When was the last time a game has genuinely made you feel something?

When was the last time a game has genuinely made you feel something?
Anything at all.
Joy, sadness, maybe gave you a chuckle from something witty, something to jump start your decroded heart for a minute.
Instead of just playing completely zoned out only to forget it all 5 minutes after you're done.

touch grass

I haven't played any games since 2018

30yo wizarad here, playing Nier Replicant for the first time
It's making me feel something. Shame that the fucking horrible sidequests necessary to unlock endings are fucking abysmal. I straight up gave up and edited my save to get all materials necessary to rush through them

Xenosaga 3's ending. What a bittersweet way to end kino

Okami, about 10 minutes ago

Anger at getting scammed with the Rain World Watcher DLC
Had a few chuckles with Black Myth Wukong when the MC was shit talking some of the gods that were harassing him
Lots of laughs and spooks in Lethal Company
Sadness when I played Cat in the box
Those are mostly from the past 30 days.

Lobcorp and library of ruina. I’m certain Anon Babble died with it too

when I replayed deltarune a few days ago

replicant

I only played Gestalt on 360 but yes, that definitely made me feel alive.
I didn't mind the grind though, I enjoyed it and running around the bloomy vistas killing goats, but I can see why it would make someone impatient to get through it.

Xenoblade X, also anon you should quit fapping you burned out your dopamine receptors.

I always wanted to get into these games but never did.
Do I need to start with gears?

KCD2

I liked undertale but I played deltarune chapter 1 on release day when it was still survey program and it felt cool at first but ultimately was kind of an empty experience.
I barely remember anything from it at all.
Maybe I'll come back once it's fully finished.

Despair, minutes ago.
I was one mission away from finally 100%ing KH2 and then the game fucking crashed and I found out that I was so focused on doing these godforsaken missions that I hadn't saved in at least a couple hours.
I don't want to do them again. I fucking hate these things. WHY THE FUCK DO THE INVINCIBLE BLUEPRINTS NOT UNLOCK UNTIL YOU DO A SPECIFIC FUCKING MISSION WITH THE PARTS UNLOCKED
JUST FUCKING UNLOCK IT AFTER I GET THE PARTS YOU DIRTY FUCK
HOLY SHIT
I BEAT ASSAULT MISSION 3 ALREADY
I DON'T WANT TO DO IT FUCKING AGAIN
FUCK YOU
HOLY SHIT
GOD DAMMIT

You don't need to play both, but there are some references made to gears that you'll appreciate more if you do.

Finishing Chulip for the first time.
Back in like 2013.

Grim but cute

I fear for the sequel.

Not really.
You could start with XenobladebChronicles x or 1 or 2, xenosaga 1, Baten Kaitos 1, or xenogears.

Or the final fantasy spirits within movie.
They're all cut from the same cloth imo

Drakengard.
I was finally convinced to try it around 2020 and it was one of the most human feeling stories I ever experienced.
Pure unfiltered cinema.

thread theme youtube.com/watch?v=PQVq4j-lYjA

Switch 2 has me excited for Nintendo again so i dusted off my Switch 1 and am playing through some games on there. Currently playing paper mario TTYD and its brought a genuine smile and gotten some real chuckles out of me quite a few times already. Played PM 64 back in the day but never got a Gamecube as a kid so im having a blast.

Oh yeah I remember Carrion, I remember liking it but I also never finished it.

There is a lot of "accidentally killing your sister" in the original drakengard, in hindsight. Like 3-4 different instances of it.

I need a break from this place. You people are genuinely fucking depressing

RDR2

laugh at me all you want, i dont care

To be fair it's more of her killing herself over the lust for you, or getting turned into an eldritch abomination by your best friend.

I don't know man, you seem jaded. I don't think it's the games you're playing. I think it's you

There's nothing laughable about enjoying things.

Sure, but then you have Seere also kekking Manah by GOLEM PUNCH. And Pedoman doing as Pedoman does getting all his siblings toasty.
Just really lots of whoopsies with siblings there.

Well, she kills herself because Caim looks away in disgust when Manah airs the dirty laundry. So technically it's still a bit on him at that specific juncture.

There absolutel is if you enjoy the wrong thing or in the wrong way.

