I’ll start: centaurs. Always freaked me out

Besides them, my second creepiest choice is:

TW jumpscare

  • @[email protected]
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    162 days ago

    Fallout 3 Feral Ghouls. The DC Metro used to scare the shit out of me as a kid, those guys were hiding everywhere.

    • fxomtOPM
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      42 days ago

      Ghouls aren’t even that scary to me, but resources in fo3 are so scarce you feel like it’s a life or death situation with multiple of them sometimes.

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        62 days ago

        Yeah, the actual Ghouls themselves aren’t too scary, but Bethesda definitely wanted to make the Metro a mini horror game.

      • @cavveman
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        22 days ago

        The reavers when first meeting them in presidential metro. When not using unofficial patch they are scary due to how they move.

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    162 days ago

    Centaurs are creepy and unnerving, but when actually playing the game, a sprinting Deathclaw is what gets the heart going.

    • fxomtOPM
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      112 days ago

      God don’t fucking remind me of that, fallout nv’s deathclaws are the worst

      fuck the quarry fuck the quarry fuck the quarry

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        102 days ago

        Watching a video, they don’t seem threatening, but when you’re actually playing, fuckers are out there at a 30 mph sprint, and there sure as shit ain’t 30 miles between you and them.

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    32 days ago

    The giant hermit crabs. I was walking down the road in F76, and happened to pass one that was hiding in its “shell” without even noticing it was there. That was the first time I had seen one, and I about shit myself.

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    It’s not so much an NPC, but the lore behind them: the Keller Tapes from F3. It leaves a lot to the imagination of how horrifying running from an atomic bomb would be.

    Edit: it’s F3 not F4

    • fxomtOPM
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      82 days ago

      Hearing the fear in candace’s voice, and the monotonousness of ralph is pretty chilling. Alex was a champ, though

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    62 days ago

    Easy answer, nightkin. Specifically in the fly me to the moon quest where you have to clear the basement of them

    • fxomtOPM
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      12 days ago

      I have a love hate relationship with that quest. ED-E and veronica make it much easier to deal with

  • Electric
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    32 days ago

    Honorable mention to the giant crabs from 4/76. First time I came across one I was doing one of those animal defense missions in 76.

    squints

    “…is that a bus bobbing in the distance?”

    notice a giant angry crab come into view from behind the forest

    “OH GOOD HEAVENS.”

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      22 days ago

      Oh lordy, first time I met one in far harbour I was terrified. I was like how did it fit inside and how could it mutate that big.