/v/ - Video Games

>>13991586

I'll answer my own questions.

>Anything worth reading?

I will remind everyone of the JVk1166z.esp, that story was actually kind of good and I really liked the idea of changing the game in a way that is based upon astronomical events in-game as well as the idea of the world of game itself being going through something horrible. That should be the theme of vidya creepypastas more often.

>Do you have any experience with a game being scary or unnerving for you even when it shouldn't be?

Fucking tree in The Fairy Glade in Rayman 2 it was a short segment where the black catterpillars walked around the ground while you had to climb a giant tree to get to the exit. For some fucking reason I remember this part having no music although I replayed it and it seems to have sound just as every other part of the level. I was always terrified of that fucking place for no real reason, I have no idea why.

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

Can't remember anything like that at the current moment unfortunately.

>Maybe some urban legends about games that you've heard?

As above.

>Any obscure games that you know that are scary?

Not exactly scary, but play OFF already you niggers. It has an unnerving atmosphere.

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

Boss battles, I don't even know why but I was scared of them shitless.

>>13991586

>Anything worth reading?

Books of Blood, by Clive Barker

>Do you have any experience with a game being scary or unnerving for you even when it shouldn't be?

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

None that I can think of.

>Maybe some urban legends about games that you've heard?

As a kid, it was always dumb shit like do X to get Mew, or do Y to revive Aeris. Not scary shit, just kids bullshitting.

>Any obscure games that you know that are scary?

I'd like to know that myself. I'm a huge horror fan, but I've never found a game that's capable of scaring me as an adult.

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

Resident Evil 2 and Clock Tower gave me nightmares.

>>13991670

>Played Clock Tower and RE2 as a child

That must have been fucking terrifying to play as a child. The scariest game I played as a child was still Rayman 2, which is still a child's game.

>>13991586

>creepypasta thread

>faggot op posts normalfag-tier godzilla NES shit

thread was ruined the moment it started

>>13991690

I always loved this one, it's very simple but you could believe that a bootleg like that really exists and that someone could program it in.

>>13991725

I don't know many very good ones and the Godzilla one is the one which is the most recommended when one is asked about a vidya creepypasta on /v/.

>>13991725

Does anyone have any creepypastas that aren't already memes?

>>13991627

It's a theme that more modders should take on. I only know of one such mod that does something similar, DUST for Fallout New Vegas. I'd like to see a similar apocalyptic mod for Morrowind.

>>13991756

Imagine a mod for a RPG that starts with seemingly nothing changing but as you go through the game, you notice certain NPCs dissappearing and changing dialogue, weird things start happening and as you try to go along with the intended story, you find that you are completely stopped from doing that because some of the plot-important characters have gone insane. Your game starts slowly devolving into weird shit as the characters start all acting weird, spewing insane bullshit, NPCs acting incredibly strange like ceasing their daily activities to wander to weird places, monsters starting to appear more and more frequently, textures changing into horrific stuff, weird weather and lighting effects, custom monsters slowly appearing until the game turns into a horrific unplayable mess where you are gangbanged constantly by horrible shrieeking monstrosities that will not leave you alone and insta-kill you. You reload the game and start over, this time looking for clues on what the fuck is happening, by looking around you slowly discover a side quest, which leads you to a discovery of an eldritch power that is slowly corrupting the game world as you try to save the world from it. Turns out you can't, no matter what you'll do, the world will turn into hell But you can slow it down enough for you to finish the main quest and all of the side quests, you have to do a special activity that you get knowledge of only after finishing the side-quest plotline which allows you to temporairly hold back the effects of the eldritch power corrupting yout game You can put it off for a bit, but finally the activity stops working, if you didn't manage to do everything before time ran out, you are fucked and have to start over.

>>13991815

That's what Morrowind should have been honestly. Dialogue mentions how more and more diseased creatures are turning up, how the blight is pouring out of the Ghostfence, and how Corprus grows day by day. But it never really changes, things stay practically the same as they were at the beginning of the game. You'll encounter diseased creatures via leveled lists, but nothing more. Dagoth Ur is made up to be this creeping chaos, scouring the land, corrupting souls and spreading the divine disease to everyone.

>>13991835

Do any games really do this though? The only I can think of are things like star control.

>>13991860

Not many people will enjoy an absolutely unwinnable game, I think.

>>13991690

There was a similar yet equally retarded creepypasta for Majora's Mask a long time ago iirc.

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

I distinctly remember the music for Suoer Metroid as you descend from Brinstar through Meridia to Norfair being creepy. It's a very melancholy tune enhanced by the 8-bit choir, and evoked the claustrophobic nature of the game the best.

There was also the opening to Super Ghouls n' Ghosts where Arthur and Guinevere are together and it switches between them and an unseen threat moving towards the tower frequently. The music suddenly changes in tone and you hear a window break - that was always very creepy to me, thinking of the eyes of a killer slowly approaching its victim.

>playing Fallout New Vegas

>clip out of the map because I get hit by a barrel at 600000km/h because Lilly is a fatty and kicks everything around

>it's all just gray

>that really unsettling, faded, bordering on greenish gray

>see the map above me

>it's shrinking

>cold_sweat.jpg

>hit the invisible floor and die

>turn off the game for the night

Anyone have a translation patch for Garage?

>>13991979

Did someone really manage to make new vegas interesting?

>>13991979

>DUST

The fuck? What is this, like a slight overhaul mod for newvegas with an alternate story? Seems kinda neat.

>>13991692

I played RE1-3 back then and was so terrified of them my mom used to play them instead to the point that she could beat RE2 with an A rank.

