Rawest emotion you've felt during a game.

[Jonny49]

So a very strange thing just happened to me.

I'm a big fan of horror games, I love being scared. It something that I find I can't really get from anywhere else anymore, horror films or books don't do it for me. With that said though, while I have been scared by or jumped at many a horror game before, I've never reached the point that I did today.

I was playing Project Zero (otherwise known as Fatal Frame depending on where you live) and I reached a point while playing it where I became so unnerved I had to switch it off. I had a fight with but one ghost around an hour in and that was enough to make me turn it off. Thinking back, I don't think I've done that for anything since I was 5. I felt genuinely scared.

So my question is really, what is the rawest emotion you've ever had while playing a game? Whether it be fear, anger, joy or sadness ect?

 

[zombieshark6666]

I don't know your game, so I won't comment.

My own experience was in Tenpenny Tower. The ghouls got into the place and savagely murdered all the remaining humans of that small settlement, probably raping them with glee as well. I extracted revenge on every single one of them with the help of all my rage and disgust.

Keep in mind that I'm a misanthropic bastard. These monsters acted like real humans, I was disgusted.

 

[KiwiFresh]

Call me Sappy, but in Bioshock, the very first time you can choose between harvesting or saving a Little Sister. The sight of a scared little girl cowering against a trunk with bottles of empty alcohol littering the area, the only guardian dead on the floor, and being at the mercy of a complete stranger in a world filled with violent monsters that would give anything to get to the Adam she carries. I could only feel heart-wrenching pity for the helplessness of her situation.

 

[Erana]

In recent memory?
Finding out the translation of the Turret Opera for Portal 2.
..Does that count? I mean, it did rock my perception of both Portal and Portal 2 when I found out. I had to play the last third or so of the game again, and just... wow. There are so many implications to it, and you never know how much Chell is aware of.

Its like, how much did Mary know when the angel told her that she was pregnant with Jesus? Did she know that he was going to die horribly? However much she was told would have made a sickening reality fall upon her, and yet she soldiers on, because she's tied inevitably to this fate that could well lead her to her own horrible demise!!!

... Dammit, art history. You're in my brain forever, aren't you?

 

[Amethyst Wind]

The red mist came down when I first fought the final boss in Bulletwitch. It took me five hours and my flatmates were exceedingly close to physically dragging me away from the computer. Luckily I beat it shortly after they showed up. I then calmly got up, took the disc out of the 360 and threw it out the goddamn window. Then we went for a burger. I calmed down after that.

 

[him over there]

It's going to sound mainstream and unsurprising but definitely Chapter 6 of Mother 3. That music is just... damn. I honestly thought that they weren't going to touch to much on that. I thought the events of chapter 1 were just setup, if gut wrenching setup. I never thought it would come full circle. A close second is the ending though. The masked man removed his mask. It was...

 

[GiantRaven]

Pure. Rage.

'All you had to do was follow the damn train, CJ!'


FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU....

 

[Sylvine]

Pain.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the first and only game that really made me feel physical pain.

Those /)&$/(&$(/§§& idiots make a really dark, creepy game, advise people to play it in the dark, and then build flashbacks in - every 5 minutes, the screen flashes in a blinding white.

I didn't even get to the water part before getting a splitting headache and sore eyes. Seriously, fuck amnesia.

~Sylv

 

[daveman247]

Project zero

Aw man, that game has some genuinley frightening moments (Project zero 2 as well)

I would say dread is what i felt in those games, never knowing where the next ghost would pop up, or what it would be (they are ghosts after all, coming through walls n stuff).

I'm interested in what the point that made you turn it off was?

*SLIGHT SPOILER* Some of the enimies are terrifiying, the hanging ghost (Whats wrong with her head? FUUUU!) Or even worse. The box ghost. Damn that thing.



