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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2015 17:56:34 GMT -5
Seeing this as a kid fucked me up. True. It's probably a little inappropriate for a child to see a guy who's so well-hung.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 0:08:36 GMT -5
I know Quake isn't exactly supposed to be family-friendly entertainment, but it was kinda too action-y and over-the-top for me to find it scary. Quad damaging everything into a fine mist and defeating The Black Goat of the Woods With a Thousand Young by means of telefragging kinda take the spook factor out of the game, even if there's jump scares to be had. Not the soundtrack, though. I think Reznor outdid himself a little with the music.
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Post by Lash on Aug 2, 2015 0:30:59 GMT -5
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Aug 2, 2015 2:55:58 GMT -5
I forgot this. Not sure why it just jumped into my head all of a sudden. I couldn't play video games at night for years. Mind you I was like 6, but watching this video, that music is kind of creepy even now. This is exactly the kind of game that would have traumatized me as a kid with the gore, those sounds and music, and what with being based on a horror movie and all.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Aug 2, 2015 3:25:16 GMT -5
Well and a lot of it was so confusing and alien to me. It wasn't a side scroller, the game didn't explain a damn thing before allowing you to get shot up. And my Dad never liked it, so I never really could watch him play it like he did Alien 3. And I finally understand the title screen. It's a thermal view of New York, but I'll be damned if that made any sense to me as a kid.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Aug 2, 2015 3:42:43 GMT -5
I watched some game over compilations and realized that Jafar looks quite creepy in the Disney Aladdin game. I think that we have this game, but I don't remember Jafar's face leering at you in the game over. If I forgot it, well, I made up for it by being a little creeped out by it now.
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Post by mynameistravis on Aug 2, 2015 5:06:33 GMT -5
Link's Awakening was definitely the one Zelda game that was weird in a creepy way. It's difficult to describe. The telephones found ringing in quiet, vacant rooms always made me uncomfortable on some level. I love Link's Awakening with all my heart and I speed run it to this day, but it always freaked me out how everything was just a dream. I remember beating the game and thinking that I just wasted all that time saving no one. Still an excellent game in the series though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2015 5:09:51 GMT -5
Speaking of Zelda, 7 pages into this thread and I'm the first one to mention everyone's favorite E-rated rapist-mummies? Come on, guys, your creepypasta-fu is getting WEAAAAAAK.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 6:31:01 GMT -5
007: A View to a Kill (MSX)
That music scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. So much so that it made me saw nightmares for a few years. That slender looking Bond surely didn't help matters, and the fact that I didn't know Bond being a good guy at the time.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2015 17:55:46 GMT -5
Wow, that game looks absolutely nothing like the movie. No Christopher Walken. No Grace Jones. No Duran Duran theme song!!! Unforgivable.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 23:51:05 GMT -5
I just remembered HOW badly Super Metroid scared me. How badly? I wasn't just scared of the monsters. I was scared of ACCIDENTALLY PULLING THE TRIGGER because it could open a hatch door by accident and little-me was scared something could come through after me. Thank goodness Metroid Fusion was around when I was a kid, because in that one a certain enemy actually COULD follow you through the hatch doors!
On the subject of things that traumatized me as an ADULT, I had to close Papers Please and take a few minutes to breathe after the first suicide bombing event in Papers Please. That was when the game graduated from "cheeky gallows-humor satire of Soviet-bloc-styled dystopias" to "dead fucking serious".
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Post by strizzuth on Aug 15, 2015 20:17:08 GMT -5
So when I was somewhere between 10 and 12, my family got a computer with a CD ROM drive. The first game I got was Sim City CD, because what could be better for a kid that age? It's totally harmless, right? Well I started checking out the demos on the disc and in addition to The Lost Vikings I also found a demo for Alone in the Dark. I don't think I should have to say why that scared me.
But you know what else it had? Lord of the Rings. That's right, the clunky, awful Interplay action RPG that nobody remembers. But I remember it. You know why? The game is relatively quiet so I had the volume up nice and loud. I'm just wandering around, seeing what's up in the town when suddenly this loud ass wolf howl comes out of nowhere and I slam the power button as hard as I can. I couldn't play Sim City again for a week.
Then I got Myst. You know how when you first come to the island, if you open the red and blue books you get those staticy videos of someone trying to talk to you? Yeah, nightmare fuel for childhood me.
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Post by blackdrazon on Aug 17, 2015 12:19:18 GMT -5
People were mentioning realistic screams on the first page, so I'm going to throw in Rola's scream from Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge, which is this sharp, piercing voice sample that always shook me.
Something that always made me laugh, though, was that "Rola's Scream" got an independent voice credit in the end credits, separate from the other voices? Damn straight you give her special credit for that freaky effect.
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Post by 90sgamer92 on Aug 17, 2015 15:44:18 GMT -5
It didn't traumatize me but there was a stealth section in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone where you had to avoid detection by walking on top of bookcases and rafters while some guy was looking for you. I recall that game having a quite spooky athmosphere as you spent most of the time alone in a gray&dark castle (as PS1 couldn't handle having many characters in the game world at once). Levels/sections like that always put me on the edge, same goes for being chased by a powerful enemy.
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Post by raph on Aug 17, 2015 16:04:04 GMT -5
It didn't traumatize me but there was a stealth section in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone where you had to avoid detection by walking on top of bookcases and rafters while some guy was looking for you. I recall that game having a quite spooky athmosphere as you spent most of the time alone in a gray&dark castle (as PS1 couldn't handle having many characters in the game world at once). Levels/sections like that always put me on the edge, same goes for being chased by a powerful enemy. Oh, I remember that. Worse, at least to me, was the cellar section where at a specific point Peeves will jump out and laugh at you. Since everywhere else in the game is so empty you were completely unprepared for it. Also the way Peeves is introduced; you just walk out of a door and there is that uncanny-valley-bad-graphics-blue-demented-joker-grinning goblin. Really, that whole game was quite creepy, just a series of empty corridors, chambers and cellars you get locked in. But it was funny how every time you died, Harry just woke up in the hospital wing with a nurse telling him off. Even if losing to fricken Voldemort.
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