/vr/ - Retro Games

Gex

>>2623201
Not even talking about that bit near the end everyone loves bringing up. Just that opening sequence where you're with all your sea life buddies and then they suddenly get sucked up leaving only you there with really eerie music playing got to me hard when I rented Ecco at around five or six.

>>2623219
the entire game is a bit off, its not just the end.

People just bring up the endgame because its the most nightmare fuel shit, but its not like the rest of the game is a kids game, there is always something that doesn't seem right throughout the game.

>>2623236
I'm really tempted to buy my sister a copy because she only remembers Ecco as being the Genesis game where you play as a dolphin.

>>2623236
Babby kids game that always has people scrambling to defend it. Next!

>>2623236
It's surprisingly close to survival horror for a 16 bit game. Frequently being underwater, lost in caves and running out of air. Then in desperation you try swimming past an octopus a little too fast, get your shit slapped for it. Now half dead and nearly out of air, you dash at some fish to heal up a bit and it turns out to be a school of puffers. Pretty damn great from start to finish.


Shadow of the Beast was always a little disturbing to me. Something about the look of everything was weirdly creepy.

>>2623248
>Next!

And who the fuck are you?

SQUEAK

>>2623219

that music. shit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TK5DSSbbTQ

http://youtu.be/jWNEMBFDsnI

>>2623201
The story of EVO: The Search for Eden is that your some sort of ultimate life form that lives and evolves forever and has the goal of having sex with the personification of the Earth and usurping her father, the Sun.
There are also aliens who want to violate all your fellow life forms, the same ones that do nothing to sate your endless hunger but you devour them anyway.

Daggerfall dungeons terrify me more than any other video game

The final chapters of Breath of Fire IV are kind of disturbing. When you find out the empire has built a machine that is powered by suffering and then trapped an immortal in it, so they can torture her endlessly and build up enough power to shoot god and kill it.

>>2623713
some of them seem to actually go on forever

so big that I sometimes got lost and couldn't even find my way out

they don't even make sense they just randomly sequence different dungeon blocks forever with no rhyme or reason

;_;

>>2623553
Was going to post it. Oddworld is disturbingly gud.

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Welcome to hell, anon.
But seriously you should put Recall at the start of every dungeon to easily escape and drop off loot.
DF isn't hard if you take advantage of the system, you can basically create a killing machine right off the bat if you know what you're doing with char creation.

But yeah the dungeons still spook the fuck out of me with those sounds and unexpected enemies, even when I've played the game snough to know how its generation works.
It's a fascinating game, the kind you must explore to find all the strange shit, even the internet won't tell you everything.

>>2623726

Welcome to hell, anon.But seriously you should put Recall at the start of every dungeon to easily escape and drop off loot.DF isn't hard if you take advantage of the system, you can basically create a killing machine right off the bat if you know what you're doing with char creation.But yeah the dungeons still spook the fuck out of me with those sounds and unexpected enemies, even when I've played the game enugh to know how its generation works.It's a fascinating and huge game, the kind you must explore to find all the strange shit, even the internet won't tell you everything.

>>2623201
the japanese only game Dream Master comes to mind
https://youtu.be/vSfNbRnTGes?t=1m26s

Jurassic Park for the MD/Genesis used to unsettle me. It didn't feel like I was playing a licenced blockbuster movie game. It felt like I was very alone in an eerie and dangerous world. The depressing music and backdrops all lent to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZPT6pgXmm0

>>2623354
All those early Psygnosis/Roger Dean games can be creepy. Even Lemmings has creepy graphics/environments.

>>2625709
Yay what a cute and family friendly gam-OH MY GOD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLNmiVxznrw

>>2623721
>dat spoiler

I don't normally say this, and I don't mean to shit on your game either, but LMAO that is some hardcore fedora plot going on there!

>>2623201
Skullmonkeys was one damn annoying platformers.

This little shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y4hMqNmCZM

>>2625759
what in the name of fuck?

>>2623553
>>2623745
Seconding so hard.

