Subnautica being number one was absolutely perfect 👏👏👏 The game gives you the truest sense of adventure but it also constantly frightens you on a very instinctive and primordial level. Truly one of the best and most terrifying games I have ever played in my 35 years of gaming.
I quickly learned to identify noises in Subnautica, so if you played me the Leviathan sounds I could tell you which one it was and whether or not you should GTFO, most of the time you do but Sea Treaders and Reefbacks have always been calming presences
I have thalassophobia, I can only swim in a shallow part of the pool/sea about 6ft and nothing more. watching Subnautica for the first time made me not wanna try that shit immediately lmfao. that's literally a no moment for me.
Before taking in tomb of the giants clear the demon ruins and find a sunlight magget that you can attach as a helmet and it frees your hand up so no need for lanturn
The isolation in Subnautica and Outer Wilds is what makes those two games. Both great games in their own right. The phrase "I don't think I'm supposed to be here" always crossed my mind.
As a kid, when the Flood first attacks on Halo 1 was a massive nope moment. The cutscene from Jenkins helmet, the explosion of the doors as infection forms swarm you, then finally as the infected elites charge you. It’s trivial now, but as a kid that shit was scary
The biggest nope on N64 for me was becoming an adult for the first time and leaving the temple of time for market town and seeing redeads for the first time. The scream, and art design were dark enough for those days and games, but what really hit it home for me was that first time link froze on me and i felt legitimately helpless and didnt know what to do. Granted, i did eventually learn how to handle all that, but that first experience made me very apprehensive for literally every redead and gibdo encounter i ever had after that in OOT and MM. It was the first time id ever seen controls messed with in an action adventure game like that, id only seen that kinda stuff used as status effects in rpgs like FF and pokemon.
by the time I got to the redeads in OoT I knew what they were and what to expect, so they didn't scare me too badly. but mother of FUCK the ones in WindWaker caught me completely off guard. I figured they were gonna come to life but I didn't expect the creepy-ass red eyes or for Link to be freaking out as well. that was the first and only time I screamed loud enough while playing a game for someone to come and check on me. I was sixteen at the time.
i hated passing through the market cos of those things, and what's more, the whole experience turned me right off adult Link. I'd rush the forest temple so i could go back to boyhood asap
Thank you for validating my fears with subnautica. Like I have a fear of dark waters, the darker the worse... and I got far enough to see the ghost leviathans, and then I was out... I built all the stuff I could, and just needed that last push but I couldn't do it anymore, lol. Playing that game had more stress than a real life job... with children.
@@nicklazy4207 it helped that it came out for PS Plus one month and I was currently going through distress tolerance CBT training lol. When it actually released I nope'd out of it too xD
A bit of advice if you ever go back, avoid the Crater's Edge (The Darkest waters in the game, where the Ghost Leviathan spawn out of nowhere), You've got a full minute to get back before the Ghost leviathan spawns, yes there is one in the lost river, but once you're past the lost river it is much brighter....I mean sure there is a Sea Dragon or three, but I'd rather Tango with them then Ghost leviathans, because Sea Dragons can easily be avoided
You totally nailed the 'nopes' of Outer Wilds and Subnautica. The first time getting chomped by a angler fish in Outer Wilds I literally yelled out loud. And I will always recall going ever deeper into Subnautica, looking into the utterly brillantly conceived gloom and dark of the deep sea and literally having to steal myself before continuing. And the Jolly Bay Eel still to this day creeps the f out of me. Bravo.
I had to finish the game for my brother and sister-in-law, because they went in not knowing what the deeper dives entailed. The first time she heard the Reaper Leviathan, she about faced, handed me the remote, and went to go hold her daughter. Meanwhile, my niece wanted to cuddle the Sea Dragon.
My "nope" moment was in the Killer Croc section of Arkham Asylum 😅 went from feeling like an unstoppable vengeance of the night to feeling like a scared little mouse
Been there... What makes matters worse is that the wooden planks are constantly destroyed so you have to constantly use the line launcher and god forbid the croc attacks you once you at the end of a plank
Seeing the flood for the first time in halo as a kid was a HUGE nope moment for me. I didn’t even realize you could fight them at first. Seemed like there were way to many
And here I was thinking that the biggest nope was the first time you encountered a Thunderjaw in Horizon. For me, it was terrifying, and I noped right out of there, treated it like the plague and gave it the widest possible berth.
