Videogame phobias you can't explain
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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.
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.
>>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.
>>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
>>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]")
>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.
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?
>>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
>>336760635
You could tell me Mariana Trench was made of booze and there's stripper mermaids with all the money in the world, and you wouldn't see me anywhere near that.
There's a reason you're all the old hunters and scholars while I'm killing you all and making a better future.Crazy bastards
>my mfw when this thread
>>336725223
>>336743386
Both of you are plebs and casuals. Best way is to drop the bike on the train's roof. Then you can kill those guys on foot if you want.
>>336760291
>the butt is near the stomach
1. No it's fucking not. The butt and stomach are very clearly separated both in your nervous system and the length of organs separating them.
2. He specifically stated muscles in his butthole area, which makes sense for it to be the sphincter muscle clenching, as happens when you see something like he described.
>>336760865
Majestic...! A hunter is a hunter, even in the depths of the ocean... I'm afraid there wont be much you can do when I dive right in and meet the old ones...
Such a shame, you could have come with me anon. You could have let the eldritch truth touch your spirit, but not now, not anymore. How would you like to fight a great one in deep, dark waters...¿?
the boogiemen from toejam and earl scared the fuck out of me as a kid
i played it again recently and i dont know what the big deal was, i mustve just been a huge pussy faggot child
>>336761087
Can you stop this gay ass RP shit?
>>336761087
Tell them I'm waiting right here in the Hunter's Dream and I'll fight them one on one.
I don't care how big they are, I'm just not going in the water to fight them.
I've solo'd nearly all the Old Ones.
>>336732681
Not videos games but relevant.
There is such a void in space, full of absolutely nothing. No light, no stars. Imagine suddenly finding yourself out there.
http://lynnipulse.org/archives/2362
>>336759290
>risk of rain
SERVER WHERE
>>336761261
Ahhh shitpost... or some say hothead...
>>336761290
Majestic. Then I shall show you the truth about your beloved videogame.That you've been submerged in a great lake all along
>>336761223
Nah as a kid, anything that chases you to give you a death/game over is scary.
So many games scared me in the old days with instant deaths.
The Yeti from SkiFree is the one that scared me and I only found out last year you can actually outski the Yeti.
Things latching onto/getting close to the screen.
>Protozoid slimers from Duke 3D
>Facehuggers in the Alien games
>Metroids in the Prime series
>THE FUCKING GHOST SHIP IN OKAMI
>>336760524
>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).
Subnautica
Being in a tiny-ass submarine 400m deep and seeing nothing but dark blue.
Until you see a black shadow coming closer and closer.
spook
>>336761304
What's inside?
>>336761759
sounds comfy as fuck. quit being a fag
deep sea phobias are literally reditt: the phobia
>>336761562
>GTAV
>Michael loses family and is a crazy alcoholic criminal
>finally works with his hero/idol
>family comes back
>Mikey gets his life together
>life is amazing
>as Franklin, get to choose who to kill
>irony
>pick Michael
>Franklin explains how Mikey who uses people to get where he was, and Franklin is now doing the same
>Kill Mikey
It was all about him have a terrible life, living for years in it, losing everything, getting it back finally, and gets killed when he finally achieves the good life.
To me it was the perfect ending.
Those fucking secret glitch areas in WoW used to spook me, but I loved learning about them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcYAHg8g1o
>>336761939
We've barely explored the ocean, who knows what's down there.Let's hope it doesn't wake up
>>336761928
nothing.
quite literal nothingness
>>336761928
Nothing. Just the void. For millions of light years.
The thought of weird, dark secrets hidden in old games that are so hard to find that no one has discovered them
>>336761928
The African Aliens.
>>336761928_______
>>336762034
DELETE THIS!
>>336728918
>tfw your phobia is literally my philia
>>336761304
>universes
?????????
>>336761928
Current gen games
>>336761939
Unlike all this other games there's actual fish that eat the shit out of you.
So my spook is justified.
>>336731576
Someone post the "Timeline of the Far Future" pic.
