Convincing a friend of mine online (Who was American) that the main difference in time between us was the "fact" that Canada uses the Metric minute.
Your most embarrasing, emasculating, video game moment
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It was listening to the radio in Prey that made me crap my pants. Some of the phone callers...strangemusic said:
And FEAR I used to waste atleast a clip of ammo each time Fettle or Alma appeared.
BioShock, the room with the dentist's chair and the smoke machine. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but it made me squeal in such a way that the neighbours called my girlfriend's cell and asked if she was alright...
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My friend bought a new PC and told me to try out Doom 3 while he sees how it runs on the maximum settings it can go. Man I was scared shitless of that. And everytime I'd hear a noise every corner becomes a enemy. That was pretty emasculating for me.
For the Cradle level in Thief 3, I took one look at the old insane asylum / child nursery... and immediately quit the game. The next day, when it was light enough out, I turned the game back on, and armed with a walkthrough and the highest possible brightness settings on my monitor, I went through the level. Still the scariest gaming experience of my life. The insane child murdering asylum patients still give me shivers.
Most Embarrassing: Playing through "A Series of Unfortunete Events" and actually enjoying the gameplay elements.
Most Horrific: Resident Evil Four, roughtly 95% of the gameplay. Actually the opening sequences scared me more than most of the other stuff.
Most "Feel Good": In Final Fantasy X and in Earthbound. Final Fantasy X because I got Rikku around the ENTIRE sphere grid and in Earthbound when I got the Sword of Kings for Poo. :O
Most Horrific: Resident Evil Four, roughtly 95% of the gameplay. Actually the opening sequences scared me more than most of the other stuff.
Most "Feel Good": In Final Fantasy X and in Earthbound. Final Fantasy X because I got Rikku around the ENTIRE sphere grid and in Earthbound when I got the Sword of Kings for Poo. :O
Wow, lots of people are scared of Half-Life 2 moments. Me? I'm a wuss, use the God code so I don't end up dying. Wow and as I'm talking my T.V. is talking about the MP7, otherwise known as "That submachine gun that Gordon Freeman uses."
My scariest happens to be in BioShock where I had to quit the game for about a week because I opened that door to the Medical Bay above the plaza, saw a swarm of Splicers. I hid in a hallway upstairs and the door was open. But I remember random hisses and stuff, and then, explicitly, a female Splicer saying "We can see you through the walls..." It scared me shitless, and in fact is the ONE reason I never got any further than the very beggining of Neptune's Bounty.
My scariest happens to be in BioShock where I had to quit the game for about a week because I opened that door to the Medical Bay above the plaza, saw a swarm of Splicers. I hid in a hallway upstairs and the door was open. But I remember random hisses and stuff, and then, explicitly, a female Splicer saying "We can see you through the walls..." It scared me shitless, and in fact is the ONE reason I never got any further than the very beggining of Neptune's Bounty.
I didn't played a scary game in a good long time. I could watch my friends play them, and play mercs mode in RE4, but the story modes scared the hell out of me. Silent Hill, RE and RE2 are the reason, for although I got pretty far into them, I ended up having to play more upbeat, colourful games immediately after to prevent dreams of zombie damnation.
I'm slightly better now, though. I usually jump, then find it very funny. Like when the zombies burst through the shop window in RE2 or the dogs in the original. It's like "ARGH!" then "Wait, I have zombies/dogs to kill."
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I'm slightly better now, though. I usually jump, then find it very funny. Like when the zombies burst through the shop window in RE2 or the dogs in the original. It's like "ARGH!" then "Wait, I have zombies/dogs to kill."
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Playing Oblivion, just wandering around outside, the combat music starts playing so i jump up on a rock and look around. I do a complete 360 and can't see anything, so i stare really closely at the screen thinking "wtf" then BAM! wolf takes up the entire screen and bites my face. I'll admit i yelled a little to loud at that one.
Ah the joy of completing KH in full.blizzardwolf said:
@ Silentsentienl: I had a similar time.
One of my weakest moments in gaming (since I think this thread is about fuck-ups not brown trousers time) was in the opening training part of CoD4. I wasn't quite used to the controls and when yelled at to throw a flash I did it whilst strafing, only to have the device bounce of the door frame at me. I then spent 10 seconds being angrily shouted at whilst blindly running into walls and obstacles.
