I only have L4D. No CODBLOPS or Shatter. I've already gifted someone a gift (and then some!) but there's no way I'm buying CODBLOPS and Shatter might be cheap, but its one thing too many with christmas around the corner.
Well fuck. No sooner I post this Yod gifts me Shatter. So that's 3/4 today. Unless someone wants to gift me CODBLOPS? :winky:
Thanks Yod! Another game to frantically play and panic over!
So for someone who's a bit of a pussy when it comes to horror games but loves atmospheric settings to explore... Amnesia, yay or nay? I only hesitate because progressing would take me forever. How hard is it to "escape" from the monsters?
Ha, my first Shatter Bonus attempt was one hit short of the target. Next try got it. Its still a fun game, but I'll have to play it more for score whoring when I'm not sick.
This went so much better than I had anticipated, lots of people shared some utterly terrifying things with us and now the Steam thread has taken a turn for the creepy!
I think we all pretty much agree that this entry from CanadianWolverine is pretty much the most terrifying thing ever, yes?
I was 12, IIRC, and I was sick, running a fever, in bed trying to sleep it off. That is when I went to this horrible place, where the light died and all I could feel were the alternately rough, jagged, slimy cool walls of a cave. And where the range of touch failed me, sound persisted, and it told me I was not alone. I could here their fingers scrabbling, searching for the newcomer to their domain - me. I tried to remain undetected in the pitch black but the smell of my sweat, the thumping of my heart, my sharp intakes of breath catching in my throat ... my very essence must have given away my position because that is when they grabbed me. First they held down my legs as I kicked at them in my attempts to fight off the the phantoms becoming flesh. Then then took hold of my arms and slithered their weight on to my chest. Finally their hands explored my head and face. I could smell the stink of their hot breath, the sound of their panting, the feel of their slimy sweat dripping... wait, that isn't sweat, that is drool, the realization dawning as they bit down - hard. As they ate me I fought like a wild man, I would not go down as a easy meal for these denizens of the dark places deep beneath where any assistance could be expected.
My parents later told me they heard me screaming and came to see what the matter was, they found me trying to climb the wall beside my bed towards the light bulb, scared the bejesus out of them. That nightmare has recurred once since then when I was badly sick with mono when I was 18, but in that nightmare I managed to fight them off. My dad and my then girlfriend, now wife told me I was growling, like a wild animal, and fighting my pillow and blankets in my sleep that time.
I mean, falling down a hole and being eaten alive? That's some primal-fear shit right there. I probably had this nightmare myself last night but I was so shitfaced I have no idea. So congrats!
But wait! There's a surprise ending! I bought not one but TWO copies of Amnesia! Because I expected something like this would have some really great submissions and thought hey let's have some fun.
Here's a nightmare from my deep past (six years old?) that has always stuck with me.
It's a starry night and for some reason I am pushing wheelbarrow over a hilly landscape. In the wheelbarrow is a pile of black furry rags. I look a bit closer at the pile and to my horror it starts sprouting long chitinous legs. A single large eye opens in the centre of the mass and looks straight at me. Queue me being chased through the night across the rolling grassy hills by the biggest evilest spider-thing my tiny mind can conjure. One of its long legs always just behind me, ready to scoop me up. At this point I wake up the house screaming.
Man, feels good to get that one out. Therapeutic even.
That is some scary shit right there. There you are, nice night out, you're doing some housecleaning, taking your laundry out to the river for a wash with your wheelbarrow, when all of a sudden a giant one-eyed crab monster appears from the dark depths of beyond and attacks you! Seriously where did you come up with this?
So congrats to our two winners, CanadianWolverine and Jam Warrior!
Here are our other entries for posterity. Thanks to everyone who entered and entertained us this weekend.
I can't remember when I had it, but I was young - and suddenly found myself on the front seat of a car right in the midst of traffic. My wee tiny little feet can't even reach down to the brake pedal - actually - which one is the brake!?! And somehow the car is still moving straight ahead right into another car
and I freak out so much I wake up and don't get my driver's license for quite a while
Something that really freaked me out as a kid was a dream about getting hit in the mouth with a brick or something to that effect, and busting all my teeth. A year later I fell face first to some metal frames and busted a couple of teeth.
when i was a kid, i was always told that only adults could take adult painkillers, because kids couldn't swallow them. i didn't make the connection that the pills were small, and it just required a little technique. in my mind, adult painkillers were not for kids because they were HONKIN' HUGE PILLS. so i had a dream about them. in it, i had a really bad headache- so bad that mom whipped out The Adult Advil. It was literally bigger than my head. i took a big bite out of it, and it tasted horrible, but i managed to force it down. i was quite worried, though, because taking adult medicine was breaking all sorts of Important Rules.
the headache went away. but alas, the consequences were dire: i lost all my teeth, and my gums turned into MASSIVE GREY GUMS!
i woke up, and i'm told i was completely inconsolable for quite some time.