Any time an older games crashes. Think PS1 or older
Anything new just locks up whenever it crashes, but older games have that fucked up, garbage-data screen, and that gives me serious anxiety for some reason anytime it happens
Falling in video games gives me a weird vertigo thing as if I was falling in real life. VR falls might literally cause my death so I'm afraid to try them.
>>336761943
That's good, I'll have to do that next time.
>>336762196
>Game crashes
>That moment of terror when loading it back up and seeing if your save is corrupted or not
Now I hated Far Cry 3 for a plethora of reasons, but I'd be a fucking liar if I said I wasn't terrified of going in the water. If the jumpscare sharks weren't enough they flat-out nuke your personal defense and control capabilities.
I was behind on one of the very important upgrades because I literally could not just go out to sea and get it over with. Although I did have some fun in the PT boat with the heavy machine gun mowing those fuckers to the bottom of the ocean.
>>336762196
Fuck, me too, just thinking about it now gives me anxiety.
>>336762196
What about when it makes a high pitch repeating squealing noise when it freezes up in those dump screens? The worst.
>>336761928
Could be an optical trick and that space in the sky is toward a very old, very massive section of the universe.
Impossible to know for sure really.
The scariest games ever are for me is when I stay awake for extreme lengths of time. At least 30+ hours. It's better in open world games, everything feels weird and wrong in indescribable ways. Have microsleeps and waking up to find yourself in a completely different part of the map than you remember, the general sluggishness and ineffectiveness you feel trying to play, being confused and not understanding what's going on.
>>336754981
There was. It was supposed to be used in Las Venturas but they never added it. It was fully functional and had unique tattoos.
You could also find the unused Donut Shop interior and eat donuts.
>>336756631
R* pretty much swore me off cheats in their games. Wasn't until I 100%'d that shit that I would even load one up.
Timed shit.
Not necessarily scary but it stresses me the fuck out. Makes me drop a game instantly, never played majoras mask because of it.
>>336761928
An interstellar space serpent that devours entire stars. Like a sea monster, but in space and likely much larger than our sun.
>>336762551
there was a really fuckin' good mod for that game called Things to do in San Andreas 'Til You're Dead ... added a bunch of shit including those unused tats, some side missions from LC Stories, and a handful of cut missions from GTASA.
Only thing that sucked was that the game would ctd every time at the point you ram that swat tank into the crack den.
>>336762701
You've LOVE the Atelier games, then.
>>336762151
Probably meant galaxies. If not, its bullshit, we have absolutely nothing to confirm the multiverse theory, sadly
>>336761928
My gf
I sometimes feel over exposed in video games. It started with the first Armored Core when you'd be tramping around these dark, creepy environments making all the fucking noise in the world. Then randomly start getting shot at. I'd start freaking out trying to sort out what direction it was coming from, but would eventually just cover my eyes and wait to die. That feeling of being so exposed just fucked with me. It never really triggered that bad in my adult life until I played Outlast. The worst was when that big fucker would chase my around. I'd start getting frantic, make a wrong turn and wind up at a dead end or something. Then that feeling of impending doom, of some giant grunting demon charging behind me at full speed, would cross from the game into the real world. So I'd throw my controller down and cover my eyes and wait to die.
getting chased by big unkillable monsters that are trying to eat you scares the fuck out of me, especially if you arent able to look behind you and just hear its footsteps getting closer
>>336758425
oh god that was horrible
the ghost ship was even worse
>>336763653
Also doesn't help that I've explored abandoned hospitals and asylums, which that game also triggered. When you're inside those places, the tiniest noise sounds like a gunshot. Part of you knows that only you and your friends are there, but I always wondered if some crazy homeless person was lurking around.
>>336763764
He's a big guy.
Anyone else find Minecraft surprisingly spooky?
