I can't express how happy I am to have my idea turned into an episode. Thank you for everything you do Jules and keep up the great work! P.S I take either pronunciation of my name
The baby fetus monster thing from Resident Evil: Village didn't make me "nope" out of the game immediately but it's keeping me from replaying the game again because I'll have to go through that segment again. I'll be honest, if Capcom makes a paid DLC that let's me skip that part, I'll throw my debit card at it.
honestly the pre-face off that is by far the worst part off the second playthrough. Like you are constantly like oh no im close to that part oh no. But then when it actually happens you remember when and where the baby pops up and what you need to do to avoid it and suddenly you are like: huh this wasn't that bad. I have replayed the game like five times and no im not fearing that moment at all. The dolls singing to you after it on the other hand...........
@@jeltevl8868 I was kind of lukewarm on Village overall so that's more the reason that I haven't played the game again. I love the series but this game and RE0 are the two games that I'm like "ugh" for.
To be honest, that baby monster is also halting my replay of RE: Village too. It's a very cool sequence... but every time I try continuing I load in, realize what's coming up, and NOPE right back to the PS4's home menu.
I can watch people play zombie games (never play them, as anxiety), and it was at that moment of watching someone play through the village that I decided I was right to never fool myself into thinking I could play the game.
Jules, you have a style, delivery and sense of humour that keeps me watching your vids even when I could not care less about the specific topic. You're a gem.
As a note about Lu Bu: he WAS known in chinese history to be actually invincible. Seriously, he was a killing machine - the mere sight of his horse, Red Rabbit (yes, that was its name - Lu Bu was a master warrior, but sucked at naming things) made entire armies RUN. He was THAT strong.
Wonder how dumb all those people felt who thought Lu Bu was invincible felt when he got executed (by Cao Cao if I remember correctly) Also, the horse was named Red Hare not Red Rabbit.
My mates computer "noped" while we were playing Alien Isolation Had the lights off curtains shut and we was playing through the game (not massively far into it) and it got to the cutscene where Axel gets killed, we jumped and let out a yelp as the tail went through him, partially because we were rather immersed into it, but also because there was a rather loud pop sound which wasn't on the game, suddenly smoke and his computer shut off The power supply decided that the Xenomorph scared it that much, the only way out was self combustion
"Moments you can't come back from, and that SUCKS" have you ever had a moment in a game where you felt you didn't spend enough time exploring? And then you get to that ONE point in a game where a door closes behind you and it's locked forever,or jump off a ledge you can't climb back of? That, the moment of no return (unless you beat the game and backtrack)
In the original Spyro, there was some swamp level where these tree like things would pop out of the ground and swallow you. Those blokes TERRIFIED me. With the remaster, they are designed a little bit differently so the threat is gone but I was still dreading facing them during my first playthrough.
True facts: Lu Bu is the reason why I immediately panic when you approach a character in a game and they have their own theme music. He has taught me well in preparing myself for an asswhooping.
Loved the part with Resident Evil, me and a friend had a rather similar experrience, just with Silent Hill. Was at his house, I'd guess 13-14 years old, playing it at night at a sleep over. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep, as he simply put down the controller and said; "I can't... No more..." And I was simply frozen in fear and disbelief. Good times.
I also remember my days of childhood cowardice. Back when violence and gore had any effect on me at all. I have no sympathy for my weak childhood self.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 Me and a buddy were playing Silent Hill in my basement and I remember bolting upstairs (both of us) and the tv and the lights stayed on downstairs for the rest of the night. We couldn't go back.
I sadly "noped" out of Brutal Legend once it turned from open world action adventure in a cool heavy metal landscape into a frustrating RTS that no one wanted. That one really bummed me out.
For me: Resident Evil Village, the Giant Fetus. The first time I saw it, I was so shocked, I couldn't move and, obviously, got killed. That whole area unsettled me, but that moment with the fetus made me nope out of the game for a while. Granted, I finally went back and finished it, but I still can't play that section without just trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, while attempting to hold my breath. Definitely the best scare I've had from a game in a long time. Side Note: RE2 (the original) was my first Resident Evil title and I still remember playing it as a teenager, in the dark, while everyone was sleeping. I screamed so loud at one point, it woke my parents & brother up, but I went right back to the game once they went back to sleep. x'D
F%#@! That f-ing Giant Fetus! The very first time I came across that thing, I was like:' WTF IS THAT! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!' (there was much more swearing than that!) In my head, I was like:' F YOU, F THIS, I'm shacking up with Metal Daddy, I'M OUT!' Kinda surprised the Fetus Monster didn't make the list! If it was, it would be towards the top!
The moment that made me Nope out was in "Lone Survivor." It was a corridor. Not a gory corridor, not a chase down a corridor, just a dark corridor that went on longer than I wanted it to and the tension got too much for me to handle.
End story had me flashing back to an incident in high school after my father woke me up at 3 am to solve the piano puzzle in Silent Hill. Not only the sleepless night that followed, but the next exhausted morning, having to wait for my morning class to start in a far flung classroom on the edge of campus that was entirely engulfed in fog...
The Broodmother from Dragon Age Origins and the Banshee from Mass Effect 3 gave me goosebumps when the games first came out. I was about to enter High School when DAO first came out and I was really disturbed when the Broodmother appeared after Hespith read her horrible poem about how Broodmother’s were created. Then Mass Effect 3 came out the year I graduated and the Banshee reveal in the sanctuary was horrifying, especially when I barely took a step to enter and heard their shrieks in the dark.
Manhunt was one of those games for me back in the day. The last level when Pigsy burst out of the walls with a chainsaw, was the first time a game triggered massive adrenaline rush
Fatal Frame, there was a part where you're just chilling at the Himuro mansion and suddenly you can hear a musical instrument (a koto I think) playing an eerily song, that alone make you hesitate, as you continue you can see a silhouette of a woman playing said instrument behind a screen, once you get close enough she strokes a very hard and strident note and disappears, boy that dropped every shade of color out of my body.
