Oh fuck here goes another facehugger trigger for me that I completely forgot
The freaky, double scythe-wielding Pthumerians that move super fucking quick in Bloodborne, I hate those things. The way they move is so inhuman despite being barely different than actual humans.
Also, the Cursed Spiders in Dark Souls 3 are pretty freaky.
Never had big moments of terror happen in games, but a few times I've been stressed by something in the game a lot. Being in Ravenholm in HL2 was one, I just constantly felt stressed and uncomfortable.
The bee levels in Crash 2 and the bee area in Bioshock also were other bits that I majorly hated, I just wanted to get through them ASAP so I don't have to be near the bees anymore.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/204913/1d1f4b30-5932-433b-85ef-4a054fb8f802/image.png
Had it for my PC and I didn't really get very far at all because those shadow creatures scared 6 year old me a bit too much
Almost any underwater monsters freak me the fuck out
or water in games in general
Zombies in Quake when I was without rocket or grenade launcher ammo.
The part in the AvP2 marine campaign when the major gets captured by aliens or something and your character's ready to solo rock and roll down the alien hive.
I was like, "yeah nah fuck this shit there is absolutely no way I'm crawling down that hole"
Took me years before I worked up the courage to come back and complete the singleplayer.
My mom used to play a lot of Dr. Mario, and for some reason I had in my head that the bottle on the screen that you toss pills into was instead a cross-section of someone's torso and you were literally trying to save their life by tossing pills down their throat.
Didn't help that the music for losing is pretty abrupt and creepy... I used to get really upset because I thought it meant the "person" you were trying to cure died.
https://youtu.be/BNxwvKd_WYE
i don't know why but i've always had a fear of large text on screen. when i was a kid it was the text in gta 1 that said WASTED that scared me more than anything else in any video game. considering my favorite videogame at the time was oddworld:abe's oddysee that's pretty ridiculous.
to be honest i still get a bit uncomfortable when i see screen filling text, i have no idea why lol
Of all games, the only one to really give me a nightmare was "Riven", oddly enough. I would have nightmares of being fed to the Tusk Fish.
Everything about the submerged castle
Every hazard was there with only blue pikmin around
The Music
This guy
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/584/44812a7e-1231-4cce-aaa9-6d4ea210874d/image.png
Did i mention the music
I had a similar experience playing Theme Park World where I accidentally paused the game and a huge "PAUSED"-text filled the entire screen while the music stopped and everything was tinted a depressing blue. I was too young to know a single word of English and didn't understand why the screen had appeared so it made me feel really uneasy.
Any dark place in Minecraft
turning a corner to see generic furry pyro #6722 wearing all pink when i have low health in team fortress 2
that's the kinda shit that makes me scream
Also you ever accidentally put your crosshair on an enderman in Minecraft?
Fuck that shit.
as a kid I used to be afraid of being by myself
after the first few levels in halo where you are made to wander around by yourself I just stopped playing
it uh...took me a while to finish a few games because of this
I've gained this counter feel whenever I hear something metal falling on the floor.
Every time that happens, I remember the Imp from Doom 3. Whenever some metallic thing fell on the floor, an imp would come out to maul you with its trademark screech. Fuckers got me good every now and then, and now I always remember them.
But RE2 probably holds the most memorable and well crafted fears for me. They aren't all the same thing like imps coming out of the metal walls or Alma from FEAR just, you know, being there looking AAAAAA (which gave me nightmares for a long time...)
Theres the boarded up hallways that have some handsy surprises, the crows bursting through the windows...
I am deeply arachnophobic and have never actually finished Half-Life 2 or any of its episodes because of the poison headcrabs. I was even working on a mod with a friend to replace all instances of them with the regular and fast versions, but just looking at them unsettled me so much I couldn't even fucking finish that.
both n64 zelda games creeped me the fuck out as a kid, like most places in ocarina of time just felt creepy even if they weren't meant to be. but places that were meant to be creepy especially. like when you first become and adult and enter castle town and theres redeads all over the place. and the spirit temple still gives me chills.
Wonder why I didn't mention Parasite Eve. It was a game that felt less scary due to gameplay being less tense compared to Resident Evil, but boy cutscenes and monster design was the shit terrifying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNL8b6Sm3SE
As a kid I got scared and/or grossed out easily, and videogames were no exception. I've always had troubles getting alseep to, so all the better, am I right.
The fun part is that at a certain point, without a warning, I became some sort of light nightmare fetishist or something, to the point that nowadays whenever I get terrified or disgusted by something in any work of fiction I'm more interested and/or amazed by the design and the artistry on display than genuinely scared or grossed out.
That said, my most scaring videogame memory comes from the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone PC game, of all places
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxiQeVYbvQ4
Granted, I was very young at the time, but this adaptation makes the final confrontation from the book far worse, as Quirrel phisically twist his head by 180° so that Voldemort (which here looks more like a lifeless, horrific mask than a seriously ravaged human being) can face Harry directly after trapping him inside a ring of hellish fire.
What follows is a battle against the above mentioned abomination trying to hitting you repeatedly with a dark spell which shaves of a lot of health and whispering death threats for the whole duration.
Simply put, it wasn't such a plesant experience for a ten years old kid
Deep water.
Being alone in multiplayer maps such as Counter-Strike or TF2.
Random stuff like the skybox of Wet Dry Land in Mario 64 freaked me out as a kid.
Not entirely sure why. Something like, I felt like I was in an exhibit (same as in that other water level with the Eel), there's a world out there. Am I being watched?
https://i.imgur.com/27zDDhq.png
Bloodborne's perfectly named enemies the Madmen is the #1 reason why I have yet to complete the dungeons and go platinum. Not only were they freaky as shit with their movement and the screaming, but they were tanks with no stagger that killed most hunters in three hits. Oh and their placements are either at the end of a narrow corridor or hiding behind a turn in the dungeon that's perfect for late night jumpscares. Congrats Bloodborne you perfected the jumpscare!
On top of all that, they remind me too much of my childhood nightmare the ghost woman from "The Dream." Just looking at a pic of them keeps me up all night.
my video game fear is fuckin stalker 2 coming out and being bad
which is a very real possiblility
The fucking leeches in blood 2
https://youtu.be/iMxzFTDHH4g?t=3m
Any game with swimming where you cannot see the bottom of the water. For some reason some of the crazy taxi obstacle courses used to freak me out when you fell off into the water and its a black abyss.
Can I share that when I was a wee lad and dreamed of the ocean I bought Endless Ocean? Game was as good as you'd expect for a $20 Wii game. Come the Abyss and the Drop Off stages though and the ocean adventurer within me died. No sense of direction, no clear view, and anything can pop out of the foggy depths made me not look forward to the last few stages searching for a white whale goddess or whatever.
Fuck me why does the fear of the unknown make me cower in fear in a fucking rated "E for Everyone" game?
Silent Hill? I can handle that.
Resident Evil? Not even a nudge.
Clutches in CSGO? Scariest, most anxiety inducing thing ever.
League of Legends? My definition of survival horror.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSh-MJRwAA
That one fucking level from Earthworm Jim:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZRPprt6Bro
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