Do you have any strange vidya related phobias?
For example, going outside of the playable map in any game scares the shit out of me, I have the urge to nope the fuck out and just quit everytime it happens. I actually had to force myself to do the two missions in San Andreas where you fly a plane in the middle of the ocean, shit was unsettling as fuck
>>336724898
>that freefall mission
fuck everyone who says The train mission was hard, this one was the real deal
>>336725223
Just turn around as soon as you see the incoming plane, then you can easily catch up with the plane in time.
The mission I hated the most was Robbing Uncle Sam. Fucking forklift controls and fucking Ryder dying 30 seconds in.What's funny I passed Wrong Side of the Tracks or Zero's last two missions on the first try. On PC, using keyboard only.
Oh and Vice City had the best "Mission Passed" theme.
>>336724898
>For example, going outside of the playable map in any game scares the shit out of me
Same
I always thought something would bug out and some sort of fuckup would happen, sorta like a jumpscare
>>336724898
>>336725223
not long ago played and finished again this game using a xbox controller, shit was easy the only mission that gave me some problems are the one in the OP pic.
>>336724898
For the longest time Lunge fish in Yoshi's island scared the piss out of me to the point where my dad had to do this levels, and in exchange I would do all the ice levels, because we played a lot of platformers together and now I'm incredibly sad.
![392370-octo[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Vc9uSAG.jpg "392370-octo[1].jpg")
fucking octabrains
>>336725223
That freefall mission took me 10+ tries. Hardest in the GTA series by far.
>>336726251
Grazie, Dottore
>>336724898
This is another game level I struggled to complete because of this.
The first time I didn't know you had to follow the barrels so I would just end up going straight in a direction and that really made me uneasy because it was just this endless black void
>>336724898
>playing private "GM" WoW server years ago
>going outside the boundaries of zones
>those empty landscapes
>that lack of music
>the eerie nothingness at the end of the maps
>>336724898
I learned to swim very late in my life, so naturally I was scared of deep water as a kid. That's why I hated underwater levels in games, always worried as hell that I'd run out of air and drown.
Graphical model glitches. Shut like model stretching or that one glitch where the sky texture was replaced with a face texture terrifies me.
>>336724898
I've always been really fucking scared of ladders. I absolutely hate ladder scares and if I even get a slightest sensation that there might be a jump scare at a ladder I just climb that shit eyes closed until I reach the top. It doesn't even need to be a proper scare that's supposed to scare you, even the slightest spontaneous event makes me jump. It's even worse since most games don't do anything special with ladders so it becomes unpredictable.
![cobrastar_online_jpg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MORYS56.jpg "cobrastar_online_jpg[1].jpg")
>>336724898
I can't play any space games.
Especially Elite Dangerous fucks me up hard when you warp right in front of a star.
I really want to play No Man's Sky but I don't know if I'll be able to.
>fear of being caught in stealth games
>PLUS
>fear of these armored, weaponized, zombies
Legs started shaking when I decided to see what would happen if they saw me in Chapter 1. I had to quit out
>>336724898
Reminds me of this one time, years back when I was playing vanilla WoW.
I was PvPing in Alterac Valley, when suddenly shut bugged the fuck out for me, and I started falling through the world. I didn't just fall and die after a few seconds though, it was weird. I just kept going and going until I completely disconnected for some reason.
Logged back in, and next thing I knew I was dead and half way across the world map in Dun Morogh.
Probably not as interesting to read as it was to see, but it was definitely the weirdest thing to ever happen to me in a video game.
>>336724898
I feel you OP.
>doing Pelican easter egg on Halo Reach with a friend
>not only do you get to fly a Pelican around but it also removes the invisible walls
>fly around outside the map for a bit
>look back
>mfw can't even see the level anymore
>>336724898
being deep underwater makes me nope the fuck out too.
Just crash landing a plane in the water in GTA V and ending up deep as fuck and trying to swim up legitimately freaks me out. Partly because I'm scared of what may also be in the water (like octabrains, weird reptiles, sharks, whatever) but also because of a weird kind of vertigo, being either far from the surface or far from the seafloor scares me.
>>336724898
Can't play with fullscreen. I have some kind of completely retarded panic when I can't see/control game window settings. Makes it especially hard to launch any game for the first time.
Also going outside playable area/falling through the map. Guess I'm an autist.
>>336727917
Fuck I knew I wasnt the only one
>>336724898
Played some lego game as a kid where you had to tail full-size humans as a tiny car while tense ass music played in a dark, creepy town. The slightest mistake would have them chasing you down and maul the shit out of you.
Ever since, tailing missions put me on edge
It took my everything just to save this image. The idea of being in an environment where anything can be below you shivers me timbers. Even the submarine levels in GTAV had my legs shaking and eyes squinting.
Seeing big castles/palaces/areas far away from me gets me extremely uneasy, it's extremely irrational. It's like, i'm so small, just a normal guy, and there's so many things unknown to me out there. It's hard to explain, but it's like this.
