THIS!!!! 2,000,000 times this!rob_simple said:Put simply...
This is the reason I never finished Sonic the Hedgehog...or learned to swim until I was nine.
Damn you Sonic, learn to swim!
Your biggest fears that translate into games
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Damn you Sonic, learn to swim!
Well the only one I take into video games is heights. I got being mildly scared of the dark from video games though.
Almost no concept scares me more than the idea of being pursued by something that means me harm and that I'm powerless to stop. I'm also unreasonably afraid of bears. So, you can imagine how I felt during that one section in Condemned 2. D:
Banshees.
Something about a ghostly woman wailing by herself in the darkness, and the doom that follows.
Naturally, if you're playing L4D with a guy called +UZO+, you'll *never* see me trying to crown the witch. I just slink past the ***** and think happy thoughts.
And there's things like those zombie things in Ocarina of Time that scream and make you freeze ... or pretty much ANY of the female ghosts in Zero/Zero II (aka Fatal Frame).
Mind you, I'm a huge horror nut and *love* games that scare the shit outta me ... so I in fact seek out my fear in games. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, etc.
Something about a ghostly woman wailing by herself in the darkness, and the doom that follows.
Naturally, if you're playing L4D with a guy called +UZO+, you'll *never* see me trying to crown the witch. I just slink past the ***** and think happy thoughts.
And there's things like those zombie things in Ocarina of Time that scream and make you freeze ... or pretty much ANY of the female ghosts in Zero/Zero II (aka Fatal Frame).
Mind you, I'm a huge horror nut and *love* games that scare the shit outta me ... so I in fact seek out my fear in games. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, etc.
Holy shit spiders. Giant spiders. Spitting venom spiders. *Shudder*
Also I have had several big knee injuries. So anytime I see a knee shot/torn off/blown off/ zoomed in on so I can see tendons snapping(NFL Blitz). I literally cringe every time.
...please don't make any arrow in the knee jokes.
Also I have had several big knee injuries. So anytime I see a knee shot/torn off/blown off/ zoomed in on so I can see tendons snapping(NFL Blitz). I literally cringe every time.
...please don't make any arrow in the knee jokes.
I have to say that abandonment for me. Not really something that incurs fear in video games exactly, but because my biggest fear is being abandoned by those I care about moments when that happens to characters tend to have a big emotional impact for me. Especially when it is a willing choice made out of either malice or sheer lack of caring.
Another is my fear of sharks, it's the reason why I haven't beaten the last Sly Cooper game, a section requires you to swim in water with sharks, and shoot them with a harpoon. The second you shoot them or they see you they start flying at you jaws wide and gnashing and... that is when I 'fear quit'.
Another is my fear of sharks, it's the reason why I haven't beaten the last Sly Cooper game, a section requires you to swim in water with sharks, and shoot them with a harpoon. The second you shoot them or they see you they start flying at you jaws wide and gnashing and... that is when I 'fear quit'.
Lack of control or sufficient resources. Dead Space freaks me out on higher difficulties when you have to fight seemingly endless waves with only a few clips. The last chapter of 2 nearly had me throwing my controller out the window and I played on hard for my first run, half the ammo of normal.
That and things inserted into the eye, not so much needles just the thought of something being forced into an eye and what it must be like for the victim. It scares the hell out of me. The needle scene in Dead Space 2 had me freaked even worse than the equally visceral third trial in Heavy Rain. It doesn't help that I'm a pilot and the loss of my eyes means a loss of my career and dream.
The feeling of being followed or chased. Amnesia was a living nightmare to play through, enjoyed it nonetheless though! (everytime the "they've spotted you" dramatic sounds came on i FREAKED).
My god, this. This is it so much. I haven't finished Amnesia yet because of this even though I love the game.ectoplasmicz said:
Also, sharks. Any game that has a swimming element in it will have me terrified that a shark will pop out and eat me. I'll still be paranoid about it even if I 120% know that there's no sharks in the water. This one stems from my brother allowing me to play Resident Evil as a kid. Bastard...
Deep water.
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You had to get right in front of both their faces too.
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You had to get right in front of both their faces too.
I would hide for a good 10 minutes after i knew i was safe, just to make sure...KefkaCultist said:
One of my biggest fears is the thought of suddenly becoming unfamiliar. One day suddenly nobody recognizes you anymore, you have no one, no place to go or things to do.
Like that Keane video, Crystal Ball.
And then there's the creepier version of that fear. When suddenly not only everything gets unfamiliar, but also uncanny and creepy, things just start to feel.. off.
An example of that would be in the book It, from Stephen King.
The suicide of this character, the black one. In the book it's said he killed himself because if the monster It could do all those things and bend reality at its will, then what was the point of science and physics?
If suddenly you can summon something out of nothing, you suddenly start to lose grip on reality... what's the point?
So he lost all his sense of reality and killed himself.
Scary thoughts.
Like that Keane video, Crystal Ball.
And then there's the creepier version of that fear. When suddenly not only everything gets unfamiliar, but also uncanny and creepy, things just start to feel.. off.
An example of that would be in the book It, from Stephen King.
The suicide of this character, the black one. In the book it's said he killed himself because if the monster It could do all those things and bend reality at its will, then what was the point of science and physics?
If suddenly you can summon something out of nothing, you suddenly start to lose grip on reality... what's the point?
So he lost all his sense of reality and killed himself.
Scary thoughts.
