Jaco wrote:

I don't get particularly emotional about anything in games because games. As opposed to reality.

What about films or books?

I've come to the conclusion I am broadly immune to the wiles of fiction too, really. Can appreciate craft and what a piece is trying to elicit but it's never actually affecting when compared with very ordinary IRL experiences and observations, even second-hand.

In that context, the best a piece of fiction can be, any medium, is elegant.

Or funny. Humour is a massive exception to the rule. Make me lol like a cunt and I will appreciate you.

You can make me feel really queasy too I guess if your gore effects are amazing, or your politics as expressed absolutely fucking suck.

Frustration's a pretty pertinent one to videogames, but I think the narrative payoffs of going for that are really limited. "I simulated this challenging situation and guess what, it's really annoying!" o i see

Bookwise , The Road did a number on me, probably because I have kids now. When I was pretty young I did have an emotional response to On The Beach - I did actually shed a tear at that.

 Nothing else springs to mind though.

Quite the opposite for me. Never shed a tear for books or films until much later in life and things set me off easily now.

Films have regularly left me a proper mess. A lot of the usual suspects - but not The Usual Suspects. Heaven and earth is the granddaddy of that though. Talk about right in the feels.

Games, I fall somewhere between Brooks and my reaction to films.

No gibbering full on tears, but the odd I have something in my eye, and the odd that was well done. Sotc shout out.

First bioshock tape recordings and the hospital/plastic surgeon got something out of me.

There was a splinter cell I've mentioned before that had a mission where you shot an unarmed woman at the start. Not a qte, just your boss shouting at you to do it. Did it first time on the fly. Made me uncomfortable.

The division has been interesting. Voice work for main story is whatever, but I think actors find the audio pick up stuff much easier to perform well in, and the writers seem better at it too. Given the random nature of the game, I've had a couple of weather/time of day/npc action/audio tape combinations that have been emotionally interesting.

hylian_elf wrote:

Quite the opposite for me. Never shed a tear for books or films until much later in life and things set me off easily now.

Ditto.

I didn't get far cos I got bored of playing Spot-the-difference/inconsistency.

On the odd occasion games can touch a nerve, here or there. TLOU with the animals was quite affecting (although shoved down your throat).

But, the actual playing of games at the expense of other activities is more likely to impact emotionally. That stolen hour on Overwatch during the day has me considering whether it would be better spent with the kids at the park. I do a lot with them though so this thought process only really hits me if I'm feeling a bit down or self-conscious. Gaming and family life don't have to mutually exclusive but the balance has to be right otherwise I feel like a selfish git and neglecting parental responsibilities.

Thankfully, my kids are at an age where I can support junior during Dragon Quest Builders whilst experiencing the emotional bond of TLG with senior.

Some of you goiys deffo had a blub over Mordin Solus in ME3, I can't believe that hasn't come up yet. 

I was all cried out by the end of the Overlord DLC in ME2 so I just took it like a man.

Sarah?

That guy and his bf hanging himself to escape the boredom is probably the most fucked up thing in Last of. And it's almost delivered like comedy bizarrely.

anger, disbelief, denial, depression, blind rage, joy, tears. 

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