There was this big update that wasn't tested much or at all? Well, it disfigured everyones faces due to some bug. My character had these protruding verts sticking out of his face. It was really horrifying to see everyone like that. I don't think it was even fixed for a month- that was scary too.
The first time I was asked to be a Tank for a group in EQ2. New to MMO's at the time, I remember my hands shaking when I clicked on the OK to accept the group message. I remember saying to myself, OMG I'm going to get everyone killed...oh why did I choose to become a tank, I could have been a healer, stayed in the back of the group, but noooooo, a Tank, right in the front line of the fight. Everyone depending on me to take the hits. If I die, they all die.
Maybe I can just hit the power button and tell everyone my pc died. I was horrified. Those were the days.
Now that was my most scary thing I can remember happening to me, but to answer your question of the most scary thing I've seen in an MMO..... that would be a dwarf running away from Giant. It just looked so scary. Poor dwarf.
Lineage 2, a Hook Horror appearing out of the swamp in front of me. At the time there was a lot of mist in the swamp and it was very difficult to see so this thing just appeared from out of nowhere.
YES! Those things scared the crap out of me.
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Lineage 2, a Hook Horror appearing out of the swamp in front of me. At the time there was a lot of mist in the swamp and it was very difficult to see so this thing just appeared from out of nowhere.
YES! Those things scared the crap out of me.
The very first time I saw one of these things was before I got to level to be in that swamp.
I was outside dark elf village, there was a large field when you left the village on the right hand side where there were some walking mushroom things and these goblins, and I was hunting there.
Suddenly I see a character run over the hills and following him is this hook horror. I was going to help but realized I knew nothing about this thing and he had a good lead. Funny thing is that it didn't stop, it followed him right down the road to the village.
and unlike Wow where the guards attack mobs, I'm sure the guards at dark elf village did nothing. ; )
To this day I wonder if it took him down.
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I was playing my first month of my first MMO, Anarchy Online, and as I tried to run into Old Athens, I fell through the ramp. For some reason, I ended up glitched. I couldn't get into the city, and there were no mobs and no people anymore. I was just running around in this barren wasteland. For some reason, it really creeped me out.
Edited to add: Okay, it still doesn't creep me out as much as people who spend hundreds of dollars every month in their game's cash shop. Nothing is creepier than that.
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Venturing out into the Commonlands in EQ1 for the very first time, trying to find a wisp to kill so I could get a lightstone. (Yeah, there are bigger and scarier things in EQ1, but it was DARK, darn it!)
Doing a druid quest in EQ1 that required me to sneak into the Dark Elf City. PLEASE DON'T FAIL ME NOW, CAMO!
My first realm points gained in DAOC.
The last boss in the dungeon in WoW that was in the level 70 expansion area (I forget the name - Sunstrider? something like that?) That was a great fight at the time.
Blood elves male hairstyles.
Playing beginning SWG and hearing the rumor that the game was about to be destroyed, depending on if the Jedi class became open to the masses or not.
Beta-testing The Sims Online.
Going on my first 40 man raid in WoW.
Those were some of the scarier moments I can recall off of the top of my head.
This has happened to me in SWG, WoW and FFXI. I would come around a corner and see 2 players in some strange sitting or laying position usually in a strange spot, like in a bedroom in a house or on the edge of a cliff looking at a nice vista.
Obviously this was a "couple" being "romantic" in the game. It seriously kind of made me uncomfortable. Kind of like walking in on your parents when you were growing up. *shiver*
The really bad one ,was in SWG, there was a bed and the characters were unclothed and dancing. Was very strange.
That is funny, I had a similar experience with two elves in the train tunnels in WOW years ago. I fell into the tunnel, saw some chat popping up that was interesting to say the least. So I ran down the tunnel and found two elves in their undies having a romantic interlude. I told them I would roleplay the voyeuer and just stood there. They got miffed and ran offf.
Anyway ,that was odd and a bit strange Pretty scary as my imagination ran rampant on what the people behind the toons might have looked like.
This has happened to me in SWG, WoW and FFXI. I would come around a corner and see 2 players in some strange sitting or laying position usually in a strange spot, like in a bedroom in a house or on the edge of a cliff looking at a nice vista.
