Getting older and turning into a pansy..

Horror games? Pffft! I've got you all beaten on this one!

I get genuinely scared playing Splinter Cell and hanging off a ledge were an enemy can clearly see me etc....
 
Can't say they bother me that much to be honest. I think I am made jump more in games where I "care" more. Do you know what I mean? Like say when you are playing something as non scarey as a counter strike match online. There have been times where I was so alert and protective of my health literally eyes wide open "in the zone" on the screen during an important match, and then suddenly someone pops out from behind a corner or something and you literally jump, as in physical body jump and jerk as you weren't expecting it and you were so in that zone of staying alive in a game. Compare that to single player horror games...yeah they are designed to make you jump and stuff, but you can always use continues to restart etc so I don't "care" as much. Hmm...hard to explain.
 
I'm with all of you wimps, too. I can handle FEAR - just about - although I don't really want to play it because it's so scary. Amnesia is completely different. I really, really want to play it through and I refuse to play it any way other than the devs intended (darkness, headphones etc) but it's just way too scary. I thought Silent Hill was scary back in the day, but hell, I finished the bugger! I doubt I'll ever finish Amnesia.

I find games to be scarier than films because they're so immersive. You feel like it's actually you that the scary stuff is happening to. When watching a film there's absolutely no threat whatsoever, and thus no film has ever so much as made me jump.

I don't enjoy intensity so much any more, either. I don't find Dead Space particularly scary, but knowing that something could jump out at me at pretty much any second, all the time, is just too draining. I think it's related to being scared but not being scared exactly. Whatever it is, I don't like it. I doubt I'll ever finish Dead Space either as a result, which is a shame because it's a great game.
 
The ones that have consistently made me feel on edge were defintely Fear, the Condemned games - I must get round to playing the first on the PC, Doom 3 and Dead Space to a limited degree. There must be others that I have forgotten, maybe someone will happen to mention one or two in their posts. Oh, must not forget Amnesia, only at the beginning but already I can tell this is going to rank highly in comparion with all the others.
 
First time round Doom 3 had me taking breaks to let the ticker catch up :) Odd as i was raised on Doom and Quake.

Only other game to cause me so much RL discomfort is Eve Online. Making a run for it across dangerous space with no backup would make me pucker up!
 
This is not really a horror game, but, metro 2033 got my heart racing a when your in the tunnels. Its the first game in a long time to immerse me that much. I couldnt help but keep turning around to check behind me and I felt the need to run through the dark sections to the nearest light source.
 
picture the scene I was 18 years old just bought my first uber pc and the first game I tried with it was doom 3. I came home from a late shift at work the house was empty because my parents were away.
I switched the lights off and started playing and was fine for the first few mins. I thought I had beaten my years of phobia about scary games (I couldnt play them when I was younger) but now I was 18 and not scared.......... then the lights went off in the game and I could hear things all around me. Flashlight in one hand and gun in the other I kept switching between the 2 all the while still hearing the things around me.

My heart was racing and I decided on last time to flash the flash light and then BLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWw I saw the scariest thing I have ever seen. I switched off the pc by the wall with my foot and ran under the covers shaking like a small child. I have never touched the game since lol.

(the story is a little exaggerated but when the thing jumped out at me I did switch off the pc lol)

I dont like scary games. The bit in the mansion on vampire bloodlines really freaked me out the other day :\
 
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I literally did this the first time I played Amnesia.
 
Dead space 1 and 2...jump out your seat moments but never really that scary

Silent hill- I played demo when I was like 15 or something and never touched again lmao.that was seriously scary

FEAR- not to bad. has few moments but I can play it.

Doom 3- only tried recently the gfx were bad and the respawning enemies behind me were so annoying so I never gave it a chance. Should i ?

Condemend. Now this game scared me pretty mad because its like reality but some weird stuff also and serial killers and very realistic.

Bioshock. Not too scary but kinda creepy
 
I've always been a scaredy cat with games, and I'm not even talking about games that are designed to be scary. It depends on the frame of mind I'm in when I begin gaming, but games such as Oblivion, Half Life, and even Counter Strike can scare me poopless at times.

For some reason I get too immersed in games, meaning that if anything bad happens to the character I'm playing, it's as if it's going to happen to me for real. Playing a one-on-one match in UT, wether it's against a bot or a person, is so intense for me that I can barely stand it.

I don't even touch horror games, I could barely watch the Youtube vids of some guy playing through Amnesia. If it gets any worse, I'm probably going to get Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or something.
 
compboyo said:
Bioshock. Not too scary but kinda creepy
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Bioshock didn't bother me, I played it all the way through to the end with the odd "OHMYFRIGGINGOD!" moment. There was only one "boss" that scared the bejesus out of me tbh, I think it was a surgeon or something where the lights suddenly go out and he's running around like a madman (hazy memory).

Some of the posts above have made me think though about being "in the zone"... I don't think I've ever been more pumped up in a game than when I was playing Mechwarrior 4 (no respawn) and RTCW clan matches. You've got such a sense of personal responsibility that the experience is intense. That's more adrenaline and the need to be alert than being plain terrified, though. :D

In recent years, some games are getting so realistic that I suppose it's easy to become deeply immersed (Especially if you have surround sound and a screen that fills your FoV); perhaps the ol' human survival instinct is kicking in big time.

I wonder if having a vivid/wildly active imagination is a bit of a barrier to playing scary games. I'd bet that the people who really can't play them at all are the type who leg it from the bathroom back to their bedroom at night if they hear the slightest noise. :p
 
I remember playing the demo to AvP and you spawn in some kind of cargo bay... before you can really start moving your motion sensor starts beeping and the first alien soon appears... It took me about 20 minutes before i realised there was an unlimited spawn of aliens and i would actually have to move out of the corner i had myself backed into :D

Other than this all the other classics like the dogs in resident evil and the many scenes where alma pops up in fear.

For the record films also totally mess me up, i struggle to make eye contact with myself in a mirror when getting ready for bed in case my reflection starts doing things it shouldn't... after brushing my teeth i definitely run to the bedroom :D
 
Just took delivery of my Corsair HS1 headset, what better way to test it than attempting another play through of Amnesia. Will wait until it's dark tonight and will post my experience.
 
Amnesia in places got the hairs standing up on the back of my neck, as did condemned now again. The Cradle level in Thief Deadly Shadows really got me crapping it though! Yep! I was a whimpering wreck after playing that.:(:)
 
I get scared but I can't look away! Gotta push on when playing these games :D

Anyone else think older games are 'scarier'? Doom, Thief, System Shock 2, I still find them scary to this day lol . . . I think it's the sound effects :|
 
The body of the many in System Shock 2 had me well freaked when I originally played it. The recordings you kept finding from that scientist that had gotten 'processed' didn't help either :)
 
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