|
It's a shame that Outer Wilds triggers a kind of lizard-brain terror in certain people to the point that they feel the need to quit. Wouldn't have thought that was a risk in a game with almost no enemies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZOitTGZL7E&t=6744s
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 06:03
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 22:44 |
|
|
NoEyedSquareGuy posted:It's a shame that Outer Wilds triggers a kind of lizard-brain terror in certain people to the point that they feel the need to quit. Wouldn't have thought that was a risk in a game with almost no enemies. Genuinely this is why I love let's plays and live streams, is for reactions like that. You can't fake that. That's awesome. What a cool game to actually enable that level of immersion in the first place.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 06:05
|
|
|
Legit I've been terrified of voids in gaming to the point I put my hands over my eyes ever since the days of accidentally clipping out of walls in Half-Life and seeing the "You Won Solitaire" hall of mirrors span out forever. Voids scare the gently caress outta me even in video games when I'm immersed, and I love outer space. I would chalk it up to vertigo, fear of heights but in X direction. edit: I fell through the ground once in GTA V and ended up standing at the bottom of a lake where I could walk around freely, but was under water, and it was one of the scariest things that's ever happened to me playing a game CJacobs has a new favorite as of 06:10 on Jan 18, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 06:07
|
|
|
Philippe posted:The Outer Wilds is a lovely cozy little game about dying in space. It's fine, you just need to solve the mystery and save the day 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 06:15
|
|
|
I finished simply because I was tired of people ranting about how good the ending was and when I was done I realized that was 22 x N minutes of my life I was never going to get back. I found it so drat boring.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 06:31
|
|
|
Ecco the dolphin traumatized me and I will never recover
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 07:04
|
|
|
NoEyedSquareGuy posted:It's a shame that Outer Wilds triggers a kind of lizard-brain terror in certain people to the point that they feel the need to quit. Wouldn't have thought that was a risk in a game with almost no enemies. It's funny to me how generally bad people are with orbital mechanics and gravity. "Hmm yes I'll just park my spaceship here, in one spot above this planet, where it shall surely remain stationary while I step outside for a second."
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 07:08
|
|
|
NoEyedSquareGuy posted:It's a shame that Outer Wilds triggers a kind of lizard-brain terror in certain people to the point that they feel the need to quit. Wouldn't have thought that was a risk in a game with almost no enemies. I can't even watch this.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 07:11
|
|
|
Decrepus posted:Ecco the dolphin traumatized me and I will never recover You might be being sarcastic, but Ecco the Dolphin may well have been an experiment in how scared people are of the ocean. Like, it's basically a gradually increasing intensity of Ocean Fears (including gradually increasing implausibility of said fears). I'm sure you can make some kind of a scientific point about when exactly people started tapping out. "Play as a dolphin with dolphin friends. You okay? Alright, let's remove the friends. Still good? Okay, now things are dangerous. Now we're going deeper. Now there are big things..." Cleretic has a new favorite as of 07:20 on Jan 18, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 07:15
|
|
|
ZeusCannon posted:Is it because you can see the bottom? Thats where my fear always kicks in. When I cant. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 07:41
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Legit I've been terrified of voids in gaming to the point I put my hands over my eyes ever since the days of accidentally clipping out of walls in Half-Life and seeing the "You Won Solitaire" hall of mirrors span out forever. Voids scare the gently caress outta me even in video games when I'm immersed, and I love outer space. I would chalk it up to vertigo, fear of heights but in X direction. How do you feel about Control?