EDF 6

Damn that was good. I wasn't ready for such kino.

3-4 come out June 5th

Signalis

Oh if we're talking in general then I mean yeah.
All of d3 is about killing your siblings.

but then you have Seere also kekking Manah by GOLEM PUNCH

Had to be done.
Also such a great moment.
Her last words live in my head.

Tranny game

FF7 Rebirth and Silent Hill 2 Remake.

his emotions are influenced by Anon Babble

How? Browsing this place is equal to observing a rat dystopia

Why?

Animal crossing new horizones release week was the last time I felt okay.

In a sad sort of way I seek validation on how I should be feeling from my peers

When was the last time a game has genuinely made you feel something?

Killer7 ending

Just finished Granstream Saga. The ending caught me completely off guard and left me really conflicted as to whether it was a good ending or not. I've since settled on it being a good concept with a pretty botched delivery and a blind robbery of best girl on all fronts.

I got actually scared playing Starsector yesterday when going into the abyssal hyperspace. Normally the hyperspace is full of colourful and loud warpstorms, and in the abyss everything quickly falls into silent blackness. And there's some things in there, with me.

Look outside.

This is why I only play games that are hard or at least engage my mind because what's the point if I'm just gonna zone out the whole time?

a rare quintet enjoyer in the wild

nice

10 minutes ago finishing the mermaid chapter in South of Midnight. Taking a break to cook a nice meal now.
Just close the fucking tab and play a videogame you retard.

Sounds really cool, picked up.

When was the last time a game has genuinely made you feel something?

every time

Gal Guardians Servants of the Dark. Fucking loved it.

I get mad every single time I play Rivals 2 because every single character is OP except Etalus
It's still fun, though

Dark and Darker makes me feel, despair and anger daily.

was lurking rule of rose threads for a while and finally decided to give it a go recently and the ending hit me like a brick wall at mach 20
had to crack open a wine bottle and contemplate it for the whole night
youtube.com/watch?v=jig_BSvn8wE

What did you feel, disgust at the nigger MC?

A long while back, I once read an anon describe how Anon Babble actively diminishes the minute philosophies and personality traits of the majority posting on here. I still agree with that man, whoever it was. You will only find a facsimile of a connection and never a true peer on this site, not when the entirety of an anon's character is distilled by the extremes on full display in every thread running.

He isn't talking about you looking at yourself in the mirror, silly. He's talking about playing videogames. You should try it sometime.

EVERLASTING

Alright it wasn't two hours bad it was only 30 minutes bad but I still had to do Assault 3 again. And Pro Skater but that was easy. Now I feel accomplished and truly euphoric.
Time to do it all over again with KH1.

Witcher 2 before the interactive rape scene got axed by some later patch.

Man...
Jennifer didn't deserve all this shit.

he doesnt know. all these retards know how to do is parrot what they see. i would put money down that 70-80% of Anon Babble is ai

same. i didn't bother getting the other endings.

I also love the ending, that was the best part of the game. Even though all you're really doing is walking around for the next textbox, I genuinely believe that was when its gameplay was at its best: You don't get experience the full extent of the game if you never bothered to keep track of the narrative and actively decide to search through the orphanage

launching my old copy of warcraft 3 and seeing thousands of random custom maps i used to play with my friends every night on teamspeak
i don't know where any of them are anymore
last human being i spoke to was a random cashier 2 years ago

I'm sorry bro, but I'm a poser. I've only played Granstream and Actraiser 1. No Soul Blazer, Terranigma or Illusion of Gaia. Its all in the pipeline though.

yeah i definitely preferred those inbetween segments where you got to see things around and talk to characters without being attacked

I played Persona 4 only recently and that just made me miss having close friends. Like most people in the modern world we all moved away for jobs. I actually had a hard time getting into the persona games when I lived in my hometown, they're absolutely friendship simulators.

Oh yeah absolutely, though I enjoyed playing p3 back when I was still young and had friends back in 06 but I liked it for the angst and rpg aspect (the ending still makes me cry).
But I definitely got into p4 only due to depression and it being an actual friendship simulator.
Couldn't really get into 5 as much though, it still felt like that but didn't leave as much of an impression on me.

