What do you find scary?

[000Ronald]

The only thing that can scare me is something that's real.

And even then, there's a better chance that it'll just piss me off.

I'm afraid of the dark, though. For clarification.

And more importaint than what scares you, is whether or not you are willing to stand up to that fear.

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This brain dribble brought to you by THE LOGICIAN the man who can apologize for anything, and will, at the sightest provocation (sorry).

 

[pha kin su pah]

the part after you die, whether its heaven, hell or nothing....

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

In real life, the only REAL phobia I have (as in, not what would be considered a healthy fear) is of an insect touching me. Now, I'm not afraid of insects per se, but if one is touching me (direct contact on the skin) I have a little freak-out moment. Mr. Bug needs to get off of me or Mr. Bug is going to go squish.

In games? That's a bit more complex. Dark, lonely places get my hackles up, especially when it's raining. Things I can hear but can't see, that sound very close and very dangerous. Scenes of past violence without a clear explanation as to how it happened. (Seriously, every time I see a dead character surrounded by weapons and ammo, I don't feel joy. "Okay, that guy had all this and he's dead. How am I supposed to do better?") Being stuck in close quarters with a strong enemy when I'm underprepared.

Here's a handful of scenes or situations in video games that pretty well played with my head:

- Thief: The Dark Project- Return to the Cathedral. Took me 15 minutes to work up the nerve to go inside.
- Half-Life 2- Ravenholm. "I'm stuck in a city of the dead with a gravity gun and a handful of ammo, and my only backup is a crazy Russian priest. I'm dead."
- Gears of War- the first half of the Foundry level. One of the best-looking storms I've seen in a game.
- System Shock 2- the first time I saw a Rumbler. I opened the door to the Rec section, and something big, fleshy and extremely angry came charging at me with this ear-splitting roar. And I only had my wrench equipped. Oh, and there was finally getting to Polito's office....
- Thief: Deadly Shadows- Robbing the Cradle. In its totality this was one of the most mind-twistingly unsettling levels I've ever played in a game, through sound, sight and story ("Wait. I thought it was an orphanage, THEN an asylum... it was both at once?!") but the moment that always sticks out in my mind is The Door. If you've played it then you know what I mean. I was at the bottom of those steps for five minutes with a broadhead nocked and ready.
- Doom 3- Delta Labs 1, until you retreive the Datalinker. If more of the game had tried for those psychological scares ("They took my baby") rather than the "BOO monster jumps out!" bits then I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
- FEAR- when Alma does that spiderwalking thing at you in the vents. Argh! I HATE that!

 

[Mnemophage]

Brain damage.

That about says it all. The very idea is horrible. Terrible. The thought that something as innocuous and pervasive as an accident could utterly erase everything I am... that shit is uncomfortable. And it could happen if I, say, take the wrong medication. Stop breathing. Fall down. Get sick. Piss someone off. There are infinite scenarios out there that end with me as a wheelchair-bound, pants-shitting invalid. I can't even look at handicapped people - it turns my legs to water. And if someone still has the capacity to describe what they were, and regret what they are now... no. I'm not even going to think about it anymore.

As for games: the Ocean House Hotel in VtM: Bloodlines made me shriek aloud in the bright shiny middle of the day. And I had the foresight to be playing through as a Malkavian. The whispers. Whispers everywhere. People I can't see. Oh sweet undead gods help me, I'm going so mad I'm sane.

 

[pieeater911]

I fear of drowning. Being suffocated to death by the giver of all life. Irony.

In video-games? Pretty much the only thing that has ever actually scared me was in Half-Life 2: Episode two at the part where you have to do the giant see-saw puzzle (yet again) with the bridge, and on the way down in one room you hear this really creepy rasping moan of agony, and once you gear yourself up to go into the room it turns out to be a damned poison headcrab zombie, which are my most hated enemies in the game.

That was quite the run-on sentence.

 

[Zaireekoid]

Crickets, Ravenholm, The Apocalypse, and a street very near where I live where at night it would fit a road leading into the thing I listed before The Apocalypse called Old Limey

 

[Zaireekoid]

What scares me? Human stupidity. It's INFINITE.

why so cynical? just like evolution, the stupid gets pruned eventually.

Indeed, what scares me is the extremes the human mind can be pushed... anyone whose been tricked into going to a shock site knows of what i speak.

No it won't. We're coddling stupid nowadays, so that they can live. I'm not all Eugenics-y where we should kill the weak and sick, but I'm just saying, if we were bison, Rodney, the tumor-infested Downs syndrome boy would be the first to go.