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 09:21
|
|
|
Morpheus posted:For me I've found it's not necessarily the water, but the vastness, that gets me on edge. Water and oceans don't scare me, but fuckin whales do. Yeah, I know that sounds silly, but whales scare the poo poo out of me. They're so loving big. And they're in the water! When I was fiddling with the NVidia Ansel thing in The Witcher III (basically a Photo Mode) I moved the camera into the water and happened to land right in front of a giant fuckin whale. I only ever saw their flukes in the distance, but no, the whole goddamn whale is there and it's huge and terrifying.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 09:41
|
|
|
credburn posted:Water and oceans don't scare me, but fuckin whales do. Yeah, I know that sounds silly, but whales scare the poo poo out of me. They're so loving big. And they're in the water! When I was fiddling with the NVidia Ansel thing in The Witcher III (basically a Photo Mode) I moved the camera into the water and happened to land right in front of a giant fuckin whale. I only ever saw their flukes in the distance, but no, the whole goddamn whale is there and it's huge and terrifying. This is absolutely a thing in Endless Ocean and it doesn't even help that they explicitly can't hurt you. There's actually a sidequest where you try to get a photo of a blue whale and it's a big challenge just to get the drat thing in frame. Death Stranding occasionally plays whales for terror of all things.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 09:52
|
|
|
Morpheus posted:For me I've found it's not necessarily the water, but the vastness, that gets me on edge. Like, in Outer Wilds I hate Giants Deep of course but also hate when I'm in space and my ship isn't, like, directly next to me. First time I fell into the black hole I needed to pause and catch my breath. I’m fine with oceans, water, that kind of stuff but the vast and dangerous space in Outer Wilds really gripped me.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 11:14
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Legit I've been terrified of voids in gaming to the point I put my hands over my eyes ever since the days of accidentally clipping out of walls in Half-Life and seeing the "You Won Solitaire" hall of mirrors span out forever. Voids scare the gently caress outta me even in video games when I'm immersed, and I love outer space. I would chalk it up to vertigo, fear of heights but in X direction. I was going to ask if anyone else gets freaked out when they fall out of a level or similar, but there's my answer. Vertigo's definitely a part of it, but mixed with the uncanny wrongness of being somewhere you're not supposed to be. Or more fundamentally, the basic rules of your virtual presence being thoroughly hosed up. John Murdoch has a new favorite as of 11:54 on Jan 18, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 11:51
|
|
|
BurningBeard posted:Along those lines, Red Faction Guerrilla remains an under appreciated Gen for all the stupid poo poo you could get up to destroying buildings. Red Faction Guerilla is great for both the catharsis of doing a rescue mission by ramming your truck through the wall of a building and the immense silliness of trying to find out which piese of load bearing drywall is holding up this military base. Triarii posted:It's funny to me how generally bad people are with orbital mechanics and gravity. "Hmm yes I'll just park my spaceship here, in one spot above this planet, where it shall surely remain stationary while I step outside for a second." Most games treat space as just air you have to wear a helmet in. Having to actually account for simulated space physics takes some thought.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 11:58
|
|
|
I managed over 100 hours of Assassin's Creed Odyssey without fighting a single shark head on, just sniping them with arrows. Deep ocean lizard brain fear just never goes away, I blame the mario 64 eel.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 12:25
|
|
|
I didn’t know I had a problem with inky black voids until Abzu asked me to sink into some to get collectibles and I just had a primal terror well up within me while I was doing it
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 12:37
|
|
|
Flinger posted:I managed over 100 hours of Assassin's Creed Odyssey without fighting a single shark head on, just sniping them with arrows. Deep ocean lizard brain fear just never goes away, I blame the mario 64 eel. I did the same but for two different reasons: 1 - Didn't know you could do that 2 - Once I found out it was still less tedious to sit on a rock somewhere and snipe them than fiddle with them underwater
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 13:08
|
|
|
So you're telling me Boatman became who he is due to a crippling fear of the ocean? 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 13:20
|
|
|
I can understand noping out of Outer Wilds anglerfish but I have no idea what people's issue could be with Giant's Deep, where the only life underwater is extremely placid jellyfish who literally don't even react to you; they're mobile geometry more than actual entities with AI. They go up and they go down and that is it. It's a peaceful water world. (with land that's not attached to the bottom so it'll occasionally get thrown into the sky by tornadoes but that's part of the fun)
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 13:25
|
|
|
Forgotten what you have to do to get to the probe tracker in the bunker down there? You have to willingly enter one of the tornadoes and get sucked into the undertow towards a jellyfish that'll gently float you in its tentacly embrace down toward the part. That's not as peaceful of a ride as it sounds!