>pic related
Hated going to Majula and seeing these far away places, had to turn the game off a few times so i could get my shit together.
>that SA2 glitch where you can escape the games boundaries and float around that blue and black void
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_e6Fie6J_g&ab_channel=Turbohog
>>336727278
like this?
>>336728918
I got you. The other day I flew into Chicago and was feeling uneasy seeing the skyline from a distance
>>336724898
>>336727814
>>336727278
>>336727951
Damn, I have all of these
skyboxes
>>336729056
>that moment when he goes through the skybox
ITT: A bunch of fucking pussies.
>>336729421
>mfw TF2 cured that phobia for me
Being underwater, near a bottomless pit or dark area, or just generally being in an out-of-bounds area feels scary to me.
>>336729530
>ITT: A bunch of autistic fucking pussies.
Fixed that
>going out of bounds and dropping into endless nothing
>huge nigh-endless open wastes of complete silence and emptiness
I think it's because by the time any of us manage to break a skybox, we're already comfortable in that game's general limits. Feel safe in the world etc.
>mfw noclip through the Mojave Outpost checkpoint fence and walk off into the forever desert
Not really a phobia, but getting run over by a train in Mirror's Edge has to be the most cringe-worthy thing I've experienced in vidya, gives me the goosebumps every time. Playing with a VR headset would probably make it absolutely terrifying.
>>336726008
nigga you just need to get out of the forklift and kill all of the enemies yourself. The only hard part is the chase afterwards.
I hate underwater sections in games.GTAV fucking scared me because I didn't know there were actually sharks
>>336730367
I played through that game several times but fucking hell, last time I did that level and got run over I literally put my hands in front of my face to protect me
Falling in a first-person. Even in a game without fall damage (Talos Principle). Even in cartoony games (Banjo-Kazooie).
>>336730589
try playing soma
>>336724898
>two similar doors in front of you
>one of them is optional room with a chest
>another will move you to the next level and close behind you
>gta4
>fisheye camera that exaggerates distance
>ontop of a building
>mfw accidentally climb over the edge and start falling
one of the very few games that induces acrophobia
>>336728672
fuuuuuuuuuuuck the open ocean sucks
iktf bro
They look quite nice, but there's something a bit unsettling about the PS1 Spyro skyboxes, because of the way that they make it look like the levels are just small islands in a huge plane of nothingness.
Exact same thing happened to me senpai. Same with diving. I also get that funny feeling in your stomach when i'm jumping from a height in a game.
>>336730845
>In the game Doom and Doom 2 (and some mods) the goal of each level that makes it so you can't go back. At the same time the punishment for not being able to go back is not as severe.
Good game design, or just coincidence? (Good game design AND coincidence is that actual answer)
>>336730361
There was this shitty little 3D game a while back where you played as a ball and had to jump hit stars, think it wass called Orbs. Anyway you could upgrade various stats of the ball and eventually jump outside the wall surrounding the pit-like level. Beyond it was an essentially infinite plain with a grid of repeating pits containing empty copies of the level, but without any objects.
>>336725223
>>336726649
Like >>336726008 said. Just turn around as soon as you see the plane. GTA missions aren't hard at all...
...except for "The Driver" if you do it the normal way.
>>336731154
Shooters are not the problem. You can just use skill. It's RPG games and especially JRPG were you might miss a good item you need by choosing the wrong door.
Someone remembers that glitch in the hotel jefferson in gta san andreas where is a long fall and a underworld.
Deep waters, deep space. I nope the fuck out whenever I realize how I'm just a speck floating through nothingness. Look at this webm, there's nothing inherently scary about it, just a bunch of lights flying towards you and then black at the end.
But when playing Space Engine and just scrolling around you slowly realize how far everything is and how absolutely mindblowingly huge it is... that's when I nope.
>>336731189please no more
>>336731576
This webm is my worst nightmare.
>>336731176
triggered.gif
fuck that
>>336731576
>tfw if you go fast enough in Space Engine you can actually exit the universe
>tfw it's just a huge cube in an even bigger and emptier void
how does that make you feel?
Hmm. I can't think of anything really. I used to be scared of fog to hide bad draw distance on old games but nowadays it doesn't happen anymore. Now that I think about it though there is a thing.
This is going to be a confession but I am scared of games remaining sony exclusives. I don't own a sony console and I never will because I think the company is anti-consumer shit that doesn't care about the industry and just wants to see it burn. They're the barely better than EA.
For some reason it's always unsettling when a good game gets announced as a 'sony exclusive' and I'm scared it will always be stuck and held back on bad hardware. It's funny because I don't have that feeling with Nintendo or Microsoft stuff.
Anyway with emulation and steam growth that fear has toned down but I still don't like it.
>>336731576
I seriously cannot play Space Engine, it scares the shit out of me. Especially black holes. Fuck black holes.
>>336731636
Same here famalam, can't even watch the whole thing.