Just the atmosphere of the mansion on the Resident Evil remake makes me nope out every now and then, and when you're hiding from regular enemies only to hear the Alien in the room in Alien Isolation. Nope immediately.
The Witch sound still creeps me out. Idea for a list: Games that start out easy, but turn and become extremely difficult. Take care Jules and have a nice day😀
Talk about having the warning that you're headed close to a witch! When I hear the witch theme, I would say, "Oh, no." Talk about having a reason to be extra cautious!
Was playing RE2 at a friends house one afternoon for a few hours and when we were done it was pitch black outside,so I ran home at a full sprint for 4 blocks!
Original Silent Hill and the Korean indie game Home Sweet Home are the only two horror games that managed to make me "nope" out (albeit temporarily - I did go back and finish them). The fact that both occurred in my adulthood however is testament to their legit off the charts fear factor
The only game that ever truly had that reaction from me was the original Resi Evil 3 Nemesis. As soon as he hits the screen I'm like, 'nope' turn around and exit the screen. Still has that effect on me today haha. The Witch from Left 4 Dead however worked completely opposite for me. As soon as I heard a witches cry I'd actively hunt her. Made it much more fun. The Tank was the real enemy to be scared of. He'd take out a whole team. The sea ceature/human thing from Inside comes to mind too.
There have been several moments in which I noped out of a game, but none hit quite as hard to me as the level 7 of Alien Trilogy: Atmospheric Sub-basement. Up until that point, the game was pretty entertaining. A bit scary at points, sure, but nothing too jarring. Kill aliens, get new weapons, try not to get killed as you travel through the level and onto the next. Easy. The issue with the level 7 was that the game changed completely its tone. The place is dark and it made it hard to see, the walls were all covered in that black organic material the aliens generate, and there were people trapped there, begging you to kill them with their cracked, weakened voices, and if you get too close, their chests burst and an alien comes out. Everything from the setting, the lighting, the mood, the environment and even the music were so terrifying that they sent chills down my spine to the point where I couldn't go any further, paralized in fear. It would be years before I had the bravery to tackle that stage and move on, well into my teenage years. That was the single mission in Alien Trilogy that made me nope out of the game nearly instantaneously.
I watched my brother play the first Resident Evil so many times. I knew about the dogs that jumped through the window in that corridor by the opening area... still it scared me so much I could not continue playing.
I got one you've probably never heard: the hydrotherapy steam box in John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles. You get locked into a glorified coffin that gets filled with steam and will pretty much boil you to death if you can't figure out how to get out. All while the ghost of a female asylum patient who died that way years ago pleads with you to get out before you meet the same fate.
Uhhhh... wow. That sounds incredibly intense. I got a shiver up my spine just reading it, imagining the terror of the two: one fearing the unknown torturous death coming for him; one panicking, watching him succumb to the torturous death she knows all too well, which is fast approaching. ........Hmmm 🤔, I think my imagination may be too vivid to play or watch this game... lol 😆
FEAR demo. The elevated cat walk, turning around to go down the ladder and seeing Alma standing where I just was. I said nope, quit the demo and have never played a FEAR game since. Funny that I own all of them on Steam though :) YAY seasonal Steam sales!!!
My best friend and I died repeatedly on the intro to that game. We couldn't figure out the fighting and it didn't give you much time. He finally figured out that you had to hold the bumper then hit a different button to fire the gun.
Like you, this was my experience too with the Resident Evil 2 game. After about 6 minutes playing, I couldn't take it anymore, shut it off and went into the living room and sat there with my parents with my sweaty palms, hahaha. Great series! Confusing too, but great! 😄
While playing Doom 3 on the OG Xbox, I had a moment like this. I had just had surgery, and was on painkillers, decided to play Doom 3 and was just at the part where you come back from Hell to find that Sarge is now a demon. While walking through the corridors i heard a faint whisper "Sarge is coming to get you". I immediately turned off my console and in my "inebriated" state put the disc in the freezer and immediately went to bed. I still play Doom 3 and when that part comes along i have a legit moment of panic every time.
I almost Noped out of RE2 first time playing. My older sister brought her PS1 home for the holidays and wanted me to try RE2. It was dark out, in the basement, and the only light was the TV. I never played RE1 and was not prepared. I was in the first saved room when I went behind the wall partition and saw the licker crawl along the outside wall. I literally put the controller and said I'm done. After several minutes if convincing me to keep going, I did. I died but kept playing and it is one my all time favorites.
3am, sitting in the dark, headphone on, thought I was losing it when black and white started whispering my Name! How about a list of games that interact with your PC or game system in unexpected ways.
This was awesome as always! I would love to see a top 5 episode of Games that were made to be huge commercial hits but were terrible flops that didn’t meet expectations!
The sewer section in Silent Hill 3. I opened a door to a side corridor and heard a deep, distorted heartbeat thrumming and metal grinding sounds and the walls started to bleed. Fastest I've said "nope" in a horror game. Actually spun round 180 and went right back out the door. My first exposure to Akira Yamaoka's sound design left quite an impression.
Brother! Your Number one Moment is My Number 1 Moment! 🤣🤣🤣As a kid in my uncle's house, just repeatedly dying over and over again at the Very Start of the Game had me shook!(reading you are dead and Leon being devoured over and over again) And at first, I was just charging headfirst into the zombies instead of turning around in the opposite direction! I also love the series now 🤣
I remember that I was anything but impressed by Left 4 Dead's witch. She's just another bullet sponge that cries. I always startled her on purpose. Maybe the reason why I don't remember her as dangerous or scary is because after startling her I always positioned me in a way that she had to go through all of my comrades before reaching me... Yeah, I was a pain in the ass to play L4D with LOL
I raise you a glass Jules cause I have a similar experience with RE3: Nemesis. Not very far in the game at all you have to go into a freezer which is very tight. It was in that moment where the nemesis shows up and you have limited mobility to get away that I just noped out. Jill went in, and there she stayed because I walked away to hear the game over music in the other room. Nope. Nope. Nope. There was another similar one where a portion of the police hall is relatively safe, but there's 2 doors on the right from the entrance that nearly spawn him EVERY single time you go through them. Every time I had to go near them life just slowed down into hyperfocus and that was traumatizing. I just could not do it.