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 15:25
|
|
|
Jetamo posted:So you're telling me Boatman became who he is due to a crippling fear of the ocean? Not quite. The first time he was out vigilante-ing he got very hurt, and coming back to Wayne Manor he sat awhile to brood before calling on Alfred to stitch him up. In that moment, a large boat crashed through his window, making Bruce realize that criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot, and he would need to be a symbol of something larger than himself in order to succeed.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 16:09
|
|
|
Resident Evil Revelations: You use the touch screen to register your fingerprint as a password. Mamkute has a new favorite as of 08:48 on Jan 19, 2023 |
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 17:32
|
|
|
Flinger posted:I managed over 100 hours of Assassin's Creed Odyssey without fighting a single shark head on, just sniping them with arrows. Deep ocean lizard brain fear just never goes away, I blame the mario 64 eel. I just swam past them. They don't do enough damage to actually be dangerous and if you're lunging you can get in and out without actually being bothered very much 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 17:35
|
|
|
The best sharks in AC:Odyssey were the big boat-sized fuckers who would appear while you were doing ship-to-ship boarding and snap up any sailors unlucky enough to be Sparta-kicked overboard 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 17:45
|
|
|
NoneMoreNegative posted:The best sharks in AC:Odyssey were the big boat-sized fuckers who would appear while you were doing ship-to-ship boarding and snap up any sailors unlucky enough to be Sparta-kicked overboard Those sharks rule 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 20:06
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:Forgotten what you have to do to get to the probe tracker in the bunker down there? You have to willingly enter one of the tornadoes and get sucked into the undertow towards a jellyfish that'll gently float you in its tentacly embrace down toward the part. That's not as peaceful of a ride as it sounds! It's absolutely a peaceful ride where as long as you're in your ship you literally can't be harmed. I think for the second part they patched it to force you out of your ship to fit but it's still literally just sitting in some moving geometry.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 21:39
|
|
|
You've kind of missed the point as to why such an experience might be frightening. The glass floors you stand on at the penthouse museum of the sears tower are indestructible too!
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 22:22
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:You've kind of missed the point as to why such an experience might be frightening. The glass floors you stand on at the penthouse museum of the sears tower are indestructible too! 
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 22:32
|
|
|
Holy poo poo where is that?
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 22:48
|
|
|
Apparently, it's in China, in the Taihang Mountains. It's a digital effect meant to give tourists a scare. Which is quite the bold stunt to pull considering that there was an actual glass bridge collapse in China not that long ago.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 22:52
|
|
|
CJacobs posted:sears Thank you I did the Sears tower glass floor years ago without any trouble, but I think it would bother me more now thanks to heights bothering me more and seeing stuff like this (even if I know that's realistically never gonna happen). e: lol, caught by a trick. I did remember hearing about actual cases though.
|
|
#
?
Jan 18, 2023 22:53
|
|
|
Philippe posted:Not quite. The first time he was out vigilante-ing he got very hurt, and coming back to Wayne Manor he sat awhile to brood before calling on Alfred to stitch him up. In that moment, a large boat crashed through his window, making Bruce realize that criminals are a superstitious and cowardly lot, and he would need to be a symbol of something larger than himself in order to succeed. 
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 05:46
|
|
|
In Civ6, my people discovered and began displaying a piece of the true cross, causing a boost in faith. It's 3,800 BC. And they worship turtles.
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 08:51
|
|
|
In Whatever Happened To The Caped Crusader, Alfred ribs Bruce about the event, saying "What would have happened if nothing flew through the window, hmm? Would you have become The Drapes?"
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 10:47
|
|
|
Elfface posted:In Civ6, my people discovered and began displaying a piece of the true cross, causing a boost in faith. The Turtle Moves!
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 11:27
|
|
|
Elfface posted:In Civ6, my people discovered and began displaying a piece of the true cross, causing a boost in faith. some baaad stuffs gonna happen to that turtle, I guess.
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 11:50
|
|
|
Elfface posted:In Civ6, my people discovered and began displaying a piece of the true cross, causing a boost in faith. Clearly it was the cross borne by the Ur-Turtle, used to make the first nest from which all turtles ventured forth from into the great ocean. Or the cross that the first non-believer was nailed to and left on the beach to feed the turtles.
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 14:13
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 9, 2024 22:44 |
|
|
i think it's pretty clear why a cult dedicated to turtles would venerate a Splinter
|
|
#
?
Jan 19, 2023 14:18
|
|