>you're near the bottom of the ocean with your submarine
>you need to hand pick something from the bottom
>you put on your scuba gear and go to the deep, dark water
>only source of light are the floodlights on the bottom of your submarine
>you go deeper and deeper... until you reach to the thing you need
>you're ready to head back up
>it suddenly goes dark and then light again
>you look up
>see a tail or tentacle of something monstrous disappear into the darkness
Why are there no games like this?
>>336724898
any vidya where you are high up and have to walk across a narrow platform.
i cant explain it, but my feet becomes extremely numb and i feel like im not sitting or standing on my feet like some disconnect with my body when this happens. i.e any 3d Mario games and other close camera platformers
I'm a little afraid of heights and every time a character falls from a big height it makes me feel uneasy.
Only in "realistic" cases, though, like I can fall for hours on a game like Megaman or Spyro and feel nothing, but falling in GTA or Metal Gear is the worst
>>336731987
Like picture related.
>>336731987
Here's a screenshot I just took
Keep in mind that those are galaxies, not stars
>>336728918
I fucking love those moments though. It gives a great way of progression in the game, and I end up just standing there for multiple minutes just looking into the distance. It's very calming to me.
What is my videogame phobia though, are very dark places, while having a flashlight or light source that isn't consistent. Especially when there are very deadly monsters around who tend to make noise in those areas. That really doesn't feel good at all.
>>336732432
Barotrauma.
>>336730956
I don't think there is anything better than spyro skyboxes
>>336727951
This. Sometimes I take the sub out and dive as deep as I can. My heart starts racing every time. It's especially eery at night when you get to where pressure starts to crush thesub.
>>336725223
I think last time I played I won that mission by modding the Dodo to be insanely fast
I've always thought I was the only one who had this holy shit.
I remember when I first discovered you could do stuff like that and I would explore outside the maps while being both curious and super on edge.
>mfw when floating through the void in shadow of the colossus and that big ass dam pops out of nowhere.
>>336732681
That's horrifying.
>>336732681
i don't like this
>>336730845
>Figure out the path that looks like it's the optional one
>It's not the optional one
>The devs made it so that the optional path looks like the main one to trick people into going for the optional content
>I miss the optional content because I try to go for the optional content
Psychology in level design should go fuck itself.
>>336725223
I always though the train mission was just some made up meme because I never had any trouble with that mission. Only years later I found out that it was supposedly one of the most frustrating missions in the game. That Zero mission where you had to defend his roof was my personal bullshit mission, especially on PS2 because the controls were so awful and Zero's failure howling at the end was so fucking annoying.
>>336732681
meme or not this is a great game to play when high, especially because of the music
>>336733189
I think people were either too stupid to drive properly or they made the mistake of driving too close to the train so Big Smoke can't get them
>That Zero mission where you had to defend his roof was my personal bullshit mission
Played the PS2 version with a bro, we just repeatedly entered the "explode all vehicles" cheat because holy fuck
>>336732432
What is subnuatica
>>336728672
The diving missions in Black Flag are the same. Nothing but sharks and eels and the occasional current dragging you into underwater caves. Also a giant octopus easter egg.
I am usually the last person to shill games, but you all should play Subnautica and prepare to develop inflammation from the chronic diarrhea
I almost always use a walk through when playing a new game.
Just in case there is something you can only do at a certain time in the game
>>336724898
>Do you have any strange vidya related phobias?
SPIDERS IN VIDYA
I'm arachnophobic, but i don't have a big problem with killing small spiders irl. Big australia tier spiders freak me out, but skyrim tier spiders EVEN ON THE SCREEN, WHEN I KNOW IT'S JUST A GAME freak me the fuck out. Haven't beaten dark messiah to this day.
kill me
What's going on in this thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoP1N0OyFic
>>336728273
>>336727917
>>336727951
I'm glad I'm not the only one, it's such a weird phobia is but freaks me out so much. Another bad one for me was coming into the Andross arena, especially before he phased in, just that blank, foreboding space and not being able to see where I am or if anything is gonna jump out at me. First time I got to it as a kid I panicked and hit reset
>>336724898
triggered me to the max
Massive bug like enemies always make skin crawl. Like the frostbite spiders in Skyrim. Fuck that shit
>>336733987
>spiders
>bugs
PS1/N64 skyboxes can be a little spooky, I suppose. The only game I cannot play isMajora's Mask.Snowhead was the worst because the moon would be right next to you. Far 2spooky4me. Just can't do it.
>>336729056
i'm fucking spooked now
>>336727112
This, or water so deep you cant see through and you know something is coming for you
>>336726831
>go over to a friend's place
>"hey anon, try this on"
>it's a vive
>why not
>it's on the deep ocean simulation
>nearly actually crap myself
never again
>>336734076
Spiders are not insects, but they are bugs.
Monsters in water I can't see. Swimming in the ocean areas of world maps.
>>336724898
Doom 1 and 2: The Medusa effect. http://doomwiki.org/wiki/Medusa_effect
>>336724898
>For example, going outside of the playable map in any game scares the shit out of me, I have the urge to nope the fuck out and just quit everytime it happens. I actually had to force myself to do the two missions in San Andreas where you fly a plane in the middle of the ocean, shit was unsettling as fuck
I feel the same about underwater stuff.
