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What do you find scary?
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Games that scared me:
Call of Cthulhu. Alot of it is cerebral terror. You have to think about it for it to be frightening.
Doom 3 was haunted-house scary. "Boo!" Mildly creepy, certainly made you heart race.
Ravenholm.
RE 4, the lonelyer parts of the Island were nice and creepy.
Hunter Synths are scary in a "oh shit" sort of way. close combat with them is very stressfull.
Half-Life's aquatic areas were very, very scary. I cant wait to see what the Black Mesa mod does with them.
Halo:CE, where the Flood first turn up, was the first truly scary game sequence I ever saw, it being the first real narrative PC game I ever played.
On a more general level, things like lobotomy and serious brain injury realy creep me out on a deep level. the way I see it, your brain comes with a warranty that you are You, but as soon as it gets opened up, that warranty is void. Then, who are you?
Call of Cthulhu. Alot of it is cerebral terror. You have to think about it for it to be frightening.
Doom 3 was haunted-house scary. "Boo!" Mildly creepy, certainly made you heart race.
Ravenholm.
RE 4, the lonelyer parts of the Island were nice and creepy.
Hunter Synths are scary in a "oh shit" sort of way. close combat with them is very stressfull.
Half-Life's aquatic areas were very, very scary. I cant wait to see what the Black Mesa mod does with them.
Halo:CE, where the Flood first turn up, was the first truly scary game sequence I ever saw, it being the first real narrative PC game I ever played.
On a more general level, things like lobotomy and serious brain injury realy creep me out on a deep level. the way I see it, your brain comes with a warranty that you are You, but as soon as it gets opened up, that warranty is void. Then, who are you?
Other than the usual (evil people with guns or sharp, pointy things), alligators. I'm a native fish nut and often collect fish (for keeping in aquaria) at night. You see the occasional snake or coon, or hear coyotes or even a panther or bear if you're far enough out in the country, but those are all things that want to avoid you. However some of the guys collect in southern Florida and Louisiana, where there are alligators! That water is black with tannins, so you can't see even a foot through it. They are often chest deep in that black water, even at night, running seines while keeping watch for alligators. That freaks me out just thinking about it. I love to fish Florida; no way am I wading in its fresh water. For some reason being chest deep in the ocean doesn't bother me (even though after I saw Jaws in Florida everything that struck our legs for the rest of the week chased us out of the ocean), but just the thought of wading in fresh water gives me the creeps.
Oh, and those foot long carnivorous centipedes and six inch long scorpions some people keep as pets, those totally freak me out. I'd never go to sleep with one of those in the house.
As to the bull sharks, they caught a six foot specimen in Ohio a couple decades back. But then a guy caught an alligator gar just shy of eight feet long and three hundred pounds a hour away from my house, so I guess the bull shark doesn't really scare me that much.
Oh, and those foot long carnivorous centipedes and six inch long scorpions some people keep as pets, those totally freak me out. I'd never go to sleep with one of those in the house.
As to the bull sharks, they caught a six foot specimen in Ohio a couple decades back. But then a guy caught an alligator gar just shy of eight feet long and three hundred pounds a hour away from my house, so I guess the bull shark doesn't really scare me that much.
You're scared of commitment? You sure you're not a guy. Because thats the greatest number 1 excuse for a man when he does something stupid in a relationship. Well, I guess women can have a a fear of it too.. but its ours! You get your own damned fears, woman!
Ah yes. That would be what I did then. But it was quick. I can see why you have that fear... if it was slow.. *shudders*Erana said:
Any form of asphixiation would scare me. Oh... and there's this one EvE chronicle that added a real fear of that kind of death...
I feel obliged to say, if you're squeamish, don't read it. I'm not squeamish and it still left me feeling nauseous.
http://www.eve-online.com/background/potw/29-01-07.asp
Real life
*Pain, then death in the same scenario.
*Losing my other ear, lost my left one (hearing) a week ago
*Silence and a void.
Gamez
*Ravenholm Freaked me out, those fast zombies are the most scary.
*The signs in Portal and Assassins Creed,(Ending)
*Unexpexted deaths being pushed into your face.
*Seeing things in the mirror that isn't your reflection.
*Pain, then death in the same scenario.
*Losing my other ear, lost my left one (hearing) a week ago
*Silence and a void.
Gamez
*Ravenholm Freaked me out, those fast zombies are the most scary.
*The signs in Portal and Assassins Creed,(Ending)
*Unexpexted deaths being pushed into your face.
*Seeing things in the mirror that isn't your reflection.
