Gaming moments that make you panic.

[Furyaki12]

Just about anytime I have to save in any game.

Too many bad experiences with a power outage happening while saving...

 

[Backstabber]

Timed missions are the bane of my existence.

Oh, and zombies.
They freak me out so much that I can't concentrate. (Or shoot straight....)

 

[Cool Welshy]

Alright, story time.

Just a few days ago, I played the original Portal. I escaped Glados' death trap and got around to the point where she said she is NOW going to try to kill me.

My heart skipped a fucking beat. I had to stop playing to calm me down.

Is that the part where you get on the platform to get cake but instead there was fire? I panicked and quickly was able to put the portals in the place I needed to.

Not really, it was before you meet your first rocket turret.

 

[Jazoni89]

*heavy footsteps*...Starz...MWAAAAAH!

Nuff Said.

 

[Hyper-space]

The moment when i realized that upgrading my ship in ME2 could have saved all of my companions. I panicked so much that i deleted my save game and started another. This time, i did all of my companion loyalty missions and upgraded as much as i could, still lost Legion.

;_;

 

[Crimbo23]

sitting about a meter away from a 40 inch tv screen, with surround sound, lights off, 4 o'clock in the morning, playing dead space for the first time, scared me shitless

 

[Crimbo23]

i full agree, and when you manage to jump at at the last second you are like, 'oh my fucking god!'

 

[LikeDustInTheWind]

*Playing Dynasty Warriors, kicking ass* WHOO! Take this ya mooks! Wait... Who's that?

Spoiler: Holy shit... Its... Its...

[HEADING=1]LU BU!!![/HEADING]

It springs to mind as it was one of the first times I panicked in a game.

*36 hours of grinding later*

HA! TAKE THAT LU BU. WHO SUCKS NOW, HUH?!

OT: Pretty much any ultra-super-power enemies ever. They're always freaky. They could be a giant fuzzy rabbit and I would still freak out and run.

 

[Crimbo23]

Also hearing the 'tank music' come on left for dead and having no clue where it is

 

[angmoo]

While not exactly because of the game, but I live in what is pretty much the attic of my house and there's a big ass sky light over my bed.

So I was near the end of DS2 while you're being chased by the Ubermorph at about 2am, when all of a sudden this huge branch falls on the sky light and puts a pretty big crack in it. Damn near pissed myself I was so scared.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

One word:

TSSSSSSSSSSSS

Every single time, I freak the fuck out and fumble for the ESC key to turn the difficulty on Peaceful.

 

[Neyon]

I don't really panic, I guess I have played far too many video games and watched far too many movies to do so. Whenever a monster jumps out I shoot it in the face before it has time to make a sound.

 

[helldragonX]

Anytime in an RPG, when the game gives me a crap ton of potions and then a save point.

 

[TheAmokz]

Enemies in Amnesia. I almost always scream when i see one.

 

[archvile93]

The worst I remember was when I was playing pokemon gold (not the remake, this was awhile ago), and I encountered raikou almost immediately after releasing him. My best was only lv 22 so I really thought I was screwed. Keep in mind this was my first experience with wanderers, so I didn't think he'd run, I didn't even know he wandered, I figured he was just a really rare random encounter.

 

[Wyane380]

When Dojima is heading to the killer's room in the hospital, and the quick talking you have to do in Persona 4 was totally nerve-racking.

 

[lovestomooch]

Half Life 2 when you have to run from the strider down that tunnel, aaaaeerrggh

 

[rhyno435]

When I used to run out of air in the underwater levels on the older Sonic games.

YES!! The music was terrifying, I felt like I was really going to die. Granted, I was 10, but still.

 

[Arqus_Zed]

I don't panic that easily...

However, I remember one specific event in my first PlayStation game (which was also the first game I ever owned in general) that made me quite jumpy. The game, lo and behold, was none other than...

Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer.

It remember it so clear: the homeworld: Summer Forest; the level: Hurricos.
There's a certain orb-assignment you need to do for an electroll: place all the energy spheres back in their place to power an electricity tower. However, there were Monsters - Gear Grinders - that would constantly steal away the spheres.

Every time they would come, a loud alarm would go of and you would hear the creepy laugh of the Gear Grinders. Both that alarm an that laugh creeped me out for a long time.

I recently played it again, for nostalgia's sake, and I still can't believe that something so silly managed to startle me.

I'm pretty sure that game was called Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

And I'm pretty sure you don't live in Europe.

Down here, Ratchet & Clank got numerals instead of titles like "Going Commando" or "Up Your Arsenal".
Down here, we have Shin Megami Tensei: Lucifer's Call instead of Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne.
Down here, we have Dragon Quest: Journey of the Cursed King, instead of Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King.
And down here, we have Spyro 2: Getaway To Glimmer instead of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage.

 

[gardyna]

sadly the first time I paniced was when playing the original Jak and Daxter: the precursor legacy in the underwater area there's a power orb sitting at the end of one of the routes you can take and after the "get" animation you see that you unknowingly stepped on a button and now dark eco is rising up to kill you (you have to climb up a tower to escape) so I paniced (and still do slightly whenever I play that game)

but the one that was most memorable were the fights in Project zero 2 (Fatal Frame 2 for the "special" little Americans) you get just so nervous whenever you see that bloody glow and know there's a ghost nearby