I don't tend to enjoy games much anymore, but I'm really glad when I find something I can care about, however few and far between it might be. I take games too seriously and obsess over them and their design too much, all I see is flaws and find it hard to look past issues and judge them too harshly
2024: Ashes 2063 and Dusk got me really into 'boomer shooters'. the soundtrack for Ashes reminded me of John Carpenter's music, combined with the action it made me feel like I was in one of his films, so that was nice
2023: Duck Game reminded me how fun games could be and how much I miss playing couch co-op games with my two brothers. Blood was awesome
2022: Northern Journey was overwhelmingly soulful, reminded me that games can still have it, if they're indie at least. also played RE4, Portal and WarioWare Inc and they were all excellent. RE4 is in my top 10 and I think about it all the time
2021: played Ico on a ridiculously shitty old TV and PS2 my uncle gave me. it was nice
2020: beat Demon's Souls after bouncing off it a few times, slowly fell in love with it, adore its atmosphere and everything about it
2019: played CTR Nitro-Fueled and got obsessed with it, the most fun I've had with a game since I was a kid

also I didn't finish Shadow Tower: Abyss but it made me feel like I was in an alien hostile environment more than any other game. I played the demo for Bionic Bay in 2023 and it floored me, reminds me a lot of my favorite game (Abe's Oddysee). thankfully it releases on the 17th

very strange selection

maybe you need to work on your depression and not look to videogames to solve it for you. I feel different emotions every time I play vidya, unless it's a mindless game designed for you to zone out while listening to audiobooks or podcasts. Those games serve a purpose as well

Miiside

i bought and 100% completed You Must Build a Boat last week.
i also tried some target shooting in H^3VR yesterday and got gold on some challenges. unlocking guns and scopes in that mode is crazy expensive, 350 pts for a gold medal and shit costs 10K apiece

I take games too seriously and obsess over them and their design too much, all I see is flaws and find it hard to look past issues and judge them too harshly

i'm like this with movies. minecraft movie as an actual film is puuuuure garbage.

start Lies of P for the first time

decent soulslike, frustrating parry mechanic

get to hotel for first time

find first record

put it into music player

turn to do other stuff

this: youtube.com/watch?v=FRdRx1OMpJQ starts playing

immediately stop what I'm doing

listen to entire track completely enthralled

>"your springs are reacting"

mfw

Ghostrunner, I really like that game.
I'll fire it up after work today and beat it again.

I was playing Devil May Cry yesterday, and the final boss made me feel pissed off cause it was so retarded.

scammed

qrd? Currently playing it. I'm not far into it but so far it's okay

oh no such grinding

On one hand, I'll admit that they're obnoxious, but not all of them were actually necessary to get all weapons and finish the game. The real kick in the balls was the fact that said quests had real bittersweet histories with them and you can easily miss them (for example, i never finished the The Lighthouse Lady or the Fisherman quests)

On the other hand, boo fucking hoo anon, come again when you have played Drakengard like this anon
I loved it as well anyway, god damn what was Taro smoking for that one

you get bait & switched with the base world rotted and then oh lol nevermind get sent to random other world

not a single bit of the DLC is connected whatsoever so it barely feels like an actual world and more like some hub world since you literally TP to random areas

can't see SHIT with the portal particles

no fucking idea where you're going at all

have to walk up for 20 minutes to reach the throne every time you get to another area

laser lizards hitscan you from across 3 screens

time lizards literally brick your entire cycle if you don't kill them in three seconds

barnacles

wind is coded so retardedly you can get softlocked for a cycle because the mobs don't know how to deal with it and get stuck in corners so you could be prevented from entering a pipe

animals barely interact with one another outside of the moths

no story whatsoever

powers you unlock completely trivialize the game

popcorn plants giving you 1/4 of a food bar and 50% chance to stun you every time you eat because the devs are fucking retarded

I saw the thumbnail and thought it was a giant dragon wearing a white cloth with big black titties lying on its back, a bit disappointed.

popcorn plants giving you 1/4 of a food bar and 50% chance to stun you every time you eat because the devs are fucking retarded

That's only the rotted ones. The are regular ones that are fine. Same with the fruit

Also

DEATH PITS

And where the do you find non-rotted ones when you get deep enough into it?
Food is already scarce enough as is.

