Your biggest fears that translate into games

[Worgen]

I'm sorry, but after reading this thread, I couldn't help but laugh at you guys; spiders? wasps? DEEP Water?? Seriously??? I mean, are you guys all a bunch of wimps? How on earth could ANYTHING in a video game POSSIBLY be terrifyin..........

OH DEAR GOD!!!​

[HEADING=2]ARRGHH!!! ARRGH!!! ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!![/HEADING]​

Sounds like you need some of this
My greatest fear is that ea takes over gaming.

 

[Ebulliant-Hater]

Put simply...

This is the reason I never finished Sonic the Hedgehog...or learned to swim until I was nine.

This. I'm both happy and sad to see someone else got as nervous and terrified as I did when that music started playing. For the longest time I hated games with timers for this, and frankly, didn't beat Sonic until I was 15 because of this.

 

[Drummie666]

I've always had arachnophobia (fear of spiders), so the frostbite spiders in skyrim always send a shiver down my spine.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

You too, huh? *shudder* I have a phobia of wasps. And what does DK country 1/2 (the game all my friends were obsessed with) have? MOTHER!@#$ING ZINGERS!! I HATED those bastards as a kid. Not only are they APE SIZED wasps, but they have spikes EVERYWHERE. Show me one of those in real life and I would go into cardiac arrest right there.

At least I've gotten over my phobia just a little bit. I don't flip the hell out and run around screaming when I see a wasp now.

What triggered your phobia? I used to react as you did too. I stepped on an underground Yellow Jacket nest as a 4 year old and ran screaming back to a building. 81 stings. It was something to do with my church. They still remember how they would take the wasps off, brush them off, squash them and how they'd still boomerang back to attack me.

8 years of terrible phobia and fearful responses to wasps/bees. 3 or so years of screaming in fear at ANYTHING flying near my head.

I do not like wasps.

Ai!! That's pretty bad...Way worse than me.

Well, in my case, I was 2 years old, eating a Popsicle on the back porch when a wasp decided it wanted it and stung me on the hand.

Then, years later I saw a wasp flying around a garbage bin, and I felt intrigued by it. I was afraid, yet curious. So I crouched down and stuck out my hand, the wasp landed gently on my index finger and *PAIN!!!*.

By this point I was really afraid of them. This, combined with people at school freaking out a bit at them, PLUS some nightmares, PLUS everyone at school deliberately making fun of my phobia...I eventually got terrified of being stung again. To the point where if I heard anything that sounded like buzzing at ALL, I would panic. Which just made people pick on me even more, making it worse, etc.

Now, I'm a lot more calm around them though, and it's my younger brother (Who I don't know if he's been stung of not) who is mind-numbingly terrified of them to the point where if we're eating outside and the bug net is open for even a minute he starts to panic.

>_<

 

[VladmirL]

A combination of spiders(I use the bear mod in Skyrim), swimming in a body of water with an unseen monster below, and very, very large bosses/enemies. Needless to say, the water colossus in Shadow of the Colossus was a very stressful experience for me.

 

[Diablo2000]

Spiders... I still haven't finished Penumbra because in certain point the game throw me in a cave full of the little bastards.
I also didn't go inside some caves in Skyrim because I did see some spider web in the entrance.

 

[TheColdHeart]

I'm claustrophobic so in games I hate small rooms, specifically small rooms you can't escape from once entered (although this is the same even with large ones). E.g ones with a drop before the entrance or a cut-scene locking door. I always try get out ASAP or hide.

 

[TipsyRam]

My biggest fear has not been in any game I've ever played, but my second biggest fear is the dark and finding out that there really is something in it.

 

[Elementary - Dear Watson]

I am a total needlephobe! Guess what part of bioshock I found the scariest? Yep, gaining powers... And little sisters were 1000 times scarier!

 

[5ilver]

Being alone. Thus,I have trouble wiht games like Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Honestly I'm just glad I'm not Chris Redfield himself when he had to fight those giant tarantula in Resident Evil or any other game characters who have to fight abnormal size archinids.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I learned to not get scared, but instead get angry.

