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Sid Sinister
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After reading a lot of the comments on Kotaku's article and laughing, and sympathizing, with many, I was hoping to get some more laughs here

http://kotaku.com/5532317/what-are-you-afraid-of-gamers

Playing underwater levels in games FREAKS ME THE HECK OUT. I remembering playing Mario 64 when I was young and I was sitting in this small chair. I was in that damned underwater level, swimming around in the darkness when that giant @$% eel came out of nowhere. I threw the controller straight up and fell straight back over my chair. Now every time I play a game underwater I get the goosebumps. Nothing is freakier to me!



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Wandering around an abandoned hospital or other dwelling with a dimlit flashlight while my health is in danger, and I'm out of healing items. Where anything can jump out from anywhere at anytime, and send me back 30 minutes to my last save point. Whenever I'm one hit away from death in a good horror game, every little sound in the game or around the house makes me jump

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Playing too many video games has given me a quite real phobia/paranoia/obsession with zombies. I can't go downstairs on my own after dark because of it.

Other than that, anything with clowns in it.
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David R
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I never did like the zombies from the original Half-life games. Their fingers and general movement was pretty damn creepy even if they are a pathetic foe

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I think what creeps me out is probably, actually like you sid, underwater levels creep me out, I don't know if it is the fact that you are defenseless in the water against these things in most games, or like enemies can appear above, below, on your right and left, practically anywhere.


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underwater levels for sure, as it makes me paranoid since the ability to move is limited, and u usually find dangerous stuff in water. =P


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Fast zombies and poison headcrabs from Half Life 2.

Resident Evil was pretty scary back in the day. As was Silent Hill.
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Quote: "Playing too many video games has given me a quite real phobia/paranoia/obsession with zombies. I can't go downstairs on my own after dark because of it."

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Quote: "Wandering around an abandoned hospital or other dwelling with a dimlit flashlight while my health is in danger, and I'm out of healing items."


Lol, I can relate. I'll be walking around the hospital thinking "Really? I'm in a beeping hospital and there aren't any medkits ANYWHERE?"

Quote: "poison headcrabs from Half Life 2."


Oh man, I remember those. I always would want to let go of my mouse and swat the air in front of me as if to say "GET OFF OF ME."

I don't know about you guys, but I think I would be the only one stoked if a zombie apocalypse was actually to happen. I would be even more stoked if I were immune, like in Left 4 Dead, but I absolutely love post apocalyptic/alternate reality stuff.

Another thing I hate is walking down a hallway that has a very short viewing distance before it turns to black. I like knowing what's coming far ahead of actually needing to fight them.

And LOL, okay, one of my favorite things is playing online First Person Shooters and scaring the living crap out of someone with the SPY on TF2 or something. I wish I had a dollar for everytime I've seen someone's character just twitch to the right or left really fast, which tells me that the player pulled in his mouse really fast. It makes me lol pretty hard every time.

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Quote: "Playing too many video games has given me a quite real phobia/paranoia/obsession with zombies. I can't go downstairs on my own after dark because of it."


XD I have a really really good imagination. When I was like 8, when I wasn't completely not thinking about anything scary, whenever I closed my eyes I could picture a vivid scary face (or something) without trying. I've trained myself to be more rational, but whenever I'm walking upstairs in the middle of the night, I can imagine a hand grabbing onto my heel from the lower flight of stairs.


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The cancellation of "REACH"...(even though that would never happen.

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I always find that I'm involuntarily holding my breath in underwater scenes in games like TombRaider. I usually realise what I'm doing after a while ...
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Quote: "I always find that I'm involuntarily holding my breath in underwater scenes in games like TombRaider. I usually realise what I'm doing after a while ... "


I do that sometimes.

Please don't laugh, I hate the dark. Seriously, being alone in the dark FREAKS ME OUT. I have an overactive imagination as well. But only for things that scare me, otherwise I'm not creative at all. Not a double-edged sword, more of one of those suicide guns that points backwards.

So, I can never play horror games. Closest I ever got was L4D2, and that's more of a shoot-everything-ever game than horror.