Obviously this was a "couple" being "romantic" in the game. It seriously kind of made me uncomfortable. Kind of like walking in on your parents when you were growing up. *shiver*
The really bad one ,was in SWG, there was a bed and the characters were unclothed and dancing. Was very strange.
That is funny, I had a similar experience with two elves in the train tunnels in WOW years ago. I fell into the tunnel, saw some chat popping up that was interesting to say the least. So I ran down the tunnel and found two elves in their undies having a romantic interlude. I told them I would roleplay the voyeuer and just stood there. They got miffed and ran offf.
Anyway ,that was odd and a bit strange Pretty scary as my imagination ran rampant on what the people behind the toons might have looked like.
Well, heard, not seen (appropriate, considering how high quality the sound is in FFXI). FFXI has a creepy haunted dungeon called Gusgen Mines. It's scary enough to begin with (in addition to the actual undead monsters, there's ghostly images of dead people--including children--floating through area, appearing, disappearing...). There's also six ghost-type boss monsters (Notorious Monsters in FFXI parlance) that spawn on semi-random timers. When one spawns, a LOUD, shrieking siren goes off that can be heard throughout Gusgen and the nearby parts of adjoining Oldton Movalpolos. The first time I heard that, I must have jumped three feet. It can still make me jump a little.
So I ran down the tunnel and found two elves in their undies having a romantic interlude. I told them I would roleplay the voyeuer and just stood there. They got miffed and ran offf.
WoW needs instanced player housing. Case closed.
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I sometimes question the validity of community from all the seriously anti-social behavior I have seen in this genre. But no matter how bad I have seen people behave in MMO's it is nothing compared to the abomination of X-Box Live. That just makes you question our species right to exist.
Fallen Earth in beta has some bugs (as to be expected). Anyway near one of the starter towns there was this underground lab area where you get sent for a few quests. I get in the lab easily, as it was totally deserted, grab my item, and prepare to leave. Now I'm in first person view (the game plays a bit like an FPS), and I turn around to leave the room I'm in and almost fall off my damn chair from the shock of suddenly seeing about 20 zombies shambling through the doorway. Yeah, they ALL spawned on me. I only have a BB gun with like 8 rounds per clip. I killed maybe 2 before I went down in a heap. Now the bugs are ironed out and you have to fight the zombies to actually get into the room.
yeah its the people spending all their time in it especially having been an Everquest player. I warned this person in WoW when they were new to the game- don't get yourself too sucked in or whatever. Anyway anytime I logged in and resubscribed they were there playing. But people make and learn from their mistakes so.
Seriously, there are some people who are really messed up with severe mental issues who play MMOs. I'm talking about people with sociopathic tendencies, severe mood disorders, etc.
I have been in guilds with people who act perfectly friendly one day, and then the next they're verbally assaulting everyone and trying to destroy the community they're part of. Others, and some of the same, who act friendly to you and others, and then talk behind everyone's back to intentionally stir up drama. It's as if some of these people make a game of causing as much drama as possible. I have witnessed certain players virtually stalk other players, and harass them, some even going so far as trying to track them down in real life for whatever reason, be it obsessive desire, or hate for said player.
I would cast my vote for this as well. Having played a number of MMOs, been in various guilds, run a few guilds, and no issues jumping into PUGs, I've run into a number of very odd people...some of which become rather frightening (essentially getting to stalking). I've seen guilds pulled apart because of nonsense drama on the part of these people who thought playing the drama games was cool.
You know for the most part i just laugh at the notion of "Something scarey in an MMO"
Sure there were moment in EQ when i saw a massive train heading my way, and my heart sank, but that inspired anger, not fear.
I mean, hell i'm a U.S. Marine, a video game can't scare me right?
-- WRONG
The scariest shit i've seen in a game was in Requiem, you know, when the in-game time hits midnight..... it's dark... a thick foggy mist rolls in... and then... the glowing eyes pierce through the mist, red, angry, unforgiving eyes... of a Nightmare spawn... their aggro range is HUGE, it screams, and takes off chasing, you - But.. your flanked by a cliff.. no choice but to fight this ugly psycho monster chasing you, then the battle ensues, you stand victorious, bleeding, near death. You smile because you survived the encounter... just as you sit to rest, you see 5 more sets of angry glowing eyes followed by shrilled screams.