>>336758071
that fucking fish
I've never really played that game, and it's because of it
>at a friends house
>he's playing Jak and Daxter
>goes to the bathroom before we head out to grab a beer
>grab the controller, start jumping around
>jump into water to test if MC can swim
>get eaten
jesus FUCK it startled me
>>336764062shutup
>>336764184
Uh you don't get to bring attitude.
>>336762423
>Chasing a deer
>It goes near a river and starts drinking
>Kill it
>Go to skin it
>ALLIGATOR ATTACK
>>336764062
yeah he is pretty bigfaggot.
>>336764118
Before beds it was terrifying
>>336727951
Playing Just Cause 2 I swam as deep as I could for like 5 minutes. Didnt reach a bottom. The screen was shaking red like I was about to die but I wasnt losing any health. Tried to swim back up but noped the fuck out
>>336764136
>tfw there's a part of the game where you're forced to take a quick swim through dark, murky water and you have to be quick about it or the fish will get you
I'm fucking sweating just thinking about it.
>>336724898
>playing elite dangerous
>play for weeks to earn my sol permit
>get it
>go to our solar system
>the Sun is black
>This huge black abyss in front of me
It was a glitch, it filled me with lovecraftian horror.
>>336763764
so basically you're saying that It Follows is a really difficult film for you to watch
>>336764770
Holy shit.
Space Engine.
Zooming in on a blackhole make me feel nauseous.
In a similar vein to OP (in terms of flying to the point where you can't see the map), has anyone ever accidentally/intentionally used glitches that make you jump super fucking high?
Super Mario Sunshine had one. However, you can actually go so high that Mario will hit the "camera" (skybox), and he'll have this look of intense pain on him as he falls.
When I watch a stream of Dark Souls or something, and the character is running up a stairway, the clumsy way he does not correctly lay his feet on the individual steps makes me intensely worried he will fall over and break his teeth.
>>336765202
same.
>>336725223
i never got past the mad dogg mission where he tries to kill himself, whenever it started he immediately jumped off the ledge
I don't have phobias but some games give me nausea for some reason. I played through borderlands and half way through I stopped playing because something about the visual aesthetic and desert environment just started to gross me out. can't bring myself to finish it.
human faces on bugs
>>336764770
rad as fuck
>>336724898
it could happen to you!
>>336756949
jesus christ no video game monster has given me more nightmares than this fuck busting in like the kool aid man
>>336756487
hope you weren't planning on stopping and using that save station
![AlienIsolationWallpaper_Phase-2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5lfmRWI.jpg "AlienIsolationWallpaper Phase-2[1]")
>>336756487
>Hell, the entire game
>>336763653
I fapped to this game.
Niggers
>>336764770
seems like the opposite feel I get from space games that let me go to the moon. Sure alienspace worlds are cool but there's something awesome to me about being on the friggin Moon.
and your experience does sound horrifying, the kind of joke a Souls game would pull
>>336727951
Holy hell, this.
But also just oceans in general, not just being underwater. I scared the shit out of myself trying to get the achievement on GTA 5 for being killed by sharks
>>336738974
That's not a phobia when it comes to EDF, because those spiders are a pain in the ass and very creepy.
When enemies in RPGs don't want to fight you but you have to fight them to progress the plot anyway. Two games have stopped me from playing because of this. Star Ocean 3: The rich guy you encounter on the planet at the beginning of the game starts pleading for his life after you get him down to low HP. Crono Cross: The bit where you have to go back to your home island afterthe body swap. I just can't bring myself to keep playing. The Baten Kaitos plot twist spooked me a bunch too, sort of a similar situation.
>>336739794
Did you ever play Demon's Souls? King of Storms or whatever it was called sounds right up your alley
Anything that comes out of the left field.
The prank calls from Sims 1 got me good.
I used to think space was really cool and exciting, but ever since I got Oculus rift and tried such demos as titans of space and exploring space I'm not fucking terrified of it, it's just such utter nothing that it's deadly, and there is a bunch of colossal balls there that are so huge, if I get in their vicinity I'll be sucked in and splatter against them. Although somehow this terror makes me want to go into space even more.
