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TEH_CODERER
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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 21:44
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Wow!

I'm quite sure that no one else cares but I felt so compelled that I had to post this!

I know the game isn't new but I only recently got it. I have never been so emotionally moved by anything; game, movie or real life! I was seriously crying at more than one point in the game and I felt such anger and happiness along with the main characters. And I am someone that never cries at anything so for me this is a big deal. For sure it was more of an interactive film than a game but I have never enjoyed anything as much. Yes, I know I'm just a big softie with no life but I seriously recommend this if you enjoy a great story. I really hope that this isn't the last in the series.

Anyone else have tales of games which have moved them deeply?

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 21:57
Dreamfall does an amazing job of capturing the audience, never had me crying though...

I'm going to have to go with MGS:2, got me more involved than any of the other games, possibly because %70 of the game is cutscenes
Silent Hill 2 as well, i loved that game, more than any of the others and i actually felt involved with the story.


You can't really trust me though as i used to get upset every time i lost yoshi on super mario world

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:03
Hello Kitty world...man that made me so sad...


Just kidding, I haven't really been moved by a game, only by a book or a movie, I'd say probably only the Final Fantasies have done something like that, sacrifice, dedication, loss etc. As for movies, it tends to be the based on true story ones, like Hotel Rwanda or John Q, as for books, well I've not really read that genre, but I'm reading 'Never let Me Go' and it looks like it may do so.

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:16 Edited at: 11th Jan 2007 22:16
This may sound weird, but this one time I was playing battlefield 2 for the 360, and I actually "cared" for my fellow soldiers. I mean, I was watching them, worrying they wouldn't get killed or something.
I was really into it.
Lol, being moved by a fps.
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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:19
guys?....you're starting to scare me.....


I don't want to offend you,but i think you sepnd way to munch time in front of a PC......
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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:24
I think the games that get closest to moving me would be adventure games, like text adventures or point and click adventure games.

The game that got closest to moving me was 1213, which is a freeware game with a very involving storyline. Its really good.

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:30
Myst III: Exile made me cry for some reason. I dunno, at the end of it all, whatshisface just seemed so pitiful. After reading all the diary entries and understanding how much he came to hate Atrus (and his sons), the ending really moved me.

I know it's popular to say, "naw I wasn't scared by that little girl" but F.E.A.R. scared the living carp out of me a couple of times. Basically, the entire game went like this:

a) blow the living daylights out of some super soldiers
b) realize that there's nothing left to shoot
c) realize that a scary moment is coming
d) start praying for more soldiers to shoot
e) scream bloody murder when the Alma makes off with Alice in the elevator, or whatever
f) start back at step (a)

Thief: Deadly Shadows has some really creepy moments in it (I haven't gotten up to the cradle yet, but it's still bloody immersive)

I've never really gotten emotionally involved with the characters in a game, except for the Myst series... I do get immersed in the action occasionally. But not that often.


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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:37
I haven't been effected emotionally from games... but I did cry when the Enterprise blew up in Star Trek 3.

http://www.trekmania.net/wavs/wavs_page3.htm

When the Enterprise blew up in Star Trek Generations I was actually mad... I said something like this: "What the heck! First movie the Next Generation makes and they totally destroy the ship!".

I was further annoyed when Jean-Luc was going through the stuff in his office after the crash and picked up an old prop that was in the TV show. An ancient alien artifact that was so amazingly old and special that he wouldn't dream of doing anything bad to it... and he tosses it as if it's just trash.
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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 22:59
Hmmm ...

Ultima Underworld 2 ... the conspiracy and friendships formed were really involving .. I felt like the avatar.

Mafia ... good story, and I felt betrayed and found the story itself exciting and interesting, rather than the action (which was good too). The ending is kick ass. I felt a bit emotional and liked the closure of my own death.


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I don't want to offend you,but i think you sepnd way to munch time in front of a PC......"