since you shared your resident evil 2 story it makes me want to share mine. My sister had the console in her room and had just recently got resident evil 2. The cover of the game fascinated me. I was already into horror at this point so playing a zombie game for me was a no brainer. I would go into my sisters room, boot up the game and play for as long as I could. I loved the game it was just the right amount of scary for me (oh and I had not played the original at this point) I made it to the sewers and was already declaring this game as my favourite game ever. I unlocked the sewers and headed down...… I heard a horribly noise....I thought to myself what....? I got cut off as I suddenly saw one of the tarantulas screeching towards me on its hind legs. I screamed....threw the controller and ran out the room. The next time I played resident evil 2 was many years later and I still noped out a bit later when 2 tarantulas attacked me on a later area. to this day I still have never completed and early resident evil game due to the spiders but I still adore the series. Yes my spider phobia is that bad....I hate it.
honestly.... that Resident evil 2 demo thing is the same thing that happened to me as a kid. my mothers husband from when i was a child thought it was a good idea to play resident evil 3 in front of me when i was just a tiny fella. some of the things i saw in that shook me so hard that i too have developed a weird fascination with Zombies, horror and fantasy. its so weird how these things genuinely do impact us when we are older.
Ha! I can relate to your scary RE2 demo story. Hehe, I went over to a friends house a LONG time ago for a sleep over, and for whatever reason I was still awake late, like 12am-ish, anywho, saw he had RE1 for his PS, and I never played it before. Popped it in, tried it out, got to that first scene where the zombie looks at you and I was like "NOOOOOOOPEEEEEEEEEE" and went to bed. LMAO!
Mine was in Outlast when you go into the flooded basement. I went in the platform to do whatever the objective was, heard footsteps running through the water behind me, audibly said “Nope,” and never played the game again
What ,no Alma from F.E.A.R. ? Her going around corners and disappearing by the time you got there. Then there is her blowing you out a window. Noped for a few days after that. Then there is The Suffering. That game had some seriously scary vibes. With the ambient sounds. The ghosts popping up out of nowhere, creatures popping up out of the ground. Nasty.
Making a bet now, flood from Halo will be on here. I remember playing Halo when I was sick as a kid, kept me distracted, and I would replay the first half of the game rather than face the flood repeatedly. Thanks for the content Jules!
Friend of mine was playing World of Warcraft, while in the Plaguelands he was hearing faint calls for help through the speakers. As this was right after seeing the movie Cellular, it freaked him out wondering if it was some sort of weird case of the speakers picking up a signal (which does happen from time to time).
5:13 Js. There’s a reason you can play as a tank and not a witch and it’s because its and emotionally charged id unable to be done justice by a rando on an average day, this easily plays to the fear factor because it is simultaneously, as you mentioned, humanized, while also being void of reasonable means to allow a human player to frivolously portray it.
I'll never forget playing the original Resident Evil game when I was 10yrs old. Dear God, to this day, the memory of going down that first hallway, with that first zombie...
Thanks for the RE2 bit, Jules! So, so relatable! I felt that. Not gonna lie: Leisure Suit Larry Magna Cum Laude's possessed chick creeped me something fierce and has haunted me to this very day.
RE: Lu Bu encounters in the Dynasty Warriors franchise - Usually, it is possible to avoid Lu Bu entirely, as Jules points out...unless you're playing Sun Jian. The reason being that as the fabled "Tiger of Jian Dong", it is your destiny to defeat Lu Bu in battle - as was foretold in the games' source text "Romance Of The Three Kingdoms" - and therefore is an essential plot point. Thankfully, Sun Jian is a master swordsman with the over-confident swagger of Ash from 'Evil Dead' if was gene spliced with Tony Stark, so if nothing else at least you'll be going into that battle with a positive outlook.
don't feel too bad jules. i had a similar experience growing up. got the first siren game and boy was i unprepared. did ok up until this one spot when you're the main guy leading a girl around. used the second sight mechanic and realized there was a zombie half-monitoring the segment i needed to run thru. proceeded to spend over ten minutes just cycling back and forth between the view of my character and the zombie's pov, internally panicking, too petrified to actually make my character move even though there was a completely workable window while the zombie was turned around returned the game and never picked up siren again LOL. also tended to avoid horrors after that. just don't have the guts to actively play them. i'll stick to watching playthroughs
One moment that made me nope out was running into the screamer in dying light. All you hear is what sounds like a child crying, and when you get closer to it it screams at the top of its lungs bringing forth a mob of zombies. I nearly had a heart attack running into that.
Great list and enjoyed the personal tale from your childhood, good to know I wasn't the only one getting scared of those games at a young age. As for another list, how about favorite moments in games that you made a separate save to just replay it again and again.
Omg it was the same for me too! Re2 and the first movie totally traumatized me for weeks each and it's probably why I was so into it in my later years, getting over that trauma
Black and White! I used to play that game SO much when I was a kid. . . I'm happy to see it grace a list like this! I feel like it wasn't a super well known game.
I have an idea for an episode Top 8 past gen games that are still alive and kicking. What I mean is that it would be games that came out a couple years ago that are still extremely active and/or getting updates to this day. Left 4 Dead 1&2, Payday 2 are good examples.
I remember I was playing Resident Evil 2 as a grown ass man and as I was running through one of the hallways, you saw one of the crawler things crawl across a window in the background...scared the bejesus out of me!
No one is mentioning throughout the entire video, you can hear James whisper "Jules" at random moments. I was drifting to sleep and had suddenly snapped back into awake to make sure I wasn't hearing things
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 I think had a part where you are going through an abandoned construction project or something, and you drop down into this room with no way out except a single door. The whole time you've been approaching this area, you can hear a Poison Headcrab Zombie just going to town in the sound effects department, and you reach this door you can break open and just know it's on the other side...The sound effects creeped me out so badly, I stayed there for five minutes working up the courage just to open the door. If you turned on developer commentary, they said the same thing happened to a tester, just that it took him several days to get over it or something, a significantly longer period of time, so they left it in there just to screw with people.
