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[Bratt1204]

ninja0809 wrote...

So my best friend recommended me to get this game cuz he said it was awesome. It is the first RPG game i ever played, and i must say the money was worth it. However, i can't help but feel so emotionally attatched to this game, especially at the ending when i ended things with Morrigan (my main characters love interest). When i chose i wanted to go after her, i actually really meant it, i felt a strong urge to do so. At the epilogue when it shows Morrigan, the ring, and her regrets, tears dwelled in my eyes and my heart actually ached in pain. The reaction i recieved freaked me out cuz i was never an emotional person.

Is it normal for a new RPG player to feel this way?

Absolutely.

[Yana Montana]

 I am in love with Leliana. For reals.
I guess I am too attached to the game. 

[skeith42]

Bratt1204 wrote...

ninja0809 wrote...

So my best friend recommended me to get this game cuz he said it was awesome. It is the first RPG game i ever played, and i must say the money was worth it. However, i can't help but feel so emotionally attatched to this game, especially at the ending when i ended things with Morrigan (my main characters love interest). When i chose i wanted to go after her, i actually really meant it, i felt a strong urge to do so. At the epilogue when it shows Morrigan, the ring, and her regrets, tears dwelled in my eyes and my heart actually ached in pain. The reaction i recieved freaked me out cuz i was never an emotional person.

Is it normal for a new RPG player to feel this way?

Absolutely.

It's pretty much been this way since Final Fantasy 7

Modifié par skeith42, 10 juillet 2010 - 01:00 .

[nubbers666]

only way you know its a good rpg is when you feel it in real life like i got sad and angry when i slept with alistair then he dumps me to become king

made me wish i could start casting fire ball and launch it at him

[Chris_Really_Rocks]

Yana Montana wrote...

 I am in love with Leliana. For reals.
I guess I am too attached to the game. 

I'm quite fond of her character too.  She is probably my favorite Bioware Playable NPC of all time.

[nubbers666]

Chris_Really_Rocks wrote...

Yana Montana wrote...

 I am in love with Leliana. For reals.
I guess I am too attached to the game. 

I'm quite fond of her character too.  She is probably my favorite Bioware Playable NPC of all time.

at frist i found her a bit annooying and creepy like  but after playing the dlc i kinda understand her
now [smilie]../../../images/forum/emoticons/uncertain.png[/smilie]

[aries1001]

Yes, it is normal to feel emotional at the end of the game, or when another game than DA: Origins ends. Great games like DA: Origins and other such games have the ability to make you feel this way - just like a great play, like good movie or a great book does.

[Yamo425]

Well when I play RPGs I actually get into character like I'm roleplaying. Many times, however my character just ends up being my proxy and making the decisions that I would have made in his situation, so I guess I'm not too good at it. =/

[maxernst]

I wouldn't actually consider it normal for RPG's in general, but it's not at all unusual for Dragon Age. The richness of the character interactions is the game's biggest strength, so it's natural to become emotionally attached. Anyone who approaches this game from the standpoint of roleplaying (trying to act out what your PC would do in the sistuation), rather than as a strategy game, is likely to be moved by it.



But not all RPG's are like this. Some have you create a whole party of characters so there's no one person that represents "you" in the game world. Others simply don't have deep enough interaction with the rest of the world...it's hard to imagine becoming emotionally attached in Diablo.

[Rvlion]

Apart from laughing out loud about the comments between you and the companions, but also the talks between your companions while you are not supposed to be listening are hilarious. Apart from those events I am sorry to say that the vanilla game never really got to me emotionally.

Although I must admit to becoming slightly emotional during DLC Return to Ostagard.

[Havokk7]

Maria13 wrote...

*HUGS* Welcome to what good games can really do to you...

If I could correct that slightly,

"Welcome to what good games, movies, books, plays, paintings, and other works of art can really do."

[Hayllee]

Oh, I forgot to mention, there are over 2000 pages in the Alistair thread now. 2100, I think. Not all of those people can have issues. Some maybe, not all.

[Estelindis]

I think it's perfectly okay.



I can't tell you whether it's "normal" or not, but I know I became very emotionally attached to the characters myself, and I know many others did too. You may or may not be normal, but you certainly aren't alone.

[AndarianTD]

ninja0809 wrote...

However, i can't help but feel so emotionally attatched to this game, especially at the ending when i ended things with Morrigan (my main characters love interest). When i chose i wanted to go after her, i actually really meant it, i felt a strong urge to do so. At the epilogue when it shows Morrigan, the ring, and her regrets, tears dwelled in my eyes and my heart actually ached in pain. The reaction i recieved freaked me out cuz i was never an emotional person.