I think I was about seven or eight when I had this nightmare. I was in a dark, barely visible, decrepit stone room. It was underground though I don't know how I knew. I was strapped into this ancient, but sturdy chair, like an old-fashioned electric chair, and I couldn't move. In the ceiling in front of me was this shadowy hole that I could see but I couldn't see inside. I could hear something scratching and crawling its way down the hole. Something big. I was waiting and waiting, unable to get away, unable to even look away, and filled more and more with dread each second that passed. As the thing in the hole was about to reach the end of the tunnel and crawl out to devour me, I woke up.
I think I was about seven or eight when I had this nightmare. I was in a dark, barely visible, decrepit stone room. It was underground though I don't know how I knew. I was strapped into this ancient, but sturdy chair, like an old-fashioned electric chair, and I couldn't move. In the ceiling in front of me was this shadowy hole that I could see but I couldn't see inside. I could hear something scratching and crawling its way down the hole. Something big. I was waiting and waiting, unable to get away, unable to even look away, and filled more and more with dread each second that passed. As the thing in the hole was about to reach the end of the tunnel and crawl out to devour me, I woke up.
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Aw man, mine doesn't seem so scary anymore.
Anyway, mine was from a few years back. I dreamt I was walking through a dark forest where the darkness was so thick is was almost like a black fog. The ground was dirt and clear of leaves or debris and the trees either were dead or without leaves. I couldn't see ahead more than to or three trees in front of me. To my right was a fancy Victorian wrought iron fence with a brick wall on the bottom like those you see at old zoos. Then all of a sudden, what the fuck was that!?. Something... looked like a dead cat with sores and bleeding pustules all over it's hairless body ran just out of the edge of my vision.
And then I woke up.
(WTF 'dreamt' isn't in Chrome's spelling dictionary?)
(WTF 'WTF' isn't in Chrome's spelling dictionary???)
I used to have a recurring nightmare when I was around three or four. It started after my parents were divorced and I had it for years. It used to fucking torture me. I'd dream that all the adults had turned into monsters without heads. They were looking for me because they needed my head. I was always trying to get away from them on my big wheel, crying my eyes out the whole time, completely terrified. The moon was always out and really, really big. Since the adults didn't have heads, they didn't make any sounds. They were completely, terrifyingly silent. There was a whistle I could blow to make it all go away, but the whistle was always lost, or impossible to keep track of, or falling down sewer drains and sinks. Just as I was about to blow the whistle and stop everything I would lose it, or it wouldn't be in the pocket I was trying to keep it in.
In my worst dream, I was wandering around a wasteland, while a lava hurricane was going on. There was lava all over the sky, and it made the air quite smoggish. It was later when I noticed my (now wife) friend, on whom I had a crush, walking away with another man, married, and having his baby. I was devastated, to say the least.
My recurring nightmare always takes place in a random setting. I'm out for a walk, or I'm at work, or I've gone back to school, or I'm buying groceries, or I'm pumping gas, and I have no pants or underwear on. Other than that, I'm completely clothed. And it's not like I realize my wang is hanging out and I head for cover. No, I come to the realization that I simply forgot to wear pants that day and try to adjust to my surroundings to hide it. I'll tug down my jacket. I'll carry a bag in front of me. I'll try to act very animated in my facial expressions so people don't look down there. The list goes on.
Whenever I wake up, I tell myself, "Oh shit, good. Just a dream. I'll have to remind myself to wear pants today."
See, I'm still so distraught and tired, that I believe what I just dreamt is entirely possible.
My recurring nightmare is completely forgetting something important and potentially life-altering; an exam, an interview, a deadline. In my dream, I realize after the fact that I've forgotten, and rush to try and make it, albeit late. In my dream, I wisk into the classroom to the disapproving glare of my professor, and face a nigh-impossible task. Sometimes, I'm not wearing pants.
I actually did manage to do this once in undergrad.
This isn't even in the running with the quality of the other entries, but I thought I'd share my MSPaint skills.
I had this nightmare, my girlfriend and I were running from something but couldn't quite figure out what it was. I remember a lot of running, splashing puddles, strong wind, trying to keep my girlfriend upright as we ran. Eventually whatever it was, chased us into an old bunker that had an interior like a cabin. We barred the doors and I start trying to get a fire lit. I get the fire going and start walking toward my girlfriend, with my back to the fire. She looks horrified and I can't figure out why...we escaped. Suddenly I feel this hot breath and a whisper in my ear "....what about me?"