>>13992388

Yea I just looked it up. Seems like they basically removed most of the NPCs and quests and just made you focus on surviving. Interesting way to overhaul the game without cringe inducing amateur voice acting.

>>13991586

Playing subnautica blind was the most horror fun I've ever had in my life. I ruined it by looking at the wiki and using the Cyclops pre-silent running update.

>>13991692

First videogame I ever started up on my PS1, when I was seven years old was Soul Reaver. I think I got stuck and stopped playing on the Melchiah fight, firstly because I couldn't figure it out as a dumb kid, and secondly because he creeped me the fuck out.

>>13991586

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

I once saw a ghost with my eyetoy cam for the ps2 while playing the theremin mode on eyetoy play3

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

Japanese letters

>>13991586

A lot of creepypasta have the same problem of a creepy idea and a good build up followed b shooting itself in the foot in the end.

>If You See Her In The Game

Or whatever it is is another good one

>scared you the most as a kid

I played dino crisis 2 before the first one. The second save zone in the game was a doctor's office with two dead bodies in it. This in combination with the extremely unsettleling music made me dread having to enter the room. Scary also was having to run across the outside of that building, with all sound gone but the t-rex chasing you down. I played that game the year it came out because my parents knew I loved dinosaurs. I imagine how differently it had been if they bought me the first dino crisis, which was actually a horror game.

>>13992541

> I imagine how differently it had been if they bought me the first dino crisis, which was actually a horror game.

You probably would have gotten stuck on the shitty puzzles that are worse than Resident Evil's.

>>13991586

I wish there were more games like Sad Satan. I like the aesthetic.

>>13992701

Something is both stronger and faster than you and it wants you. That's pretty scary or lewd in the right context.

>>13992701

It's something naturally scary. There was this scene from the Gantz anime that scared the shit out of me where that creepy robot was slowly getting closer to the characters on the middle of a dark street. That shit is just terrifying, impending doom and all.

>>13992051

That's fucked up.

>>13992484

>subnautica

Is that the one where they make you play as a beaner? is it worth pirating?

>>13992607

>I like the aesthetic.

wew lad

>>13992729

best animes 10/10

>>13992827

> beaner

You are a full on nigger.

>>13992827

>is it worth pirating?

Absolutely, the game is gorgeous and maximum comfy when it isn't being spoopy. You also never see your character so the fact that he's of a certain race has literally no impact on the game.

Subanutica VR is the single most horrifying experience I have ever encountered in my life.

>>13992827

You can see the hands

>>13992607

>I like the aesthetic.

Of course you do, sick fuck.

Play Hellnight for the PS1.

>>13991835

That's not entirely true. NPCs in various cities turn into hostile Dreamers the more you progress into the main quest. But rest assured, it's not nearly as dynamic as it should be.

Do not follow any link to a certain I Am God thread, the entity is real and will notice if it is being searched.

>>13992149

>There was a similar yet equally retarded creepypasta for Majora's Mask a long time ago iirc.

Ben Drowned? Tbh it wasn't that retarded. Jadusable(creator of creepypasta) actually put in effort to making it real by posting videos on youtube.

>>13994345

Tryhard edgy bullshit

>zomg the game is deleting its own files!!

>>13994285

>I Am God

Man it was funny seeing everyone on 4chan(not even just one board) freak out over a picture.

>>13994395

You mean like Sonic.exe's tryhard shit or something else?

>freak out over a picture

donutman.png

>>13994345

It is sonic.exe-tier embarassing babby's first creepypasta shit, mixed in with terrible attempts at parodying visual novels by saying works like kawaii a lot.

>>13992149

Ben Drowned was great. Just take a look at the final video.

Since we have a spooky video thread, I'm gonna share an idea I won't ever bother with but that I think would have been awesome.

>Release a some sort of Early Access or free in-dev title

>Something unassumingly not scary. Not child friendly-tier, but nothing that would imply horror

>Add in some weird occasional accidents, glitchups like all NPCs freezing up starring into the moon and not responding until game loads, sprites replacing with random images that don't really fit the game aesthetics and are somehow unsettling

>Just dismiss it as bugs, dismiss weird assets as leftovers from old project

>have the "fixed" bugs reaappear in different ways

>as people start catching up there's some narrative connecting the bugs, just start hinting this is based on some painful like experiences you're not willing to talk about

>As others catch up and start playing the game, people trying to just to see the weird, ramp up the weirdness steadily

>Start fermenting the narrative and increasing the fuckery level

Of course >>13991815's idea is better in that it doesn't require constant attention and maintaining a public person, nor do you need some initial attention to kick things off.

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

Yeah. I used to play GTA Vice City in fourth grade. It had some visual glitches developing over time, progressing as I played it more often and vanishing later on, if I spent some period of time like a week without playing it. It had some weird applications of textures, sometimes something that looked like blue thick fingerprint patterns glued onto passing cops and civies, wrong hues on vehicles, lights being all wrong and not changing between locations, creating erie z-fog as you enter and leave an interior, and sometimes it would affect even structures and then my game would crash which made me feel like this isn't supposed to happen and it freaked me out.

Of course eventually it turned out to be just our videocard was dying.

>>13994398

I never got the big deal behind “Jojo Man enjoys a pastry.jpg”.

Something about viruses, some say that it used to be a nasty screamer once upon a Time?

>>13994430

no no stupid you gotta enlarge the image for the code to execute!

>>13994413

>Of course eventually it turned out to be just our videocard was dying.

That was one relieving punchline.

>>13994398

>donutman.png

Well, what about it?

