potnop
Warming Up
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Doom 3 is surprisingly not scary for me at all.
I was scared by FEAR a few times when really weird stuff started happening, especially in the Extraction Point expansion pack.
Definitely helps to play the game with good earphones at night though!!! It also helps build tension and fear if you play without saves. I got the idea from Alien vs Predator and the second one. In AVP you can only save limited times in the gold edition (and apparently you can't save at all in the non-gold edition which is ridiculous) and the fact that I couldn't save at any time made the game super scary for me... And in the second on super hard difficulty you have to beat the level without saving at all which makes playing as the marine intense and scary.
The same holds true for Doom 3. The beginning levels aren't so bad and I hadn't died at all except for accidentally killing my self with a grenade but that doesn't count because Doom 3 grenades are god awful and don't bounce realistically or predictibally. I could throw a grenade down a long hallway and have the grenade bounce back and be at my feet for a quick OMFG SRSLY WTF moment before I die...
But anyway, I was definitely startled a small number of times when I was really into the atmosphere and whatever but the game isn't all that scary to me until you add this element of tension and not saving. Once you start saving you just run through a part and keep dying and get frustrated. When you don't save, the game becomes an intense fight for your life!!!! I've had many close tooth gritting moments from playing this way and it made me enjoy the game far more.
I do remember one part where I nearly shit bricks though. It was right after you get to the satellite comlink room but it's destroyed because Swann had Cambell blow it up with a BFG9000. (For some reason the player can't do that with his BFG 9000 hahaha, damn scripted events...) When you walk back out of that room, suddenly a white light appears and a shadow of an imp appears under some stairs. I was like WTFFF!!!! TOTALLY NOT EXPECTING THAT!!!!
Oh also when I first encountered the pinky demon and you're trapped in that room and it's tearing down the door. I was like OMFG SHIT SHIT. Then I killed it in 2 shotgun blasts and was like wow that's it?
Hmm also I remember I found this one secret area with some shitty armor shards, and inside that secret area there are some inteeeense whispering voices for some reason. The fact that it was dark and cramped just freaked me the hell out. I think it was on the level on the way to killing Sarge.
Oh and there was this other part where the room is all red and you open a door, and suddenly a demonic voice chants something and this massive red tentacle thing whips out at you and nearly bites you. Now thaaat was weird.
Overall though, the whole monsters popping out of closets and me killing them with one shotgun blast doesn't exactly scare me.
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06-20-10 01:17 