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Quote: "I always find that I'm involuntarily holding my breath in underwater scenes in games like TombRaider. I usually realise what I'm doing after a while ... "


When you start getting tunnel vision?

Silent Hill 4:The Room. Those floating ghost things were freaky at first. I've always liked all the Silent Hill games for that sort of thing.
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Games in the direction of this.

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Quote: "Please don't laugh, I hate the dark. Seriously, being alone in the dark FREAKS ME OUT"


Joking.

I love to play a scary game like alone in the dark in my bedroom at midnight and freak myself out.

Once i did that and something scared me so bad i yelled and woke up my parents

Very embarrasing^^

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Only time's I've ever been scared in games is in very dimly lit underwater settings and in Ravenholm in Half Life 2.

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Ok, I just played that Mike Inel game linked above and it did have me a little jumpy. VERY well done!!

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I love the dark, water and zombies... I'm an odd child.

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Man, I've been playing Penumbra lately (indie game) and it's doing a good job at freaking me out. I had to wander through this cave system avoiding a wolf. I walked through this door and then the game told me to hurry up and stack barrels in front of it because the wolf was coming. I wasn't fast enough on the second barrel and he broke through. He's now in the same room as me and I only have a hammer to defend myself, lol. Apparently I can't look him in the eyes either, or so says the game. So now I'm stuck behind a barrel facing the corner in the fetal position wondering what to do LOL.

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Quote: "I wasn't fast enough on the second barrel and he broke through. He's now in the same room as me and I only have a hammer to defend myself, lol"

I've playing it too, and it doesnt matter if you stack them both or not, he still breaks through.
You have to stack one, then RUN!

Its freaking me out too.

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I can't play a game like Half-Life or Half-Life 2 without taking breaks because the face huggers and quick spiders creep me out. Also those dudes from HL2 who have spiders on their backs which they throw at you... if they're behind a door that I must open to advance, I might stop playing and come back days or weeks later. They sound really creepy!


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@Jeku

They freak me out too, but not enough to stop playing. I mean, it's Half-life!

Yeah, I can handle almost anything, except the dark. Just...No.

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Well I agree with the zombies. It really isn't so much of a fear, but when I'm playing a game with zombies in it I get really jumpy when they pop out of nowhere. Actually one of these is Time Splitters. The second one of course. It's quite the interesting game when it comes to weird things popping out of nowhere.

Truly, I'm with Sid. I think it would be a blast with zombies around. My friends and I are actually pretty sure that meth zombies will end the world as we know it in 2012. The world's not going to explode or anything. One of my friends who has a passion for illegal substances (not meth or coke or anything) says she's prepared and has an armory full of weapons. Her brother is also ready for these zombies. He doesn't realize the zombies are coming, but they are. The funny thing is that my friend is a girl who thinks it would be very enjoyable to hit some of the jocks with a baseball bat in the head. I seriously doubt she's ready for it though. Maybe she'll stock up around November of 2012.

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Trolls off of oblivion, and just about every creature on morrowind.

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This guy:


He would always get me!

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Of all things...



Clowns, but more specifically, zombie clowns.

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Silent Hill 2 was probably the scariest game I ever played,followed by Penumbra. Dark places with werid noises and blood trails freak me out.


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Quote: "He would always get me!"


Snacker?

Your signature was immature.
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The darkness, stillness, dripping liquid most likely blood, echoing on the cold metal reverbrating through your body. Then you hear it, the heavy breathing, the misbeat'd footsteps. You clentch the handgun tightly, its orginal owner does'nt need it now. In the other you take the flash light from your ill-equiped arsenal. You search frantically, defenseless alone, its closer now. The eventual screaming, that pirecing castrophoney erupts, you still have'nt found it. Its getting louder. Too late... Pivoting on the spot your able to witness the maw of a dehumanmised beast rip through your... uehh

I get too far into games but yeah that's what gets to me.


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I've always felt scared having a small/limited field of vision. Most games these days are limiting your field of view to something near 20 degrees, completely cutting off your peripheral vision. Not good when playing Dead Space.

