I am so scared!!

[chocobokick]

Last night I decided to play something different and new, something Spyroish. I chose Jak and Daxter instead of Ecco. I didn't think I would like it, but it's fun...
UNTIL you swim to far out and this scary music and heartbeat comes on and this giant fish with huge TEETH swims up and munches you!
I can deal with a lot of gore, or spiders, or ghosts. But don't put anything scary in the water!! If I wanted to swim I started just giving the controller to Lexicon and having him do it. I can't deal with munchy things in the deep.
Now I'm afraid to play Ecco, why did I buy all of them?

Does anyone else have an irrational video game fear, or am I being too much of a girl?

[MankeyMan]

I am afraid of things in video games that decide to fall on your head unnanounced. Things like the big hands in the N^$ zelda games really creeped me out the first time. And the amount of stuff that crashes through ceiling and jumps on top of you in the RE games is just too much for me.

[punkoffgirl]

I hate FALLING to my death in games.. I think learning to play SMB gave me a complex about it. :shock:

[Cafeman]

Perhaps you should first learn to beat Jak & Dax with your eyes closed, by memorization. Then you'll be ready for Ecco. ;)

Seriously, Ecco is great but it can get tough! I never played the PS2 version, maybe they made it a bit easier than the DC original.

Anyway, Ecco might scare you to death ... there are several nasty underwater enemies that tend to sneak up from the back on you, but the best one is this HUGE jaws-kind-of Great White Shark. It is HUGE and suspensful music plays when you are near him. He's in level 2.

[digitalpress]

Great, Cafeman.... I think she passed out! :sleeping:

[Kidnemo]

I always get scared when I punch/kick/throw a trashcan...

You never know whats gonna come flying out (ie. food, fruit, steel pipe, jewelry, etc).

[Anonymous]

God forbid actual TRASH might fall out of the trash can heh.

I used to be terrified of the Wall Hands in Zelda too. Back when I was actually exploring the levels not knowing where I was, it was extremely frustrating.

[NE146]

Did you ever play Banjo Kazooie? In the 2nd stage you can swim out in the open ocean with this shark chasing you down and taking chomps at you. It's pretty similar, except it doesn't kill you in one gulp like in Jak and Daxter...

[Rezrov]

The game that used to scare the living *$#*&^$ out of me was the original Castle Wolfenstein. There were a few times when I'd try to take a break after fighting hordes of Nazis, but just when I thought I had time for a breather, this mechanical Voice would scream "SS" , and I'd look up to see SS troopers entering the room and shooting at me. When you're ten, unexpected things like that can freak you out.

- Shawn
:shock:

[Cmtz]

My fears usually deal with the one hit death

For example falling on thorns on castlevania for the NES
or Mega Man touching spikes

scarry my heart goes crazy if i die

[Lady Jaye]

In my case, it's the wasps in Wonderboy. Maybe it's because I have a real-life phobia of wasps...

[JJNova]

My fears usually deal with the one hit death

For example falling on thorns on castlevania for the NES
or Mega Man touching spikes

I agree. Maybe not so much being scared, abut I tend to jerk the controller really hard and hold my breathe when making those leaps that look like you arent going to make it, but you are positive there is no other way around it. Just close your eyes and JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMP.


Speaking of which, has anyone seen the N*Gage commercial where people are yelling in inopportune situations? The guy in the elevator reminded me of sitting on my parents floor playing nes. He's in the back of the elevator yelling, "Jump! Jump!...Jump!"....

...I was waiting for him to say, "I SAID JUMP DAMMIT!" and throw the phone into the wall.

Reason number one why I can't have an N*Gage...No throwing allowed.

[Promophile]

I've seen a commerical like that, it ROCKED! The guy was playing the game in a doctors office or something. It was crowded with people. They didn't show his hands, only his legs. He was thrashing around and screaming JUMP JUMP DIE DIE and stuff like that really loud and everyone was staring at him. It was awesome.

[Ed Oscuro]

The game that used to scare the living *$#*&^$ out of me was the original Castle Wolfenstein.
The 2D one? LOL

Anyhow, I used to have a bit of a gut reaction (not quite fear) to big, mostly open places where you have to do 3D platforming. I guess Castlevania 64 more or less cured that :>

[Graham Mitchell]

I can't deal with munchy things in the deep.
Now I'm afraid to play Ecco, why did I buy all of them?


Ecco is probably one of the best games I have ever played, hands down. However, though I'm not afraid of swimming or being in water, I have a terrible fear of drowning. You drown A LOT in Ecco when you're looking around for stuff, and it always makes me tense.

