So, I've just recently come home from a 3 month sea trip (naval engineer folks) and of course, what else do I spend my hard earned pennies on than updating my game library which led me to the games Homefront and Dead Space 2.
Now to the point, I'm a dude who doesn't really get emotional in the areas of sadness, depression, fear and/or empathy through media outlets and especially even more so when it comes to games. I love gaming, ever since I can remember playing the SEGA but invoking emotion, a no go. The only game I have ever felt myself moved by is FFXII when Sephiroth killed Aries. I have no idea WHY this particular scene within this particular game moved me but it did, it brought me to my knees and I shed the tears. Perhaps partly frustration as I spent god knows how many hours training the ***** up only to have her get stabbed BUT mostly: it was sadness and loss.
Now that was... a decade ago, more, when I was around 12, now I am 22 and I have been, again, brought to my knees with a surging flow of emotion after going not 5 minutes into the game Homefront. I find myself at the first level on a bus and I see Korean soldiers gun down 2 parents while their child stands and watches and after the gunshots, the piercing screams of the child. Those screams will haunt me. And then again after returning to Oasis after a successful mission, I see dead bodies everywhere. On the ground, hooded with a single execution shot to the head. And again, the emotion welled up. Not sadness or loss this time but... something that made my throat clog up and my chest ache.
And then comes along Dead Space 2 and the emotion of Fear. I have played the Silent Hill games, the Resident Evil games and the first Dead Space game with nothing but shits and giggles as I pop zombies, creatues of darkness and necromorphs alike. But this game, I freaked. At 1 aspect in particular, the Child/Teenager necromorphs. They come down with one shot but as they are running at me, with that scream, I was shitting myself, I paused the game and was like "What the fuck?!". It took me 5 minutes to get back to it after a cigarette.
So in conclusion, is it after all these years, game developers are finally getting what it is that invokes our emotions as human beings? Or is it just me in particular who was affected by these 2 games in particular? To you, my fellow Escapists, have you even come acress a game which has tore at your fear? Your empathy? Your tear ducts? Let us know your thoughts and comments.
Peace Out,
Nemesis.
Now to the point, I'm a dude who doesn't really get emotional in the areas of sadness, depression, fear and/or empathy through media outlets and especially even more so when it comes to games. I love gaming, ever since I can remember playing the SEGA but invoking emotion, a no go. The only game I have ever felt myself moved by is FFXII when Sephiroth killed Aries. I have no idea WHY this particular scene within this particular game moved me but it did, it brought me to my knees and I shed the tears. Perhaps partly frustration as I spent god knows how many hours training the ***** up only to have her get stabbed BUT mostly: it was sadness and loss.
Now that was... a decade ago, more, when I was around 12, now I am 22 and I have been, again, brought to my knees with a surging flow of emotion after going not 5 minutes into the game Homefront. I find myself at the first level on a bus and I see Korean soldiers gun down 2 parents while their child stands and watches and after the gunshots, the piercing screams of the child. Those screams will haunt me. And then again after returning to Oasis after a successful mission, I see dead bodies everywhere. On the ground, hooded with a single execution shot to the head. And again, the emotion welled up. Not sadness or loss this time but... something that made my throat clog up and my chest ache.
And then comes along Dead Space 2 and the emotion of Fear. I have played the Silent Hill games, the Resident Evil games and the first Dead Space game with nothing but shits and giggles as I pop zombies, creatues of darkness and necromorphs alike. But this game, I freaked. At 1 aspect in particular, the Child/Teenager necromorphs. They come down with one shot but as they are running at me, with that scream, I was shitting myself, I paused the game and was like "What the fuck?!". It took me 5 minutes to get back to it after a cigarette.
So in conclusion, is it after all these years, game developers are finally getting what it is that invokes our emotions as human beings? Or is it just me in particular who was affected by these 2 games in particular? To you, my fellow Escapists, have you even come acress a game which has tore at your fear? Your empathy? Your tear ducts? Let us know your thoughts and comments.
Peace Out,
Nemesis.
