Let's talk about the games that accomplish making you feel something.
I mean, when I play Mario, it's just fun, I feel happy, puzzled and sometimes angry. But it's all about the gameplay.
But I want to talk about games that really makes you feel that you're winning, that you're lost, that you're alone, that your scared, etc.
Horror games usually do that, they're made to scare you, but what about other games like Metroid Prime, for example:
Metroid Prime made me feel really alone and scared. After a 3h session of Metroid Prime, I feel alone in a lost and dangerous world. Sometimes I tried to avoid a door, thinking, "what sort of dangerous thing is waiting for me there?". I often wanted to have fun and talk to some NPC: but there are no NPCs, no mini game to play, nothing fun to do. There are only weapons that somebody left activated and records of old wars and gone people.
Monster Hunter really makes me feel that I'm winning (or losing). Every monster hunting feels so real. You're beating it and that monster gets tired. It runs from you and you feel a mix of pity for it and stressed because it's fleeing. When you really get ready to make a move and the monster hits you (or other small monster hits you), you really get hot under the collar like "I planned this and you ruined it in a second!!!!!". When you get on the cart you really feel tired and beaten.
Xenoblade Chronicles X really made me feel like I'm a soldier and Mira regions are the theatres of operations. The multiple fortresses, races and clans adds a lot to this feel of an occupied sci fi war region. I understand that XCX is an RPG with a lot of moments that feel quite odd or out of place, but yet it really feels this way for me once I got my mind into the game.
Those are my examples of the top of my head and I think that this is very personal.
I believe that the gamemaker designed those games to made us feel that way, but I think that sometimes it doesn't work. We just can't connect to the game. There are people who thinks Metroid Prime is just boring and XCX is just an RPG with a big world and too many quests.
For example in my case Zelda doesn't make me feel really inside that world. I like Zelda, but I just can't help thinking that the world is just a hub for action puzzle games (the dungeons). Games like OOT and TP particularly had a quality effect on me, but, generally speaking, Zelda is a brilliant and fun game, but nothing that makes me feel connected.
So what games really touched you?
I mean, when I play Mario, it's just fun, I feel happy, puzzled and sometimes angry. But it's all about the gameplay.
But I want to talk about games that really makes you feel that you're winning, that you're lost, that you're alone, that your scared, etc.
Horror games usually do that, they're made to scare you, but what about other games like Metroid Prime, for example:
Metroid Prime made me feel really alone and scared. After a 3h session of Metroid Prime, I feel alone in a lost and dangerous world. Sometimes I tried to avoid a door, thinking, "what sort of dangerous thing is waiting for me there?". I often wanted to have fun and talk to some NPC: but there are no NPCs, no mini game to play, nothing fun to do. There are only weapons that somebody left activated and records of old wars and gone people.
Monster Hunter really makes me feel that I'm winning (or losing). Every monster hunting feels so real. You're beating it and that monster gets tired. It runs from you and you feel a mix of pity for it and stressed because it's fleeing. When you really get ready to make a move and the monster hits you (or other small monster hits you), you really get hot under the collar like "I planned this and you ruined it in a second!!!!!". When you get on the cart you really feel tired and beaten.
Xenoblade Chronicles X really made me feel like I'm a soldier and Mira regions are the theatres of operations. The multiple fortresses, races and clans adds a lot to this feel of an occupied sci fi war region. I understand that XCX is an RPG with a lot of moments that feel quite odd or out of place, but yet it really feels this way for me once I got my mind into the game.
Those are my examples of the top of my head and I think that this is very personal.
I believe that the gamemaker designed those games to made us feel that way, but I think that sometimes it doesn't work. We just can't connect to the game. There are people who thinks Metroid Prime is just boring and XCX is just an RPG with a big world and too many quests.
For example in my case Zelda doesn't make me feel really inside that world. I like Zelda, but I just can't help thinking that the world is just a hub for action puzzle games (the dungeons). Games like OOT and TP particularly had a quality effect on me, but, generally speaking, Zelda is a brilliant and fun game, but nothing that makes me feel connected.
So what games really touched you?