Is it normal for a new RPG player to feel this way?

Absolutely. When it comes to story-based RPGs (especially ones with romance), that's pretty much the kind of reaction that a modder or game-developer is trying to get you to have. So no, there's nothing wrong (and arguably everything right) with it.

There's also the fact that a Story RPG, when well written, has the potential to immerse you psychologically in the story even more than traditional media like movies. That's because it's interactive and you're playing a role. You're not passively watching the action in the third person, with the psychological distance and detatchment from the events that goes along with that. Instead you're actively involved in the events, putting and envisioning yourself in them, and taking actions to actually cause results. All of that tends to enable the player to get a particularly strong sense of psychological involvement and of "having skin in the game."

Modifié par AndarianTD, 15 juillet 2010 - 11:09 .

[Backfire]

Ah yes, reason and sensibility! You can't denied your fellings, none of us never will. But simple like in the sentence, you know what must come first. The ironic part is that all of this is absolutely subjective!

[ninja0809]

Took some time to read every single post and I thank you all for your responses. I felt much much better the next day with a hot shower and a good work out. Just recently i restarted another run, but i decided to romance lelianna instead lol.... and well...lets just say when the epilogue came up i felt happy and satisfied, much much better than my first run through.



again appreciate all the caring reponses

[Typical Charlie]

ninja0809 wrote...

So my best friend recommended me to get this game cuz he said it was awesome. It is the first RPG game i ever played, and i must say the money was worth it. However, i can't help but feel so emotionally attatched to this game, especially at the ending when i ended things with Morrigan (my main characters love interest). When i chose i wanted to go after her, i actually really meant it, i felt a strong urge to do so. At the epilogue when it shows Morrigan, the ring, and her regrets, tears dwelled in my eyes and my heart actually ached in pain. The reaction i recieved freaked me out cuz i was never an emotional person.

Is it normal for a new RPG player to feel this way?

Yep! When you get that attached, you know you've got a great game, in which you can totally immerse yourself! In fact, that's the ideal total immersion that most players strive for! It's the reason everyone loves RPGs.

It's a bit like weeping at the movies, especially at the romantic parts!

[Janni-in-VA]

One thing that good art does is connect with the viewer/reader/player/listener in a place of shared human experience. In terms of this game, many of us will (if we haven't already) experience a love affair that goes well and one that doesn't, have to face some seemingly insurmountable problem and survive it, lose someone we love and grieve for them, find ourselves agonizing over what's right or wrong in some context, and be forced to alter our lives or life plans in some important way. It's the game's ability to connect with the player on an emotional level which makes the game so rich.

Right now, I have completed five DA:O playthroughs and have eight other characters in various stages. I've also taken three characters through Awakenings, two imports and one new, and have two others in various stages. The DA:O story keeps me coming back in large part because there are characters I care about in the game. Also, as several other posters have noticed, you do invest part of yourself in your PC.

To laugh, to cry, to be angry, to want revenge, to be annoyed, to be satisfied or to feel warm and fuzzy are all perfectly normal reactions to this wonderful game.

[thegreateski]

A person can be fond of their dog right? It's the same thing.

[Thiefy]

it's fine, really.



don't feel too bad, there's have been wives, girlfriends and even single ladies who have *literally* raised hell over their alistair romance endings.

[Cenwyn]

Thief-of-Hearts wrote...

it's fine, really.

don't feel too bad, there's have been wives, girlfriends and even single ladies who have *literally* raised hell over their alistair romance endings.

Um gguuiilllttyyyyy

[Cenwyn]

virumor wrote...

Let's put it another way - is it normal that I want to kill some of the characters?

Perfectly normal. For me Isolde is on my #1 **** list of who needs to die first.

[MonkeyKaboom]

Now that you admit to a problem, we can work on a little exercise to help you through these moments. Everytime you feel the emotions welling up inside you, pretend that they are all personified by Jimminy Cricket. And stomp on him....

[MonkeyKaboom]

But really no it cool. It'd almost be a waste of money if it didn't get you a lil bit

[NamiraWilhelm]

I get entirely absorbed in these games, and the option of having romances now means i am well and truly wrapped up in them.

i kept turning down my actual boyfriend so i could stay home and play the game lol, i well and truly adored it

But eventually, like me now, you grow weary of the game and feel totally lost lol. So much free time, no decent rpgs until the end of the year