Dark souls definitley makes you experience all kinds of emotion. Mostly rage, but also relief once you find a bonfire after doing the axe trap ^_^ In _____ fortress.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Let me be the first to say that Katawa Shoujo has produced the strongest emotions in me of any game (if you can call it a game), and more than that, it's the only one to engender emotions more complicated than anger, joy, or boredom. Beyond that, probably I Wanna be the Guy, just because it is the only game to ever make me angry enough to have to put it down and play something else -- in this case, permanently. But then I'm of the mindset that if I'm not enjoying myself (and anger is not fun, although frustration can be if getting past it means mastering a skill of some sort), it's not a game worth playing; nothing has ever hit that button the way I Wanna be the Guy did, as it's the only one to ever give me "gamer rage."

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

In recent memory?
Finding out the translation of the Turret Opera for Portal 2.
..Does that count? I mean, it did rock my perception of both Portal and Portal 2 when I found out. I had to play the last third or so of the game again, and just... wow. There are so many implications to it, and you never know how much Chell is aware of.

The entire ending of Portal 2, yeah, let's go with that. It felt satisfying in so many ways: what happened to Aperture, to GLaDOS, to Chell, to Wheatley, to Cave Johnson, all through a jigsaw puzzle of events that is presented to you with excitement and memorable events.

 

[Aircross]

I actually felt somewhat upset when the Lone Wanderer's father died in Fallout 3 seeing as I just had lost my grandfather a couple of months before witnessing it.

I also felt my heart tugged a bit when I saw Paul Denton's body in Deus Ex. I immediately reloaded the last save where I could save him.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Fear - exploring the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows
Sadness/Bittersweet - Discovering the meaning of the rabbit in To The Moon

 

[spectrenihlus]

Every time I watch this scene I get goosebumps


I guess the emotion I feel is pure Awe

 

[pyrokin]

I sort of got a tear in my eye near the end of Assassin's Creed: Revelations when I watched the final cutscene. I guess it was the fact that you could see the fear and hopelessness in those peoples' eyes.

Another intense feeling I got was when I played Amnesia the Dark Descent, the pure nervousness I got just by walking through the halls was almost palpable.

 

[SpoonyBrah]

I cried when Ramirez got blown up by that nuclear bomb.

 

[jackalblue3141]

I think the rawest emotion I ever felt was the end of Jade Empire (light side ending). Standing there over the body of the... final boss (no spoilers), as he breathes his last... I felt justified. Vindicated. A general feeling of "f*ckin eh" as everything came full circle. Was pretty intense. When they tell you what happens to all your companion chars, I was so giddy I laughed hysterically (not that they weren't hilarious on their own).

Funny thing? The last boss isn't even that tough. The battle itself isn't that difficult, just the whole saga of getting there and knowing all the types of hell you've been through are all his fault.

 

[Death Carr]

Let me be the first to say that Katawa Shoujo has produced the strongest emotions in me of any game

I wholeheartedly agree with you. some of the sad endings moved me to tears after having experienced the good endings first.

also, Halo 2 made me throw my controller at, and break, my TV at the end.

 

[Thurston]

City of Heroes, facing down the Malta Group, after uncovering the plot of their director to stave off death by implanting his mind into a clone.

Now, this clone had been raised by unknowing parents, lived a normal life, and was planning to go to college, went on dates, and had friends.

But, because he was created as a genetic safety net for a ruthless bastard, his life was going to be erased, and his body to serve as the new shell for a power-hungry, murdering-kidnapping-and-blackmailing-for-freedom fascist bastard.

No. Hell. No.

And the self-righteous SOB had the nerve to accuse ME of being the "enemy of freedom."

I was rebutting and trash-talking to the screen so hard I had to windex it afterwards.

I was actually considering dragging the fight out, making it last, keeping him teetering on the edge of defeat, just to be cruel and vindictive.

 

[Tiger Sora]

I get tears in my eyes and my throat tightens every time I see this cut scene from AC5. 1st 2 minutes.


It's just something about seeing a ship sinking, especially a warship. Real or fictional, knowing that she, the ship, had an entire story behind her. And her entire crew had their own. And typically when a warship is sunk it's done so catastrophically with all hands. Just tragic and gets to me really deep.