• What you were scared of in video games as a kid? What about now?
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[QUOTE=usaokay;44182674][t]http://www.zeldadungeon.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MM.jpg[/t] what kind of stupid mask salesman sell a mask that god damn creepy I didn't finish Majora's Mask because of it. Nowadays, I don't want to play it because of the time limit.[/QUOTE] majora's mask was the first zelda game I ever played as a kid though the moon did in fact [I]not scare me[/I], that fucking mask on the cover and everything else fucked me up.
[IMG]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091223235545/half-life/en/images/1/15/Bullsquid_hl1.jpg[/IMG] The first time I saw one of these in Half-Life I vomited all over my brothers "gaming keyboard" and started weeping. I was around 6 at the time. It still scares me.
i was like twelve when i got round to half-life 2 and this part [t]http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100308141328/half-life/en/images/6/60/Ep1_stalker_car3.jpg[/t] spooked the fuck out of me, so much i would skip the entire first few chapters of episode one when i played through it barely even notice it now, thankfully, which is neat because that combine core level looks awesome
[t]http://www.mariowiki.com/images/1/1e/Snakey_art%21.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.mariowiki.com/images/thumb/e/e1/YS_Blargg.png/640px-YS_Blargg.png[/t] [t]http://www.mariowiki.com/images/a/a3/Yoshis_Story_Inviso.png[/t] Yoshi's Story was weird. it was either super adorable, or uncanny valley
I couldn't complete this level because of how scary the T-rex was. :v: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDMpC9woBzg[/media]
First person shooters scared me cause I was never used to not being able to see behind me in video games. Well it wasn't really being scared it was more like anxiety. I would always shake uncontrollably like I was nervous as fuck.
Skeletons :v: Now i don't care about them at all.
[T]http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/scale_medium/mig/7/9/5/3/2217953-box_tcenterutk.png[/T] This game (for the nintendo DS) really scared me. not the first few levels, but starting from around the 5th one, the other people yell at you for losing someones life and all it didn't matter to me that it was a game, it scared me and made me feel terrible. I still never beat it...
[QUOTE=ViralHatred;44184500]It's entirely possible to save them all, the trick is not to escort them but instead have two groups of acolytes+recons, one that is about 1/3 along the route and the other at 2/3 of the route. Then just constantly pause and use slowmo and direct them to attack the groups before they even engage the transports, ignore the fighters as they will bog you down, focus on the missiles and you can pull it off. Also fun fact, an mcv can actually take on the appearance of the colony ship though it has no beneficial effect.[/QUOTE] Will you please look at who signed what you quoted. And don't even get me started on the tragic suiciders that are actually on your side. Thank you -present me
[thumb]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8733190/duke0013.png[/thumb] Oh hey there, little buddy! What are you supposed to b- [thumb]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8733190/duke0014.png[/thumb] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA EDIT: These things scared me as a kid, and for YEARS I couldn't play through the singleplayer campaign past the first episode (These buggers didn't make their debut until the second episode) without the cheatcode that disabled all monsters. I've managed to finally get over them, though. To the point where I could go ingame and take those two screenshots.
I still get chills when I fall through the map into infinity. I don't know why. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJbCK-dHnY0[/media] There's just no end to it!
[T]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091228114122/half-life/en/images/4/4e/Barnacle_HL1.jpg[/T] These shits. Fun story. A few years ago, when I was pretty young of course, I downloaded the demo for Opposing Force. Everything went well until I entered the sewers... When suddenly I couldn't move, along with a slicking sound as I got pulled up, startled me so much that I fell backwards off my chair. Think I got some kind of irrational fear for them, even in HL2. Was too scared looking at them, so I always just looked down while avoiding the tongues. Was a great victory when I finally managed to finish HL1. I still fear being close to them, but nowadays I just take care of it by shooting them and not getting near them anymore.