Its the same as a story moving you, I haven't been essentially moved by a game, but there are stories that could, if a game has a moving story, then it is the same as a movie, a book or a play, but I think a book or a play are the most moving of course.

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By all means Zelda. Its such an amazing game, and the story is as well. But the most emotional of them all had to be Ocarina of time. The whole thing has you engrossed and you feel like your link, emotions and all.

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 23:31
Quote: "but F.E.A.R. scared the living carp out of me a couple of times"

How many live fish do store internally at one time? (as opposed to the dead ones)



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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 23:36
Quote: "I don't want to offend you,but i think you sepnd way to munch time in front of a PC......"

Maybe I do but that is beside the point. It is no different to being scared, upset or whatever by a book or a film.

Another game I really enjoyed for the story and emotional attachment would have to be Ultima IX. As Fallout said about Underworld, I raelly felt like the Avatar!

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 23:54
Rise of Robots moved me deeply, made me so angry I wasted money on it I almost cried.

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Resident Evil 1,2 and 3, Parasite Eve 1 and Galerians 1 made me feel in the character's skin.


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The game that perhaps has moved me the most, and even this was not very much, was Tribes Vengeance. If they had had a little better voices and more emotion in them, it could have been a lot better.

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Posted: 11th Jan 2007 23:57
Quote: "I don't want to offend you,but i think you spend way to munch time in front of a PC......"



Just what i was thinking

ah well nothing effects me.

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I can't think of any game that made me actually cry. Film, yes.. book, yes.. but not a game. Emotionally attached? Absolutely! I was sucked fully into Final Fantasy 7, and ok, her death choked me up a bit if I'm honest Games that have ultra-cute characters in them I have a bit more trouble with - for example I just hate seeing my little Pikmins die! Or my crops/animals suffer in Harvest Moon.

There was also something really involving about the early Medal of Honour games, the way your fellow soldiers are ripped to shreds, and there is nothing you can do about it. Now that's all par for the course and *expected* in WW2 games, but back then it was very novel. Similar feeling with the first Halo actually.

I was also totally engrossed in all of the Broken Sword games, and loved every goat-coal-munching minute of them, and really cared for finding out where the story went, like I owed it to George and Nico or something.

The last book that actually made me choke-up properly? Amazingly, it's the very end, very last chapter of Winnie the Pooh! (the proper classic AA Milne version, not the Disney one). Maybe it's just because I'm a new Dad and spend hours watching my son play - but when you read it, and you realise that Christopher Robin is understanding that he is growing up, and won't need to play any more, or need his teddy bear - it's just very moving. Like I can remember back to when I didn't have a care in the world, and would play all day, or sit and dedicate hours of my life to a super bastard hard level in Mario, but keep on trying anyway. You loose that eventually. Life gets the better of you, things become a 'waste of time', or you are 'too busy' constantly. The book just highlighted this I guess. It's damned clever, and utterly timeless.

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Posted: 12th Jan 2007 02:25 Edited at: 12th Jan 2007 02:26
@Rich: Too some extent, but I have it much better now than I did when I was a child. My family still is extremely poor (note that it is a bit over exaggerated when I say extremely, but not by much mind you), and this has been very nice being able to do something about not having money, while being helpless to earn any money at all when I was around 8.

On the topic, I would have to say.....*drum roll* KOTOR 1.

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Posted: 12th Jan 2007 04:45
Silent Hill 2 moved me because it was scary(I was creeped out for about 2 weeks).

But a sad game? Hmmmmmmm.......probably not.

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Can't remember many getting to me, but I think the last game to get to me; not in a crying sort of way but just emotionally was Tomb Raider Legend.

The ending to that game is just so awesome, you really start to get a sense of the characters emotions. despite the poor voice acting.

Can't really think of any others right now that got to me though. There was another thread in the forum which had this as a subject and I did fully list each of the games that got to me.

Honestly believe that there does need to be a game, where people play it because they become emotionally involved in the storyline though. As I said can't really remember any, like I can with films.. probably because most games don't even have a particularly good storyline tbh.

