I still can't play Doom3 even though I'm 21 now although, I can manage FEAR, Quake4, amnesia, etc absolutely fine. I think its the combination of pitch black and enclosed spaces that gets me. Cant do swimming in deep water either unless I can see the bottom, even if I know its perfectly safe.
My girlfriend is terrified of spiders, so I made the spiders in Minecraft look like giant wasps with no wings that hover a little of the floor.
Sadly, due to the way the game renders the occulsion of shadows and water, the legs are still visible when there is water behind the "wasp" or you are close enough to see the "wasp's" shadow.
But all spiders in Australia are deadly. But then so are all the snakes, the jellyfish, the crocodiles, the sharks, the seashells fer chrissake, and probably that half-a-housebrick that's lying in the gutter up ahead. The place'll even try to bake you to death in the desert. Never has there been a country that wants you dead half as much as Australia. I have no idea how its inhabitants make it to adulthood.
While reading the article I wanted to scream 'AMEN BROTHER!!' but realised that would be silly. Either way I completely agree with the whole thing. Those 'creatures' scare the living everything outta me, pretty much everyone has some kind of irrational fear I guess, even Indiana Jones!!
Originally Posted by Dylan Moran It’s about three quarters of a mile away from the surface of the sun. I’ve seen insects walking around with knee pads. It’s not supposed to be inhabited! And, when they’re not all frying themselves outside, they fling themselves into the sea, which is inhabited almost exclusively by things designed to kill you. Sharks, jelly fish, swimming knives, everything.
I would have to agree with the swimming in deep water. Just gives the feeling of paranoia, even whilst playing a game where the worst thing that will happen is me reloading!
But I think removing the things that are meant to scare you from the game just reduce the entertainment factor from the game, even if it is giant hairy spiders... :O I mean my friend always ends up in hysterics at me while I am busy screaming at something that happened unexpectedly :P
I'm freaking terrified of a combination of dark and confined spaces. I hardly managed to finish the cradle/orphanage level of thief: deadly shadows. I can't play dead space either. Couldn't get past chapter 3; just couldn't.
My heights issue kicked in crossing the bridge section in hl2 Highway 17 i ended up turning the graphics to minimum for a while, made it a bit more palatable.
I understand people who can't stand the mere thought of spiders in their imminent vicinity.
But i'm not one of them, i take the battle to them! eight legs?
makes a nice goo-star when my foot retracts from the surface the creeper was sitting on.
my fear is far worse...
I have issues with kids...
( and no, i don't run screaming and paniced around the mall/store/street whenever i see a brat )
The kids i fear are just like the name states, the ones like F.E.A.R. or The Ring..
One especially haunts my very soul, the child from the japanese version of Dark Water, from the elevator scene... uhff, just thinking about it makes me itch....
I don't do spiders, I don't do underwater sections, and I don't do large amounts of dark lit by a single shoulder-lamp. I got Facehugged exactly once in the first AvP and never went back. I'll expend entire loads of ammo in the hope that whatever's underwater dies somewhere in the midst of it all. Darkened rooms get filled with grenades, black Headcrabs get shot with whole clips even after they're dead. There's a spider in Outland that's as big as a house and lives in a convenient dip so that it appears out of nowhere just in time for all the skin on your body to decide to crawl off of your bones. One of my most nightmarish moments on board the UNN VonBraun is being stuck in a BRM with a spider at the entrance, being re-created and dying over and over...
I think I'll go and play something exceptionally cheery now.
Originally Posted by steveo_mcg My heights issue kicked in crossing the bridge section in hl2 Highway 17 i ended up turning the graphics to minimum for a while, made it a bit more palatable.
Same here and some of the high bits of Portal 2 as well.
Originally Posted by Autti Phil im Australian and you just get used to it. Sure everything wants you dead, but it's just like L4D, it doesn't mean you don't put up a fight.
Yah right, like if we didnt know what is piloting you...
Anything that leaps at my face gets a somewhat negative and/or hostile response. Yes, this includes spiders but is not limited to them.
