Russian_Assassin said:
Honorable mention goes to:
[HEADING=1]WHYYYYYYY!!!???[/HEADING]
Indeed.
Well, watching this trailer is quite emotionally gripping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg&feature=youtu.be&hd=1
I'm actually quite interested in this tension between emotional involvement and the fact that it's over pixels (or words/images in the case of other media). Of course, it's the telling which moves us. It'd be idiotic to, for example, emotionally care about the faceless NPCs you mow down at a Moscow Airport in MW2, but performing the action bothers some. Black comedy is all about making the reader/player laugh at himself for responding automatically with emotion to mere pixels and words. The wonderful Companion Cube is a perfect example of this.
But without the palimpsest of a black comic structure, to read/play/watch things like in this trailer means to be moved.
However, the more skilled a reader you are, the more often things like, oh, characters dying in Halo Reach, are nothing but comic.