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1) In Portal, when I incenirated my Companion Cube, a hollow feeling filled me with: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!..."

2) Yah, of course its ok to cry. Only ignorant people would'nt understand!
 

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Cucumber said:
1) In Portal, when I incenirated my Companion Cube, a hollow feeling filled me with: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!..."

2) Yah, of course its ok to cry. Only ignorant people would'nt understand!
...Am I the only one who completely missed any sort of connection to the Companion Cube? To me, it was just another cube like the ones I'd been given before, only with hearts on it. Did I just miss something?
 

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I felt sad during Gears of War 2 and Half-Life 2: Episode 2. I've never cried during a game though.
The only movie I've cried during was watching Of Mice & Men when I was around 10 years old.
 

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orannis62 said:
Cucumber said:
1) In Portal, when I incenirated my Companion Cube, a hollow feeling filled me with: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!..."

2) Yah, of course its ok to cry. Only ignorant people would'nt understand!
...Am I the only one who completely missed any sort of connection to the Companion Cube? To me, it was just another cube like the ones I'd been given before, only with hearts on it. Did I just miss something?
I personally lived myself into the Portal experience so much that I felt like one with the main character. And GlaDOS constantly tells you that it's your friend. It is also the only thing in the game that actually wont look like it will hurt. I also believe the Cube is the only thing colored with a warm color (pink) in the test chambers. Everything else was just white...

And thats why I loved the Cube. It really felt like your only friend...
 

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Cucumber said:
I personally lived myself into the Portal experience so much that I felt like one with the main character. And GlaDOS constantly tells you that it's your friend. It is also the only thing in the game that actually wont look like it will hurt. I also believe the Cube is the only thing colored with a warm color (pink) in the test chambers. Everything else was just white...

And thats why I loved the Cube. It really felt like your only friend...
I got as immersed in the Portal experience as anyone else, but I can't empathize with an inanimate cube just because the robot trying to kill me tells me to. If it was the only cube, as in, none of those storage cubes existed, then I'd have felt connected, but to me it was just another cube with the only outstanding things about it being a heart on it and being told to love it. I just don't get it.
 

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orannis62 said:
Cucumber said:
1) In Portal, when I incenirated my Companion Cube, a hollow feeling filled me with: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!..."

2) Yah, of course its ok to cry. Only ignorant people would'nt understand!
...Am I the only one who completely missed any sort of connection to the Companion Cube? To me, it was just another cube like the ones I'd been given before, only with hearts on it. Did I just miss something?
No, I felt that way about the cube to (i.e. didn't feel anything at all).

On the topic of crying: AFAIK I have never cried during a game. Though certain painful scenes in some games have been known to bring back events from my own life which cause near-tear situations.

But why shouldn't it be ok? There's the huge push for women's rights and crap like that, but suddenly if a man is emotional about something he has invested a lot of time in, there is a problem if he cries about it!? Sounds like someone was pushing for some ratings.
 

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orannis62 said:
Cucumber said:
I personally lived myself into the Portal experience so much that I felt like one with the main character. And GlaDOS constantly tells you that it's your friend. It is also the only thing in the game that actually wont look like it will hurt. I also believe the Cube is the only thing colored with a warm color (pink) in the test chambers. Everything else was just white...

And thats why I loved the Cube. It really felt like your only friend...
I got as immersed in the Portal experience as anyone else, but I can't empathize with an inanimate cube just because the robot trying to kill me tells me to. If it was the only cube, as in, none of those storage cubes existed, then I'd have felt connected, but to me it was just another cube with the only outstanding things about it being a heart on it and being told to love it. I just don't get it.
...and there is nothing wrong in NOT getting it. I completly understand.

We are all individuals that act and behave diffrently. I don't expect people to feel the same way as I do.
 

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RebelRising said:
1) Mass Effect. Well not crying exactly, but around the time Sovereign got killed, I got goosebumps all over my body and felt my eyes get a little sore, kind of like when Sauron's Tower got destroyed. Not because it was sad, per se, but because of its grandiosity and finality of it all.

2) Well, I myself am a tough nut to crack, but yes. There's nothing with crying over a sad scene or the terribleness of the game.
QFT
 

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Cucumber said:
...and there is nothing wrong in NOT getting it. I completly understand.

We are all individuals that act and behave diffrently. I don't expect people to feel the same way as I do.
Fair enough. I just wish that I could understand it, because some people I've talked to go on like it was the best relationship in the history of gaming, and I feel like I'm missing out.
 

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1) No I've never cried over a video game

2) Yes if the story is really that good but, if you're crying because of something stupid like... your favorite neighbor in Animal Crossing moved away then no.
 

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I've not cried during a game or a movie, but I have cried before, so I know it's in there waiting to happen.

And sure, crying is a perfectly healthy reaction.
 

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1) Yea, I sweezed a tear down my face for games for various reasons, weather its for the amount of time I have spent on a game, or being conected to a character that died.

2) Its sure as hell okay to cry, its called being human

Ohh and Hi everyone
 

Jumplion

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Yes, I have cried at the end of MGS4 and nearly at the end of Shadow of the Collosus.

I don't think there's anything wrong with crying at a video game for most of the reasons already stated.
 

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pimppeter2 said:
1) Yea, I sweezed a tear down my face for games for various reasons, weather its for the amount of time I have spent on a game, or being conected to a character that died.

2) Its sure as hell okay to cry, its called being human

Ohh and Hi everyone
Hello, and welcome to the Escapist.
 

gremily

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1)no
2)yeah

...F*** PEOPLE WHO THINK ALL VIDEO GAMES ARE EVIL BECAUSE OF G.T.A. F**************************
 

mhitman

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1. No i havent
2. I don't see why it wouldn't be. It's another form of entertainment like reading and movies.