STALKER can get really creepy, especially since the default difficulty is MASTER! but thats a rant for another thread. I was talking about the bit in the tunnels, where theres military and bandits and weird things with tentacles for faces, and its pitch black and if they catch you unawares its death. yeah, creepy.
What do you find scary?
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Spiders: I have no clue why, probably because they don't make any sounds when walking.
Heights: I love them in video games, but not in real life.
Heights: I love them in video games, but not in real life.
ok i know this is pathetic... but i played FEAR for the first time last year...
it freaked the crap out of me!
the first level was just too creepy...
it freaked the crap out of me!
the first level was just too creepy...
I should probably actually say what scares me now I've posted on this thread so many times ha ha
Right...
Heat or burning
Suffocation
Heights
Insects
Physical contamination or disease
The sea
Isolation or loneliness
Seeing someone die or failing to save them
Silence
Blindness
The number 0 or Ouroboros symbols
Violence upon women
Wow, I never realised I was afraid of so much XD
Right...
Heat or burning
Suffocation
Heights
Insects
Physical contamination or disease
The sea
Isolation or loneliness
Seeing someone die or failing to save them
Silence
Blindness
The number 0 or Ouroboros symbols
Violence upon women
Wow, I never realised I was afraid of so much XD
The only thing that can scare me is something that's real.
And even then, there's a better chance that it'll just piss me off.
I'm afraid of the dark, though. For clarification.
And more importaint than what scares you, is whether or not you are willing to stand up to that fear.
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This brain dribble brought to you by THE LOGICIAN the man who can apologize for anything, and will, at the sightest provocation (sorry).
And even then, there's a better chance that it'll just piss me off.
I'm afraid of the dark, though. For clarification.
And more importaint than what scares you, is whether or not you are willing to stand up to that fear.
.................
This brain dribble brought to you by THE LOGICIAN the man who can apologize for anything, and will, at the sightest provocation (sorry).
In real life, the only REAL phobia I have (as in, not what would be considered a healthy fear) is of an insect touching me. Now, I'm not afraid of insects per se, but if one is touching me (direct contact on the skin) I have a little freak-out moment. Mr. Bug needs to get off of me or Mr. Bug is going to go squish.
In games? That's a bit more complex. Dark, lonely places get my hackles up, especially when it's raining. Things I can hear but can't see, that sound very close and very dangerous. Scenes of past violence without a clear explanation as to how it happened. (Seriously, every time I see a dead character surrounded by weapons and ammo, I don't feel joy. "Okay, that guy had all this and he's dead. How am I supposed to do better?") Being stuck in close quarters with a strong enemy when I'm underprepared.
Here's a handful of scenes or situations in video games that pretty well played with my head:
- Thief: The Dark Project- Return to the Cathedral. Took me 15 minutes to work up the nerve to go inside.
- Half-Life 2- Ravenholm. "I'm stuck in a city of the dead with a gravity gun and a handful of ammo, and my only backup is a crazy Russian priest. I'm dead."
- Gears of War- the first half of the Foundry level. One of the best-looking storms I've seen in a game.
- System Shock 2- the first time I saw a Rumbler. I opened the door to the Rec section, and something big, fleshy and extremely angry came charging at me with this ear-splitting roar. And I only had my wrench equipped. Oh, and there was finally getting to Polito's office....
- Thief: Deadly Shadows- Robbing the Cradle. In its totality this was one of the most mind-twistingly unsettling levels I've ever played in a game, through sound, sight and story ("Wait. I thought it was an orphanage, THEN an asylum... it was both at once?!") but the moment that always sticks out in my mind is The Door. If you've played it then you know what I mean. I was at the bottom of those steps for five minutes with a broadhead nocked and ready.
- Doom 3- Delta Labs 1, until you retreive the Datalinker. If more of the game had tried for those psychological scares ("They took my baby") rather than the "BOO monster jumps out!" bits then I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
- FEAR- when Alma does that spiderwalking thing at you in the vents. Argh! I HATE that!
In games? That's a bit more complex. Dark, lonely places get my hackles up, especially when it's raining. Things I can hear but can't see, that sound very close and very dangerous. Scenes of past violence without a clear explanation as to how it happened. (Seriously, every time I see a dead character surrounded by weapons and ammo, I don't feel joy. "Okay, that guy had all this and he's dead. How am I supposed to do better?") Being stuck in close quarters with a strong enemy when I'm underprepared.
Here's a handful of scenes or situations in video games that pretty well played with my head:
- Thief: The Dark Project- Return to the Cathedral. Took me 15 minutes to work up the nerve to go inside.
- Half-Life 2- Ravenholm. "I'm stuck in a city of the dead with a gravity gun and a handful of ammo, and my only backup is a crazy Russian priest. I'm dead."
