Comments on: Rookie of the Year: Skyrim, The Most Terrifying Game Ever

By: MacTingz

MacTingz — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:47:09 +0000

I feel the exact same way about the murky water. It terrifies me not so much because I think there's something down there, but more because in the back of my mind, I desperately want there to be something down there. Something abhorrent. Something devastatingly horrifying. I want Bethesda to give me a reason to stay out of the water. But instead there lies nothing but weeds in the dark. Maybe that is more terrifying than any monster.

By: @UnwinnableDonB

@UnwinnableDonB — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:44:59 +0000

I too found graphics glitches in 8-bit games disconcerting. I wouldn't go so far as to call them nightmare fuel, but it was enough to make me uncomfortable.

In the modern era, though, most glitches I found were just cool. I remember one Tony Hawk game where it was possible to levitate by jumping at just the right spot on an early level. From there, it was easy to rack up infinite points in combos. Maybe that's what was missing in your experience, Matt – the opportunity for exploit the glitches for fun and profit.

By: Don Becker

Don Becker — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:42:09 +0000

In reply to @thebigm. I always found graphical glitches unsettling in the console era, too. Not quite nightmare fuel, but certainly enough to make me uncomfortable.