Poll: MineCraft? Scary?

[WOPR]

^F'ed that bit up, just pretend it's a Quote >.<

Seriosuly though. If you know the difference yourself, then you shouldn't have made this topic in the first place.

Your whole point, according to your opening post, is to find out what people find scary about it.

Also, insulting a person for having a lower threshold for scariness then yourself is... well... especially when your own friends, according to your own words, get the same jitters.

Yeah I'm just ticked off and wondering why, and really wish people could get their definitions right at times.

and "friends" was in "quotations" for a reason, they're not really friends so much as annoying whiney people that get but-hurt everytime they suck at a game or I don't play how "they want me to" -and I happen to know them

Minecraft is not scary. Just frustrating. Like when you go to your glasshouse and find a creeper. Kaboom. Or when you fall in your lava moat.

I like this guy, he seems to have hit the nail on the head

Walking around in a cave without torches on hard with headphones is pretty fucking scary.

Umm... again not really "scary" as much as it's startleing... because being able to see nothing... well... take any game with creepy sounds and play it with your eyes shut and see if you jump when you're not expecting something... as opposed to the thing that will keep you up at night...

that make sense?

Well, the sounds in Minecraft are scary as hell. I almost pissed my pants when I was in the Nether and a ghast (a flying ghost that shoots fireballs) destroyed my portal and there were zombie pigmen and ghasts everywhere, all screaming as a rain of fireballs flew towards me u.u

And cave-exploring is also scary to me when it's almost pitch black in an area and you hear monster sounds.

But I think how much death can actualy matter in Minecraft adds a lot to the scariness.

Alright alright; and sorry for my outburst

Hmm... sounds like what people find "scary" about minecraft is they get so immersed in the game (which I don't understand) that they forget it's JUST A GAME; and when they lose something in it it's like they lost something real...

My comparison

that 4 hour speed run of an RPG I was doing when the power went out right before I finished... as you can imagine I was devastated (not "scared" but really felt horrible)

That a good comparison?

Plus the sounds thing... I guess that's just you... the thing that scares the crap out of me is off-tone DOS musics... probably from old childhood fears of that blooded face in DOOM (from when I was like 4 and had a blood phobia- I've sense grown out of it and no game/movie/tv show/anything "not real" [minus amnesia] has scared me)

 

[Internet Kraken]

Never quite understood this myself. I don't see what's scary about a game like Minecraft. It can certainly be very anxious, as the threat of death and unknown creatures coming to destroy your work is certainly stress inducing. However, I would not say that's scary. Still, it's not a horror game, so this really doesn't matter.

Also I can't believe people think Ghasts are creepy. They just have the generic creepy laughing and screaming that's been done so many times before. I don't see how that's scary. Also I find it hard to think of any incarnation of hell as scary when zombie pigs are trotting through it.

Creepy? well okay yeah I find it creepy at times... (the NPC story... notches brother... I forgot his name... that fake ghost story for the NPC human builder)

That entire thing is fake though and has no relation to the actual game, so how can the game be creepier as a result of it? That would be like someone saying Halo is creepy because they heard about some weird Xbox live story involving ghosts or some shit like that.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Walking around in a cave without torches on hard with headphones is pretty fucking scary.

Umm... again not really "scary" as much as it's startleing... because being able to see nothing... well... take any game with creepy sounds and play it with your eyes shut and see if you jump when you're not expecting something... as opposed to the thing that will keep you up at night...

that make sense?

No, not startling since nothing is jumping out at me. But man, the atmosphere is just damn creepy.

 

[WOPR]

WOPR, did you know that some countries have this notion that people are different, and have different (so called) opinions on stuff. It's a rather radical idea proposed by some philosophers that not everyone agrees on the same things, so what's scary to some might not be scary to others, it's an alien concept, to be sure, but some people might not find Amnesia scary, and some people might find Dead Space scary (or, heavens forbid, actually GOOD, can you imagine?).

Yeah, minecraft is one of the scariest things I've played lately. You just get so invested in it.

Ahh okay

and for the note of Dead Space "Good"?

I don't know where to stand

as a story/whatever it's CRAP (to me)
as for scares there are NONE (to me)
but fun? well I really liked RE4 and to me this is RE4 in space so it's fun to play (again to me)

and yes I know people are different, I know I'm different, and don't treat me like that *shakes head*

what bugged me was saying "well it made me jump, that means it's scary!" because no

making you jump means it startled you

if it scared you (for example) you would be laying awake in bed all freaked out and tense thinking that one of the things from the game was going to get you

that feeling

and on another note, have you played Amnesia? just wondering?
because I've put up with a ton of minecraft fan-boys that say "Amnesia isn't scary and you're a sissy for thinking so!" ...when they've never played Amnesia, and they just said it as a blind defense that was poorly presented

 

[Avaholic03]

There's different kinds of scary. I've been startled a few times when a hidden skeleton starts firing arrows my direction (especially if my sound was up), or by a creeper appearing in my house and blowing the place up. But that's a pretty shallow kind of scary. Definitely nothing that will stay with you.

