Your in-game phobias

[Plucky]

I think i speak for everyone about this one, its Stuff Which Could be Lost Forever....like in Final Fantasy 7 when you get to the

Spoiler

scrapyard somewhere, theres a reactor of somesort, you can either choose to stick your hand inside, or not, if you do stick your hand in, you get the Titan Materia...dunno what would happen if you do stick your hand in other than that, so without reading a guide, i avoided sticking my hand in, thinking it was like that thing with the nest.

By the time i discovered what i missed, i simply ragequitted...think i got up to Wutai. :/

 

[Karhukonna]

Definitely FPS chases. I remember this one scene in Condemned 2 where you're chased by a giant bear. That one still gives me the chills.

I also hate it when you're placed into a situation where you have no means of self defense, like the opening of Dead Space 2. As soon as I could melee with the flashlight, I felt safe and okay.

Also, pretty rarely, but sometimes I get scared by water. In real life, I never swim in places I don't know and it drives the missus crazy. Pools and stuff are cool, but dark, unknown water? Hell no, could be sharks in there. Okay, so it's inland and in the cold north, but still. And this, well whaddya know, transfers into games. Unless it's the kind of game where I can be at least a bit deadly underwater. Then it's cool.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Zombie-type enemies (i.e. The Flood from the Halo series) and weapon-/weak point-specific enemies that charge at you and can cause you to die instantly or with a few hits.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Amnesia and Resident Evil 4 are NOT for you my friend
For me it has to be instant kills, I get extremely paranoid about them.

Yep, I was one-hit decapitated by a Sliver Hand leader at the end of the dungeon with no saving.

Needless to say, when I reached him again, I slowly picked away at his health with a bow from the shadows.

 

[Coller]

Fear of heights. Levels with high risks of falling are uncomfortable for me, i'm usually trying to be very carefull in such levels. The experience of falling in almost any first person game makes me feel really uncomfortable ( i unconciously hold my breath and my legs go numb).

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Enemies that can't be killed, look terrifying as hell and kill you almost instantly.
REALLY hate (yet adore) Amnesia for this. I can never go back to that Choir again... Creepy screech going on in my ears, running to the door with my merry life, turn to the side.

Spoiler: HOLYSHITWHATTHEFUCKISTHAT!

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and then I scream and die.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

And the first time facing Death in Persona 3. The jingling chains are nightmarish.

Oh god. I remember how afraid I was when that happened xD That, mixed in with Fuuka going all "RUN OR YOU DIE!!!11!". After that I fled for the nearest exit whenever Fuuka could sense Death... until New Game+ where I got revenge.

Also, jump scares, intended or not. Things like getting hit by something (for example an arrow, a bullet, a spell) when I'm not expecting it. I literally jump out of my chair whenever this happens. The sudden Skeever behind me biting me in Skyrim, or the random well-hidden sniper in Battlefield 3 is a criminal for attempting to take my life through provoking a heart-attack... xD

 

[(whitty name here)]

Things that are humanoid yet move in twisted, weird ways and make clearly inhuman noises. The Silent Hill nurses are a good example of this. Redeads, Gibdos, and other stuff like that.
Especially if they make a really loud noise when they discover you or something similar to that, and causing you to be unable to take any actions until you mash enough or something to that extent.

A sudden change in tone, like combat music suddenly starting out of silence as an enemy hits you from behind. There were many times in Skyrim where a bear would somehow get behind me and not make a single sound until after he took a swing, leaving me to jump about 3 feet in the air and clicking my mouse as quickly as possible.

 

[LeQuack_Is_Back]

Water. There's always SOMETHING in the water. It doesn't matter what, I just know that 9/10, it's not friendly. This happened so much that it almost became a real-life phobia for me. And even then, the breath meter spooks me. I don't perform well under time pressure.

 

[Da_Schwartz]

Old school Ice levels, especially in side scrollers where you jump and tap left right left right left right to not slide off some impossible platform. I'm looking at you "Iceman" (megaman series)

 

[efAston]

Saving immediately after something very bad happens. You know that horrible feeling when immediately after you load a game you get killed, or find that you've used something that you really need ten minutes later? I don't need the game to keep all of my quick-saves (like Far Cry 2 did, for some reason), two would be enough, but without that, I'm always looking for a manual save before I commit to something which seems like it might be regrettable in hindsight.

