Did any games ever give you nightmares

[soren7550]

Well, last night I had a Gears of War nightmare, where this dude had some sort of parasitic worm thing injected into his leg, and since these thing were making their way up his leg, and could take over a person's body and make them attack and explode, Marcus had to remove his leg with a Lancer in order to prevent the parasite from taking over and killing him. And the whole time, the guy was yelling and clamping his hands on his leg in order to stop the parasite from moving up.

There was a lot more to it than that, but I doubt that people would want to read it, and I'm feeling lazy.

Hell, I tend to have game related dreams every now and again.

 

[Dwarfman]

Never nightmares.

However back in the day when a computer was called a 286, there was an RPG game by Broderbund called The Dark Heart of Uukrull. My brother and I played that game religously upto and beyond a point that we would start dreaming about the game and the levels we were trying to solve.

The scary part of this is we actually started using what we remembered from our dreams to solve the many and varied puzzles and trials within the game.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Dead Space... Dead Space and Band Hero... The horror...

 

[xxmyhero64xx]

Dead Rising. I know the series is very tongue and cheek when it comes to Zombies but that opening movie in the first game with the mom and daughter is fucking brutal. And when you're 13 that tends to disturb you a little. Or at least me. Scared me for a whole summer.

 

[AceTrilby]

Sherlock Holmes vs Jack the Ripper, of all games. Though they toned down the violence out of respect for the victims, the last two victims were... disturbing, to say the least. I slept uneasily that night.

 

[mental_looney]

I had a nightmare about Lego Pirates of the Caribbean, I was playing it with my mum at the time which was fun, no idea why it turned into a nightmare but yeah freaky as all hell getting crushed by massive lego blocks and stuff.

One about the resident evil remake on game cube was running from zombies with a gamecube controller in my hand trying to pause and it was not working, I even remeber exactly where I was in the mansion in the corridor where you encounter the first zombie where the stairs go down into the kitchen.

Pretty much due to the fact that I play most of my games before bed I've had dreams about lots of them, some good and bad or odd ones where an element of the game is there but the rest is just weeeeeird.

 

[rob_simple]

I'm pretty sure I had a nightmare after the Terry Cotter's Army section in Fable II; also the murder cottage.

For such a tame game those two sections were really out of place, and sadly about the only interesting parts for me.

 

[fireaura08]

Had a nightmare somewhat related to Metro 2033, and specifically the librarians. Right before going to sleep I had gotten stuck on that section (Protips: Don't make bullet sponge enemies in games that revolve around ammo conservation. It's a dick move, especially when the melee weapon couldn't tickle a baby.) and I was VERY short on sleep.


Fffffff...

If you got the Ranger DLC, there was an awesome heavy automatic shotgun that made short work of them. Alternatively, you can stare them down, and if you did it correctly, they would walk away.

It's not that they're hard to fight. If I had unlimited ammo they would be laughably easy. It's just nobody told me I had to spend every bullet I had on more ammo at the start of the chapter, so even with accuracy around 90% I was completely boned.

Oh right, Polis was the last merchant hub...
(haven't played this game for a while)

 

[arnoldthebird]

Play Amnesia they said, it'll be fun they said....

Never again will I play a horror game at night, with headphones in. Had a restless sleep for a week

 

[ImmortalDrifter]

When I was a wee lad everything used to give me nightmares. The worst however, were the Visceroids from Command and Conquer. Those shits were serious business.

Which C&C game were you playing then? They're probably scariest in Renegade, I think, because they're in 3D, and they're just blobs with various body parts randomly emerging from them, like teeth, a leg, so on. Sorry if I'm bringing back scary memories.

Haha it's fine. I had those frights when i was 9 and I'm now 18. It was actually Tiberian Sun, the reason they scared so much was because they were more or less unstoppable once they became "Adult". I could build 5 Obelisks of light and they would just smash right through them (along with cyborg commandos). Added to fears that they would "absorb" me lol. It's funny now, it was horrifing then.

 

[LollzRoyce42]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. An emission had just started to blow in, and I was already losing health, so I ducked into this low building with radio antennae on the roof(for the life of me, I can't remember the name of the place). I was still losing health, so I jumped down into the basement level, relieved to stop losing health. But then I heard goddamn moaning. I don't know whether it was a sound effect from the wind, or something else, but it sounded like a goddamn zombie was in the basement with me, and it was coming from around the corner in a dark corridor. I sat there for five minutes with my rifle pointed at that turn-off into the corridor waiting for the storm to clear. When I got the all-clear, I leaped at the ladder, climbed up, and dashed the hell out of that building. Nothing ever happened to me (or more accurately, my PC) down there; but I had a nightmare in which I either went down the corridor and was dragged into the hallway and crushed to death by an anomaly, or as I was climbing the ladder, I was dragged down and eaten alive by a Snork; for the next 3 days. I still haven't picked up that game again.

 

[Evan Halfmann]

the endings are EXACTALLY the same..its just the colur of the explosions

you wont get a better ending no matter how hight your redines is...sorry (though you might want it higher than 50% I dont know)

though if you choose destruction (as I did) you get an ambiguous shot of shepard "waking up" (I was also like WHAT? what was htat?! they cant leave it haning like that!!)

also keep in mind (regardless of indoctrination theory) the reaper starchild is likely eather lying/manipulating your or just talking random non-sense, its never really clear (at the time i was like wait!what does each one do again?! come back!)

yeah I briefly skimmed the strategy guide and it said that a higher readiness rating makes some slight changes. Can't be anything significant though. To be honest though I actually think the ending is perfect and it certainly won't ever be forgotten but I just think there should be more of an ending. The mass relays exploding was a punch in the face as well though..

 

[Storax]

In S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat, when going through the Bloodsucker lair as part of some mission to explain the mystery of missing stalkers, walked into that underground part of the building and hearing the scream of a bloodsucker, then seeing the actual mutant running around scared me. For 2 days, I didn't play the game.

Amnesia the Dark Descent: Seeing this red jam like substance oozing out of the walls looked creepy, then walking into it, not knowing that it hurts your character. :I

 

[Robert Ewing]

Chicken run for the PS1. Don't fucking laugh, that game was tense constantly. My nightmares consisted of making up strategies, and then them failing... Horribly... *weeps*

 

[spartandude]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R comes to mind

and also Condemned Criminal Origins

 

[Shinkicker444]

Not a nightmare but still...

House mate was playing Amnesia at night after work one day, was about 8-9, in winter so it was cold and he had the light off, with only his monitor for illumination.

Walked up behind him and dropped my hand on his shoulder. Oh.. boy.. his reaction... never seen a grown man levitate out of a chair like that, I swear he nearly had a heart attack. I think he went and burnt through three cigarets one after the other in about 5 minutes.

He never played Amnesia again after that I think.


He got me back a few weeks later doing the same thing.

... Karma.


There have been some other games that have given me nightmares but for the life of me the names of them escape me. I think BF3 or some war game has given me nightmares of being shot and bleeding out. I actually felt so damn weak when I jerked awake.

 

[Truniron]

Majoras Mask. I have never been more scared of the moon then after I first played this game when it was new, and being that the moon was completely visible from my bedroom window, didn´t made things better.