Celestial bodies and shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw_HKzo9Ync
The faux voices from 90s pc games creep me the FUCK out.
Like Phantasmagoria, harvestser, and I have no mouth and I must scream
>>336724898
These hands make me feel uneasy as fuck.
>>336759620
>playing MML for the first time
>exploring ruins, finding new areas
>suddenly this double nigger makes a reappearance beelining his way towards me with his exploding arms
Didn't play the game for a few days after that
>>336753330
>>336755515
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe56h5JNodQ
I guess just thinking about being in the game I'm currently playing.
Really think about the last game you were in.
Last one I was in was Doom. Fucking literal Demons everywhere all trying to kill you. Those demonic faces littering every wall. Blood and fire as far as you can see. Just sitting down and watching dead bodies as you hear some fucking beast somewhere around you. The fucking blue and red moving texture would freak me out if I saw a real structure with it.
Even Mario games. You have to hold you're breath underwater and even with all that cartoon lung capacity shit you're still gonna drown. Suffocating, panicking and finally blacking out as you you see your hand just barely within reach of one fucking coin. Last thing you hear is Bowser laughing at you as you drift off.
Nothing so far has really scared me that's similar to these others being posted, but that honestly is the closest to a phobia.
>>336724898
>Glitch under Stormwind
>everything is totally empty
Why is this so fucking unsettling for me?
>>336768636
Were those things ever explained? Do they create the currents?
>>336728672
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zyAVm0Dmls
This video actually scared me.
>>336731291
What's the problem with The Driver and normal way? Just learn to drive. AI will eventually fuck itself.
>>336771105
>it just fades in and out
i'm not even one of those deep sea pussies but that just rustled my jimmies.
>>336752402
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRgATG6PUA0
>>336734869
>>336750398
This!!!
Error messages that look something like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epENwYY4pB8
They make me feel really uneasy.
>>336770983
No they were not. But there was another colossal creature revealed living in a very thick mist, so maybe they're related. Nevertheless it's the lack of knowledge that makes Florian Triangle monster scary.
>>336768636
What the fuck? They had eyes in the anime?
PS 1 tech demo... never again!!
>>336771615
They did in manga as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe56h5JNodQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe56h5JNodQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe56h5JNodQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe56h5JNodQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe56h5JNodQ
Watch the whole thing and don't be a fucking bitch.
>>336771720
I guess I read too quickly, that's scary.
This fucker and when you get close from the end of the World in last day
The song and the environnement was creeping me hard
>>336754692
Fucking ubermorph in Dead Space 1 was legit the scariest part of that game.
I swear to god my testicles have only just returned down from my insides after playing amnesia for the first time hiding in a closet from one of the Karashians
>>336754446
>.gif
Oh you
If the Main character is not a white male I JUST can't and will not be able to play the game.
>>336724898
When I was younger, I remember I'd always shudder whenever I saw models or maps glitch out with loads of artifacts and shit. I wasn't really scared if it counts, but I always hated seeing them.
>>336724898
The water in GTA IV.
It's so dark and I keep thinking something's lurking in the depths of it.
>>336771774
WTF
WTF
WTF
WTF
>>336759319
The good news is most surface predators hunt near land and not in the middle of the Pacific
The bad news is you're many times more likely to swim near land than in the open ocean :^)
>>336761928ps3 games
pigs
I hate small bugs
These little shits made me stop playing HL like 10 minutes in, I just couldn't stand them anymore. To this day I refuse to pick it up again
>>336771774
FFFUUUUUUGGGGGG
>>336770029
are you me?
I constantly think about hellish it would be to be trapped in a video game.
I don't know why but I always imagine as if we were forced to pick a game to live in, and I always try to think of one that was populated with lively NPCs to make the world seem real, but no matter which game I think of, they all can't escape that emptiness and loneliness that makes me so anxious feeling
>>336760874
nonononononononononono
>>336764118
I used to have to run it with lowest view distance so I'd never really be able to find my way around. I would only play on peaceful but would still feel like there was someone or something out there near me.