- Gears of War- the first half of the Foundry level. One of the best-looking storms I've seen in a game.
- System Shock 2- the first time I saw a Rumbler. I opened the door to the Rec section, and something big, fleshy and extremely angry came charging at me with this ear-splitting roar. And I only had my wrench equipped. Oh, and there was finally getting to Polito's office....
- Thief: Deadly Shadows- Robbing the Cradle. In its totality this was one of the most mind-twistingly unsettling levels I've ever played in a game, through sound, sight and story ("Wait. I thought it was an orphanage, THEN an asylum... it was both at once?!") but the moment that always sticks out in my mind is The Door. If you've played it then you know what I mean. I was at the bottom of those steps for five minutes with a broadhead nocked and ready.
- Doom 3- Delta Labs 1, until you retreive the Datalinker. If more of the game had tried for those psychological scares ("They took my baby") rather than the "BOO monster jumps out!" bits then I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
- FEAR- when Alma does that spiderwalking thing at you in the vents. Argh! I HATE that!
Brain damage.
That about says it all. The very idea is horrible. Terrible. The thought that something as innocuous and pervasive as an accident could utterly erase everything I am... that shit is uncomfortable. And it could happen if I, say, take the wrong medication. Stop breathing. Fall down. Get sick. Piss someone off. There are infinite scenarios out there that end with me as a wheelchair-bound, pants-shitting invalid. I can't even look at handicapped people - it turns my legs to water. And if someone still has the capacity to describe what they were, and regret what they are now... no. I'm not even going to think about it anymore.
As for games: the Ocean House Hotel in VtM: Bloodlines made me shriek aloud in the bright shiny middle of the day. And I had the foresight to be playing through as a Malkavian. The whispers. Whispers everywhere. People I can't see. Oh sweet undead gods help me, I'm going so mad I'm sane.
That about says it all. The very idea is horrible. Terrible. The thought that something as innocuous and pervasive as an accident could utterly erase everything I am... that shit is uncomfortable. And it could happen if I, say, take the wrong medication. Stop breathing. Fall down. Get sick. Piss someone off. There are infinite scenarios out there that end with me as a wheelchair-bound, pants-shitting invalid. I can't even look at handicapped people - it turns my legs to water. And if someone still has the capacity to describe what they were, and regret what they are now... no. I'm not even going to think about it anymore.
As for games: the Ocean House Hotel in VtM: Bloodlines made me shriek aloud in the bright shiny middle of the day. And I had the foresight to be playing through as a Malkavian. The whispers. Whispers everywhere. People I can't see. Oh sweet undead gods help me, I'm going so mad I'm sane.
I fear of drowning. Being suffocated to death by the giver of all life. Irony.
In video-games? Pretty much the only thing that has ever actually scared me was in Half-Life 2: Episode two at the part where you have to do the giant see-saw puzzle (yet again) with the bridge, and on the way down in one room you hear this really creepy rasping moan of agony, and once you gear yourself up to go into the room it turns out to be a damned poison headcrab zombie, which are my most hated enemies in the game.
That was quite the run-on sentence.
In video-games? Pretty much the only thing that has ever actually scared me was in Half-Life 2: Episode two at the part where you have to do the giant see-saw puzzle (yet again) with the bridge, and on the way down in one room you hear this really creepy rasping moan of agony, and once you gear yourself up to go into the room it turns out to be a damned poison headcrab zombie, which are my most hated enemies in the game.
That was quite the run-on sentence.
Crickets, Ravenholm, The Apocalypse, and a street very near where I live where at night it would fit a road leading into the thing I listed before The Apocalypse called Old Limey
No it won't. We're coddling stupid nowadays, so that they can live. I'm not all Eugenics-y where we should kill the weak and sick, but I'm just saying, if we were bison, Rodney, the tumor-infested Downs syndrome boy would be the first to go.Ultrajoe said:
I suppose I shouldn't tell you about the tiny insects living in your eyelashes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_mite], should I?The Rogue Wolf said:
Heights scare the living shit out of me, (my dad even more so), so I guess it runs in the family
other things that scare me include mob mentality, and having something incredibly grusome done to my eyes
in video games however, it is being alone, RE4 scared the living shit out of me for this and the horrfiying enemys
other things that scare me include mob mentality, and having something incredibly grusome done to my eyes
in video games however, it is being alone, RE4 scared the living shit out of me for this and the horrfiying enemys
Lol all it takes is Viagra seriously. All your blood would be elsewhere so you would have no capacity to be scared. Hell you would be like jiggaman and just drop your piece on the monsters head killing it.The Negotiator said:
