Traumatizing Videogame experience?

Oh yeah, I know how you feel. When I was eight years old, these monsters scared the shit out of me. I even stopped playing Ocarina of Time for some weeks just because of those redeads. But once I've pooled all my bravery and attacked one of them, there weren't scary and hazardous anymore. It's funny how I'm able to kill the regenerators without batting an eye, although I was so~ scared of those brown ugly "guys".

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Spatula

This I think is why I WILL never play a Silent Hill or RE game. No matter how many "100% or near perfect score" reviews RE4 got, I don't think I'll play it ever alone. Seeing the trailer where you shoot this fat guy then tenticles come out is nerve-racking. And I keep hearing about these "pyramid heads" or whatever from SH or RE.

Wimp.

I can't say I've ever been traumatised by a game but I've certainly been frightend. And nothing ever was more frightening than Eternal fucking Darkness. The bathtub. Fuck. I just froze up. For those who'll never play the game:

Spoiler:

You begin to explore the second story of a mansion that was previously unaccessable. You're probably a little low n sanity and wll see some odd things that will creep you a little but not much. Then you find youself in a low lit bathroom. As you walk over to the bath an "examine" action pops up. You examine the bath and see yourself, all pasty, lying dead, mouth open, in the bathtub, up to your neck in blood. If this image isn't scary enough already the camera zooms the fuck in while you get... this noise. Fuck

I mean this is a game that is chilling right thoughout but this is undisputedly the scariest.

Other games from when I was younger.
Prince of Persia. The mac version, with the better graphics and sound. Christ it was allright but then you get to level 3. The choppers, the skeleton the fuckign everything. Me and my friend were obsessed with this game. He was pro at it yet he'd always make me do the choppers, never mind that they scared the fuck out of me too.
Oh god and then level 4 with the mirror outta nowhere. And the whole level 6-7 transition. And the impossible toescape sequence of level 8. Non stop drama.

Also Super Metroid, I can't remember exactly but I found some kind of secret route and just the total absense of sound and the dark eeriy environment. Plus the knowledge that this tunnel was leading me right into the middle of an unexploredarea and I'm low on health.

Metroid Fusion too was full of tension and creepy moments. eg. every SA-X encounter. And that time you're riding the elevator and the power cuts...

Still I'm better somesome of the weak cows in this thread, becoming scared of water and refusing to play entire segments of games. What is this?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by RABicle

Wimp.

I know, but at least I'll be able to sleep well at night, and not be afraid of nurses, thanks to SH2. After taking a look at a few screenshots, I'm like, yeah, no.

Perhaps when some friends who've played RE4 are over at my house, then I'll just sit back and watch. And hug my teddy bear.

::Teddy bear turns into Pedo bear:: damn.

Originally Posted by Prinnydood

When i played the first Myst with my mom and brother I was really young. When we get to that torture chamber room it totally freaked me out. I still have images of the rooms of that area in my mind today but it scared the crap outta me back then...ah good times

Oh, like when you type in buttons and then a skull pops up? I faintly remember Myst. But I found it boring, and puzzle solving isn't my niche.

I was speaking idiomatically.

" It's funny how I'm able to kill the regenerators without batting an eye, although I was so~ scared of those brown ugly "guys"."

Same thing with me. When I first fought one, and didn't have the scope, I was like crap this is kinda creepy, I hope I never have to fight two at once.
Then I got the scope and they were a fuckin' breeze. Like shooting tin cans with a shotgun.
But Christ, Redeads freak me the fuck out.

Also, I'd forgotten about the bathtub thing in ED. When I played that the first time, two friends were watching me play, and all three of us screamed really loudly.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I didn't like those redeads, the noise they made was creepy.

FELIPE NO

Doom and F.E.A.R.

I first time I played Doom, I was about.... oh say 10 years old. Anyway, the first time I saw the Pinky Demon up close, I literally shit my pants. I had to hid underneath the desk for a little bit while my cousins gave me a good laugh.

AND THE GAME STILL SOMETIMES SCARES ME. Its just that one stupid monster that pisses me off. WTF!


As for F.E.A.R, the constant popping up of images scared me pretty good. And the girl running after you, and those nightmares. OH MY!

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Meh, those Redeads in WW didn't terrify me. Sure, it was terrifying the first time, but I had no problems going straight up to them afterwards and beating the crap out of them.

Am I the only one who is scared of those Seahats? Redeads may not scare me, but those Seahats are terrifying up close and personal. I always dread having to go through a Seahat infested place.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Reboot for Playstation. This game was one BIG traumatizing experience, the controls are terrible, the graphics were bad and age even worse, the gamepla-- Okay, it wasn't so much traumatizing as incredibly suckitudinous.

But being serious now, I think once I was a very creeped out by the Redead enemies in Ocarina of Time. I'm not the only one to have the found them scary I see. However, the noise they made was fear summoning, and the fact that they grappled onto you if you got close to them made me tremble. I think that was one of the few times I was actually scared by a video game, but I'm not even sure that I find them mildly frightening anymore. Since then I've managed to play much scarier games without flinching.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Honestly...