>>13994385

Is it supposed to be a joke though? The idea is cool; early first person games have this sort of cold atmosphere to them unless it's a shooter of some sort. Just play something like Tunnel Runner or 3D Maze Game and you'll get what I mean. The 3D maze genre is a genre that unfortunately died prematurely.

>>13994285

>I Am God

What's this now?

>>13994510

Not really, I was a member of the Within Hubris community for a few years and Alex kept promising to finish BEN DROWNED once his movie was done, he's basically using it as an excuse at this point.

He even almost sold the rights to BD to a film studio but it fell through.

>>13994581

You could tell he stopped giving a fuck about it when he teased he was going to make a fucking game where you walked around some house ala Gone Homo but with ghosts.

The MY EYES page from the Within Hubris website was pretty spooky though.

>>13994605

The online segment of the pasta was actually really well done, the Moon children and Kelbris arc had some generally unsettling moments.

the problem was Alex had a vision larger than his particular skillset. i.e. the failed video game and such.

>>13994641

We're all getting old my dude.

>>13994641

Imho the problem usually lies with the fanbase, when you start getting people who don't just see the stuff a good spooks but start interpreting everything and their mother into the color of the texture on the ass of some random NPC. Cue absolute analdevastation when you make your April's Fools vid.

>>13994739

The slow degradation of your appartment in 4 was superb, imho. Especially when it actually can get more dangerous than many outside areas in the later stages of the game.

Chozo ghosts from metroid prime.

Fuck them and fuck their music.

>>13994759

>Imho the problem usually lies with the fanbase

While I do agree to an extent That's too easy an excuse for laziness. Alex only really had one fan that really messed anything up (Kayd Hendricks) and his interactions with us were usually fairly pleasant.

>>13994641

Have you followed John is Dead at all?

It's a spin off endorsed by Alex and the community.

http://johnisdead.wikia.com/wiki/Johnisdead_Wiki

>>13994792

>Unfortunately, a few pages have been locked to disable some problematic edits.

Gave me a giggle but I might keep an eye on it. The johnisdead website looks pretty bare bones though.

>>13994345

Babby's first meta VN. It's fucking cancer.

Imagine, one night I'm playing Medal Of Honor Allied Assault, I'm playing on hard and I just about finished an annoying as hell level of trying to escort a bunch of NPCs through an abandoned town filled with snipers.

Suddenly I'm put in a random map without any reason, the game tells me to take a hiding spot before some timer runs out, the scene is quiet and I in a panic take a hiding spot, suddenly the camera focuses on some fast as hell medic with a bazooka, he finds me within a few seconds and blasts me, and without anything else said or done, I'm put in the actual next level.

Needless to say I was creeped out, for what was no more than a silly mini game Easter egg. Sadly not much footage of it outside of this video.

>>13994418

On halfchan many years ago pics could hack your pc

>>13994739

It uses game mechanics very cleverly to scare you, using the fact that it's a game to it's advantage. It takes the idea that the player really wants to progress further into the game and makes the enemies incredibly dangerous to play off his fear of losing. Not only that but there is no reason at all to engage most combat encounters besides maybe making your way to some area safer, which isn't that great of a reward in itself which makes it more likely for the player to run away from dangerous monsters than fight them. The mist effect plays into that, making the atmosphere creepier and also making it so that you don't know where the enemies are exactly, the only cue that you have is the sound from your radio which is far more creepy as it leaves much more to the imagination. Yeah you see the monsters almost fucking constantly, but the feeling stays with you because they are extremely well designed as well as the fact that they are incredibly dangerous which makes you remember them to be more of a threat than they really are.

>>13994931

That's actually really fucking cool. More games should do things like that.

>>13995006

I almost hate to say it but after seeing petscop it just felt like a lamer version of bendrowned. I don't know what it is but it feels real lifeless compared to other vidya creepy pastas. Even the godzilla creepy pasta sucked you in more than petscop and the ending for that pasta sucked!

>>13995030

At least Petscop has its own vidya, while Bendrowned only cashed in on the already midly creepy atmosphere of Majora's Mask.

>>13994407

>>13994394

>>13994898

>Post something remotely popular

>Fags says it's shit without mentioning better examples

>most entered the thread just to spite it

lol

I see no reason for it to be a "babbys first" other than it's cutesy anime look, which actually contrasts nicely with the creepy shit once it starts happening

>>13995037

Agree, the effort that went into Petscop was commendable.

Considering the amount of shovelware in the PS1's back catalogue it was pretty believable at first.

>>13995037

While true about ben cashing in on the creepy atmosphere of MM you can argue that petscop is just cashing in on the recent trend of vidya creep pasta. It is cool that they made their own game but Bendrowned was cool because it took that familiar element that you know and removes the safe spaces bit by bit ala Silent Hill 4 and the protag's room. Petscop just seem to rely on spooky thing in the corner or creepy sprite that freezes the game. I guess i'm just trying to say that Bendrowned felt a lot more organic than petscop.

>>13995058

The primary MM worked as creepypasta material was because the game rode the line of a a fun action adventure game while also being a rather grim and dark universe with a lot of incomprehensible or unexplained situations in it. Honestly it's one of the few games that leaves more questions than answers in it without coming off as pretentious. And because of that pretentious people love to make up a bunch of theories about it. Sometimes you get something engaging though like Ben Drowned. Which used the games (often unusual or creepy) assets to its advantage.

>>13995092

While true to an extent I think you going a bit far with your dissection of Ben drowned. What really did it for me was the fact that the MM cartage acted like it was corrupted. As a person who played old 4bit shit as a kid the concept of game fucking up like that always unnerved me. Combine that with the concept that a spiritual entity could not only inhabit it but also use it as a way to move around ala the internet is a lot more interesting and scary than the story petscorp is telling. That said you really can't say shit about either one of them simply because of the effort and dedication these guys have for essentially a dumb thing on the internet.

