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I'm on level two(venice) on tr2 and I know that in venice you have to kill all kinds of hard things, but I start shaking like mad when I do and have to pause everytime I have finished killing something off. Any tips? :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:
Raider Ranger
23-03-02, 18:21
When I first started playing TR games I used to get so nervous not knowing what was round the next corner.My heart used to beat like crazy when something unexpected happened.I just kept telling myself it was only a game.Nothing bad is going to happen to you,just keep calm,enjoy your games. http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
thanks. That works for a while but sometimes the computer gets the better of me...
Dan_the_Jazzman
23-03-02, 19:58
Well, I think that it is the sudden shocks and surprises which make tomb raider fun to play. Once you learn to laugh when the rolling ball rolls out in front of you (or um, onto you) then it is more fun to play. And remember to save often!
yeah that's a good idea. My uncle laughs all the time when a thug destroys lara.
drew is rad
25-03-02, 23:24
u no..... if u put on some music that goes along w/ the game, it makes it not so scary........but if u wanna talk scary, then play Resident Evil!!!
I am exactly the same! In every Tomb Raider I play, I turn the sound right down so I cannot hear a thing. I hate the sound it really scares me. That's what I found helped me slightly with the problem. :D
you could try playing it with your eyes closed ? lol :D
lararaider
16-08-02, 16:42
I completely agree with "Dan the Jazzman". The shock and scariness of the game makes it great. Even though my heart beat raises every time I play it, I never turn the sound down. I love the gunshot sound! But you can turn the music off and leave the sound on. But you know, the music is like a pre-warning, when its scary, there is mostly a menacing creature or trap around the bend! ;)
the croft woman!
17-08-02, 11:05
I know how you feel karyane! I get freaked just by going in a new room, just knowing something bad is going to happen! In trlr, I can't help but shake the whole way through it! That one is a scary game! I scream so loudly when things jump out on you when your not expecting it!!!
The Last Revelation has the most unexpected scenes. Once, I was playing at night, my brother was sleeping so I had the headset (did I say it correctly?). In a scene I screamed too much that my brother woke up and almost had a heart attack. Me too from this scene and also when I saw something moving in the dark... :D
Hmmm...any of you ever played Resident Evil 3??? :cool:
Resident Evil 3? Not yet... But I can tell you about 1&2...
I played them on PS and quess what... I chose the woman (I can't remember her name). At the begining of 1 when the first zombie came out I gave the gamepad to my friend. At the begining of 2 (I chose again the woman) I saw all these zombies in the street and I gave again the gamepad to my friend... LOL...
Believe it or not, my friend played all the game and I was watching... LOL... And giving ideas... :D
Croft Security
28-08-02, 06:46
The Resident Evil games suck. People think Lara is hard to control...try playing Resident Evil! Talk about lousy control....
But karyane, I can really, really sympathize with you. The first time I played tomb raider (tr 1) I went through the whole game with sweaty palms and a racing heart. At times I would forget to breathe, and sometimes I would actually get a lump in my throat and have to swallow hard. But one of the things I've learned in tomb raider games is it's not the enemies that present the greatest danger to Lara, it's the environments. The enemies you can dodge, shoot at, hide from, use your medipacs, etc. But if an environmental danger catches you unawares, you're toast. So my advice is, have fun with the enemies, but ALWAYS look before you move into a room or hallway.
OK, I have a guilty secret :D All of the TR games scare the hell out of me. Not like a phobia, but I always jump out of my skin. I really love it though, partly because it's scary! Hard to explain really.
I must have been about 10 or 11 when I got tomb raider 1 for Christmas and .....don't laugh lol..... I actually trained my dad how to use the playstation control so I could sit there yelling directions and buttons lol. That was quite a while ago, so I'm more used to it now :D but I still find it really scary. I'm addicted!
By the way, playing with the sound down really seems to help, doesn't it?
Hi LauraKR17. Welcome to the forum. http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
The music always gets me too. I started with TR3 and everytime I would hear the eery music start up I didn't want to go any further whether in a temple or in the jungle. :D I also get scared when I hear boulders start to roll down from some place. I spend too much time looking for them and then by then its too late. :D
Thanks for the welcome!!
Yeah, I'm like that when the music starts, I really love the music on tomb raider one though...especially the orchestral music when you go into the Thor room with the lightning in Francis' Folly. I really like that music!