My biggest nope-out was Sen's Fortress in Dark Souls 1. After getting murdered by angry snake men and a floor trap that filled me with arrows, the second I saw that narrow bridge into the dark and the swinging blades I backed down hard and didn't play again for several years.
Ahh, the Witch in Left 4 Dead... Once, there was a Witch next to the derailed train - right at the choke point where it's basically single file around one overturned train car. I could easily skip past without disturbing her...but I was playing with three AI teammates. Instead of following my lead, they gathered around the Witch, pointing their guns at her and yelling "Witch!! Witch!!" One of the most surreal unscripted moments I've seen in a videogame. All three got incapacitated when she leapt up, of course.
The introduction of weapon ammo in Front Mission 2 had me rage quit when I realized the mistake I've done right at the end of Mission 3. One of the unit with knuckle duster survived every shot and all my remaining units stood with empty guns clenched, doing nothing except becoming metal sex toys for the enemy to blow off steam... Yes, I started the game without reading any manuals....
In the game Resident Evil - III - The Remake. When the Nemesis creature transformed into what I can only describe as a giant pulsating wall of demonic snot near the end. I found myself so utterly revolted by the sight that when the confrontation was to start I remembered to breathe .. said "No" and hit the power switch. :) I still cannot bring myself to even consider going up against that. There are enemies I am not meant to face
I really don't think non-warhammer fans will appreciate the magnitude of when you said " Kissing Papa Nurgles Taint" Like....get the flamer.....no brother...the heavy flamer
Confession: The first time I played Left 4 Dead with a friend and we encountered a witch, I tried to teach him the specific means of dispatching her safely, quickly and efficiently. Did he listen? Nope. He blatantly ignored my warnings and ran in like a bull in a china shop, only to complain when the witch put his character into dying mode and I refused to help him. Seriously, that was annoying.
Although they're not particularly difficult to fight. The Bererkers from Gear of War will always make my hair stand on end. That screech of rage before they rip you limb from limb is just terrifying.
BRO….. I forgot how hard I raged when I fought Lu Bu. Like I fought that battle at least 10-20 times before I mastered it and still couldn’t beat it…. What a nice memory to uncover…
Subnautica tells you there's multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the area in an actual playable area. Outside the playable area you get "Warning: Entering ecological dead zone." Also, Subnautica doesn't have auto save either, just like Dead Rising and it loves to crash when you don't save for hours.
i had a nope moment like that on the darrens brown ghost train at thrope park. already freaking out, went dark, heard a scream. i grabbed the headset and threw it off. was white as a sheet every time i went on the underground after
My two nope moments: 1. Dead Space, noped out right after I found a save point. 2. Outlast: Whistleblower, noped out about 10 mins after the Walrider outbreak. Jus like to mention the bear in the original Tomb Raider, bloody thing showed up out of nowhere.
You speak of Resident Evil breaking you, my breaking point was the first Silent Hill game inside the elementary school...the little kids holding big butcher knives, full on sprinting at you was enough for me to put the game back in its case and I didn't touch the game for at least 4 months after that
Not gonna lie, i literally ALT F4'd the baby in Resident Evil 8. Running along in the dark, following what i thought was a trail of blood, lately realizing it was an ambilocal cord. But yeah that silent hill looking monster coming out of the dark, the baby laughing and squeeling, NOPE, alt f4, so fast. Didn't come back to it for a week.
I can't express how happy I am to have my idea turned into an episode. Thank you for everything you do Jules and keep up the great work! P.S I take either pronunciation of my name
Thank you so much for your suggestion! Was incredibly fun to make this one - big bless to yah!
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The baby fetus monster thing from Resident Evil: Village didn't make me "nope" out of the game immediately but it's keeping me from replaying the game again because I'll have to go through that segment again. I'll be honest, if Capcom makes a paid DLC that let's me skip that part, I'll throw my debit card at it.
honestly the pre-face off that is by far the worst part off the second playthrough.
Like you are constantly like oh no im close to that part oh no.
But then when it actually happens you remember when and where the baby pops up and what you need to do to avoid it and suddenly you are like: huh this wasn't that bad.
I have replayed the game like five times and no im not fearing that moment at all.
The dolls singing to you after it on the other hand...........
@@jeltevl8868 I was kind of lukewarm on Village overall so that's more the reason that I haven't played the game again. I love the series but this game and RE0 are the two games that I'm like "ugh" for.
To be honest, that baby monster is also halting my replay of RE: Village too. It's a very cool sequence... but every time I try continuing I load in, realize what's coming up, and NOPE right back to the PS4's home menu.
I can watch people play zombie games (never play them, as anxiety), and it was at that moment of watching someone play through the village that I decided I was right to never fool myself into thinking I could play the game.
its not so bad the second time, you know its coming and can brace yourself to get through it.
Jules, you have a style, delivery and sense of humour that keeps me watching your vids even when I could not care less about the specific topic. You're a gem.
@@Notconceitedjustbetterthanyou sounds like you just have a man crush on him. The others do a good job also
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5:12 was my favorite part 😃
@TheDonofthsht76 - yes they do
As a note about Lu Bu: he WAS known in chinese history to be actually invincible. Seriously, he was a killing machine - the mere sight of his horse, Red Rabbit (yes, that was its name - Lu Bu was a master warrior, but sucked at naming things) made entire armies RUN.
He was THAT strong.
Wonder how dumb all those people felt who thought Lu Bu was invincible felt when he got executed (by Cao Cao if I remember correctly)
Also, the horse was named Red Hare not Red Rabbit.
