• Things in games that weren't supposed to be scary but still spooked you anyway
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While Luigi's Mansion was supposed to be light-hearted 'ooo spoopy ghost', it still messed with me on several occasions because I was young. Which is funny considering all of the ghosts were supposed to look not intimidating at all. However there was the depressed Luigi game over screen in the alpha that got removed for obvious reasons. If they left that in, I'd probably have never touched the game again if I saw it :v: Also the manta ray thing from Super Mario Sunshine weirded me the hell out. Metroid Prime 2 Echoes also had a reputation of being too scary to play for me back then, with the Ing taking over the corpses of GF troopers and of course Dark Aether with its terrorizing and outworldly ambience. What about you?
[video=youtube;70J8SOX5w64]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70J8SOX5w64[/video] Must've been scary because of the music and because I was young
The part in HL2 Episode 2 where the vortigaunt appears as you reach the top of the ladder
[video]https://youtu.be/KhdvGcLp4FY[/video] 4:55 I broke my controller.
The disc read error screen on the PS2 is really unsettling. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHLQHjtPLE[/media]
[QUOTE=mastermaul;50821389]The disc read error screen on the PS2 is really unsettling. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHLQHjtPLE[/media][/QUOTE] Everything about the PS2 startup made me not want to play it at night The mystery zone and it's music in Pokemon Diamond/Pearl terrified me. I still feel uneasy listening to this. [video=youtube;Q5bmwh9xqPk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bmwh9xqPk[/video]
[QUOTE=RenaFox;50817815]The part in HL2 Episode 2 where the vortigaunt appears as you reach the top of the ladder[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;ntsN5Zvgr44]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntsN5Zvgr44[/video]
[del]What about pretty much every hostile mob in Minecraft? Maybe not so much now but certainly when I first played it.[/del] Nevermind, maybe it is more like I am scared by anything that suddenly attacks me out of nowhere.
[QUOTE=daigennki;50822423]What about pretty much every hostile mob in Minecraft?[/QUOTE] Seconded.
Combine drop ships Those fucking police officers in payday 2 that used to make that screeching noise then pin you to the ground.
[img]http://images.macworld.com/images/legacy/2007/03/images/content/prey2.jpg[/img] The first time I saw one of these doors I refused to go through. Like I legitimately could not bring myself to move anywhere near that fucking thing.
The ambient noises in the Duke3D Level "The Abyss" scared the shit out of me as a kid, and I would NOT enter the cave portion of the level starting at 3:38. [media]https://youtu.be/gznaelswWhE[/media] Oh, and then there's the fucking protozoid slimer facehugger enemies that cover the whole damn screen. I had to play the game with monsters disabled for years because of those green slimy pricks.
Wait what the fuck, this isn't the thread I thought it was.
When I was 4 years old, Link's bunny form in A Link to the Past terrified me, as did the [url=https://youtu.be/z1pGfinTcUg]music[/url] from that portion. You were completely helpless in that state and the sudden change from the normal Light world to this dismal nightmare world was so jarring for me. The flashing lights and lava veins running through the scenery didn't help either :(
There was a point and click adventure game called The Omega Stone that I played when I was 12 or 13. I was a massive coward at that age. [del]And I still am.[/del] I was too scared of the orcs in Lord of the Rings to watch it with my family, and to this day I've never gone on a roller coaster. Back to the point: I never completed the game, because there were two areas I just could not get past. One was a jungle area, where you had to follow a river. I was scared an alligator might pop out and get my character at some point. The other was a scuba diving area. I was scared I would get lost at sea and be unable to find my boat, or spend too much time underwater, lose all of my oxygen, and drown. I was not particularly... [I]genre savvy[/I] at the time. Yeah, let's go with that.