But that game was a Horror-MMO, so it was expected, lol.
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The first time I was asked to be a Tank for a group in EQ2. New to MMO's at the time, I remember my hands shaking when I clicked on the OK to accept the group message. I remember saying to myself, OMG I'm going to get everyone killed...oh why did I choose to become a tank, I could have been a healer, stayed in the back of the group, but noooooo, a Tank, right in the front line of the fight. Everyone depending on me to take the hits. If I die, they all die.
Maybe I can just hit the power button and tell everyone my pc died. I was horrified. Those were the days.
Now that was my most scary thing I can remember happening to me, but to answer your question of the most scary thing I've seen in an MMO..... that would be a dwarf running away from Giant. It just looked so scary. Poor dwarf.
I love this answer!
I can totally relate, except for me....I WAS the healer, and trust me....I was every single bit as TERRIFIED. Of course, you know as well as I do that everything always somehow ends up being either the healer's fault...or the tank's fault. There is no way in hell it's the fault of that pyroblast-type-of-spell spamming wizard, lock, mage, etc....uh uhh...noooo way it has anything to do with them.
LOL
The other scariest thing I ever saw in an MMO was apparently so terrifying that I've blocked it out of my mind, because frankly....I don't remember. I remember being scared, but I don't remember why....other than the first time healer thing. heh
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There was this big update that wasn't tested much or at all? Well, it disfigured everyones faces due to some bug. My character had these protruding verts sticking out of his face. It was really horrifying to see everyone like that. I don't think it was even fixed for a month- that was scary too.
The first time I was asked to be a Tank for a group in EQ2. New to MMO's at the time, I remember my hands shaking when I clicked on the OK to accept the group message. I remember saying to myself, OMG I'm going to get everyone killed...oh why did I choose to become a tank, I could have been a healer, stayed in the back of the group, but noooooo, a Tank, right in the front line of the fight. Everyone depending on me to take the hits. If I die, they all die.
Maybe I can just hit the power button and tell everyone my pc died.
I was horrified. Those were the days.
Now that was my most scary thing I can remember happening to me, but to answer your question of the most scary thing I've seen in an MMO..... that would be a dwarf running away from Giant. It just looked so scary. Poor dwarf.
YES! Those things scared the crap out of me.
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"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
The very first time I saw one of these things was before I got to level to be in that swamp.
I was outside dark elf village, there was a large field when you left the village on the right hand side where there were some walking mushroom things and these goblins, and I was hunting there.
Suddenly I see a character run over the hills and following him is this hook horror. I was going to help but realized I knew nothing about this thing and he had a good lead. Funny thing is that it didn't stop, it followed him right down the road to the village.
and unlike Wow where the guards attack mobs, I'm sure the guards at dark elf village did nothing. ; )
To this day I wonder if it took him down.
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I was playing my first month of my first MMO, Anarchy Online, and as I tried to run into Old Athens, I fell through the ramp. For some reason, I ended up glitched. I couldn't get into the city, and there were no mobs and no people anymore. I was just running around in this barren wasteland. For some reason, it really creeped me out.
Edited to add: Okay, it still doesn't creep me out as much as people who spend hundreds of dollars every month in their game's cash shop. Nothing is creepier than that.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
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Frightening things...
Barrens Chat.
Venturing out into the Commonlands in EQ1 for the very first time, trying to find a wisp to kill so I could get a lightstone. (Yeah, there are bigger and scarier things in EQ1, but it was DARK, darn it!)
Doing a druid quest in EQ1 that required me to sneak into the Dark Elf City. PLEASE DON'T FAIL ME NOW, CAMO!
My first realm points gained in DAOC.
The last boss in the dungeon in WoW that was in the level 70 expansion area (I forget the name - Sunstrider? something like that?) That was a great fight at the time.
Blood elves male hairstyles.
Playing beginning SWG and hearing the rumor that the game was about to be destroyed, depending on if the Jedi class became open to the masses or not.
Beta-testing The Sims Online.
Going on my first 40 man raid in WoW.
Those were some of the scarier moments I can recall off of the top of my head.
That is funny, I had a similar experience with two elves in the train tunnels in WOW years ago. I fell into the tunnel, saw some chat popping up that was interesting to say the least. So I ran down the tunnel and found two elves in their undies having a romantic interlude. I told them I would roleplay the voyeuer and just stood there. They got miffed and ran offf.
