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Posted September 22, 2018
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mintee: Kona, driving in that beat up truck listening to the tinny music from the radio, i learned to drive in a crappy truck just like that, the door slamming sound...the gear shifter noise, wipers... all perfect
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Luned: And not being able to quite decide whether you liked or hated that Quebecois folk jam, as the beat snaked its way inside your head....

My biggest one, though, was playing LOTRO (as a dwarf main) and, after weeks of play, finally making it to Moria,
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this bridge shortly after you get in. (Note: Your character is minuscule in this space.) It was a very weird experience, an overwhelming feeling of loss, nostalgia, smallness, homecoming, and fierce pride all at once.
oh yes, I can relate to that, I know that exact spot. In fact, there are many goose pimply areas to be found off the beaten paths in LOTRO, that the devs planted them off the main roads where you had to find them by accident was sublime.
Posted October 12, 2018
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Braggadar: @TStael
I'm sorry, you've lost me there.
What has this to do with the tingly "sensation" you get when playing a game, especially during a specific emotive or psychologically stimulating moment in said game?
Simply: I do not like being commercially manipulated - too cynically.


Are you asking me to bring to parity the commercially successful story telling of Dragon Age: Origins and the Marlboro Man?


The Marlboro Man is a real commercial icon that instilled a longong for the Americana in me, when I was a little girl. But man, am I glad I did not take up smokign and die of lung cancer as many of those Marl Men? I am.


Did I recklessly abandom myself to the story telling of DA:O, as a sucker for BG, just awaiting to be sucked in? I did.


I can see the commercial, emotional lure of both the Marlboro Man and Baldur's Gate / Dragon age. But while I happily promote the latter, I would advice against the former.


Are you still lost, as much?
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