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Have you ever been emotionally affected by a game?
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Post by
LeionX
The end of Fallout 3 is the closest any game has made me come to having feelings.
Sacrificing himself (or if you're a prick, the girl who came with you), to save everyone. Then the cut scene afterward got me, it was about his dad or family or something... I should really play it through again.
I had the mutiant with me. Send him in, no one dies.
Also, how did people get their crew killed in Mass Effect 2? If you didn't rush the game and went after the bad guys when they decided to be home wreckers, everyone is saved.
Has anyone got any cool 'emotionally moving' momants that don't invole someone dieing though? I can't think of any ATM. Overzealous does have point.
Post by
donnymurph
I think it would be fair that every game I play emotionally affects me. Not necessarily in the way you guys are saying though. Even Gran Turismo can have an emotional impact if, say, you complete something really hard, like getting full Golds in your Special licence.
Think about it, every time you win, you're happy. Every time you lose, you're sad. Or angry. Or frustrated. When you unlock a new level on a Tony Hawk game, you get excited.
In keeping with the spirit of the thread, probably the
character
whose story touched me the most was Big Smoke in
GTA:San Andreas
. The guy I got closest to - Cloud in
FFVII
. The guy I hated the most: Ryan McKane in
V8 Supercars Race Driver
(aka
Toca Race Driver
,
DTM Race Driver
,
Pro Race Driver
). The guy I wanted to see succeed: CJ in
GTA:SA
. The coolest guy: Ajax in
The Warriors
.
Post by
OverZealous
Bit of a Necro here, sorry about that, but i just finished Crysis 2.
While it may not be emotionally affecting, i was shocked several times during the course of the game.
All in all a great game, my apologies in advance for the giganormous spoiler box.
When Hargreave betrays Alcatraz. I don't know, I just sort of came to trust him over the several chapters he was part of. He even assisted our beloved Tin Man in killing Commander Lockhart after helping him disarm the EMP. (who I, by the way, hated with a passion)
That one was the biggest O.O moments i've had in a long time, and while not all of you may have been shocked to find out, I certainly was.
Tara is CIA - Special Operations Group. Seriously? While i was confuzzied by that fact that she in the start of the game (tried to, anyway) order Lockhart to stand down and tell his men not to kill Alcatraz, i still thought that she was on Lockhart's side. Or Hargreaves after Lockhart got very dead.
Hargreave is a insane.
Very
insane. Good ol' Jack kind of came across as a very sensible and well... Un-mad man. I was proven very wrong when you find out that he know the Ceph were on Earth all along. When he proceeded to cackle maniacally I was like "Come on, let me kill you already!". Well, I suppose dead is dead no matter how he dies.
Central Park lifting off
I almost fell of the chair during that sequence. The quality of that "cinematic" was very high, and the fact that the badass aliens who're destroying everything just happened to have a ship in
Central freaking Park
had me going "Okay I was prepared for almost everything, but I didn't see THAT coming"
Post by
Gnoktish
Final Fantasy Tactics showed real emotions when a certain character died that wasn't Lucavi.
Spoiler:
The death of Izlude was sort of emotional as before his death. He believed that his father's group would put an end to the wars, and submerge the world in everlasting peace. Ramza and his crew fioghts him as he explains what he is fighting for. When he realized his father's real plan, he died fighting the Lucavi form and was killed.
Spoiler:
Rafa and Malak are brother and sister. The two were orphans because of a man's bloodlust. He took the two under his wing and raised tem. Rafa was then raped by the man and she rebels against him, Malak sides with the man and hunts his own sister down. Ramza saves Rafa and Malak retreats. Later on with the story. Rafa confronts the man who raped her and threatens his life. The man explains what he've done and Malak overhears it. Malak sides with his sister and is killed after he pusshed Rafa away from being shot by the man. After one hell of a battle, Rafa holds two holy stones that her and malak held onto as oorphans. The "Holy" Powers of one stone responded to Rafa's grief and ressurected Malak.
