Hahaha actually that is a really strong motivator to play DA, I might just try Lost Planet out for the sake of trying it to see if it works and stuff (I mean, I bothered downloading it at this point) and then go to DA anyway. I'm still not sure what I'm going to do (restart or try to continue...) ... maybe I should just play through the first time on a normal difficulty since the game is meant to be played through multiple times anyway.
And yeah, it's hard for me to play Resident Evil, too. I've only ever played three of them: the original, the remake of the original on GameCube, and RE4 on Wii. The remake was the first I ever tried, and I would always play with others around. I get really nervous about stuff like hearing a zombie but not being able to see it. It freaks me out. That kind of anxiety-type fear is worse than jumpscare fear or 'giant scary thing attacking you' fear. I mean I'm easily scared by everything, even Devil May Cry was scary for me, and the haunted mansion in Rune Factory 4... those aren't even meant to be scary games.
Anyway, I always played with my brother around for the remake and I could never get very far, because it was kind of hard to figure out the puzzles and figure out what to do while being scared lol. There were some areas of the game I was just afraid to go and wouldn't go there but obviously if there is an item you need like a key or something there, I'm not going to progress...
With the original on PlayStation, I played with my friend Ricky who knows the game inside out and he would talk me through stuff and calm me down while I was playing and was really helpful. He teased me about being scared of it but he also wanted me to be able to enjoy it so he sat with me from beginning to end and helped me play both characters. Like, he didn't just sit and narrate or tell me what to do, but if I was afraid of going into a room or something, he would say like "Don't worry, it will be safe" or "there might be a scary thing but it's okay" or something like that. And if I got confused on the puzzles he would give me hints, but only if I asked.
Then with RE4, it's more a shooter and not so much puzzles and stuff so it wasn't hard to figure out what to do, but I also played with my friend Ricky and I was playing on Wii and like... I was shaking so bad in fear that I couldn't shoot anything because the crosshair cursor thing was just wildly flailing around the screen LOL.
And yeah, other scary games I haven't been able to play either. I played a game called Into the Gloom which is not even really that scary and the graphics are just like black and white blocks, but I played it because my friend made it (it's actually a pretty neat game) and recorded it and I cried like every 5 minutes. But I pushed through it!! It was a really short game though. Then he made an updated version and got it onto Steam, and I wanted to play it again to see the new content, and I streamed it on my Twitch channel, and even though I was actively talking to people and had already played through it before, I still cried while playing lol. But mostly because the game is just really creepy atmosphere the whole time and then there's random albeit few jumpscares and so I'd just have panic attacks and die.
The Last Remnant is one of my fav games of all time; Akitoshi Kawazu is my favorite director and all his games are fantastic and I love them (he did Unlimited Saga, too XD) and they tend to be like... really convoluted and complex and difficult to understand and unorthodox and most people hate them but for some reason I really love them all XD
But yeah DA is probably the most likely thing I'll end up playing at this point XD
no subject
And yeah, it's hard for me to play Resident Evil, too. I've only ever played three of them: the original, the remake of the original on GameCube, and RE4 on Wii. The remake was the first I ever tried, and I would always play with others around. I get really nervous about stuff like hearing a zombie but not being able to see it. It freaks me out. That kind of anxiety-type fear is worse than jumpscare fear or 'giant scary thing attacking you' fear. I mean I'm easily scared by everything, even Devil May Cry was scary for me, and the haunted mansion in Rune Factory 4... those aren't even meant to be scary games.
Anyway, I always played with my brother around for the remake and I could never get very far, because it was kind of hard to figure out the puzzles and figure out what to do while being scared lol. There were some areas of the game I was just afraid to go and wouldn't go there but obviously if there is an item you need like a key or something there, I'm not going to progress...
With the original on PlayStation, I played with my friend Ricky who knows the game inside out and he would talk me through stuff and calm me down while I was playing and was really helpful. He teased me about being scared of it but he also wanted me to be able to enjoy it so he sat with me from beginning to end and helped me play both characters. Like, he didn't just sit and narrate or tell me what to do, but if I was afraid of going into a room or something, he would say like "Don't worry, it will be safe" or "there might be a scary thing but it's okay" or something like that. And if I got confused on the puzzles he would give me hints, but only if I asked.
Then with RE4, it's more a shooter and not so much puzzles and stuff so it wasn't hard to figure out what to do, but I also played with my friend Ricky and I was playing on Wii and like... I was shaking so bad in fear that I couldn't shoot anything because the crosshair cursor thing was just wildly flailing around the screen LOL.
And yeah, other scary games I haven't been able to play either. I played a game called Into the Gloom which is not even really that scary and the graphics are just like black and white blocks, but I played it because my friend made it (it's actually a pretty neat game) and recorded it and I cried like every 5 minutes. But I pushed through it!! It was a really short game though. Then he made an updated version and got it onto Steam, and I wanted to play it again to see the new content, and I streamed it on my Twitch channel, and even though I was actively talking to people and had already played through it before, I still cried while playing lol. But mostly because the game is just really creepy atmosphere the whole time and then there's random albeit few jumpscares and so I'd just have panic attacks and die.
The Last Remnant is one of my fav games of all time; Akitoshi Kawazu is my favorite director and all his games are fantastic and I love them (he did Unlimited Saga, too XD) and they tend to be like... really convoluted and complex and difficult to understand and unorthodox and most people hate them but for some reason I really love them all XD
But yeah DA is probably the most likely thing I'll end up playing at this point XD