Reality:
Drowning, death by fire...pretty much any slow, painful death.
Uncertainty and the unknown.
Dangerous OR big snakes that aren't in a container/cage.
Losing limbs.
People and what they're capable of (no offense to you guys).
Games:
Dark corridors with lots of baddies (dungeon trudging was never much fun for me).
Historical inaccuracy presented as fact.
Creatures that jump out of no were and land on your body.
Drowning, death by fire...pretty much any slow, painful death.
Uncertainty and the unknown.
Dangerous OR big snakes that aren't in a container/cage.
Losing limbs.
People and what they're capable of (no offense to you guys).
Games:
Dark corridors with lots of baddies (dungeon trudging was never much fun for me).
Historical inaccuracy presented as fact.
Creatures that jump out of no were and land on your body.
The last thing that scared me was having a 19 year old Texan explain to me the ins and outs of his hand guns 'back home'.
Then trying to convince me in that deadpan drawl that it was necessary to carry a loaded gun at all times for his personal safety from "niggers, beans, chinks, poor people, people from 'bad neighbourhoods' (ie: me) and anyone who doesn't go to church (also me)". Then that the UK's gun laws were 'retarded' because he wasn't aloud his guns here.
Never left anyone's house as quickly as that day.
Other scary thing:
Spiders
Headcrabs
Open water
Jack Thompson
Then trying to convince me in that deadpan drawl that it was necessary to carry a loaded gun at all times for his personal safety from "niggers, beans, chinks, poor people, people from 'bad neighbourhoods' (ie: me) and anyone who doesn't go to church (also me)". Then that the UK's gun laws were 'retarded' because he wasn't aloud his guns here.
Never left anyone's house as quickly as that day.
Other scary thing:
Spiders
Headcrabs
Open water
Jack Thompson
Reality: drowning.
Games: I would say Silent Hill 2, but since you had QS and QL, it wasn't that scary. I actually got pretty scared in the "Crypt 1" level of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I was there, killing off the zombies in the a small claustrophobic room, and turned around to see the face of those warrior things with his light green eyes and smoke coming out of them. I literally screamed in 1:00AM and woke up my whole household.
Also, everytime I get a an escort mission in a game, a timed mission, or a defend the base mission, I want to cry. If I get a combo of the three, then I scream...
EDIT: I also forgot to mention the Marine campaign in AvP2. I really panicked in the beginning of the game, when you have that rescue mission in the Alien hive and then have to escape.
Games: I would say Silent Hill 2, but since you had QS and QL, it wasn't that scary. I actually got pretty scared in the "Crypt 1" level of Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I was there, killing off the zombies in the a small claustrophobic room, and turned around to see the face of those warrior things with his light green eyes and smoke coming out of them. I literally screamed in 1:00AM and woke up my whole household.
Also, everytime I get a an escort mission in a game, a timed mission, or a defend the base mission, I want to cry. If I get a combo of the three, then I scream...
EDIT: I also forgot to mention the Marine campaign in AvP2. I really panicked in the beginning of the game, when you have that rescue mission in the Alien hive and then have to escape.
I agree. I mean, it's like a one hit kill that is mobile and hard to see.The_root_of_all_evil said:
I'm honestly ashamed. Third page of the thread, and no one has mentioned System Shock 2?
http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php/topic,764.0.html
This game isn't even a horror game, and it's still the scariest thing I've ever played. Get the graphical updates, play alone with the headphones on, and it's guaranteed to scare the spleen out of you.
There are so many things, like the passionless voice of XERXES, the security AI, as he calmly informs the entire level of your trespassing and initiates a wave of continuously-respawning mutated human enemies (this is only if you're spotted by a security camera, so it's not game-breakingly cheap) which you have to hold off alone (no environmental traps) with extremely limited ammunition and breakable weapons.
Also, the protocol droids, innocuous robots who stumble quickly toward towards you with a gait that clearly shows that they're being forced against their will (they've been hacked) and explode in your face.
And creepy music, dismembered corpses with horrified expressions, the eerily distorted, cheerful voices of the matter replicators, watching the random ghost of a crewmate appear out of nowhere and reenact their horrible death...
and SHODAN.
http://www.strangebedfellows.de/index.php/topic,764.0.html
This game isn't even a horror game, and it's still the scariest thing I've ever played. Get the graphical updates, play alone with the headphones on, and it's guaranteed to scare the spleen out of you.