This theme always scared me as a child [video=youtube;AYSOyVblIOE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYSOyVblIOE[/video]
This specific part of this specific song in Super Metroid [url]https://youtu.be/D_f5higfVXo?list=PL0BCE0BA953AC33E4&t=83[/url] played in my nightmares along with a fucking horrifying abomination approaching me slowly and my body frozen and unable to move. For years I didn't even know that sequence of notes was from Super Metroid until I played it again(?) in an emulator and when I got to that part of the game and the music got to that part of the song, my whole fucking brain went into panic mode. Even now still hearing it makes my whole body tense up. Maybe that sequence of notes appears in some other show or something at a particularly scary part, and that's where the nightmare association came from. I don't know. Nothing in that area of the game is particularly scary so I don't know where it came from. Hell, I don't even think I'd played the game before those nightmares started.
There were two SNES games I could never get past as a kid: Jurassic Park (SNES) [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vzr3toArHGU/UUoXcFk1trI/AAAAAAAAL7I/lLYaWe2YeH4/s1600/JP16.png[/img] I was bad at the game already, but when it turned into first person shooter mode inside those building (like in the screenshot above) I'd become too scared to play. Scooby-Doo Mystery [img]https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Rzex7xbqBcU/hqdefault.jpg[/img] Probably looks tame compared to Jurassic Park but I think it was even spookier for me as a kid. I was probably just too young to be playing either of these games, seeing as I couldn't figure out what to even DO except die on either of them.
343 Guilty Spark from the first Halo game had me freaked out even though it's supposed to be foreboding instead of straight horror. 7 Days to Die is also pretty effective at scaring the shit out of me. I tend to hang out in the city ruins, so I'm pretty used to it by now, but the nights still get to me every now and then. It's even worse when you play on a multiplayer server... listening to the screams of other survivors over chat as you watch the hollow ruins below for any shambling silhouettes, crossbow gripped tightly in hand.
[IMG]http://starbounder.org/mediawiki/images/e/ed/Erchius_Ghost_gif.gif[/IMG] Isn't it spooky when flying anal chases you
[img]http://i.imgur.com/iJNttnE.png[/img]
Enemies that manage to sneak up me and just make my character scream in agony makes me jump a bit. Seriously it could just be a mantis and then I just hear a sudden "AUUGH"
[QUOTE=Zadrave;50825385]This theme always scared me as a child [video=youtube;AYSOyVblIOE]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYSOyVblIOE[/video][/QUOTE] speaking of smash64, the way the announcer declares a game over [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sit_nDna8vI[/media] it's soul crushing
I'm ashamed in you Facepunch [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Il5aZhYy8E[/media]
[QUOTE=MrBond;50825795]speaking of smash64, the way the announcer declares a game over [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sit_nDna8vI[/media] it's soul crushing[/QUOTE] It's like his voice is accusing you of wanting Link to be dead when you don't want to continue
Not things in games but a whole game I suppose. I was deadly fucking afraid of, wait for it, playing KULA WORLD. Don't ask me why or how, child me was just so scared of it every time I played it. I was crying and shit I don't even know. To give a little detail to the game, you play as a ball. I guess it was the atmosphere that creeped me out, it was also so silent but then again it wasn't either. I don't know anymore, it really fucked me up.
[QUOTE=Fartnugge;50825474]There were two SNES games I could never get past as a kid: Jurassic Park (SNES) [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Vzr3toArHGU/UUoXcFk1trI/AAAAAAAAL7I/lLYaWe2YeH4/s1600/JP16.png[/img] I was bad at the game already, but when it turned into first person shooter mode inside those building (like in the screenshot above) I'd become too scared to play.[/QUOTE] It doesn't help matters much that if you go into a blackout room without batteries for the night vision goggles, you hear a roar and lose a life. Even if the blackout room was empty you died.
I was super young but I was always freaked by any boss in a ID demo. Going through a random door that looks perfectly normal then getting completely ass blasted by Groose startled the hell out of me and it took me quite a few years before I beat the Wolfenstein Demo.
That fucking Sonic drowning theme. I don't know how they do it, but they decided to be hitler for Sonic Colors and make it even WORSE
i got scared by the foliage once in skyrim like how this guy was scared by a leaf [video=youtube;W1PDaA_iX0w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1PDaA_iX0w[/video]
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