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Posted: 12th Jan 2007 05:24
Quote: "Dreamfall: The Longest Journey"


Agreed. I was going to post on this actually. Played through the entire game during the holidays on my 360. The voice acting, character development, and storylines were just phenomenal. It's actually a sequel and I'm playing through the original now too

Darwinia

When my little dudes were dying, and the other little dudes fly these little kites for everyone that died. Then during the finale when they're jumping around, flipping in unison--- very moving for a game. Not a tear-jerker mind you.

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Star Wars Episode 3. No matter how much you can hate Anakin, the crappy characters in the prequels, the titles of the movies... The first time I saw Ep 3 in the theaters, I was sad. The last hour as Anakin falls to the Dark Side, however awesome it is (since at long last he is Darth Vader and all) He becomes such a pitiful being. He lost everything, and ruined so many lives in a few days. I felt pretty sad the rest of the day.

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Posted: 12th Jan 2007 09:20
You *do* know we're talking about games, right?

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Hmmm, don’t think I have ever cried playing a game. Most moving ones I have played would be Silent Hill 2 (has a brilliant, if somewhat depressing story), towards the end of Ico (there’s a nice bit towards the end where the girl you've been trying to rescue throughout the game tries to rescue you), and of course Shadow of the Colossus (As anyone I know will tell you, I talk about the greatness of this game way too much).
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Posted: 12th Jan 2007 16:48
Quote: "Can't remember many getting to me, but I think the last game to get to me; not in a crying sort of way but just emotionally was Tomb Raider Legend.
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Indeed. The whole game was good but the ending was excellent! I really want to play the next one!

@Jeku - I agree on all those points. Too many things were left open at the end; there must surely be another in the series don't you think? Also, I know what you mean about Darwinia. For unanimated block characters you certainly grow attached to the little guys!

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100% not joking MGS on Gameboy Color almost made me cry. There's a bit where you have to save a teenage computer genius and you basically get him out, but then his booby trapped handcuffs explode.

There's a really terrible moment when you realise (and the characters) that they are going to blow, and you have to get clear and just leave him.

He dies crying for him mum

There's also an emotional codec conversation between you and another mercenary which has always stuck with me.

If you haven't played it, it is well worth picking up. Seriously, actually, right up there on my Best Games Ever.

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Posted: 12th Jan 2007 17:06 Edited at: 12th Jan 2007 17:07
call of cthulhu : Dark Corners of the Earth

Is an extremely cinematic game, gets you really involved, i recommend it to anyone, its an FPS, but not a typical fps, you don't get a gun till quite a bit into the game and theres a scene near the start where you are being chased through a hotel and you have to close and lock the doors while running through, moving bookcases and running across the rooftops, i was bricking it...

Obviously based on the H.P. Lovecraft books, which i also recommend.

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ICO moved me,

Also the end of Abe's Exoddus and when Meryl got shot in MGS.

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MGS games get me pretty wound up, final fantasy as well.

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Quote: "I don't want to offend you,but i think you sepnd way to munch time in front of a PC......"

I know I've commented on that comment before but I just remebered; we're in Geek Culture! Of course we spend too much time on he PC!

Having really thought about this I think this will definately influence any games I make in the future. I tend to go for the comedy which is fine to a degree but I really think that a great story where you really connect is so much more powerful. This calls for serious design work...

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Black & White, where your tutor is killed by Nemesis on the first island (sorry if that's a spoiler for anyone)


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Quote: "Black & White, where your tutor is killed by Nemesis on the first island (sorry if that's a spoiler for anyone)"


*Cries* You ruined it for me! Well not really, I love that game, the one place where it is okay to be sadistic without playing GTA I mean with GTA you can't pick up little people and throw them across the land.

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Yes, I do. I should have noted I couldn't think of any games that moved me. I saw a few other people posted movies or books, so I did as well.

