Rawest emotion you've felt during a game.

[sir.rutthed]

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?

Well, I was fighting a dragon the other day outside Riften and I'd say he had me about medium rare by the end of it.

 

[lacktheknack]

http://insidemytoybox.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/hanako1.jpg

Never has giving a girl a doll been such a fulfilling experience.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Hard to say, to be honest. There was a cavalcade of them during A Drug That Makes You Dream, one scene in particular (panic, desperation, sadness, anger, love, passion...seriously, the scene where you <color=aliceblue>just barely keep Aeka from committing suicide was that damn good).

Other than that...hate. Pure, unadulterated, throat-ripping fury, spiced with a feeling of utter helplessness. The kind that made me nearly scream, and I probably would have had I not retained enough presence of mind to know that I'd wake the rest of the house. Worst part is, that's happened twice, once in A Drug That Makes You Dream, once in Symphonic Rain.

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.

Oh man, I don't think I got that far into City of Heroes. I need to pick my account back up...

I definitely know that reaction, though. I didn't realize how badly one of the bosses in Tales of Symphonia upset me until I realized halfway through the fight that I'd been screaming at the screen, and I'd just told that condescending angel bastard that I'd shove my swords so far down his throat that he'd be crapping steel in hell.

 

[Iborian]

Dragon Age.. the ultimate sacrifice ending, especially since my character was a scrapper commoner dwarf. Was epic.. one of the only games that ever made me grab the tissues. all of a sudden I feel the urge to get the game out again.

 

[Rol3x]

Sheer terror when playing amnesia: the dark descent.
After that it was watching one of the first trailers for Skyrim, hearing that morrowind based nore theme just made me well up.

 

[David Bjur]

I shed a tear at Red Dead Redemptions ending. It all made so much sense.

 

[kouriichi]

Rawest emotion ive ever felt? Theres a few really.....

The SHEAR TERROR i felt in the first Monster Hunter game, when i first stared down a Gravios, only to learn they shoot F*CKING MOUTH LAZERZ!

Spoiler

Or the pure joy i felt when i FUS RO DAH'd an angry troll off of the Throat of the World, YOL'd the Jarl of every city and laughed as they burst into flames.

Or perhaps your talking about the happiness i got from ending Hanako's story in Katawa Shoujo. Didnt even get the "good ending". Got the ending where your relationship stay in a Brother/Sister role. I was more then happy with it though.

 

[scar_47]

Either the sadness and anger from beating Metal Gear Solid 3 or the end of Metal Gear Solid 4 which was a weird mix of joy and loss and sadness.

 

[Gatx]

I doubt you'll ever hear this answer but the only time I've actually cried from a game was "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Rings of Fate." God damn, that ending (or the thing that happens right before) just triggered something in me.

Also, speaking for my roommates, "League of Legends," and I guess any "MOBA" type game, taps into the petty and hateful core of people who plays it.

 

[Ziame]

New UFO trilogy - mindless rage everytime someone dies ( I really get into games )

When I had to sacrifice Kaidan/Ashley - I tore the fuckers a new one

When Ian died in Fallout to supermutants I was so enraged I killed three of them in one turn. Some luck.

 

[leon558]

Silent hill

The fucking cat jumping out of the locker.I remember that moment scaring the shit out of me.

 

[Darks63]

FF4 when all the prayers in the world revieve your party for the fight against zeon including 2 characters who had died was pretty moving to me when i played it years ago.

 

[Olas]

Drowning as Sonic and hearing this music


ah yes, my first panic attack.

 

[ChickNaney]

Spoiler: RRRRRRAGE (Skyrim)

The Blades telling me to kill Paarthanax. I sat there for a minute before Fus Ro Dah-ing them off the side of the cliff.

It's a bit stupid, but seriously? He's an awesome dude. You want me to kill him? Yeah, no. I'm never contacting you again. And to think I thought you were cool, at one point.

Also:

Spoiler: I don't know what this would be. Righteous fury? Vengeance? (Two Worlds II)

When it turns out that GANDOHAR was a good guy all along and he held off the dragon while you made your escape.

I don't know why, but I just wanted to kill that last boss even more, knowing that it killed him.

 

[mindlesspuppet]

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?

I read the title and before reading the thread thought "Fatal Frame 2". Upon reading you post I lol'ed.

Be sure to give Fatal Frame 2 a go, it makes the original seem like a castle in Mario. I remember watching a friend play it, and I couldn't tell why he was getting so worked up until I had played it for myself. It has the perfect combination of build up, an uneasy atmosphere, and typical horror pops.

Never really understood why Silent Hill gets so much more praise than Fatal Frame.

 

[dedem1315]

When a companion dies in Skyrim. Mostly because it's so sudden. Depending on how much I like the companion, it can be pure joy or murderous rage. ESPECIALLY if that companion is Meeko. I made sure to come back every few days to kill the next bunch of bandits holed up in that cave.

 

[Eventidal]

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.

Strangely, Sen's Fortress was really easy for me. That last axe trap got me the first time but I got through on the second one. The boss at the end put up a fight but I got him on the third try or so. Nothing else killed me during my first playthrough of the place. Though I DID get the very prominent feeling of OHHHH GOD as I walked slowly through my first time. Just making it past axe traps, going through those things with magic guys shooting at me, running out into the path of deadly boulders not knowing if there will be any hole to duck into partway through my run... it was rather terrifying at times.

OT: The best I can remember right now is the part in Cave Story when you get back to the village after escaping the Labyrinth. The music is just hollow and and empty when it once was so lively and uplifting. When you go down to find the place... well, we'll just not spoil that here but just to say stuff HAPPENED. When you exit there to the Egg Corridor and the place is so different and the music kicks in, you get hit by this wave of dread, which gives way to a renewed feeling of ACTION. The way the situation works and how the music goes so perfectly with it positively DRIVES you to action. That section was a rollercoaster of emotion for me when I first went through, and it really stuck with me how it was presented. Not a single word or cutscene. Just visuals and great music. It blended perfectly back into the action of the game.

 

[Darth_Dude]

The part where the nuke goes off in COD4, and you crash and crawl around.

Holy shit. That made the game for me...

And:

Spoiler

The part where Eli dies at the end of Episode 2, it was just so sudden...and Alyx's sobbing continuing even after the screen blacked out.... :'(