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So I recently started working on my backlog of games, and just got into Resident Evil 4.
Now, it should be known that I'm a massive coward, with a penchant for refusing to attend even mildly realistic Halloween parties.
Needless to say, this game has made me shit my pants, over and over again. It's gotten so if I even go into my media room and look at the Wii I wince. I've had to stop playing the game multiple times just so I can get over the fact that I almost got mauled by a "DUDE WITH A GODDAMN CHAINSAW AND A BAG ON HIS HEAD WHAT THE FUCCCCKKKK?!?!?!?!?" (Actual quote during gameplay.)
So how about you? Ever had a game so frightening that you actually couldn't play it? Or alternatively, a different reason for not being able to play the game? Frighteningly bad?
There's gotta be someone other than me who's a total puss about these things. Right?
Now, it should be known that I'm a massive coward, with a penchant for refusing to attend even mildly realistic Halloween parties.
Needless to say, this game has made me shit my pants, over and over again. It's gotten so if I even go into my media room and look at the Wii I wince. I've had to stop playing the game multiple times just so I can get over the fact that I almost got mauled by a "DUDE WITH A GODDAMN CHAINSAW AND A BAG ON HIS HEAD WHAT THE FUCCCCKKKK?!?!?!?!?" (Actual quote during gameplay.)
So how about you? Ever had a game so frightening that you actually couldn't play it? Or alternatively, a different reason for not being able to play the game? Frighteningly bad?
There's gotta be someone other than me who's a total puss about these things. Right?
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I tend to do this as well. Psych myself out, sometimes even when nothing happens when I open the door or whatever.
However, Doom 3 changed me. Doom 3 was a pretty scary game, a lot of people will say it was cheap scares, but it taught me a lot about the things that elicit certain responses out of me, by continuing to play the game it was a battle against my own wits. After playing it, games like Resident Evil 4 no longer scared me and I basically just played it like a fun action adventure game. In fact, nothing since Doom 3 has scared me.
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Also, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. once gave me a real panic attack. I did something else for a while and then came back and went in the Rambo way.
Anyway, Fatal Frame is scary. All of them are "Hellish Japanese Ghost Story: The Game", complete with being screwed the whole time.
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if that scares you you should try Fatal Frame 2 on for size. you will fucking die.
This. I just played through it for the first time last night.
don we truly are brothers from another mother... land
all praise the motherland.
Fricking space zombie things.
Ack.
That hotel scared the bajeezus out of me. When the girl ran across the hallway... *Shiver*
Edit - Also, I say this every time we have these threads, but, Wheel of Time. Specifically, the Shadar Logoth level. Utter silence but for shifting stones in the wind, broken only by your footsteps and the occasional scream from the Trollocs you're supposed to be hunting. You come across one fighting with... something, but it kills the Trolloc and runs off into the shadows before you can see what it is. The creeping fear is incredible... what are these things? The worst is when you realise you're staring straight at one in the shadows - red eyes stare unblinkingly back at you. Mummy.
Also, The Ways. You're walking along the broken stone pathways, complete darkness beyond the paths and even your light spell only making it a few metres before the blackness takes it. So, you're walking along some broken paths with the only light stretching a few feet beyond your person, with, again, only your footsteps and the occasional breath of wind to break the silence. There is only one path out of The Ways, and it's very hard to always pick the right one. Go down the wrong one and you'll hear it. The merest breaths on the wind - are you imagining it? No, you're not, because the wind is picking up and you can now hear whispering voices coming towards you. You panic and try to find your way back to the right path, but the light is failing, even with your light spell. The wind rises and suddenly the voices are screams, there is complete blackness all around and you can't see anything... until you stare in the right direction and notice some grey... thing coming towards you. The moment you die and have to restart is when you realise that the grey "thing" is a cloud of distorted, ghostly faces, screaming in terrible torment.
Nothing's forgotten, nothing is ever forgotten
you are not 43 you liar
Was walking slowly through arcadia.
Picked some things up off a table with a mask on it. Saw my shadow.
Saw another shadow.
Freaked the fuck out when I turned around. Damn houdini splicers.
It is a game for men.
Also Condemned 2 gave me at least two moments where I had to pause the game, put the controller down, and compose myself.
Or I could just get the 360 version.
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I loved it from start to finish, but others will disagree.
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Where you get the shotgun and all the lights go out except for ONE. That, and the dentist's office where the screen fogs up every few seconds, and then you turn around and he's RIGHT THERE.
its a lets play and its aces
Spider splicers freaked me out the most. I have an irrational terror of things that crawl on the ceiling. Whenever I heard one nearby I'd frantically spray the entire room with ice, bees, electric buckshot, liquid nitrogen, wrench... whatever I happened to be holding at the time.
Just a given.
Yes I am. You silly nanny.
KILL ME!!!!!!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Thats when I alt f4 the game.
Ever played Aliens Vs. Predator?
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The graphics and the lighting are just right to convey that feeling that you won't see something coming until it is too late. The motion detector is used to brilliant effect in the first couple of levels, building up with small things that cause it to beep but aren't a threat. Slowly you get more afraid as you descend deeper, as you know eventually one of them is going to be for real. Then they throw another fakeout. Just as you compose yourself - wham, this one is for real.
I can't use the grenade launcher in that game anymore, i'll end up panicing and shooting it point blank at an Alien exploding us both.
A strange one to add to this discussion as well - SWAT 3/4 Single Player. Although the game is about maintaining control of the situation and you have 4 very tough AI Officers on your side, the suspects can really catch you by suprise at some points. Especially that moment you decide "Right, i'll clear this room out" or you go back to an area you thought was clear, just in time to have a quickdraw contest with a suspect.
This reminds me of when I watched my friend play F.E.A.R., though. I basically rented it and then let him play through it 'cause I had way too much anxiety going. I figured he'd be okay, since he's a freak who really enjoys movies like Hostel and Saw, but he got so worked up he couldn't play it for very long. One part I remember towards the beginning of the game was
He was so wound up before that when it happened, he let out the loudest scream/yelp you could imagine. I had honestly never heard him make a sound like that. It wasn't even a scary part, but just the atmosphere combined with some dude popping out freaked him right the fuck out.
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There's one part where
Oh and the only thing that pissed me off about FEAR was that... all the good parts? Yea they are at the very start of the game or right at the end, the middle might as well be filler.
Seriously, for some reason I wasn't scared even at that part.
Maybe cause I was a tiny golden god with plasmids.
That, however, was an experience.
Silent Hill 4 was pretty scary. As was the other ones.
Straight from the beginning of the game I was scared shitless, something about little girls just appearing infront of you.
Like I remember this one part,
RE4 is not scary, and SH 4 is scary until they make you go back through all the levels a second time.