Yeah, that really does help.

I used to be terrified of horror games of any kind. When I was younger...I couldn't sleep after a friend made me try playing the Gamecube remake of Resident Evil. >_<

But then, when I was trying to play Dementium on the DS...I realized that I could switch my mind into a more reckless rage-combat kind of mode...

By the end of the game I was creeping through dark hallways with my flashlight off, tracking my enemies by sound alone before putting a pistol round through their exposed hearts. So I've gotten much much better. Still can't handle Amnesia, though...That's out of my league right now.

Although my friends want to watch someone do a playthrough of a horror game, and they suggested silent hill, and I volunteered. Plus, the guy who we tried doing this to last time (he was playing Dead Space) said "Oh hell no. I can barely handle Dead space, and that game isn't even THAT scary! I'm not going anywhere near silent hill!".

Put simply...

This is the reason I never finished Sonic the Hedgehog...or learned to swim until I was nine.

Yeah, the stressful music certainly doesn't help any. I never feared drowning in real life, but that music always got to me and made me hate all underwater sonic levels. ...SCREW YOU CHEMICAL PLANT AND YOUR ANNOYING SPINNY PLATFORMS IN A FLOODED SHAFT!!! >: ( I hated that part as a kid!

 

[rob_simple]

Put simply...

Spoiler

This is the reason I never finished Sonic the Hedgehog...or learned to swim until I was nine.

This. I'm both happy and sad to see someone else got as nervous and terrified as I did when that music started playing. For the longest time I hated games with timers for this, and frankly, didn't beat Sonic until I was 15 because of this.

Mate, I'm 24 and I've never beaten this zone, I just turn into a mess of nerves every single time.

To put that in perspective, the only other time I've ever done that in a game was when Pyramid Head appears in Silent Hill 2.

 

[PinkiePyro]

surprisingly most of my many fears dont translate to video games

its like I have 2 sets of fears

spides/wasps guns strangers (someof my real fears)

in games Im scared of open spaces and darkness and strange blood like stains

 

[doomspore98]

The fear of knowing that whatever you are going to do you will die. ie Red Dead: the final level. BTW spoilers. If someone could diagnose this that would be awesome

 

[Xannidel]

I HATE snakes but I have not really found a game that had snakes that I was honestly afraid of. The closest game that one of my friends played that I watched was the first Resident Evil, that snake did scare the piss outta me.

Also water levels in FPS games that have monsters in them, Dark Forces 1 was never completed for me because of the 3rd level's sewer sections.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Any kinds of bugs or arachnids of unusual size... or numbers

Spiders are the worst offenders though and it's also the most recent one i have in mind with the spiders that kept popping up in Uncharted 3. Even worse on Crushing when they weren't just creepy as fuck, but also posed an actual threat as some points.

Only thing that would be worse than giant spiders would be a giant butterfly because seriously... Ron Weasley, you may've wanted to follow the butterflies instead, but have you seen a butterfly up close? They're even worse to me than spiders are and that's saying a lot 'cause spiders have weird teeth and a scary amount of eyes.

 

[Vault101]

Its called "party"

through a series of event I end up in a car with people I dont know...out to a party in a place Im not familar with..its the middle of the night and the goal is to get home

 

[Dalek Caan]

Zombies, saw a movie at a friends house and now I hate them. Funny thing is that I like it when Zombies are in games. Gives me a chance to face my fear and blow there bollocks off.

 

[I Max95]

let's see, what are my fears

bees/wasps/hornets (mostly wasps) doesnt really effect me in a game, bees are never really dangerous in games

close up shots of insects (it's the eyes, those freaking eyes!) hasnt effected me in games, unless you count that one Video for The Last of US with the Ant...so gross

the parinoia that there is somebody hiding in my closet/standing right behind me, i dont play very much survival horror, though i did freak out at one point in Bioshock when a houdini Splicer was standing directly behind me, not making a sound

outside at night, it isnt a fear of the darkness, i'm fine with darkness when i'm inside, it's outside where it really bothers me, but games never really showed me any environment dark enough to make me that afraid