Oblivion Has it -ever- scared you?

[magnum482]

Has Oblivion ever scared you? (Made you jump, chill your bones, any kind of scared)

It's only happened a few times to me. I've jumped a couple times and I vaguely remember being afraid of Oblivion gates (of course I was younger then). I don't consider it DOOM-worthy in terms of fright, but it still makes me jump at times, mostly from enemies popping up out of thin air.

[Mrmakee]

I don't remember it ever scaring me, might've jumped before. But otherwise, no. Morrowind probably did, but I was VERY young then.

[Sombra]

I wouldn't say scared. It just gets a little creepy when you're crawling through caves and catacombs and then stuff comes out from your blind spots and ambushes you. I might have jumped a bit the first time I encountered Lucien, but otherwise........

[G]

Yeah, that's all I ever did was really jump, that's about it, but like Makee said, Morrowind could've been pretty creepy, Oblivion I don't think was made to be "scary," Morrowind had more of the scary feel to it with the whole corprus disease which basically zombiefied you whereas Oblivion just had demons coming out of gates, that's the basic idea of Oblivion and personally myself I think demons are less scary than zombies and the undead because demons have more of a physical...ness to them than the undead, when you think about it demons are alive. Undead, well, they're not, they're dead brought BACK to life, which is creepy in itself. I mean, Oblivion did have it's moments where there were undead, but not as much as was in Morrowind.

[Sombra]

Physical presence? Physicality perhaps? Corporeal.......ness..........Corporeality!! Yeah that's it!
In Oblivion, I think the creepier aspect (tying in to my comment about cave and catacomb crawling), is the environments themselves. Imagine what potential a Daedric tower would have as a haunted house!

[G]

It could be a cool haunted house, but like I said, it's got more of that demonic tone than a frightening tone to it.

[Ñightmare]

Oblivion has never scared me other than the occasional guy popping up behind me when I didn't realize it.

Morrowind has, however. I'm reminded of the abandoned house in Ald'ruhn which was dark and taken over by corprus beasts. You don't see anything and then suddenly, bam! A corprus monster jumps out from the shadows.

[Simple]

Originally Posted by Ñightmare

Morrowind has, however. I'm reminded of the abandoned house in Ald'ruhn which was dark and taken over by corprus beasts. You don't see anything and then suddenly, bam! A corprus monster jumps out from the shadows.

Man, that place still gets me. I hate going in there.

[G]

So it's decided then, Morrowind is A LOT creepier than Oblivion?

[Sombra]

It makes me hesitant to start! lol

[Ñightmare]

I think the plot had more to do with it than anything else. In Oblivion you had to keep demons from taking over Tamriel, but big deal. Seen that before. In Morrowind you had to deal with an insane god who would infect his followers with flesh eating diseases or make them go nuts by invading their mind. Bethesda had more to work with in terms of atmosphere/scariness.

[owner1317]

I'm pretty sure I jumped the first time I stepped on a floor-lift trap. The invisible troll got me, too.

[G]

Invisible Troll? You must have been a pretty high level when doing that quest where the wizard turned the entire town invisible, or do you mean the Underfrykte Matron?