Afraid of Monsters!

[soulscythe]

uwasawaya said:

Gotta tell you Soul, Hawaii is nice, but the cost of living and the fact that an hour drive (least on Oahu) will get you anywhere makes it a pretty limited place... but yeah, the beaches are amazing, and you can go all year round... that makes it worth it... but I'm like you, one of my favorite places to hang out is Ala Moana beach. Usually, it's not great for snorkling, but I do anyway.. near the beach it's great, you're only a few feet above the sand, but a bit further out it just drops away... freaks me the hell out. Actually was there one day snorkling when the sun came out and cleared the water... and I was floating next to a barracuda.

You'd love Hanauma Bay though, or Shark's Cove (ignore the name), both you can see 20-30 feet down to the sea bottom, and it's just unbelievable. Hanauma in particular is almost always crystal clear. I went night snorkling once, which after I got over my fear of being in the water at night (and almost being attacked by a moray... which was mostly my fault) it was really quite an experience.

Pointless fact, the Hawaiian state fish is called the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a. Almost as fun to pronounce. It's damn goofy looking too.

WTF snorkling at night (!) and tickling the morays? Dude.... that's an experience I definately don't want to ever have.

@ state fish
That has to be a part of a hawaiian drinking game, in which a person has to say "Humuhumunukunukuapua'a" 5 times in a row, without mispelling or else he has to drink a whiskey-coke in one go. The more you drink, the worse you'll get at pronouncing, soon everyone isn't able to get past the first 6-7 letters anymore and the whole thing will be one big laugh. Hell, that would be a good idea for my next party

[uwasawaya]

That would be an awesome drinking game... lol... and the night snorkling man, it's whack... you have this high powered flashlight, and it's like being in an alien movie, it's all black underwater, and everything runs away from the light, so you glimpse them for just a second. The moray (which I didn't tickle, it looked like it wanted to eat me) wasn't a bit deal, long as you leave them alone. I also saw an octopus (which are nifty little things), a couple of crabs, and a flounder (which has got to be a joke by evolution... when you're born normal and your eyes move to one side of your head?)

Some good things though... everyone here is partially nuts, and it's always warm... I also might get a job on the set of "Lost" as well... who knows...

[Blue]

soulscythe said:

Don't be ashamed of that. I bet everyone reacted similar at laast once

The most frightening thing for me in video games is water. Sounds stupid? Might be true, but there is nothing worse for me, than murky, dark water with horrible creatures inside. You can throw 7 legged, 10 feet high mutants at me without a problem, but let me jump in a murky pool and make something go "Grraaaarrgh *gurgle* *gurgle*" and watch me flip out

When I met that alien shark in Half-Life the first time, I was so frightened. The sound it made, when it was speeding towards me and how it looked was so awful. I immediately hit quickload or ESC, if I fell into the water somehow, only not to see how it gets me lol. You've ever played Gothic 2? If you swam too far in the open water, a video sequence started, in which you was eaten by huge sea monsters. The moment I realized what was going on, saw the shape of the monster and heard the sound it made *Bam* I turned off my screen. Later on, I watched the sequence again, but with my hand over my eyes, peeking through.

I always get this uneasy feeling, when it comes to water in video games, I can't tell you why. Even if there isn't any danger in the water, I'm getting goose bumps and try not to look below the surface. If there ever will be a game, completely themed around the water and the creatures inside, it would make me freak out more than all the Silent Hills of the world.

I know, I deserve the "pansy of the year" award. ;D

I just found this thread and I totally have to agree with you two about water in video games. And the sea in general.
Regarding the shark scene in Half Life: I never completed it. I can´t really remember but I thin eventually I cheated. Which turned out to be the most dumb thing to do at the time. Because ... what is worse than first hearing, then seeing this big ugly shark thing making noises and swimming at you with an intent to kill?
Right, god mode. Seeing it attack you countless times until you managed to kill it. Which took a while because I was freaked out over and over again until I jumped out of the water. With godmode on ;D.

I used to like the sea a lot. But there was this one occasion where my father and I went swimming and ... well ... it involved me drifting off into the ocean and a lot of jelly fish ;D.

soulscythe said:

I might be an avid swimmer who loves the ocean and its interesting life, enjoy snorkeling 24/7 and all that, but I just can't stand to be on the open water with nothing but blue below me.

Why?

(Sorry, had to pull that one)

But back to games people were afraid of ... Do you remember Moonstone? That game for the Atari ? About the four knights and the dragon ?
Whenever that dragon came I either turned the game off or called a friend of mine to finish it off for me. I would fight everything in that game but the dragon, these swamp giants, the hill giants, the swamp beast thingies ... well in fact I only fought those wood monkeys and occasionally the one horned buffalos ;D. But hey I was fresh out of kindergarden at that time.

Anything else ... mhh ... there was Resident Evil 1. I never got past the scene with the dog. And I mean that literally because I always died. And I was older than Abyx, I think.

[uwasawaya]

I get to go night snorkling again in two weeks when my little sister flies out here. That'll be freaky.. maybe we'll see the giant thing everyone was talking about last time...

I don't remember the shark, I tried to block most of Half-Life 1 out after about halfway through.

And Jellyfish are bad shit man. 9 days after the full-moon, like clockwork, box jellies flood the beach. Always gotta watch out for that. They have Man-o-Wars out here too, but technically they aren't jellyfish... freaky things, they look like a plastic bag floating in the water.