/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2468289

Why would you choose A Bugs Life if you have bee and wasp phobia?

Phantasmagoria freaked me out when I was a kid.

>>2468431
I was a stupid kid.

And I think my parents rented it for me.

Never, although sometimes when I played alone at night as a kid some games would randomly glitch out and that kind of scared me, but I just reseted the console.

not scared, but these were always intimidating.

I haven't been *that* scared of a game but Shao Kahn's laugh and the gritty dark environment were pretty creepy to me as a child.

I was five or six at the time.

resident evil, when the dogs came through the window. I was not used to 3d horror scares at the time. It took me ages to trust that the game would not jump scare me at every corner.

>>2468289
I've shut off a game and left the room because it was shit. Does that count?

>>2468517
>gritty dark environment
>A Bank
>Some city with a "twirl" passing as a portal in the background
>colorful ninja robots wearing motocross gear
But...

>I was five or six at the time.
Well, this explains all, I guess.

Is this general fear encounters, or fear encounters that are relatively irrational?

Because I had a hell of a time trying to force myself to play chex quest as a kid. I would literally go through the first 2 doors, and have to psych myself up to opening the door I knew contained the first monster. usually I'd just restart hundreds of times.

The '99 Aliens vs. Predator terrifies me to this day, I have never completed the marine campaign because I get extremely nervous and have to quit.
Other Aliens games have similar effects, even the Aliens TC for Doom is fucking scary.
I don't know what it is about the Xenomorph specifically but they're the stuff of nightmares. Brilliant horror design.

The facehuggers are actually maybe the most terrifying monster I can think of, I had many moments where I restarted the mission because one of those fuckers got too close to me.

>>2468289
The second level of this game scared the shit out of me as a kid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiDw161purk

manic miner for the speccy

that music

that fucking music

This game was the first one I ever played on PS. The music and general atmosphere used to creep me out as a child. Still does actually.

I was 7 and avoided doing this mission like the plague.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDhlBteHv8s
This fucking music triggered me fucking hard. It got so bad that I could only play the top floors of the level for a few minutes and then I had to run down to the basement where that circus music was playing ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW3noZzIIj4& ) and it would calm me down for a few seconds. And I was already terrified of circus and clowns to begin with, but it was a lesser evil. When I mustered up the courage I would go up again for as long as I could withstand it and then go back down again to recharge the courage.

Boo's Haunted House scared the living shit out of me, but quite legitimately scared. I couldn't for the life of play that fucking level, I could only play it during the day and I could only barely stand it. I remember one day I tried playing it during the night and was legitimately freaking the fuck out to the point that I shut down the console and went running straight to bed, but there was a problem. The consoles weren't in my room, they were in my playroom upstairs, and I had to make my way down to my room. But the logistics of it were complicated, the light switch wasn't near the door, they were far away on the other way of the room and long away from the stairs. Which meant that I had to turn off the lights and make my way through a dark room and go down a dark flight of stairs. I was already afraid of the dark (I used to think that if I stayed in a dark place Jesus' ghost would come and haunt me, church really fucked with my head) but adding my freak out session with the game I was absolutely terrified at that point of turning off the lights and make my way down in the dark for just a few seconds. I'm not sure if I actually managed to turn off the lights and run my way down scared shitless or actually just let the lights on all night, but I do remember pondering both possibilities. I wasn't that young either, I was probably 11 or 12 at that point.

Goddamn I was such a scaredy cat back then.

First time I entered Man's inhumanity to man room in Shivers I immediately saved and shut the game down.

That soundtrack is insane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zlJhedCr4w

>I was 14

Might a well ask here: What are some atmospheric and good horror or spooky games that are /vr/ approved?

I've already played and loved all (retro) Castlevanias, Resident Evil, Silent Hills, etc. The last game that gave me that spooky enjoyenment was Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi that's still pretty kickass to this day.

Bonus for PC or GBA games or Lovecraftian stuff.

>>2471510
sweet home, clock tower

>>2469789
fuck you

>>2471510
cry of fear

Anybody remember "I have no mouth and I must scream" ?, I really impact the story

>>2471510
https://youtu.be/swhAv9VcBWc?t=14s

>>2471964

Steam. 7$. Bought it out of curiosity only to find one of the deeper point and click adventure games next to Gabriel Knight.

....Definitely worth checking out if anyone's in to the DOS-based games.

>>2468289
yeah this guy

After I beat Spiderman on the Dreamcast, I looked up some cheat codes and found one that activated "Watcher mode", which said that you could replay the game slightly differently. I didn't know anything about the Marvel universe that I didn't learn from the Spiderman and X-Men cartoons, and I had no idea who the Watcher was.