 

[Mnemophage]

In real life, the only REAL phobia I have (as in, not what would be considered a healthy fear) is of an insect touching me. Now, I'm not afraid of insects per se, but if one is touching me (direct contact on the skin) I have a little freak-out moment. Mr. Bug needs to get off of me or Mr. Bug is going to go squish.

I suppose I shouldn't tell you about the tiny insects living in your eyelashes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex_mite], should I?

 

[zachbob2]

Clinton as president

 

[Usnota]

Heights scare the living shit out of me, (my dad even more so), so I guess it runs in the family

other things that scare me include mob mentality, and having something incredibly grusome done to my eyes

in video games however, it is being alone, RE4 scared the living shit out of me for this and the horrfiying enemys

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

Nothing!!!

Sure I may act surprised by an ambush, but I would never run away unless I have no intrest and consider whatever not to be a threat. Lock me in a room with a Monster and i'll rip it's arms off and beat it to death with my bare hand's. LOL, i'm probaly the only guy tougth enougth to do that on this whole website.

BTW i'm not insane enougth to go and fight a army unless i was ingected with some preadator serum or I was well armed (G36, OICW, Rocket Launcher, Dule D.Eagles, Plasma Autorifle, etc.o_0

Lol all it takes is Viagra seriously. All your blood would be elsewhere so you would have no capacity to be scared. Hell you would be like jiggaman and just drop your piece on the monsters head killing it.

 

[Aries_Split]

What scares me? Human stupidity. It's INFINITE.

why so cynical? just like evolution, the stupid gets pruned eventually.

Indeed, what scares me is the extremes the human mind can be pushed... anyone whose been tricked into going to a shock site knows of what i speak.

A shock site?

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Ahem...I could link here but I'd get banzored.

Shock site = Any link that sends you to a site where something REALLY gross is happening.

Spoiler

Don't say its name, or it might appear - mod

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

And the only thing that I think really scares me.(Some things creep me out but it just takes a few minutes for me to get it under wraps, Also I hate cheap-tricks that flash and stuff thats not scaring thats your body getting ready to rip people apart.) Its guns that scare me really. I know I promoted guns on another thread but guns really add a multiplier if somebody has one and is experience. But if I have a gun then everythings back fine again.>.>

 

[Alphavillain]

Old age.

 

[Dioxide45]

What happens after you die? that thought makes me scared, the sea, I almost drowned when I was 2-3 and my baby swimming teacher had the bright idea to take us out to sea in a kayak (it was only a metre deep but we were only half a metre tall) then tip the kayak over with the idea that nearly drowning would teach us to swim I now have trouble going deeper than my waist in the sea. Dark enclosed spaces knowing something is coming to kill you scares me. Facehuggers. When a car comes past my house and it sounds like my door slamming and I think someones in my house. Thats about it, it may seem alot but im being honest not just listing 1 thing

 

[Dance The Revolution]

What I consider scarey? Alone...in the darkest of nights....with a single ray of dim light illuminating me...surround by *shudders* giant black spiders or spider-like creatures that doesn't make a single, insignificant sound. What can be scarier than that?

 

[Spleeni]

I don't really see the whole fuss about Half-Life; I found the head-crab zombies almost comical.

I don't really get 'scared', I get nervous, and I want to stop, but I never shriek in terror. The most I get is surprised by one of the cheap tricks that games like Doom 3 pulled every now and then. Or like in Bioshock, where the scientist/doctor turns off the lights, runs behind you, and spooks you on your way out.

Personally, I don't enjoy horror games because they don't tend to have anything beyond playing with your emotions. Very rarely does a horror game have a good interface. Graphics tend to be very good, but eye candy alone doesn't cut it for me.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

I don't really see the whole fuss about Half-Life; I found the head-crab zombies almost comical.

I don't really get 'scared', I get nervous, and I want to stop, but I never shriek in terror. The most I get is surprised by one of the cheap tricks that games like Doom 3 pulled every now and then. Or like in Bioshock, where the scientist/doctor turns off the lights, runs behind you, and spooks you on your way out.

Personally, I don't enjoy horror games because they don't tend to have anything beyond playing with your emotions. Very rarely does a horror game have a good interface. Graphics tend to be very good, but eye candy alone doesn't cut it for me.

Yeah i'm more for a mindfuck in a horror game then a cheap trick. Like one silent hill pulls with the pyramid head.Can't wait until homecoming...And more mindfuck..

 

[KimMR251]

In no particular order:
spiders (and their webs)
new borns (they make me nervous)
being resuscitated after some catastrophic event (just let me die)
virulent, unrelenting disease with no cure that causes painful deaths (particularly the biosafety level 4 organisms)
dairy products
anything with barbie