I played this game as a kid and it literally gave me a phobia from caterpillars. Which is kind of dumb because they only look a bit like caterpillars in-game, while they're actually some sort of lizard thing with a mouth as portrayed here >>2623745. I never realized that this was actually supposed to be a picture of them because I wasn't very good at English either (and even worse, I actually played a ripped version that had no movies in it so even if I knew English, I wouldn't get the story anyhow).

>>2623553
>>2623745 >>2625765

u guys ever saw "Salad Fingers" the flash animations?
the guy resembles a mudokon, and is creeeeeppy

The first person sections of Jurassic Park used to unnerve me to all hell.

The bossfights could be pretty terrifying (IG88) but the game in general had sort of a desolate, creepy atmosphere.

>>2623201
The bossfights could be pretty terrifying (IG88) but the game in general had sort of a desolate, creepy atmosphere.

>>2625759

>>2625759
I'm failing to see what's disturbing about this.

>>2625727
Ohh it definitely is, no doubt. It's more the way that it unfolds. Most of the game to that point had been somewhat light hearted. Then you think you're about to rescue this princess, and the dungeon you're going through looks really strange. Most of the dungeon is taken up by all this weird organic stuff like pulsating masses of fat and tissue that you have to hack and slash through to get to her.

Then you make it to the top and realize that all that gross organic shit you were going through wasn't there to block your way getting to the princess, that it actually is the princess. It is pretty ridiculous, but the sudden change in tone was pretty creepy.

>>2627924
>Sewer level

6 year old me noped the fuck outta that shit.

>>2627941
How is it disturbing? It's just a Rayman clone and don't remember anything remotely weird from it.

>>2628308

>>2627420
Yeah no fuck that shit. Only rented it and couldn't get past those bits. Game sucked anyway.

Morrowind with its 6th house bullshit. This guy had his face removed and replaced with penis-tentacle of gross eye. And his type are not the wirdest in game.

>>2628567
Not him, but I don't know what you're going on about either.

>>2628898
>Those ones without a fucking face
I still have to stop myself from noping out of the game every time I see one, and I've been playing since 2010 iirc

>>2629612
You want a real mind-rape in Vvanderfel, anon? Go to any 6th house citadel, turn invisible and initiate chat with any ash slaves.

>>2629870
>Go to any 6th house citadel, turn invisible and initiate chat with any ash slaves.

Can you provide a link ? A description ? A video ?
What do they say ?

>>2631695
Found
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Ash_Slave#Ash_Slave

> We take them, and arrange them, but still, they will not be quiet.

>>2631695
>>2631702

Oh god

> "WHERE ARE YOU, LORD? We cannot hear you.... SPEAK to us! PLEASE!"

> "What are you? Where is this place? I'm so tired, LET ME SLEEP!"

>>2625759
>>2628567
Explain.

>>2631718
The blue cat thing and the goron looking thing are kind of creepy in a shitty early 00 kind of way, but I am in the same situation as you

Cocoron on the Famicom is creepy as hell. This tapir especially.

Everything's slightly unsettlingly low-res and the whole world feels kind of “empty”, in the same way Link's Awakening does.

>>2623201
Nigga Skullmonkeys was whimsical as fuck how you find it disturbing?

>>2632075
bonus room music

>>2632081
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al0XOLM9FPw

>This
>Disturbing

It's a fun goofy song, what's disturbing about it?

>>2627420
>those FPS sections
>no map, everything looks the same
>lower frame-rate than a flipbook
I thought this was the shit when I was a kid, going back to it now the frame-rate makes me feel physically ill.
>>2623201
>implying you didnt shit your pants when you swam down the tube
I was scared to even try swim down it, because drowning 2spooky, then you meet this nightmarish rusty bastard.

>>2632087
oh well, opinions

>>2627416
What the fuck is wrong with you? Salad Fingers looks nothing like a Mudokon. Mudokon's are cute and bird like. Hell, even their fingers are about as far from him as possible.