Headcrabs in HL2 I have a particular hatred for but the one that generates the most extreme response? Facehuggers in AVP *shudder*
One of those things leaps at me and I'm likely to be running backwards screaming "DIE YOU MULTI LEGGED, JUMPING FREAK!" while emptying an entire clip in its direction as well as a couple of grenades and then burning what's left when it stops moving, just to be sure. Then maybe using another grenade. And setting light to it again. And put a couple of AP rounds in it just in case. All of this while staying safely out of pounce range of the disgusting little vermin.
The first time I was gotchered by one of them in AVP2 I ended up flat on my back on the floor as I recolied from the screen so much that the chair went over backwards and me with it. I also damaged the keyboard and ripped the mouse out of the back of the PC (I didn't let go of it as I went over). They absolutely terrify me - face-humping, grotesque things. Which means that I terminate them with EXTREME prejudice and there is definitely no such thing as overkill where these feckers are concerned. When what's left is in bits and mostly ash then it's safe to jump up and down and/or urinate on what's left.
I burn through a lot of ammo when those suckers are around as well as literally being in a nervous sweat, heart pounding etc.
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ReplySpiders? Woah!!!
Sadly, due to the way the game renders the occulsion of shadows and water, the legs are still visible when there is water behind the "wasp" or you are close enough to see the "wasp's" shadow.
I think I have a screenshot somewhere
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5645/20110216231441.png
http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/9596/minecraftbee.png
This! Unless I KNOW that there's nothing down there I just can't shake the bloody feeling that something might pop up and take a bite
The water level in the original half life :shudder:
Clearly, you have mere minutes to live. Mind that toothy thing that's about to drop onto your shoulder!
Ohhhh dear.
BANTER TIME!
But I think removing the things that are meant to scare you from the game just reduce the entertainment factor from the game, even if it is giant hairy spiders... :O I mean my friend always ends up in hysterics at me while I am busy screaming at something that happened unexpectedly :P
But i'm not one of them, i take the battle to them! eight legs?
makes a nice goo-star when my foot retracts from the surface the creeper was sitting on.
my fear is far worse...
I have issues with kids...
( and no, i don't run screaming and paniced around the mall/store/street whenever i see a brat )
The kids i fear are just like the name states, the ones like F.E.A.R. or The Ring..
One especially haunts my very soul, the child from the japanese version of Dark Water, from the elevator scene... uhff, just thinking about it makes me itch....
I think I'll go and play something exceptionally cheery now.
Same here and some of the high bits of Portal 2 as well.
Even the sonic the hedgehog ones? I can understand that I suppose.
The sound of bad guys in minecraft really freaks me out, and so does getting lost underground.
Yah right, like if we didnt know what is piloting you...
... http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/9664/spiderpilotinghuman.jpg
Found this some time back, definitely not one for the arachnophobic.
Loom
Headcrabs in HL2 I have a particular hatred for but the one that generates the most extreme response? Facehuggers in AVP *shudder*
One of those things leaps at me and I'm likely to be running backwards screaming "DIE YOU MULTI LEGGED, JUMPING FREAK!" while emptying an entire clip in its direction as well as a couple of grenades and then burning what's left when it stops moving, just to be sure. Then maybe using another grenade. And setting light to it again. And put a couple of AP rounds in it just in case. All of this while staying safely out of pounce range of the disgusting little vermin.
The first time I was gotchered by one of them in AVP2 I ended up flat on my back on the floor as I recolied from the screen so much that the chair went over backwards and me with it. I also damaged the keyboard and ripped the mouse out of the back of the PC (I didn't let go of it as I went over). They absolutely terrify me - face-humping, grotesque things. Which means that I terminate them with EXTREME prejudice and there is definitely no such thing as overkill where these feckers are concerned. When what's left is in bits and mostly ash then it's safe to jump up and down and/or urinate on what's left.
I burn through a lot of ammo when those suckers are around as well as literally being in a nervous sweat, heart pounding etc.
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