>>336739794
You should play Xenoblade
Any place on Bionis where there's an open sky, you can see the glowing eyes of Mechonis
Body horror in general tends to get to me, especially with enemies that straddle the line between human and monster. Resident Evil and Parasite Eve come to mind.
When background music suddenly stop.
>>336760874
>the anglerfish
>the main characters in Finding Nemo ended up 13,120ft underwater by accident
What the fuck
>die in World of Warcraft
>everything is blue and black
>spooky ominous music starts playing
>look up in the sky
This shit SCARED THE FUCK out of me when I was younger and it still makes me feel uneasy
It was such an intensive not to die, never played those spooky undead fuckers because of their setting
>>336773843
holy shit I played wow for years and never bothered looking up
>>336773773
I bet it was a mistype of "angler fish"
>>336738638
Yeah it feels like gravity will turn off and you'll have nothing to hold onto. I guess more realistically a giant maw could open up in the sky and eat you.
>>336773098
You don't have to use them
>>336728672
I had a fear like this with wide open oceans and underwater but only with early 3D games and it varies from game to game too. Didn't feel anything for Aquas, Corneria or Zoness in Star Fox but this screenshot of Marine Fortress in Wave Race 64 still makes me a little anxious to look at.
It's weird because I also enjoyed the fuck out of screwing around in Wind Waker by sailing around and played the shit out of flight sims with scenarios only out in the ocean with no problems whatsoever. Wish I knew why and how this worked.
>>336774109
>HURR LOOK AT THIS SCREENSHOT
I'm fucking retarded.
Warframe stalker when he first came out.
unpredictable
Scaled with player status
went invisible
could not die 2 out of every 3 spawns
and onces he killed you you were were kicked out of the mission without
>>336773773
ignore this >>336773954
It's better to relate to a wider audiences. If they didn't they would have just google searched.
>>336773954
NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>336747626
Remember Halo 2s ghost of Lockout
I can't play Sims games with the aging turned on. I get attached to my characters and the prospect of them getting old and dying is really depressing for me.
after having a zoo run a float for a full 2 weeks irl and going into 5 mills in debt. The game start throwing some spooky shit at you.
>>336728918
I drove to Oakland yesterday and I remember looking across the passage to San Francisco. It felt odd, like the situation you described in Dark Souls 2. There's life going on over there -- there's a whole city still alive. Yet because I wasn't experiencing it and because I knew I wasn't going there, the city felt empty, like I was looking over at a partially loaded area.
Felt weird.
>>336774572
>The game start throwing some spooky shit at you.
Like what?
>>336727012
I went exploring Hyjal, edges of Tanaris, Old Ironforge (+ the hills around Ironforge) and under SW.
It's pretty funny how all of those could get you banned and it was pretty thrilling. Then one time I died in Hyjal (I think I went into the bottomless well) and could not get back because of wisp form. I thought I was completely boned since I couldn't ask for GM to resurrect me in fucking Hyjal.Then server reset came and I was resurrected at a nearby resurrection spirit
>>336724898
It freaks me out in games when you go to areas earlier than when you're supposed to go there, whether it be for story-related purposes or by just fucking around.
Pic related for example. I remember coming upon the area way before you're able to actually walk around there. You just enter, see this weird-looking place, and hear this music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psmAvWDwyHc
Really freaked me out. In a good way, though, love that type of shit.
>>336724898
Saints Row 2 made this shit even worse. There's small unmarked islands right out in the sea and it's unsettling as fuck.
Not to mention that random ass massive rabbit slowly rising up to the sea surface when you find it.
>>336765621
iirc he jumps before you can get to him if youve used a certain number of cheats in that playthrough
In GTAV I used mods to turn into a dolphin and go as far down into the middle of the ocean as I could and then turn into a human.
I almost had a fucking panic attack. My heart was fucking racing.So I made a video about ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lsy-pMuCGY
>>336761150
That freaked me out more than I expected.