>>13995105

Well I'm only explaining why Ben Drowned worked on the level that it did. If it were any other N64 game the story likely wouldn't be as well known as it is today. Even with the core elements you described There's also the fact that it released right around the time when primary N64 audience was beginning to understand how the internet worked

>>13995038

<hurr durr le /v/ hates everything popular

fuck you, if it's shit is shit:

>fake/bad as fuck use of the "corrupted" cliche

>hits you on the head constantly about monika being bad, spoiling everything

>the 4th wall break is shit, again because it is used constantly

>that fucking "dev console" breaking immersion

<why does some pics appear without the console being in use? contradicts the rules of the game's universe

>general low effort, everything happens too soon, it doesn't leave time to build up an atmosphere nor tension

game treats it's player as if it has short attention span, making it reek of twitch/normalfag bait

that's my two cent about being babby's first 4th wall break shit

want better examples of a short and sweet experience? Irisu Syndrome

And i'm sure some VN anons will be able to suggest better things than that

>>13995346

Don't remember the name of this nip vn but it's the one with the girl who is able to remember your choices from your first playthrough and then gets increasingly yandare until she starts to kill other love intrests until you are forced to date her no matter the choices during your 3rd or 4th playthrough.

And let's not forget if you don't play it for 10 years or move your pc's time ahead by 10 years when you start the game that girl just appears on the screen and ask what you have been doing for the last 10 years and goes on to talk about how she was waiting for you the entire time.

>>13995393

Kimi no Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi?

You're supposed to just post some creepy pasta. Let it happen naturally. It's like every thread here has to be a neogaf style format.

>>13995393

Wasn't that literally just for one ending?

>>13995445

That's the one.

>>13995482

It's more or less like getting ending E on Nier: Au-tomato. You have to play it a number of times and the game changes every time you play through it. I think there is more to it after that but that spoiler is near the end of the game anyways.

>>13995393

>>13995445

Exactly, but i think just embeded is translated. Nonetheless, a fantastic moment, and it's more startling because you have to work for it, it's a secondary and specific route, and a moment that comes out of nowhere.

I see doki shit club and hate it because it's a missed opportunity, something i really liked was that whole "you are trapped with a corpse and can only skip time by quick-skip dialogue, while the corpse is more and more disfigured".

A cool idea, poor implementation, that moment is too long (2-3 in game days pass, just 1 would be better).

>>13995482

If memory serves me right, it's for the "true endings":

after you restart everything, you can choose to erase one character or the other one, making it's true route available

>>13992051

Wish someone would mod it back in.

>>13995519

The difference is in the execution. One built up to the surprise while the other more or less jerked you off while going "isn't this super scary!" It's like saying premade food is the best while saying home made food isn't really better. Doesn't mean the premade food is bad but it doesn't hold a candle to home made.

>>13995519

Why are you faggots always deflecting the point

People hate it (from what i've read) because is shit, lost potential

People don't care if it's popular or if it's gimmick has been done before

But if you are gonna copy something, at least do it right

I particularly hate it because everyone and their mothers are treating this shit like it's Christ's second coming and the pinnacle of horror

Spoilers, it's not, like >>13995534 said, it's like comparing fastfood with home made food.

It has the some horror elements, but they are put in such a bland, juvenile way, that hurts the immersion.

>>13995580

mattpatt isn't everywhere, and if he comes early you can intentionally change shit up to disprove his theories.

>>13995549

First off, I'm not part of "you faggots" since I haven't played the damn thing. I just see someone screeching at it and bringing up an obscure VN that was a neat anecdote at best at the time. So,

>People don't care if it's popular or if it's gimmick has been done before

I have a hard time believing that. You're certainly not articulating your point very well by just saying "b-but muh obscure VN".

>>13995616

>Hasn't played thing

<Nonetheless he interjects in the discussion

The fuck are you here for then? You're just white knighting about something you haven't even experienced? Fuck off to your safe-space bubble

>no one puts examples of the gimmick well done!

<o-oh, t-that doesn't count, it's o-obscure

When I was playing DDLC and it got to the second "hidden poem", my apartment got hit with a blackout

I'm a big bitch when it comes to horror/creepy games, so I froze stiff for a few seconds until my power came back on

As a kid, the opening to Forsaken (at 1:53) made me nervous of running around my house, especially in the dark

>>13995549

It's funny because this is how I felt about Totono when it came out four years ago.

>>13995346

OK, now that's a good post and actual arguments.

But I think you're exaggerating and nitpicking. It's just not subtle or good as an actual VN.

I don't think it's shit, I think it's perfect as a "experiencing a creepypasta yourself" experience. It helps that creepypastas are clichefests themselves.

>>13995346

M8 you clearly haven't solved the puzzle, there's tonnes of hidden shit behind the scenes. Monika is a distraction. You really haven't figured it out at all. You disappoint me, anon-kun.

>>13992388

There's one called FROST for fallout 4 which is also pretty neat

>>13991586

>>Do you have any experience with a game being scary or unnerving for you even when it shouldn't be?

>>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

Kind of wish I remembered to screenshot the longwinded posts I made about my fucked up copy of Dark Souls.

Some highlights:

The water footfall sounds randomly getting replaced with the pisaca crying sounds, and never going away.

Messages appearing when I'm playing offline, but disappearing before I get close enough to reach them.

Fog walls cropping up as if I was getting invaded, but while I'm either offline or in offline areas. I've been trapped inside Firelink Shrine by fog walls before.

