Current Events > Has a game ever scared you into not playing it?

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Either literally horror games that were too scary to play, or games that were intimidating/overwhelming to a degree where you were like...fuck this.

I can think of 4 games that did this for me:

World of Warcraft, back when this was THE MMO. I missed the boat on this game because when it came out it was peak university time and I had friends who were in danger of dropping out because of this game. It didn't seem normal at all the way people played that.

Path of Exile. I really want to give this another shot but i got into a real slow level grind around level 35 and I think I fucked up my build. In general I find ARPGs difficult to get into because of the grind and because of the community and their weird acronyms.

Dark Souls. I keep meaning to give it another shot, and maybe I will. I mean I loved Hollow Knight and the same principles apply.

Most recently, Factorio. I really enjoyed it, but once I saw the enormity of the task in front of me I had to put it down after 2 nights. I was looking up youtube tutorials and every single one was over an hour long made by a literal engineer who had sunk 3000+ hours into the game.

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It isn't the entire reason, but Amnesia being fucking terrifying is part of the reason I didn't finish it.

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pubg cause its so fucking bad

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Alien Isolation

Alien vs Predator.
Was facehuggered.
Never played again.

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Pretty much any horror game I've attempted
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Blood borne, cool game but way too difficult and intense for me

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Romulox28 posted...

Blood borne, cool game but way too difficult and intense for me

I haven't played it but that's interesting because I have people say it's like Dark Souls for people that want an easier game.

Or is that just the usual dark souls fans being goobers about game difficulty

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when I was about 13, I remember playing the first Resident Evil, and when you come across that cinematic of the zombie eating one of the STARS members, and it looks at you, I immediately "noped" out

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I struggled to play Bloodborne at first despite being a Souls veteran because every area and enemy scared the shit out of me >______>

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pinky0926 posted...

I haven't played it but that's interesting because I have people say it's like Dark Souls for people that want an easier game.

Or is that just the usual dark souls fans being goobers about game difficulty

Also, I'm pretty sure they were just screwing with you. I think most Souls players consider BB the hardest one tbh. It's easily the fastest paced at least.

Never played Demon Souls, but from easiest to hardest for me I think it's

DS2 > DS1 > DS3 > BB

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there's a bit of advice i could give you about dark souls that will instantly make the difficulty a lot more manageable.
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Pancake posted...

there's a bit of advice i could give you about dark souls that will instantly make the difficulty a lot more manageable.

Go on...

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your HP bar is the game's built-in difficulty slider. level vit.

in the early days of dark souls there was a lot of this mentality where leveling HP meant you were bad at the game. i think there's still a guide on here that refers to them as 'fuck up' points. i think a lot of the 'this game is sooooo hard!' dialogue came from that.
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RE7 in VR (had never played before and it was my first time playing at all, while also being in VR) Had to take a break. Eventually finished it and boy was that incredible.

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FNAF

i just feel creeped out by Chuck-E-Cheese style animatronics in general... just fucking look at them and tell me this shit isnt what nightmares are made off! lol

Mirrors Edge

im very afraid of heights

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Pancake posted...

your HP bar is the game's built-in difficulty slider. level vit.

in the early days of dark souls there was a lot of this mentality where leveling HP meant you were bad at the game. i think there's still a guide on here that refers to them as 'fuck up' points. i think a lot of the 'this game is sooooo hard!' dialogue came from that.

I appreciate this comment for no other reason than because it's simple as hell and I can fuck with that. My eyes gloss over when it comes to build guides.

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if i had to throw a number out there, 30 vit.
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haunting ground
got up to daniella and chickened out, i played it right after clock tower 3 and it was too tense. hate being stalked in games.

tomb raider 2
this game is the reason i became terrified of sharks.


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Not for horror, but in the games that looked more complex than I wanted to learn category; Dwarf fortress and Crusader kings 2.

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No, but a few convinced me to put-off playing them due to persistent talk of unreasonable difficulty or game-play.

[ Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Clock Tower, Siren, Fatal Frame, F.E.A.R., Alan Wake, Dead Space, Dark Souls, etc. ]

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I guess also XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

at the time, I wasn't familiar with strategy games, and the whole thing about permadeath of your squad mates, missing shots at 100% accuracy, and having to micromanage resources so that countries won't leave the union (or whatever you call it) deterred me from playing any further.

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boxington posted...

I guess also XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

at the time, I wasn't familiar with strategy games, and the whole thing about permadeath of your squad mates, missing shots at 100% accuracy, and having to micromanage resources so that countries won't leave the union (or whatever you call it) deterred me from playing any further.

oh yeah, goddamn, exact same here. It's a shame because I like the idea behind the game, but it's just so damn unforgiving, and I say this as a Dark Souls fan.

Sictis posted...

Alien Isolation

Great game

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boxington posted...

I guess also XCOM: Enemy Unknown.

at the time, I wasn't familiar with strategy games, and the whole thing about permadeath of your squad mates, missing shots at 100% accuracy, and having to micromanage resources so that countries won't leave the union (or whatever you call it) deterred me from playing any further.

Sictis posted...

oh yeah, goddamn, exact same here. It's a shame because I like the idea behind the game, but it's just so damn unforgiving, and I say this as a Dark Souls fan.

Count me in too. I've gotten decently far into the game twice. Both times I quit after my first bad mission led to my team getting wiped out.

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Sictis posted...

oh yeah, goddamn, exact same here. It's a shame because I like the idea behind the game, but it's just so damn unforgiving, and I say this as a Dark Souls fan.

Really? I say give it another shot. I never considered it "Dark Souls Hard", you just need to be sure of your decisions. Turn based, so you have all the time in the world to decide.

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pinky0926 posted...

I haven't played it but that's interesting because I have people say it's like Dark Souls for people that want an easier game.

Or is that just the usual dark souls fans being goobers about game difficulty

Its absolutely them being goobers, souls games are hard and anyone saying otherwise is just flexing

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The endless stairs scared me when I was five so much I didn't play SM64 for years.
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Civilization

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Antifar posted...

The endless stairs scared me when I was five so much I didn't play SM64 for years.

Oh fuck, this reminded me that I was scared of dying in OoT for years. Like, just the boulder to get the fucking Kokiri Sword made me want to run away. It was a massive jump in "realism" from 2D sidescrollers, enough to empathize with the humanoid model expressing pain.

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I thought I was really good at gaming before touhou and other bullet hells showed just how much of a greenhorn I still was.
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