Pfft. We have VERY different responses. I remember going through Horizon for the first time in party chat with my friend and basically just orgasming about everything. ESPECIALLY my first Tallneck and Thunderjaw and Stormbird. Those things were just so freaking EPIC!
Actually my biggest nope was from Hollow Knight. In the Jungle, I entered a cave then the hunter roared and i ran straight back. I later found out he was an NPC instead of a boss.
Oh damn i remember that, i heard the scream, gasps and paused the game, ran around the room, stretched my fingers to get ready to dash out of that place the first chance i got but,.. Yeah i laughed later
I’ve gotta say. Gameranx has some of the most creative top 10 lists in gaming. The frequency at how much they pump out so many interesting videos. It’s gotta be my favorite gaming channel hands down. I can put it on while passively playing anything, or while falling asleep.
I really love their top 10 lists but I wish they would do less fan service. Like, really, go and find a list without one of the following: Zelda, Mario game of any kind, Witcher, Metroid, Last of Us. And in a shooter related list: Freedom Fighters (they are obsessed with this game for some reason).
@@Trion54 Eh, I totally get what you're saying, and I partially agree with it, but I know I could go find multiple without those. The freedom fighters is a good point. Idk what the obsession is haha.
I thought you were gonna mention that PDA note in Subnautica which was for me the biggest NOPE I ever experienced in my life I was exploring new areas, searching for something I haven't seen before, I'm getting farther from my base, just calmly moving forward in what felt like an infinite blue horizon with nothing around and then I suddenly got a notification from my PDA which goes like this : "Detecting multiple leviathan life form in your area, are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it" This quote is still haunting me today
The Flood level on Halo Combat Evolved still remains one of the best nope missions I've ever played and replayed over the years. The mission statement changing to just one word: ESCAPE tells you everything you gotta do!
For me, in Dishonored 2: I'm terribly afraid of wasps and bees, and when I was going to enter that first apartment which is infested with blood flies, and saw that giant nest, I said "Nope" and left the apartment
The Rancor in Jedi Survivor is a great game design example, but like in your clip, bad hdr brightness settings can completely ruin the experience. You can see the rancor inside the cave, I couldn’t. All I could see was darkness, which made me think the cave is a long corridor so I force dashed into it only to get jump scared by the Rancor
If you run the opposite direction of the rancor's cave, you'll run out an opening that has an explosive spore that grows back forever. It takes a while, but you can stand just inside that opening and chuck spores at the rancor the whole time and it can't get to you. That was my solution...
@@benschroeder4036 I had fun fighting it, I’m just saying the presentation is great by the game designers but the surprise can get ruined by brightness settings
I introduced a friend of mine to Shadow of the Colossus. She was really enjoying riding around on Agro, scouting the countryside. But then she stumbled across the first colossus, and was immediately like "Nope. I'm just gonna hide behind this tree and cuddle my horse."
I still remember my first (and, so far, last) incursion into the Inactive Lava Zone in Subnautica. Just getting there was a succession of nope moments, but finally, there I was. And it wasn't so bad. I mean, I had just traversed the Lost River, with its greenish water, alien structures and giant skeletons (not to mention the Ghost Leviathans), and here I was on a prosaic cave filled with prosaic (if still dangerous) lava. And it was empty. So I cautiously set about mining some much-needed kyanite, an ore use in advanced crafting, and only found from that biome downwards. And that's when I was struck by a fireball. I turned around, and there was my first view of a Dragon Leviathan, a few meters away from me and spitting a second fireball in my direction. I think I've never ran away so fast in my entire gaming life. 😂
Just FYI, you do NOT have to ditch your ship to make it through Dark Bramble in Outer Wilds. You just can't activate your thrusters near the anglerfish, since it counts as noise.