Actualy i wouldn't reccomend it either. There's one special way to kill somebody(headshots to basic cultists make their cranium pop) and that's WAY overused. The so called "gore levels" are actualy covered in creep from starcraft.Akisohida said:Granted, I can not play horror games. My imagination runs too wild. I have yet to even TRY Jerecho. I mean, I LOVE bloody games and if a game has unique ways to kill people or deathtraps I can knock people into with little effort (The kick in Dark Messiah, how I love thee), I will try it but mindfucks will make me flee.
About your main point: The only two times that game scared me was when it made me play half a level with Delgado alone and that's because he just plain sucks when solo and when i had to go though a tunnel filled with Machinegunners and Flamethrowers without being able to use Black(background: They butcher anybody who doesn't bring a sniper rifle). All enemies come running from obvious doorways and jump up from even more obvious pools of said creep. There are no "omg omg it's Alma" moments either. You just open fire at everything that comes at you and you can expect your enemies to generaly do exactly the same and not try to mindfuck you. Some of them are extremely resilient up to the point of appearing invulnerable but after a few minutes at blasting away at them one of your teammates usualy tells you which obnoxiously small spot you need to shoot with what weapon.
I have 100% finished dead rising...too much time on these hands of mine.
Does that count as emasculating and/or embarrassing?
edit: oh, and the first encounter with a Bloodsucker in STALKER, in that dark tunnel with flashlight off, made me jump enough to spill a pint of water on my desk.
Does that count as emasculating and/or embarrassing?
edit: oh, and the first encounter with a Bloodsucker in STALKER, in that dark tunnel with flashlight off, made me jump enough to spill a pint of water on my desk.
My most embarasing moment is any pc fps, i always gte to concentrated on the screen and when anything shoots me or jumps out in front of me unexpectedly i jump and usuly unload half a clip, i hate tk
Yep. Can't get through any Fatal Frame. It's the sounds that get me. I don't need to see anything scary, listening to the tapes from the victims investigating the place does it.
In my youthful days of playing Doom until 3 in the morning (on a school night. Shameful) I remember finally quitting a game and turning off the lights to head upstairs to bed. As I walked into the hall, some part of my brain that wants to kill me made me hear the noise that the imps make when they spot you. That little sound like a throat cancer sufferer saying "hey!" I ran up the stairs as fast as I could and slammed my door. High school junior at the time, thanks very much.
Also, Brain Age teaches me that Magna Cum Laude from a music school means jack sh*t when it comes to math.
In my youthful days of playing Doom until 3 in the morning (on a school night. Shameful) I remember finally quitting a game and turning off the lights to head upstairs to bed. As I walked into the hall, some part of my brain that wants to kill me made me hear the noise that the imps make when they spot you. That little sound like a throat cancer sufferer saying "hey!" I ran up the stairs as fast as I could and slammed my door. High school junior at the time, thanks very much.
Also, Brain Age teaches me that Magna Cum Laude from a music school means jack sh*t when it comes to math.
the entire ravenholm level, I seriously stopped playing and put on my brother's Teletubby's dvd for half an hour just to get my heart to resume it's normal pace. and one of the very first headcrab zombies you see (the one that jumps out of the water when you're crossing it) scared the shit out of me.
best bit ever: chainsawing a dozen wretches and a dozen locust in Gears of War in 1 massive battle, this stands right alongside killing the Corpser with the pistol on Insane difficulty
best bit ever: chainsawing a dozen wretches and a dozen locust in Gears of War in 1 massive battle, this stands right alongside killing the Corpser with the pistol on Insane difficulty
Playing Silent Hill 3 with no lights on with my mate (after a dose of scarier-than-hell Project Zero/Fatal Frame), all was fine and not even remotely scary, just a little tense, until the friend steering the character rocked his chair back onto my cat's tail.
Cat lets out otherworldly howl.
2 grown men scream like girls, covering their faces and lifting their knees up in "defense", just in time for the screen to light up the whole scene for us nice and embarassingly.
Cat lets out otherworldly howl.
2 grown men scream like girls, covering their faces and lifting their knees up in "defense", just in time for the screen to light up the whole scene for us nice and embarassingly.