Anyone Scared of Heights in game?

[KumiNeko]

Not heights, but... snakes.

I'm terrified of snakes to that point that watching a documentary that involves snakes is really quite unsettling for me (with a high potential of resulting in nightmares). Same goes for at least some of the enemies in the game - I'm fine with the more "fantasy looking" snakes, like the ones in Coil, but there are the ones in Bozja (Taipan, maybe? Didnt get a good look at the name, I'm avoiding them as much as I can) that kinda creep me out - as I said up to the point that I'll go out of my way to not have to see them. Makes me feel quite silly once in a while, but I guess everyone has "their thing", right?

My gf is like that she tends to avoid like the plague. She hates snakes.

[MicahZerrshia]

It doesn't bother me in this game, but gimme a game like Fenyx Rising and some of those vaults that you need to glide through or even the platform jumping really messes me up. I think its the way the cameras pan and the video flows. Here its very almost stationary, even when you jump the camera stays in place, but in games like Fenyx Rising the camera moves wildly between trying to always keep you in the center of the screen and any slight movement. FPS used to bother me but I just widened the fov and played a little at a time until my brain adapted. Now I can spend hours in a fps with no issues. I still push the fov out though. Maybe give the fov an adjustment and pan out as far as you can. Generally the more you can see, the less issues you should have.

[Nafreyu]

I say this with the kindest and most gentle tone possible, but may I ask friend - Do you feel that it is sensible, or healthy to partake in an activity where you are clearly worried or fearful of getting an anxiety attack?

I think you need to stop playing this game. For your health and mental well being.

[Vyrerus]

I have a moderate fear of heights. It's part of what makes the game exciting for me, though if it were real I'd clinch up real hard. My eyes get a little wide when my character falls off something really high, and sometimes I go make him do that, just for kicks. The sounds the game make when you fall is pretty heavy too, the wind rushing around you. It's pretty immersive for 3rd person perspective.

[KumiNeko]

I say this with the kindest and most gentle tone possible, but may I ask friend - Do you feel that it is sensible, or healthy to partake in an activity where you are clearly worried or fearful of getting an anxiety attack?

I think you need to stop playing this game. For your health and mental well being.

See i thought about quitting a while back but i like helping people. Because of that i managed to make friends. And if i was alone i probably would have done so a while back.

I also hate not pulling my weight, but this is something i had to let go instead since my health was at stake.

I wish it wasnt the case. I really do.

[Vahlnir]

I can't say I'm scared of heights in game, though I'm not a huge fan of them irl, but in games like WoW where there's actual punishment for falling too far I cringe a little and feel my stomach tighten up as I brace for impact. lol It depends on the game I guess.

[KumiNeko]

I have a moderate fear of heights. It's part of what makes the game exciting for me, though if it were real I'd clinch up real hard. My eyes get a little wide when my character falls off something really high, and sometimes I go make him do that, just for kicks. The sounds the game make when you fall is pretty heavy too, the wind rushing around you. It's pretty immersive for 3rd person perspective.

The very immersive part is what makes me have anxiety attacks. Reminds me that i had to rely on a full blue mage group to get titan ex to put out the spell. Because i tried on my own and it just wouldn't work on normal.

Thank god for folks in this game. They understand i am not faking it.

[KumiNeko]

I can't say I'm scared of heights in game, though I'm not a huge fan of them irl, but in games like WoW where there's actual punishment for falling too far I cringe a little and feel my stomach tighten up as I brace for impact. lol It depends on the game I guess.

WoW until MoP didnt have punting off platforms in boss fights either. Dont know if it has changed. Thats when i sort of quit though i did a little bit cuz of WoD too, but it failed to grasp me.

Anyhow I know i was fighting near cliff near Firelands and i got punted off a cliff and i thought to myself well since i am a druid i just pop flight form as soon i fall off enemy range. NOPE i hit the ground first and died but i had no anxiety attack cuz there is no woosh or wind or anything... Here like you said there is.

[KumiNeko]

It doesn't bother me in this game, but gimme a game like Fenyx Rising and some of those vaults that you need to glide through or even the platform jumping really messes me up. I think its the way the cameras pan and the video flows. Here its very almost stationary, even when you jump the camera stays in place, but in games like Fenyx Rising the camera moves wildly between trying to always keep you in the center of the screen and any slight movement. FPS used to bother me but I just widened the fov and played a little at a time until my brain adapted. Now I can spend hours in a fps with no issues. I still push the fov out though. Maybe give the fov an adjustment and pan out as far as you can. Generally the more you can see, the less issues you should have.

I tried that in Cloud Deck yesterday, (yes i know i said i wasn't going to do it but for sake of story i was willing to suffer the anxiety attack) But yeah that didn't work.

I had to zoom in twice and one zoom out to make it thru it, and oh yeah, i brought a friend on a smn and warned him i wouldn't be much help but she rezzed me thru the whole thing. It took several tries but we got it. I think my fake dpsing wasnt noticed cuz we were all new to it.

[Rosenstrauch]

I've got it the opposite, really. In real life I get vertigo in buildings with three or more floors and can't be near windows without the creeping feeling that I'm going to fall out of them. But in video games, I have no such issues and actually enjoy being high up. Especially if the game has a "realistic" flying/gliding system.

Now, bugs, on the other hand.... hate 'em in real life, and I hate 'em in video games. Even the cartoonish lady bugs outside Limsa Lominsa bug me, lol.