Enemy AI not working properly. I've seen enemies aggroing on each other without actually being able to damage each other.

Enemy placement being super fucked up. When trying to take the waterway from Undead Burg to Firelink, I accidentally backstabbed the air. A few seconds later, the burg black knight fell from the sky and into the pit and died.

NPCs just doing whatever the fuck they want. I met a ninjaflipping Kirk in the Depths that was the NPC since I was playing offline.

I've entered bossrooms where bosses just didn't show up. They were empty and no healthbar appeared. I had to save and quit out of the bossroom and re-enter it.

I actually bought a capture card to record some of the shit that was happening, but I don't have those videos on this PC.

I've probably got over a hundred stories of shit going weird, so if anyone wants stories about something in particular, like specific entities or areas acting fucked up, feel free to ask about them.

Come to think of it, though, I don't think I've ever seen anything totally impossible in the painted world.

>>13996799

Fuck man I think I actually remember your post, this shit is actually pretty unsettling. Almost like a haunted copy, shit's cool. It's probably even more unsettling seeing that it's a game with such a dark atmosphere as Dark Souls.

>>13996799

I remember that thread, didn't you post a webm?

>>13996827

Yeah, I think that webm was when bonfires stopped working after messing around in Sen's.

>>13996799

I fucking remember you, did you ever go back to it or did it just magically uncurse itself one day

>>13996933

I've been pretty busy with Nioh these past months but I'm 100% sure it's still fucked up if I go back to it.

>>13991586

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

When I was little my parents played a lot of Might and Magic 6. Because they loved playing it, I also wanted to play. I was always a little bitch when it came to the dungeons though. I was fine wandering the overworld killing goblins and mage apprentices, but I was always spooked out by the abandoned temple of Baa, with all the giant spiders, cobras, and bats. I never made it very far into the game until later, when I powered through it in a weekend.

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

A small glitch that happened when I was a little kid playing Death Rally. I was going through the ranking screen that comes after you finish a race and for some reason, the game froze after the screen went to black. The scary part was that it played the laughter sound effect the salesman makes when you don't have enough money to buy something, but deeper sounding and looped. It was so sudden and unexpected that it made me scream and run away from the room.

That's the only creepy story with games I have. I've experienced more weird shit in real life than in videogames.

>>13997046

Goddamit anon, that gif fucked my shit up

>>13997046

what makes this happen?

>>13995752

Vinesauce still does corruptions and during his recent N64 corruption stream he got so fucking terrifying ones. I actually reccomend watching the OOT portion of it when you get the chance.

https://youtu.be/eOtIvFf44jY

Starts at 38:33

>>13991586

I never understood people who get scared by games, and maybe this also relates to my inability to give a shit about game story lines. Whenever I play a video game, I seem to only use a certain part of my brain that is completely focused on pragmatism and the part of brain that enjoys story or plot completely shuts off. It might be autism, I've never been tested.

>>13997287

Nothing specific, Luis just crouched in front of the camera and happened to stand back up at the perfect time.

>>13994385

fuck you nigger I have eye floaters

>>13998609

Doesn't everyone?

>>13994487

>3d maze genre

holy fuck you just unlocked a crazy old memory in my mind, this fucking game

>>13997046

No! That wasnt meant to happen!

>>13998727

Wew, you'd really like trying out Home: A VR Spacewalk then.

>>13994430

I have opened this pic a fuckton of times already and nothing happens. What the fuck?

>>13995928

>Not saving the drugged kid.

Coward.

>>13992827

>>13993051

Not that aesthetic. The atmosphere and feel of the game.

>>13993051

>Doesn't know the game was made by us.

lmao lad

Garage Bad Dream Adventure is a good underrated example. Also, the Sonic Gather Battle virus shit is spooky.

>>14001258

Sonic Gather Battle? What's that?

>>14001064

>I have opened this pic a fuckton of times already and nothing happens. What the fuck?

The vulnerability it relied on in browsers has long since been patched.

>>14001272

It's a Sonic fangame that was originally an ordinary fighting game, but I'll give you the rundown:

>When you play the game, the game asks for permission to modify all sorts of shit that a game normally doesn't do

>Turns out the games creator got so asshurt over "sprite stealing" that he hid a Trojan in his game that would activate when you tried cheating

>When you attempt to hack the game, some creepypasta esque shit happens and you die instantly

>When you try searching for Gather Battle hacks, your browser shuts itself off

>Apparently you have to ask the fucking creator to whitelist you on your own pc

>>14001307

That sounds funny.

>>13991586

>Anything worth reading?

I haven't read creepypastas in a long while so I've got nothing there, for books I could suggest Clive Barker

>Do you have any experience with a game being scary or unnerving for you even when it shouldn't be?

I remember some portions of Escape from Butcher Bay giving me the creeps, mainly The Hole and that maximum security area you have to fight out of. Dino Crisis and Fatal Frame 2 both scared the shit out of me. I even remember Dead Space, when it first came out, giving me the creeps along with some good scares here and there. Also some parts in Shadow of the Colossus being really creepy, especially with the overwhelming loneliness you already have in the game.

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

A few in Pokémon I don't exactly remember, mainly the GBC and GBA Era ones. I remember there was a part in the city section in the first Ratchet and Clank game that had a major texture bug that wound up being kinda freaky. Jak and Daxter had some as well.

>Maybe some urban legends about games that you've heard?

Mainly Pokémon and Final Fantasy, the usual bullshit. A couple of Resident Evil ones as well.

>Any obscure games that you know that are scary?