I wish that motherfucker made something as kino as d1 again but he definitely doesn't want to and I don't think he's capable of it anymore.

Adrenaline, urgency and pure fucking AWE every time this played, even for less than a minute. The whole game was worth the wait.
youtube.com/watch?v=abqdVkwzRnQ
And then the whole ending sequence

fucking need this to get a PC port with the option to remove the control tutorial pop-ups, or if it can run on shadps4 with that option that'd be nice too

mfw still can't play this because it's stuck on ps4 jail

god i hate sony so fucking much
i'm not buying a console for ONE FUCKING GAME

Kenshi, last week.

When was the last time a game has genuinely made you feel something?

Armored core 4.
youtube.com/watch?v=N4uLTLSR2lY
I regret not getting into the series earlier, but on the other hand I have for answer and 6 to look forward to.

mfw thank you

mfw i have no face

I think he's perfectly capable of it, he just need a good idea away from the whole anime vibe (his latest mangas and anime really sucked, sorry for any KamiErabi GOD.app enjoyer)
And have a good studio/budget backing him up like in Automata

Uhhhhh.... Well you see....

Did you emulate it? Any issues? I've been thinking about doing that but held off on the off-chance there's some sort of bundled ports to pc.

Monster Hunter Sunbreak post game

Who the fuck designed Violet Mizutsune and Amatsu?? because I was getting raped

No, played it on my ps3.
But I think the emulation is fine, I just have a potato pc.

Who the fuck designed Violet Mizutsune and Amatsu?? because I was getting raped

asians
it's their favorite pastime
on the bright side you get chichae

Overwatch still makes me happy. The gameplay is total shit and infuriating but spamming voice lines and emotes and being stupid and silly with strangers during pre match skirmishes and in between rounds always puts a smile on my face. I play a lot of no limits so when we get a team where we all go the same hero, nothing beats that. Except when the other team is also all the same hero. And even better than that is when the full lobby is the same hero. That happens about once a month but it’s glorious. Stupid silly unserious fun. It’s Overwatch at its peak. It’s the only thing that keeps me coming back. Those joyous moments are an echo of what the game used to be. Fuck modern blizzard to the deepest depths of hell

I’m a fan of armored core but 4 was fun with the speed. Fighting white glint at the very end was sad but intense and I love that song

Motherfucking Bastion, what a game

there's also NEO: The World Ends With You, Gravity Rush 2 and Yakuza 3-5 if you want an excuse to at least buy an used PS4 like i did, anon

My Time at Sandrock.
At the end of the main story all the residents of the town throw a big party and sort of say goodbye to you.
I'd grown pretty attached to them with all their little storylines and a few romances. It made me sad knowing the game was about to end.

at this point it's been so long i just don't want to do it out of principle
besides used ones pretty much sell full price still near me, it's ridiculous

Dota 2. like 2 days ago.
I thought wow that drow fag is annoying to lane against. I will rape him with my arena later

Why do jaded fucks assume most people feel the same way as them towards things? Is it autism?

crab mentality

How old is Chichae again? I wanna make sure it’s ethical that I’ve tapped to her

I started playing this the other day on a whim and I'm liking it way more than I was expecting, and I didn't like the other supergiant games I played that much.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, Library of Ruina, Disco Elisyium.

we don't know but i don't see why that should matter

I'm the opposite, I started bastion like a dozen times but never get past like 30 minutes without losing interest.
But I finished transistor, pyre and hades 1 (to an extent) and loved all 3 of them.

same but 2016

I started replaying Okami like a month or two ago but then got caught up in other stuff. I really need to pick it back up. It's such a fun and soulful adventure.

Monster Hunter has always elicit emotions out of me. Monsters' bullshit either makes me laugh or annoyed. Amplify by 3 if I'm playing with friends.
Otherwise it's a game or VN that has a route with a character voiced by my favorite seiyuu. My heart always feels empty once the credits start rolling.

I think I would enjoy MH if I had friends.
I played 1, dos, tri, portable 3rd, and 4.
But I always drop them after like 10 hours because I realize I need to run the same mission like 50 times if I want to craft a new weapon/armor and do it by myself, which just doesn't seem like a good time.