>>336775359
Freaky
>>336775359
Nice work!
>>336775359
From the GTA Wiki:
"In the HD Universe, the bottom of the ocean does not exist."
>>336732681
What game?
If you make a minecraft world on the newest update and set the water level to be as high as possible then allow yourself to sink down, the game will spawn literally gigantic ghasts that scream twice as loud
>>336775359
GTA V has some spooky shit
>>336760874
>20,000 Leagues is about 69,000 miles
Does this mean to story isn't true?
>>336776112
Got a source on that, famalam?
Because it sounds horrifying
>never really scared by videogames
>jump scares only surprise me for half a second, as I process what is happening, then I am fine.
Not trying to sound like a badass, but games just cant scare me. I really really like dark atmospheres and used to play a lot of horror games, and I feel cheated that I dont get the same tense excitement out of them that others get.
How can I make myself scare easier /v/?
>>336776334
I'll take a screenshot.
It's pretty terrifying
>>336724898
The first zombie encounter on first Resident Evil scare the hell out of me, i regret staying up late to watch my brother playing it.
>>336752163
All these people sperging about skyboxes. I guess I just never got it.
For whatever reason this game gave me nightmares for weeks
>>336761928
Where all living matter and live essences is collected along side archives of change, evolutions, progress, experiences, etc
You guys are weird. Maybe it's the developer in me bout sometimes try to go out bounds especially if there's a landscape out of it. I once tried to go into space in Pilotwings 64. It frustrates me when I see a landmark I want to get to but can't because of barriers. o when ever someone i promoting a game and their like "you see that mountain? you can go there." I'm the type of people they're speaking to.
>>336751369
That's because you are breaking the physical laws of the game. If you somehow broke scientific laws you don't know what will happen. probably fall through the world too.
>>336771774
That game gives a good sense of falling
>>336761928
PS4's game library.
>>336776681
Can I interest you in a lineup of fine products costing $59.99 plus Season Pass?
>Play MCC
>Decide to walk around some maps from 1 2 and 3
>Them creepy sounds CE maps had.
>The lonely feeling halo2 maps had. Remembering 531 so pages (not games. Pages) of games now just empty maps
>Odd off feeling halo3 maps still have. Not just being empty but the mood. Sounds. Design. The maps are spooky AF
>>336776384
You need to get more immersed. You don't get scared because you don't feel personal danger.
VR can help you with that, as it does make you feel like you are in the game's world, in one of the demos when my submarine started sinking and cracks appeared on the windscreen I was absolutely terrified.
>>336765830
Literally my most terrifying experience I have had in video games was watching those things scuttling around in the darkness. Since the initial shock wore off, they don't scare me, but that first time tensed my entire body up for hours.
>>336775113
Holy fucking shit, I cannot believe someone else here has played this game.
To this day I have nightmares of that fucking slide level.
>>336776797
Still dont know why halo3 maps even when it was new felt haunting. Epitaph used to freak me out in forge or solo play. Some of the ambient sounds fucked with you.
Maybe its the empty almost dark setting they all have. Being forgotten areas. But something about halo3 makes me feel half those maps are cursed
>>336729164
wait a second... that car...
>>336776797
the creepy sounds were the OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4uVrq9P9kI&ab_channel=DaBlackSmokeMonster
reminds me of OG Xbox dashboard noise
https://youtu.be/uZW6BLqUSXE
Watch with no sound because the kids are annoying.
>playing gears of war
>Kill some locust thing
>Game glitches and his screaming head flys on screen all mashed up
>Sceam is loud and glitchy. Just a bloody head
>Cant find remote
>unplug console. Run to room. Nope the fuck to bed
Didnt turn on my 360 for days.
>fear of heights
Just this! I can't climb up buildings ingame. Like if there's a part I have to jump from one building to another I feel so unwell
It doesn't fucking matter what game whenever there is a mob that is avoidable or unavoidble install kill in open waters I shit my pants every fucking time.
Was there a reason from a game dev's perceptive to keep doing this?