I'm 21 years old...my gf is 18...we just finished Fatal Frame 3 maybe about a week ago, but some reason I don't look at my closet the same, and my g doesn't really like the dark to much anymore either...

I think Fatal Frame 3 and Silent Hill 1 gave me my traumatizing experience, Silent Hill made me not wanna go to school for awhile...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Oh man... I'm such a bitch when it comes to certain things in games. At least I can stomach it enough to complete it all though.

The music for the Forest Temple in Zelda: OOT was just... wierd. I didn't want to mute the TV though. I don't know why really...

Redeads got to me for the same reasons as everyone else.

Silent Hill 2. In that scene where you run down the stairs and around those twisting hallways then all of a sudden BAM Pyramid Head is RIGHT ON YOUR ass. There's also the part where you're about to go up to the roof of a certain area, and yet AGAIN he pops out of nowhere and knocks you off the roof. The thing that gets to me most about PM is that GIGANTIC knife he drags around. Once you hear that sliding noise, you know many unpleasantries wait in the near future. This has to be the most terrifying enemy ever made, which leads to the most anti climactic boss fight ever made at the end. -_-

60% of the music in the first Silent Hill... nuff said...

Oh, and I actually broke a control the first time I played the first RE. The infamous dogs through the window in the hallway. I never touched that game again untill MANY years later.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Like most of the people who posted, Silent Hill 1 & 2 really traumatized me. I never played 1, but, when it first came out, I watched my friend's uncle play it. It was the creepiest thing ever. TT^TT

I also blame Silent Hill 2 for making me hyper sensitive a night time, especially when I'n walking alone (I'm like "is there going to be a fetus monster on the other side of the street...?" or "Oh shit, is this place going to go alternate?!?")

The ReDeads in OoT and MM really creeped me out, but those giant hand things (I totally forgot what they were called). I think there were two different kinds: the one that take you back to the temple entrance, and the ones that split into little baby hands.

The first one made me shake 'cause I didn't want to get to the start of the temple but...

The second ones are the ones that make me panic and button-mash and curse.

I was in the Spirit Temple one time, and I encountered on of these guys. I destroyed it, and when it split into mini-hands, I didn't kill them fast enough, and got caught. It wouldnt've been so bad, but I didn't kill another mini-hand. So, poor Link was caught between two hands (you should've seen how fast the health meter depleted!), and promtly died. I got revived by a fairy, but here's the kicker: Link got up in the same fucking place. I managed to kill them, but I was down to like 5 hearts.

Fuckin'...creepy...hand...thingies.

I was speaking idiomatically.

This sounds very stupid, but the sharks in Ecco scared the holy shit out of me when I was younger. When I was about nine or so, I was playing Ecco and had reached a level called "Ridge Water" (or something like that). Up until that point in the game, the sharks were docile. Well, I was swimming along in the water and BAM, a shark came out of nowhere with its nasty mouth wide open and tried to eat my dolphin! For some reason, that scared me very badly. I immediately shut the game off, ran into my parents room crying, changed my underwear, and didn't play it again for a couple of years.

That one experience has given me an irrational fear of all underwater levels in games. For example, going underwater in the submarine in FFVII scares me for no reason at all.

RE2 also got to me pretty badly back in the day. The first time that I got a taste of it was when my older cousin brought the game over and played it in my room all night long. Since I didn't want to seem like a wimp to my older cousin, I stuck it out and watched him play. That game gave me nightmares for a while.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'm terribly sorry, but the story about the Ecco sharks just left me in stitches. This is just one of the reasons why I love coming to GFF.

FELIPE NO

Basically, like others have said. The 're-dead' in Zelda were scary when your a younger gamer, Also I always found the Alien Vs. Predator 2 game very scary when I was younger. At the time when I played it around 10 - 11, And my uncle had just gotten a faster computer so it was looking really nice it was scary as hell becuase of the dark atmosphere you were in.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The first video game related fear I remember experiencing was the fortress stage music in Super Mario Bros. 1. Also the game over screen of Zelda II, it scared the living hell out of me for some reason. Metroid's soundtrack in conjunction with its black background and the sense of being lost at all times was pretty creepy, although not genuinely scary.

The latest thing I remember thinking was scary was the Skulltula people in Ocarina of Time, the abominations! I didn't think redeads were scary because you could just freeze them with Sun's Song, which I guess made me feel empowered. I wonder how I would have felt as a child playing Resident Evil 4, blasting the head off a monk/villager and seeing a horrible disgusitng creature pop out of its neck.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Fatal Frame and Silent Hill were pretty eerie. It wasn't the scares that got you, it's the atmosphere of the whole thing.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Are there a lot of the "JUMP SURPRISE DID YOU SHIT UR PANTS" types of scares? Ie when you walk down a hall way then BOOM! Some crazy-ape-shit-thing comes outta know where screaming its skull at you sorta-deal. I hate those the most. ;_;

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Spatula

Are there a lot of the "JUMP SURPRISE DID YOU SHIT UR PANTS" types of scares? Ie when you walk down a hall way then BOOM! Some crazy-ape-shit-thing comes outta know where screaming its skull at you sorta-deal. I hate those the most. ;_;

Like in FEAR where your walking down a dark hall, no one around yet you know for a fact that something is very close, then when you don't think it could be any more creepy a bloody face flashes on the screen missing half its face screaming viciously... almost had a heart attack when I first began to play that game

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Herm? Kinda like when you fight the Sorrow in MGS3 you mean? Sorry, I can't come up with any other examples, but it just "pops" right out? God, now there's two games (RE/Fear) I sure am hell aint playing by myself at midnight - IN THE DARK.

