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What someone in VR looks like when legit SHOOK.

Compsiox

Compsiox

Banned
That was the second game I played on my Vive. I was legit experiencing so much stress as I moved into a corner of my room screaming as zombies surrounded me. The only time I had to tear the headset off my head.

Raticus79 said:
You know how sometimes you can play a game for a super-long time and get afterimage flashes of game elements when you close your eyes?

Go for a long session of a game like this and have the lights off when you take off your headset.
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I would literally cry.
 
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Owlowiscious

Member
A giant zombie comes later and my friend dove backwards into the corner and shot up at it as it tried to swipe at him.

In an archery game called holopoint, at level 10+, super fake looking holographic Asian swordsman very slowly walk you to you and make the slowest dumbest looking spin/swipe at you with their sword. It felt real enough that I freaked out and had to take off the headset for a while. When you look the other way to shoot and other things and turn back so find they gained enough ground that they're in your face mid swipe AUGH
 
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shandy706

Member
"Scary" movies and games don't phase me. Especially movies as I know every bit of them is fake and it's just actors. I actually find horror movies incredibly boring. I don't watch them at all anymore.

I wonder if VR would phase me though.

My wife would lose it just from claustrophobia.
 
VlaudTheImpaler

VlaudTheImpaler

tl;dr
ZeroFate said:
This. This so much.

I got to play a little of that Insomniac 3rd person game for the Rift. Demo consisted of spiders running at you and scaling cliffs. At the very end you walk into an eerie room with a single candle and faint whispers in your ear. Then tentacles start wrapping around your FOV (your head). I'm a HUGE horror movie buff and it takes a lot to freak me out. I damn near broke the Rift when the person in charge of the demo decided to wrap her arms around me in tandem with the tentacles...
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Yeah but, was she hot?... Could be a good Icebreaker. Specially if you punched her boob. I mean I definitely would have punched something. Even just slapping my face triggers me like a berserker or something. But afterwards you'd have something to talk about lol.
 
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aussiedude08

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Emerson's Essentia said:
Yeah, VR is going to claim some lives. Unfortunate.
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The media and parents groups who already have video games will have a field day when someone has a heart attack or something from VR that sends them to a hospital.

And there will still be parents who dont take notice of the age warnings on VR. especially when the PS VR comes out.
 
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dity

Member
aussiedude08 said:
The media and parents groups who already have video games will have a field day when someone has a heart attack or something from VR that sends them to a hospital.

And there will still be parents who dont take notice of the age warnings on VR. especially when the PS VR comes out.
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I doubt they'll have to worry about age ratings when the headset won't even fit on their kid's head.
 
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Xamtheking

Member
dity said:
I doubt they'll have to worry about age ratings when the headset won't even fit on their kid's head.
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And thankfully PSVR won't be an insta-buy for most families; it's much easier to convince a parent to buy a $60 M-Rated video game as a 13-year old than to try to buy a $500 bundle of hardware that is PSVR
 
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Thewonandonly

Junior Member
Does anyone know if their are any horror VR horror games coming out for PSVR because my gawd do I want them. I exspecially want the kitchen demo
 
shanafan

shanafan

Member
I wasn't even watching the game, as I was more fixed on the idea of if she was by herself and lost her footing in the room, and just started knocking things over from moving too much, lol.
 
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SkeptiMism

Member
Besides the possibility of heart attacks, I wonder if things like this can end up being really traumatic in the long run. People have talked about how their VR experiences blend in with their real memories.
 
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Dreams-Visions

Member
shandy706 said:
"Scary" movies and games don't phase me. Especially movies as I know every bit of them is fake and it's just actors. I actually find horror movies incredibly boring. I don't watch them at all anymore.

I wonder if VR would phase me though.
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Good possibiliity it will, yes. the interesting thing about VR is the "presence". there's nothing like it in any other medium. no other medium is capable of making you really feel like you're IN the experience.

The reason why scary movies worked on you as a child is because your imagination would allow you to be in that experience. To imagine it could happen to you with just a few similar conditions (like darkness or creepy sounds). VR creates a similar experience by convincing you that you are in the experience. The 1:1 controller mapping responsiveness only reinforces it. VR is able to disable the aspects of the world that remind you where you are IRL. Couple that with good headphones and strong audio production and you have people like this woman shaking (there are many videos of people acting like this with this game)....or leaning on virtual countertops that aren't there and falling....or being afraid to fall off a tightrope while on a skyscraper that isn't there IRL.

It's unique to the medium and I look forward to the future of VR gaming as a consequence.

shandy706 said:
My wife would lose it just from claustrophobia.
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Nah. You don't feel claustraphobic unless the room in VR is small. You can be in a VR scene that appears to stretch miles into the horizon. Nothing but sky above you when you look up and mountains behind you. I would expect the opposite to happen: the claustraphobic would find a relief in VR that they can't always have IRL.
 
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MagnoSauce

Member
SkeptiMism said:
Besides the possibility of heart attacks, I wonder if things like this can end up being really traumatic in the long run. People have talked about how their VR experiences blend in with their real memories.
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I've been thinking the same thing for a long time. I think PTSD could really develop. I love horror games normally, but I don't think I'll ever play one on VR. Some people could probably handle it but I'm thinking I probably can't.

What I really don't want to happen is VR screamers.
 
BIGWORM

BIGWORM

Member
Turbowaffles said:
Imagine a Resident Evil VR game... REmake VR.... Silent Hill VR?

My god.
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Silent Hill 2 VR...

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...from a heart attack.
 
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KingSnake

The Birthday Skeleton
I will never play horror in VR. One of the robots in the Budget Cuts made me jump back two steps while frantically trying to kill it before it gets me.
 
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Evo X

Member
I beat this whole demo like a boss.

Wasn't that scary tbh, and I am huge wuss. Maybe I am just good at shooting things. The aiming is so accurate, I was getting head shots left and right.
 
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TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Mortemis said:
A VR horror game would probably kill me tbh
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If there's one good thing about Silent Hills being canceled it's that no lives will be lost to a VR version.
 
artsi

artsi

Member
Brookhaven is pretty light on the horror aspect, enemies are moving slow etc. but it was still pretty intense when I played it yesterday.

But that Paranormal Activity VR game, you can't even get me to play it.
 
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mrklaw

MrArseFace
Owlowiscious said:
A giant zombie comes later and my friend dove backwards into the corner and shot up at it as it tried to swipe at him.

In an archery game called holopoint, at level 10+, super fake looking holographic Asian swordsman very slowly walk you to you and make the slowest dumbest looking spin/swipe at you with their sword. It felt real enough that I freaked out and had to take off the headset for a while. When you look the other way to shoot and other things and turn back so find they gained enough ground that they're in your face mid swipe AUGH
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So easy to fuck with people too - imagine stuff like batman arkham knight and the scenes where you turn around and the entire room has changed because you're hallucinating. Or the joker is right in your face.
 
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mrklaw

MrArseFace
sono said:
Its a video game lady.
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Minecraft skeletons in VR are scary. They have a physical presence in space, a solidity that is difficult to explain without seeing for yourself (nothing like watching a screen or even through 3D glasses).

I can fully imagine generic zombie models in VR would be terrifying - never intend to find out.
 
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