Your in-game phobias
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Do the Husks in Mass Effect count? Or maybe the naked Monster men in Penumbra Black plague. Howabout those? *shutters*
The demo of F.E.A.R 2 alone gave me three nightmares.O_Os0p0g said:
OT: Beside anything relating to F.E.A.R, it would be the dark and water. The dark because it actually stems from my now former fear of the dark and that there were hardly and games that made being in the dark a good thing. The water because in games, more likely than not, there was something in the water that if they saw me would try to kill me. Fallout: New Vegas, Oblivion and Resident Evil 4 with a few other games that prove me right.
I've played a lot of Zelda in my life, and I can say this simply; I hate water temples. No exeptions, the water temple will always be the temple I hate the most. Not sure why. Either it's the swimming, or that it limits my capabilities. But it has also dragged on to other games. So water is an area I will mostly avoid, if possible.
Not really a "game" in the sense that it was on an internet forum rather than being an actual console game or a PC title. There was this paculliar game in 4chan in the /tg/ board that went by the name of Ruby Quest. Ever since I red it, I have this unearving fear of the dark.
Oddly enough I have the same thing...Its just you cant tell whats down there! Its dark, murky, and you're slower and less effective in combat than if you were on land, plus you're fighting something that is at home in the water, and can get you much easier. Thats my problem with games with combat and water together, Metroid Prime for the Gamecube was a good exampleerttheking said:
not being able to kill things like really if I can?t kill it and it can kill me and I don?t mean something that?s just stays in one spot think amnesia that game is the best example of this but I still play that cause I am very manly 
Spiders. Either I put off having to fight them, run, and close my eyes and mash the attack or magick button till there gone. In Skyrim I Dremora lords to kill them and if I'm feeling particularly sadistic, I summon flame Atronachs to burn them to death. I really don't like fighting bugs in any games but only spiders make me run or kill in the in the most impersonal and brutal way.
Oh, so those are the things chasing you. Don't think I've ever stopped to say hello to them. Now I know what they look like and how appropriate it was to run.Edible Avatar said:Really, only things that come at me quickly and are impossible to kill. If they are scary looking and i have to run away, all the more terrifying.
Exhibit A:
I don't hate spiders, but if 6 Aussie-sized buggers are chasing you through a claustophobia inducing maze, with panicky music going off, you quickly learn to hate them.
Exhibit B:
NO......just ....no
As an in-game hoarder of valuables (for increased wealth not for stashing) I constantly find it annoying with low bag space. I often ponder which items I should leave behind and where.
I'm no hoarder in real life, thankfully.
As someone else have said, fast phased games or stuff on time limits also are a massive bane for me. I can come up with tactical movements in my head, solve most logical puzzles thrown at me, but on time? No, my body can't really act as fast as my brain throws out orders.
I'm no hoarder in real life, thankfully.
As someone else have said, fast phased games or stuff on time limits also are a massive bane for me. I can come up with tactical movements in my head, solve most logical puzzles thrown at me, but on time? No, my body can't really act as fast as my brain throws out orders.
Thanks to good ol' Doom 3, I'm terrified of in game spiders. Real life spiders don't bother me too much, unless they're particularly creepy lookin', but the way spiders in games relentlessly advance on you with their creepy quick spider walk is just... Ergh it doesn't bear thinking about.
Fog, darkness...anything that obscures my vision (thanks, Silent Hill).
Being chased (Amnesia, I'm looking at you, you prick).
Sharks and bears. Any water level with sharks I will scream like a girl and drop the controller (or obsessively pause he game). The bears in Skyrim I'll run from going "EEEEEEEK!".
Sudden loudness. I'll be sneaking around when suddenly, "HEY! sSDJFSDFLJDSFLSDFJLDSFK!" - and I jump and get this burst of unneeded adranaline.
Being chased (Amnesia, I'm looking at you, you prick).
Sharks and bears. Any water level with sharks I will scream like a girl and drop the controller (or obsessively pause he game). The bears in Skyrim I'll run from going "EEEEEEEK!".
Sudden loudness. I'll be sneaking around when suddenly, "HEY! sSDJFSDFLJDSFLSDFJLDSFK!" - and I jump and get this burst of unneeded adranaline.
Air vents and deep water, respectively due to Dead Space and THAT GODDAMN EEL in Super Mario 64 (I was young and it scared the crap out of me at the time, don't judge me.) Actually, the water thing kind of leaked out into my regular life as well, I get nervous swimming in deep ocean. There's just something indescribably creepy about knowing that there are unknown creatures somewhere under the surface that are thouroughly at home in one of the few remaining earthly environments in which humans are largely helpless. 'Ya know?
It's not really a phobia since I don't irrationally cower in fear of it, but in any game that has a section with deep water (i.e. can't see shit in it), I'm always paranoid about sharks even if I know there's no sharks in the game. Pretty sure this paranoia came from Resident Evil. Damn my brother for letting me play it as a six year old.
For me, it is the sound of air raid sirens. Silent Hill gives me the willies, BIG time. Another thing would be things that aren't quite human, such as redeads and headcrab zombies. Urgh. I would say the thing that gives me the biggest fear in games is being unarmed or not being able to defend myself. Playing through the Project Zero games was an absolute nightmare. For my fiance, it's spiders, deep water, the dark and Andross from the first game. Urgh.
Things that are invisible and are hard to kill, or things that come out of nowhere, Dead space and STALKER for example they freak my pants off and I flip off my chair, ugh...so scary.
All kinds of killer fish in games scare me. This stemmed from the sharks in the original half life game and has stemmed a phobia of water mammals in real life. Thanks half life
turret sections. (the kind where you man them, not destroy them.) the lack of mobility and forced ranged gameplay make me nervous for my character's life, considering i'm all about running around and doing melee attacks.