Current Events > What are some things that scared you in games as a kid?

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I was inspired to make this topic because I am playing Wind Waker HD and I remember how utterly terrified I was by the Wind Waker Redeads as a kid. >__> They're creepy as fuck appearance, the horrible scream, and the way they stare at you with soulless eyes slowly when you shoot them with an arrow across the room. Yeah, they KNOW you're there. They're just waiting for you to come to them...
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that boulder in crash bandicoot

Wasnt really a kid but as a young teen, the regeneraters from re4 scared the poo out of me
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I played N64 RE2 in 3rd grade and never got past the beginning.
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I just went through the earth temple and laughed my ass off at how silly the redeads are. Childhood trauma conquered.
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Nothing as a kid, but I'll admit black voids in games kinda creep me out. Earliest example being after you get the submarine star in Dire Dire Docks then the bay hatch opens and you have to get the remaining stars in that area with a big dark opening looming in the background. It even sucks you in if you get too close.
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Nothing as a kid, bit the basement of re7 in psvr was pretty rough.
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An NES game not booting.
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Metroid Prime when the lights went out with the space pirates and metroids.
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Any tornado/tornado-like things in games. Yes, even the cartoony WW waterspouts/twisters. They still freak me out, I don't know why.

Also, Luigi's Mansion scared 5 year old me, even though I also loved it.
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I was around 20 years old when Wind Waker came out, and yes, those Redeads were fucking terrifying. Ocarina of Time's didn't really get me as bad as Wind Waker's dead. Probably 'cause of that jump scare-esqe face.

Spidey5 posted...

the way they stare at you with soulless eyes slowly when you shoot them with an arrow across the room

Fucking THIS! I wanted so badly to avoid them, and thought to myself, "Hey, maybe I can slowly kill them from afar with arrows." Then you shoot them and their head slowly turns to face you.

The sewers from Shadows of The Empire was a big one for me, though. Fuck that place.
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the assassin droid from star wars droid works
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That scream from Max Payne's nightmare maze. It was really off putting the first time I heard it.
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water levels with like huge oceans and stuff you can go through

like jolly roger bay in sm64 (especially the parts near the eel), the ocean in windwaker (I got "stuck " in that game for awhile when I was smaller because I was too afraid to go in the deeper parts away from land lol <_<)

that's mostly for 3d games btw, ones in 2d games didn't really get me
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Kisai posted...

Fucking THIS! I wanted so badly to avoid them, and thought to myself, "Hey, maybe I can slowly kill them from afar with arrows." Then you shoot them and their head slowly turns to face you.

They don't really give you many options to deal with them aside from dealing with the scream head on. Not many rooms with them have beams of light. They aren't very dangerous... just creepy lol.

Airhammy posted...

Nothing as a kid, but I'll admit black voids in games kinda creep me out. Earliest example being after you get the submarine star in Dire Dire Docks then the bay hatch opens and you have to get the remaining stars in that area with a big dark opening looming in the background. It even sucks you in if you get too close.

Yeah, I'm guilty of this as well.
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The music from boo's mansion level in SM64
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Everything.
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The drowning countdown in the old Sonic games
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There was this Jimmy Neutron computer game demo where Jimmy was in a desert level. Early-ish 3D graphics, platformer/puzzle kind of game. There was a mechanic where Jimmy can climb onto a block by pressing a button. Thing was, you could do that on a wall at the side of the level for some reason, and since there was no place for you to stand, you basically did the animation and clipped through the pixelly wall. This resulted in you falling endlessly into a blue void until you found another Jimmy Neutron model t-posing next to Goddard. I would probably laugh my ass off at this now but as a kid who didn't understand how videogames worked, this was really eerie and disturbing. Once inside there was nothing to do but close the game out.

But that's not the only scary Jimmy game. There was another which was like closer to first person perspective, and there were enemies as the jelly alien people from the movie. I don't remember if you can fight them but basically if they saw you theyd just beeline up to you and that was pants shittingly terrifying.
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The eel in Mario 64.

The part in Rayman 2 where the guardian of the Cave of Bad Dreams chases after you.
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masticatingman posted...

Metroid Prime when the lights went out with the space pirates and metroids.

For me it was the damn Chozo ghosts
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The Zombies in Ocarina of Time.
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oh shit i forgot about the eel. fuck that guy
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