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[DinoCrisisFan]

Ever play a game that was so good, that you actually got emotionally
into it? I find this happening to myself with other media too sometimes,
such as when I was watching about 6 hours worth of X-Files episodes a
day. Well I noticed that when playing Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2, I
was really into the game, and from playing it for the past 36 hours with
but a few short breaks, I feel like I was really into the game. Into
the story, into the characters, into the romances, into everything about
the game. The Mass Effect series is so far the only game in which I've
gotten this involved with, and so I'm definitely going to check out more
BioWare games such as the KOTOR series. Anyone have any recommendations
of other emotionally involving, preferably long, video games? Anyway,
does this ever happen to anyone else, where you actually almost start to
think like you're in the game?

[Rockworm503]

All the time.
Thats when a game has succeeded.
Oh someones gonna come in here and say "its just a game whats the point of getting invested in pixels or whatever"
I say whats the point of playing them at all if you can't care enough?

[DinoCrisisFan]

Rockworm503 wrote...

All the time.
Thats when a game has succeeded.
Oh someones gonna come in here and say "its just a game whats the point of getting invested in pixels or whatever"
I say whats the point of playing them at all if you can't care enough?

This x 1000

[J. Finley]

Rockworm503 wrote...

All the time.
Thats when a game has succeeded.
Oh someones gonna come in here and say "its just a game whats the point of getting invested in pixels or whatever"
I say whats the point of playing them at all if you can't care enough?

They have no point in coming on these forums let alone play the game lol. Completely agree.

[kirkonacid]

Dragon Age: Origins is probably my finest example of a game causing me to become emotionally invested. That game can really take a hold of you if you let it.

To a lesser extent, the Uncharted series causes you to really believe in and care about the characters.

Even though it is a FPS, I found myself enthralled with the world of Rapture in Bioshock and the story behind the mysterious characters.

And if all else fails, pick from almost any Bioware game.

Modifié par crusadeonacid, 28 février 2011 - 04:04 .

[Undeff]

Yeah, a lot of the time any game I play, I will usually get emotionally invested in it; especially if it has a great story like "Origins" does, or another great one I'm loving right now is "Mass Effect." The first one, but I'm sure I'll love the second one just as much.

Others include "Oblivion," "Fallout 3," "Bioshock," Dead Space" (as weird as that sounds, being that it's a survival-horror game), and also almost all of the "Silent Hill" series and some of the "Resident Evil" games (like the Gamecube remake, and "2"). Regarding "Silent Hill," the main games I was invested in the most were the first one, the second, and also the third; most of the ones that came after just weren't as good, but still enjoyable.

[FreezaSama]

True emotional investment? Hardly ever. It happens most often with Bioware games, because they do put effort into their character development. Also to some extent with Halo: Reach and the Gears of War series. But I don't think I often find characters that I end up caring about enough to consider myself "emotionally invested".

[shnizzler93]

Yes. but only in the RPGs that I've played so far. I think, for me at least, that it is important to have some emotional investment because I constantly ask myself, "Is this worth my time?" The emotional investment that I give to a game makes it easier to answer "Yes."

As for some of the games that are applicable, they include:

Dragon Age: Origins--seeing that Morrigan felt "regret" after everything made her distant attitude more tolerable.

Mass Effect 2--hearing Tali feel concern for my Shepard was well appreciated.

The World Ends With You--hearing Shiki say "Once you see the real me, will we still be friends?" was a strangely powerful moment.

Modifié par shnizzler93, 28 février 2011 - 05:31 .

[Narrsan]

Only when Aeri-SOILER

[The Potty 1]

Let's see, I could try to kill lots of nameless Gith, or I could concentrate everyone on Saemon Havarian, Raaargh

[delikanli]

dragon age origins i say

[Leinadi]

A bit hard to define I think. There are many games where I've had to stay up those extra hours because, damn, I can't wait to see where this is going or because I'm just having so much fun with it.

But it's really rare that I'm emotionally invested in the sense that I *really* care about the characters so much that I can't roleplay an evil douchebag against them (talking of roleplaying games here of course). I think Planescape: Torment is the only game where I've really felt so much for the characters (not just companions, but a lot of the other NPCs as well) that I actually have trouble doing the evil path.

[Moondoggie]

I've often been known to be a bit of an emotional wuss when it comes to games i am really enjoying. I guess it shows that i really love a game if it can make me laugh and cry just like a good film can pull at your emotions i think a good game can do the same.

Heck even the trailer for Mirror's Edge made me cry >.> And let's not get into the mess i was in after the ending of Bioshock 2 lol

(SPOILER AHEAD FOR ME2)

On the subject of Bioware games that can draw an emotion out of me i remember on ME2 when you get Legion and talk to him and eventually you get him to play a recording of a Geth asking it's master if it has a soul at that moment i just broke down over these things that i hated in the first game now suddenly i felt sorry for them.

[Deathwurm]

I know I do.
I find that it adds to my experience while playing...same goes for other Media as well.
Of course, there are some Games/Movies/Television shows that are just impossible to become emotionally invested in because they aren't very good.

[ottery]

No. I just hang round here for the free cocktails.

[KenKenpachi]

Well parts of games have revoked an emotional response for me, but in gneral, not at all.

[alex_34]

Dragon age, Mass effect 1 and 2 and Bioshock 2 (expecially the ending i got for it) gave me a lump at the back of my throat at points.

[SleeplessInSigil]

All the time.

That's like asking, Do you ever get emotionally invested in books or movies? and those require zero participation from the viewer.

Why even bother with any work of fiction if you're going to detach yourself from it?

[SleeplessInSigil]

Rockworm503 wrote...

All the time.
Thats when a game has succeeded.
Oh someones gonna come in here and say "its just a game whats the point of getting invested in pixels or whatever"
I say whats the point of playing them at all if you can't care enough?

Ah my old adversary and I have an unexpected accord 

[Piecake]

Yup, if its a story/character driven game, the only way I will enjoy it is if I become emotionally invested in the characters/world.

I actually remember my first time that I became emotionally invested in a game. It was the Shining Force series on the genesis. It was my first rpg and it was sweet. Zylo and Peter tore **** up!

[reekus]

I often do, but the one situation that really sticks out in my head is when I got Garrus killed in the suicide mission. The game had arrived a couple of days before release and I'd been playing it solidly for about 30 hours by that point, I went into the suicide mission blind of who I should be picking to lead teams, picked the wrong guy and got Garrus shot in the face. I very nearly cried.

BioWare have a habit of making me become very attached to characters, but not usually to the point of tears.

[HoonDing]

Very rarely, and only with some adventure games like Loom, Syberia, The Longest Journey, etc..

[Sparrow44]

MGS4's ending. "This is good isn't it?"

[Vralenalien]

All the time. I get really attached to my characters and very strongly at that. It isn't odd for me to shed tears when something bad happen to my characters or if there's something sweet and beautiful happening in their virtual lives. I've become so used to feeling emotionally towards my characters that if the game lacks that I feel it's incomplete.

Just like good book or movie I expect games to move me. I don't mean that every game has to bring me on the brink of crying to be good, but it needs to have something I can emotionally attach to.