I hate to admit it, but I still have not finished Silent Hill 2. Once I got outside at night, with the nurses running everywhere, that was it. Nerves couldn't take it anymore. Finished Silent Hill 3, but still haven't finished 2. A little of it has to do with the fact that I already know the ending, but still...Julianking93 said:
Question of the Day, October 1, 2010
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Yes. I have phagophobia. Attempting to watch/read/play anything about vore makes me uncomfortable, nauseous, and also fills me with an overwhelming sense of dread. So while these parts of videogames may not be uncomfortable to most people, I can't stand them. It's to the point where I often stop playing a game if one of them pops up. It really sucks to be enjoying a game and then have to stop playing it because it is making you physically ill. Something I've noticed is that a lot of the games I played as a kid had vore levels. I don't get that. Why is it inappropriate to show a character spilling their guts in a kids games, but walking around inside them is fine?
Speaking of which, Gears of War 2 really pissed me off. Giant worm out of fucking nowhere.
But aside from fear due to my phobia, no. I don't buy many horror games, but when I do I'll force myself through them even if they are scaring me. I figure that's the whole point of buying a horror game.
Speaking of which, Gears of War 2 really pissed me off. Giant worm out of fucking nowhere.
But aside from fear due to my phobia, no. I don't buy many horror games, but when I do I'll force myself through them even if they are scaring me. I figure that's the whole point of buying a horror game.
Only once, it was Echo Night: Beyond. Dead Space had me going for a while as well, because I kept thinking the damn necromorphs were going to jump behind me, or out of the cieling, or out of the vents, or god forbid one of the giant tentacles would come and grab me.
What? I've seen plenty of people mentioning Penunbra and Amnesia before your comment... Maybe you just got super-ultra-ninja'd or something.. 0_o XDArcanist said:
On topic. I usually stop the game Im scared of for a few days or weeks and come back to it.
But Thief 3 crashed on the cradle-level, when I came back to it and im too tired to start that stuff again. I'll just play the first ones again ^_^
Also I've never finished Doom 3 but I think I got stuck with it and then I deleted it or something, but again, I really dont want to go trough the trouble of playing the first half of the game again. Maybe in a few years.
RE 3 was probably the only game I never finished because of the scares. Or at least I dont remember finishing it. I was just a kid when it came out and I was freaked out by nemesis. REmember panicing in the first mansion-thing where Nemesis is banging the door. Also the dogs have always scared me.
I recently got my hands to Silent Hill 2. I'll see how I'll do. I've only played like to the 2nd save spot or something and the pacing and atmosphere is real good. And Im not really that good handling massive amounts of atmosphere. Had to force myself trough Thief 3s cradle the first time I played it.
It was never a problem to go forward in a game with no atmosphere. The Jump-scares scared me in the annoying way in Doom 3 and Dead Space, but since the atmosphere was basically "ooh, I wonder if there is gonna be zombie-things coming out of that suspicious cupboard over there. Oh, there was." so I had no proble walking around shooting stuff the whole game.
the original AVP-games had a good atmosphere. But not scary. At least not too scary to stop playing.
ALSO: Condemned had a great atmosphere and I had to force myself trough. But it was so well made that it has been the only time in my life where a horror game is scaring me almost too much, but it was too good to stop playing it. Those fucking Emo-spider-dudes crawling everywhere. It was like the pre-screening of Spiderman 3. XD
Once, yes, but bear in mind this was years ago when I was around 5 - 10 years old.
Back then, my dad had a copy of Resident Evil on the PC, which he smartly banned me from playing. This didn't stop me from trying, though. So come certain midnights, when mum was asleep and dad was working around 8pm - 4am, I'd sneak downstairs to play Resi Evil. Or attempt to.
See, I was a little ***** when it came to anything remotely scary. Fuck, I don't know how, but the opening animated sequence between Bugs and Daffy in Gremlins (or was it someone else...) not only gave me the creeps enough to turn it off, but was probably the catalyst for my childhood nightmares (which I didn't have up until that point), so fuck knows what I'd have done had I continued watching...
So, I'd play as Jill, get past the part where Barry and Jill have to search for Wesker (without looking for the first zombie myself), get to that damned dog hallway when you're suddenly alone...at which point, my "Oh shit!" alarm went off and I reset the game. Every single time.