 

[WOPR]

Walking around in a cave without torches on hard with headphones is pretty fucking scary.

Umm... again not really "scary" as much as it's startleing... because being able to see nothing... well... take any game with creepy sounds and play it with your eyes shut and see if you jump when you're not expecting something... as opposed to the thing that will keep you up at night...

that make sense?

No, not startling since nothing is jumping out at me. But man, the atmosphere is just damn creepy.

Creepy? well okay yeah I find it creepy at times... (the NPC story... notches brother... I forgot his name... that fake ghost story for the NPC human builder)

 

[Tsunimo]

No.
Its creepy when you go into the underworld and hear the ghasts through walls screeching at you for you demise.
Its suprising when you hear the a sissle and then explode.
Its not scary

 

[Krion_Vark]

I think the possibility of burning down my house, or starship enterprise, is simply terrifying.

No, what I'm talking about is what my "friends" say... they freak out every time a creeper is right behind them and they don't know it's there

As long as you have sound you can hear the monsters if they are near you so its not scary but then again I can hear monsters through like 10 layers of walling.

 

[Count Igor]

Yurs

I never go out at night. I stay locked inside my fortress or tree fort.

 

[BlindChance]

Minecraft recently made me jump out of my skin.

I was working on a mine just below my bunker. You know how it is. You make a bunker to stay alive through the night. Then you need something to do at night, so you begin mining. As I went down, I found a nice vein of coal. I get in and begin digging, and then do the stupid thing of digging directly below me.

Woosh.

Suddenly I've dropped a heart-stopping distance. It is pitch black. I am likely to be eaten by a grue. And there are monster noises everywhere.

Yup, I'm getting torches out quick smart. Turns out I'm in a vast underground cavern. There's even an underground river here. Oh... darn.

The thing about Minecraft is that, being emergent and unscripted, it can creep the heck out of you no matter how long you've been playing it. And, also, since there's no saving or reloading, doing things like building on high ledges becomes quite tense, as do bad situations if you accidentally get lost and night is falling. (I can't wait for 'hardcore' mode; an optional mode that will enforce permadeath. I can only imagine how tense that will make the game.)

Eternal Darkness

See, here's where I'm baffled in turn. You were scared by Eternal Darkness? I thought it was a fun pulpy Lovecraftian romp, but it was barely scary at all.

(Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Ravenholme in Half-Life 2 also scared me.)

 

[[Insert Name Here]]

Sometimes... Deep underground with little to no light, hearing a skeleton move but not knowing where it is only to find out that it's around the next corner, and that fucking arrow noise makes me jump every time.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Walking around in a cave without torches on hard with headphones is pretty fucking scary.

Umm... again not really "scary" as much as it's startleing... because being able to see nothing... well... take any game with creepy sounds and play it with your eyes shut and see if you jump when you're not expecting something... as opposed to the thing that will keep you up at night...

that make sense?

No, not startling since nothing is jumping out at me. But man, the atmosphere is just damn creepy.

Creepy? well okay yeah I find it creepy at times... (the NPC story... notches brother... I forgot his name... that fake ghost story for the NPC human builder)

I remember that pasta, that was pretty weird.

 

[Tony Edwards]

It could be scary only if your a complete minecraft nerd.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

I think it can be.

I mean, being alone, in the dark, in some cave in the middle of nowhere and hearing familiar sounds would scare the hell out of me.

Also, if you don"t find it scary enough, there's always

Spoiler: Please, no clicking if you're easily scared and are enjoying Minecraft, I know people who have stopped playing because of this

the legend of Herobrine. Even though it's sort of proved to be fake, it's still creepy as hell.

 

[Weslebear]

Horror games and I don't even bat an eyelid. Minecraft? Sometimes I refuse to go into caves if it looks too scary >_>.

Something about the simple and creative nature of the game makes my imagination run wild with anything it's got, such as a few creepy sounds, making them into terrifying howls from the darkness. I hate my imagination sometimes.

Whereas in actual horror games it always feels too forced to be scary and too predictable, it's when you feel completely safe that you can be most scared really.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Anyone who follows SeaNanners' Let's play of Minecraft will remember his last episode, when he ventured to the nether realm and cried like a girl because of the uber creepy atmosphere and terrifying flying jellyfish monsters.......... they will remember.... and they will ROFL.

 

[Audio]

The sound of skeletons sneaking up behind me always make me poop myself. When i find a handful of diamond deposits and i want to make it back home safely, i keep well away from the spiders. And of course creepers...if they EVER get on my boat and destroy it, i may just go Emo

 

[Swaki]

eh, depends on the situation, for instance i was about to move my camp to a better mining place, so i packed up all my stuff, had a trail of torches to guide me and moved out, then i saw something shiny so i ran towards it and fell down a hole next to a couple of enemies, that was scary because i knew if i died, well then goodbye 20 hours of resource gathering.