Also, if that's your phobia, don't download Space Engine.
Face huggers of all sorts. Both alien ones and choking hands from blood or bone leeches from blood 2.
>>336732432
https://youtu.be/8mkzVwc_KZA
The last area in SOMA. Ocean floor, wonderfull sea monsters.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TZd95BCKMY
This son of a bitch. Scared the living shit out of me when I first played Half-Life. The first time you meet him then the time where there are TWO in the water. Since then I've had to noclip through the parts with this bastard. Back in the early days of GMOD I had a """"""""friend"""""""" who found out about how I felt and he would inflate this model to max size and spawn them all around me. Just looking at him makes make feel uneasy and sweaty. I hate him so much.
>>336734629sup
>>336734907
>>336734869
The opaque water surface in that old-ass game just makes it so much more terrifying.
>>336734783
>MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURPH
>>336731576
Makes me uncomfortable when I turn the camera while on a planets surface and see a gaint moon or planet fill up the sky.
Something about it being so huge and close makes me uncomfortable. Like it's going to hit the planet I'm on or maybe because I'm used to the sky being clear not having a massive object fill it up.
Once I get used to it it's beautiful and calming but those first 2 seconds are nerve racking.
>>336724898
Any kind of animation glitching is nope territory for me
I remember playing SS on an emulator and Ghirahim and Links models started freaking out and their arms rotated with their heads turning to face the camera
Noped out of that
Not so much a phobia but walking into a really large room that is unpopulated makes me worry something is about to happen and usually something does and it gets me every time.
>>336734907
Ugh, the worst.
>>336733787
Man up and just hit it without looking.
>>336735687
>hit it without looking
try and fight those crawling motherfuckers in dark messiah, with no vision and fucking terrified because of the solely sound of them crawling around
>>336735859
fuck
>>336735859
If you can't distinguish reality from a video game you have autism
>>336736037
i dont think that's how autism works
Can't say I really have that phobia OP, I've always loved getting out of the map in video games. I'm not too afraid of water either, I do get a little spooked in the deep ocean in GTA, but nothing crippling. I will say however that I got really spooked exploring the farther ocean areas of Fallout 4 when it first came out. The water is so polluted that it's impossible to see more than 2 feet ahead, and I thought for fucking sure that there would be some radioactive sea monsters. I should have known that Bethshitda are incompetent and just left the entire ocean completely empty.
>>336728918
know your pain, anon. I used to work at the 15th floor in a government building. I dont have a slight problem with altitude but in front of my window were a taller building with that modern mirrowed facade. I couldnt stand looking at that fuck without sweating my feet out.
Creepy ass easter eggs
IE The monkey family in Halo 3
>>336736328
I love exploring it, but it still fucks with me
>next gen GTAV
>first person
>armed Michael to the fucking teeth
like for real he was fuckin serious sam
>wander about the desert and mountains with my gun, jumping and shooting at every fucking shadow I see
>get bored looking for spoopy monsters that dont exist
>take a helicopter and fly it right the fuck off the map
>freak the FUCK out when landmass isn't near me but force myself to keep exploring
>get very, very far from land
>cheat spawn a submarine
>start exploring
>15 minutes later serious anxiety and stress take over
>surface, look for land, nothing nearby
>shut down console
and I never went back, something about being alone in GTA seriously destroys me
>>336724898
Yeah OP yeah i do
the ocean is one and especially in fallout 4 the pipboy light doesn't work well underwater and i can't use a weapon, i feel so vulnerable and defenseless afraid i'd run into something at the bottom.
>>336738092
>something about being alone in GTA seriously destroys me
holy shit this
never join an empty SAMP server kids, this shit can destroy your mind
>playing Battlefield 1942
>Iwo Jima or whatever island map
>take control of the destroyer ship
>accidentally press change camera angle button when firing cannons
>scream
>>336731576
I can relate to this IRL.
Whenever i'm in an open field, at night, alone, I find it incredibly hard to stare at the night sky for more than a few seconds.
sharks in spyro 2, shit gave me nightmares when i was a kid
>Be me
>Be playing GTA V
>Steal an airplane
>lol this is cool
>Suddenly get out of plane
>Michael is falling from the sky
>Get a panic attack
>Shut down console
>>336738092
Me too, I actually remember the first mod I installed for San Andreas
It was basically a shitty total conversion that replaced the whole map with an island inspired by Lost.
The island was huge as fuck but completely empty, there were no buildings, no vehicles, no roads, only some badly positioned trees and bushes.
I started exploring a little with the jetpack cheat but when I realized I was completely alone and there was just empty land for miles I just noped the fuck out and uninstalled the mod
>>336733987
One or two for me is fine. But when there's a fuck-ton of spiders crawling and flying everywhere (EDF) that's when I cross the line.
>>336738638
Sup bro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFpeM3fxJoQ
>>336727278
This. Fuck. I was playing HL2:E2, and something went wrong with all the gun textures, and they went all reflective purple, and some would stretch across the screen at random intervals. I had to quit the game.
