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Scariest moments in the XDAS games Spoilers of course, duh

#1 User is offline   Don Andy Icon

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 08:48 AM

This probably has been done to death, but I'm curious.

And just for the guys who don't read topic descriptions.

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Which moments (if any) in the XDAS-games really made you shit your pants?
Well, it probably doesn't scare as well as Silent Hill, since pixelated 2D isn't THAT scary, but there were still some moments were I really just tought "F***!!"

In 5DAS it was in the bathroom. It wasn't particulary scary, but it just caught me off guard. I expected the kid just sitting in the bath tub chanting strange things, but then this friggin skeleton jumped at me xD

In 7DAS it were mostly the chasing scenes. Just for the fact that you didn't dare to walk towards a door because he WILL come out of that door and slash you the instant you wanted to walk through xD
And the doctors room shocked me, too. Was expecting HIM to lie at the door bleeding. Not the remains of the entire crew.

TN was just scary for itself. Especially the first time you play through it, since you never know what exactly awaits you behind the next door. But the most scary thing was probably "it hurts".

6DAS sadly hadn't so much scary moments. It had an eerie feel over it, but you could see the most scares coming.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 09:15 AM

6DAS wasn't the "I'll scare the bejeesus out of you"-horror game like TN or 7DAS was, much more like the "I'll make you feel uneasy, disturbed and change your whole outlook on life"-type; however, it had some tense moments, and sometimes, it made me fall off my chair laughing, as well. I think that the scene where Janine chases you with a machete and has two white dots for eyes is genuinely scary, and I almost got a heart attack when the Tall Man turned her into shish-kebab. Perhaps it would add to the scariness of the game if you were able to die in it (and, of course, thus not live up to your destiny, but that would mean that you could evade the Caretaker's traps which is probably impossible and would kill the whole plot).

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 09:34 AM

I absolutely crapped myself the first time you reality shift in TN, where you just get a quick glipse of the tall man, and that was on the seccond time I played it through.

I think 6DAS would have been scarier if you could die, I mean would 7DAS have been as scary if you just woke up again when the wealder got you.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 09:50 AM

7 Days a Skeptic ruined my career as an astronaut, thank you. I'll never set foot in a spaceship again.

The bathroom-scene in 5 Days a Stranger made me scream like a little girl too at first, but it quickly faded into a giggle - which happened almost every time when chubby-faced Trilby was trying to display a feeling of shock, but only managed to achieve some kind of "I'm a balloon! yey!"-look.

Trilby's Notes got me scared during those awfully quick reality shifts. But if people had actually walked around the hotel, so you would never know whether a bad or a good guy is about to emerge from the darkness behind the doors, well, then I probably never would have touched a computer again.

6 Days a Sacrifice scared me a little when Sam opened the door and the tall man came in (really, he should have done that in slow-motion, accompanied by his own theme-song). I just didn't expect him to come a-knockin' so early in the game.

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 11:41 AM

5 Days A Stranger scared me a lot, especially in the bathrrom scene. Truth is, when I saw that AJ had died, I thought the game would be a murder mystery. *slaps head*.
Apart from the bathroom, I didn't see anything that really frightened me.

7 Days was gory and William's bedroom was both surprising and horrifying. But the Welder chase scenes were definitely the most surprising and scary bits.

Trilby's Notes= Any bit in the dark world, especially in the first instance, where it suddenly flashes into it and you have no idea what to do with all the corpses. I could almost smell the rotting flesh.

6 Days wasn't scary in comparison to the others, proably because the exposure to the first three nullified my fear receptors. I didn't find the Prince as scary as I thought I would. Janine's transformation was surprising, but not terribly chilling.

The scariest, as everyone knows, was Trilby's Notes.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 12:00 PM

Its been years since I first played 5DaS,and indeed 7DAS, so my impressions may have daded with time, buit its quite possibly Notes that didi it most for me. Walking around the corrupted hotel wandering what was going o creeped me the hell out. And 6DAS just didn't do very much for me at all.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 01:55 PM

5DaS - The skeleton in the bathtub.