>>336777308
There's some kind of thing that is the feeling you get when near a ledge. That "i could totally jump off" or "what if my body jumps off without my control "
Supposedly that feeling that you may jump off is somehow enforcing you to stay the fuck away from a place you could die from.
I played that frogger 3D adventure game and there was a level where you're going down a river and this fish chases you. It's a pretty big fish.
I remember getting far ahead of it and swimming deep down into a lagoon where there was like a pirate ship or something. I looked back up and could see in the far distance the dish swimming towards me.
Some creepy things can happen being a console bethesdafag
>unpatched Oblivion
>jumping on buildings in market district
>find a seam in the corner where a guard hut meets the wall
>slip through it so I'm "outside" the imperial city
>wander in low detail hell
Similar thing in Fallout 3 although I had a mission
>Crazy Wolfgang is the only guy who can repair things to 100%
>is not immortal
>spawns and regularly travels to hellish town bombarded by high level enemies
>suspect he's dead so I read up what I can do as a poor 360 peasant. Discover the game has a graveyard cell of sorts where it drops dead NPCs.
>Escape walls of Megaton
>entire world is invisible but dotted with splotches of grass
>wander over invisible hills for miles until I find a single square patch of rendered dirt
>see Wolfgang and other dead people, including my Dad
>kill wolfgang to rescue him
>fast travel back to real megaton, then Canturbury Commons
>He's Alive!
>>336777517
Exactly that is why I avoid 'free' ledges
>>336777235
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpipsIIGp-8
>drive doing sick tricks and shit
>crash and fall somewhere
>maps are known for it's elevation and terrain
>completely flat lands in the distance
>drive to it
>music cuts off and I'm ass blasted to the moon at rocket jet speed
>>336761150
Nonononono
As a kid we had a boat and used to go around the local archipelago durring summer. It was great but I always had this phobia that some huge sea monster comes and swallows the whole boat. This freaks me the fuck out.
Console start-up screens, especially GC and PS2. Anyone else?
>>336777894
>the noise the ps2 made when it rejected a disc
>>336752402
>>I actually kind of wish there were some horror storiescreepypastathat used this
I was once in the process of writing a creepypasta about an Autistic kid becoming fascinated with glitches and breaking games with ROM hacking, then selling his fucked games as legitimate copies.
It was based on my own experience with hacking and glitches and some other stuff I researched, so at the very least it would've been accurate
>>336752402
Ice cream? god I love ice cream!
>>336777963
>the noise the gameboy made when you take out the cartage while the game is still running
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7jly3EE1aQ
>>336726008
>Zero's last two missions on the first try. On PC, using keyboard only.
This fucking infuriated me as a kid.
>sweaty hands
>>336778369
>camera guy still standing on the ledge looking down
jesus man
>>336777364
That thing and the shark from B&K still scare the shit out of me
>>336775274
Glitch
If the player uses the "pedestrians attack each other" cheat before this mission, Madd Dogg will immediately jump after the opening cutscene, making this mission impossible to complete. If it happens, the only way to fix it is by using a save game editor such as hmvartak's online glitch repair tool, or to start a new game (Note: Do not use cheats that affect the gameplay up to this mission). This is one of a few missions to not work correctly if too many cheats are used, the others being Burning Desire, Tanker Commander, 555 We Tip and, in some cases, Photo Opportunity. Although, players have reported that they suffered this glitch without using any cheats.
You wake up in A ifdmekd
Cicidmd
Cum
>>336779173
Gd spok
>>336774572
>some spooky shit at you.
like?
>>336729069
>>336728918
>>336737061
I think you got agoraphobia senpai, I fucking have it and it pisses me off. I used to have trouble looking up at the sky
I avoided the room with the evil piano in Super Mario 64,
>>336759242
This
When I was a kid I always closed and covered my eyes when I got too close to these mofos.
>the entire universe vanishing to a pinprick as you go into a black hole in Space Engine
Possibly even worse than...