 

[Smeggs]

Just not being able to see a damn thing, really. I'm okay with darkness in a familiar place, but...

Other than that I have no phobias that carry into games. In fact I'm much braver in games. "What's that, Bethesda? A five-hundred foot tall cliff? HA-HA! Well let's just jump over the edge and slide down the nearly 90 degree side!"

I do have a tendency while playing a scary game though to immediately close every door I just came from, though. No need to have some enemy I missed sneaking up behind me because I forgot to close the door.

Oh, and anything that is smaller, because they're hard to hit. Also, anything that is extremely loud or fast, robots dependent on how they are portrayed, and can come from almost ANYWHERE because of the AI and physics engine...

Spoiler: Fast Zombies and Hunters.

 

[egrutt]

Mimics.... those monsters that look like treasure chests.... I want my loot damit not a fight!

 

[SixWingedAsura]

SPIDERSAAAAHHHHSPIDERSAAAAAAHHHRUN!

Ugh, nasty horrendous things...Skyrim, I love you from the bottom of my heart, but your spiders...*shudders*

 

[Zack Alklazaris]

I like most people apparently hate water. Namely, water with big man eating fish monsters. From "Big Birtha" in Mario

to Ichthyosaur in Half Life

I have the same fear in real life, strangely enough being eaten alive on land isn't as scary as something suddenly eating me in the dark waters of the ocean.

 

[cambamuniverse]

Definitely spiders, even though everyone has said that already. Even playing minecraft freaks me out, mainly because once I built a ginormous wall with no roof, and the spiders still managed to climb over the wall and I got killed. The sounds of them trying to get at me were terrifying -_-

 

[Venom 3135]

Water. There's always SOMETHING in the water. It doesn't matter what, I just know that 9/10, it's not friendly. This happened so much that it almost became a real-life phobia for me. And even then, the breath meter spooks me. I don't perform well under time pressure.

I know how you feel. This fear creeped into my real life and now I can't swim in dark water or at night. I dont know i you've ever played F.E.A.R but there's a section where you hear a whisper saying "There's something in the water" and when you turn the corner there's a bed of dark water and you just about see something jump in. I was forced to creep around the sides of the water when playing this section. O.O

 

[FalloutJack]

Let's go with squid. No, I don't need to explain. Just...squid.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

I think the title explains the discussion value for this thread well enough.

So Escapist, what are your in-game phobias and do them stem from your real life phobias? I know that the most popular one i've heard of is Arachnophobia.

But as for me, it's water. Any water that's deep enough that my character has to swim. Especially if it's dark and you can't see whats around you very well, I never know what could come out at me....or from behind me *shiver*. This probably comes from me disliking any deep water that i can't see my feet in, even if it's just a swimming pool at night, if i'm by myself and can't see my feet i'll be creeped out.

And just for some added discussion, what games has your phobia been relevant to?

For me, off the top of my head, Ape Escape on the PS1 had this level where you had to sit on this little raft and there was this giant ass fish that was swimming around and it terrified me. And it took me forever to convince myself to go swimming in Monster hunter tri.

Pretty much this. It's funny because I love swimming I was actually nick named Dolphin by my friends when I was younger.
I just don't like swimming in weedy water(who does) or in the dark because then I can't see anything and you never know when something with teeth might just...Anyway, I never thought I would take this phobia back to its origin point, Video games, but, ironically enough, here we are. The more real the water gets the worse the anxiety gets heh.

Been having a good bout with this little quirk of mine over the years in games such as Resident Evil 3(Chemical Lab) where my friend lead me to believe I would have to send Jill trudging through this sick pool full of cadavers and god knows what else (thankfully that wasn?t the case)

Next we have RE4. You are confronted with this cute little boat and this very large grimy lake (which they just showed you contained a nasty water beast) what could(n?t) go wrong? So you hop aboard and Leon sets out on his little care free boat ride. Then the game gives you a nice eagle eye shot of everything and reveals to you the massive size of this thing, which just so happens to now be lurking underneath your boat...

And lately, I?ve been having this little sore of mine poked at by games such as Resident Evil 5, Shadows of the Damned and Skyrim.(just can't get out of that water soon enough) I sincerely blame all of this on DK3
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxpq_3RRWLA

 

[Ragnarok185]

I'm claustrophobic when I play through Skyrim's dungeons