I woke up to this image...fire in my bedroom door, these weird red beams coming in from the window, and then these eyes and the same voice "...what about me?" Then I actually woke up, grabbed my girlfriend and pulled her to me so hard I woke her up and gave her a bruise
I only remember this since a fluffy psychology class I was took had dream journal as an assignment; so
I guess I was at the bottom of a swamp looking up, and slowly drowning and saw a two headed shark while a cheesy newpaper flash notified me this shark killed my parents, so I swam up and stabbed the shark in the stomach, but while water was gushing out of one mouth, I saw the other mouth chewing on my legs so I guess we both died?
I consider it the worst nightmare I have had in my life. It's scariest one for me mainly because it didn't involve myself directly. I wasn't the protagonist of that dream, my little sister was. I had this nightmare when I was 6 years old and my sister was 2. Today, many years later, I still remember it vividly.
In that dream my sister was in a room with many other children. They all were sitting at a very long table. The room looked very similar to the dining hall of my own school but it was much longer and there was a single table. The was no other furniture in the room apart from the table and two benches equally long. There was a tall woman serving some short of drink to each of the children at the table. When one of the children drank that liquid he/she would first fall asleep and then stop breathing.
My sister was at the end of the table and was the last one to be served, so by that time the rest of the children were already dead, but she didn't seem aware of anything. In the nightmare I wasn't physically in the room with my sister but I somehow I was trying to cry and warn her. She didn't or couldn't hear me and I woke up when she was about to start drinking.
I don't remember the following but my mother told me that she heard me screaming and when she came to my room she found me crying and repeating "Laura (my sister) is dead, she is dead!"
She also told me that for some days after that bad dream when someone came home to visit us I used to take my sister upstairs with me and lock her in my room with me. When my mother asked me why was doing that I answered that I didn't trust them and wanted to keep Laura way from them just in case.
Well, I must admit that I have always been (and still am) very protective with my little sister.
So for someone who's a bit of a pussy when it comes to horror games but loves atmospheric settings to explore... Amnesia, yay or nay? I only hesitate because progressing would take me forever. How hard is it to "escape" from the monsters?
Yes same for me. I would get amnesia; it looks interesting. But I'd probably get scared stiff
So for someone who's a bit of a pussy when it comes to horror games but loves atmospheric settings to explore... Amnesia, yay or nay? I only hesitate because progressing would take me forever. How hard is it to "escape" from the monsters?
Amnesia will probably destroy your psyche and render you incapable of rational thought.
So for someone who's a bit of a pussy when it comes to horror games but loves atmospheric settings to explore... Amnesia, yay or nay? I only hesitate because progressing would take me forever. How hard is it to "escape" from the monsters?
Amnesia will probably destroy your psyche and render you incapable of rational thought.
So for someone who's a bit of a pussy when it comes to horror games but loves atmospheric settings to explore... Amnesia, yay or nay? I only hesitate because progressing would take me forever. How hard is it to "escape" from the monsters?
Amnesia will probably destroy your psyche and render you incapable of rational thought.
So, yay?
If you like being scared when you go to bed and freak yourself out from just looking at dark spots. I had a year long spell of that after watching the Ju-On series >.>
So for someone who's a bit of a pussy when it comes to horror games but loves atmospheric settings to explore... Amnesia, yay or nay?
Yay. A definite yay.
I only hesitate because progressing would take me forever. How hard is it to "escape" from the monsters?
You should have enough time to hide in the nearest room, as it's usually uncomplicated to evade the monsters in most situations. If they sight you in the middle of a hallway though, turn back and flee to the nearest room, lock the door, and hide in a corner. Oh, and don't look back when they're chasing after you.
Also, don't worry about progression, there aren't an abundance of monsters in the castle to severely impede your progress, and some people have remarked that monster spawns become predictable after you've ventured through the prison area.
No matter the kind of person you are, you owe it to yourself to play Amnesia, if only to see a first-person adventure done well.
The teaser on Steam is actually a pretty good representation of gameplay, though I;d leave it alone if you want to go in completely unspoiled.
Also, my steam ID is the same as my name on here.
Not that anyone needs it, or anything.
Jesus, trying to get that fucking Shatter achievement is so frustrating I'm uninstalling the whole game.
I might need to take a nap.
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Wow. Shatter is awesome. Luckily I already had it from an indie pack I bought during the Thanksgiving sale. But at 2.50 I would def. recommend it. It's got bosses. Everyone loves bosses.
But holy crap, 11,200,000 in the bonus mode? I just got to the bonus mode and got a little over 1 million.
holy hell, that shatter achievement. After the past couple of days I was not expecting anything this difficult.
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edited December 2010
Shatter surely looks like plain direct fun but I think I will contain myself from buying this time. Xmas sales are on the horizon and my bank account needs some recovery time until the next pay check arrives.
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edited December 2010
That was an amazing contest Yod, and I think you did a great job picking winning entries. Everyone put out some really fun and creepy stuff to read.