I'm especially nerve-wracked when the background music cuts out and all you can here is the water currents bubbling around in stereo; scares the hell out of me. I was playing one time in the level where the Eel chases you into a blocked-off cave and you have to solve a puzzle to get air before you drown, and the music cut out. Great for me. Well, to top it off, the game went ape shit somehow, and Ecco essentially bee-lined for the start of the level, moving though walls, and eventually into total darkness for awhile (that's another thing that'll get you with Ecco; underwater caves are VERY realistically depicted). Anyway, it happened all of a sudden and I about jumped out of my seat, and seriously considered cutting the power on the Dreamcast; I didn't want to know what was about to happen! x_x

So yeah, I'm a 26-year old male, and I get those fears too!

[Ed Oscuro]

Hmm...I should think about picking up that Ecco. I would probably enjoy it!

[Emily]

Murkey water filled with creatures? I think ill go Hide under my bed....

[maxlords]

I hate FALLING to my death in games.. I think learning to play SMB gave me a complex about it. :shock:

I hate that too...but only in 3D games. The game that made me gut wrenchingly bothered was Turok 1 for N64. So many jumps over open empty space....it just stresses me out to no end. I like there to always be solid ground in 3D.

[Graham Mitchell]

Hmm...I should think about picking up that Ecco. I would probably enjoy it!

You probably will; I can't recommend it highly enough. Though my psychological and phobic profile probably made it an extra mind fuck for me, it is a beautiful game. The audio and visuals all combine to make a pretty intense ride if you invest yourself in it enough. Plus, most all of the levels are just plain amazing to look at and interact with. I really dig the mythological element that comes into play in the second half. Not to spoil the game or anything, but basically mankind dies off after indenturing dolphins as a work force for thousands of years, and the dolphins are all struggling to figure out what to do with themselves; you start to feel really sad at times watching the whole thing play out. It's also nuts to see them turn on machines that have been sitting dormant underwater for years and years. It actually makes for a pretty emotional experience.

So, chocobokick, I suggest you squelch your fears and pop that disk in; you'd really be missing out if you didn't. :)

[Doonzmore]

It was christmas eve season 2001 and it was in the afternoon and while i was playing Sonic Adventure 2. I had an awful cold that day and while i was on the Pumpkin Hill level i pressed pause and a little box appeared on the middle of the screen that said.

"Suffering from a stuffed nose?"

While it wasn't all that scary it'll likely be the most fucked up thing ill ever see in a video game for the rest of my life. I resumed play and when i pressed start again it wasn't there. :eek 2:

[spider-man]

I remember when I was a little kid, I would always get freaked out when the game would get messed up graphically. Not because I couldn't play the game, it just scared me for some reason. I also have the same problem with 3d games and their -fall through the floor- glitches. Where you would fall through into disorganized polygons or weird colors.

[fergojisan]

I was watching a friend play some Star Wars game I think, on the N64. He was exploring some cliffside caves, or something like that. There was no background music, which is a bit creepy these days. But then he came upon this big ugly lumbering thing that scared the hell out of me. The scariest thing was whenever he looked back, the thing was still shambling after him. Whiskers! :O

[Promophile]

Water freaks me out. Especially oceans. In and out of games. Something like an Elemental Plane of Water REALLY freak me out.

[Queen Of The Felines]

1) Those damn spiders in the Resident Evil series. Especially in part two when you're in the sewers and you see SOMETHING just slightly off the edge of the screen, just twitching slightly...

2) Being up REALLY high in a 3D world. I literally got dizzy spells playing Banjo-Kazooie's ice level. You have you get on top of this giant snowman and just looking down off the edge of it gives me an extreme case of vertigo. That's the only game that does it though. :o

Kristine

[Pantechnicon]

Doom II (which I played through before Doom I) had some really nerve-wracking background noises which were considerably worse when you played the game with headphones (which I did). What really rattled me was walking down a hall or past an open window and hearing those muffled pig-like snorts coming from behind the wall or whatever :eek 2: . That game really screwed with my dreams for the first few days.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

I remember being afraid off some off the bosses in "clash at demon head" when i was like 7. LOL

[Ed Oscuro]

I remember when I was a little kid, I would always get freaked out when the game would get messed up graphically. Not because I couldn't play the game, it just scared me for some reason. I also have the same problem with 3d games and their -fall through the floor- glitches. Where you would fall through into disorganized polygons or weird colors.
Brain needs to sort things into logical patterns...I always thought the HOM effect was pretty neat when I started trying to create some Half-Life levels way back when :D

