You all have full right to skip the video. I'm simply apologizing for this being an "early" Halloween post. I wish I fixed my bangs a bit...Anyhow just bypass that bit of youtube-ness for actual scary goodness.
Ok the title of this post is a slight lie. None of the games I'm about to mention include much blood. In fact none of the games are horror games. So sorry audience but that would be a "typical" Halloween themed video game blog. No, these are regular games that are not under the horror genre (sept partially the last one, depends on you view). They do have either a cut-scene or a level that has at one time given me a nightmare though.
Now I'm assuming you guys don't know but my nightmares have given other people nightmares. It's part of the imagination curse, your mind never stops! It honestly sucks most days. Just so you know a few basics audience, my nightmares must have the following requirements:
- The constant fear of death/me about to die
- They reoccur in my dreams
- They are typically dark (as in shading) or are completely washed out. Absent of pretty friendly colors.
- I never forget them
- They always finish/are never interrupted
This short sequence of games feature a few things in life that have terrified me. The interesting thing is they most likely won't terrify you. At least not in the same manner. Again, these are not horror themed games. That wouldn't be fun. If you want to actually play a "scary" title just grab Slender Man, Resident Evil Code Veronica, or Bio Shock and play with the lights out, alone, while wearing headphones. You're sure to shit-yourself then. Alright time for my list of abnormal video game frights. Oh yeah, I'll also include a short summary of the relating nightmare, just for kicks.
The Fifth Nightmare: Zelda Wind Waker
As always I need a Zelda title on my list. I will apologize in advance because one of the other Nightmare titles is another Zelda game. Sorry but that series dominated my childhood. You'll understand later why I included the second one, I simply had to. Back to this title though, Wind Waker? Very unconventional I know but it has perfect reason to be here.
In Wind Waker overly young cartoon Link finds himself in Hyrule castle. Pretty standard for a Zelda game except Hyrule castle is underwater and frozen in time. All the color has been drained from the castle and the enemies lurking have been converted into statues. The music is also eerie, has an echoed soulless feel to it. Needless to say this level is messed up. Of course though it only takes Link solving a Triforce puzzle to restore life to the castle. That part sucks because a crap ton of enemies are now ready to kill you. Thanks King of Red Lions, thanks a lot!
The dream started with me walking my dog Stormy near my home. It was spring, grass was fresh, flowers were budding from leftover piles of frost; seemed like a happy setting. WRONG. Ay I hate it when my mind does this.
The world began to tilt, similar to an attack of vertigo. Everything suddenly slanted to the left. I heard the sound of rushing water, essentially a river. It was then that I noticed all the color was literally draining away. The grass became brittle and all movement stopped.
I tried to run but tripped over my dog. Stormy had frozen in place as well and wouldn't move. I then felt my leg go numb and began to drag it behind me. The other lost feeling and I once more fell to the ground. My hands turned grey before my eyes as I lay helpless on the frozen grass. The last thing I remember was my throat being squeezed tighter and tighter until, I woke up. Onward to number four!
The Fourth Nightmare: Skyrim
Clearly this one is more recent due to the game being still relatively new (according to my standards) meaning this was an adult terror. Actually upon talking with my friends who play this game and browsing forums online this section of the game is agreed upon to be terrifying. I am of course talking about Dwemer ruins. Background info time!
Let's not forget the constant hiss of steam, deadly booby traps, and labyrinths that lead only to dead ends. It's a real hoot when a quest shoves you into a Dwemer mine. I always rush through until the Falmer area. I like Falmer, they somewhat resemble Gollum just without his glowing eyes.
Nightmare time. This one is probably one of the more "tame" nightmares out of the five I'm revealing today. Basically the setting is the Dwemer ruins except they are situated in the sky rather than underground. This means no possible escape, just empty sky below.
I was in the Dwemer ruins looking for my companions. I can't remember who they were just that I was lost. Everything was hazy due to the steam jetting out random pipes. All I could hear was hissing until a loud clang sounded. It echoed down the corridor I was in. I ducked behind a large brass pipe and waited as the noise grew louder and closer.
It then changed, the noise I mean. It became several little clicks instead. The clicks continued past me and disappeared down another corridor. I wait a few moments and then began to run. After maybe four steps I felt a pipe smash into my back. I collapsed to ground and heard clicking again. This time it was hundreds of legs. The last thing I remember is the pulling. All those legs, the clicks, pulling at me everywhere.
The Third Nightmare: Conker's Bad Fur Day
Another lower graphic game (compared to today's standards) that scared the living shit out of me. Remember most of these happened to a much younger version of Mary. Plus my imagination makes up for graphics, thank you fucked up subconscious for ensuring that my nightmares are in high definition. In any case yes Conker's Bad Fur Day, the mature Rareware game for the N64. This game is mostly hilarious with all the swearing, the sexual content, amazing dialogue, and death to cute objects. To give any of you non-Conker players an idea of how far out this game is from the rest of Rare, one of the bosses is a giant opera singing pile of shit. No joke, google it.
I bet you're asking what could be so terrifying in a raunchy "cutsie" game like this? Zombie squirrels. That's right ZOMBIE squirrels. In my opinion one of the longest (and oddly enough one of my favorite) levels to play in this game involves Conker with a two barrel shotgun trying to escape a mansion filled with zombie squirrels. The only way to kill these suckers is a direct hit to their heads. With a double barrel shotgun...they aren't slow either and the way they kill you is by gnawing at your body. So the point is at a younger age (high school years I believe) I was trying to kill fast moving zombie squirrels with a shitty gun in a long as hell level. Yup, nightmares are born from that. Here we go.
