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PaperclipPerfector  10mo ago (text post)   2739 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for June 16, 2023

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Since this is videogames week in this thread:

Has any game’s story (ie not player-generated interaction or content) ever emotionally affected you in a major way?

I'm a simple man and if a story wants to manipulate me, it will. Gone Home and Firewatch both affected me in a lasting way.

Disco Elysium did affect me as well, but it's a different thing: the aforementioned walking simulators want to change the way you look at people in the real world. DE gives you an absolute trainwreck of a character and lets you learn to love him by slowly discovering his past and possibly putting him on a path of redemption. Since he's the protagonist, it doesn't transfer to the way you relate to people that are similar washed-up losers around you in real life. I also don't have any spoilers that spoiled my spoiler.

I am also a scaredy cat, and Thief: Deadly Shadows pulled a switcheroo on me, by first teaching me to love the darkness and then making me play one of the scariest levels in video games history.

I'll skip the games that I played as a teen, since that's a whole different level of hormones and angst.

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