I find that there are scenes that jerk your heart because of how real things can seem in a video game.
Post by
Monday
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Post by
Skreeran
Oh, does terror count as an emotion? If so, Amnesia has affected me several times.
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OverZealous
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tags instead.
Heh, missed a '/' after the first spoiler box, thanks, thought there was something fishy going on ^^
Post by
Monday
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Heh, missed a '/' after the first spoiler box, thanks, thought there was something fishy going on ^^
Sounds good.
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Post by
Thror
Heh, Donny, you beat me to it. I wanted to note how people mostly interpret the "affection of feelings" as something that induces sadness, while it could have been any of the emotions you mention.
I am emotionally affected by games all the time. Whether it is the tension of trying hard when playing an arcade game, followed by happiness when i beat a level, or the pure
f*ck yea
feeling when i pull an amazing headshot in an FPS, or the complicated multitude of feelings that games with a good story can evoke.
I was kinda sad when one character died in Dragon Age 2. I was not as sad as Hawke when it happened, of course, but the feeling of failure was quite strong. I really wanted to save that person, and i couldn't, and it felt like the consequences were severe.
Eh, every time some of the crew members died in the last mission of Mass Effect 2 i was horrified and restarted it right away. But that only happened on my third playthrough, my first and second were flawless.
Post by
mindthegap5
I beat my mate 16-0 on fifa xD
i was happy
Post by
Patty
Final Fantasy (cant remember which one)
Played it 10 hours solid. Went to bed and had a total brain meltdown. Couldnt sleep, everytime i closed my eyes I saw the chars. Had major flashbacks. Cant touch the game now.
If you can't remember which one - can you remember the characters, or the plot of it?
Final Fantasy has also affected me, in basically every game I've played. Oh, and Kingdom Hearts;
especially
the second one.
Post by
Adamsm
Final Fantasy has also affected me, in basically every game I've played. Oh, and Kingdom Hearts;
especially
the second one.
Aye, Square is good at that....maybe toooooo good; the complete and utter mind ^&*! at the end of 358/2 Days is enough to drive you completely and totally insane with grief and madness....and Birth By Sleep is a downer as well, even with the special ending to let you know things may not be as dark as they appear; but really, one hero dead, another lost 'forever', and the third transformed into the 'ultimate' evil heh.
Post by
Patty
I swear I cried all the way through Kingdom Hearts 2.
Post by
Adamsm
Heh, yeah, that one was pretty rough as well.
Post by
Patty
It's not even that sad... yet I was still welling up like, every time you saw Roxas or Naminé.
Post by
Adamsm
It's not even that sad... yet I was still welling up like, every time you saw Roxas or Naminé.
/pat There there, they live on inside of their originals.....and has anyone ever considered that KH wins for a protagonist with multiple personality disorder? I mean, Sora has Ven, Roxas and Xion at least inside his mind, with possibly more, and in the secret ending for BBS, he 'hears' everyone calling out to him to help them....seriously, maybe he's just gone insane at this point and everything is just inside his mind.
Post by
Patty
It's not even that sad... yet I was still welling up like, every time you saw Roxas or Naminé.
/pat There there, they live on inside of their originals.....and has anyone ever considered that KH wins for a protagonist with multiple personality disorder? I mean, Sora has Ven, Roxas and Xion at least inside his mind, with possibly more, and in the secret ending for BBS, he 'hears' everyone calling out to him to help them....seriously, maybe he's just gone insane at this point and everything is just inside his mind.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AndIMustScream
Post by
Adamsm
Actually...guess that goes for Kairi and Riku to eh? Kairi has Namine in her mind, and Riku still has echoes of Master Xehanort/Ansem the Heartless/Terra in his mind....god, I really hope KH3 does more with those two heh, 3D is looking like a good start since it has both Sora and Riku undergoing the Mark of Mastery trial, but they better not leave out Kairi! I want to see her kick arse with a keyblade like Aqua does!(and wear Aqua's armour lol)
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