Dead Space scared me so much that I kneed myself in the face. Nothing like your experience, though I stopped playing Doom 3 for about a month.
Yeah I recently started playing the game and I am completely lucky my friends were around to spoil every suprise while I played. Though actually it gets better as you play since eventually you can beef your guy with upgrades so much that enemies don't have a chance.dt61 said:So a few weeks ago I asked a thread in which if Bioshock is worth a purchase and asked if it was actually scary. Well most said it wasn't bad and so I popped it in today and stopped after one minute. After the plane crash and you enter the building it was so dark and I'm afraid of the dark, so that didn't help. Also I quit after you start the machine that takes you to Rapture. So I think I figured out I'm the biggest wuss in the world. I'm selling it back on Ebay right away. Ever have a similar experience?
EDIT: If you want to know how scared I get, I cried to my friend begging him so that we wouldn't see this movie.
The thing I hate about that is it isn't really scariness they're using but surprise. Of course I'm going to react to something jump at my monitor. Good games use atmosphere and sound to make you afraid, take the darkness I loved that game, but the ww1/hell/darkness level just freaked the hell out of me. Even when I knew I could kill anything just the bleakness of it wore me down.lovest harding said:The thing I hate (which also happens in a lot of games) is enemies popping up behind me.
Now that's a perfect example of a good frightening level, even though there's no threat in the first half and you can kill all the zombies if you have the right amount of gear, I just didn't want to play anymore.the Dept of Science said:The only game where I haven't been able to proceed because of the scare factor was when I played Thief 3's Cradle a few years ago.
Saying that I have recently got Silent Hill 2 so will need to see how that pans out.
I always used the souped up shotgun. Machine gun had too much recoil for my taste.Awesomeforthemasses said:Bioshock isn't scary in the least after you get the machine gun. Spider splicers still make me jump a bit if they sneak up on me, though.
Actually this guys description is pretty much perfect. Bioshcok was fun, and a bit scary, and Dead Space was borderline for me but I still managed to complete it.Pirate Yoda Online said:Bioshock is more startling than actually scary, much like Deadspace. It's one of those things where stuff jumps out and goes 'BOO!' instead of actually terrifing you.
Besides, I maintain that you have to play a game for at least an hour before you decide whether you like it or not.
I played The Cradle maybe a year ago after heartily enjoying the earlier parts of Thief 3. I made it up until my first encounter with an enemy, and... I lost it. I flipped out. I was stabbing wildly, running around, stumbling into the baddy, trying desperately to hide... Eventually I shut off the system. I don't think it can be overstated how scary The Cradle is, especially considering how Thief 3 has this sort of enemy logic, and from the brief bit I saw, the enemies in The Cradle fly in the face of everything the player thinks they know about how enemies work.the Dept of Science said:Do you reckon we will convince him to keep the game, then in 2 days we will get a thread called "Just played the second minute of Bioshock".
Appart from a few scenes, I didn't find much scare in Bioshock after the Medical Pavillion (the first level). I'm not sure why, but I found it a lot less scary when I was wielding an automatic shotgun and shooting bees from my arms.
The only game where I haven't been able to proceed because of the scare factor was when I played Thief 3's Cradle a few years ago.
Saying that I have recently got Silent Hill 2 so will need to see how that pans out.
dt61 said:So a few weeks ago I asked a thread in which if Bioshock is worth a purchase and asked if it was actually scary. Well most said it wasn't bad and so I popped it in today and stopped after one minute. After the plane crash and you enter the building it was so dark and I'm afraid of the dark, so that didn't help. Also I quit after you start the machine that takes you to Rapture. So I think I figured out I'm the biggest wuss in the world. I'm selling it back on Ebay right away.