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emotive videogames
#7909391 - 01/21/08 12:15 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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What videogames produced a strong feeling in you? Mystery, wonder, sorrow, happiness, etc.
I'm not really talking about the cinematics / storyline of the game. Like everyone says "oh it was so sad when that girl died in Final Fantasy 7". I'm more talking about the overall 'feeling' of the game. It's visual content, rhythm of gameplay, sound, environments, or just the 'vibe' of it.
Mario games are obvious for producing feelings of bliss and fun, the sense of being in a magical world of jumping, flying, color, and secrets.
Alot of older adventure games I think have that feeling of mystery, that the 8 and 16-bit worlds hold many secrets.
One game that always struck a chord in me was Persona: Revelations for PS. it was the unearthly mythological, and gothic look of all the demons contrasted with a modern city setting. and it always seemed to have a sexual thing going on but maybe that was just because of the hot female manga characters...
other games were Illusion of Gaia, EArthbound, Shadowrun, Kid Icarus, Tail of the Sun, ICO, etc.
im most concerned about the feeling of mystery in games.
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Grav]
#7909433 - 01/21/08 12:26 PM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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mass effect makes you feel like a badass.. so does gears of war.
oblivion is pretty enthralling because it makes ya feel like you can actually do something.
the new shadowrun kinda sucked but i bet the old one was awesome.
first quake was awesome.. really put you in the environment.
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The first fallout really did it for me...
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Grav]
#7913470 - 01/22/08 01:25 AM (16 years, 11 days ago) |
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Silent Hill 2 produced a deep sense of foreboding, fear and sorrow.
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Sheepish]
#7914056 - 01/22/08 10:23 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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I would love to have a computer game thats really chilled out where you can be a human or something flying around the world then land and go to the pyramids and other wonders of the world, and fly then dip into the sea and go underwater. Kinda like frying man form Heroes.
at the moment the only ghame i can play tripping is racing games or golf, everything else is too violent.
I got a friggin PS3 and have played games onit a total of 5 times.
Startin to think i shouldve got an Xbox (that racing game with ferraris and lambos looks awesome! its on PS@ why not PS3!) yeah PS3 has more potential, but potential is just wasted if you dont use it, they make all the PS3 games in 720p which just wastes the potential of my TV too, why would anyone buy a 720 tv anyway?
Rant.
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Chronic7]
#7914255 - 01/22/08 11:17 AM (16 years, 10 days ago) |
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serious sam
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Grav]
#7933031 - 01/26/08 12:38 AM (16 years, 7 days ago) |
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Final Fantasy 2, was seven years old when I bought it, beautiful game. Lots of nostalgia there. Final fantasy three was also great, to a lesser extent. Finaly fantasy seven was pretty good, I stopped at eight, wasn't impressed.
Persona was amazing, I actually went back and played it about a year ago. Glad I did, great story, characters, and music, the game was just as surreal as I had remembered. I started playing the sequel, but I didn't like the combat system. The story from what I saw was great though.
Star Ocean the Second Story for playstation was magic. My memories of it are somewhat hazy, great characters and music from what I remember.
Secret of mana and chrono trigger had some magic to them too, lots of odd characters and environments. I'm sure I'm forgetting some others...
Asheron's call 2 was the only mmorpg I ever played that invoked feelings of wonder and awe. I was hooked on it for a long time.
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Neon]
#7934266 - 01/26/08 10:30 AM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Age of Empire makes me feel like I can crush every form of life I encounter...
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Grav]
#7934718 - 01/26/08 12:15 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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There was a game I played for about a month every time I got really stoned, it was called Homeworld 2.
It was pretty complicated and took some time to get used to, missions usually took a couple tries, sometimes the difficulty really pissed me off.
But it was an awesome fucking game because you're put in control of a Mothership that provides the last chance of survival for your people (of a planet similar Earth). You have to build a Navy with Marine Frigates, Destroyers, Battlecruisers, Carriers, Shipyards, Fighters, Bombers, Corvettes, Gunships, etc.
And after some research most of your ships, including the Mothership, can do hyperspace jumps during battle. The level of strategy you can use is fucking ridiculous. Ohh, and the Dreadnaught 
The graphics in-game and during cut-scenes are absolutely fucking beautiful - there is a very real atmosphere to the game, very theatrical and overwhelming. The control system is also fucking awesome - movement is possible on 3 axis and you can switch views between a mission-control tactical interactive map of all your forces and a close-up realistic rendering of specific forces. You can zoom out on an entire league of space or zoom in on a single Fighter, or look at the detail of one of your Battlecruisers or such.
You can attack ships subsystems to halt certain processes and deactivate certain capabilities, then you can board it with Marines and gain the ship as part of your force.
You just sit in awe through the cut-scenes, the stage is totally set. And then there you are, in the center of infinite space, alone, surviving.. I love that game! Going to have to play it again soon..
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: elbisivni]
#7934725 - 01/26/08 12:17 PM (16 years, 6 days ago) |
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Shadow of the colossus put me in awe and gave me a huge sense of adventure and wonderment.
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Edited by ts727 (01/26/08 12:19 PM)
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Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders ,this games story is so nuts .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_McKracken_and_the_Alien_Mindbenders
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Grav]
#7939782 - 01/27/08 11:30 AM (16 years, 5 days ago) |
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Planescape: Torment.
It's an D&D game that doesn't take place in the Forgotten Realms. It reads like a philosophy of life and death and it was the first game where I would actually sit and THINK of how I wanted to answer questions.
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The game begins in Sigil, where the protagonist, an enigmatic and heavily scarred immortal dubbed The Nameless One by the game's interface, wakes up in a mortuary with no memory of his identity and past experiences. Assuming the role of The Nameless One, players embark on a quest to solve the mysteries surrounding him.
You get to meet certain characters that are struggling with life and death questions and you have to help them answer them. It really made me wakeup and think, wow these are some questions that I never asked myself.
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Edited by Penguarky Tunguin (01/27/08 11:31 AM)
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Grav]
#7942047 - 01/27/08 06:58 PM (16 years, 5 days ago) |
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great question, man.
I used to get really high from videogames (nintendo days) and then they started to feel like work in the playstation, xbox days to me...I only bought a sega saturn because of the feeling the shifting polygons gave me in games like Virtua Fighter (how cool was that?).
Still, if I spend too much time I walk away with a feeling of dread...sucked into a fucking video game coma. That's why those NES games are so great, short, blissful, and intense.
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Re: emotive videogames [Re: Epigallo]
#7942380 - 01/27/08 08:08 PM (16 years, 5 days ago) |
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Final Fantasy II for sure.
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