For me it was the Rat King in TLOU2. It was like 3am, i was already playing for like 5 hours at that point, i was already super stressed about the huge nest section in the collapsing building just before it, i went up to the door and heard the growling behind it and just put down my controller and went to get a drink of water, came back, got to the bit where you see the ugly fucker and went "ya know what, nope. Not dealing with that right now" and just turned off my ps4 and went to bed
I turned on aaaall the accessibility features to get through that level, I couldn’t handle the stress of not knowing what creature might be where doing what otherwise. And when we got to the boss, I noped out a while until I could psych myself up for it.
My “Nope” moment was in Tomb Raider for the PS1. When I heard stomping and saw that T-Rex coming at me, I immediately turned around and cried out “RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY”. 😆
"We Don't Go To Ravenholm" in Half-Life 2 is my personal number one "nope" moment. Half-Life is definitely a case of the setting being scarier off-screen than what the player is actually shown, but Ravenholm is the notable exception. It's not difficult if you know what you're doing, but the whole chapter is just a parade of scares, unsettling zombie screaming, and creepy atmosphere. Even twenty years later I sometimes want to cry playing through it.
Actually a really early nope moment for me was looking at an Enderman in Minecraft when I didn't know about that mechanic. That escalating growl/scream still makes me uncomfortable to this day.
I am so glad that moment from Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty made it to this list. Because I did turn it off as soon as the Cerberus spiderbot appeared. It gave me so much anxiety. He failed to mention that you have to rely on sight-based gameplay and you have to use a traditional old school map to find your way around. Oh and to amplify the anxiety and fear, your controller vibrates louder when it’s closer *and* it turns red when it’s close by.
You also go from an awesome badass power fantasy to crying in a corner 😂 I was so freaked out I never even noticed the button to pull up the map, so I was just running around by terrified memory lol
The town of Ravenholm in Half Life 2. Can’t believe that wasn’t on this list. The most horrifying shit I’ve ever experienced in a non horror game. The black headcrabs, the screaming zombies, the fact that you basically have no weapons, the mine shaft at the end, nothing but giant Nopes the whole way through.
This is definitely one for me. Half Life 2 had some minor horror elements already, but Ravenholm came out of nowhere and turned the horror up dramatically for that whole section. It is still one of the most memorable sections in any game I’ve ever played.
Alyx: "we don't go to Ravenholm anymore..." Me: Well that's ominous. Good thing we don't have to go there. Moments later Alyx: "you need to go through Ravenholm now" me: oh🙃
Say what you want, but we can all agree that the biggest nope moment in subnautica is the first time you're exploring a new biome that is below 150 m, and you hear that distinctive roar. I adore subnautica, that still puts the wind up my skirt.
my most memorable nope moment was the u-boat section in the first uncharted game. i didn’t expect to be suddenly playing resident evil. legit just cowered in a corner using up all my bullets.
Shadow of the Colossus' underwater boss still haunts me. All you want to do is get away from it, but you have to let it get close so you can grab on to it. But since you can't hold your breath under water for very long, you have to do it multiple times! Gave me chills down my spine..
I remember early on in my first playthrough of Dragon Age: Inquisition coming around a corner, walking right into a Dragon and a Giant going to town on each other and just continuing my turn til I was going back the other way. Didn't even consider saving and then going to mess about just turned tail and noped out of there.
Ever seen a Water Wraith in Pikmin 2? Shit is scary as hell since all you can do is run, hide, or get steamrolled with all you Pikmin friends. For a kid under ten that is so terrifying. Also, oddly I enjoyed The Jolly Roger but hated drowning... maybe that's where so many of us began hating on any water levels in games 🤔
I dont know how many times I said nope during Subnautica. It made me jump multiple times, especially seeing the ghost leviathan early game. They did a good job of creating the right type of atmosphere.
For me the biggest nope I ever got was from one of the Alien Vs Predator games, probably the very first one. As a kid, playing as the alien was mostly disorienting and confusing and quickly got boring. As the Predator, it was a actually a ton of fun discovering and trying out all the high tech options it has. But has a marine... oh boy... I have nyctophobia, the fear of the dark, which I've pretty much gotten over now, but was pretty intense as a kid. Right off the bat as marine you have to go through dark corridors with nothing but a flare gun. Imagine my abject terror when xenos started rushing me down, making short work of my hapless marine. I have a very vivid permanently seared into my brain memory, and that's of standing in a spot after an airlock door where for then onwards there are no lights. Just pitch darkness. Standing there, wanting to play the game and see what the game offers and have fun... but scared shitless. I just noped outta the game. 🙅♂️
Just so you know the first Alien vs Predator game was a Super Nintendo Beat 'Em Up style game. You're probably thinking of the series of AvP games made by Rebellion Developments. And if it was the 1994 first game they made I'd be impressed that you had an Atari Jaguar, since that was the only release platform. There was also a game with the same name made by them in '99 that was released on PC, now that was a good game.
