoasters (which i LOVE), tour skyscrappers, and work on my roof. Spiders, are KOS for me, and, I'm the one who has to do it, so... yeah.

Not a problem in videogames. I've never played one that simulates hights with enought reality to give vertigo, and spiders are also KOS, so it's all good. LOL.

 

[yuval152]

I'm having the same problem as you.so i guess...KILL IT!!!!WITH FIRE!!!one!!!two!!!!!!!.

 

[Irriduccibilli]

Not really afraid of anything, but I occasionally would get a little nauseous when looking down from great height, or during a long fall. Prototype beat that out of me pretty well; vertigo was pretty much a game mechanic.

I just finished Metro 2033, and the end on the broadcast spire was pretty... frightening. Normally I don't like great hights, not afraid, I just don't like them

 

[Inhibitor-Alpha]

I USED to be scared of Metroid Prime, the Stone Toads and Space Pirate Frigate crash site would have me turn of the TV in pure shock and horror. Eventually, similar to Trezu's method, I would just stare at Stone Toads until I had the courage to take them down. As for the crash site I would just take my time and by careful of any of those vines that stick out of the wall. I was 8 years old though, it came bundled with the Gamecube. xD

 

[Magicmad5511]

Well I'm scared of spiders and deep murky water(because of the idea of giant fish coming to eat me).

for Spiders depending on how creepy they are will just load up on weapons and fire with m eyes half shut. Really if it's a big spider like Skyrim I'll be more OK with it. It's more like a bear than a spider but isn't hairy like a real tarantula. Shelob from Lord of the Rings does not scare me. Aragog from Harry Potter does though.

Deep murky water though. I normally avoid it if I can but if forced I will be cautious. As son as I see any kind of fish in the gloom I will practically panic and swim for my life.
I just have to stay calm.