My mates computer "noped" while we were playing Alien Isolation
Had the lights off curtains shut and we was playing through the game (not massively far into it) and it got to the cutscene where Axel gets killed, we jumped and let out a yelp as the tail went through him, partially because we were rather immersed into it, but also because there was a rather loud pop sound which wasn't on the game, suddenly smoke and his computer shut off
The power supply decided that the Xenomorph scared it that much, the only way out was self combustion
You were at the beginning, so not too bad. What happened to the computer? That sounds quite bad.
Damn that's why it's the best alien game
“Such is our nature”, bless you, Jules, you’re so much more optimistic about mankind than some of us 😂
"Moments you can't come back from, and that SUCKS" have you ever had a moment in a game where you felt you didn't spend enough time exploring? And then you get to that ONE point in a game where a door closes behind you and it's locked forever,or jump off a ledge you can't climb back of? That, the moment of no return (unless you beat the game and backtrack)
Yes, do this one!
Seriously the worst. Like "why? why did you close this off?" There's never a good reason.
In the original Spyro, there was some swamp level where these tree like things would pop out of the ground and swallow you. Those blokes TERRIFIED me. With the remaster, they are designed a little bit differently so the threat is gone but I was still dreading facing them during my first playthrough.
True facts: Lu Bu is the reason why I immediately panic when you approach a character in a game and they have their own theme music. He has taught me well in preparing myself for an asswhooping.
One Winged Angel anyone?
8 moments that made you instantly think "God I need a sequel for this game"
Loved the part with Resident Evil, me and a friend had a rather similar experrience, just with Silent Hill. Was at his house, I'd guess 13-14 years old, playing it at night at a sleep over. Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep, as he simply put down the controller and said; "I can't... No more..." And I was simply frozen in fear and disbelief.
Good times.
I also remember my days of childhood cowardice. Back when violence and gore had any effect on me at all. I have no sympathy for my weak childhood self.
@@etinarcadiaego7424 Me and a buddy were playing Silent Hill in my basement and I remember bolting upstairs (both of us) and the tv and the lights stayed on downstairs for the rest of the night. We couldn't go back.
I sadly "noped" out of Brutal Legend once it turned from open world action adventure in a cool heavy metal landscape into a frustrating RTS that no one wanted. That one really bummed me out.
Wait seriously
I didn't nope out, but I definately see and share your point!
For me: Resident Evil Village, the Giant Fetus. The first time I saw it, I was so shocked, I couldn't move and, obviously, got killed. That whole area unsettled me, but that moment with the fetus made me nope out of the game for a while. Granted, I finally went back and finished it, but I still can't play that section without just trying to get out of there as quickly as possible, while attempting to hold my breath. Definitely the best scare I've had from a game in a long time.
Side Note: RE2 (the original) was my first Resident Evil title and I still remember playing it as a teenager, in the dark, while everyone was sleeping. I screamed so loud at one point, it woke my parents & brother up, but I went right back to the game once they went back to sleep. x'D
F%#@! That f-ing Giant Fetus! The very first time I came across that thing, I was like:' WTF IS THAT! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!' (there was much more swearing than that!) In my head, I was like:' F YOU, F THIS, I'm shacking up with Metal Daddy, I'M OUT!' Kinda surprised the Fetus Monster didn't make the list! If it was, it would be towards the top!
The moment that made me Nope out was in "Lone Survivor." It was a corridor. Not a gory corridor, not a chase down a corridor, just a dark corridor that went on longer than I wanted it to and the tension got too much for me to handle.
End story had me flashing back to an incident in high school after my father woke me up at 3 am to solve the piano puzzle in Silent Hill. Not only the sleepless night that followed, but the next exhausted morning, having to wait for my morning class to start in a far flung classroom on the edge of campus that was entirely engulfed in fog...
The Broodmother from Dragon Age Origins and the Banshee from Mass Effect 3 gave me goosebumps when the games first came out. I was about to enter High School when DAO first came out and I was really disturbed when the Broodmother appeared after Hespith read her horrible poem about how Broodmother’s were created. Then Mass Effect 3 came out the year I graduated and the Banshee reveal in the sanctuary was horrifying, especially when I barely took a step to enter and heard their shrieks in the dark.
dead space did it for me. found most of it creepy and scary and then came "twinkle, twinkle, little star". freaked me out
Yeah that game was so creepy can’t wait for the remake :)
@@jamesbourne256 definitely
Manhunt was one of those games for me back in the day. The last level when Pigsy burst out of the walls with a chainsaw, was the first time a game triggered massive adrenaline rush
Bloody oath
Fatal Frame, there was a part where you're just chilling at the Himuro mansion and suddenly you can hear a musical instrument (a koto I think) playing an eerily song, that alone make you hesitate, as you continue you can see a silhouette of a woman playing said instrument behind a screen, once you get close enough she strokes a very hard and strident note and disappears, boy that dropped every shade of color out of my body.
Doesn't help that a koto sounds eerie by default.
That was the one game where I literally said I can't do this and I was playing in the early afternoon never picked it up ever again
The Baby from Resident Evil Village was easily one of the most disturbing moments in any game I've ever played
was literally stressed after that
yeah that things made me go, i'm good see yah later
I feel ya Jules, I used to consume a bunch of horror stuff as a game and it would give me terrible nightmares, but as an adult I'm hooked
Just the atmosphere of the mansion on the Resident Evil remake makes me nope out every now and then, and when you're hiding from regular enemies only to hear the Alien in the room in Alien Isolation. Nope immediately.
There’s one idea for a video I think would be golden. Top moments games made you feel like the smartest man alive
I never thought I would hear the word liquid poo with a gentlemanly sounding voice
The Witch sound still creeps me out. Idea for a list: Games that start out easy, but turn and become extremely difficult. Take care Jules and have a nice day😀
Talk about having the warning that you're headed close to a witch! When I hear the witch theme, I would say, "Oh, no." Talk about having a reason to be extra cautious!
Was playing RE2 at a friends house one afternoon for a few hours and when we were done it was pitch black outside,so I ran home at a full sprint for 4 blocks!