There are so many things, like the passionless voice of XERXES, the security AI, as he calmly informs the entire level of your trespassing and initiates a wave of continuously-respawning mutated human enemies (this is only if you're spotted by a security camera, so it's not game-breakingly cheap) which you have to hold off alone (no environmental traps) with extremely limited ammunition and breakable weapons.
Also, the protocol droids, innocuous robots who stumble quickly toward towards you with a gait that clearly shows that they're being forced against their will (they've been hacked) and explode in your face.
And creepy music, dismembered corpses with horrified expressions, the eerily distorted, cheerful voices of the matter replicators, watching the random ghost of a crewmate appear out of nowhere and reenact their horrible death...
and SHODAN.
From the FEAR trailer: Fear... is a basic human emotion.
Which frightens you more: the evil that you know (shows heavily armed soldiers running down a hallway), or the evil that you don't know (shows Alma crab-walking freakishly down a hallway)?
It's the age-old battle of whether Resident Evil or Silent Hill is scarier. Which gets deeper under your skin: some horrible freakish beast jumping at your face... or the knowledge that around the corner, some horrible freakish beast might jump at your face, or maybe there'll be nothing there at all?
I personally would pick the Silent Hill option. Why? Well, with Resident Evil, where they directly insert horror into your face, you're forced to face the darkest terrors of the mind of a game designer, and I have to admit that they can come up with some genuinely scary stuff. For example, unnerving monstrosities that can be connected to reality are popular because they strike a note in most of us; zombies are scary because they were people once, and no one likes to think that their friends could be turned against theme. But that's the thing: that's a popular example.
Above, I have described "Resident Evil horror". They take the scariest thing they can think of, and they put it in front of you. Here's Silent Hill's trump card: it isn't the scariest thing they can think of. Sure, they put some f***ed-up stuff there, but that isn't the scariest thing by a long shot. Silent Hill isn't the scariest thing the devs can think of; it's the scariest thing YOU can think of. By putting the player in an environment in which he is constantly surrounded by a sort of tension that he can't quite put his finger on, he starts to get nervous. There's something wrong. You can't quite see it... but you know it's there. It gnaws at you. There's something about this place that sets it apart. It's beyond reality; in this place of terror, anything is possible. The fog-blanketed world is closing in around you, and it's sending chills down your spine. What on Earth is wrong?
Suddenly, you realize that everything is what's wrong. The whole of reality is turned against you, and whatever bad things are in your mind are suddenly hiding around the corner. You turn the corner... they aren't there. Where are they? They have to be somewhere in this terrible place. Are they in this room, that room, behind that door... no... and then you start looking around your room in real life. What if, while the most terrible creations of your mind are on the loose, something has passed beyond this little virtual non-reality? If all the scary things you can imagine can exist in Silent Hill, where the devs haven't put them, then they can certainly exist in the real world. You decide (rightly) that it's time for a break. You turn the game off.
But you didn't turn off all the terrible workings of your mind. They're no longer repressed, and now they're a part of your world. Now they aren't just waiting around the corners of Silent Hill. They're hiding in your world, and since you can't just turn off your mind, they're everywhere at once. Nowhere is safe from the terror that your own mind has brought into your perception.
Mission accomplished. THAT, my friends, is what makes a game scary to me.
Which frightens you more: the evil that you know (shows heavily armed soldiers running down a hallway), or the evil that you don't know (shows Alma crab-walking freakishly down a hallway)?
It's the age-old battle of whether Resident Evil or Silent Hill is scarier. Which gets deeper under your skin: some horrible freakish beast jumping at your face... or the knowledge that around the corner, some horrible freakish beast might jump at your face, or maybe there'll be nothing there at all?
I personally would pick the Silent Hill option. Why? Well, with Resident Evil, where they directly insert horror into your face, you're forced to face the darkest terrors of the mind of a game designer, and I have to admit that they can come up with some genuinely scary stuff. For example, unnerving monstrosities that can be connected to reality are popular because they strike a note in most of us; zombies are scary because they were people once, and no one likes to think that their friends could be turned against theme. But that's the thing: that's a popular example.
Above, I have described "Resident Evil horror". They take the scariest thing they can think of, and they put it in front of you. Here's Silent Hill's trump card: it isn't the scariest thing they can think of. Sure, they put some f***ed-up stuff there, but that isn't the scariest thing by a long shot. Silent Hill isn't the scariest thing the devs can think of; it's the scariest thing YOU can think of. By putting the player in an environment in which he is constantly surrounded by a sort of tension that he can't quite put his finger on, he starts to get nervous. There's something wrong. You can't quite see it... but you know it's there. It gnaws at you. There's something about this place that sets it apart. It's beyond reality; in this place of terror, anything is possible. The fog-blanketed world is closing in around you, and it's sending chills down your spine. What on Earth is wrong?
