Minecraft... the horror, the horror

[xXGeckoXx]

I play on peaceful because I play casually and the map I started sucks so I don't have the reasources. But the ambient noises still fucking get me every time.

 

[cryogeist]

walking up a mountain to get some wood when a creeper comes up behind me and blows up knocking me OFF the mountain and kills me.....i stay inside or on peaceful alot in this game -_-

 

[Mcface]

when will you people learn.. build hole into side of mountain - you win minecraft.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

But are you sure it nodded? If so, Notch may end up being the next master of psychological horror and fourth-wall breaking. (Not off that incident alone, but if he expands on it...)

It's head moved up and down while it was staring at me, it was probably a glitch, but it scared the fuck out of me.

 

[SnipErlite]

lower res graphics force players to imagine the scary factor of what they are facing. Its why the old AVP games are so fucking terrifying.

True true. The imagination is far more powerful than scary looking enemies.

 

[Mcface]

As many Minecrafters will tell you, this is a surprisingly scary game. The sheer randomness of the world means you have literally no idea of what might be around the next corner, and if you have ever found yourself deep underground with no clear exit and a dwindling supply of torches you'll know just how scary that can be.

Well, it just got a little, or a lot, scarier. As of the latest update spiders can climb up walls.

Yeah, those castle walls you've built? Not so safe now, are they?

For discussion: what's been your scariest moment in Minecraft? I'd say mine would be one of my first nights above ground, when I'd built a little cabin on a hill but made the mistake of not having any torches. The horde of monsters that ammassed around outside the cabin that night, and the noise of them all was quite nerve wracking.

I'm beginning to feel more and more like the only person that isn't scared by this game

...and everyone I know who's scared of it is a complete pansy and acts like a douche whenever I mention it

in short- I don't understand how this is scary, stop trying to convince me it is
and go play amnesia and make sure you don't crap yourself (because if minecraft scares you... dang that's sad)

it can be startling/scary because you never know what will happen.
in those other games i am NEVER scared. "Ohh, scary noise, let me guess, theres a monster in this room.." sure enough, monster.

Minecraft you can be digging for 4 hours and see or hear nothing. then when you slowly inch your way out, you can suddenly see light from the surface. and as you get closer, bam the sillouetes of a bunch of bad guys.

now you have 4 hours worth of mining and work on you, you have something to lose. THATS why it's scary. in those other games I die, i respawn, and i know its coming. this game i lose all of my stuff.

 

[thatreynoldsman]

Going into the Nether for the first time without doing my research, then hearing some of those shit scary sounds that Ghasts make and thinking 'Ahhh FUUUUCK I'm gonna be murdered by terrifying crying babies with fireballs'. That. And then running straight into zombie pigmen. I pretty much shakily turned my PC off at the socket and went to get some new pants...

 

[Mcface]

As many Minecrafters will tell you, this is a surprisingly scary game. The sheer randomness of the world means you have literally no idea of what might be around the next corner, and if you have ever found yourself deep underground with no clear exit and a dwindling supply of torches you'll know just how scary that can be.

Well, it just got a little, or a lot, scarier. As of the latest update spiders can climb up walls.

Yeah, those castle walls you've built? Not so safe now, are they?

For discussion: what's been your scariest moment in Minecraft? I'd say mine would be one of my first nights above ground, when I'd built a little cabin on a hill but made the mistake of not having any torches. The horde of monsters that ammassed around outside the cabin that night, and the noise of them all was quite nerve wracking.

Oh that is NOTHING. Notch will add a zombie siege mode where there is a chance of a zombie invasion during the night which makes the moon turn blood red. Think "no prob"? Well i didn't tell you zombies can BREAK THROUGH WALLS AND DOORS AND INFILTRATE YOUR BASE UNTIL MORNING. You have to survive that hell night if it gets implemented.

I dont see that zombie invasion thing happening.. the world is random, how would the game know which structure was yours? whats stopping me from building a giant 64 block tower? or burrowing into the ground?

