/vr/ - Retro Games

The original Journeyman Project got me creeped quite a bit. Much as I love the other games (with Buried in Time being my favorite of the trilogy) each game went further away from the creepy atmosphere. The original JMP had no smart-ass A.I. sidekick (I liked Arthur, mind you) to lighten things up a bit, certainly no chameleon suit to allow you to interact with people in the different timezones. It's a very lonely and desolate feeling game (and don't forget it's a first person adventure game was certainly adds to the vibe) which can be a bit frightening particularly, when you break the desolation with creepy ass robots.

"Out of my way, human, or die." even to this day I'm still quite a bit uncomfortable (granted, not quite as frightened though) at this part. You don't know how desperately I tried things and looked around to see if there was anyway to get successfully through the game and avoid the "Out of my way, human" encounter but, nope. If you want to get through the game you will at some point have to come face to face with that robot on The Mars Colony. Though honestly, I dreaded contact with all of the robots.

This fucker right here. I had nightmares about him for weeks.

Hell, the entire Mars colony scared the shit out of me. Getting lost in the maze and gradually losing oxygen and listening to yourself slowly suffocating. Scarred me good.