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Quote: "100% not joking MGS on Gameboy Color almost made me cry."


I play that on the train every morning. I haven't really got to the story at all yet though as I'm working my way through the VR missions, but I'm looking forward to it.

Same as Drew regarding Meryl in MGS. It really makes you feel helpless - and then the tables turn when you're fighting sniper wolf and Otacon is trying to stop you both as he has this thing for her. Then when she finally dies you have a very depressed Otacon to deal with. I think that had more of an effect than Aeris' death for me too. I'm a bigger fan of FF8, but there aren't as many dead people in that.

Again, when Otacon's sister gets stabbed in MGS2. I remember how he got blood on his clothes and everything. That guy really needs a break!

The bit in FFX when Tidus finds out what the real end to Yuna's journey is meant to be and then where you find out the truth of Tidus' existence.

I can't think of any more right now.


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Quote: "This may sound weird, but this one time I was playing battlefield 2 for the 360, and I actually "cared" for my fellow soldiers. I mean, I was watching them, worrying they wouldn't get killed or something.
I was really into it.
Lol, being moved by a fps."


lol, same type of thing happened to me, except slightly different. i was playing BF2, i was a medic, but i had to watch as about 5 of my friends got cut down as i waited helplessly in cover so that i wouldnt get shot i ended up wasting all of my ammo on the enemy that started charging the spot where i was. i was with 1 other person i think. we got cut down the instant they saw us...

really, a game doesnt have to MADE to be emotional, but it can become moving if the game REALLY draws you in.


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rise of the robots?! hobgoblin that was the best post ever made!!!


as for games, i was pretty peeved and upset and angry an dwhat not when aeris died, but hey, [I]who wasn't[/I]. the zelda games and the death star attack on rogue squadron games are pretty good for pleasent heroic feelings.

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I was more of a Tifa guy myself when I was playing so the Aeris bit didn't bother me at all Although the 5th time through when I actually decided to use Aeris, it made me upset that I lost all that experience and training for the same end either way


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Quote: "rise of the robots?! hobgoblin that was the best post ever made!!!"


I figured that passed because no one else was dumb enough to play that game.

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Deus Ex (when Jack died in the chopper explosion), Metal Gear Solid (Meryl!)...

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Fable - When you choose to kill Whisper and your sister. Lol! The first time I played that game I had decided to be evil but just couldn't bring myself to and ended up being about as good as you can get. Same for the second time through. On my third time though I managed and then being evil just came naturally to me! I killed everyone in every town so that their homes or shops became available for purchase and then bought every building in the game! I owned everything it was possible to own! Mwah ha ha ha!

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Wow, I can't say I cried in a videogame. I did however cry when I watched The Passion Of The Christ which at least proves I'm not COMPLETELY insensative to violence and gore.

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i got extremely pissed at games that frustrate me but I never get that attached to a game, i love WoW though and its pretty emotional sometimes talking to guild members about personal crap, well sort of....

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Quote: "Deus Ex (when Jack died in the chopper explosion)"

I loved that game, the endings really got to me the most...
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Lets see, off the top of my head:
Metal Gear Solid
Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
Final Fantasy 7

All from the same era too. Hmm.

Pacman too. Brings a tear to my eye when those ghosts eat the little dude.
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wacca wacca wacca

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Well... i used to show anger on my face when playing a shooter

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I thought that the original Unreal was sorta sad. I almost cried every time I saw one of those poor four armed dudes hanging on a cross. And then somebody always comes along and mutilates them.

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I've nearly cried watching the trailers for the halo 2,3 and wars games.

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Quote: "Pacman too. Brings a tear to my eye when those ghosts eat the little dude."


!OMG! you stole my exact tought.

Yesterday i was bored and visited TGC and this thread. I wrote a post (didn't submit it for various reasons) and in that post was this sentence "Pacman also, brings a tear to my eye everytime that poor pacman gets eaten by the ghosts". It was almost too similar.

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