Yup I remember playing Pokemon and being scared to walk home. Pikachu wasn't gonna save me
Original Silent Hill and the Korean indie game Home Sweet Home are the only two horror games that managed to make me "nope" out (albeit temporarily - I did go back and finish them). The fact that both occurred in my adulthood however is testament to their legit off the charts fear factor
"Chaosgate: Daemonhunters allowed the XCOM and 40k fandoms to meet"
Mechanicus: "Am I a joke to you?"
The only game that ever truly had that reaction from me was the original Resi Evil 3 Nemesis. As soon as he hits the screen I'm like, 'nope' turn around and exit the screen. Still has that effect on me today haha. The Witch from Left 4 Dead however worked completely opposite for me. As soon as I heard a witches cry I'd actively hunt her. Made it much more fun. The Tank was the real enemy to be scared of. He'd take out a whole team. The sea ceature/human thing from Inside comes to mind too.
There have been several moments in which I noped out of a game, but none hit quite as hard to me as the level 7 of Alien Trilogy: Atmospheric Sub-basement.
Up until that point, the game was pretty entertaining. A bit scary at points, sure, but nothing too jarring. Kill aliens, get new weapons, try not to get killed as you travel through the level and onto the next. Easy.
The issue with the level 7 was that the game changed completely its tone. The place is dark and it made it hard to see, the walls were all covered in that black organic material the aliens generate, and there were people trapped there, begging you to kill them with their cracked, weakened voices, and if you get too close, their chests burst and an alien comes out. Everything from the setting, the lighting, the mood, the environment and even the music were so terrifying that they sent chills down my spine to the point where I couldn't go any further, paralized in fear. It would be years before I had the bravery to tackle that stage and move on, well into my teenage years. That was the single mission in Alien Trilogy that made me nope out of the game nearly instantaneously.
I would love to see a top list of "that's my one per list" insult /joke Jules has made over the years
This would be really good
Get on it then
Yes, even a compilation of these moments would be awesome!
I watched my brother play the first Resident Evil so many times. I knew about the dogs that jumped through the window in that corridor by the opening area... still it scared me so much I could not continue playing.
I got one you've probably never heard: the hydrotherapy steam box in John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles. You get locked into a glorified coffin that gets filled with steam and will pretty much boil you to death if you can't figure out how to get out. All while the ghost of a female asylum patient who died that way years ago pleads with you to get out before you meet the same fate.
Uhhhh... wow. That sounds incredibly intense. I got a shiver up my spine just reading it, imagining the terror of the two: one fearing the unknown torturous death coming for him; one panicking, watching him succumb to the torturous death she knows all too well, which is fast approaching. ........Hmmm 🤔, I think my imagination may be too vivid to play or watch this game... lol 😆
FEAR demo. The elevated cat walk, turning around to go down the ladder and seeing Alma standing where I just was. I said nope, quit the demo and have never played a FEAR game since. Funny that I own all of them on Steam though :) YAY seasonal Steam sales!!!
I played 1 and 2. Definitely, that demo scared the shiat out of me.
My best friend and I died repeatedly on the intro to that game. We couldn't figure out the fighting and it didn't give you much time. He finally figured out that you had to hold the bumper then hit a different button to fire the gun.
Like you, this was my experience too with the Resident Evil 2 game. After about 6 minutes playing, I couldn't take it anymore, shut it off and went into the living room and sat there with my parents with my sweaty palms, hahaha. Great series! Confusing too, but great! 😄
While playing Doom 3 on the OG Xbox, I had a moment like this. I had just had surgery, and was on painkillers, decided to play Doom 3 and was just at the part where you come back from Hell to find that Sarge is now a demon. While walking through the corridors i heard a faint whisper "Sarge is coming to get you". I immediately turned off my console and in my "inebriated" state put the disc in the freezer and immediately went to bed. I still play Doom 3 and when that part comes along i have a legit moment of panic every time.
List idea: enemies in games that you totally regret encountering IE the Cazadors from FONV. Jules you the best presenter from What Culture.
Top10 Rpg side quest most off genre.
Ps. Thank you Jules for all the pick me up pep talks and thought provoking intros/outros, stay Legendary mate
I almost Noped out of RE2 first time playing. My older sister brought her PS1 home for the holidays and wanted me to try RE2. It was dark out, in the basement, and the only light was the TV. I never played RE1 and was not prepared. I was in the first saved room when I went behind the wall partition and saw the licker crawl along the outside wall. I literally put the controller and said I'm done. After several minutes if convincing me to keep going, I did. I died but kept playing and it is one my all time favorites.
3am, sitting in the dark, headphone on, thought I was losing it when black and white started whispering my Name!
How about a list of games that interact with your PC or game system in unexpected ways.
This was awesome as always! I would love to see a top 5 episode of Games that were made to be huge commercial hits but were terrible flops that didn’t meet expectations!
The sewer section in Silent Hill 3. I opened a door to a side corridor and heard a deep, distorted heartbeat thrumming and metal grinding sounds and the walls started to bleed. Fastest I've said "nope" in a horror game. Actually spun round 180 and went right back out the door. My first exposure to Akira Yamaoka's sound design left quite an impression.
Brother! Your Number one Moment is My Number 1 Moment! 🤣🤣🤣As a kid in my uncle's house, just repeatedly dying over and over again at the Very Start of the Game had me shook!(reading you are dead and Leon being devoured over and over again) And at first, I was just charging headfirst into the zombies instead of turning around in the opposite direction! I also love the series now 🤣
I remember that I was anything but impressed by Left 4 Dead's witch. She's just another bullet sponge that cries. I always startled her on purpose. Maybe the reason why I don't remember her as dangerous or scary is because after startling her I always positioned me in a way that she had to go through all of my comrades before reaching me... Yeah, I was a pain in the ass to play L4D with LOL
I raise you a glass Jules cause I have a similar experience with RE3: Nemesis. Not very far in the game at all you have to go into a freezer which is very tight. It was in that moment where the nemesis shows up and you have limited mobility to get away that I just noped out. Jill went in, and there she stayed because I walked away to hear the game over music in the other room. Nope. Nope. Nope. There was another similar one where a portion of the police hall is relatively safe, but there's 2 doors on the right from the entrance that nearly spawn him EVERY single time you go through them. Every time I had to go near them life just slowed down into hyperfocus and that was traumatizing. I just could not do it.