One of the biggest nopes I can think is in Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen, when you meet a certain enemy for the first time in Bitterblack Isle. Anyone seeing that thing will either go back or run past him. And those who don't will probably run after seeing what he can do to a pawn with a single move
I had a nope moment with "Days gone". At the start of the game, when you don't have any weapons or the big molotovs and you get close to a horde nest, that's when you say "mmm... NOPE!! I'm out of here" 🤣
The section from 12:00 to 12:10 made me jump hard and swear out loud. I haven't played the DLC yet, but I've seen that kind of scenario in a number of games: you're looking around two corners waiting for the big bad so you can run in the opposite direction. What I didn't expect was that monstrous speed - what an absolute jump scare.
Seeing the Fel Reaver for the first time in the Outlands in WoW Burning Crusade was terrifying. You hear that bellowing, mechanical roar and you know you’re done for.
That's until you went back years later with a much higher level character. I found the "twisting never" (the empty space around Outlands) to be far more of a "nope" than the Reavers. And that always remained, no matter how strong your character was when you went back there. Once I dared to fly from Hellfire to Shadowmoon Valley across the void... Had to use num lock to auto fly straight ahead over it with a long run up over land. Seeing the Shadowmoon cliff suddenly emerge from the darkness was nope nope nope, so using num lock to make it the rest of the way was a good idea, otherwise I probably would have closed WoW and never played that character again lol.
Days Gone was pretty extreme. Game had a bad rap but it was one of the most memorable games I've ever played. The hoards were an incredibly unique and terrifying feature
My Nope moments were both Emerald and Ruby Weapons in the original Final Fantasy 7 game. Emerald hangs out underwater while Ruby lurks in a sand pit. They’re Lesser Boss Fights, and if you don’t go into them fully prepared, you're gonna die. Never tried Emerald, but attempted Ruby twice before I said FU and left him alone Sephiroth was going to be third, as I was terrified of facing him, but then I found out how his final form, which is supposed to be his most powerful, can be killed easily, I wasn't so scared of him.
Definitely a horror nope moment, but RE 3. In the police station with that staircase right below the push-puzzle hallway. My friend and I played it and I remember saying “I feel like that window got bigger” when we ascended the stairs. Then we came back down and Nemesis jumped through with a rocket launcher. We immediately paused and walked away for easily 10 minutes trying to get our hearts to stop pumping so hard. 😂
piggy-backing off the Resident Evil comment, RE4's regenerators had my 12-year-old self put the game down for a week before coming back to try fighting them. lmao they are _horrifying._
Man jumping into that pit in tears of the kingdom caught me off guard so bad first time I did it lol. I knew nothing of the underground map and just assumed I'd get a fade to black screen and appear back where I was with less health. It was also before I got the chute so the fall was gonna be deadly either way. Just didn't expect to be falling for as long as I did
My biggest nope moment in a game was Deep woods in Mario odyssey. I remember accidentally falling off the stage and thinking I was gonna die, then landing in a lower part of the level. As soon as I heard the footsteps of the T-rex, I instantly turned the game off, since there's no way of warping back up.
As someone who suffers from Thalasophobia, Subnautica is simultaneously the most intriguing and the most "ASBOLUTELY NOT" I've ever seen in a video game.
I just finished that section of Cyberpunk the other day. The first time I encountered that robot I almost ran into him walking through a door, so I quickly turned around and ran to the door on the other side of the room, only for him to get there before I could and cut me off. I just closed out the game and watched TV instead.
I think Bioshock did a good job of exploring niche nope moments for everyone. Mine was Fort Frolic and the moving mannequins. Also i see your sm64 eels and raise you majoras mask eels. Those things were fast and made a terrible sound.