I remembered the bit that made me jump on TR3.....you know when you go across that bridge in the pacific, above really high ground in some village and there's mist below you? When you go to the left there's nothing there, when you go to the right there's nothing there. When you come out this chaotic villager jumps out....that really made me jump!
There's another part in tr4 that's really freaky, in the costal ruins when you swim up to the top of that huge room this big shark follows you and snacks on your legs when you reach the top. Get the defibrillators out!
By the way, I didn't think the venice levels are all that bad compared to the rest of it!?
well for me, I remember the first time I played TR1, and those mummies jumping out at me and screaming, giving me a heart attack!! and they slink around growling, bbrr!!! and that heart beat in the Atlantis level, kinda creepy! nothing in TR2 scared me though. oh, and dont let the boulders scare you when they run over you! actually, I find it funny when Lara gets smushed, I dont know why, maybe cause she goes "OW!" and ends up flattened!haha.
Venice has never intimidated me much. It seems too nice, sunny, and serene. There are elements to the series that have had my hairs standing on end though. The spider caves in the Xian level of TR2 was by far the worst because of my Arachnophobia. I also had a bit of a trembling lip around the little beetles in TR:LR, the church in the Ireland levels of TRC, and pretty much everywhere on the Floating Islands of TR2. The way those men with spears whirr towards you in their self created wind. *shiver*. The snakes in the maze level from the TR3 India levels was also quite scary.
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Yipeeee!!!! I thought I was the only one who screams while playing!!! I am hooked on the TR games, but they do scare me. I still have not finished chronicles because the helicopter and android chasing me freak me out!!!!!!!
Be brave mattemily... You are so close to the end... :D :D
Miss_Lara_Croft
19-12-02, 13:22
glad im not the only 1. I used to be paranoid about bein in water! i feel like 1 wiv Lara n dnt wanna hurt her cause its lk hurtin myself at the same time!!!!!!! :eek:
Mattemily,
I've finished every TR game on PSX, and I'm now in the process of rediscovering them all on my PC. After six years of intense raiding, I can tell you I'm still easily impressed (not even to say scared at times) by the sudden apparition of any bad guy, be it man, beast or other creature!
I'm now nearly at the end of the Khamoon adventure in TR1, and I'm still frightened as Hell when I hear the uncanny growl of those giant gaunt mummies hidden in the most unexpected corners...
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princeofdarkness
20-12-02, 01:36
HI
Tomb Raider, scary? Yeah, ok. Confession, I was so terrified of making the slightest move in the Egyptian and Atlantis levels that I got a mate to do them for me. (Ive since done them my self loads of times).
Things and levels that never fail to put the frightners on me are: The T-rexs (lost valley) in TR 1&2 (The T-rex aint so bad on tr3), the sharks in TR2, Xian Guards in TR2 - Lost Islands, the Raptors on 'Crash Site - TR3, the fire breathing Dragon outside the Citadel in TR4, The crusaders TR4 Citadel level, Aldwych is just creepy, and the entire 'Labyrinth' level in TRC always puts the s**ts up me. Finally the 'Lost city of Tinnos' TR3.
Ill probaby die of a Tomb Raider induced heart attack.
I usually find that getting out of these levels as fast as possible is the only solution to my irrational fears of such levels and beasts. Failing that, blasting the hell out of things usually helps.
Regards
Dr SATAN - 'without darkness, the light does not exist' -
princeofdarkness
20-12-02, 01:44
One more thing, I usually find that the wind and howling noises are what make levels more creepy, such as floating islands on TR2, Lost city of Tinnos etc. Take the howling noises off and youll find the levels have less of a fear factor.
the way i see it, if your not scared there is something wrong with you! what i mean is that its supposed to scare you. i know that some people say "that doesnt scare me", but you know its a lie. being scared is part of being human.
my heart beat rises everytime but i think i know what to do if im scared. in that i just focus the scared engergy into kicking some but! not one to say im not scared but when your scared, you have to control it right?
i hated the water too, its so well done and it makes you hold your breath. they try and do that effect in movies but its not the same becuase your not in controls of the person.
keep the scarey scenes and game play coming, i say!!!
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Originally posted by Dr Satan:
One more thing, I usually find that the wind and howling noises are what make levels more creepy, such as floating islands on TR2, Lost city of Tinnos etc. Take the howling noises off and youll find the levels have less of a fear factor.Exactly my own way of thinking too http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
The last level of Project Eden entirely relies on this sort of haunting climax, it completely scares the mud out of you!