I just got done with a session of Amnesia and I'm amazed by how much it affected me. Fractional are really something else, and they are onto an awesome thing. The last game that had me saying, "oh no man that's fucked up" was Penumbra. I may actually be able to progress further in Penumbra now because the hour and a half of Amnesia I just played was the creepiest shit ever.
Just beat the shatter objective with 12,300,000 (top of my friends leaderboard too \o/), but damn it took a lot of tries to get there.
My advice, keep balls up for as long as possible but do not despair when one is left, it gets a lot easier then, can go super speed on that ball and still keep it in the air by looking at the paddle and only noticing the ball in the periphery of your vision, I usally get another 2-3 million points just from that last ball.
I bought it. If I puss out and have a breakdown, I'm blaming you fuckers.
I tried the demo. Looks great. I like how the first monster I came across just casually walked across the room in the distance. No big build up, dude was just walking. I love how understated it is. It's far more unsettling than loud blaring "scary" music.
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If that's the case I plan on stocking up on indie games if I win.
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It pays to keep your wishlist up to date!
Besides anyone with a Planescape character as their STEAM avatar can't be a bad person.
Well fuck. No sooner I post this Yod gifts me Shatter. So that's 3/4 today. Unless someone wants to gift me CODBLOPS? :winky:
Thanks Yod! Another game to frantically play and panic over!
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I wouldn't mind someone getting my love by buying Shatter at 2.50 for me. :rotate:
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This went so much better than I had anticipated, lots of people shared some utterly terrifying things with us and now the Steam thread has taken a turn for the creepy!
I think we all pretty much agree that this entry from CanadianWolverine is pretty much the most terrifying thing ever, yes?
I mean, falling down a hole and being eaten alive? That's some primal-fear shit right there. I probably had this nightmare myself last night but I was so shitfaced I have no idea. So congrats!
But wait! There's a surprise ending! I bought not one but TWO copies of Amnesia! Because I expected something like this would have some really great submissions and thought hey let's have some fun.
Take a look at this:
That is some scary shit right there. There you are, nice night out, you're doing some housecleaning, taking your laundry out to the river for a wash with your wheelbarrow, when all of a sudden a giant one-eyed crab monster appears from the dark depths of beyond and attacks you! Seriously where did you come up with this?
So congrats to our two winners, CanadianWolverine and Jam Warrior!
Here are our other entries for posterity. Thanks to everyone who entered and entertained us this weekend.
Yes same for me. I would get amnesia; it looks interesting. But I'd probably get scared stiff
Amnesia will probably destroy your psyche and render you incapable of rational thought.
I'm a very shady character though, so once you invite me, all your accounts are belong to me òó
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It's also one of the most immersive and atmospheric games I've ever played.
But there are grown men who have had nightmares from it.
Give him your praise.
From what I gather, you have to kill a member of every specialized zombie type in the game at least once.
So, yay?
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If you like being scared when you go to bed and freak yourself out from just looking at dark spots. I had a year long spell of that after watching the Ju-On series >.>
Yay. A definite yay.
You should have enough time to hide in the nearest room, as it's usually uncomplicated to evade the monsters in most situations. If they sight you in the middle of a hallway though, turn back and flee to the nearest room, lock the door, and hide in a corner. Oh, and don't look back when they're chasing after you.
Also, don't worry about progression, there aren't an abundance of monsters in the castle to severely impede your progress, and some people have remarked that monster spawns become predictable after you've ventured through the prison area.
The teaser on Steam is actually a pretty good representation of gameplay, though I;d leave it alone if you want to go in completely unspoiled.
Also, my steam ID is the same as my name on here.
Not that anyone needs it, or anything.
I might need to take a nap.
But holy crap, 11,200,000 in the bonus mode? I just got to the bonus mode and got a little over 1 million.
Is it hard or do I just suck?
Many thanks Yod. I look forward to giving myself a Yuletide freakout over the holiday.
Question, when I'm doing the family tour this Christmas, If I pre-load the laptop, how functional is Steam with no internet these days?
Of course, if anyone just happened to need It's Better to Give, I wouldn't forcefully stop them from sending it this way.
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I just got done with a session of Amnesia and I'm amazed by how much it affected me. Fractional are really something else, and they are onto an awesome thing. The last game that had me saying, "oh no man that's fucked up" was Penumbra. I may actually be able to progress further in Penumbra now because the hour and a half of Amnesia I just played was the creepiest shit ever.
Man. Fuck that buzzing sound. That's not right.
This is hard.
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My advice, keep balls up for as long as possible but do not despair when one is left, it gets a lot easier then, can go super speed on that ball and still keep it in the air by looking at the paddle and only noticing the ball in the periphery of your vision, I usally get another 2-3 million points just from that last ball.
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