Poll: Have games ever touched you, like movies?

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CardinalPiggles

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depends, is it in 4D?

seriously though, neither.

i guess i have become emotionally stunted. although there are old films that used to (and still) make me feel emotional.

l33tness08 said:
*Points to the groin of a sexual harassment doll*

In all seriousness though.... Both
god dammit you ruined my joke with yours. :p
 

Azrael the Cat

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Well I find books more moving the film, but there's only been 2 games that have moved me: Planescape: Torment (the entire game is brilliant, but it's also the only game I've seen adopt the 'epic tragedy' archetype instead of the 'epic hero' one, and yet still give a sense of 'winning' despite knowing the whole time that things aren't going to end well - hell, a rpg about an immortal (the player character) trying to find a way to die isn't going to end happily:)).

And the 2nd one would be the ending of Fallout (as in the first one, not the Bethesda reboot). Getting screwed over by the Vault you've spent the whole game trying to save just made such an ironic sense. Finally reaching 'The Glow' in Fallout had a great atmosphere to it as well - the first game is set only 50 years after the bombs, so you're discovering what happened to the world and what's left of it. Needless to say, finally reaching 'ground zero' has something of an epic feel to it.
 

Baradiel

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Yes. I've been touched in terrible, terrible ways...

Oh. You meant emotionally?

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is on the New Alexandria mission of Halo Reach, since I was only playing it yesterday.

To anyone who hasn't played the game, New Alexandria is the capital city of the planet Reach. The previous mission you helped evacuate thousands of civilians from the besieged city, and in this mission you are flying through the city at night, with fires in the distance.

Anyway, about two minutes into the mission, as you fly towards your objective, listening to distant explosions, the screen starts to shake as a Covenant cruiser veers overhead. It stops several miles away, and a few seconds later a massive beam of energy utterly devastates the ground underneath.

The sound, the visuals... It was fantastic. That single bit of the level made me understand why "glassing" is so terrifying for humanity. Nothing could stand up to that onslaught.
 

YouBecame

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I find movies more poignant, but thats not to say a game has never touched me in the same way.
 

tomtom94

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Yes. Nuke in COD4, the twist in KOTOR, the storyline in Dragon Quest VIII (until I got fed up of dying in combat too often and gave up on it).

Games are just as gripping if not more so than movies at times. We just need to find our Pixar.
 

SckizoBoy

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Given my taste in games, nah, not really.

Films, uh:

Shadowlands, Copenhagen (different from the stage show, but it still got me), A Bridge Too Far (poignant music added to the general mood of depressing), and a couple others that don't come to mind.

Anime, a fair few (including):

Tokyo Magnitude 8.0... if you don't cry after watching all 11 episodes, then you officially don't have either a soul or a heart.
Grave of the Fireflies... see above, except it's a film.
 

ChupathingyX

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I'm gonna get this off my chest right now.

When I watched The Lion King when I was a kid I cried when Mufasa died, probably because it reminded me of when my uncle died.

Games have also touched me, examples include Jak 3, Red Dead Redemption and Fallout: New Vegas.
 

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i was truly sad in God of War 3 (shocking right?) when Kratos sacrifices himself for mankind and u see this long shot if him falling to the ground, blood coming out of his chest, theirs sad music, and it fade to black as you can hear Kratos' heavy breathing get slower and slower until......Credits.i was sad to see that little psycho kill himself for the greater good
 

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Although the movies that tend to touch me are animated movies. Miyazaki films, Pixar films, and "The Lion King" as well as a few other Disney movies were the first ones that came to mind. Although "Remember the Titans," the Harry Potter movies, and plenty of other live actions movies have moved me as well.

Sadly, my list of games that have moved me is short. Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, LOZ: The Ocarina of Time, Cave Story, Ico, Shadow of the Collosus, and Final Fantasy 6 and 7 are the only ones that come to mind. Which is too bad because games are really good at making us feel emotions. Afterall, it's sad to witness someone sacrifice their life for another, but it's even sadder to be the guy the person sacrificed their life for. (If done well that is)
 

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I think for me I lending toward games more since I tend to show no expression in film most of the time. In games however I show sympathy toward the characters well depending on the time.
 

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Games.

The closest I ever came to crying was in DEADRISING when.

Brad gets infected in the tunnels, and you have to drop him. And when you get back to the safehouse, you find that you have to do Jessie in to.

Movies haven't done that to me.
 

Floominoo

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There aren't many games that I think do the trick effectively, but i really don't understand how nobody and I mean NOBODY! Has mentioned Dragonheart, that movie even makes the manliest of men upset.
 

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Movies do it more often...THANKS PIXAR!

And John Q.

Oh boy. John Q makes me cry rivers of tears every fucking time.

But games do it pretty easily, too.

Hell, I even felt tears well up at the end of Star Ocean 4.

Because after 60 hours with these characters...annoying as they are...it's hard not to feel something when your journey is over. RPGs that END do this very easily. RPGs that keep going after you're done...don't. Ever.
 

Casual Shinji

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Movies way more than games, but...

...watching Agro plunge to his (supposed) death right after he saved me from the collapsing bridge was very gripping.

Since a game is designed to constantly keep me busy, the emotional effects of said game rarely last too long (if it has any effect to begin with). Movies on the other hand can have me bawling like an infant. Recent example; Tangled. That's right, I cried.