>>336739031
Goddamnit I love space
>>336738806
I was about to call you underageb& but then I looked it up
How the fuck is Lost that old? Feels like all that stupid shit happened 3 years ago
3D skyboxes in Source games creep me out for whatever reason
>>336733787
https://youtu.be/ycLpE6yBq-o
>>336739282
>about to call YOU on bullshit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(TV_series)
>2004
Kids born when Lost first aired are now screaming at you in online shooters.
Seeing large, imposing creatures flying in the distance, or large figures obscured by fog. This shit scares the fuck outta me.
>playing DaS3
>get to Lothric Castle
>all those freaky nervous system looking butterflies flying around
>worse still, there's a boss fight where they watch you from afar and gradually move closer
Fucking hell, that gave me the shivers.
>>336727365
my nigga same shit
play condemned 1 :>
>>336724898
I have that.
That mission in Ace Combat 2 where you have to fly way above above the clouds and you constantly lose control and would have to make sure you crash into the ground. That was horror tier for me. The early 3D graphics didn't help.
>>336739282
It lasted until 2010, so its ending is not that old.
>>336739282
It happened around 2008 probably, it was the first mod I installed just because I played it on console until my disc was damaged and I bought it again some years later
>>336740049
Fair point
It's incredible that you can run a series that long based on "THERE'S A SOLUTION FOR EVERY MYSTERY" hype while you just keep piling on the bullshit
I can't believe I'm the only one. Everyone I told about these things looked at me like a madman
The first part of the first level of Tomb Raider Underworld...suffering from thalassophobia is horrible.
Also Space Engine, can't play it at all, and im not talking about black holes or ftl speeds, as soon as it loads and the fucking space is in front of my eyes, i fucking freak out instantly.
>>336738638
I feel you.
The first time i tried Space Engine, my sister was right next to me and she didnt understand what freaked me out that much, she could play it no issues.
Then last year she went to some place on an iland for vacation with her bf, and she had a little panic attack when the night came and she looked at the sky(were we live, there are barely any star in the sky at night due to light pollution)...if she could stand Space Engine no problem, but had a little panic attack, i can't immagine how i'd feel if i were in places like the ones in the vid in >>336739031
>>336733987
Only Bugs that scare me are roaches and botflies
>>336740775
That part in Half Life one with the water space with the shark. Yeah can dive really deep with this tower like thing in the middle and it's fucking scary. When I was kid I explored that area for some reason.
tomb raider 3 glitches really fucked me up
> when enemies aren't where they're supposed to be/don't pop up at all
> when it's the wrong enemy altogethr
> when they spawn out of thin air in your face
> too much detail packed onto those shitty graphics
> camera catches a closeup by accident and it's scary as fuck
> fuck you dr willard
>>336739794
this
>mfw seeing a dragon flying in a circle far into the distance in skyrim
>>336727951
Came to post this.
>walking through water in Halo: CE
>that first underwater level in Mario 64 with the fucking eel
>swimming in GTA
>dying in water and watching my corpse float down
>mffw
Basically storms at night and this was mainly a problem in Wind Waker.
Just a combination of the creepy enemies being silhouetted by the lighting strikes and the music just made me so anxious I just looked at my GBA the entire time.
>>336725223
Best way to do train mission is just drive way passed the train and pull out the smg to lock on and spray when it nears. Can usually get all the guys the first try sometimes have to get on the bike once more and go a little further and repeat.
>>336727365
I used to be scared of ladders in games too but not because of some irrational phobia or anything, rather because in 90% of games ladders were a fucking death trap because of janky controls. Nothing like beating a difficult section and then falling to your death because the fucking game wouldn't register your attempts to go down the fucking ladder. This was especially true in old FPS, now most games have a dedicated "use ladder"button, the downside of which being it takes fucking forever to go up/down ladders now.
>>336732191
But Sony is great and you should purchase a Sony Playstation 4 entertainment system to play the great Sony Exclusives that you're missing out on.
>>336730421
this, the forklift is hoaky to operate but it's not the problem, the problem is that Ryder can't fight for shit and you need to get out and kill everything for him while he yells at you to just load the truck.
Also yeah fuck driving the truck. Whatever physics fuckery they did to make the truck feel like it has more weight on it made it impossible to drive. It was almost as bad as trying to drive with a trailer in SR2
>When music suddenly stops
>>336733987
Thank fucking christ I'm not the only one. I had trouble with Fallout 3 too on account of the fucking radroaches.
The ruins in Megaman Legends used to scare the shit out of me as a kid. I'd wander around and get hopelessly more and more lost trying to find my way out, and I'd get so freaked out that eventually I'd just shut off the power and cry for a while.
Also those dickheads in Ocarina of time that would grab you and send you back, those really freaked me out as a kid.
>>336733787
Me too anon.
>tfw cant even fight minecraft spiders without cringing and taking off my headphones
>>336724898
In a game of a well established 3D environment, back tracking to somewhere unnecessarily to find no change. It's just so eerie to me for some reason. Like for instance, even in something extremely cartoony like Mario 64 and going to the corners of the castle garden or something. Feels like there's something hidden there.
