When have you been scared?

Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:30 am

Falmer freak the hell out of me! ... Errrm, i find the Draugr scary since i have sounds of skyrim dungeon mod, so they're groaning and stuff.... creepy

oh as someone said a certain god telling us what to do in City of Malkirth (sp?)
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Dean Brown
 
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:43 am

Churas creep me out, I have a phobia about bug's, nothing need's more than four legs and two eye's.

That said Argis and Keri were walking along a narrow path over a mt, hadn't fought anything in a while so was kinda expecting something to jump out. When Argis goes "Oh look... cave, dark dangerous". Man doesn't say anything in 2 game day's and picks the middle of the night to perk up!

I jumped outa my bleeping chair. It was funny when I thought about it.
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Justin Hankins
 
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:26 am

Can't really think of any time i've been scared.
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Arnold Wet
 
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:52 am

Realistic Lighting (dark nights) + Immersive Hud (absolutely no compass markers) = suddenly getting attacked by a bear in the night without noticing it before it killed me with one strike

That was pretty scary. ^^
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:47 am

The absolute only time I have ever jumped or been scared in a video game was Resident Evil 1 walking down the mansion hallway to have dogs bust through the windows. Granted the graphics by today's standards svck and all of that, but the fixed camera angles really added a lot to the genre. Games now try to be all scary and just fail miserably.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:55 pm

That Abandoned House quest freaked me out. I had only been doing fetch/deliver quests up until then, and hadn't seen or heard anything like it. That voice, and when he says "he is weak, you are strong" was wonderfully unsettling. Best voice acting I've heard in the game so far.

A couple of times I've heard the loud bang of draugr crypts popping open when I didn't expect it, and the ambient sounds of a number of caves and ruins are spooky as hell.

I was also freaked out more when I was a lower level, and every fight was a hard won battle. I started focusing on leveling my attacks, and now I feel a little overpowered. Dungeons and caves just aren't as imposing as they used to be.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:45 pm

There is nothing in Skyrim that scared me in any way or made me jump out of my seat & nothing remotely comparable to the terror i feel in Fallout 3 when hearing a Ghouls footsteps in the dark Metro.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:36 am

The first part of Blood on the Ice where you investigare Hjerim for the first time absolutely terrified me; I didn't know what to expect and the the ambience of that house in the contexts of what was going on really chilled me to the core. Otherwise, I frequently jump at surprise draugar attacks or when a bear makes a sudden appearance.

Excuse me, do you know anything about this house? ummmmmmmmm........
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:41 am

That Abandoned House quest freaked me out. I had only been doing fetch/deliver quests up until then, and hadn't seen or heard anything like it. That voice, and when he says "he is weak, you are strong" was wonderfully unsettling. Best voice acting I've heard in the game so far.

A couple of times I've heard the loud bang of draugr crypts popping open when I didn't expect it, and the ambient sounds of a number of caves and ruins are spooky as hell.

I was also freaked out more when I was a lower level, and every fight was a hard won battle. I started focusing on leveling my attacks, and now I feel a little overpowered. Dungeons and caves just aren't as imposing as they used to be.

Exactly what i said
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:12 am

Not been scared so far but I did have a complete WTF moment when I was in Ivarstead only to see an Elk fall out of the sky and go splat ... Sounds of Skyrim mods make me rather paranoid that wolves are creeping up on me though.

Bring on the fear factor!
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:13 am

Skyrim + falmer filled dungeon + Realistic Lighting + Sounds of Skyrim: the dungeons = Pretty scary at times.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:20 am

That's one of the things this game needs, genuinely disturbing/scary enemies. Falmer and chaurus probably come the closest, for me anyway.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:05 am

I cant say I was scared, but ther for awhile I didnt want to travel through the dwemer ruins to blackreach. Those whole tunnels and such are creepy with the moving gears and steam and such, plus with the falmer and dwarven mechanical things.....
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:30 am

I just bought Honeyside in Riften and was checking out my new crib. So I went to sleep for the night and woke up and went to the basemant and saw the two mannakins(or however you spell it) had moved. Good thing they weren't facing me or I'd seriously piss myself.
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:58 pm

I had a low level assasin-type creeping outside of Whiterun. Just as I paused and thought Didn't I see a sabertooth tiger right around here one pounced from over a slight rise dirrectly from in front of me. First I saw it, it was airborn and no more than five feet in front of me, quickly filling my screen with assasin-type-killing-goodness. I think I dropped my keyboard on the floor.

:blush:
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:40 am

Excuse me, do you know anything about this house? ummmmmmmmm........

Hm?
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:39 pm

I sometimes get a creepy feeling while walking the Skyrim roads at night, because I think the headless horseman will pop out. I mean, I want to see him but I get creeped out when I think of him popping out of no where and saying "finality" or whatever he says. Other than those creepy feelings, no, I have never been scared of anything. I have in Fallout 3, but never Skyrim. :biggrin:
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:08 pm

I'm not scared of things i'm seeing...

I [censored] my pants if i'm walking and then when i look behind, there's a monster of some kind staring me, right in front of me ! With no distance between us at all.... I get in Coma after this.. lol
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:12 pm

First time i was actually scared must have been going through a nordic ruin and a draugr appeared our of nowhere.... rendering was messed up i guess.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 12:05 pm

I was scared when I choked on the cabbage I was eating.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:48 am

nothign in skyrim has scared me, not like that one building in fallout, that place was creepy (it built off the suspense that already came with fallout and used the instincts of a player against them)

a bit about me: only psycholgical horror is a sure-fire way to scare me cause it is the one thing i cant defeat in some way, other things can scare me if played right but it is not as easy
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Post » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:35 pm

None, except in one crypt where draugr were coming out of the water, that was creepy but in a cool way.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:42 am

Spiders that drop on you from the ceiling freak me out.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:05 am

Spiders that drop on you from the ceiling freak me out.
That for me also.
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Post » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:04 am

Although "scared" is a bit strong word to use here, the previously-mentioned house in Malkath creeped me out pretty good when it got all daemonic and things started flying around.

Other than that, I've been startled a few times - the occational Sabertooth/Bear suprise attack and Falmer ambushes from the dark. I remember once I was looting some stuff in a dungeon after killing of a few dusty Nord forefathers, happy as a clam, when I hear a strange noise, turn around and suddenly there's a Draugr right in my face about to plant his axe in my skull. Bashed his head in good, served that bastard right!

The latest occation I remember getting that "holy sh*t" feeling and a thumping heartbeat was exploring some Dwemer ruins, and after dispatching a lone higher-level Falmer I was out-of-nowhere rushed by a huge Dwemer machine beast thingie that really gave me a good whooping before I could put it to permanent sleep. That was the first time I encountered Dwemer machinery since playing Morrowind back in the days (as far as I can remember), so that raised my pulse for sure.
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