I was watching a friend play some Star Wars game I think, on the N64. He was exploring some cliffside caves, or something like that. There was no background music, which is a bit creepy these days. But then he came upon this big ugly lumbering thing that scared the hell out of me. The scariest thing was whenever he looked back, the thing was still shambling after him. Whiskers! :O
Oh yeah, the cliff levels. Those are the ice monsters from Hoth, only with a brown skin on. They were darn near invincible! There was background music, though, but it was quiet enough as to be nearly ambient. I think, anyhow. I know the rest of the levels had music for a fact, but I can't remember that level's music precisely. The gauntlet you had to run from the ship on outwards took so long to do, and I often had to try over and over again. Made me mad to no end at times, but I got through the whole game LOL

[Dr. Morbis]

I used to be scared to death of the big fish in Super Mario 3 that jumps out of the water and eats you in one gulp. It was especially scary when the water would start to rise.

[JJNova]

When you walk along the wall in a room, and get a glimpse of what's in the next room because the graphics skip. That generally freaks me out. Or when I first played Metroid Prime, and used the charged cannon beam, and it blew up next to me and I could see Samus' face reflected in the visor...I thought there was a ghost in the same room and that I saw it's opaque form....But no, it was just my Heroines reflection.

[junglehunter]

I was scared to death to go and approach the Giant Eel in Super Mario 64. After I got all of the stars associated with the Eel there was a sigh of relief. Years later, in Super Mario Sunshine I almost didn't do the Eel level where you had to clean his teeth. :embarrassed:

[Graham Mitchell]

I remember Ataxx in the arcade used to bug me a bit when I was younger. Whenever you had a successful move against the Gorgon, her face gets a really sour expression and she shrieks at you very suddenly, with all her snakes rattling. It takes you by surprise. Combine that with her deadpan stare (with star-eyes just like the MCP in Tron!) and you've got enough to give nightmares to a kid.

I love this game now, though. That old uneasiness is probably why.

[Querjek]

I, too, hate giant fishes that eat you... like the ones in world 3 of Mario 3 and the Dopefish in Commander Keen 4.

[Algol]

I used to get scared when my dad played Myst many moons ago. There was no sound most of the time, and when there was, it was usually kind of spooky.

[Ed Oscuro]

I, too, hate giant fishes that eat you... like the ones in world 3 of Mario 3 and the Dopefish in Commander Keen 4.
Yeah, ol' Dopey is a trip...

Possibly friendlier than the Evil Fish(ies) from CV: Aria of Sorrow though.

[slip81]

I'm terrified by bad cameras :)

[bargora]

In Doom2, I'd walk through a door, hear a Revenant scream, and nearly piss myself as I "ran" back out of the room.

It was even worse if you couldn't go back out through the door you came in. @_@

[shopkins]

The scariest thing I 've seen in a game are probably your former crewmates in System Shock 2. They've been taken over and transformed by an intelligence that wants to kill you, but not completely. They scream things like "I'm sorrrry!" and "Runnn!" as they attack you, and you know some part of them is suffering in this monster. Creepy.

The whole game is very atmospheric and packed with menace. And because you're psychic, sometimes you'll walk into a room and a ghost reenacting something that happened before the ship was taken over will just pop up to freak you out.

Runner ups are the brutal murder of a child in Clock Tower 3 and most of Silent Hill.

I'm not especially phobic in games. I guess I really don't like to fall and try to be extra careful on high ledges. If more games had evil dolls in them I would have more reasons to freak out.

[Ed Oscuro]

I'm a big fan of System Shock 2...for sure, there's a lot of tension in the game. I don't think I've considered it ever really scary, though...mostly I laugh at the quotes. Very silly :D

*/me whacks shopkins with a lead pipe while he isn't looking*

[SegaAges]

playing rainbow 6 online is super scary. one hit kills.

i will be posting up thinking i have the perfect spot and then i die out of the blue.

[SegaAges]

playing rainbow 6 online is super scary. one hit kills.

i will be posting up thinking i have the perfect spot and then i die out of the blue.

oh yeah:
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=42676

you are not alone in your love of the n gage commercials

[rbudrick]

When I was about 10 or 11, the Level 5 music in the original Castlevania used to creep me out....scary stuff. :-)

That, and knowing I was about to frustratingly get my ass kicked after working so hard to get there...

-Rob

[Graham Mitchell]

When I was about 10 or 11, the Level 5 music in the original Castlevania used to creep me out....scary stuff. :-)

That, and knowing I was about to frustratingly get my ass kicked after working so hard to get there...

-Rob

Oddly enough, I was pretty wired the first time I got to level 5. I think I was 9 years old, and I remember being frightened and delighted at the same time. My pulse was just racing! Probably for the exact same reason as you!