WoW apon reading this i have just realised that despite having finished KOTOR like a dozen times i didnt know that was a possible ending :S lol i ALWAYS go the darkside even when im not thinking about it :SEMFCRACKSHOT said:
What are some of the deepest gaming moments?
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Yay, someone else who's played the old point & click PC adventure games and shares a love of Grim Fandango and The Longest Journey.Furburt said:
The Longest Journey especially in this case since the nearer and nearer you get to the end the more serious the plot becomes till reaching that painfully melancholy ending that just made me want to shake my computer screaming "You can't end it like *THAT*, where my happy ending damn you?". Then they had the nerve to do the same thing with it's sequel Dreamfall with an unhappy ending and now who knows how long it'll be before there's a third entry into the series to try and clear things up.
Poor April Ryan deserves a break by this point methinks. Give her something to be happy about for once.
Oh, and the mandatory Planescape: Torment mention here. 'What can change the nature of a man?' and all that. Frankly you just need to play the game to understand, Torment has one of those few rare plots in a game which can't be neatly summed up in a paragraph or less. Not without cutting a helluva lot of important details anyway.
Yeah I agree to an extent. Mass Effect (1) was new, shocking. From nothing to the end of the galaxy as we know it. It was extremely tense, emotional, terrifying, gripping, exciting & deep. Finding out the truth about Saren, about the geth, the Reapers most of all- their chilling goal. Very deep.Singletap said:
I'd say Mass Effect 2, what it lacks in depth it regains in emotionality. It's a simple story- the opposite of ME1, with a simple end goal- to stop the Collectors. I mean don't get me wrong- it's not like its not a HUGE thing, but its simple. By doing so we save humanity. But I think its emotional in the sense that it's a suicide mission. It's dark, it's gritty. It's much more IMO character based, as it has to be.. hearing all your squad's opinion that they're all probably going to die. You yourself can die. Your entire squad can die. You're going into the complete unknown, against an almost unknown enemy with highly superior weaponry. It's scary. You're all planning for the worst- suicide. You're working for your 2nd biggest enemy from ME1- Cerberus. People you spent many missions slaughtering, uncovering their horrific test centres and labs... and now you're forced to work for them. It stretches Shepard's emotional sphere to its max.
At least, that's what I feel.
And I also feel, being an avid reader/writer myself, that in a trilogy (which Mass Effect is), the 1st book/film/game is all about the awesome discovery- it's meant to be about adventure & understanding. The 2nd in a trilogy I have always found hard, because... you can't make it too story-based, because other wise there'll be nothing left for the epic finale. The 2nd, from the many books I've read, always has 1 or 2 connections to the main story arc, but it's a detour if you will. It's not directly about the Reapers & stopping their massive army of almost-invincible sentient machines, but about saving humanity from the Collectors. The connection being that the Reapers (Harbinger) is controlling the Collectors through the collector general.. to.. spoiler.
So it's not exactly about ME1, but slightly parralel to it. And then Mass Effect 3 will come along, and 'should' wrap it all up into a finale. Tie the loose ends:
What's going to happen to the council, or the rachni, or the Krogan, or the reprogrammed geth, or that terrorist I kept alive/killed, the army or Reapers- all wrapped up.
My relationship with Alistair in Dragon Age. Sure, I was screwing around behind his back with everything the game allowed me, but my man and I went through a lot together *sniffle* Then he came king and tried to dump me because I wasn't a human! >.<
It's probably been said a lot but when:
Eli dies and you are left looking helpless watching Alyx Vance mourn for her dead farther
Eternal Darkness was a pretty twisted game with some dark, disturbing and startling moments; seeing Mantorok, still squirming and pulsating, entombed beneath a Cambodian temple, the various sanity effects (specifically the peacfull landscape painting turning into a hellscape painting).
Ezio and his Brother racing to the top of the church with the gorgeous opera music playing, then the camera panning out across Florence as 'Assasin's Creed 2' comes up on screen.
Did I say recently?Singletap said:
No.
I said it's been done too much.
Because it has. Don't put words in my mouth.
Durxom said:
That would be the one in Flanoir, where you visit the doctor. You're asleep in your room, and your Best Friend comes in and asks if you want to go for a walk.
The ending in Shattered memories it completly blew me away and gave me hope in the future of silent hill games