>>336729056
But can Sonic float to parallel universes ala Mario 64?
Planet Zoness in Starfox 64 gave me a crippling fear of searchlights. It's at the point where I'll immediately restart a level or turn the game off completely if I get caught.
I'm afraid of entering rooms in videogames because they can lock you inside them.
>>336724898
In games that are full of 'video-gamey' stuff, like item pick-up icons and the like, areas that have nothing in at all.
In games with music throughout, areas that have no music at all, especially when they have no NPC's.
How the fuck are you guys afraid of anything in a video game... IT IS A FUCKING GAME!
>>336743290
Me too.
You should play Black Flag, the night storms in that are fucking insane.
>>336727608
>I hate thing that is present in x type of game
>But I really want to play x type of game!
No you fucking don't you retarded dipshit.
Just fucking shoot yourself
That's a nice house you have there...
When I was a kid I was terrified of landing on the aircraft carrier in Ace Combat 4.
Such a small dot in a big scary sea and I always crashed.
>Buy an unmarked NES cartridge at a flea market
>It's haunted
>>336738669
CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG
Graphical glitches pretty much, usually cause I'm pretty drunk while playing and it freaks me the fuck out. Can't go back to RDR cause of cougar man
Falling through the map doesn't usually bother me but replaying DS1 and a skeleton before the drop off for the catacombs blacksmith just stomps me straight through the floor I said goddamn.
The more realistic a game the worse it is, used to hunt out glitches in the Sonic Adventure games but there's one part in Beyond Good and Evil where the cat girl is just sitting inside Triple H or whatever his name is in the hideout clipping through his stomach, fuck cat girls they're xenomorphs
>>336724898
San Andreas. In general. I love the game, but outside of the cities, I swear that there's something about the low-polygon count and silence when you're not in a car that gives it a really eerie feeling.
No wonder so many myths cropped up around it.
>>336727278
Oh god, so much this.
Saints Row IV was the greatest horror game I ever played.
Fucking missions where the enemy car rattles and floats upward and the pedestrian bones rescale wrong? That shit was more terrifying than all of the Silent Hills put together
Being in empty multi-player maps used to creep me out as a kid
Fucking Snow has the 2spookiest out of bounds in any game I've played
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=655mgRxElG8
8:10 in this shit
Hello~
>>336734869
After that one quick bit with him and the teleporter in two I was afraid to go in the water for the rest of the game
>playing a multiplayer game
>chat is suspiciously silent
>suddenly realise that I've been playing with bots for last half an hour
What is a man if he can be so easily replaced by a machine? What if all of you are bots too and I am the only human?
>>336729058
>I AM THE LORD THY GOD
![[SCREAMING].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/qnw6257.jpg "[SCREAMING].jpg")
>>336729056
>Approaching/leaving the skybox
Shit like that spooks the hell out of me.
It just makes me feel like I shouldn't be there at all, and makes me want to get back to the level ASAP.
I mean, I guess you AREN'T supposed to be out there, but still. It gives me this vibe that tells me that something horrible, in-game or not, might happen if I do go out that far.
i don't know if this exactly counts as a phobia, but getting TrackIR working in IL2 Sturmovik made me realize that I've been unconciously ducking IRL when i get shot at in vidya
>>336730628
I can relate.
I still remember one of the first times I was playing Minecraft, back in 2012 I think, and I just kept placing blocks under my feet in creative mode until I was above the clouds. When I jumpd looking down my heart started racing and I squeezed myself on top of my chair.
Even since shit like this triggers me. I can't even begin to describe the PTSD playing the final segment in Antichamber caused me.
playing pokemon with action replay for fun
walk out of bounds
top left: Mystery Zone
FUCKING MORTIFYING
>start shaking like an epileptic any time I play competitive games online
I have no idea why...
>>336730956
This.
A few of the SM64 skyboxes give me the same feeling.
>>336738092
>>336738386
>>336738806
>>336747626
I wouldn't say I'm actually scared of it, but I do get a distinct sense of isolation when playing in an empty map. Or on an abandoned multiplayer server, even when it's running bots. Hell, the bots emphasize it, if anything, like the lights still being on or a tv still playing in an abandoned building.
I actually kind of wish there were some horror storiescreepypastathat used this, perhaps using other stuff mentioned here, like graphical glitches. Or maybe even trying to make a horror film/short using game footage. I doubt it would really be that good, but I'd still find it interesting to read.
Not strictly vidya but TVs suddenly turning on/off scares me for some reason.
Not a phobia, but rather a strange sensation. It happens a lot when I play platformers. Let's say there's a long jump ahead of me and the only way forward is to land on a super tiny platform. After I jump across and barely make the landing, the muscles in my anus contract and I get a brief feeling of tightness there. I don't know how else to describe it. Maybe it's a sign of relief in my body? It happens especially when the platforms are high up in the air and falling means certain death. Please tell me I'm not the only one. I've never told anyone about this so I don't know if it's common or not.