Going into Vanessa's Mansion from A Hat in Time is such a Nope moment man, meeting Vanessa and then the music kicks in and then you have to hide is almost excatly like Alien Isolation and man you just don't expect it from a game with that kind of art style.
I don't scare easily but I bought hat in time to have a nice relaxing nostalgia 3d platform adventure. I remember getting through Vanessa's mansion in a frenzied panik and when it was over I was like WTF JUST HAPPENED. It reminded me of playing half-life 2 where the game randomly dumped you in a survival horror situation lol
8 year old me still views Half Life 2's Ravenholm as the first real "Nope!" experience of my life. Nowadays, Ravenholm is one of my favorite levels to go replay in any game ever, but that first experience as a kid, was hella nope.
A non horror nope moment for me was the original Disgaea in 2003. I finished the main campaign feeling like a total badass, then unlocked the Baal fight to realize I was just an ant in the netherworld after all.
6:36 As a Zelda nerd with over 300 hours in TotK, the trick is dazzlefruit. The hands take A LOT of damage from dazzlefruit, so stack up on those, add some bomb fruits from them and phantom ganon and you're set. Also, being on high ground is massively helpful.
The single biggest nope moment for me was the church in resident evil 3, when you climb the stairs and the camera shifts to show a number of spider legs in the corner of the screen. My arachnophobia at the age of 10 was bad enough that I threw the controller, ran out of the room and had my mom go turn off the PS.
Yeah that Phantom Liberty Metroid Dread moment was definitely my biggest NOPE this year, and for the reasons you described. You just aren't prepared for horror in Cyberpunk, I'm supposed to be the action hero with unlimited cyber powers and now I'm running away from this unkillable unhackable terminator.
It threw me for a loop and had to put the game down for a week. I don't do well with survival horror stuff so I reloaded a previous save to side with Songbird.
When I was a kid I played Jak and Daxter and figured I could bypass the game and swim to Misty island instead of getting the boat. About halfway thru I heard the most terrifying sound I had ever heard until that point. I turned around and panicked out the water. I been terrified of water ever since.
Me at Sentinel Beach: Let's see if I can swim over to Misty Island. **Swims too far, hears a threatening heartbeat, turns around** Also me: WHAT THE FUCK-
ah the lurker shark, quite possibly the biggest jump scares in the game that can give anyone nightmares even when your prepared for it. I think everyone panics a little when they hear that growl and heart beat starting, but I got to admit, it's one of the more creative ways for creating a border to keep you on the map
One of the biggest nopes I had, had to be in Blackreach, Skyrim. The Dwarven Centurions climbing out of their station, Chaurus, Falmer. The place is terrifying. Now I've played like a hundred times, and it's easy. But back then, it was a nightmare.
An easily overlooked nope moment for me was in Telltale's The Walking Dead when we were supposed to be having a sad moment slowly burying the zombie boy found in the attic. When suddenly, upon bending over to get a shovel full of more dirt, a guy is just standing there watching you. Freaked. Me. Out.
The moment when the PDA hits you with this dialog as soon as you enter the dune biome... "Detecting multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the region. Are you certain whatever you're doing is worth it? " Whole different kind of nope moment hahaha
May be a little underrated, but my biggest nope ever was the sewers level at the N64 Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. You go through this pixelated muddy watery level, going through platforms with your jetpack, with the eerie music.. seeing these creepy tentacles coming out of the water, where if you fall you can barely see anything... and then the level decides that pretty much the only way to move forward is just "Hey! lets go underwater!!" NOOOOPE
New Vegas was my first experience with the Fallout series. I remember walking in the desert with very low visibility when I came across that group of very heavily armed super mutants. I had no idea what they were and I was entirely too close. I got the Hell out of there, fast.
The first nop that comes to mind for me was uncharted when I saw the creature enemies about half way through the game. Those things were downright terrifying. Never mind the dark horrific corridors you have to go through while dealing with them. Luckily I pushed through and continued on with the series but they sure did stick
My biggest nope moment was in Blood borne when your in the nightmare of mensis and you open that church door and just see all those spiders dangling there.