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I agree with you, DeltaCommando5. Silent Hill was the first game to do this to me without resorting to prerendered scenes like the old Resident Evil games. All that snow, all that shadow... I still can't get through the first game because of that loud noise on the second floor of that school... O_O

And even if you guys told me what it was I wouldn't believe you, so there's no way I'll ever finish that game... T_T

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Dead Space is by far the scariest game I've ever played. Took me 2 weeks to finish. When I did finish, I realized I was much more mentally strong in terms of nothing scares me anymore! lol

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Notice how everyone instantly knew i was talking about deadspace


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Love how we get a choice of where we live.

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Two things mostly, the Shark from banjo kazooie, i went against even trying to get stuff like jinjo's. Scared the crap outa me.

And of course



For those that remember the old '96 game Aleins Trilogy on the PS1, the damn motion tracker made me turn the console off plenty a time, seeing those dots grow closer in on you, not knowing whether they will burst from a door or from a vent. Good times.

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One other thing in the games that scares me... being put into situations where you're rendered completely helpless. Happens a lot in some of the harder JRPGs (Japanese RPGs, that is). Monster comes up, completly binds you in its first attack so you can't attack, use magic, items... and you can't even run. And the situation lasts 'til you're dead. Just imagine if this happened in a Survival/Horror game... O_O

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@ Asteric

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Too bloody right i remember that game! The garage level was my favourite.


Ive remembered that cheat code for the last 10 years. I just cant ditch it.


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Oh good, I remember, in Banjo Kazooie 2, with the giant zombie dude...Freaked the crap outta me. I had to return the game. It was optional, and...Just god, it was freaky.

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I remember when I was really young, like 4, and I played a game and fell off the map, I thought I had discovered some secret evil blue hell that was forbidden and going to eat me, and never let my game work right again.

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plenty of people afraid of the dark, yet nobody mentions doom 3?



i was really scared going through doom 3 the first time. the atmosphere was really well set and it grinded on my nerves until i couldn't take it anymore. i couldn't play it after dark.

but after i beat it the first time, i've basically got nerves of steel against anything horrific. what i'm afraid of these days isn't demonic or sadistic, it's all about irritation. i haven't started chapter 5 of dead space because of how much i dislike the idea of a really fast invincible 1-hitter guy who follows you everywhere.


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Beeping phones.
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Doom 3...period. I cannot play more then 25-30m of that game at a time because it freaks me out. After playing I turn on all the lights and try to watch a comedy or something.

On the water phobia, my wife hates water levels and or missions. When she plays WoW she dreads doing the underwater quests.

Ah, and walking by windows in the original Resident Evil Games...seriously had to pause and brace myself every time I came upon a long hallway with broken windows.


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I wasn't too fond of the ReDeads in Ocarina of Time.

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Quote: "I wasn't too fond of the ReDeads in Ocarina of Time."


Oh god, I hated those too.

Really, when I was young, any type of game with any type of zombie really freaked me out.

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Clowns... And Strange stuff, If I don't know what it is, then I become unsure and uncomfortable.

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Quote: "Really, when I was young, any type of game with any type of zombie really freaked me out."


Mhh, I couldn't get past Quake 64 level 3 because of that same fear.

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Quick Time Events...especially surprise ones...

When an alien pops up in your face, and you have to press the XYXBABA combo in exactly 2.265465 seconds or suffer a long, horrible, demoralising death sequence...

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Oh yeah thats right, on Ocarina Of Time, walking on hyrule when you are young, and the moon comes up, and i hear the howl, i brick myself knowing that those bloody zombies would pop out of the ground and chase me.

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F. O. E.s from the Etrian Odyssey series for the Nintendo DS. You see that orange ball of fluff and it turns red and starts following you, you HAVE to RUN AWAY. That's because while the creatures you meet in random encounters on the floor your in can be easily killed by you, the F.O.E.s are a LOT HIGHER in level, and they'll wipe the floor with your carcasses... assuming they left something to wipe the floor with...

Oh... and here's an ear worm for you while I'm on the subject...

Youtube Video: [IOSYS] F O E! High Quality, English subs

As for what F.O.E. stands for... I think it stands for *BLEEP*ing Overpowered Enemy!

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