So just wondering--does anyone else have a thing in game that they just hate because they're just sort of... well, creepy?
For me, it was draugrs for the longest time, which sucked because they were EV-ER-Y-WHERE. I've always just sort of hated zombies in general, so when I went into Bleak Falls Barrow for the first time I was like-- O HELL NO. I've always been able to take 'em down no problem, just sort of hated them, especially if one managed to sneak up on me somehow. And when they started turning up dead on the Windstaad Manor lawn I hated that too. What an eyesore!
I felt this way until I played the Dragonborn DLC recently. Now it's not draugr. IT'S SEEKERS. Can't stand 'em. I even hate the one I can conjure.
What about you? What gives you the willies in game when they surprise you from around the corner? Falmer? Hagraven? Frostbite Spider? Chaurus? Or are you all a pretty fearless bunch?
This is going to sound daft. For me it’s Slaughter fish… Yes I can see everyone’s thoughts on this…
“What? Sotek the Argonian Werewolf is scared of Slaughter fish? Is he for real?”.
Allow me to explain. I first started playing TES Morrowind. The beauty of that game was that you could fight underwater. So there you are swimming the vast lake with nice gentle music playing and…. BANG!!!
A slaughter fish comes from nowhere and strikes your armor.
That loud metallic bang has made me jump more times than any other thing in all the games I’ve ever played.
Imagine you’re sitting on a chair reading a book then someone behind you hits a metal dustbin lid with a baseball bat…. Congratulations, you’ve just had your first Slaughter Fish encounter.
Seekers, though not entirely due to their aesthetics.
They have a spell called "Knowledge Drain" that they are able to use (it both staggers you and drains magicka/health). Based on the name of this spell I have this thought in my head that they are literally absorbing your knowledge. Something about a Daedra rooting around in your head doesn't sit well with me.
Chaurus and chaurus reapers are creepy, I hate those things. Chaurus hunters are fine though, not creepy at all. And the Giant fish-guys whatever they were called, from Apocrypha, they're horrible. The more I play Skyrim the less anything there will creep me out.
Nothing compares to my traumatic experiences with Cliff Racers though... they were literally impossible to fight against or run away from, unless you had magic.
There is a giant slaughterfish in the Requiem Overhaul that is very bad. Well there are two, but the first one you find is right in Lake Ilinalta where you think you are safe if you are running away from the necromancer who is now very evil next to lakeview manor. That slaughterfish just kills you with one bite, it's sooooo big. But chaurus and chaurus reeper thingies and the flying ones. Wow, that is some nastiness that Bethesda came up with there. I've only ever done the lighthouse quest once.