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Post by cambertian on Jul 17, 2015 10:26:37 GMT -5
The Neo Cortex faces that would pop up and yell at you in between levels in Crash Bandicoot were absolutely terrifying (to a very young me). It prevented me from playing the third game for a brief period of time, though afterwards it became one of the first games I ever completed!
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Post by Joseph Joestar on Jul 17, 2015 10:36:19 GMT -5
Bad ends in games or graphic game over scenes always tended to bother me as well, and still do. One good example is the game over text reels in Warhawk, which were excessively morbid and dark, and probably indicative of some mental issues in those involved in the game.
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Post by JDarkside on Jul 17, 2015 10:39:47 GMT -5
Nah. I liked dinosaurs. It may have been Wielder, I think.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 10:56:43 GMT -5
Nah. I liked dinosaurs. It may have been Wielder, I think. Funny, for me it was Mr. Patch---his weirdly amorphous balloon-nature and sheer size kinda scared little-me. Not so much when I figured out all I needed to do was shoot his patches, though.
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Post by Snarboo on Jul 17, 2015 10:58:46 GMT -5
I was an easily frightened child, so pretty much everything scared me, but two specific instances come to mind!
Stage 3 in Shinobi III:
The entire stage is pretty freaky, but the second half takes the cake, as you're constantly being chased by a monster in the background. The stage boss is pretty gruesome, too.
Stage 8 in Thunder Force IV:
Not only does the stage actively squirm and pulse, but the stage boss is one of the most inexplicably bizarre things I've seen in a shmup.
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Post by Weasel on Jul 17, 2015 11:06:05 GMT -5
I recall running away, screaming, the first time I played the arcade Block Out. I wasn't expecting to see the big grey face of the Block Master.
I know, kinda lame compared to these other things, but come on, I was like four years old...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 11:30:15 GMT -5
Speaking of giant killer faces, I don't know which version of Andross in Star Fox 64 was worse---the Bolse-route Andross that turned into a giant, angry roboskull when you blew up his first form, or the Area 6-route Andross that turned into a brain-and-eyeballs when you blew up his first form, and said brain form could molest your Arwing with tentacles and distort your view in the process, implying some sort of horrifically personal telepathic assault too. Auuuuuuuugh.
Secret of Evermore. I never actually played it because the screenshots of that one giant insect monster with a Venus flytrap ribcage were bad enough. I know I mentioned 2300 A.D. from Chrono Trigger earlier, but there was ONE thing about that era I did not like---the Mutant enemies from the Labs/city ruin areas. They stuck you with some kind of proboscis that was clearly draining your blood and not just some ambiguous 'energy'---aaaaaaaaugh! It just disturbed me a lot for some reason given that despite such horrors as an on-screen Lovecraftian apocalypse and what happened to Lucca's mom the game's violence was pretty bloodless and cartoony. Also, the intro sequence to Starcraft: Brood War. "WHO'S IN CHARGE HERE?! WHERE IS THE AIR SUPPORT?!"
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Post by Allie on Jul 17, 2015 12:19:49 GMT -5
The "BOING" death noise from the NES version of Kung-Fu.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 12:28:37 GMT -5
I had this friend as a kid who was a huge Squaresoft fanboy. One day he showed me a lesser-known game of theirs called Parasite Eve. Rat. RAT. RAT.Also, in good ol' Defender, I got freaked out the first time the aliens managed to abduct all the humanoids on the map and make the planet blow up---ironically, I actually preferred fighting in deep space more since I could focus exclusively on gunning down aliens. Also, the Mutant ships were scary with their aggressive, jittery movement patterns---the old Atari graphics did a good job of making it very clear that these things were not natural. On the subject of Atari games, THE END.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 17, 2015 14:13:53 GMT -5
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Post by bakudon on Jul 17, 2015 14:22:29 GMT -5
Terranigma, where the ”genius” plans on granting mankind immortality... as zombies, and only to select few. That, and the zombie-filled ghost town.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Jul 17, 2015 21:43:23 GMT -5
Bad ends in games or graphic game over scenes always tended to bother me as well, and still do. One good example is the game over text reels in Warhawk, which were excessively morbid and dark, and probably indicative of some mental issues in those involved in the game. I agree, though I forget a lot of the specifics. I vaguely recall implied cannibalism in one of them? Brrr. It's funny how some scary things don't bother me as much now, but innocuous things in the wrong context can freak you right out. I was a skittish and sheltered child, and my grasp on reality versus fiction wasn't developed yet. I think that the first Tomb Raider game is a good example with its 3D graphics and lighting providing some excellent atmosphere. A game where you truly go into the unknown...
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Post by personman on Jul 18, 2015 0:30:52 GMT -5
I was a little odd when I was a kid where I'd be laughing at Silent Hill and Resident Evil (though who couldn't laugh at the latter with that voice acting) but the game that scared me out of my mind and gave me nightmares for months was Earthbound and it was all thanks to Threed. Now there is alot of subtle things about Earthbound that one could find unsettling and creepy but at the time I really couldn't pick up on most of them. There was just something really unnerving about the atmosphere of Threed that made me lose it constantly. Strangely the place that scared me the most? That hint guy way off in the corner of the town, who is in a big empty house behind a stand booth with this theme playing (if I remember right):
I can't exactly put it into words, but it just flipped me out. It wouldn't be till last year that I would pick that game up again and beat it.
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Post by tokenflipguy on Jul 18, 2015 1:37:45 GMT -5
THIS used to scare the shit out of me as a 5 year old. My older brother would shows me this on purpose, and I've no idea why I was scared of it. I think maybe the sirens or a huge plane that looks like it's gonna kill you.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2015 1:41:03 GMT -5
The xenomorph at the end of Conker's Bad Fur Day. I read a lot of gaming magazines as a kid, allowing me to keep up with games I wasn't allowed to play. I was also easily frightened (Gremlins was the reason I couldn't take showers for a few years, dead serious). So, when I saw a picture of a goddamn xenomorph in Conker's, I had nightmares for a few weeks. It got worse when they started advertising Alien movies on TV. Those things are terror incarnate already, but to my tiny child mind and sheltered living, it was the worst thing I could possibly imagine. Oh man, trust me when I say there could have been much, much worse stuff in that game: The whole D-Day level in Conker was horrific for me. They DID try to make it somewhat comedic, but when your source material is Saving Private Ryan you can only make it so funny.
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