I sincerely doubt it, I was never one to seek out obscure vidya

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

Really well done chases, where you start feeling legitimate panic as you feel someone right on the top of your heels. That and monsters busting in rooms that I originally thought were safe, Silent Hill was really good on that. Dead Space had a decent one with the one zombie that splits into multiple ones. The first time I saw that it scared me a bit. Nothing worse than watching a monster disintegrate into more and then proceed to scatter around a rather large room. The first Manhunt had some really good ones, the second one gave me the feeling of watching a legitimate snuff film when you first bash that dudes head in with the toilet cover

Anyone has a decent idea on why shitty jrpgs make the scariest moments, specially if they are meant to be scary?

>>14001464

This thing made me insanely terrified of deep waters

>>13994345

If you're going to play a VN play something that isn't complete shit like

流行り神、夜想曲、魔女たちの眠り、バロック、ざくろの味、弟切草、黒の十三、月面のアヌビス、街～運命の交差点～・・・・・・

>>13991979

>DUST

A shame it's 2hard4u garbage.

I remember booting it up and getting killed immediately outside the spawn because the postbox was rigged to blow.

>>14001391

Are there actual naked lolis in the game, or cover is just bait?

>>14001143

Who's us? I didn't make shit.

>>14002227

[Spoiler]Maybe, but mutilated [/spoiler]

>>14002247

>Somehow fucked up that tag

JUST. But yeah, I think the Lolis in-game have something to do with the story. No one has really found out what the story in Garage actually is sadly. I'd love to know what the game is about.

>>14002247

I can deal with mutilated lolis.

I can't deal with you cucked formatting.

>>14002255

It's no translated, is it?

>>14002338

Amnesia seems great but most monster encounters are completely scripted events. It's alright but it would be better with a bit of different stealth based gameplay and no hubworld-like design.

>>14002475

>Vice City

You wanna know what's even scarier? Try going to the unlockable island. There, you can find 2 shops that has funeral food services. AKA you give these shops dead bodies and they chop them up as meat and sell it.

>>14002338

You'd probably like the Penumbra trilogy. The first game has optional melee combat that you're probably best off avoiding because it's fucking terrible (you flail the mouse around while holding a shovel or pickaxe and hope you hit something) but the atmosphere is top-notch and every game but the third has some really spooky bits.

Aside from that, other stuff you'd probably like (haven't played it all, so take it with a grain of salt):

>Yume Nikki

>Cryostatis: Sleep of Reason (the Crysis of horror vidya, good luck getting it running above single digits or 10-15fps on a toaster)

>White Day

>Pathologic

>The Void

>parts of Metro 2033 and Stalker

>Condemned: Criminal Origins

>Mind Fcuk

>>14002422

>most monster encounters are completely scripted events

Amnesia's monster encounters and spooky scenes are randomized. They spawn in different numbers and locations and sometimes flat out won't appear, even though the game likes pulling that old "spawn monsters when you pick up this crucial item" trick way too often.

>>13998718

Didn't the VA for the little female little dino die really early?

>>14002788

father murdered her when she was like 9 or something.

>>14002788

Yeah, murdered by her stepfather, if I remember correctly.

>>14002757

>Cryostasis

Can't buy this anymore seems like.

>The Void

Looks interesting, but the constant metagame involving color is pretty grating. Using too much, fucking around with the trees, etc.

>>14003037

Cryostasis is worth pirating or ordering a used copy if you want a good old slav mindfuck about freezing to death on an abandoned icebreaker and don't expect polish or good framerates.

>>14003264

Yeah, Time Fcuk.

>>14002247

Protip: Just use double asterisks in teh future

>>13997046

LITTLE ROUGH, DON'T YOU THINK?

>>14002702

You mean the island with the movie studio?

And how would you even bring them dead people, drive a hearse into their garage?

>>14002788

Wanna know the worst part? Some sick fucks from this very same site actually jerked off to that idea and her character.

>>14003865

Well, that's imageboards for ya.

>>14002260

The unfortunate part is no. I think the games files are encrypted in such a way that it makes it difficult. You can find character info on the Garage website it seems. The artist who designed the world for the game does some pretty bizarre shit.

>>14003865

What, /b/?

i just remembered Sci-Fy channel was making a show about creepypastas called "Channel Zero". it takes lots of liberties though

>>14005620

Scify is a pretty gay channel though.

>>14005620

The better version is the prime original series, Lore, which dives into real folk legends and historical horror stories, and actually discusses them. I'm listening to the podcast the series started from, and while it's more interesting than scary, the fact that most of the stories are true is more chilling than anything se.

>>13991586

>Anything worth reading?

I know it's mainstream and vanilla, but I've always liked the Lavender Town Syndrome creepypasta, perhaps because it's tied to historical and scientific facts, i.e. Unit 731 did exist and binaural tones might (though I don't really know) have actual effects on your body

>Do you have any experience with a game being scary or unnerving for you even when it shouldn't be?

I remember that in the multiplayer maps of the first COD jeeps blew up after not using them for a while in order to respawn. Back in the day I didn't have internet access so I would play the MP mode alone in a private match just to fuck around a little. Hearing those explosions in the distance creeped me out as I thought some kind of ghost was in the server. Bear with me, I was a stupid child.

>Any bizzare experiences, bugs, and other that creeped you out?

Nah

>Maybe some urban legends about games that you've heard?

See the Lavender Town Syndrome above. Other than that, nah

>Any obscure games that you know that are scary?

I remember playing an odd game about killing giant spiders, and I have arachnophobia

>What scared you the most as a kid when it comes to video games?

>>13997154 THAT FUCKER

Also play Subnautica, it's very spoopy once you dive deep. It's one of the few games I don't regret buying

>>14005785

>Unit 731

What's that?