I activated it and started a new game, but nothing seemed different. Until Level 2, when a white-eyed, gaunt figure in a cloak suddenly appeared in a cutscene, half phased through a brick building. He was staring directly at me through the tv screen, and announced in a loud voice "I AM THE WATCHER."

I was home alone and panicked. I paused the game, turned off the TV, and waited until mom got home to start playing again. I was probably 10 or 11 then.

Kackle kept me from completing DKC2 for years.

>>2468289

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEpnnIbmiGI

The first Medievil was much creepier than you would imagine by looking at the boxart, like, really creepy.

It's a weird combination of sound effects, zombie moans, stilted animations and music, even though Sir Dan is one of the cutest characters ever created I was still pretty nervous when I played it back in the days, I mean, that game scared me more than Alone in The Dark or Silent Hill for some reason, some levels are just goddamn spooky.

>>2468289
Silent Hill on the ps1.
Once I got to the corpse in the first scene, noped the fuck out.
The game still creeps me to this day (farthest I've got is the second time in the hospital but lost the savegame), I mean, the atmosphere is well done, and every camera angle is calculated to make you paranoid.

>>2470180
I always found the part in the jungle's soundtrack when that dude goes HAKAKAKAKAYAK sort of offputting.

>>2472137
>I activated it and started a new game, but nothing seemed different. Until Level 2, when a white-eyed, gaunt figure in a cloak suddenly appeared in a cutscene, half phased through a brick building. He was staring directly at me through the tv screen, and announced in a loud voice "I AM THE WATCHER."

That reminds of when I played Metal Gear Solid Sons of Liberty and it tells you to turn the console off. Creeped me out.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, PS1
Wasn't too scary but I hated going through that corridor where you can hear the basilisk say he's going to kill you every goddamn time, creepy fucking voice

>>2468289
Water levels in most platformers, it always scared the shit out of me for some reason.

>>2472324
This fucking game. I bought it with such high expectations......then it was shit.

>>2468289
>>2472137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jNJPm5cgeE
This freaking boss.
>RRRAAA DIIIEEE

I don't remember my reaction though. I was probably unsettled but not scared shittless.

>have arachnophobia
>Oh, let's see what's creeping in these sewers.
>NOPE NOPE NOPE

The funny part is, even though the spiders stopped me from finishing RE2 when I was younger, I feel that the game has made me less afraid of them. In addition, RE2 is a top 10 game for me now.

For some reason I'm scared of the adventures in lolo games, because of the enemies

>>2472942
>I bought it with such high expectations.
Why did you have high expectations for Phix, of all games?

>>2473227
I always shit up when someone starts to shouting “ stars, stars“, a death senteciade

RTCW. Played multiplayer for a few years, great fun! Was afraid to play the singleplayer campaign. Was in me 30'ies.

>>2472570
I almost noped when the fourth floor elevator button appears. Another was the go home/drop reads thief message scratched into that desk near the end.

The only time I Actually noped was The part near the end where you watch that tape and it's Lisa going on about how Cheryl shouldn't be alive. Don't remember what it was but creeped me the fuck out.

>>2473130
>tfw Monster-Ock didn't phase me at all
Honestly, I feel left out.

Ecco the Dolphin was pretty scary. I was especially scared of "Open Ocean," which is just a MASSIVE level of nothing but emptiness. I don't know, man, that shit is freaky.

I also heard, as a small kid, that if you glitch Metroid you can access rooms and rooms of maps that don't exist in the actual game. But they were well-composed, as if someone had intended to include them but they got cut off. Yet, if you go through the wrong door, the game will just crash. (This rumor is actually partly true. If you glitch the game you can access distorted versions of existing maps).

I also thought that Silent Hill 2 was spooky, even though I played it for the first time recently as an adult.

>>2468289
there was this part near the beginning of Unreal where the light of a corridor would turn off one by one, the light getting further away. when everything was dark the obvious monster would jump straight to your face. it took me many plays to not to get unnecessarily tense whenever i reached that place even though i knew exaclty what was gonna happen.

>>2468431
Lolol

>>2468857
>expecting a child to have a developed sense of logic

>>2469789
>we have reptar cookies down here....

seriously fuck that "kids" game

For some reason in Phantom 2040 for sega genesis. I would freak out and shut off my console when ever the yellow sewer rose up. It had a scary sound to me and I just couldn't handle it.