In Dark Souls I chose the class of sorcerer, and there is a spell they can use that lights up the Tomb of Giants. Some enemies can't see you until you're quite close, so you can take them out with powerful magic like soul arrow. I found it a good place to grind, including the pool with the infamous "skeleton babies" which constantly respawn and sometimes drop humanity
Effortless nope moment in Terraria: when you don't catch a voodo demon's drop over lava in time and you've just started exploring the underworld. Would talk about the iconic first time trying to explore the Dungeon, but that's more of a jumpscare than a nope moment.
When i first played subnautica, i had never really been scared of any games, my threshhold for being scared is pretty high when it comes gaming, but Subnautica had me so creeped out, i couldnt even finish it, i think it made me fear deep water more than any other media, i had the huge sub, and a decent base, but it was so immersive i was constantly on edge
Same here. Subnautica and the forest are the only 2 games that have been able to make me feel that tingling sensation throughout my body. Subnautica especially with its atmosphere. Above sea level you get a false sense of security, as well as below sea level, even 1000m down when you're in your cyclops, you never know what could happen. I remember freaking out because I kept getting teleported out of my prawn suit by that mantis alien thing, with the sea dragon nearby. My heart actually felt like it stopped at one point playing the game, and I felt this rush of energy and the tingling all over. The forest hasn't been able to make it that intense for me, because you can actually fight pretty well in that game. But when one of those cannibal creatures sneak up on you, they can really get your heart racing, especially if it's an armsy or Virginia creature.
as you know, you should finish it, the game is just amazing. One of the best games of all time (for me) because it really pulls you into it. I never before and never again felt that tension in a game that subnautica gave me while diving down to the lost river and building my first base there and getting all that good material to upgrade your stuff. It's also the only game of many hundreds i have completed twice.
Fun fact: that rancor can be cheese'd into oblivion. It takes some time, but there's some rock formations it can't fit through across the cavern from where it jumps you. Behind those is a short hallway that has one of those exploding poison fungi. Force lift and throw about 20-30 of them at the rancor while ducking in & out of the rock formations, behind which it can't reach you.
Some streamers with the mannequin part in Little Nightmares 2 wanted to nope out right away- and even my friend gave me the controller to get through it for her (trust me, she doesn’t give up that easily)
In terms of horror games (which are avoided by the list intentionally), to me, Laura boss fights in The Evil Within and all the Anima encounters in The Evil Within 2 are definitely up there.
@@danielmaryakhin3057 you can't avoid boss fight unless it's optional so there is no point of running away when you have to fight it to clear the stage
Bloodborne's _The Nightmare of Mensis_ level with its cathedral full of GIANT SPIDERS. Not just big spiders on the ground as in most Fantasy vgames, nope, hanging from the ceiling. And if you've accidentalyl walked into the portal leading to that level, the only way to get out of it is fighting your way uphill to that cathedral (which in itself is brutal), then entering and going through it to find a portal out, from what I remember. No, I never played it. But I watched playthroughs by YTers... one of which a arachnophobia and had been _told_ about the level and he was all, "I'm going to avoid this level no matter what, folks, absolutely not going in there." Then he accidentally found that doorway portal in some building he was in, went through thinking it was part of the level... and literally freaked out when THE NIGHTMARE OF MENSIS level name popped up on his screen and he turned around and the portal was gone. And then when he entered the cathedral's anteroom, and looked up... and his brain took a moment to register and realize _what it was seeing._
Similar to a nope moment, Oblivion actually gave me a couple jump scares, surprisingly. I believe it was a zombie or something as I was leaving a cave/dungeon. I turned around to see if I had been followed, and right in my face is this shreaking monster lol. Of course I was tired and had been playing for a while.
Oblivion's Oscuro Overhaul, I believe the name was, releveled the whole world and added some surprises. So you'd be in one particular cave in the newbie area, probably one you'd seen many times in previous plays and cleared without a care. "Huh, who are these people? I'll just...um, sure, I'll reload a save I guess?"
First encountering the Lagiacrus in Monster Hunter 3 was my Nope moment. That thing scared me so much as a 10-year old I didn’t play the game for 3 months.