>>14005391

Comfy and horror can work together well. Cryostasis uses it very nicely.

>>14005809

Look it up on kikepedia, some versions of the story say that this Unit tested the binaural beats and someone put them in the Lavender Town theme

Penumbra. Creepy, spooky, almost completely helpless but you can in fact fight back but the controls for doing so are prosperously shit out the ass you have to pick up physics objects with your mouse and swing them around that it only adds to the dread.

Play Half-Quake Amen. Please.

>>14005949

>any half-quake

>scary

You wot m8? They're bizarre, but not scary at all.

>>14005979

Well, maybe they're not exactly scary, but Amen gets quite creepy and lonely, especially the open-world sections.

Still, it's something to be experienced at least once and not many people seem to know about it even here, so I'll gladly namedrop it if I can.

>>13991586

There was time I was playing thief the dark project, and I leaned around the corner to see if anyone was there. I saw a character that was all black walking out the door, when I tried to find him he was gone.

I thought about writing a creepypasta about it, but honestly vidya creepypastas are shit.

>>13995501

>A cool idea, poor implementation

That seems to be DDLC in a nutshell.

>oh cool, the game actually removed her file from the ren'py character folder, I guess that means I can actually change the course of the game by forcefully removing and adding characters myself

>turns out this only works for the way you beat the final boss (so to speak), after having spelt this out to you in some very hamfisted exposition, otherwise removing characters only does shit for very specific easter eggs

>>14005840

Please explain this shit. This Kraut just confirmed the pasta.

>>14005122

/loli/ before the purge.

>>14006089

Not to speak of the voice acting. Two german teenagers with LE EPIC HUMOR XDDD ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^

>>14006381

Scanlines might not be too far off, although I think it's a variety of the Uncanny Valley effect that's at the work here. Just look at the people in the pics you posted - they look like wax figures.

>>14006381

>>14006491

fuck this game is bizarre. The fact that it got wide-release is astounding. Something about it that is genuinely sickening.

>>14002757

Don't forget Darkwood

>>14006204

>>14006708

>t. asshurt westernfags

Tewi may have shit taste in his waifus, but I gotta love him for BTFOing your faggots.

>>14006813

You know we discuss western vidya here as well? You gonna throw a tantrum about that too?

>>14006848

a lot of the old sierra games had gruesome deaths. SQ I think had some of the bloodiest of the bunch, especially as the series went on.

>>14001302

what was supposed to happen?

>>14005391

Combination of uncanny valley, while being abstract enough that you're brain fills in missing detail. Low polygon art can get away with a lot less refinement than high poly models, because it's easy to see all the flaws in highpoly models and see nothing but "fakeness" and flaws. Kind of like how old movie effects or just a fucking guy in a suit on a VHS tape are much more convincing and creepy than the vast majority of hi-res CG monsters.

>>14006894

IIRC it contained a virus which would play an ear-piercing scream every now and then.

>>14006852

>You know we discuss western vidya here as well? You gonna throw a tantrum about that too?

What does that have to do with the sorry state of western loli? It's all shitty Source movies and shitty 'art' at this point. Tewifag did nothing wrong.

>>13991670

How about Fatal Frame?

>>14006988

>Fatal Frame

>Not DreadOut

Fatal Frame is objectively better AND has its own R34. Also, avoid Keepers of the Dark, which was one of the most blatant cashgrabs I had the misfortune of getting in the recent years

>>14006977

Le Cochon Danseur, an old silent film, back when everything was still experimental as fuck and they can be considered closer to an Atarei scene demo than what we think of as movies.

The creepy bit is really just whoever made the film showing off the capabilities of the puppet they made, on film.

>>14007010

>they can be considered closer to an Atarei scene demo

I didn't know that people released demos for Atari games :^)

Thanks for the history lesson though. I can't believe people thought of this as anything less than "creepy" at one point.

>>14007066

Keep in mind that nearly as soon as the photograph was invented (a few decades prior to film), people started taking pictures of family members that had recently died. Hell, most meat came from the local butchery so skulls, teeth, skeletons and entrails were a weekly experience.

Life was morbid, so the threshold of "creepy" was a lot higher back then. I'm sure if asked that they would call it creepy, but they were just used to such sights that it didn't matter or was amusing amusing than dreadful.

The first time you saw some video on the internet of a real person getting killed, you're first reaction was probably "omg was that for real?" and a disturbed feeling likely stayed with you for a bit. Now you probably don't give a fuck because you are so used to it.

>>14007147

>people started taking pictures of family members that had recently died

That is an urban legend, at least to some degree. The reason why people seemed so corpse-like and stiff on so many of these photos was that you needed a dramatically longer period of exposure than you do nowadays, with even minor movements of the people being photographed fucking up the image. To this end, professional photography studios actually held several tools to keep people they were supposed to photograph in a rigid position.

http://archive.is/kA82x

>>13991745

I expected this to be a lot more fast paced and tense – do you really "run" this slow in the actual NES godzilla?

>>14007387

>Color dithering for horror

Examples?

>>14005291

Best advice I can give is join an ARG community and see what pops up, the problem with ARGs is that the best ones you just end up playing without realising it.

>>13992701

>>13992707

>>13992701

It's a very primal thing, to be chased by a hungry predator.

>>14007010

>Le Cochon Danseur

MUAAAHAAAAHAAAA LES FRANÇAIS

>>14006977

>That doesn't sound too bad. It would be annoying but not horrifying.

Eh, it happened to many anons during late night browsing sessions. Anything can be "scary" if it happens completely unexpectedly while you're alone in the dark.

>>14009606

I'm familiar with the last two, don't think I've ever come across Dark Seed.