I was speaking idiomatically.

7th Guest.

I am SO surprised that NOBODY has mentioned this game before now. Just so much shit going on... the maze, the coffin puzzle, the bad guy's voice popping out of nowhere ("Yes, YES! Keep going this way!" in the maze, and if you did, he'd seal off the passage and you'd be trapped). The worst part is that my parents more or less MADE ME WATCH THEM PLAY IT. I think.

When we deleted the game, I kept on repeating "I am SO GLAD we are getting rid of this" over and over.

Then we tried to install The 11th Hour, which was the sequel. Many times. On different computers. Never managing to get it to work. That's a traumatizing experience in of itself.

But F.E.A.R... wow. I will admit, the game creeped me the fuck out. But the plot was so well-done that I had to play it again.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Murdercrow

7th Guest.

I am SO surprised that NOBODY has mentioned this game before now.

I don't know about everyone else, but I've only mentioned games I actually [/i]like[/i]. I hated this game, but I didn't find it very terrifying though either though. There was one time a ghost glided across two doors, but other than that...

FELIPE NO

I remember playing Doom 3 on my PC a while back. Now, I'm already a teeny-bit jumpy as it is, and playing a horror-induced FPS already started to rack my nerves.

Well anyway, in the game I was walking down this hallway, minding my own fucking business when, just barely, I heard "Over here...." being whispered loudly enough to where I wasn't able to look away and continue onward. Between a large pile of boxes was a little corridor, dimly lit obviously. So I walk into it and there it goes again -- "Over here." but this time it's a little louder. Great.

I walk through the very brief, winding corridor and I'm in this pretty tiny room. At the end of the room is a plasma rifle. I think to myself "Fucking right! I could use that!" I start walking over toward it and stop. I know something's gonna happen. A fully-loaded plasma rifle just sitting there, defenseless. Not in this game.

I've even prepared for what's going to happen, but still I can't help but nearly shit myself. Imps pop up out of nowhere like feces-throwing chimps and I'm instantly surrounded. I fired at random like there was no tomorrow but I'll be damned if my heart wasn't a few seconds from exploding like David Carradine's.

Far Cry had a bit of an experience for me as well, and it still gets me every time I play it. Up until this particular moment in the game, you've only been fighting humans. Big deal right? You get sent to this forest and you're walking across catwalks that are positioned in the trees. Yeah well you look down and below and CHRIST WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?! There's this thing down there that looks like it's eating enemy mercenaries. No big deal though -- I mean it was frightening yeah, but there are only a few down there, and I'm way up there.

For now.

After crossing the catwalks you end up at an entrance to a lab. This part gets me every time. Soon as you open the door and take a step inside, one of those damned mutants charges and gets right in your face with the severe expression of "Hey I want to eat you alive" on his face. Shoot him (or her) all you want to, but they move ridiculously fast and it doesn't help that they jump so high either, which is also kind of freaky to watch.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

When I was probably about eight or nine I got the first Parasite Eve. My mother always told me I couldn't play games that were rated "M", but of course I didn't listen and played anyway. I was trying to secretly play the game when I came to a cutscene that I believe involves a bunch of people pretty much spontaneously combusting and running around on fire. It's been awhile, but it was something along those lines. Well, I got scared shitless and ended up telling my mom about how scary it was and she took the game away from me.

Of course, a few weeks later I got over it, found where my mom had hidden the game, and played it through.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

EVERY ZELDA GAME!

When I played the Zelda gameboy game, I was just scared of the whole thing. Witches and zombies and ghosts coming out of nowhere. Going into tombs, etc.

Playing, A Link to the Past, was horrible too. It was everything I was afraid of in color.

I'm still pretty much scared of Zelda games today, the Graveyard level in Minish cap was a level to fear.

The only thing that was scarier was Tomba. The pigs were so creppy and the whole setting was erie to me. Thank you Tomba for making me fead little Piggies.

How ya doing, buddy?

When I was about 9-10, I was playing ocarina of time for the first time. Everything was going fine up until I got the master sword. As soon as I left the temple of time I remember freaking out at what happened to Hyrule Castle Town and all the locations like the ring of fire around death mountain, the darkness when you approach Hyrule Castle town from hyrule field, the headless soldier, so on so forth. I couldn't play that game after dark for quite a while. Even now it still feels unnerving to play.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.