Your in-game phobias

[Alcarohtare]

Am arachnophobic so all spiders scare me but my main in game fear is open water. This began with the level in Tomb Raider 2 where you have to swim to the wrecked ship. I hated that level and especially the huge shark which followed you and couldn't be killed.

 

[TheDarkKing]

Mostly gliches, cos i have a fear of my game suddenly messing up and me losing my whole (usually long) savegame (especially since my pokemon games died on me :'( )

 

[Sectan]

...this is embarrassing...for some reason when I play games I come down with a bad case of aqua phobia. I never finished Majora's Mask because when I looked in the strategy guide and saw that there were giant sea serpents ahead....I bailed. Same problem with wind waker, but I actually finished that one, but I muted it whenever I went out to sea, mainly because if an enemy showed up out there, THIS played.

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I had the same problem with Windwaker and OoT. I saw water and I was instantly uncomfortable. I didn't mind it so much in the boat in WW, but when I got knocked out of the boat I would basically panic trying to get back in. In OoT I would always use the iron boots to get underwater so I could at least see and fight anything that might be there instead of not knowing. The possibility of it watching...waiting...always waiting until I'm distracted then OH SHIT WHERE DID YOU COME FROM AHH GET TO SHORE LINK! NOW!!111one

 

[StephenRogers713]

The only thing that has ever disturbed me in games, though I don't play horror games because they'd probably kill me, is being underground, specifically basements. Just being bellow ground in a game freaks me out because I feel like something is going to attack me or I'll see something disturbing down there. Basically anything bellow sea level makes me want to go fetal. Maybe that's why I live a mile above sea level.

 

[LordKnightLani]

I'm okay with water and such, but I get seriously terrified by limited visibility. You know the situations; the storm segment in L4D2's Hard Rain, some of the bunkers in Fallout, or almost the entirety of Bioshock. I will happily face down any monstrosity video games can throw at me, be it giant spiders, underwater levels or instakill chase sequences. But as soon as a game takes away my ability to see well, I nearly instantly rocket up to panic.

A side note: For those of you who have a particular schick for chase sequences, take a look at the PS2 game Haunting Ground. Survival Horror where almost the entirety of the threat comes from immortal stalkers that are hunting you, that you can never kill, and are never truly safe from. And the chase music... that damned chase music...

 

[topwomble]

The fear of having to repeat a level all over again if I screw up.

 

[Zantos]

Hearing noises coming out of the nothingness. It could just be the wind, but when was the last time the wind said "Hostiles" to you?

 

[ABLb0y]

Broodmothers. Not because of what they look like, but because of what they ARE.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Do the Husks in Mass Effect count? Or maybe the naked Monster men in Penumbra Black plague. Howabout those? *shutters*

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

Hearing noises coming out of the nothingness. It could just be the wind, but when was the last time the wind said "Hostiles" to you?

Hhehehehee refrence get =D

 

[soulfire130]

pale little girls/undressed young women with a not so friendly look on their eyes and supernatural abilities, all meant to kill you painfully
thanks, F.E.A.R, i really enjoyed the ride, though it gave me more than one heart attack ^^

The demo of F.E.A.R 2 alone gave me three nightmares.O_O



OT: Beside anything relating to F.E.A.R, it would be the dark and water. The dark because it actually stems from my now former fear of the dark and that there were hardly and games that made being in the dark a good thing. The water because in games, more likely than not, there was something in the water that if they saw me would try to kill me. Fallout: New Vegas, Oblivion and Resident Evil 4 with a few other games that prove me right.

 

[dokidoki]

Hate hate hate dungeons. Especially if I have to navigate them solo.

 

[Auninteligentname]

I've played a lot of Zelda in my life, and I can say this simply; I hate water temples. No exeptions, the water temple will always be the temple I hate the most. Not sure why. Either it's the swimming, or that it limits my capabilities. But it has also dragged on to other games. So water is an area I will mostly avoid, if possible.

 

[Russell Fidler]

Not really a "game" in the sense that it was on an internet forum rather than being an actual console game or a PC title. There was this paculliar game in 4chan in the /tg/ board that went by the name of Ruby Quest. Ever since I red it, I have this unearving fear of the dark.

 

[Funky Flump]

...this is embarrassing...for some reason when I play games I come down with a bad case of aqua phobia. I never finished Majora's Mask because when I looked in the strategy guide and saw that there were giant sea serpents ahead....I bailed. Same problem with wind waker, but I actually finished that one, but I muted it whenever I went out to sea, mainly because if an enemy showed up out there, THIS played.

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Oddly enough I have the same thing...Its just you cant tell whats down there! Its dark, murky, and you're slower and less effective in combat than if you were on land, plus you're fighting something that is at home in the water, and can get you much easier. Thats my problem with games with combat and water together, Metroid Prime for the Gamecube was a good example

 

[Sigma Van Lockheart]

not being able to kill things like really if I can?t kill it and it can kill me and I don?t mean something that?s just stays in one spot think amnesia that game is the best example of this but I still play that cause I am very manly

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Spiders. Either I put off having to fight them, run, and close my eyes and mash the attack or magick button till there gone. In Skyrim I Dremora lords to kill them and if I'm feeling particularly sadistic, I summon flame Atronachs to burn them to death. I really don't like fighting bugs in any games but only spiders make me run or kill in the in the most impersonal and brutal way.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Really, only things that come at me quickly and are impossible to kill. If they are scary looking and i have to run away, all the more terrifying.

Exhibit A:

Spoiler

I don't hate spiders, but if 6 Aussie-sized buggers are chasing you through a claustophobia inducing maze, with panicky music going off, you quickly learn to hate them.

Exhibit B:

Spoiler

NO......just ....no

Oh, so those are the things chasing you. Don't think I've ever stopped to say hello to them. Now I know what they look like and how appropriate it was to run.

 

[Alcamonic]

As an in-game hoarder of valuables (for increased wealth not for stashing) I constantly find it annoying with low bag space. I often ponder which items I should leave behind and where.

I'm no hoarder in real life, thankfully.

As someone else have said, fast phased games or stuff on time limits also are a massive bane for me. I can come up with tactical movements in my head, solve most logical puzzles thrown at me, but on time? No, my body can't really act as fast as my brain throws out orders.