Question of the Day, October 1, 2010

[Senaro]

The part in Limbo where you have to go into that pitch dark cave and find the three secret eggs. You have no sight, and only can go by sound. Then you fall into a hole, hear the sound of you smashing into a pile of bones and corpsey bits, and hear the sound of another spider creature crawling around on the ceiling. I quit out pronto. So much scarier when your imagination is left to fill in what you can't see.

Also, King's Quest VI's game over scenes nearly traumatized me as a child. God damn that genie...

 

[Neferius]

I've never played a videogame that scared me.
Startled... sure. But it's pretty hard to get scared when you realize "Hey! It's just a Game." ...and even if you Die, you can always just reload the last Save.

So no. What I feel when playing a survival/horror isn't Fear.
It's the Thrill of getting Killed

 

[Nathaniel Sickler]

I'll admit it... the first time I played through HL2 Ravenholm - it freaked me out. Of course, I was playing in a dark room at 2 AM, after having started the game earlier that night, so I was really into it. I plowed through, however, and have since played the game 4 or 5 more times.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Who now big daddy protector Boss Nintendo...

Don't start that... you already don't release RPG cause non japanese are to stupid to understand it.

We don't need you saying we can't have action/survival games now because we aren't "your people" so we now need to be spoon fed barbies horse adventure clones for the next 30 years...

Just release the damn games...we'll play them. Who cares if no one finishes it...they bought it...all the matters.

There is absolutely no basis for your statement on how japan views the west. Being conservative with their products is a well known cultural aspect of the Japanese, this includes games too. Not to mention, there are plenty of games that japan have released (which were successful there) that bombed in the states and in europe. So being reluctant to open their market to the west is understandable.

YAWWNNNNNN
My gaming goes back to the 80's, and yeah they basicly said that around 89 with a slew of Nintendo games. So it's experience, no basis? HA... do homework on the video game market sometime. No I was never military and visited the place...never...no idea how they see us at all.

Now shoo shoo...go pretend like you know someone else personally.

Charming to say the least...

I should really stop feeding trolls, but gosh darn it I'm just too damn generous.

 

[mazeut]

Closest I came to being unnerved by a game was a demo of Fatal Frame I played.

 

[Burningsok]

RE2... them damn lickers. I was young

 

[Twilight_guy]

Not really. The only games in recent memory that scared me are Fallout 3 and Bioshock. Bioshock wasn't really that bad in reality and Fallout only had a handful of really creepy places so neither was so bad I couldn't do it. Still, imagine a blindingly scary game that could scare someone away...

 

[Art3mis]

Only one game has ever shaken me, and that game was Penumbra. Other than that, I've never had any problems playing through any games.

 

[The Night Shade]

No never happend to me

 

[thatguy1]

I have only one fear, bees. (Cue nicholas cage)

There was a level in crash bandicoot 2 that was titled "bee-hiving" or something like that. Bees where enemies, I was 10.

Son of a *****.

 

[Ruagh]

This very nearly happened to me with Dead Space. Damn Hunter. However I eventually completed that game, a better example for me would be Medevil 2, which I played when I was very young. I reached a part containing a bunch of (exceptionally creepy) vampires, and couldn't bring myself to go on.

Ah, for the days when vampires were scary instead of sparkly.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Fallout 3.
No, it wasn't Deathclaws or Yao Guais jumping on me from behind in the midnight while using the Fellout mod, effectively making the night pitch black.
Nor was it the insane army of ghouls spawned in the (yep, you guessed it, pitch black) metro system that rushed me and refused to stay down until I decapitated them.
Nope.

I made the mistake of downloading a mod, which added an "ambient terror" radio station. I could barely walk around with it turned on in a lit and well-populated place like Megaton.
But then I went into Old Olney sewers, still pitch black. And I promptly quit 10 seconds later, after which I uninstalled the mod and never ever fucking looked at it again.

 

[TerribleAssassin]

Hmm, I'm afraid to continue Half-Life 1 at the moment because of that scientist eating fish and I was a bit afraid about facing Fontaine in BioShock 1, but I plowed through.

 

[Yureina]

Silent Hill 1 was scary for me, but I was able to finish it. Since then i've been able to beat every game i've played.

 

[no oneder]

Well, lem'me see, games I've been to scared off to finish them: Doom, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Bioshock, Batman Arkham Asylum, Dead Space and Half Life.

 

[AvsJoe]

I can only think of one example: Extermination for the PS2. But it also wasn't that great a game despite being pretty effective in the scare department.

 

[CounterAttack]

I never finished Half-Life 1 or 2. In HL1 I got lost somehow and drowned, which put me off. HL2... I was too scared to go to Ravenholm. Plus the headcrabs and zombies always frightened me. And this was earlier this year.

Also, there was this one Indiana Jones game, Emperor's Tomb I think it was called, where there's a fancy idol you need to grab at the end of the first act... but there's a giant crocodile in the way who can eat you whole. Plus I don't do well when it comes to swimming in games.