I might get a little twinge of fear, but yeah it's nowhere near as bad in a game. Played though EDF after all lol.
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Is this the most terrifying "wall o' death" level in all of videogames?
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I might get a little twinge of fear, but yeah it's nowhere near as bad in a game. Played though EDF after all lol.
avengers23
Banned
A more ursine version:
Angelcurio
Gold Member
Still have the crashing around in my head. I remember i had to memorize tne order in which the walls actually came out in both that level and the plane one that had you dodging electricity walls.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
The cool part is how many levels there is and it seems like across many playthroughs, you would see new levels.
I found a path that took you to the end in what seemed like maybe 10-15 levels and have beat the game maybe 5 times.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Oh fuuuuuck I went the wrong waaaaay
Barry Burton
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Gunstar Ikari
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I hated those stages as a kid...
On topic: Gunstar Super Heroes's File Crash. The thing even threatens to erase your save in the Japanese version.
By that logic no one should ever feel unsettled by anything that happens in a video game. Or in a movie. Or in a novel. And I suppose the same would also go for feeling joy or excitement about anything represented in a fiction. Sounds like a fun and totally reasonable attitude to adopt!
Amnesia Justine, last chase scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EntcCk3Wh1I#t=70s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EntcCk3Wh1I#t=70s
ReConstructDead
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SecretMoblin
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^ a very good pick
edit: Not insta-death, but I was freaked out in Super Metroid when the lava started rising:
edit: Not insta-death, but I was freaked out in Super Metroid when the lava started rising:
Jawmuncher
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Since it was brought up what was the deal with the spiders in UC3 anyway? Felt like they were just plopped in the story with no context. Still bugs me to this day.
I see others have already clarified, but a wall of death is some unstoppable force that requires you to move forward to survive. It could be an inanimate object, a creature, a swarm of creatures, a force of nature -- anything that puts pressure on you to keep moving or meet your ultimate demise!
For me, spiders are scary because they seem cruel, trapping prey and such. That, and all of the legs. I do find them beautiful in their own way, though, as with any creature. And of course I don't have any ill will toward them. They're just another creature on this fine planet!
But that DKCR chase sequence is scary as HELL.
"The spiders were used by the architects of Iram as very primitive booby traps, placed both within Iram itself and the temple at Yemen. Explorers who had searched for Iram in the past had brought back specimens of the spiders with them, introducing them to places such as the Syrian castle, or the French chateau. The spiders bred and multiplied during the intervening centuries between their discovery and the events of Uncharted 3."
The tree saw in DKC3 is an EXCELLENT wall of death. Now that I think of it, DKC2 also had a wall of death, in the castle level where the green acid is rising.
The sound of the saw and the music made this level pretty intense for me
Wow, thanks for sharing this. That's terrifying! Speaking of old PC games, here's a terrifying wall of death, in the form of a character you can outpace a bit but who will relentlessly pursue you past a certain point until he kills you:
When it comes to spiders, snakes, and/or rats, maybe the fear of them dates back to our ancient ancestors who were much more vulnerable to the potential danger they pose. Maybe some of that psychological conditioning was passed down through the ages, an instinct already hardwired into our deepest subconscious from the moment we're born. Not everyone is affected in such a way, of course.
For me, spiders are scary because they seem cruel, trapping prey and such. That, and all of the legs. I do find them beautiful in their own way, though, as with any creature. And of course I don't have any ill will toward them. They're just another creature on this fine planet!
But that DKCR chase sequence is scary as HELL.
Amnesia does an excellent job of making the enemy a wall-o-death, since rarely can you run AT the enemy and survive (although I hear it is possible).
According to the Uncharted Wiki:
"The spiders were used by the architects of Iram as very primitive booby traps, placed both within Iram itself and the temple at Yemen. Explorers who had searched for Iram in the past had brought back specimens of the spiders with them, introducing them to places such as the Syrian castle, or the French chateau. The spiders bred and multiplied during the intervening centuries between their discovery and the events of Uncharted 3."
The sound of the saw and the music made this level pretty intense for me
This was the first thing I thought of. This game had a lot of fun Wall of Deaths, including:
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I was looking for this the entire thread... This is the perfect choice.