Also, a truly unsettling moment is in "When The Darkness Comes" when the game starts talking to you directly. THAT was my 'Nope' moment for sure.
since you shared your resident evil 2 story it makes me want to share mine. My sister had the console in her room and had just recently got resident evil 2. The cover of the game fascinated me. I was already into horror at this point so playing a zombie game for me was a no brainer. I would go into my sisters room, boot up the game and play for as long as I could. I loved the game it was just the right amount of scary for me (oh and I had not played the original at this point) I made it to the sewers and was already declaring this game as my favourite game ever. I unlocked the sewers and headed down...… I heard a horribly noise....I thought to myself what....? I got cut off as I suddenly saw one of the tarantulas screeching towards me on its hind legs. I screamed....threw the controller and ran out the room. The next time I played resident evil 2 was many years later and I still noped out a bit later when 2 tarantulas attacked me on a later area. to this day I still have never completed and early resident evil game due to the spiders but I still adore the series. Yes my spider phobia is that bad....I hate it.
honestly.... that Resident evil 2 demo thing is the same thing that happened to me as a kid. my mothers husband from when i was a child thought it was a good idea to play resident evil 3 in front of me when i was just a tiny fella. some of the things i saw in that shook me so hard that i too have developed a weird fascination with Zombies, horror and fantasy. its so weird how these things genuinely do impact us when we are older.
Man do I miss demo discs. They got me into so many games that I'd probably not have looked twice at as a kid.
My little brothers and I still say "Oh no! It's LuBu!!!" when we face a difficult enemy in video games
Ha! I can relate to your scary RE2 demo story. Hehe, I went over to a friends house a LONG time ago for a sleep over, and for whatever reason I was still awake late, like 12am-ish, anywho, saw he had RE1 for his PS, and I never played it before. Popped it in, tried it out, got to that first scene where the zombie looks at you and I was like "NOOOOOOOPEEEEEEEEEE" and went to bed. LMAO!
Mine was in Outlast when you go into the flooded basement. I went in the platform to do whatever the objective was, heard footsteps running through the water behind me, audibly said “Nope,” and never played the game again
Everyone has stopped playing a game after dying and finding out you have to start ALL OVER FROM THE LAST POINT YOU MANUALLY SAVED.
bro "bumping into the witch" made me cry laugh. well done
What ,no Alma from F.E.A.R. ? Her going around corners and disappearing by the time you got there. Then there is her blowing you out a window. Noped for a few days after that. Then there is The Suffering. That game had some seriously scary vibes. With the ambient sounds. The ghosts popping up out of nowhere, creatures popping up out of the ground. Nasty.
As always, your finishing words are heartwarming. Thanks. ❤️
Making a bet now, flood from Halo will be on here. I remember playing Halo when I was sick as a kid, kept me distracted, and I would replay the first half of the game rather than face the flood repeatedly. Thanks for the content Jules!
Friend of mine was playing World of Warcraft, while in the Plaguelands he was hearing faint calls for help through the speakers. As this was right after seeing the movie Cellular, it freaked him out wondering if it was some sort of weird case of the speakers picking up a signal (which does happen from time to time).
5:13 Js. There’s a reason you can play as a tank and not a witch and it’s because its and emotionally charged id unable to be done justice by a rando on an average day, this easily plays to the fear factor because it is simultaneously, as you mentioned, humanized, while also being void of reasonable means to allow a human player to frivolously portray it.
I'll never forget playing the original Resident Evil game when I was 10yrs old. Dear God, to this day, the memory of going down that first hallway, with that first zombie...
Subnautica: Do you have a fear of the ocean?
Me: No?
Subnautica: Want to?
Silent Hill 2, that part in the bathroom, also I might have been a little intoxicated, which didn't help either
Thanks for the RE2 bit, Jules! So, so relatable! I felt that.
Not gonna lie: Leisure Suit Larry Magna Cum Laude's possessed chick creeped me something fierce and has haunted me to this very day.
Jules, you are a god damn national treasure! Thanks for all your amazing work, it really is fun and always positive!
RE: Lu Bu encounters in the Dynasty Warriors franchise - Usually, it is possible to avoid Lu Bu entirely, as Jules points out...unless you're playing Sun Jian. The reason being that as the fabled "Tiger of Jian Dong", it is your destiny to defeat Lu Bu in battle - as was foretold in the games' source text "Romance Of The Three Kingdoms" - and therefore is an essential plot point. Thankfully, Sun Jian is a master swordsman with the over-confident swagger of Ash from 'Evil Dead' if was gene spliced with Tony Stark, so if nothing else at least you'll be going into that battle with a positive outlook.
don't feel too bad jules. i had a similar experience growing up. got the first siren game and boy was i unprepared. did ok up until this one spot when you're the main guy leading a girl around. used the second sight mechanic and realized there was a zombie half-monitoring the segment i needed to run thru. proceeded to spend over ten minutes just cycling back and forth between the view of my character and the zombie's pov, internally panicking, too petrified to actually make my character move even though there was a completely workable window while the zombie was turned around
returned the game and never picked up siren again LOL. also tended to avoid horrors after that. just don't have the guts to actively play them. i'll stick to watching playthroughs
One moment that made me nope out was running into the screamer in dying light. All you hear is what sounds like a child crying, and when you get closer to it it screams at the top of its lungs bringing forth a mob of zombies. I nearly had a heart attack running into that.
Great list and enjoyed the personal tale from your childhood, good to know I wasn't the only one getting scared of those games at a young age. As for another list, how about favorite moments in games that you made a separate save to just replay it again and again.
Omg it was the same for me too! Re2 and the first movie totally traumatized me for weeks each and it's probably why I was so into it in my later years, getting over that trauma
Black and White! I used to play that game SO much when I was a kid. . . I'm happy to see it grace a list like this! I feel like it wasn't a super well known game.