Anyway ,that was odd and a bit strange Pretty scary as my imagination ran rampant on what the people behind the toons might have looked like.
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Well, heard, not seen (appropriate, considering how high quality the sound is in FFXI). FFXI has a creepy haunted dungeon called Gusgen Mines. It's scary enough to begin with (in addition to the actual undead monsters, there's ghostly images of dead people--including children--floating through area, appearing, disappearing...). There's also six ghost-type boss monsters (Notorious Monsters in FFXI parlance) that spawn on semi-random timers. When one spawns, a LOUD, shrieking siren goes off that can be heard throughout Gusgen and the nearby parts of adjoining Oldton Movalpolos. The first time I heard that, I must have jumped three feet. It can still make me jump a little.
I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.
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I sometimes question the validity of community from all the seriously anti-social behavior I have seen in this genre. But no matter how bad I have seen people behave in MMO's it is nothing compared to the abomination of X-Box Live. That just makes you question our species right to exist.
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Fallen Earth in beta has some bugs (as to be expected). Anyway near one of the starter towns there was this underground lab area where you get sent for a few quests. I get in the lab easily, as it was totally deserted, grab my item, and prepare to leave. Now I'm in first person view (the game plays a bit like an FPS), and I turn around to leave the room I'm in and almost fall off my damn chair from the shock of suddenly seeing about 20 zombies shambling through the doorway. Yeah, they ALL spawned on me. I only have a BB gun with like 8 rounds per clip. I killed maybe 2 before I went down in a heap. Now the bugs are ironed out and you have to fight the zombies to actually get into the room.
In EQ , in the Dreadlands, the named Iksar monk that would roam around the grind camps and wipe parties. Was his name Veltar?
I lol'd.
Seriously though, I would say any time I ever journied into the Plane of Fear in the original Everquest.
Corpse run in SSRAESHZA's Temple in Everquest. It's nerve wracking because some of those patrolling snake guards can see thru invis.
yeah its the people spending all their time in it especially having been an Everquest player. I warned this person in WoW when they were new to the game- don't get yourself too sucked in or whatever. Anyway anytime I logged in and resubscribed they were there playing. But people make and learn from their mistakes so.
I would cast my vote for this as well. Having played a number of MMOs, been in various guilds, run a few guilds, and no issues jumping into PUGs, I've run into a number of very odd people...some of which become rather frightening (essentially getting to stalking). I've seen guilds pulled apart because of nonsense drama on the part of these people who thought playing the drama games was cool.
You know for the most part i just laugh at the notion of "Something scarey in an MMO"
Sure there were moment in EQ when i saw a massive train heading my way, and my heart sank, but that inspired anger, not fear.
I mean, hell i'm a U.S. Marine, a video game can't scare me right?
-- WRONG
The scariest shit i've seen in a game was in Requiem, you know, when the in-game time hits midnight..... it's dark... a thick foggy mist rolls in... and then... the glowing eyes pierce through the mist, red, angry, unforgiving eyes... of a Nightmare spawn... their aggro range is HUGE, it screams, and takes off chasing, you - But.. your flanked by a cliff.. no choice but to fight this ugly psycho monster chasing you, then the battle ensues, you stand victorious, bleeding, near death. You smile because you survived the encounter... just as you sit to rest, you see 5 more sets of angry glowing eyes followed by shrilled screams.
But that game was a Horror-MMO, so it was expected, lol.
The most frightening thing in a MMO is a pink flying ewok, when you have witnessed it you don't ever want to play the game again.
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Scariest thing in an MMO?
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I love this answer!
I can totally relate, except for me....I WAS the healer, and trust me....I was every single bit as TERRIFIED. Of course, you know as well as I do that everything always somehow ends up being either the healer's fault...or the tank's fault. There is no way in hell it's the fault of that pyroblast-type-of-spell spamming wizard, lock, mage, etc....uh uhh...noooo way it has anything to do with them.
LOL
The other scariest thing I ever saw in an MMO was apparently so terrifying that I've blocked it out of my mind, because frankly....I don't remember. I remember being scared, but I don't remember why....other than the first time healer thing. heh
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