>>2623713
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flGomkYhsl0

>played Daggerfall late at night
>deep in bowels of dungeon
>got the vampire dream
>had no idea what the fuck was going on
>game palette glitched afterward
>screen looked like someone threw up all over it
>convinced my computer was possessed

>>2627416

>mfw people think salad fingers is creepy

>people from Yorkshire know it's actually a documentary about life under Thatcher

>>2623201
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvBRURRas58&t=3480
Magic of Scheherazade for NES is alternately unnerving and terrifying.

I used to think that first person action games were scary as fuck. its like im actually the guy getting killed!

This fucker

>shows up and eats people
>cut his own heart out
>chases you and is invincible

>>2623201
What game is this? I've never seen him outside of Neverhood....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcTZYaPB2Lg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr3LvS4UvZ4

>>2634748
Skullmonkeys for PS1. It's the direct sequel, but it's a platformer.

This cunt.

Made me use warp whistles to NOPE the fuck out of world 3

>>2634832
Neat. I'll have to check it out. Is it as fun as the original?

>>2634934
More so.

>>2634868
That looks like a drawing not a video game u retard

This

Not even sure why

The Gobliiins series due to the odd artstyle but the spiritual successor Woodruff and the Schnibble of Azimuth is even worse.
The artstyle and character designs, the humor, ths sounds, the world building... everything is odd and disturbing.
And don't get me started on the background "music":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8_D6xwP0s

>>2628308
I would like to know the answer to this as well. >>2628567 youre dank meme isn't helping either

RUGRATS PS1

>>2639117
THINKING OF THE 1ST

Toki.

>>2639117
>literal ghosts haunting your house at night
>killer giant toy gorillas
>killer robots
>killer rats
>killer toys
>KILLER TOYS INSIDE CLAUSTROPHOBIC PYRAMIDS

Actual episodes weren't nearly as scary and I'm sure I even forgot other hazards.

>>2639117
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeWReDfEhhU

>Mr Friend

>>2625701
It's very unsettling. I remember a demo kiosk in some store with the game when it came out that had the part where the T-Rex head smashes through a wall or grate and attacks and it scared the shit out of me. Simple game, but it has a really unique atmosphere.

Abandoned buildings in Shadowrun always got under my skin. And deep sections of Saladshidder with hellhounds too. Believe it was the same composer as Jurassic Park as well.

Storms and monsters in the Sega version of New Horizons freaked me out and the entirety of The Simpsons arcade game I always found unsettling.

>>2628550
Breath of Fire getting disturbing as it goes on is a tradition of the series. 2 has all the bright colors but it gets pretty fucking dark in its own right and Dragon Quarter is pretty messed up in parts from the get-go.

>>2623236

The entire game is "a bit off" indeed. The great thing is when you realise why.

It's one of those really subtle games where it doesn't beat you over the head with back story or anything- It's all there for you to pick up on for yourself, and your imagination fills in the blanks.

It has to be this way, because it's trying to invoke the feeling of deep thought and realisation of psychedelic drugs. It's easy to overlook, and I'm not just saying it to be all "hurr drugs" edgy, but ECCO is psychedelic as fuck.

The game was heavily inspired by the writings of John C. Lily- If you don't know him, he's the guy who basically dropped fucktons of LSD and ketamine and tried to communicate with dolphins. ECCO stands for "Earth Coincidence Control Entity", a cosmic presence he believed himself to be in touch with when he was tripping balls. The aliens? The totally unexplained undersea crystals you talk to? The level named after a Pink Floyd song?

That kinda unsettling ambient soundtrack and unsettling vibe the whole way through is no coincidence, ECCO the Dolphin is basically a bad trip in video game form.

>>2641939

Well shit, guess that makes sense. And to think everyone thought it was such an innocent kids game.

>>2639117
Fuck you man, I played this game for the first time recently cuz of some people talking about it. Scared me more than Silent Hill 2..

>>2641939
Damn... t make sense

I should have know something was up when I shot some raptors in the 1st Tomb Raider, because that T-Rex scared the shit out of me.

>>2623219
Ecco is obviously a horror platformer anon.