I saw how it got revived, and I got pretty worked up when I died of dysentery on The Oregon Trail...
Gamer nerds: what video game affected you the most emotionally?
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Yea, I'm playing Classic currently (maybe a bit too much). Hit 60 and raiding with a few of my best friends that played Vanilla with me. I don't play retail anymore, for the reasons you listed, but Classic has been great.
People actually beat Myst? Man I gave up pretty quick.
I'm not a huge gamer outside of sports arcade type games, my last system was also a ps2, but I'd say as a kid the part in FF7 when Aries or Tifa dies (forget who, I gave them custom names).
Guild Wars 2, Heart of Thorns expansion - the death of Eir Stegalkin. She was the mentor of your Norn character if you chose that race when building your character, and she the leader of the Destiny's Edge guild that you would hook up with regardless of your race to defeat the original game. Was a bit shocking as to this day, in that game, is still only one of two major supporting characters that has died in 8 years of progressive story (the other one also dying at the end of that same expansion).
That was a great ending.
The ending to HL2 : E2 was very surprising / shocking as well.
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I was a lot more emotionally affected as a kid and teen than I am now.
Snatcher was a really immersive experience that most missed. There wasn't anything remotely like it at the time and it might still be among the best of it's niche genre. If you played it with a gun it was even more of a trip because you'd go an hour or two without needing it then suddenly grab your gun.
The scary atmosphere and open world of the original Metroid scared the crap out if me in an awesome way as a nine year old. Future games in franchise were great but none as frightening.
Snatcher was a really immersive experience that most missed. There wasn't anything remotely like it at the time and it might still be among the best of it's niche genre. If you played it with a gun it was even more of a trip because you'd go an hour or two without needing it then suddenly grab your gun.
The scary atmosphere and open world of the original Metroid scared the crap out if me in an awesome way as a nine year old. Future games in franchise were great but none as frightening.
PS4.
I gotta say, it’s probably the first time I’ve ever actually enjoyed a game while simultaneously being terrible at it.
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire on N64 was so hard as a kid that I never beat it, but recently went back and beat it during quarantine. I felt very accomplished. Boba Fett is extremely hard to defeat.
A close second is StarCraft and the expansion pack: Brood War. Awesome games that really introduced me to online gaming in the late 90's/early 2000's. I haven't played the recent ones yet...any good?
Last I'd go with the red dead games starting with revolver on Xbox then the redemptions. All are good games with good stories, especially revolver.
A close second is StarCraft and the expansion pack: Brood War. Awesome games that really introduced me to online gaming in the late 90's/early 2000's. I haven't played the recent ones yet...any good?
Last I'd go with the red dead games starting with revolver on Xbox then the redemptions. All are good games with good stories, especially revolver.
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I tried, and tried because I'm stubborn as it gets, but that stupid tunnel system, where you had to draw your own map. It haunts me to this day, 25 some years later.