SendentLove500
29-01-03, 22:15
I am the same way! i freak out. Especially on the last level, home sweet home, my heart almost exploede, i swear! lol. I find that it help me to read a walkthrough, to check for any bad guys, so that i am prepared.
ScepticPeg
30-01-03, 16:28
I hate playing TR1 cos its so atmospheric. When I very first started playing it I didn't know what to expect and even now I get spooked by certain things on that first game.
I also don't like the sound effects on the Haunted Isle on TR5. They are so realistic and freaky. But I can't turn the sounds off or it spoils the effect of the game.
Also, every time I play TR4 when you first start the game and Lara goes into a room with blades that drop from the ceiling and chop everything in sight - I always jump. I must have played it atleast 20 times and I STILL jump when those blades drop.
Love LJ
I have a bad habit of getting to the entrance to cave for example, and I start thinking "that looks creepy, I'm not going in there" and then start trying for alternative "less spooky" ways. This is on TLR especially.
But I think my worst habit to trying to look round corners - amuses my girlfriend everytime...
ScepticPeg
31-01-03, 14:35
I've done that aswell. I'll get Lara to look round a corner and I'm straining to see round it at the same time. I know I won't be able to look round it, but I can't help myself.
Love LJ
I agree with everyone about the sound. Turning it down to a low level will help with the jitters. Especially if you have a sub woofer attached to your system. A loud, large boom can send my heart up into my throat!!!! Another trick I learned early on.....not cause I was scared or anything.....ahem......was to have those pistols/weapon drawn at all times, unless I needed those hands free for something else. If Lara in on automatic targeting, that weapon can be your first indication that something is coming, even before you can actually see it. Kind of like an advance warning ;) . So get that weapon out!!!!!
Happy Raiding!!!!!
Jade.
Sometimes though the sound effects give you clues as to what might be coming up next. You won't get this with the sound off, and might end up getting a bigger scare than what you would have got with the sound on.
Hey, I just noticed that this topic has been going for almost a year!
I wonder if that is a record??
:D
frostfur452
30-09-03, 06:20
Originally posted by Scottlee:
Sometimes though the sound effects give you clues as to what might be coming up next. You won't get this with the sound off, and might end up getting a bigger scare than what you would have got with the sound on.hmmm to me it's the other way round. The sudden music after it had been kinda quiet scares me. I just listen for the footsteps to help me tell if theres a bad guy coming up.
Well, I adore all TR-sounds, even the gruseome ones. I think it's useful that they call your attention to the danger and add very much to the game's experience and atmosphere.
Anyway I don't think TR is a particularly frightening game. I get a bit nervous only when numerous baddies attack Lara at the same time... http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
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Capt. Murphy
30-09-03, 13:04
I would suggest getting some head phones and your favorite music CD and play that while you're playing TR2 (or whichever). Pick an upbeat song that gets you syched into the action. You know - makes you feel like a real Bad A**. :cool: http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/mischievous.gif
And if you're worried about dying, remember - you can always continue. :rolleyes:
frostfur452
30-09-03, 13:15
Yeah that's what I did a while ago. Really gives the game a sort of "movie" feel. you know in movies where they have shootups and they have music in the background? sorta like that. I use WMP so I can also hear the gunshots through the music lmao.
I'm just the same way...I get really shaky everytime I'm going for a kill. Like that knight in Tomb Of The Ancients in AOD....when I pulled the lever to open the grate at the bottom that stupid knight walked straight across it and dropped down where I was supposed to head. I don't know how that happened...I just reached the floor after having pulled the lever and he was gone....lol. Tried to blast him with the shotgun, but he stood back up...what a waste of ammo!!! LOL...I freak everytime I'm getting to a kill or a hard part...no matter what game I play:)
[ 30. September 2003, 19:15: Message edited by: Marianne ]
Originally posted by Capt. Murphy:
I would suggest getting some head phones and your favorite music CD and play that while you're playing TR2 (or whichever). Pick an upbeat song that gets you syched into the action. You know - makes you feel like a real Bad A**. :cool: http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/mischievous.gif
And if you're worried about dying, remember - you can always continue. :rolleyes: It sounds very interesting. I have never tried playing a TR with any other music but I will! http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif The only thing I worry about is that the ambient sounds (steps, shooting) may can't be heard in this way ...
