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Posted September 30, 2015
Well damn. I really wanted to participate in this survey and thread and then life got crazy and I got carried away and I forgot. I was just now going through my favorited topics to clear them out and came across this. It looks like I missed a lot of good discussion (and the fact that it was a resurrected thread to begin with!) The time of year this came up is just super-busy with the crops and other outdoor work!

I'm a 34male and LOVE love love emotional art. Whether it be a game, book, movie, or tv, if it has heart and sentimentality and touches me, more often than not I will like it simply for the fact that it was able to touch me. I'm highly empathic and can really get into feeling the emotions of others, even in art (though it has to be done well, otherwise I can't feel it and just sit there and go "I see what they're trying to do, but they're failing miserably, I feel nothing.") Almost nothing feels as good to me as a heavy cathartic cry (it can be like a good orgasm!) I also cry at things that I find emotionally moving that a lot of people don't cry at/are surprised someone would cry at, not just tearjerker things, but showings of high-compassion or depths of caring that I can feel that make me teary.

Gah, reading through the thread really makes me sorry I missed it all in action (both initially and on its resurgence!) I haven't played many games that pulled on the emotional strings, I'm going to have to try some of the mentions here someday when I can get my hands on them (I do have To The Moon, but haven't played it.) For me, Planescape: Torment had lots of points with heavy emotion, but I don't actually remember crying during it.

Of course different things do for different people, there's no sure-fire way to say what will do it for someone, but,

Here's a list compiled from this thread for ease of access for those interested in emotional games: Add yours to this thread and I'll update the list.

Amensia: The Dark Descent + A Machine for Pigs
And Yet It Moves
Blackout
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
The Cat Lady
Cognition
Company of Myself
Dear Esther
The Dig
Don't Look Back
Final Fantasy VII
Gone Home
Heavy Rain
L.A. Noire
Limbo
Mass Effect 2
Nihilumbra
Ori and the Blind Forest
Papo & Yo
Penumbra: Overture
Planescape: Torment
Portal
Primordia
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shelter
Shira Oka
The Swapper
To The Moon
Valiant Hearts
VVVVVV
The Walking Dead
Posted September 30, 2015
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Posted September 30, 2015
I have to say "This War of Mine" is one of the best emotional games I have played. Although it is a sort of game where the emotional impact reduces the better you get at it, because you normally have to resort to doing despicable things if you make a mistake or two in resource management.
Posted September 30, 2015
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drealmer7: Well damn. I really wanted to participate in this survey and thread and then life got crazy and I got carried away and I forgot. I was just now going through my favorited topics to clear them out and came across this. It looks like I missed a lot of good discussion (and the fact that it was a resurrected thread to begin with!) The time of year this came up is just super-busy with the crops and other outdoor work!

I'm a 34male and LOVE love love emotional art. Whether it be a game, book, movie, or tv, if it has heart and sentimentality and touches me, more often than not I will like it simply for the fact that it was able to touch me. I'm highly empathic and can really get into feeling the emotions of others, even in art (though it has to be done well, otherwise I can't feel it and just sit there and go "I see what they're trying to do, but they're failing miserably, I feel nothing.") Almost nothing feels as good to me as a heavy cathartic cry (it can be like a good orgasm!) I also cry at things that I find emotionally moving that a lot of people don't cry at/are surprised someone would cry at, not just tearjerker things, but showings of high-compassion or depths of caring that I can feel that make me teary.

Gah, reading through the thread really makes me sorry I missed it all in action (both initially and on its resurgence!) I haven't played many games that pulled on the emotional strings, I'm going to have to try some of the mentions here someday when I can get my hands on them (I do have To The Moon, but haven't played it.) For me, Planescape: Torment had lots of points with heavy emotion, but I don't actually remember crying during it.

Of course different things do for different people, there's no sure-fire way to say what will do it for someone, but,

Here's a list compiled from this thread for ease of access for those interested in emotional games: Add yours to this thread and I'll update the list.

Amensia: The Dark Descent + A Machine for Pigs
And Yet It Moves
Blackout
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
The Cat Lady
Cognition
Company of Myself
Dear Esther
The Dig
Don't Look Back
Final Fantasy VII
Gone Home
Heavy Rain
L.A. Noire
Limbo
Mass Effect 2
Nihilumbra
Ori and the Blind Forest
Papo & Yo
Penumbra: Overture
Planescape: Torment
Portal
Primordia
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shelter
Shira Oka
The Swapper
To The Moon
Valiant Hearts
VVVVVV
The Walking Dead
Does FEAR count as an emotional game?
Posted September 30, 2015
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huN73R: I have to say "This War of Mine" is one of the best emotional games I have played. Although it is a sort of game where the emotional impact reduces the better you get at it, because you normally have to resort to doing despicable things if you make a mistake or two in resource management.
TWOM can still get me. I did a playthrough not long ago and things were going just swimmingly. Except I didn't notice the temperature plunge. And Pavle froze to death overnight. Damn... :)

Though mostly these days I keep everyone alive and often don't have to resort to doing those despicable things.
Posted October 01, 2015
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budejovice: TWOM can still get me. I did a playthrough not long ago and things were going just swimmingly. Except I didn't notice the temperature plunge. And Pavle froze to death overnight. Damn... :)

Though mostly these days I keep everyone alive and often don't have to resort to doing those despicable things.
Damn, I didn't even know that was a possibility. Also try out that one survivor scenario, changes the entire dynamic of the game. (You'd have to carry anything valuable you have with your guy lest the bandits may steal it while you are gone)
Posted October 01, 2015
Too many games try to be emotional but fails. These that succeed are great.
Posted October 01, 2015
Making this thread creep out from the depths of gog´s binary underworld must have carried a lot of mana so I can´t just let it go to waste.

A tear ran down through my face towards the end in "The Dig". I actually replayed it just to feel that again.................and "The Dig" does not disappoint every single time.
Posted October 01, 2015
I love emotional games like the Mother series and Undertale
Posted October 01, 2015
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LoboBlanco: A tear ran down through my face towards the end in "The Dig". I actually replayed it just to feel that again.................and "The Dig" does not disappoint every single time.
The Dig seconded.

And I would include The Witcher 3 in the list, especially for people who've read the books and became attached to the characters - I don't know how the game would feel without that knowledge since I've read them all. But I really had goosebumps and wet eyes when I listened to Priscilla's song. But there are quite a few scenes and places that got a strong emotional response from me (Forester's Hut in Velen, for instance).

Witcher 2 also has one very emotional scene on the "R" path which caught me completely off-guard and had quite the impact. People who played that game will probably know what I mean.

Another candidate would be Loom, which has a very touching and melancholic ending.

If you count "depressing" in, Papers Please should also be on the list. I can't even bring myself to play it because the depicted situation is so bleak.

From word of mouth Beyond Good and Evil and Syberia 1+2 should also be on the list, but I've yet to play them.
Posted October 01, 2015
All games include emotions, the more the better.
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