What do you find scary?
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For me, It's anything to do with the unknown. In real life I am terrified of swimming in water when I cannot see the bottom, and anything else of the like. If anything like this is in a game I am very hesitant to tackle it, and I ususally move slowly and tactfully through it, even when unecessary. In a game like FEAR or Half Life, I usually creep very slowly forward. At least it drags out gameplay time!
I'll never forget playing Doom when I was 9 or 10. It's the only game to date that gave me chills down my spine. Granted, I was just a kid. Nowadays, I love the classic Resident Evil stuff. I need to give Call of Cthulu a shot at some point.
I second Facehuggers, they must be the single most creepy thing someone ever invented. I'd rather face a fully grown Alien than being mouth-raped by a facehugger any day.
Two other things are:
- Being stuck in a deathtrap. Someone mentioned the Apeture Science Testing Grounds, other instances would be the Cube from the Cube Movies, or the deathtraps from Saw, although i find them much more scary when they have some sort of morbid logic behind it and seem to serve a scientific purpose, rather than some sort of punishment by a psychopath.
- Being alone, knowing something is out there to get you. I for myself find the build up to a "jump scare" much more scary than the scare itself. You know it will happen, you know you don't want to be scared, and you don't know when to expect it. I guess that makes Silent Hill so scary (the Games, not the Movie)
Two other things are:
- Being stuck in a deathtrap. Someone mentioned the Apeture Science Testing Grounds, other instances would be the Cube from the Cube Movies, or the deathtraps from Saw, although i find them much more scary when they have some sort of morbid logic behind it and seem to serve a scientific purpose, rather than some sort of punishment by a psychopath.
- Being alone, knowing something is out there to get you. I for myself find the build up to a "jump scare" much more scary than the scare itself. You know it will happen, you know you don't want to be scared, and you don't know when to expect it. I guess that makes Silent Hill so scary (the Games, not the Movie)
In real life, my biggest fears are:
1) Living things under the skin, especially if they move. Worms was terrifying.
2) Anything with a poisonous bite. I can't explain why on this one. They just are. I can sit through most horror movies laughing my ass off, but what makes me cringe? Snakes on a Plane.... god that's sad.
In a game, I'm not really sure if I've ever been really "scared". Mostly when games try to scare me, I tend to think it's cool.
A bonus to whomever said facehuggers. They basically combine my two big phobias.
- J
1) Living things under the skin, especially if they move. Worms was terrifying.
2) Anything with a poisonous bite. I can't explain why on this one. They just are. I can sit through most horror movies laughing my ass off, but what makes me cringe? Snakes on a Plane.... god that's sad.
In a game, I'm not really sure if I've ever been really "scared". Mostly when games try to scare me, I tend to think it's cool.
A bonus to whomever said facehuggers. They basically combine my two big phobias.
- J
Dude, you're not even trying.The Negotiator said:
Back to the facehugger, it manages to combine some of the basic fears; asphyxiation (buried alive, drowning, smothering); spiders, scorpions, rats; the unknown; the unbeatable; sex (Yeh...there's an oral side to that completely) and also predator behaviour.
I was once playing AvP in the Alien Lair when I heard a scuttling. This is the moment my cat decided to wrap round my legs.
She doesn't come near me when I'm on the computer now.
(There are videos on Youtube but I'm afraid I chickened out)
I second that. That's my biggest fear in a game.zen5887 said:
I also fear ninja clown chickens(don't want to mess with them!).
Since playing half-life when I was little, and combined with my natural fear of jellyfish, squid and octupi, as well as the fact I was once nearly swept out to sea... I'm now terrified of water in any game. And not exactly comfortable in real life. Stoopid water-monsters that you can only feasably kill with the crossbow but you always miss and then it comes to eat you. Grr. S'why playing through bioshock the first time scared the willies out of me. TOO MUCH WATER!
Same here. It got worse in the last levels of the game, because you always excpect a human encounter when you walk "behind the scenes". It was a weird feeling, because you wanted company, but not the wrong kind. So you searched for some, but always excpecting the wrong kind of company. It's a bit like the Stockholm-syndrome, I guess.Thunderhorse said:
Like a few other people around here my big fear is deep water. I had some bad experiences and now I rarely ever go swimming. Games that force you into deep water or have aquatic enemies always piss me off.
In games? Water. In reality I can go into lakes, rivers and the sea no problem. In games I don't like the water. I blame Morrowind mostly. It trained me to be wary of slaughterfish. Strange that I'm not afraid of mountains really; Cliffracers are another thing that have scarred me in ways I didn't think were possible.
A highly ironic Video-Gaming related fear when you consider how much I enjoy swimming in RL, and I haven't even seen any of the Jaws movies- BUBs. Big Underwater Beasties! Many of which can eat you whole in one go. Big Bubba in Mario 64. The Dianogas and Water Cycs in the Star Wars games. The eyeless pirahna (sp?) in the Turok games. Even the little bitty pirahna in Zelda's Lakebed Temple make me think twice before diving in, to say nothing of Gyorg.
None of these BUBs have ever prevented me from finishing a level though. That honor belongs solely to another creation of Star Wars- the Drugon. Like most protagonists, poor Kyle Katarn is helpless as a newborn kitten while in water, whereas these things are Lightsaber-proof, can eat him whole, and actually move pretty darn fast for their size. Glad they're only in one level. Translated into RL, this probably just a general fear of being eaten alive by underwater wildlife regardless of size- some of the things I've heard about Pirahna swarms creep me out, and humans by definition are a hundred times more vulnerable in water than on land.
None of these BUBs have ever prevented me from finishing a level though. That honor belongs solely to another creation of Star Wars- the Drugon. Like most protagonists, poor Kyle Katarn is helpless as a newborn kitten while in water, whereas these things are Lightsaber-proof, can eat him whole, and actually move pretty darn fast for their size. Glad they're only in one level. Translated into RL, this probably just a general fear of being eaten alive by underwater wildlife regardless of size- some of the things I've heard about Pirahna swarms creep me out, and humans by definition are a hundred times more vulnerable in water than on land.