What is the most Intimidated you've felt in a video game
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Some of FEAR messed with me when I was drunk at 2am in the morning.
First time I played Jedi Knight Academy. The Mutant Rancor scene was done really well. It was impossible to beat, It was quick and it breathed acid. 2nd time - not so much but then thats the same with most scary guys.
Half Life 2. Fast Zombies first time through was scary as hell. I don't care if you took in your stride and thought it was fine. I was pleasantly surprised to be requesting brown trousers when I'm armed with 2 shotgun shells, and a crowbar against 3 fast zombies coming at me.
First time I played Jedi Knight Academy. The Mutant Rancor scene was done really well. It was impossible to beat, It was quick and it breathed acid. 2nd time - not so much but then thats the same with most scary guys.
Half Life 2. Fast Zombies first time through was scary as hell. I don't care if you took in your stride and thought it was fine. I was pleasantly surprised to be requesting brown trousers when I'm armed with 2 shotgun shells, and a crowbar against 3 fast zombies coming at me.
Sephiroth in FFVII, Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts, Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts 2. Honestly, Sephiroth in any game, that guy's fucking hard.
Also, Bioshock 2. The second you hear the Big Sister's shriek, you know that it's time to count your blessings.
Also, Bioshock 2. The second you hear the Big Sister's shriek, you know that it's time to count your blessings.
Back when I was a little un of 10 or 11 playing diablo 2, finally managing to get to the bottom of the Monastery with my Holy Fire Paladin (lol yes you read that right), opening up the door to Andariels lair, seeing all the bones blood and fire as she came hurtling on to the screen before being wiped out in 2 poison novas.
It seems pifling now but back then it was terrifying.
It seems pifling now but back then it was terrifying.
The first time I entered the Choir Main Hall in Amnesia: The Dark Descent, my reaction was pretty much "Oh they don't expect me to go in there, do they? They do... Fuck this!"
For tose of you who haven't played the game, it's a huge open area that's filled with thick fog that makes it impossible to see more than a few meters away. And because it isn't darkness that limits visibility, the lantern doesn't help, and of course, there's monsters patrolling in there.
The basement area near the beginning of the game was pretty bad (in a good way), but the main hall was probably the "worst" area in the game.
For tose of you who haven't played the game, it's a huge open area that's filled with thick fog that makes it impossible to see more than a few meters away. And because it isn't darkness that limits visibility, the lantern doesn't help, and of course, there's monsters patrolling in there.
The basement area near the beginning of the game was pretty bad (in a good way), but the main hall was probably the "worst" area in the game.
I don't usually get intimidated by games, but I'm playing Fallout new vegas. On hardcore mode. I'm constantly afraid of dying, especially since I like to play stealthy and I'm sneaking around a lot. In most games, which has good stealth, I often find myself a bit scared, since if one enemy sees me I'm often dead. I like playing as rogue or assassin class.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl with Oblivion Lost mod, I was on a military base and when I was reading documents they mentioned a "dwarf" with amazing abilities that is immortal, since I killed one or two "dwarfs" (they are not really dwarfs that's just their names, they are mutants with burned flesh with amazing abilities like catching your bullets and throwing them at your face) I wasn't really scared, I was in a dark room and that thing was almost the same size as me, with a really red flesh, I fired 3 clips of TMP and 4 of AK74 to his face and he was still walking around like a boss.
Ravenholm is one of the intimidating places... on the first playthrough.
I'd say that huge octopus from The Witcher 2 has some effect though I went by "wow this is gonna be so much fun!" rather then "oh noezzzz imma dead for sure!" (standing there with just you trusty sword vs. something big as a small castle - I might add that first idea was to follow my WoW tank instinct as I run to hug "the boss" and died in hilarious fashion).
That ugly ass spider in Dark Messiah. Final boss had nothing on him!
I'd say that huge octopus from The Witcher 2 has some effect though I went by "wow this is gonna be so much fun!" rather then "oh noezzzz imma dead for sure!" (standing there with just you trusty sword vs. something big as a small castle - I might add that first idea was to follow my WoW tank instinct as I run to hug "the boss" and died in hilarious fashion).
That ugly ass spider in Dark Messiah. Final boss had nothing on him!
As some of you have said, many things from Demon's Souls... probably the most intimidating to me was the False King. Sephiroth from Kingdom Hearts was intimidating. Kingdom Hearts 2 Sephiroth, not quite as much.
Hmmm... what else... the final boss in FFXII. The rest of the little bosses you have to fight up to him were so easy, I was thinking "Really? What an easy ending. Or maybe I'm just badass." And then I get the final boss and his long segments of invulnerability while crushing my characters. I don't even want to THINK about Yiazmat.
