Physically uncomfortable would be Half-Life 2, Portal, etc - something about Valve's graphics engine just makes me queasy and results in a nasty headache. No idea why.
As for games that have affected me emotionally? Been a few, most of the popular ones already named here. I'll start with one that isn't though...
Morrowind: Defeating/Killing Dagoth Ur. Since he's pretty much the main bad guy from the beginning, I wouldn't say that's a spoiler.
Other games:
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As for games that have affected me emotionally? Been a few, most of the popular ones already named here. I'll start with one that isn't though...
Morrowind: Defeating/Killing Dagoth Ur. Since he's pretty much the main bad guy from the beginning, I wouldn't say that's a spoiler.
...As the main questline progresses, you learn the history of how Dagoth Ur and Nerevar were friends, until Ur was corrupted by Kagrenac's tools and the power of the Heart of Lorkhan. All the game lore leading up to that point made it feel more like the ending of "Old Yeller" than a climactic battle between good and evil.
Other games:
-Molag Bal's quest, I chased the priest back after telling him about Molag Bal - what I'd meant to say did not translate well in the game's short-hand dialogue options, and he basically assumed that I was on Bal's side. So he ran, and I chased him back to the creepy dungeon, hoping I could warn him off the trap or somehow save his ass. Instead, I ended up locked into the torture scenario...
-Siding with the Imperials in the civil war. It was a decision I stewed about for a good half the game, and paid visits to both leaders before finally deciding that Ulfric was a power-hungry douche and needed to be taught his place (didn't help that he sounded like he was voiced by Stallone, who I'm no fan of). But the worst part was after the war ended, and seeing half the Jarls I'd helped sitting, ousted from their positions, at the table in Windhelm. Laila Law-Giver in particular broke my heart since she was about the only decent influence in Riften to start with, and it killed me knowing I'd turned the Jarl's throne there over to that damned Maven and her brat.
-Siding with the Imperials in the civil war. It was a decision I stewed about for a good half the game, and paid visits to both leaders before finally deciding that Ulfric was a power-hungry douche and needed to be taught his place (didn't help that he sounded like he was voiced by Stallone, who I'm no fan of). But the worst part was after the war ended, and seeing half the Jarls I'd helped sitting, ousted from their positions, at the table in Windhelm. Laila Law-Giver in particular broke my heart since she was about the only decent influence in Riften to start with, and it killed me knowing I'd turned the Jarl's throne there over to that damned Maven and her brat.
Mostly agreed, although the Imperials are trying to avoid rekindling full-on war with the Thalmor. Seems weird trading national war for civil, but either way I made it a point to murder every Thalmor in sight. Taking out that one ambassador and his two bodyguards in Markarth's inner keep and getting out without a bounty? Possibly my favorite moment in the game. 'Course, they all have kill-on-sight orders for Ra'Shirr now, but that's their deathwish. >:}Scabadus said:
-Failing to make peace between Quarians and Geth. Seeing Legion on its knees, asking if it had a soul? I cried. Hard. Stopped playing for the rest of the night, and was still a wreck when I went into work the next day.
-In the "Bring Down The Sky" DLC, a Batarian renegade forces you to choose between killing him and saving a number of innocent hostages. I typically go full paragon, but it was damn hard not to put a round through each of Balak's eyes, especially considering the side-quest on that asteroid where the one tech asks you to look for his missing engineers - all dead, and all with some pretty brutal "how they died" message popups. I still wonder why having the Normandy blow Balak's escape shuttle apart wasn't an option...
