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Rankkor
In Fallout I try to make everyone be a lesbian but it's never any fun :(
Odd, in Fallout New Vegas, it is quite possible to play a gay character (male or female) as not only there's a perk that lets you flirt (And deal extra damage o_O) to characters of the same gender as you, but there's plenty of gay and lesbian characters as well (including recruitable followers. Arcade is gay, and Veronica is lesbian)
In fact, I finished Fallout New Vegas a grand total of FOUR times, one per ending (House, NCR, Legion, and Independent) and 2 out of those were with characters I roleplayed as gay. One male, one female. Never ran out of people to flirt with in either one.
As for my own answer to this question: It depends waaaaaaaaay too much on the game. So in short: no.
If a romance is optional, before I go for it, I actually need to either like the character, or the way the romance is developed, and if either fall short, then any future playthroughs will have me skipping the romance entirely.
For example, I went for the romance with Dawn Star in the game Jade Empire, but it was LAME, so in any other future playthroughs I either romanced Silk Fox, or nobody at all.
There have been cases where I am impressed (I disliked Morrigan in Dragon Age, but her romance adds SUBSTANTIAL character development to her, and IMO its probably THE BEST one Bioware has ever written) but for the most part, romance is handled poorly in videogames. They're usually played for fanservice, or pure titillation at worst, or a gimmicky afterthought such as Skyrim.
Its even worse when games FORCE a specific romance on you whether you like it or not, such as Metro Last Light, or the first Metal Gear. Romance is something that has to occur naturally or be left to the player's choice. When they shove it down your throat, lets just say its poorly received (*Looking at you, Aggra+Thrall >_>*)
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Rankkor
#361: Videogame Emotions. Volume 1: Fear.
What are the scariest moments you've ever had when playing a videogame?
Ok folks, so I'm gonna try something different this time, over the next few days, all the questions will be about specific emotions triggered when playing certain videogames. Fear, Joy, Anger, Laughter, Sadness, etc. And today's question will be Fear.
There will be some rules for each question to keep this a little varied, though for the most part the rules will be more or less the same on all.
For this particular question the rules are simple:
1: Name at least 3 scary moments you've had in a videogame, those moments that truly scared the crap out of you, and had you in cold sweat. Minimum is 3, maximum is 5.
and
2: This one is optional, but if applicable, try to do so for games that either weren't intended to be scary, or their main focus wasn't the horror. Usually when we play horror games, we know what we're signing in for, we beforehand KNOW we're gonna get a few scares, and thus IMO it sorta diminishes the shock factor when we do get a big scare. Its not the same as playing a game with a focus on........ say, exploration and out of nowhere BAM big scary moment that truly got you unprepared.
I'll begin this one.
Scariest moments when playing a videogame for me:
Number 5
:
DooM.
An action game from the very early 90s, the father of all the first person shooters. And a source of nightmares for me when I was a kid. This game, SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME. Of course, most of the stuff that made this game scary have been copied so much today they're commonplace and not shocking at all, but this was a game that genuely kept you at the edge of the seat, with monsters that could appear out of nowhere, making some horrifying sounds, and having some truly frightening designs.
Number 4
:
Mass Effect 2s DLC: Overlord.
While Mass Effect had some creepy moments, none of them were something I'd consider scary. All of that changed with Overlord. One of the best DLCs ever made by bioware, mixing sandbox gameplay, with sweeping vistas, engaging battles, and a truly frightening bonechilling enemy, the Overlord AI.
Its very unnerving to wade through the level, watching it take control of every single mechanical thing on the base, be them geth, cameras (which it uses to follow you around), doors, or simple computers. Then randomly pop out of any screen and make the most ungodly chilling sound you'll ever hear in your life. Its actually worse when you finish the DLC and see what's behind the Overlord VI all the time:
Ohh and the bonus? that HORRIBLE FRIKKING SCARY howl it was making the whole time? yeah, he was saying "
MAKE IT STOP!!!
"
/shudder.
Number 3
:
Hitman Contracts.
This was never a scary game, in fact, excluding the whole clone angle, this is a game marked by realism, there's no supernatural, no science fiction, nada, this is a game where you play a professional hitman, and your job is to take out your targets while being as stealthy and shadowy as possible. Don't raise alarms, don't kill civilians, don't even kill the bad guys, just infiltrate, assassinate the target and get out.