>>336752857
You watched one of the Ring films as a kid too, huh
>>336749723
If this had sound I would have killed myself
>>336753076
happens to me too
its like a fear of heights in video games
>deep sea levels
>"unkillable monster" chase sequences
![[screams in the third dimension].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mDBTJXG.jpg "[screams in the third dimension].jpg")
>Areas of the game that are intentionally designed to be glitchy/unfinished
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghh0unq7XE0
I read a magazine that said there was a secret tattoo parlor in the underworld of SA, of course I never found it.
>>336749723
How to get there?
>>336751691
I just started playing Antichamber and I'm like that too, is it worse than>>336749723
?
>>336754692
>"unkillable monster" chase sequences
bruh
>>336726008You can pick up two crates at once with the forklift.
>>336726008
I always thought it was a meme when rockstar said not to save with cheats on the ps2. I did just that. When I spent almost a year getting to that mission as a kid, Ryder kept dying on the spot immediately, right after the cut scene ended.
That showed me.
>>336755805
>falling
Errr... maybe. Minor spoilers ahead. Doesn't spoil the actual end game, only the last big area.
Basically,there are a series of pathways in an infinitely open space, overlaping on top and botton of eachother, connecting a series of "islands". You can't see much farther into a sort of fog.
At some point, you're forced to jump into a huge hole, falling into the gray abyss for some solid 5 or so secons, until you eventually line up with a pathway bellow. If you fall randomly through out this segment you'll also eventually fall on a pathway that is generated bellow you
It's not a realistic looking game, so I guess that helps, but sinceyou can't see where you're falling for some momentsmakes it kinda scary.
>>336756487
Nigga please.
There aren't many things in non-spooky game that scare me.
But my curiosity got the better of me when I gave Dear Esther a shot, and I wondered if there was an invisible wall stopping you from entering the ocean.
There was not.
It was too realistic.
Cue memories of almost drowning as a child. Had to close the game and hope to god you were never forced to go in the water at any point.
Of course you were.
At least that water was clear.
>>336732681
>>336731576
Loud sounds out of nowhere freak me the fuck out
>>336725223
you must have played the wrong version of the game.
Those skybox on spyro game, the emptiness of it and no way to tell how deep it is always scare me.
And blackhole on every outter space games, never not clenching my butts whenever i drew near one of them.
Black main characters, it scares the shit out of me
>>336724898
Playing at night
I get this ugly feeling, presure, that in any for any reason I will have to end the game and wont be be able to save making all my effort naught. Not even playing with a emulator with the ability to save in any second cant shake this feeling
>>336757915
When I was younger and played Luigi's Mansion I was scared as fuck at night to play it
>>336724898
All of vault 22
Man, you guys are pussies. Even my fear ofthat fucking fish in Jak and Daxterfaded after forcibly allowing myself to die to get over it. Exposure therapy, motherfuckers.
>>336724898
Being the last man standing in my team
>>336724898
I used to have this weird reaction to when I put in a game I had gotten out of for a long time. Used to shake really bad and feel weird when I was playing it.
I know that's fucking stupid, but it happened and I could not control it.
I think it doesn't happen anymore.
>>336758071
DWARVES?
>>336758028
>>336728672
>in an ocean check
>giant ass whale in proximity check
welp
>>336724898
Big monsters and falling to death like here >>336749723 are really scary.
By big monsters I mean really big monsters, those who make your character look like an ant.
It's silly, but this thing scared the shit out of me when I was younger.
debug/test levels scare the fuck out of me
large bodies of water. FUCK. THAT. SHIT.
>Be me
>Playing Gears of War
>Going through the game, pretty good
>Suddenly first berserker fight
>Marcus says to stay quiet
>I start whispering to people next to me, so it doesn't hear for some reason
>I'm way too afraid to talk louder
>Really fucking immersed for some reason
>Slowly walk around and then manage to kill it when it gets BTFOd by the HoD
>Heart racing, knees weak, arms are sweating
Who else has done this before? It seems pretty autistic, but holy fuck did it immerse me
>>336729332
FFVII, the part with the zone made out of coral and sea shit.
>>336724898
Falling. I can not stand falling to my death in video games.
Red/"burning" skies. Can't stand them. Cheated past the pic related level and that mod that adds new weather conditions to New Vegas scared the fucking shit out of me when a firestorm happened
also have the same phobia as OP and have alt f4ed out of games due to it
>>336744298
>play F3
>see rad roaches
>laugh at them
>move out
>live in shitty apt
>have to deal with roaches
>see rad roach
>panic
>>336751910
happens everytime i get invaded in dark souls
>>336726251
Was looking for this pic. Thank you doctor, and thank you anon.