Nah, once you have unlocked Aeris' final limit break that makes everyone invincible and you spam the shit outta Bahamut and Cloud's Comet Limit Break you smmmmmash that fucker... after hours of grinding
Waldo Lydecker
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This guy here, nearly killed the game for me, luckily I had a save someway before this sequence, unlike my father who went in that plane without a great deal of ammo and health packs and never got out that plane....
Hehehe, saved my explosive arrows just for this asshole.
Evolved1
make sure the pudding isn't too soggy but that just ruins everything
Rambo's city wall on the Genesis.
Ms. Splosion Man can get pretty crauy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBvZGj2p_U (technically it's not really wall of death though)
Lumpy Onion
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More of a wheel of death, but still horrifying and stressful.
Lionheart1827
Member
A more ursine version:
What game is this, it looks like condemned but I dont remember this part.
InfiniDragon
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The damn final boss in Parasite Eve.
After you go through killing the thing, the final chase sequence was intense.
After you go through killing the thing, the final chase sequence was intense.
Lumpy Onion
Member
I felt like such a dope when I tried to use the phone to save there. Instant death.
Wow, can you really not beat this part of RE3 if you're low on ammo?
Itchy//Tasty
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Let's get some Oddworld love in this thread.
Paramite Run
Scrab Run
Hack of Paramite Run that has all types of enemies chasing you.
Mudomo Vault ender
Mudanchee Vault ender
Paramite Run
Scrab Run
Hack of Paramite Run that has all types of enemies chasing you.
Mudomo Vault ender
Mudanchee Vault ender
Messofanego
Banned
Fear 3 "FUCKING RUN" mode - the only good part of it.
Those spiders in DKCR look cute, so have to disagree with OP.
Now, the spider things in Metro Last Light...
Those spiders in DKCR look cute, so have to disagree with OP.
Now, the spider things in Metro Last Light...
Messofanego
Banned
Call of Cthulhu Dark Corners of the Earth is more a chase than a wall of death, but holy fuck is it one of the most intense, palm-sweating moments in a game.
Nah, jk, easiest boss in the game.
haha : D
I think I did that the first time I played the stage.
I was SOOO mad.
Yup, Toxic Tower. It got pretty intense in spots.
CreativeWriter
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First thing that came to mind:
American Gladiators' The Wall stage (NES). As a boy, it was murder on my thumbs. You had to roll over B + A to move at all, which meant blisters! Coming back to it as a teenager, I crushed the game, but it was crazy hard as a kid. The game expected you to use two fingers for A and B, alternating. I tried to just use my thumb. Ha!
American Gladiators' The Wall stage (NES). As a boy, it was murder on my thumbs. You had to roll over B + A to move at all, which meant blisters! Coming back to it as a teenager, I crushed the game, but it was crazy hard as a kid. The game expected you to use two fingers for A and B, alternating. I tried to just use my thumb. Ha!
Barry Burton
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It's Code Veronica actually, and yeah, I've heard stories about people having to start over because they couldn't get past that part.
I played CVX a few years after hearing a lot of the horror stories, so for the first few hours I played it even more cautious than I normally would in a survival horror game. I had enough explosive darts saved up to beat him, but it was still barely enough (I only had a few bullets left when I finally knocked his ass out of the plane!)
SixMachine
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The tyrant in code veronica can be beaten with no bullets. There is a cargo slider that you can press multiple times to push him out ( with a time delay between presses) or the other way is damage him to shoot him out in one press. It's easier though to just unload on him and get him out there as fast as possible . The time between presses is really long and he hits really hard.
Oh, right. I was wondering why Nemesis wasn't wearing his jacket, lol. It's actually a Tyrant! And RE3 had tube-top Jill in Raccoon City.
Oh, neat. So some people actually restarted the game without knowing this, lol.
Being scared by a situation happening within a fiction is one thing. Being freaked by a GIF of a spider's outline is another thing.
That said, I've never been scared watching a movie or playing a game. I think the one time I was genuinely disturbed by a work of fiction was the staircase climbing scene in Ubik.
I do like playing indie horror games though because they sometimes have interesting storylines.