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Is this the most terrifying "wall o' death" level in all of videogames?
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BigJonsson
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Oxigen_Waste
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I don't understand what a Wall of Death is, clearly, considering the responses. What the hell? oO
Widdly Scuds
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Shouldn't every answer be a bullet hell shump?
I had to do a stupid amount of grinding the first time I got to this jerk
He was easily the toughest enemy in the game at that point
fart town usa
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was gonna post the same thing.
The one true king.
He was pretty easy on the DS version. I also hated FF4 but hey.
Scary death wall? Splosion man and Ms Splosion man have a couple of those.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0tPF8J0IBY
I found FF XII Demon Wall to be pretty scary. Much more so than the "petty trap" in IV.
This is where I quit playing
I found FF XII Demon Wall to be pretty scary. Much more so than the "petty trap" in IV.
This. Loved FF12 btw.
HD Remaster SE plz
I always find swarms of spiders non-threatening because they're so ludicrous. Most spiders will happily much on other spiders, often other spiders of the same species. The few colonial spiders are web-builders. To get a spider swarm to pursue a comparatively giant mammal, you'd have to overcome every natural spider instinct. Even their feeding process is diametrically opposed to hunting giant prey in swarms.
Now, if game designers wised up on this and started using ants or, God forbid, angry bees, I'd actually be afraid of their walls of death.
Now, if game designers wised up on this and started using ants or, God forbid, angry bees, I'd actually be afraid of their walls of death.
Well swarms of insects usually mind that they have hivemind, and are controlled as one entity. And if you add fire in the mix...
Sigismundo
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Well, this isn't exactly scary. I just remember it from my childhood.
The baby boss in particular. The crying and how it moves up the blocks gives me the shivers every time.
Jinjo
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This:
Shit was devious.
The music made you REALLY want to hurry up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh7xN3lRkgk
I remember these. There was one near the end of the game (same level style) that was so hard that always ended my playthrough in no time at all. Problem was I always forgot the warp point that would sent me there so I fell for it a lot lol.
I never beat this game as a kid, only when I got it 10 years later on VC I managed to beat it. It was a quest between me and my dad for years before that, every once in a while we'd whip out the megadrive to try and beat this game. In the end, it really wasn't all that hard lol.
First gaf post!
The hunter from Dead space
and of course spiders, uncharted 3 style.
sorry for the terrible image.
Gah, the hunters were pretty terrible, but they were always satisfying to finally kill.
My addition is that level in castle crashers chase through the abandoned mill by that big black thing.
Rayman Origins
Land Of The Livid Dead:
http://youtu.be/6SNCBO9Zqig?t=1m4s
Wish the music was more terrifying lol
Land Of The Livid Dead:
http://youtu.be/6SNCBO9Zqig?t=1m4s
Wish the music was more terrifying lol
Likewise. Have never heard this phrase before. Anyone?
Spring-Loaded
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A death field that's steadily moving behind the player, forcing them to run forward. Messing up with traversal will quickly lead to death.
There's a lot of tongue-in-cheek responses listing actual walls/wall-like enemies
ResidentDante
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The exact same happened to me!
Wibblewozzer
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I understand it to be a constantly moving "something" that pushes you to move forward and if it catches up to you it means death.
I believe the Demon Wall from Final Fantasy IV moved closer to your party and at some point it instantly kills them, so that is a similar idea in a turn-based manner.
Some of the replies I'm not too certain about.
Edit: And beaten.
deddonpachi
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oh yes! i stopped some games because of creepy spider enemies..
Ah, I see. Thanks.
I lost many good pik-men to that monstrosity..
The sound of the saw and the music made this level pretty intense for me
That multiplayer mode in FEAR 3 was called "Fucking run".
Even with a map, I couldn't get past many of these.
Wibblewozzer
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I'm currently reading through the tor.com re-read of the series and having played a couple levels of the PC game I got curious enough to look around for this. Figured it'd be in The Ways and sure enough I found it briefly in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=mgarTnoBqQQ#t=804s
That's rather unsettling. The game doesn't look all that great any longer but I remember being freaked out in the second level in Shadar Logoth with Mashadar creeping along towards me. The sound design is also pretty good for making things creepy. I recognize the wall of death (machin shin) is using lines from the book and it's a lot more unsettling how it sounds in the game than how I always imagined it in my head. I think the audio book version ruined that element for me.
Why would you do that?
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Haha. Too bad it was the final boss and it was easy. Made the ending of Chex Quest disappointing to me.
Ahh, thanks for looking it up. I see it was a wall of whispering faces, not screaming faces.
Too bad the guy in the video only looks at the wall very briefly at the end. Anyway, I remember being pretty freaked out by it back then.
I found FF XII Demon Wall to be pretty scary. Much more so than the "petty trap" in IV.
The frustration! The despair! One of the best FF moments. I need to replay FF XII.
The secret ending is ace.
People who are afraid of spiders for no rational reason have only themselves to blame.
revolverjgw
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There's Gambit's level from Arcade's Revenge. Not very exciting. Pretty forgettable. Certainly not anywhere near the top. But it's a wall of death and deserves to at least be acknowledged.
The_Hitcher89
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There's a good one in Jak 2 when you take control of Daxter iirc
Given its reception, I'm surprised there seem to be no mention of Rayman Origins, e.g. its secret level...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yRvfbZjCY
(that's not spiders, but there's still black insects or something like this, btw. Giant tentacles and fire, too)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3yRvfbZjCY
(that's not spiders, but there's still black insects or something like this, btw. Giant tentacles and fire, too)
K
kittens
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I tried sooooo hard to beat that fucker.
I found FF XII Demon Wall to be pretty scary. Much more so than the "petty trap" in IV.
And then I finally did. It was awesome.
Oh no it's very rational. They can be deathly toxic, look disgusting when hairy, can be small enough to creep and breed in unseens areas and the most scariest part: they can cling to walls and ceilings. Reach behind something to grab a thing or plug a jack and you might get bitten in return. They can rappel on to your face if they really hate you or climb into your ears.
Some people hate snakes instead but c'mon they're totally cute and easy to see.
Some spiders are indeed dangerous species, it doesn't mean one should freak out when a spider is displayed on a screen since there's no imminent threat.
JessicaPadkin
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Sort of a wall of death boss fight, this is still one of the most intense bosses I've faced in my gaming career. Just watching this video gives me heart palpitations.
When the red guy charges you to the end of the screen, HGGGNNNNNNNNN
When the red guy charges you to the end of the screen, HGGGNNNNNNNNN
Sort of a wall of death boss fight, this is still one of the most intense bosses I've faced in my gaming career. Just watching this video gives me heart palpitations.
When the red guy charges you to the end of the screen, HGGGNNNNNNNNN
This boss is a reference to a famous "sort of" wall of death boss from Gradius/Parodius: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU7ykTsmh3U&t=3m13s