I desperately want this game. Everything about it sounds utterly cool. But I get scared easily…by some video games:
One of my favorite games on the Xbox is Oblivion, so I am not exactly a stranger to things creeping up on me - but the music changes, so you always know.
I do play some FPS, which are jumpy games at best - but not terrifying, just surprising when someone jumps out at you.
I play some zombie games (house of the dead) but can not play Resident Evil or I freak out every three seconds.
I don’t really like massive amounts of blood and gore.
I’ve watched some of the cutscenes of Bioshock and it doesn’t look that bad. Eerie, and creepy, but not outright terrifying. However, it is totally different to watch a game video on youtube and to be immersed in it, playing.
I have been trying to rent it forever to try it but it’s never available at the video store whenever I go.
Hmmm…that demon-slayer game a few years back ended up being way too scary for me. What was it? Onimusha.
So…what do you guys think? Will I be thoroughly terrified by Bioshock?
It can be scary. I too am a bit jumpy when it comes to scary games. Sometimes I can’t even finish one 'cause it’s just too damn scary. The last game I didn’t finish was Dead Space, before that was Doom 3. Can’t take the sudden jumps. It’s a game I can pick up and play on a bright Sunday morning with my speakers on, but not in the evening with my headphones on. It doesn’t help that my wife thinks it’s hilarious to scare me while I’m playing these types of games.
I did finish Bioshock though. It’s mostly creepy, rather than scary with maybe only 1 or two exceptions (the doc and ice wall, anyone? Aaaiiieee!). But overall is not that bad at all.
IMO, Bioshock is the same kind of scary as Thief : it’s more about eerie atmosphere than jack-in-the-box monsters in the closet. Of course, there are *some *jack-in- the-box moments, but for the most part it’s just you and your weird cocoon arm, alone in the dimness and jumping at a far away noise that turns out to be nothing at all, while some crackling recording of Fontaine explains why Rapture is fantastic.
Without giving too much away, I was on my 2nd play through of the game and found a room I had missed on my first time. I go down into the room with the lights flickering off and on and see these three creepy ass rabbit-men looking statues. I look at them carefully and then move on to the back of the room where there was a bonus ability waiting for me. I go and power up (using generic terms), turn around to leave the room, and the statues were gone. Looking around, trying to figure out what happened to them, was about the scariest video game moment I’ve ever had.
Silent Hill did nothing to me, and Resident Evil games (save for the dogs jumping through the windows) left me unfettered, but Bioshock scared the poop out of me at times, but it was worth every single moment, one of the best games I’ve played to date on a console.
I liked the one at the Gun upgrade machine (I guess) better. The Splicer Statue that sits on a chair and gets up right behind you. I jumped there pretty good.
On the 360? Yeah. There’s a demo for about everything on the 360 and PS3. Is it connected to the internet? You don’t need an Xbox subscription to download demos.
OMFG! I played it about a year ago, and was going to say that it was really good and generally creepy scary, not freaky “boo!” scary like Doom 3 (which I disliked for that reason, among others), but yeah… that level… :eek: (I’d still recommend it though). Here’s someone asking the same question on Yahoo.
[spoiler]Yeah, Cohen and his statues were the #1 scariest. That one upgrade where you head through the creepy, flooded foyer, go in the cramped, flickery back room, hack the safe, then… hey, wasn’t there a… where did she AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! :eek::eek::eek:
I bought all the ammo I could that level, and could have had my character committed for having the worst nervous twitch evar. [/spoiler]
[spoiler]Heh. If you use the invisibility plasmoid, you can upgrade the weapon after you become invisible. Then you swing the camera around (which turns you around without moving) and watch the splicer try to find you. Apparently, he won’t actually go near the machine, so he never makes contact with you (splicers walking/running into you suck when you’re invisible because it immediately makes you visible).
When you get sick of watching the splicer try to find you, a nice head shot will take him out.[/spoiler]
There are some jump out moments, but it’s an FPS, its designed not to scare you but to make it harder to kill the enemies. Having a gun ready to blow something away at any moment kind of takes the fear out of you.
If you’re really scared, just use god mode or toss some grenades into a room before you step inside.
I just found they have it used locally for $18. For $18 I can take the chance, especially for a game I want to play this much. I’ll get it this weekend!
Most of the scary/gory moments are in the very first full level, in the Medical Pavillion. As you can imagine, when the part of Rapture that was full of medical equipment and sick people went downhill, it crashed hard. So, once you’re through that area, you’ve made it through most of the scares in the game, in my book.
I think I peed myself a little bit when I played it. Sweet mercy, what a bundle of scares.
My buddies and I used to hole up in the basement after dark and play scary games. I had the best reflexes, so I controlled the character all the time. We played Fatal Frame 2 for a while until I saw a ghost in a closet in the last place I was expecting one. I put the controller down, turned on the lights, and said that someone else had to take over.
God, it’s definitely creep as fuck. The splicers cackling and talking to themselves in the hallways, the Little Sisters looking like the undead, the first time you hear a Big Daddy walking offscreen and realize it’s the sound of footsteps (very Jurassic Park). I think the first time I actually encountered a Big Daddy I hid in a corner and prayed he wouldn’t notice me.
I’m only a third of the way in, the creepiest scene so far has been when I was stalking this one mad scientist. He was around the corner and I could see his shadow on the wall. I knew it was a dead end, so I started creeping closer, thinking, “That’s it doc, keep dissecting that dude, there’s a shotgun shell here with your name on it” - then the lights went out. Sweet zombiecock, I think I emptied my shotgun firing wildly at everything around me.
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