7DaS - The torso coming out of that vent (? It's been a while since I played it), I didn't expect that. Or the chase scenes. Those scared the crap out of me.

TN - The flashbacks were very freaky for me. Just knowing that something very strange or disturbing was going to happen filled me with dread every time they'd show up. I think the scariest was (gawd, I'm really forgetful. lol) the one in the hotel, I guess? Where that guy goes to stay for the night?

6DaS - Wasn't too scary in terms of the others, but I thought it was kind of twisted. It got me thinking a lot, and made me a bit uneasy (especially when.. lol. Janine? Is walking around with that mask, or the scenes inside Chzo.). The ending scene was amazing, though. Creepy, but amazing.

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Posted 01 February 2007 - 02:50 PM

5DaS - First nightmare. Sudden change in music. Woosh-cah. That definitely changed the entire atmosphere of the game.

7DaS - Torsooooooo =D The chase scenes were great, too, especially with the music that was used.

TN - The voices. I eventually started taking off my headphones everytime there was a shift.

6DaS - ..the safe. The one in the barracks. When he says something along the lines of "something's holding it from the other side", my imagination ran wild. Of course, it was disappointing, but I was hoping for like a severed arm that was holding the door closed or something equally weird.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 04:11 PM

5DAS: Going with the flow here; First nightmare, really caught me offguard, was teh moment I realized that this game *wasn't* really like Monkey Island.

7DAS: The chase sequence, my god, I didn't finish the until one year after I found the Doctor.

Trilby's Notes: Random reality switches and "It hurts"es really messed with me head

6DAS: When Jenine showed up in full-on welder costume.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 04:45 PM

To this day I still have not yet gathered the nerve to finish 7DAS because of the welder chase sequence. I had to come to this board and read about what happened.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 04:58 PM

QUOTE (HMC @ Feb 1 2007, 10:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
To this day I still have not yet gathered the nerve to finish 7DAS because of the welder chase sequence. I had to come to this board and read about what happened.


Heh, if you're willing to spend 5$ on the Special Edition you get an early warning system for the chase sequence.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 05:42 PM

For 5DAS, it was probably the bathroom scene, although I can't really remember if I was actually startled half to death or just thrown a bit off guard.

I can recall being startled half to death at least one other time playing the games, but I don't remember exactly when it was.

For the most part, the series didn't really scare me that much while I was playing it.

It was when I was in bed at night and I'd lie awake thinking about it all.

The Welder scared the shit out of me in bed when I was on holiday at a cabin in Idaho. Every time I heard the wind do something I was absolutely convinced that John DeFoe was going to come in and rip my entrails out.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 05:58 PM

5 days: Nothing, really. But for some reason, I can't get myself to play it again.

7 days: When you go into Williams room. I've only played the game once since then.

Trilby's Notes: The hallucinations. Thats the only thing keeping me from playing the game now.

6 days: When I called Samantha's phone, the Welder appeared and stabbed Theo.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 06:10 PM

Actually, looking back I think the scariest part of 6DAS is the very start where the main menu just has a low tone of muck in the background, and then when you select 'new game' the srceen goes black for about a seccond and as the first quote comes up theres a big 'DUMMMMMMMMMM' in the music and it really racks up the tension.

That did it for me anyway.
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Posted 01 February 2007 - 08:05 PM

I think the most scary part for me was the random hallucination in TN where you turn into the Welder for about 5 seconds. I screamed and was sure I was going to die.

I remember being terrified of the chase sequnce in 7 Days too. Actually, the first minor one more so. I didn't realize you could do stuff and the captain just came over and strangled me.

Acutally, now that I think of it, the entirety of TN had me horrified. I ended up using all 20 of the saves AGS gives you, (and would've used at least 5 more,) because I was so afraid that I'd die. The reality shifts had me unable to breathe because I had no idea when they'd come, until I had the briliant idea of counting how many rooms you had to walk into until it shifted. That made the game a lot easier for me.
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