What do you find scary?

[Rhayn]

Gamewise only Doom 3 and Half-Life 1 have had me scared.

In Doom it's not so much the demons that scare me, it's the fact that there are none. Also, that game is a whole lot less scary without sound. That's the way I played it trough, listening to radio. Only turned on the sound in bossfights or dialogues/PDA checks.

In Half-Life I hated the water-dwelling things. Only ever fought one (?), but avoided water like the plague.

In real life I'm afraid of big spiders, like really huge ones. Even on pictures and videos I get the creeps.

As a kid I was terrified of hights, but on the later years I've sort of gotten over it. Intresting that.

 

[DeathsAmbassador]

Spiders, everything about them, even the word Spiders freaks me out!

 

[stompy]

The dark. In both real-life and in video games, I hate it when there's very little light. I also hate creepy music. IT sends a shiver down my spine, and, well, I don't like scary games in general.

 

[Lazy Lemon]

In games:

Being chased by something that's behind you so you can't see it and don't know how far behind you it is. Condemned 2 (haven't played the first one) does this very well on several occasions. Too well, in fact. I had to walk out of the room to get a grip of myself several times when that bear is chasing you.

When you can hear something nasty lurking around but you don't know where it is. Especially when you know it's looking for you. System Shock 2 is the best for this because the things they say just ad to the creepyness.

IRL: Ghosts mainly, even though I know they don't exist.

 

[shatnershaman]

Bugs,snakes,big cats

 

[Frybird]

Moments of expectation before something inevitably bad happens. Whether it's a jump scare in Movies, the Moment before you get hurt (in an accident or whatever) or knowing that you will soon die without a way around it (not that i know anything about that, thankfully).
For me, it's worse than the actual moment when the bad thing happens.

Also, Big Spiders and anything fictional Spider-like, especially Facehuggers

 

[Random Argument Man]

Anything that cuts. I'm even afraid and about to piss in my pants, when someone point a plastic butter knife at my face.

 

[Novajam]

Not sure if this is a "real life things that scare us" or a "video game things that scare us thread" so I'll put both.

Real: When you hear a noise. As in something falls and makes a noise outside and you look in the direction and you try to tell yourself everything is okay but you're so shitted out by it that you think there's a guy behind you with a balisong knife behind you and know that turning around will only seal your fate.

Also I used to think there was a Dalek in the shower.

Video Game: Wide open spaces. In things like Crackdown or GTA sometimes I found myself flying/swiming so far to the edge of the map that I completley lose sight of land/boats/anything and I have a sort of freakout because theres nothing to align my vision with. I'd bet this would work on me in real life too but have fortunatley been lucky enough not to find out.

Edit: Though of lots more. Jeez I'm a wimp.

Enemies that jump out at you in games, especially when you've got no idea where they are or how to kill them. Main reason I didn't play a lot of Oblivion.

When you accidentally walk though something in that game you're not supposed to and end up walking on the opposite site of the wireframe that is the game world, and you see weird textures and shadows and freaky stuff. Not really scary, but a shock when you're in the happy zone playing a game and then it breaks and you've no idea what to do.

In real life, that I'll somehow end up in a fight and it will end up badly for me (i.e. In a lot of pain). Not sure why, just seems like something that would happen.

And Heights/Pits of insects/Electronic Arts. You know, all the cliches.

 

[hazakura]

The unknown,

 

[Takatchi]

My fears are wide and varied. Among them:

Krakens. No, really. Fucking krakens. I cannot swim in water where I know something big enough to qualify as a sea monster might be lurking. The ocean scares the living hell out of me past, like, the coral reefs.

Heights. I really don't like the uncontrollable aspect of falling. If I were to fall from a great height, I wouldn't want to be conscious for the ride, because knowing and dreading those seconds before my skull splatters across the sidewalk is something I never want to do.

 

[zacaron]

My biggest fear is being eaten alive.

 

[Hippobatman]

Lonelyness isn't very appealing to me in games. There are parts in Bioshock which make me equip the grenade launcher and apply the 'blow everything to pieces, ask questions later' policy.

My biggest fear in real life is to swim in the ocean where I can't see the bottom. I'm afraid that evil sharks or jellyfishes from hell are going to kill me

 

[Erana]

Maids.
Those chicks are like lolita soft-core porn that everyone mistakes for cute and innocent. I'ts Foreplay! *twitch*
That, and they flock to me, attacking me with Japanese pamphlets.

 

[Lazzi]

There's something not quite right about African Grey parrots. They look like they know.. something. And that, puts me at unease.

Well the thing, they DO know. They have the mental compacity of a 5 or e year old and thats more than enough mental compacity to sow the seed of choas

On that note I have a fear of Ducks and geese. thses jsut some thign abotu bill that has always creeped me out. Tehn again i coudl be that i was chased by a whoel flock of those giant geese when i was 4.

I hate catipiler and grubs. i cant stad spider and other archnids. And i actully enjoy snakes but as soene as you show me any thing soft and lackign a skeleton of any sort i wil freak.

And i like one else i have the generic fear of coulded vison, blindness, falling (not hieghts) and generaly being ingested. All i have psycological issues with infinetly and zero, not that i cant deal with the i math but the whole inter phyolosphical under standing of the has actully given me a panic attack.

 

[John Galt]

Christian Fundies & loneliness. Even worse, being trapped in a world inhabited solely by Fundies. However, the two were combined quite nicely in Bioshock. Granted, the fundie-ism only went as far as them reciting childrens' rhymes but it still made for a nice atmosphere.

I will say that if anyone has a fear of going blind, a quick trip to /b will cure you. There are far worse things than being unable to see what horrors they're fapping to right now. Namely, the horrors that they're fapping to right now.

 

[Hellion25]

Sheep. Seriously I got surrounded by a group of em in Wales when I was a kid and one of them wanted the food I was eating and took it upon itself to jump up me a crush my bits with its hooves. That sucked.

In reality the scariest thing I can imagine is waking up without any sort of physical faculties (sight, movement etc) but still having ful mental faculties so that I fully realise how helpless I am yet can do nothing about it.

 

[Somethingironic]

Prison. I hate the idea of living in total isolation with a bunch of other men, some of which are mentally unstable, and would have no problem with killing or raping anybody and everybody.

 

[MK-Smash]

The dark recesses of a cave. Particularly Mammoth Cave. What exists within those dark, unexplored areas tens of miles beneath the surface? What?

Edit: i did NOT enjoy the battle with The Pain, or that whole cave section, in Snake Eater.

 

[Prozoquel]

Sicknesses. Diseases. That whole thing. Seriously, tangible external threats never scare me, they just get me excited and get my adrenaline pumping and I'm a bit of an adrenaline junkie anyways. But I cannot stand the thought of something inside me, killing my body and I can't do a thing to stop it except take some medication or wait out the pain and hope for the best. I love heights and driving stupidly fast and all that stuff, but I have an almost unbearable fear of sickness.

Edit: I guess narrow-minded religious people also scare me, because they show how idiotic and superstitious the human race can be.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

Eternity , not death just the idea of forever, its creepy that there is no end.