For me, Metroid Prime 1&2 on the GameCube, specifically when I got the points where the games introduced somewhat large bipedal creatures that look like growth stunted t-rexes, as well as the point in Metroid Prime 2 where you have to go underwater and fight the blogg. (Pretty sure that’s what they’re called.) When I was younger, those enemies just made me nope out til later.
Biggest nope was on my first playthrough of Thief : Deadly Shadows, when the door shuts and locks behind you in the Shalebridge Cradle. Trying to open the door and it dawns on you that the only way out of this haunted orphanage / psych ward is getting through it. That shook me to my core on my first playthrough, and still sticks with me to this day.
Thanks Gameranx I totally forgot all about those finger creepers, honestly one of the most awful enemies I’ve ever had to deal with in a game just because they freak me out so much! 😅
One that I always remember is Sephiroth in FF7R. I watched plenty of streamers watch this man absorb a whole meteor, throw a building at the party, all with a smile. Then they all started screaming the second he descended from the sky and raise his sword at them. And at that point, there's no backing out of the encounter. He's inevitable.
If we’re talking non horror nopes- I’ll never forget the first time I had to retreat to Ravenholm in half life 2. The first sight of the new area combined with that scary ass retro music was truly the most unwelcoming, terrifying thing ive experienced. I’ve played tons of horror games, but in a game like that where it’s mainly all action, that was not expected and so much more effective as a result.
The robot sharks from the underwater Spyro levels on PlayStation one had six year-old me, completely shook. I honestly think I had to ask my mom to help me get through it.
The Hydra from DS1 was a big dope moment for me the first time. I remember the scale of it being overwhelming and I just taking a break for a few days 😂
And then you think there's only one till you reach Ash Lake and discover, to your horror, there's a second one. Which does an admittedly spectacular jump from lake to lake.
you should definitely do more of these "nope" series, the subnautica one reminded me a ton of one of the terraria mods, with the abyss zone... i mean EVENTUALLY you can do it, but still. The spider lair or ankheg lair in Baulders gate 1 are both terrifying to me, especially when i try to do them at low levels. Deepnest in hollow knight is another place i just... distain.
WOLF SPIDERS! in Grounded, I nope every time But yup I'll never forget the first time seeing and hearing that reaper leviathan in Subnautica! I heard it before I saw it and just swam back as fast as I could to the pod. Also the first time going down into the trench to the green river area, the visibility fading, the ominous 'heartbeat' thumping music that starts as you start to descend. It was utterly terrifying, still my favourite game of all time
Somehow to me the leviathans weren't even as scary in Subnautica as those creepy jellyfish things with the giant brains. I remember hiding under a wrecked hab complex for what felt like an hour waiting for one to leave to finally hightail it out of there.
with dark souls there is an item that is better than the lantern and its the sunlight bug helmet. you get it from a sunlight maggot close to the bed of chaos boss fight or if you open the short cut gate with 25 humanities. definitely makes it a LOT easier to get through
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker --- those god dang ReDeads! 10-ish year old me was playing through one of the side dungeons or something, I forget the general context of my "NOPE!" moment in that game but when that ReDead screeched I shut my GameCube off in a heartbeat, which was very god dang fast given how quickly it made my little heart beat
The first encounter with Sae Kurosawa and the Kusabi from Fatal Frame II is one of the scariests cutscenes I ever saw in a video game and my biggest "Nope, I'm out of here..."
I think the S-X (evil Samus clone) from Metroid: Fusion, was my most terrifying nope to date. (And it made me love the game even more). You are locked in a desert place with a evil mindless ultrapowerfull version of yourself, and halfway through the game, you discover that is not just one. There are 20 S-X on board the station. They even tried to recreate the formula with Dark Samus in Prime and the unbeatable robots on DREAD, but it's not the same.
God Hearts of Stone was one of the best things I've ever played. The contrast between the horror and the beauty is so mesmerizing to me. I probably lost more than a dozen times to the Caretaker... such a creepy and interesting character. But also what really stuck to me about this DLC is the moment where we have to go through the wife's memories and find little details about her and Olgierd, into a paint world that's just so damn beautiful. It was such a creative idea, it caught me off guard so much, it became one of my favorite parts of the game