How spooky is it, anon?

>>14010308

>got arma 2

>was very young when I did

>released June 17, 2009

Am I misunderstanding the situation?

>>14010308

>was very young in late 2009/early 2010

Underageb& get out.

>>14010349

>>14010352

I consider early teens to be fairly young for playing ARMA, though plenty of underage screaming shitters saturated the game after DayZ released.

>>14010364

Your definition of very young is off. I was 4 when I had gotten good enough at Mortal Kombat to beat my parents at it. 3-8 is very young. 9-12 is just young, 12-17 is a teen.

>>14010376

I think it's because that's around the time I played the games which are the most memorable personally, with my dad buying me Armed Assault, STALKER: SoC, ARMA 2, Crysis Warhead, BF2, MGS4, among others, all very memorable to me.

I fit within your definition of young.

>>14009620

it has a ton of HR Giger inspired art.

The game itself is horrible though. You're on an incredibly stupid time limit for what amounts to an incredibly mundane item. (there's no other way on earth to get a stick except a strange series of events)

>>14009620

dark seed is a very strange and not good adventure game that mostly relies on its Geiger artwork to trick you into forgetting the game sucks. If you decide to play it just pick up a walkthrough and go through enjoying the art and story, otherwise watch a let's play.

>>14009606

>90s FMV horror

ah, a man of taste

you're missing gabriel knight 2 though

>>14006946

I kinda want to test this out with a VM, WinXP and some old version of a browser.

>>14010566

You'd also have to find the original image, because the PNG posted above isn't the infected one. It was a JPG of roughly that size, which is weird since JPG is good at storing photographs at small sizes.

>>14010595

Damn. Might be possible with enough time.

>>14001464

What game is this?

>>14010652

Jak & Daxter, it's not a spooky game. The "you shouldn't be in the water" fish and his accompanying music just scared kids, kinda like in Banjo Kazooie.

>>14010433

>>14010465

I see, duly noted. Sounds like something I'll pass up or maybe just watch a longplay of.

>>14013873

I don't recognize that. Is this some Lovecraft game that's flown under my radar?

>>13994898

I would ask "what are some other good Meta VNs?" but that kind of just ruins it when you know something strange will happen.

>>14013940

Very nice. Looks like I've got new late-night material to work with now.

>>13992149

Super Ghouls N Ghosts was the Dark Souls 2 of the 16 bit era

>>14013940

>>14013873

got a download link for it? I can't find a torrent for the game anywhere.

>>14013940

>Eldritch

My nigga. It kind of sucks how easy the levels get if you speedrun through. Even against the ligger stone statues you can still just sprint through the game knifing various things until you get a ton of ammunition, turning the game from lovecraftian horror to F.E.A.R.

Not Vidya but a very spooki booki video.

>>14013940

Oh shit is that the game where you're in a dark ass dungeon and you see the words "the minotaur has been set loose" out of nowhere? I up and alt+f4'd that shit when that happened and haven't touched it since.

>>14014373

You think we'll see a day where this stops getting reposted because newfags have already seen it?

>>14007010

How is this pig terrifying?

It's actually a million times nicer than some modern furry costume you could see at an autistic con.

>>14014373

Reminds me how I actually had a nightmare moon was evil and was starring at me so I was actually afraid to look at it for some time as a child.

>>14014343

>my fear of deep sea

You should go watch a game called Ocean Hunter.

>>13991690

I like this. Seems like a plausible hack now that the disassembly's a thing.

Changing the title screen would be simple enough, as would adding most of the Ghost's data.

Adding Curse and the persisting gravestones would be a bit more of a challenge, albeit I'm not sure under what circumstances you'd be able to fight a trainer directly except when they're out of pokémon.

The old man sequence would be a bit of a challenge too because i can't into assembly, but it all sounds entirely doable within the limits of the engine.

>>14005126

>Funnymouth

isn't it Mr. Widemouth?

>>14020436

Funny mouth and wide mouth are different pastas

>>14019749

One night I was playing Super Mario 64. While travelling through the dire dire docks, upon my usual business, Mario turned his head in a 40 degree angle and said "shh–FUCK". Then my mother comes into the room and says "Are you swearing?". I said "It was Mario, not me!" My mother grabbed me by the ear, she threw me into the bathroom and I went "OOOF" She jumped on my face. She did the ground pound. She swung me around by the hair and said "So long, gay bowser" That night, I decided to revisit the old dire dire docks for further inspection. This time Mario pivoted his face towards the camera and said "C-CUNT" My mother ran in holding the Mario manual and started belting me across the mouth with it. Then she started cutting the webbing of my fingers with it. She grabbed my lip and said "If you ever act like that no-good Wario again I'll pull off your–" That's when my father ran in with Yoshi the Dinoborg and went "BOYBYAOW" and smacked me in the face.

>>14021830

kek.

While most enemies in Donkey Kong games are made to look more hilarious than Scary, Rockkroc from DK1 and Kackle from DK2 still made me very, very nervous when I was a kid. Presumably because the entire shtick of them is that they can not be killed and you indeed have to run away from/ avoid them.

>>14014179

It's less than two bucks right now, and two hours is enough to get an idea of how it plays.

>>14021925

Tell me more anon, was tomorrow a normal day?

>>13996799

Post Ash Lake shenanigans

>>14031379

That used to creep me out as a kid too. Same with the first person sections, especially in the mines.

>>13996799

I remember this. That shit was creepy.

>>14014780

I believe the game you are thinking of is Barony, not this.

>>14014206

…That doesn't exactly sound like a bad thing

>>14013210

You'd have shit yourself at Knuckles Chaotix's bad ending then.

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