Same thing happened when I tried with Chris, only the time that elapsed between controlling Chris and "Fuck, restart!" was a lot quicker. And yet every time I could, I'd sneak down trying not to wake anyone up and play it. And every time, I would enjoy the small amount of progress I'd make.
Of course now, I can tell that dog hallway to go shove a red hot poker up its ass so I can get to the more challenging foes.
Back then, my dad had a copy of Resident Evil on the PC, which he smartly banned me from playing. This didn't stop me from trying, though. So come certain midnights, when mum was asleep and dad was working around 8pm - 4am, I'd sneak downstairs to play Resi Evil. Or attempt to.
See, I was a little ***** when it came to anything remotely scary. Fuck, I don't know how, but the opening animated sequence between Bugs and Daffy in Gremlins (or was it someone else...) not only gave me the creeps enough to turn it off, but was probably the catalyst for my childhood nightmares (which I didn't have up until that point), so fuck knows what I'd have done had I continued watching...
So, I'd play as Jill, get past the part where Barry and Jill have to search for Wesker (without looking for the first zombie myself), get to that damned dog hallway when you're suddenly alone...at which point, my "Oh shit!" alarm went off and I reset the game. Every single time.
Same thing happened when I tried with Chris, only the time that elapsed between controlling Chris and "Fuck, restart!" was a lot quicker. And yet every time I could, I'd sneak down trying not to wake anyone up and play it. And every time, I would enjoy the small amount of progress I'd make.
Of course now, I can tell that dog hallway to go shove a red hot poker up its ass so I can get to the more challenging foes.
Both N64 titles:
The zombie level in Conker's Bad Fur Day creeped the shit out of me. I used a code to skip that part and finish the game, but I went back and played it. The music just creeps me out. I got through it by playing it muted with some mates over.
And Majora's Mask - one of the creepiest games ever made. The whole concept of the moon falling in and being powerless to stop it terrified me when I was twelve. So I actually wasn't creeped out by the final boss, because by then I knew I finally had a chance to save the world.
The zombie level in Conker's Bad Fur Day creeped the shit out of me. I used a code to skip that part and finish the game, but I went back and played it. The music just creeps me out. I got through it by playing it muted with some mates over.
And Majora's Mask - one of the creepiest games ever made. The whole concept of the moon falling in and being powerless to stop it terrified me when I was twelve. So I actually wasn't creeped out by the final boss, because by then I knew I finally had a chance to save the world.
Condemned. And I got freaked out playing L4D once, but I was on my own, at night, and had had a bad day, with an abusive ex sending threatening messages. So yeah, I've stopped playing twice cause scared/wimpy. But I have since played L4D, and was fine.
Oh god, that was horrible... D:NeedAUserName said:
As well as trying to stealthily steal the key from the sleeping troll's room in the dungeons.
That really freaked me out.. :S
OT: The only game that scared me enough to cause me to take a break from it was Resistance 2's Chicago hotel scene. I still hate it now :/
The Hunter in Dead Space nearly put me off, but I kept at it and once I'd burnt the sonofabitch to cinders the rest of the game was plain sailing.
My most recent game that scared the crap out of me was S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl. I bought it a couple years ago and never got past Agroprom Research Institute. But after reading how much everyone adores this game, I finally decided to run through it, and I loved it!
I still can't get over the Bloodsuckers, they scare the shit out of me.
I still can't get over the Bloodsuckers, they scare the shit out of me.
Oblivion is the first thing that comes to mind, filled with jumpscares...
Cant paly it on pc cuz of that
Cant paly it on pc cuz of that
I second that, although I found Siren: Blood Curse to be even worse.Quad08 said:
Still I think that the hotel scene right at the beginning of CoC is one of the best so far.
Later on it wasn't that intense anymore (for me at least).
Dead Space would also make the list (even if a certain reviewer on the Escapists disagrees) just for the magnificent audio.
I was playing Silent Hill 2 alone in my dorm room, late at night, and just slowly freaked myself out to a point of anxiety. While walking down a hallway in the hospital, I heard some glass break in the distance--just a random noise--and it was the final straw. I had to put it away that night.
I eventually went back and finished it, but with my roommate watching along most of the time.
I eventually went back and finished it, but with my roommate watching along most of the time.