Hmmm... what else... the final boss in FFXII. The rest of the little bosses you have to fight up to him were so easy, I was thinking "Really? What an easy ending. Or maybe I'm just badass." And then I get the final boss and his long segments of invulnerability while crushing my characters. I don't even want to THINK about Yiazmat.
I've played the game several times. Beaten it and gotten special weapons. I kick so much zombie ass in it that... Uh... I don't have a decent metaphor here. But no matter what...
Those freaking zombie leeches in Resident Evil 0 still intimidate the hell out of me.
Those freaking zombie leeches in Resident Evil 0 still intimidate the hell out of me.
I came into this thread to mention the flashback sequence in FFVII, where Sephiroth is in your party. Since at the time I was doing maybe 200 damage per hit, seeing him attack for the first time for 4000 damage... well that gave me pause for thought since it seemed inevitable I'd be fighting him sooner or later.Arkhangelsk said:
It's a very effective use of the game mechanics to show, don't tell. Cloud saying "Sephiroth is really powerful" is one thing. Seeing him actually in game doing his thing is quite another.
Made all the more so by the fact that I was new to JRPGs and unfamiliar with the way damage scales up as you progress.
The last boss in Persona 4, simply because unlike all other bosses there's absolutely no sign of weakness even when you get it to its second stage.
It basically says "fuck this, i'm just gonna instakill you all k thx bai" in a really unfazed voice when you get it to low health.
Also i was using a pretty fail Persona, note to self Priestess Personae are not to be relied upon during the final boss fight
It basically says "fuck this, i'm just gonna instakill you all k thx bai" in a really unfazed voice when you get it to low health.
Also i was using a pretty fail Persona, note to self Priestess Personae are not to be relied upon during the final boss fight
Facing the first major boss in Witcher 2. I was playing the game on hard, pre-nerf, and it took me hours to do it.
Following my recent harrowing experience, I'll have to say it's Amnesia: Dark Descent. I haven't even encountered an actual enemy yet, but there's just this constant feeling of oppression as if the "living shadow" is just waving it's hand in front of your face in a life-or-death cosmic-horror version of "I'm not touching you so you can't get mad" and letting you know that you are its ***** and whenever it wanted to it could kill you or drive you to insanity without a second thought.
No one said kefka from FF 6 ? 3 phases , one winged angle , you get to use EVERY single playable character to beat him ? I means you set up your characters from 1 to 17 ( i thibk cant remeber how many playable characters are in that game ) and when one died it go replaced by the next in line . Its like " you think you can defeat me? I shall kill ALL off you one by one ".
Another one is henry from No more heroes 1 . He was so bad ass. So calm and overconfident it was scary.
Another one is henry from No more heroes 1 . He was so bad ass. So calm and overconfident it was scary.
I would say the fight with Malus for Shadow of the Colossus. I first saw it, and i went "I have to fight THAT?!?"
My winner would have to be in the beginning of Dead Rising 2, when the zombie outbreak has just occoured, and you have to barge through swarms of zombies, carrying your daughter while all around you people are being dragged down and eaten alive. Despite the comedy in the rest of the game, that moment of helplessness and being overwhelmingly outnumbered was definately worrying.
Fighting Giygas in Earthbound. I went "AWW YEAH! HES GOING DOWN!" and fired a super-deluxe-bottle-rocket at him, and then...*Giygas Takes 10 damage! ...Giygas attacks! Ness cannot grasp the nature of Giygas's attack! MASSIVE DAMAGE*. Not to mention how freaky he gets once you beat his first phase, and then how he gets progressively more and more messed up as you damage him.
...Most scary final boss ever. He made me feel powerless, like no matter how hard I fought, he would only grow more and more insane until he consumed me and everything I stood for.
....Yeah, that was pretty intimidating. But I turned it on him. Every time I made progress against him, or he missed, I used Wander's whistle to tell the boss "I'm still here. I'm still alive. I'm still coming for you!"
...Most scary final boss ever. He made me feel powerless, like no matter how hard I fought, he would only grow more and more insane until he consumed me and everything I stood for.
You mean that last one? The one that you see in the distance and go "holy crap, THAT'S the last one?"? And then even getting to him is a pain in the ass because of his range?Gearhead mk2 said:
....Yeah, that was pretty intimidating. But I turned it on him. Every time I made progress against him, or he missed, I used Wander's whistle to tell the boss "I'm still here. I'm still alive. I'm still coming for you!"