Suddenly, you realize that everything is what's wrong. The whole of reality is turned against you, and whatever bad things are in your mind are suddenly hiding around the corner. You turn the corner... they aren't there. Where are they? They have to be somewhere in this terrible place. Are they in this room, that room, behind that door... no... and then you start looking around your room in real life. What if, while the most terrible creations of your mind are on the loose, something has passed beyond this little virtual non-reality? If all the scary things you can imagine can exist in Silent Hill, where the devs haven't put them, then they can certainly exist in the real world. You decide (rightly) that it's time for a break. You turn the game off.
But you didn't turn off all the terrible workings of your mind. They're no longer repressed, and now they're a part of your world. Now they aren't just waiting around the corners of Silent Hill. They're hiding in your world, and since you can't just turn off your mind, they're everywhere at once. Nowhere is safe from the terror that your own mind has brought into your perception.
Mission accomplished. THAT, my friends, is what makes a game scary to me.
Gamewise(not completely sure reality wise), Deep water and Fog: who knows what lurks in there? what's worse is when you think that you've seen something, then it disappears, then it rears up right in your face...
Dark, abandoned mines,caves, and chasms. In Morrowind, I went into one where the only things I encountered were rats and precious ebony. After loading up with as much of it as I could carry, I looked at the map and saw a passage I hadn't explored yet, and, thinking that it was a shortcut out of there, I went for it. Then I realized I was going deeper, and that the hallway was well-lit with torch light. And then I realized that the source wasn't benign torches, but a tall figure,wreathed in fire, storming towards me. I died panicking...
Being resolutely alone also doesn't help, especially when you're used to working in groups. Republic Commando's first RAS Prosecutor mission comes to mind, when you've spent roughly half an hour wandering the bowels of a ghost ship, seeing and hearing your comrades picked off by machines and Trandoshans, seeing the corpses of the ships crew strewn through the halls, not encountering any serious opposition all the while, scares the hell out of me. Then , when you see an organized squad driving back the Trandos, you feel hope... Which is abruptly stifled when you're forced to watch the Trando officer mow them all down in seconds, then turn to you...
And sound. On Kasshhyykk in KOTOR, you stop to listen for a second, and you hear loud footsteps and a low growling... Yes, it's only the background noise, but it's very unnerving...
Finally(and this is more an "Ohhhh Hell" kind of scary), in Total War games, watching a huge enemy army off in the distance, thinking, "Ah, he's going to keep lumbering away in the mountains, routine movements." Then, upon hitting the Turn button, seeing him march through a shortcut right up to the gates of your city. kind of a dawning comprehension moment...
Dark, abandoned mines,caves, and chasms. In Morrowind, I went into one where the only things I encountered were rats and precious ebony. After loading up with as much of it as I could carry, I looked at the map and saw a passage I hadn't explored yet, and, thinking that it was a shortcut out of there, I went for it. Then I realized I was going deeper, and that the hallway was well-lit with torch light. And then I realized that the source wasn't benign torches, but a tall figure,wreathed in fire, storming towards me. I died panicking...
Being resolutely alone also doesn't help, especially when you're used to working in groups. Republic Commando's first RAS Prosecutor mission comes to mind, when you've spent roughly half an hour wandering the bowels of a ghost ship, seeing and hearing your comrades picked off by machines and Trandoshans, seeing the corpses of the ships crew strewn through the halls, not encountering any serious opposition all the while, scares the hell out of me. Then , when you see an organized squad driving back the Trandos, you feel hope... Which is abruptly stifled when you're forced to watch the Trando officer mow them all down in seconds, then turn to you...
And sound. On Kasshhyykk in KOTOR, you stop to listen for a second, and you hear loud footsteps and a low growling... Yes, it's only the background noise, but it's very unnerving...
Finally(and this is more an "Ohhhh Hell" kind of scary), in Total War games, watching a huge enemy army off in the distance, thinking, "Ah, he's going to keep lumbering away in the mountains, routine movements." Then, upon hitting the Turn button, seeing him march through a shortcut right up to the gates of your city. kind of a dawning comprehension moment...
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Politics
Social disorder
Christians
Bugs crawling on my face while I sleep
Driving - not my own, just other peoples driving
fat-free gravy
a world without perogi's
Politics
Social disorder
Christians
Bugs crawling on my face while I sleep
Driving - not my own, just other peoples driving
fat-free gravy
a world without perogi's