>>336734613
Nope
>playing spider-man on the PS1
>playing the level where you have to take out the bomb.
>land in a room with a black pad.
>spiderman immediately starts dancing
>game instantly crashes when dance finishes.
>I restart and it happens again.
>avoid that room like the plague
>>336779798
Oh yeah, that freaked me out as a kid, too
>>336780345
...The universal border.
It's just totally freaky, a seemingly endless universe and then just a wall of complete darkness.
>>336781169
Something similar to this really exists, theres a straight up real void in space where there is absolutely nothing at all
>>336781263
1 hydrogen atom per cubic metre isn't nothing!
>>336781302
You wish there were hydrogen atoms there, but there isn't even that.
here's another one for all the ocean lovers
>>336781362
How can they tell?
>>336728672
I´m currently at that quest where you sail out to the sea with jen and have to dive under. But i´m scared.
>>336781412
>that fucking island in the north west of the map that EMPs your plane when fly over to it
>>336724898
man, from now on i'm going to hide eldritch terrors behind the skybox of any game i work on
>>336730367
>it's a "run along the tracks before a train gets you" level
Why is this terrifying shit so prevalent in games that aren't designed to be terrifying?
>>336782159
>constant irrational fear of this happening in Space Engine
>>336737954
THIS
Fuck me easter eggs are fucking spooky just in existing
>>336762153
Underrated post
remember the windows 3D maze screensaver? you could change what the floor/walls looked like and someone changed both to the hallucinogenic one. it's hard to explain but I felt so uncomfortable watching it
>>336782273
>sitting there looking out at the thousands of stars making a blanket across your view
>see a giant tentacle waving around
>from your perspective it looks like the stars are little drops of rain suspended in the air and the tentacle is just a few feet away because of it's tremendous size
>going towards it
No.
>>336758028
Spammed VATS like a motherfucker.
>>336724898
Pretty much this
Windows in horror games.
Fuck me sideways I can't stand them ever since I played resident evil nemesis and this happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6e4uElYPyQ
>>336778369
>>336778574
He has a parachute.
>>336738092
how far did you go? Because about 8 kilometers out your engines shut down, even planes fall out of the sky
>>336776314
Jesus, this again.... It's the distance travelled, it means they travelled several times around the world, under the sea. Nothing to do with depth.
>>336772749
This, also the fact that boats have a high chance of spawning where your camera isn't looking, so if you rotate it to look behind you, there's a high chance you'll be rammed by a boat that came from nowhere. I hated the water in this game...
This big fucker used to get me lads. Whenever I used to go to the Geinlika to Jew some sources, I was always scared I'd turn around straight into it and get fucked up.
Was nice to finally beat it though
imagine walking into a room and seeing everyone coming out of a T pose
>>336772850
The good news is that almost all surface predators won't eat humans unless they mistake them for something else
>>336786095
fuck that
>>336761928
The tootlings of eldritch beings.
>>336786631
Same goes for underwater ones, sharks only attack humans when they think it's a seal.
I have a fear of heights when I play games, like inside the cathedral in anor londo in ds1 when you're on the ceiling rafters and knives are being thrown at you.
>>336769824
The sound that comes on when you fall in this game reminds so much of 'nightmare noises' before you wake up.
>>336729058
I never fail to kek at this
>>336761928
(You)
>>336784734
Pretty sure he got knocked the fuck out
>>336734869
I never got far into the water in Half Life 2 because of that moment during the teleportation.
Only just to escape the antilons for a brief moment.
>>336727365
You'd have a lot of fun playing Metal Gear Solid 3
>>336724898
Mario 64 Water level
With the eel at the bottom
Couldn't do it
Dad had to do it
Same with Deadhand in OoT
I was fucking terrified of Windows startup / shutdown sound as a kid. I even went as far as turning off sound and leaving the room until computer turned off.
Thank God newer versions don't have sound.
2D models that always face the camera in 3d games have always spooked the fuck outta me for reasons I have no idea, street lamps and bushes are usually the worst offenders.
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