I stopped playing Shadow of the Colossus for about a week the first time when I got to the eel colossus because that shit was too scary. Huge monster underneath you and you have to wait in the middle of the lake in order to coax it to surface and attack you. Just seeing a vague snakelike thing and occasional flashes of light in the murky depths is really unsettling. To this day, I still get an uncomfortable feeling when I play the part
>>336753487
get the same things when you fall a long way in a video game, strangely enough it happened to me last playing risk of rain when i jumped off the bridge in the snow level
>>336728672
Fuck dude, same fear. I think my ONLY fear is being in the middle of a body of water and not knowing what the fuck is around and below me. Even in games, that shit is unsettling.
Anyone else hate the low quality sounds of games from the N64 era? Don't get me wrong, I loved them at the time, but playing them now is unsettling as fuck. Like the noises IG-88 makes in Shadows of the Empire. Freaky as shit.
>>336758761
yeah that shit was intense the first time
but it was a one time deal for how exciting it was.
>>336724898
I saw hard when I was a little kid, that movie gave me an open water phobia that I still can't get over. Jak 1 further reinforced that phobia with lurker sharks. Hearing their heartbeat grow stronger really creeped me out. I'm surprised I got past the second village, since it required you to swim for a couple minutes to a partially sunken city.
>>336751910
That's adrenaline, anon. I get it toodo you also get really cold armpit sweat when it happens
>>336753076
Butthole clenching is an extremely common reaction.
Since I was a kid I've been terified of glitches. Small errors are fine, but if my character falls through the floor or something I shut the game off and can't touch it for at least a week.
>>336756631
You mean Mad Dogg. Same here.
>>336727365
Well, at least you'll always have Bethesda games.
Low draw distance. I remember playing Megaman Legends and almost shitting my goddamn pants at the underground area with the spider bots. Vanilla Morrowind was a goddamn nightmare.
Opaque bodies of water are another one. Looking down and not being able to see anything but my feet suspended above interminable nothingness makes me lose my sense of perspective and space and makes me think literally any moment something's going to approach from just beyond the curtain of opacity and drag me screaming into the endless depths.
Being stuck in the middle of the ocean without a boat is literally my biggest fear. There's an entire world of biological and geological diversity below your feet and yet you can't see ANY of it. That just freaks me the fuck out.
>>336759110
Shit, it happens when I invade other people.
>>336759482
No, but I get really bad butt sweat.
>>336759434
Jaws*
Fuck I'm tired
>>336759487
he doesn't mean butt clenching, he means that psuedo stomach flip sensation you sometimes get in you lower body, It's actually a symptom of simulation sickness
>>336739328
kek
deep water
fucking majoras mask
>swim down that great bay thing
>giant ass eel right in my face
>surface
>to scared to go back down
>>336732432Bobbit worm
Always get nightmares of me flying and cant keep going up because is a invisible wall. Blame video games for that
>>336752163
>that wet dry world
>>336724898
Ocarina of Time has that one moment where you're descending in the water temple with the boots, in the main room, and the spike enemies are below you. You can't control Link while you're descending underwater, so there's a lot of tension in that moment.
>>336759745
i actually get simulation sickness in any first person game, can't play fps to this day
>all these deep water posts
I personally love deep water in games, it gives me a sense that the world is huge and needs to be explored.
>>336759745
What. He clearly described butt clenching. Nothing near the stomach was mentioned.
Ahhhh... this many people scared by large bodies of water... Little do they know the path to awakening is nowhere else than deep inside the lake.
Jump on in already, embrace the great ones lurking in the depths... No one can stop us now.
>>336760067
Same. Also same feeling with out of bounds. Always hope there's something secret the devs left.
I remember I found the sections outside of the testing area in Portal quite unnerving (before the furnace scene). I always felt there was someone behind me or something
When I was little I was afraid of playing Spyro because on one of the commercials there was this fucked up sheep that said something about making the game never end. So I thought if I played it I'd be stuck playing it forever and I'd never be able to turn it off.
I was a dumb kid
>>336760084
the butt is like super near to the stomach. Where is your butt/stomach located?
>>336760112
At least the Rom fight you're not swimming in an ocean and the water seems like it's just a very shallow lake.
Otherwise I don't think I could do that fight.
>vice city
>use the pontoon helicopter and fly into the pool area at diaz's mansion
>fly up and out of the pool ceiling
>fly under the city with the blue void under you
Mine it's simple: let my character die, but only if i'm the good guy. I start to think in the the aftermath of his/her defeat (his/her body being humillated, the people who are close to or depend on him/she being defenseless, all that shit that would happen if the MC loses against the bad guys).
My favorite examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opv_Icv2NqU
>I hate to think in the final fate of Batman and Pyg's hostages.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5l3bUNXTk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAeIzaO6qc
>Batman's corpse being shown as a trophy
>>336759620
This, the first Legends on 64 was pure nightmare fuel in those caverns
>>336760398
Such fear, such anxiety must be removed from the way in our path to awakening anon...
If I told you nothing was gonna harm you, would you dive right into the darkest part of the mariana trench...? I just want you to meet some friends I made in the depths..
>>336760221
Now that I think about, in Half Life 2 I'd keep close to the corners so I wouldn't get snuck up on. I just don't like the idea of something attacking me from where I can't see
