/og/ - Other Games

I used to watch my dad play video games. I would keep tabs on his health, tell him when it was low, point out an item he went past, whatever. He played a lot of Silent Hill.
This was the first monster I saw that actually terrified me.

>>2702
Forgot to mention my age. I was probably something like 8.

Anyways, this is The Second Thing That Actually Scared me.

I'm not scared of static in general, but I'm sometimes afraid I'll just hear it out of nowhere. I'm still scared of the radio animation in the save slot.

my top pick is these fucking assholes

there so fast and brutal and downright savage. i was horribly disturbed when they kidnapped makar, and to this day they still scare me.

fuck these guys, i swear.

honorable mention to every other terrifying enemy in the legend of zelda series, and iron maidens from resident evil 4.

I can't say I had a lot of trauma as a kid. My parents refused to let me peek at rated R movies and the one time we went over to their friend's house I wasn't allowed to watch their friends play Resident Evil. The only thing vaguely mature is that my dad played Parasite Eve and I loved watching him play games. I'd watched him play Diablo since I was tiny (I guess I wasn't a fan of the Butcher boss). I absolutely loved Parasite Eve enough to write a book about the mutant rat enemy from it in 3rd grade (I wanted one so badly)!

About the only time things started to bug me is when I got on my own. I loved RE4 but those damn Regenerators and Iron Maidens AUGH by this time I was at least 18. Granted the time it got me the worst was completely self-inflicted and I ended up getting freaked out over nothing.

More recently there was this horrible thing from Zelda. I've never played this game before, I walk up to the hand (which I didn't know was a hand) to smack at it, cue screaming as it grabs my face. This thing might have creeped me out if I played this game as a kid. Damn Yume Nikki monster….

I had a few nightmares about the Re-deads in Ocarina of Time when I was a kid. I used to sneak out of bed to watch my older brothers play Resident Evil, but it never bothered me at all. I think it's because they were really good at the game.
I did once have a breakdown when they played House of the Dead on the Dreamcast, but it wasn't because the monsters scared me. The game gad a huge-ass seizure warning before it started and I didn't understand that it meant "SOME of the people who are in the minority of people who get seizures MIGHT get a seizure from this game" and instead I thought it meant "IF YOU PLAY THIS GAME YOU AND EVERYONE IN THE ROOM WILL DIE"
I tried to unplug their lightguns and eject the disk and Mom had to calm me down and explain that our brains weren't gonna explode.

I was watching my sister play a game called "Clock Tower 3" when I was younger. You basically try to run from killers, anyways, this one character in the game freaked me out when I was younger. I just thought he was really freaky.

He basically tries to shoot poisonous gas and acid all over you. Or just try to whack you with his stick. I liked his voice though, he sounded pretty cool.

But yea, he scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.

Here's a little video showing him in action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Eu2u_cSVs

Remember the factory are in Beneath a Steel Sky? Remember what happens if you open the reactor door when not wearing the rad-suit?

Now that event really scared the sh*t out of me… I totally expected an "Access denied, authorization required." message, or something like that. Oh well, playing a game around 2:00 AM that requires common sense is never a good idea. (Or at least it wasn't back then when I used to get up at six.)

The Neverhood terrified me as a kid and holds a special place in my mind as an immensely traumatizing experience. Particularly the exterior walk-around segments with the pitch-black sky and no music, just ambient droning.

But there were other scary parts. Like the radio tower playing all these malformed, demented-sounding tunes.

Then there was the drain at the bottom of the lake.

Oh, and Klogg's face was really scary, too. Not to mention his laugh at the title screen and when you turned to face his castle in one area:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6MhIee3t4

Jesus Christ, how horrifying. It would be so spooky if someone played it in my neighbourhood in the dead of night.

It did not help that I played the game in Russian, and wasn't able to understand ANYTHING. It was just me - a 7-8 year-old kid - in a menacingly empty, bizarre world filled with odd… uh, entities, where nothing made sense. And the game was not even intended to be spooky.

>>2701
Thankfully Black Mesa Source made ichtyosaurs a joke..

>>2702
They're in SH2 as well, they walk on the underside of floor grates with their "hands."

>>2707

I'm sorry, but that shit is hysterical. It's been like five minutes now since I've stopped watching the video and it's still making me chuckle.

>>2707
Are you sure this game is horror because this is pretty damn comedy.

I have hydrophobia because of this fucker. Fuck, i hate him SO MUCH.

>>2742

Op here, I knew I wasn't the only one…

Dogs jumping through the window in Resident Evil 1.

>>2729
Who knows, the game had some goofy parts in it aswell.

My mom never really cared about the ESRB and stuff when I was a kid, so when I was 8 she got me .Hack//Infection since I liked the girl on the cover. As soon as I got to the dungeon I was so scared I had to wait for my mom to finish her shower so she could sit with me.
I also remember being scared of Redeads and skeletons. Whenever I did a new game of Ocarina of Time I would be so fucking terrified of the skeletons coming out and even know as soon as the sun drops in that game, best believe I get my Ocarina out at the speed of light. Redeads I couldn't do. COULDN'T. My friend had to kill them for me as I hid behind a pillow. In general any spider monsters scare the shit out of me as well since I have SEVERE Arachnophobia. Which is kinda ironic since Zelda games have a shit ton of spider bosses. I always need someone else to do those for me. I just can't handle it.

Ugh I also remember my baby sitter playing Silent Hill 3 one day and I've always been afraid of clowns so the instant I saw it took place at a carnival I got fucking terrified.

I am the biggest weenie horror fanatic around.

>>2756
Ha, I used to be mortified of Zombies and Skeletons as a kid too.

Dude, this fucker used to scary me SO MUCH when i was younger.

>>2758

OH, yes, that one gave me nightmares too.

THESE MOTHERFUCKERS.

Imagine running out of battery and having little health. I hid in a fucking closet in the game and I didn't even know if the ghosts could go through walls and get me, all I could do was sit there in the corner of the closet and pray to God the ghosts don't find me… I luckily found a way to exit that game and pick another one…

>>2773
oh maaaaaaaaan that game. what a blast from the past.

>>2758

this fucker single-handledy made zombies look scary and menacing back in the day instead of the massive cannon fodders they are today

Card games (and games with RNG in general) make me mad as RNG always seems to be against me. So frustating when a cannon-fodder grunt takes out several of your best units due to RNG.

End-bosses that have overpowered moves or read your inputs. * shudder *

First nintendies game I ever played and I played it constantly. I always looked away for this part though