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[Sanctuary]

I have a phobia of boredom.

 

[KenOD]

Thanks to Spelunky I discovered my phobia of bees. Sure it's cartoonish, but my brain just over-reacts and causes me to just stop doing anything and my only recourse is to die from the enemy bee or something else.

Thankfully a mod lets me make Spelunky appear like Metroid and remove said bee, which I'm okay with.

 

[Parakeetman]

I suffer from a crippling phobia of heights (particularly bridges and suspended stairways) in real life, but have never been affected by it at all in videogames. I can jump across floating pkatforms without a care in the world in games. It would probably mess me up if I was to play VR games though.

 

[basic_text]

I have a weird (and quite severe!) fear of fish. I had to stop playing Darksiders because of it!
I remember having to get my brother to do the brief underwater section of the original Half Life!

 

[dangeraaron10]

I absolutely hate insects in real life, all of them. Them and their 8 legged cousins. They don't effect me in games THAT much though. I can plow through some Frostbite spiders no problem in Skyrim, though I do bulk a tidbit in Dragon Age Origins when those horrible giant spiders just fall down from the ceiling right in front of you.

I am deathly afraid of huge bodies of open water in which you can't see the bottom. I always imagine something huge coming out from the abyss to eat you whole. Ever played that shitty Jaws video game? Yeah, I REFUSED to go to the level with the water being so deep you can't see the bottom so I stuck to shallow levels only. I was fucking Bruce and still scared a goddamn Liopleurodon was going to eat me or something.

Yeah imagine that coming out of the deep dark blue from out of nowhere in those big ocean levels. FUCK. THAT.

 

[-Mutsukki-]

OP sounds exactly like my cousin, he stopped playing White Knight Chronicles 2 for this same reason, it sounded like it sucks a lot ):

Giant underwater creatures. The N64 gave me heart attacks from games like Mario 64 (eel), Banjo Kazooie (Clanker) and Shadow of the Empire (sewer boss).

I still won't play Subnautica because of that shit.

This is 100% me. But in this case I gained the phobia from these games (especifically Clanker). I've been a little better now, but having to dive really deep in games still gives me goosebumps

Who actually likes spiders?

I think some of them are cute... I certainly dislike killing spiders too, I always try not too. They're legit pals.

 

[woopWOOP]

I have a fear of heights too, but it doesn't really seem to effect me when playing (non-VR) games. Only when I actually mess up and fall down my stomach twists and turns and I feel my own body reacting, preparing for the impact.

No if we talkin phobias of things in video games, it's being stuck in an enclosed space with a fucking powerful enemy. Possibly in the dark.

This reminds me, I have this weird reaction when it comes to games glitching out. Especially going out of bounds in 2D platformers for some reason. There's a series of videos about glitches in Sonic 3 and I have a hard time just looking at the video when the camera darts around a glitched up landscape. Shit's weird.

 

[Fliesen]

yeah, huge open bodies of water where you're unable to see the bottom make me super anxious, both in real life as well as in games.
(you can imagine how truly enjoyable PSVR's underwater experience is for me ...)

It was even worse when the water surface didn't have transparency yet - like the Leviathan's in Magic carpet 2 ...
i mean, i have a fucking flying carpet and i'm stuck to hovering 1 foot above a huge ocean ...

even worse, those beasts showed up as dots on the minimap :O

 

[StoneFox]

I have a weirdly specific gaming phobia, and that's being chased in first person. I cannot play first person horror games because of threat of the chase. I can play 3rd person ones just fine however.

Spiders and other insects are cute to me, I wish less games had them as enemies as I feel bad killing them :/

 

[Nanashrew]

The ocean.

I will never ever play Subnautica, but somehow I am so incredibly drawn into it when someone is playing. My heart beats so fast watching someone play and gasp when they do dumb things and aaahh D;

 

[Jebral]

Being defenseless, as in the new style of modern horror game. Currently trying to play through Soma, which seems awesome... Except for the monsters. I got to the one you encounter at Lambda a week ago and haven't turned the game on since. I mean, they may be mechanically simple and the game would be missing a degree of immersion without them but I sink to the bottom of the immersion scale straight to stress and anxiety. Like, in a unfun completely sucky kind of way. I feel like I should really play the game without the wuss mod but I don't think I can do it!

Game I have also never really played past the initial encounters:

Amnesia
Alien Isolation
Outlast

Resident Evil 7 looks great but I'm afraid it may be too stressful to be fun. We shall see.

 

[Lucini]

Damned clowns. I hate them.

There used to be a carnival themed rail shooter in the arcade I went to, and I would try like hell to map my way around that awful SOB.

Don't really like Sweet Tooth from Twisted Metal, so TW series is a no from me.
Same goes for any game with a clown. I tend to tune out and not go back.

 

[Lord Phol]

Yup being underwater is terrifying for me in most games just as it is IRL. Even more so when theres actually creatures or monsters there with you. Could never complete the giant eel/sunken ship stage in super mario 64 back in the day and tomb raider was really hard to go through.

However I usually manage to push myself to do what needs to be done even if I sometimes have to pause and calm myself down before continuing. I've dived with sharks in Far Cry 3, challenged drowners in witcher 3 for treasure and actually beat Soma. Not to say it was easy though and I stil get a deep sense of feer and anxiety whenever I have to dive in those games. On that note, I can't wait to try the PSVR shark cage thing! Should be like the ultimate test.

 

[User123456]

I had the biggest fucking phobia of deep, dark or enclosed waters as a kid. Many games such as Tomb Raider terrified me for this reason.

Got over most of it with the years, though. But back then? Yeah, it was a problem.

 

[-Mutsukki-]

The ocean.

I will never ever play Subnautica, but somehow I am so incredibly drawn into it when someone is playing. My heart beats so fast watching someone play and gasp when they do dumb things and aaahh D;

Yeah I know that feel.

I actually love water and the ocean irl. I love diving and I looove water areas in video games!! But I still can't handle them it's really bad

 

[Hulohot]

The only one I can think of is when stepping onto train tracks in games. Specifically the moment in Silent Hill 3 where you are pushed onto the tracks, and later on need to run around on them.

Got similar feels in GTA V.

 

[Fat4all]

I've said this before on Gaf, but when I was young I had a fear of deep water, and that really made me afraid of lake Hylia in Ocarina of Time.

OoT helped me overcome that fear, luckily.

 

[Kabanossi]

Can't say I'm afraid of the dark but it makes me feel uncomfortable. Same goes for games too. For example, completing Condemned on Xbox 360 was a pain in the ass, but I managed to do it.

But somehow I like the feeling. I mean, it's awesome how a game can trick your brain like that even though you know you're sitting on your couch and nothing can happen.

We'll see if I have the guts to play a horror game on PSVR when I eventually buy one.