This one I won't go into too much detail (oh yes there's more to this story) due to it being pretty graphic. I've written the full version down elsewhere but again, it's not pleasant to completely recount. In this nightmare I'm a spectator until the very end and is the only one where I scream for it to stop. Still not my worst though. Heh.
The setting is a prison yard and involves a corrupt guard and a disturbing inmate who enjoys raping his victims while ripping their flesh off. Once the inmate is done he fuses a plastic mask to their faces, melted faces. The guard finds himself trapped in the cell with this maniac inmate and screams for help. Somehow the cell is opened and the guard runs. He sounds the warning alarm but when the other guards appear he sees that they are previous victims of the inmate, other prisoners in fact.
All of them walk like zombies, stumbling forward while their faces drip plastic.
Suffice to say while being led by the maniac inmate the melting zombie inmates began to eat and rape the guard. The guard screams but his mouth is gagged with the maniac's cock. There's blood and the guard thrashes around as they chew/fuck his body to pieces. I yell for it to stop. I then feel them biting me, I'm the guard unable to yell, only pain and the gnawing of teeth and hands. I try to shout but the maniac just laughs. At that point I finally wake up.
The Second Nightmare: Fable
I hope that you all are going strong and aren't too frightened by any of this. I'm being more honest with you audience and it's all in the Halloween spirit. So Fable is a raunchy game kind of like Conker but on a different level. The sex is hilarious though, I encourage all Fable players to fuck in the first game. Naughty one aren't you? Moving on to scary bits!
There is a cutscene in Fable where you enter an area called "The Grey House". This small plot of land outside of Oakdale once belonged to the prominent Grey family who all mysteriously disappeared except for Lady Grey the allusive mayor of Bowerstone North. Anyways the house is abandoned, the area plays unnerving music, there aren't any enemies; it screams creepy.
This one is shorter than the others but still affects me today. I'm just lying in my bed, nothing unusual about that I'm sleeping. Where else would I be? Well I hear the floorboards creak in my room which is odd since the boards aren't old at all. I don't see anything but I can hear something grow closer.
Suddenly I'm not in my bed. Instead I'm in a hallway whose only light is an open door at the end. The floorboards are creaking here as well, the sound almost running at me. I try to run but something grabs my legs. It's cold, so cold and drags me under the floor. I scream and find myself awake in my bed where it all stared.
The Final Nightmare: Zelda Majora's Mask
Told you there'd be another Zelda title. Does this one shock you? It's not a horror game but it definitely is a dark game. Majora's Mask takes place in the world of Termina which features a central village called Clock Town. Link was on a quest to find Navi (don't ask why he'd want to find her) and is ambushed in a mysterious forest outside of Hyrule. The dick who attacked Link/you was Skullkid a lost boy of the woods and his two faerie accomplices Tatl and Tael.
In this game Skullkid is sporting a creepy ass mask known as Majora's Mask. Besides knocking you off your horse (Epona) he decides to steal the ocarina of time as well as Epona. He then "takes care of Epona" after you find him and turns you into a deku scrub. Poor Link, so much shit to happen to the hero of time in one day. After making a deal with the pedophile mask's salesman Link discovers Clock Town and the giant smiling moon above him.
What exactly scared me in this game? Everything I mentioned is unpleasant but it actually was Skullkid's laugh. He has the most macabre laugh I've ever heard in a video game. His scream isn't enjoyable either. Still the laugh is what did it for my dreams as well as the dark forest. Last one audience, are you ready?
This one relates somewhat to the first nightmare, you'll see. I'm in a forest this time, one that never ends. Forests are beautiful but maddening when all alone and I am by myself. There is no wind and there are no animals around. Still I feel as though the forest is watching me.
I walk on and nothing seems to change. It's dark and yet a light seems to follow me, still when I look back there is only a black void. I then hear it, the laughter. It's quiet at first but slowly begins to grow louder. I quicken my pace and the laughter grows.
It's ringing in my ears and I'm running blindly trying to escape its deafening noise. I fall to ground covering my ears. I scream, but cannot hear my own voice. My throat then tightens, two hands around it the laughter stronger than ever. I can't scream, I just feel the hands crushing my throat. Finally I wake up gasping for air.
How are you audience? Personally I feel alright letting these little personal terrors out into the internet. A common theme to my nightmares is being strangled (explains some of the ophidiophobia) as well as having my flesh gnawed off. Gruesome yes and lacking many typical fears like clowns, knives, guns, fire (childhood fear which I overcame with age), death of loved ones, etc. They do feature being alone, lack of color, and often me running/hiding. Those are normal I guess.
This was a far more intimate blog than my others and I apologize if that was a bit much for some of you. I hope that you enjoyed my list of random games that featured "scary" parts to them. It's more fun to find something scary or something beautiful in a place when you don't expect to find it. As a comfort, remember all fear is of the mind. Hmmm that's not too comforting seeing as we can't leave our minds. Ah well, you're awake most of your life anyways. Enjoy your Halloween night and beware of the terrors that lurk in your dreams.
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