[img]http://music-and-game.com/aliens-main-title-amstrad-cpc-464-8-bit,moduleVideo,2997,image1,en1304795270,H250.jpg[/img] Aliens for Commodore/Amstrad used to scare the hell out of me as a little kid. It was sort of an fps, but with multiple characters you switched back and forth between. The heartrate monitors for each character freaked me out, nothing worse than leaving Cpl Hicks behind a blast door you'd just welded shut when all of a sudden alarms go off and he flatlines. The power could be cut off in various areas of the game as well, so everything would be lit by red emergency lighting making it extra terrifying.
the sound the monsters made from doom in a sense it still sorta creeps me out
I was always scared of underwater enemies in 3D games. Mostly thanks to that eel from Super Mario 64, the Dionagas from Shadows of the Empire and that giant orange fish from Banjo-Tooie (even though that wasn't really an enemy)
The flood from Halo, Head Crabs in Half-Life and fucking lavender towns music, now? Really nothing, I have tried different games, and really nothing scares me anymore.
i’ve never been really scared by a particular enemy or level, but i've always found it creepy to return to an old area where i've already been. especially if the player isn't supposed to access it, which usually means the npcs and sounds are gone.
Dogs! I remember them in the old PS1 'Medal of Honor: Underground' game.. I love dogs, and I am a dog person.. but, in video games, they still scare the ever-living-fuck out of me.
I was scared by the zombies in HotD when I was a kid. Now, I'm terrified by those Ichies in Half-Life.
Zombies, I was scared of any zombies in any game especially the ones in RE4. But today, I love zombie games and movies and just can't get enough of them. What a twist.
KILL IT WITH FIRE, i can't STAND las plagas, the fact that you think after you blow a zombies head off in resident evil they'd just drop dead, No. some giant ass grotesk centipede looking thing just pops out of it, Still get the chills fighting these bastards lol [IMG]http://i61.tinypic.com/1262nu8.png[/IMG] [IMG]http://i57.tinypic.com/33e4nfa.jpg[/IMG]
[img]http://puu.sh/7pYSM.png[/img] these fuckers nowadays I'm more afraid of good ambiance and either dark, cramped, maze-like environments or large, mostly empty and dark areas, especially if it's foggy or if you have a crappy flashlight
[video=youtube;bQu9CsQrbFY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQu9CsQrbFY[/video] [video=youtube;k9pYddPtaRM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9pYddPtaRM[/video]
Woah, that Jak and Daxter intro was cool. Ooh, if I look out across the sea I can still see that island! That's so cool! I wonder if I can go back over there [img]http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140228213844/jakanddaxter/images/3/3f/Lurker_Shark_attack.jpg[/img] OH GOD. NO. This concludes "The First Time DudeGuy Ever Played Jak and Daxter"
[QUOTE=DudeGuyKT;44189244]Woah, that Jak and Daxter intro was cool. Ooh, if I look out across the sea I can still see that island! That's so cool! I wonder if I can go back over there OH GOD. NO. This concludes "The First Time DudeGuy Ever Played Jak and Daxter"[/QUOTE] And the heartbeat that just pounds faster and faster scared the living crap out of me when I was younger for some reason.
Cacodemons. I think it was Deimos Anomaly when you first see one, but it happened to be placed where you couldn't see it until it was practically ontop of you. The hissing and the giant floating ball hovering at me startled the hell out of me when I first saw it and I always dreaded walking around in the dark incase I ended up face to face with one. And that corridor in Resident Evil 3 where you can see giant spiders moving on the ceiling. I didn't know what they were then they all fell on me so I turned the Playstation off and never played it again.
The entirety of Rayman 3 felt extremely dark to me. I mean, the previous game wasn't very upbeat either, but at least things were looking positive there. You were the hero, and it was clear that you would make it. Rayman 3 on the other hand just feels like setback after setback to the protagonist. And the worst part comes with the ending, where [sp] you find out that it was Rayman's own hands that started the chaos, and that it now happens all over again, effectly making the game a nightmarish vicious cycle that Globox and Rayman would never get out of. This is made especially disturbing by the fact that the Hoodlums almost won in the beginning, being stopped only by pure chance[/sp] That thought alone really fucking disturbed me.
That reminds me, Rayman 1 was so fucking uncomfortable to me as a kid. Something about the Atystyle/sounds/animations was just unsettling to me. I think the farthest I got was the level with all the musical instruments in the clouds(?).
I'm scared of game lonelyness! If it doesn't have online it has to have a very interactive vibrant living world. Just me? As for scary monsters [IMG]http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110515041733/metro2033/images/4/4c/Metro2033_(2)_2010-03-23_14-08-41-71.jpg[/IMG]
Hunters, Elites and the Flood in Halo used to scare me when I was young, and the Flood are still pretty scary.
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