Poll: What is your rank on the 'spook meter'?

[Awake-]

1 as in I-pissed-my-pants-playing-left-4-dead and 10 is my-secret-identity-is-Joker.

I'm basically option 8, it's not so much as it is the jumpers than it is the atmosphere. When the atmosphere is truly gloomy and creepy, shoot anything that moves. I consider my greatest gaming feat to be completing Alan Wake.

 

[MisterShine]

Only two games have ever freaked me out, the first being System Shock 2 and the other being Metro 2033. I can't really play either of those games for more than an hour or so before I start getting freaked out at everything. Other than those two, I only get mildly anxious playing them in the dark, but they don't affect me much after I stop playing them.

And lets not talk about the time I was playing SS2 and my cat rubbed against my leg right as I turned around and some hybrids were standing RIGHT behind me to eat my face, and I proceeded to shriek and flip out of my chair onto the ground.

 

[scnj]

I went 10. I love horror games and the adrenaline rush from getting scared.

Unfortunately, it seems to happen less and less often nowadays.

 

[Lust]

I'm a 10...................hahahaha.

Yeah, I can play pretty much any horror game anytime without losing it.

 

[Gigaguy64]

Im pretty good with Horror.
Im about a 8, i can get scared but, it takes a bit.

 

[Betancore]

I'm pretty bad with anything scary, so I always need to be around other people when I'm playing a horror game. And then afterwards I'm paranoid for a long time.

 

[Awake-]

I once played Fatal Frame for about fifteen minutes before turning it off. To prevent the need to go to the restroom, I refrained from drinking water the entire day.

 

[Doctor VonSexMachine]

I am an intense coward. After the Dunwich building (which I happened upon wondering the wastes) I put that goddamn game away for more than a month.

 

[TheTaco007]

Somewhere between a 6 and a 7

 

[Awake-]

I am an intense coward. After the Dunwich building (which I happened upon wondering the wastes) I put that goddamn game away for more than a month.

And I was about to roam that area too, looks like I'll stay away for a short while.

Fallout always scares you anyway. With a world that depressing, prepare to see a new horror at every corner.

 

[Chamale]

I voted 10. However, I can't enjoy horror games without being scared, so I deliberately make myself more of a coward when I play so I can enjoy them more. When I play Left 4 Dead 1, I drop down to a 6 or 7 when I need to be scared for the experience. When I'm playing competitively, I just stay at 10 so my aim isn't affected by any jittering.

When I'm playing something not particularly scary like the Half-Life 2 episodes, I need to drop down to a 2 so I can be properly scared by the experience.

 

[Mr. Doe]

it really depends on the kind of horror I can deal with unatmospheric horror levels (Midget Napolean is a huge Big Lipped Aligator that just doesnt go away) but stuff like the dunwhich building in Fallout 3 and the Thief games (the tense feeling you get as you creep along just inches away from a Guard not knowing what exactly is ahead is utterly terrifying)

 

[Drexlor]

I don't really play a lot of horror games but I don't really get scared too often, I just get jumpy.

 

[Angus565]

I can play them but I don't really enjoy them. I'm to tense waiting to see what will jump at me next-DID THAT CHAIR JUST MOVE?! AAAAH SHOOT IT DEAD!!

That's actually usually my reaction when games play the old "moving furniture and random objects around" trick.

 

[Booze Zombie]

I like to think of myself as a nine on the scale, jump-scares always surprise you the first time.

 

[Sexbad]

Come on, FEAR isn't scary at all. I'm not scared by much of course, so I am a 10 on this scale, but FEAR is by far on the lowest ring of horror. Lights flicker and blood appears on walls and a girl appears in corners. Big fucking deal. Penumbra scares the shit out of me, but that's honestly the only time I'm scared.

 

[garfoldsomeoneelse]

The only game that I've ever been too stressed to play continuously was Doom 3. Sorry, even when I know for a fact what's coming next, I'm still a sucker for jump scares. It was made worse by the fact that I was playing it on a less-than-stellar PC, so the framerate was low and made the action jumpy and hard to control, which made it twice as scary.