I have an idea for an episode
Top 8 past gen games that are still alive and kicking.
What I mean is that it would be games that came out a couple years ago that are still extremely active and/or getting updates to this day. Left 4 Dead 1&2, Payday 2 are good examples.
Mass Effect 3's banshee scream is truly terrifying and Halo's flood reveal is a super nope I'm out moment.
I remember I was playing Resident Evil 2 as a grown ass man and as I was running through one of the hallways, you saw one of the crawler things crawl across a window in the background...scared the bejesus out of me!
No one is mentioning throughout the entire video, you can hear James whisper "Jules" at random moments. I was drifting to sleep and had suddenly snapped back into awake to make sure I wasn't hearing things
what you experience in RE 2 is the beauty of fixed camaera angle horror games. It makes you brain think what you can't see, see
Half-Life 2: Episode 1 I think had a part where you are going through an abandoned construction project or something, and you drop down into this room with no way out except a single door. The whole time you've been approaching this area, you can hear a Poison Headcrab Zombie just going to town in the sound effects department, and you reach this door you can break open and just know it's on the other side...The sound effects creeped me out so badly, I stayed there for five minutes working up the courage just to open the door.
If you turned on developer commentary, they said the same thing happened to a tester, just that it took him several days to get over it or something, a significantly longer period of time, so they left it in there just to screw with people.
For me, it was when Leon falls through the floor in the library. No enemies, just eerie music then sudden chaos.
Jules I've been a fan for the longest time like the rest of everyone its just nice to see you ya big ledge.
Also : 7 Save Scums Gone Wrong.
Ah, Lu Bu. I remember seeing him stomping the ground, and watching all my allies dieing and being launched through the poorly rendered draw distance.
I remember seeing him up close while being launched! LOL
@@erynncollier8672 Yeah, his charge attack in DW3, he'd yell "The king!" and stomp the ground, sending dead bodies everywhere!
@@opal-blue8939 Yep! lol
My biggest nope-out was Sen's Fortress in Dark Souls 1. After getting murdered by angry snake men and a floor trap that filled me with arrows, the second I saw that narrow bridge into the dark and the swinging blades I backed down hard and didn't play again for several years.
Ahh, the Witch in Left 4 Dead...
Once, there was a Witch next to the derailed train - right at the choke point where it's basically single file around one overturned train car.
I could easily skip past without disturbing her...but I was playing with three AI teammates.
Instead of following my lead, they gathered around the Witch, pointing their guns at her and yelling "Witch!! Witch!!"
One of the most surreal unscripted moments I've seen in a videogame.
All three got incapacitated when she leapt up, of course.
The introduction of weapon ammo in Front Mission 2 had me rage quit when I realized the mistake I've done right at the end of Mission 3.
One of the unit with knuckle duster survived every shot and all my remaining units stood with empty guns clenched, doing nothing except becoming metal sex toys for the enemy to blow off steam...
Yes, I started the game without reading any manuals....
8 moments where the music during a scene or gameplay moment gave you a emotional response
In the game Resident Evil - III - The Remake.
When the Nemesis creature transformed into what I can only describe as a
giant pulsating wall of demonic snot near the end. I found myself so utterly
revolted by the sight that when the confrontation was to start I remembered
to breathe .. said "No" and hit the power switch. :)
I still cannot bring myself to even consider going up against that. There
are enemies I am not meant to face
I really don't think non-warhammer fans will appreciate the magnitude of when you said " Kissing Papa Nurgles Taint"
Like....get the flamer.....no brother...the heavy flamer
Confession: The first time I played Left 4 Dead with a friend and we encountered a witch, I tried to teach him the specific means of dispatching her safely, quickly and efficiently. Did he listen? Nope. He blatantly ignored my warnings and ran in like a bull in a china shop, only to complain when the witch put his character into dying mode and I refused to help him. Seriously, that was annoying.
Although they're not particularly difficult to fight. The Bererkers from Gear of War will always make my hair stand on end.
That screech of rage before they rip you limb from limb is just terrifying.
Love going deep into the RE2 thing. I had a similar experience with eternal darkness. I think that’s why I love horror so much as well
BRO….. I forgot how hard I raged when I fought Lu Bu. Like I fought that battle at least 10-20 times before I mastered it and still couldn’t beat it….
What a nice memory to uncover…
Subnautica tells you there's multiple leviathan class lifeforms in the area in an actual playable area. Outside the playable area you get "Warning: Entering ecological dead zone."
Also, Subnautica doesn't have auto save either, just like Dead Rising and it loves to crash when you don't save for hours.
That first time I played L4D and hearing that witch crying.... it STILL creeps me way out whenever I hear it.
i had a nope moment like that on the darrens brown ghost train at thrope park. already freaking out, went dark, heard a scream. i grabbed the headset and threw it off.
was white as a sheet every time i went on the underground after
My two nope moments: 1. Dead Space, noped out right after I found a save point. 2. Outlast: Whistleblower, noped out about 10 mins after the Walrider outbreak.
Jus like to mention the bear in the original Tomb Raider, bloody thing showed up out of nowhere.
You speak of Resident Evil breaking you, my breaking point was the first Silent Hill game inside the elementary school...the little kids holding big butcher knives, full on sprinting at you was enough for me to put the game back in its case and I didn't touch the game for at least 4 months after that
I simply cannot understand being so digusted or afraid of something portrayed in a piece of media you actually stop before finishing it.
It's always a good day when I get to see your mug ❤️
Not gonna lie, i literally ALT F4'd the baby in Resident Evil 8. Running along in the dark, following what i thought was a trail of blood, lately realizing it was an ambilocal cord. But yeah that silent hill looking monster coming out of the dark, the baby laughing and squeeling, NOPE, alt f4, so fast. Didn't come back to it for a week.
Another awesome clip, with an awesome subject 😉👍
BLACK AND WHITE!!! I have been trying to remember the name of that Damm game for YEARS!!!! THANK YOU!!