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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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I was actually working on an article this subject at one point. I forget how far along I got with it, if it ever made it out of alpha. (Alpha is a .txt list in My Documents)
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Drew Linky
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It's always terrifying for a few moments after I realize I've run out of fuel and all the kerbals on board my space ship are going to crash into the terrain in a few minutes. I've grown to like them too much.
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HardcoreGamer4Ever
Title: I Am The God Of Awesome
Joined: Jun 28 2010
Location: Your Mom's Vagina!
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I agree with everyone who named something from Majora's Mask. That game is just dark and depressing all around. Like what LeshLush said about OOT, I'm not so sure Majora's Mask isn't a horror game masquerading as an action/adventure. I mean, all Zelda games have their fair share of disturbing moments, but holy fuck, Majora's Mask has to take the cake.
Also, do you have any plans on resurrecting that article, Syd? That sounds like something I would love to read.
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Yo yo yo, check out my new(ish) site!
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
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| HardcoreGamer4Ever wrote: |
I agree with everyone who named something from Majora's Mask. That game is just dark and depressing all around. Like what LeshLush said about OOT, I'm not so sure Majora's Mask isn't a horror game masquerading as an action/adventure. I mean, all Zelda games have their fair share of disturbing moments, but holy fuck, Majora's Mask has to take the cake.
Also, do you have any plans on resurrecting that article, Syd? That sounds like something I would love to read. |
I also want Syd to finish and release this article, along with all the other unfinished ones.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
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i also want syd to finish
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
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I'm sure there's more moments in the series, but I automatically think of the sewer scene in Arkham Asylum, where you fight Killer Croc. I mean, the whole game has an understandably creepy vibe, but I wouldn't consider it a horror game. That Killer Croc is so tense though, having to walk gently over the floating boards, not knowing when he was going to burst out, an when he finally does jump out and you have to run for your fucking life...fuck.
The entire atmosphere of Fallout 3 emotionally damaged me too.
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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Location: Southern Ontario
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I got through that quite handily, calling the bastard by his real first name every time I got him off my back.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
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So every time Croc jumped back into the water, you'd scream "Waylon Jones!" at the top of your lungs?
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jprime
Title: Ex-GameWinners
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More like "This is getting old, Waylon!" and such.
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i'll_bite_your_ear
Title: Distillatoria
Joined: Jun 09 2010
Location: van down by the river
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The third Stage in Persona Q. *shudders*
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DarknessDeku
Title: Deku Scrub
Joined: Dec 08 2007
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On Arkham Asylum, I thought the Scarecrow levels were scary, controlling a tiny Batman, sneaking and hiding past a giant Scarecrow trying to get to the spotlight.
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DarknessDeku is already assimilated by the bots.
He knows your algorithm. |
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Methid Man
Title: Spawn of Billy Mays
Joined: Nov 23 2010
Location: Hackensack, NJ
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Crazy_Bastard
Title: CeeBee
Joined: Feb 25 2007
Location: Tulsa
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Moonside in Earthbound wigged me out as a kid. A lot of it was the music, it was weirdly unsettling. That and when you have to follow the zombie woman into the hotel in Threed, only to get ambushed
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Preng
Title: All right, that's cool!
Joined: Jan 11 2010
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| Moonside in Earthbound wigged me out as a kid. A lot of it was the music, it was weirdly unsettling. |
Theory has it that the Moonside tune sampled the opening moments of Ric Ocasek's Keep On Laughin' - which itself also apparently contains sound effects from the arcade game Missile Command. Pretty groovy track, in my opinion. Anyways, I wouldn't say the Moonside segment ever disturbed me/made me feel uncomfortable. There's definitely the sense of something wrong going on/distortion of reality, but I found myself amused with the nonsensical nature of it all. Definitely one of those things that games can convey better than a book or film.
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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| Crazy_Bastard wrote: |
| Moonside in Earthbound wigged me out as a kid. A lot of it was the music, it was weirdly unsettling. That and when you have to follow the zombie woman into the hotel in Threed, only to get ambushed |
The end battle against Gigyas is pretty creepy. I get this weird rape/murder vibe from it.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Police quest 4 is chocked full of disturbing goodness from start to finish (hell it opens with finding a dead kid in a dumpster), but it's a fictionalized simulation of a homicide detective hunting a serial killer, so it probably counts as a horror game.
Still though, seriously, who let me play this game as a preteen?
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If you at all interested in playing it, I highly reccomend the version with the audio voice overs. The actor who does the protagonist's dialogue AND the in game narration to you (the player), and the protagonist's inner dialogue to himself IS THE SAME PERSON IN THE SAME EXACT VOICE AND TONE.
So on top of it being an incredibly violent and disturbing flavored relic from the last gasps of 90's point and click adventure games, you're basically playing a game where the protagonist appears to be talking to himself CONSTANTLY, as almost every action triggers some sort of dialogue either in game or directed at the player.
It's severely unintentionally hilarious. This one gets a lot of flak for being so gritty and dark in comparison with the first three Police Quests, and because they scrapped Sonny Bonds the City of Lytton and the whole cheesy Angel of Death storyline, but in my honest opinion Police Quest 4 is the BEST entry in the series, hands down. Anyone who is a fan of this era of gaming NEEDS to play this through from start to finish.
Just don't do it in the dark alone.
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maverickhuntergirlz492
Joined: Feb 04 2015
Location: California
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Mimi from Super Paper Mario doesn't scare me but she's pretty damn disturbing
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maverickhuntergirlz492
Joined: Feb 04 2015
Location: California
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Giygas was psycho
seeing crocomire rear up from the lava all skeletal for the first time kinda freaked me out
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jprime
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