 

[Mcface]

As many Minecrafters will tell you, this is a surprisingly scary game. The sheer randomness of the world means you have literally no idea of what might be around the next corner, and if you have ever found yourself deep underground with no clear exit and a dwindling supply of torches you'll know just how scary that can be.

Well, it just got a little, or a lot, scarier. As of the latest update spiders can climb up walls.

Yeah, those castle walls you've built? Not so safe now, are they?

For discussion: what's been your scariest moment in Minecraft? I'd say mine would be one of my first nights above ground, when I'd built a little cabin on a hill but made the mistake of not having any torches. The horde of monsters that ammassed around outside the cabin that night, and the noise of them all was quite nerve wracking.

Oh that is NOTHING. Notch will add a zombie siege mode where there is a chance of a zombie invasion during the night which makes the moon turn blood red. Think "no prob"? Well i didn't tell you zombies can BREAK THROUGH WALLS AND DOORS AND INFILTRATE YOUR BASE UNTIL MORNING. You have to survive that hell night if it gets implemented.

I dont see that zombie invasion thing happening.. the world is random, how would the game know which structure was yours? whats stopping me from building a giant 64 block tower? or burrowing into the ground?

Simple, you set the player as way point for zombies to come to you. Players reside mostly in their base, no?

Sure, but again, how would they get to me 50 blocks up?

 

[Sebenko]

Climbing spiders- scary.

Being prepared by having been building lipped crenelated walls since I started playing the game in Alpha- fucken' awesome.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

I dont see that zombie invasion thing happening.. the world is random, how would the game know which structure was yours? whats stopping me from building a giant 64 block tower? or burrowing into the ground?

The game would know which blocks you plopped down, and where you are. Though living high up would protect from the zombies, they could gain the ability to scale walls.

 

[Nick Angelici]

You can just put another block on the top of your wall. spiders can't climb upside down.

My scariest moment was when I wen't out at the end of the day because I thought I could take a quick spawning spider and kill it (I need another string for my bow) I climbed up on a hill (creepers keep jumping down on me)and waited for dark.
I looked around and I didn't see anything spawning when suddenly, 6 spiders spawned between me and my house...6 fucking spiders ran towards me with their glowing eyes and ate my shins.

Now my spawn point was close and I didn't have anything very valuable on me when I died so I thought I would be fine...after running away from zombies and skeletons and whatnot I finally make it back to my house just in time for dawn...at which point a burning zombie hits me and knocks me down into the hole with my pet creeper (his name was Creepy, R.I.P)

I have countless stories of being down in caverns, deciding whether or not to just leg it away.

what do you mean, "pet Creeper"?

 

[timeadept]

You know when you're exploring a cave... listening for any sound of approaching foes... maybe you hear the skeleton, maybe you don't, but the sound that that first arrow makes ALWAYS makes me jump clean outa my skin. 2nd worst is when you hear that zombie growling but you can't figure out where it is.

 

[x434343]

Realizing that you're destroying a beautiful, natural world for... what?

 

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Hi. I am thinking of downloading Minecraft. Can someone explain to me generally what the game is all about and how game play on the Beta works with other people? Thanks.

 

[timeadept]

I dont see that zombie invasion thing happening.. the world is random, how would the game know which structure was yours? whats stopping me from building a giant 64 block tower? or burrowing into the ground?

The game would know which blocks you plopped down, and where you are. Though living high up would protect from the zombies, they could gain the ability to scale walls.

Or blow them open perhaps... how bout you make a flying fortress? just wait... spiders will gain the ability to make silk bridges and zombies will climb across them, or worse, some flying monster will drop them in like paratroopers!

 

[Daverson]

First time I heard a slime. Then I saw it. It was only a small one. And everything was fine! =D

I entered through my new portal today, and there was a Ghast directly in front of me, so I backed away from it directly into Lava... d'oh!

(Also, f*ck this Captcha bullsh*t. It's asking me to put in letters I don't even have on my keyboard! Had to bloody find an example of "ç" online so I could copy-paste it in...)