Croft Raider
24-10-03, 00:24
Try Silent Hill, it will scare the socks off you!! I love being scared when I play, its fun to wonder what will be around the next turn.....
The only time this happened to me was on the level with all the monks fighting with the other guys, If you don't harm the monks, they wont harm you so I was trying to just shoot the bad guys and not the monks. I love shooting things though http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/redface.gif
hated the water too, its so well done and it makes you hold your breath. they try and do that effect in movies but its not the same becuase your not in controls of the person.
Heh, when I play TR2 I always feel so relieved when Lara goes up for air after staying in the water for so long, like I've been holding my breath all that time. It doesn't happen anymore though.
Originally posted by Kaminari:
Mattemily,
I've finished every TR game on PSX, and I'm now in the process of rediscovering them all on my PC. After six years of intense raiding, I can tell you I'm still easily impressed (not even to say scared at times) by the sudden apparition of any bad guy, be it man, beast or other creature!
I'm now nearly at the end of the Khamoon adventure in TR1, and I'm still frightened as Hell when I hear the uncanny growl of those giant gaunt mummies hidden in the most unexpected corners...
<img border="0" alt="[xmas2]" title="" src="graemlins/xmas1.gif" />That is so true......the first times I heard those giant mummies I almost jumped out of my skin. Whenever I play TR and something jumps at Lara I nearly start screaming myself. Also when I'm going through difficult obstacles, such as the first laser trap at the Red Alert level, I get really nervous too http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yikes.gif
BrittScythe4375
26-10-03, 23:25
Ooooh--I can't tell you all how many times I've been scared to death when the music picks up in the Tomb Raider series! http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
The especially scary parts have been in the later levels of AOD--phew, that Sanitanium background music and stuff scares the living heck out of me! :D
The best thing that calms me down is, indeed, saving often and pausing the game when I feel the need. However, I've played all of the TR games, excluding AOD, enough so that I know what's coming up--I no longer get nervous over them. http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
lucyhothead
09-11-03, 22:24
I just remember that i gots my trusty pistols handy whenever some baddie comes up, the music does give me clues tho, and plus its always so pretty, i mean i think i was scared of the raptors and stuff, not to mention those freakishly huge spiders.... http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yikes.gif
Well the sounds always prepare you for the bad thing. I like playing with the speakers turned on, I enjoy the sounds! I can't say I'm scared but at certain points, although now I know what's gonna happen, I still feel anxious!!! http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif One day I was killing the dragon in 'Dragon's Lair' and my sis heard his roaring from the room next door and couldn't figure out what was going on :rolleyes:
lucyhothead
09-11-03, 23:11
Hehe same here, i was at the great wall, and all these boulders started rolling down on me so i turned into a niche and spikes started to close, loud music,
i got mad cuz i missed that jade dragon....sis couldn't figure out what happened... :D
I don't find the games scary, although they can get a bit creepy at times, but I think that makes the games more fun to play. I must admit sometimes I jump or get startled when something unexpected comes out and the music adds to the creepy atmosphere.
The best way is to think as a programmer: It's all pixels and polygons.
Please don't think like programmer or all of your thoughts will be "fixing bugs, fixing bugs" http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif
BTW, do you know how programmer asks for help? ;)
Answer: "F1, F1" :D
I really don't know how to play Tomb Raider without being nervous...no matter how much I try. I had this problem especially when I was playing the spider heive level in Tomb Raider 2...I hated that level...to such an extent that I wanted to skip that level using cheats...I didn't though. I played through it inspite of being extremely scared, and saving every 10 seconds or so. I just hate spiders. Thankfully though except in the last level of Tomb Raider 3, there were no levels with giant spiders.
I always played the game with sound on, and I don't like to play the game with any other music playing in the background. Part of the reason I liked Tomb Raider the ambience and with other music in the background, the whole point is lost. Sound is one of the best part of the Tomb Raider experience.
Talking about scary games, I'am going to start playing Doom 3 in a week or so after I'am done with my exams, so that promises to be a very scary experience.
I have never played any of the resident evil games, I just tried it once and the controls were too difficult, and I left it.
Hullo, people, new guy here... anyway, on the subject of freakin-majeakin scary moments in the series... I haven't finished the series proper (with the sort-of exception of Chronicles. I finished all the levels honestly except the last one, where i cheated to get the second key-bit-thing becaus eI couldn't trap that damn second android), and I only really remember 2, 3 and Chronicles right now as they're the ones I own, and i'm trying to finish the levels all properly... but anyway.
