Games That Depress You.

[Firefly22]

I was just wondering If anyone here has actually played a game that for any reason, has made you physically and emotionally depressed.

The Godfather game actually depressed me so much that I could only play It for about an hour at a time, even though I found It enjoyable for that hour each time I played It.

 

[Smyter]

I only get depressed after I beat a game because then i have nothing to do whaaa

 

[Kenny Doyle]

Uhh... Fable 2. 'cause it was made to do that.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

RPG games severely depress me. I hate the idea of finishing a game. Suppose this goes for all games, but mainly RPGs.
I mean i spend hours on the game, and begin to feel close to the characters.
Then you're cut loose from them, like hearing your best friends been sent to a concentration camp.

 

[ellie91]

Uhh... Fable 2. 'cause it was made to do that.

i agree the end of the main quest when your on the farm with your sister was quite depressing and kinda creepy

 

[samsprinkle]

Lost Odyssey. looked forward to it for bloody years and it was an EPIC FAIL! How do people like this crap. Just remake Final Fantasy VII i suppose. After all Final Fantasy VII is j-rpg perfection...

 

[RAWKSTAR]

Any game with a Bad/good ending, if the bad ending appears I feel depressed I didn't do the best for the character... then I leave the game alone.

 

[Boober the Pig]

GTA 4 depressed me. All of the silliness of the previous games was replaced by a game that took itself way too seriously. It felt very restrictive being such a defined character even in an open world. I did 100% twice on GTA 3, I quit GTA 4 after a few hours and went back to Crackdown, give me silly, over the top mass destruction over serious scripted drama any day.

 

[Seann]

Phantasy Star actually makes me feel sick. It's weird. I enjoyed it but after about a half hour of play I get what kind of feels like the begining of the stomach flu.

 

[Darthracoon]

GTA:VI depressed me quite a bit because...

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when roman died i felt i had actually lost someone because he was someone who was always there and you know when some one in GTA dies and it isn't by your gun and it IS your fault you start to feel real bad

Or In MGS4 where...

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snake commits suicide(in the first ending not that shit thing after where it turns out he didn't) i don't know why but at that time i was going through depression already and i was trying to play MGS4 to feel better and then they kill of one of my favorite gaming protagonist and i felt so sad inside i even felt like committing suicide because this was the first game(after grand theft auto four(but that was like on tear(reason above))) to actually make me cry my eyes out, now those were some tough times

Or in fallout 3 when...

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your dad dies, because you actually felt like he was your dad not just some guy saying he was, because he was always reassuring you when your mother died and he was the reason you left the vault and then he sacrifices himself to save you

So yeah, a few games do make me depressed.

 

[Aardvark]

Way back when I was a little biddy boy, I came down with a severe case of the Spanish Flu (That's the French Flu for all you Spaniards out there). So I was off school for a week and had just acquired Master of Magic. Wonderful little game that mixed Civilization with Magic. So I sat down, started playing through it and was loving it. Fantastic little game with only one drawback. The dreary, repetitive music in it. Just listening to it made me lethargic, but I didn't really pay it much heed, because I was sick anyway. So I finally heal up, just in time for a family holiday. Upon my return from said week away from my game addiction, stuck in a hideous little coastal town with the people I'd spent almost every day of my life with already, I immediately fired up MoM and loaded my save, whereby I was Chaosing the hell out of the denizens of the Myrror, then I suddenly felt lethargic and sick. It took me a bit to realise, it was the music. My subconscious had somehow tied that dreary music to the feeling of death I'd felt two weeks prior and was making that association the painful way.

It was about this time that I discovered Metal.

 

[Pseudonym2]

There aren't any people in Burnout: Paradise City. The sterile environment makes you fell really, really lonely and I was playing the game with somebody else!

 

[geldonyetich]

These days, just about every game depresses me, if not because that was the game's intent then because of the overwhelming greedy clusterfuck that makes up the global economy of the new millennium, of which the game industry (as a small part of said train wreck) shares many of the same mistakes.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Fallout 3. It's just such a grim and hopeless world.

 

[Sylocat]

Any grayish-brown (tm) shooters (tm) with grizzled space marines (tm) depress me. A lot.

 

[Space Spoons]

The second half of Final Fantasy VI, when you're stuck on a tiny island, not knowing if your friends survived the fall of the floating continent. Doesn't effect me much anymore because I know the outcome, but back when I first played it, I found it incredibly depressing to think that all those people I had gotten to know had perished.

 

[dukethepcdr]

Fallout 3. It's just such a grim and hopeless world.

I agree. As much as I enjoy playing the game, the desolate backgrounds are depressing after a while. It's one of the few games I've played that really conveys the feelings it was aiming for. Some games try to be serious but wind up being unintentionally funny.

 

[Brokkr]

RPG games severely depress me. I hate the idea of finishing a game. Suppose this goes for all games, but mainly RPGs.
I mean i spend hours on the game, and begin to feel close to the characters.
Then you're cut loose from them, like hearing your best friends been sent to a concentration camp.

I agree. I never really want to finish my RPG's. I never finished Oblivion, even though I'm 150 hours into it, mainly because I don't want it to end.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Final Fantasy X for me. Call me sad but the ending is a little tearful, and Auron's departure is just astouding.

I like that game a lot, but it is a bit sad.

 

[MarsProbe]

Hmm, depressed is a strong word, but I think I get your meaning.

Will start off with GTA IV. First, I found the newer, more realistic feel of the game top be an improvement on the previous GTA titles so that didn't bother me at all. It was the ending though that really got me. When you had to make that choice (which you didn't know would have such terrible consequences at the time) which resulted in something truly awful happening it was bad enough. The game really got me down when it game to finishing off the final main story mission. Usually, when a GTA is finished it feels great to have th whole city laid out before you to do what you wish. When it came to that point in GTA IV however, it just wasn't the same. You may be free to do what you want around Liberty City but you had still lost somebody important to you and no matter how many vigilante missions or stunt jumps you did, you could never have them back.

Lost Odyssey. looked forward to it for bloody years and it was an EPIC FAIL! How do people like this crap. Just remake Final Fantasy VII i suppose. After all Final Fantasy VII is j-rpg perfection...

I for one liked Lost Odyssey which was all the more surprising as I tend to avoid JRPGs like a plague for the most part. Though that's a discussion for another topic, the one thing to say in closing:

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Part of the advantage of LO over the FF games for me was actually have some comparatively sensible and plausible characters for once (that, and a drunken womanising mage ), as opposed to the usual array of mainly teenage brats who in reality probably couldn't even function outside their bedroom let alone save the world.
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