As for this game itself? Well, keep in mind that I'm a huge wuss and part of why I've never (until now) really finished that many levels properly is because (aside from confusing puzzles and layouts) no matter what it is enemies in this game have a bizarre tendency to scare me. The Opera House level was a ***** in this aspect, especially the area with the stage and pool (being on/backstage was kind of a pain) and everyone pops up from nowhere. I spent the longest time in that area of the level freaking out because I could hear the only bad guy left in the room walking around somewhere above me, could see him at points, but could never aim or reach him... just always hear him walking. The frogmen in the Rig levels (and the thug walking up onto the column platform in Offshore Rig, when you're getting one of the Secrets - he walks out of the damn water it seems likes) catch me, as does trying to escape the shark in 40 Fathoms (by the way, I HATE the underwater/shipwreck series of levels), and surfacing only to be attacked by goons.
Of the little I've reached in the... catacombs of Talion level, I think, the Yeti coming up out of nowhere kinda freaks me out, as does seeing the leopard run past, hearing it above, and never knowing if it's gonna get you when you go back up. And those thugs walking down out of nowhere in that big room with the pool and all? Yikes. I keep forgetting that level's got human enemies.
The Monastery level isn't so bad with the good monks to keep me company (except the times I shoot them all for fun and pick them off from an unreachable area) but the sudden attacks are sitll pretty shocking to me. The whole Floating Islands level just creeped me out (it was cool, though), as did the final level fighting off all those warrior statues at once AND then all the ninjas. I knew the dragon was coming though. And finally, Home Sweet Home actually scared me. Lara's big spacious, presumably well-guarded mansion invaded by thugs with little time to go into the closet (for my slow reflexes) and pick them off as they pass without getting hurt (and the fact that as you wait more come in, I was scared to leave for awhile in case an enemy was lurking outside in the bedroom and too smart to pass the closet). Then going downstairs for more to pop up from nowhere and going outsid einto pitch darkness and trying to find the rest of the enemies and not knowing where they'll come from. Gah.
Plus the dogs always give me the willies for some reason (being an animal-lover aside and hating to kill the dogs/birds/fish/pretty much any animal), but especially in 3 in Aldwych.
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TR2 was the first TR game I ever played and it scared the bejesus out of me! I HATE spiders with I firey passion and seeing a mutant four foot tall one freaked me out so bad. And it was dark and that freaked me out worse. Snipers scare me too. Only if I dont see them first though. In the venice level when you run out of the alley and all of a sudden I am being shot at!! I love being scared though! It's like a natural high. I turn the volume way up and turn out the lights and sit right in front of the TV. I probably should go into therapy, huh? http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
Lara Croft Snape Raider
02-08-05, 19:48
Actually Tomb Raider never really scared me..it just frustrated me. Now a scary experience, playing Alone in the Dark, being in a quiet room/hallway, then all the sudden a freakish zombie experiment comes screaming into life right next to your *tasty* head. I dropped the controller the first time that happened to me.
rr_carroll
02-08-05, 22:33
To creep around in the dark with those spiders the size of Volkswagens, I basically had to shut down my feelings. I felt like I was tightening my whole skin surface and going numb.
But I loved being scared by the "Yetis", esp. when the stereo sound suddenly produces a growl seemingly just behind your shoulder. I once reflexively jumped right off a cliff http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yikes.gif .
Camera Obscura
02-08-05, 23:47
I dreaded when I had to face anything that was non-human. Especially them warriors in the China levels that carried those pointy toothpicks. http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yikes.gif :D
i'm not scared of human enemies. thats why tr2 is one of the less scary trs for me. i am really scared of mutant creatures, zombies, giant spiders ,mummies and crocodiles. http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/yikes.gif i remember having to save so much while playing tr1 in the atlantis and egypt levels. one way i would take away my fear of running into a large new area not knowing whats going to happen , was to turn the sound off, save , and run into the middle of the room to see what happens. then if an enemy pops up or theres some trap, i would just reload and be prepared the next time! :D http://www.tombraiderforums.com/images/smilies/redface.gif the only tr that didn't scare me was aod. except the kurtis levels! :eek: also , once the nasty surprise is over and i can see that enemy right in front of me, i get charged up and just LOVE firing away at it ,backflipping and sideflipping around! makes me feel like i'm in a movie.
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