Because of this, one particular mission stands out from the rest. A contract against a weapon smuggler staying at a fancy hotel. Its a pretty straightforward mission, but there's a nice bonus on the ground floor. Its completely optional so a lot of people have missed it, because the target is on the top floor, and what I'm about to type happens on the lower floor, on a section you're not supposed to enter (as its marked with those yellow tapes the police puts to mark a crime scene)
While exploring the hotel, looking for a good way to take out your target, you can stumble upon a certain room, as you approach that room, for some reason the lightning in the game dims. Like, the whole hallway is covered in golden lamps, giving the whole scene a bright hue, but when you approach this specific room, light seems to fade away even though the lamps are still on.
Looking at the door you see it locked and wrapped in yellow police tape, if you open it, its a crime scene. There's blood everywhere, a huge kitchen knife on the ground, and as you walk to the bathroom, you see a bathtub filled with blood, look up the mirror and suddenly in the mirror you see your reflection, and behind you the reflection of a naked woman with her throat and wrists slit and bleeding, doing a truly FRIKKING SCARY wail. Its so sudden, and out of nowhere in a game that prides itself on its realism, that it got me by surprise and out of pure instict I drew my guns, turned around and emptied the whole clip.......... only to realize the woman wasn't there. You then start hearing whispers, of the woman's final minutes as her husband entered the room filled with rage and murdered her in cold blood while she was in the tub.
damn........
Number 2
:
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines.
A fantastic pc version of one of my alltime favorite tabletop RPGs ever made. A nice gothic piece of art that every gamer should experience once, this game had it all. Comedy, action, a nice plot, immerse world, and what has to be one of the scariest levels ever made.
The Oceanside Hotel mission.
Good god in heaven, that mission was THE scariest thing I've ever played in quite a long time. Its all scripted though, so its only scary the first time, and subsequent playthroughs make it lose the fear factor, but the first time? the first time I was sweating and trembling as I made my way through the hotel. The whole mission is a homage to the movie "The shining" since it has more or less the same premise. A family goes on a vacation to a hotel, the wife is a famous singer and got a mysterious amulet by an anonymous fan. Husband gets jealous, more and more, and eventually, its revealed the amulet was haunted and was messing with his mind. He murdered his children, then his wife, then set the whole hotel on fire, and their ghosts haunt the hotel to this very day.
There are no enemies in this mission though you don't know that the first time, and the touches they gave to make it scary work WAAAAY TOO GOOD. Random objects will move and slam into you, causing you quite a bit of damage, you hear faded whispers of the woman urging you to flee, you get glimpses that last only a split second of the ghost of the husband stalking you, at one point you find the teddy bear of one of the children, only for the lights to go out for 3 seconds, when they come back up, in the wall in front of you there's a big
GET OUT!
written in blood.
One of the moments that made me jump off my chair was exploring one of the halls of the hotel, you reach a dead end, because the door at the end of the hall is locked, when suddenly you hear a whisper "behind you", as I turn around I see a man, wielding an axe, his hands and chest covered in blood, he lifts the axe and comes at me screaming and howling like a madman, and just as the axe is about to hit me, the lights flicker for half a second, and he's gone. I could spend hours listing the many scary moments here, because of how well done this mission was. Bravo Troika games. Bravo.
Number 1
:
?
This game has no name. It has no name because I can't remember it. I played it when I was a kid, 5 years old, there wasn't even a Windows OS back then, it was all MSDOS, and the game was all black and white, and in a 5 inch floppy disk. (OF LOW DENSITY!!!)
The reason that game scared me, was mostly because I was young and impressionable, I bet a game trying to do the same today wont do anything to me, but in that game, there was no fourth wall. From the start the NPCs know you are a player, and that for you the whole thing is just a game, and you access their world through your computer. You try to stop an evil overlord from conquering that world, and I remember (the details are vague given that this was almost 30 years ago) this bit where I have a confrontation with the overlord face to face, and he gloats that his powers have grown so much he can start to influence MY world.
Then he orders me to begone from his presence and then.................. He reboots your PC. And expels the floppy disk from your PC as well. And in what had to be pure coincidence (at least I want to believe it was just pure coincidence) it also made the one lamp in my bedroom to turn off. I was so scared I didn't dared to put the disk back in and continue playing T_T My dad had to be with me before I had the nerve to continue :P
The game had saved at that point, and the whole reboot+expel the disk were effects to enhance just how powerful he had become. This was parodied (to GREAT effect) on the Batman Arkham Asylum game. Were at one point the game pretends to have crashed, and suddenly you are at the starting cinematic, but it turns out, it was the toxin of Scarecrow messing you up.
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Monday
Playing a mod for Half Life 2 called the Grey. There were some pretty frightening moments. This is mostly because it screws with your head a ton. Doorways vanishing, lights dimming, etc. Not too many jump scares, but they're all the more effective because of that.
Resident Evil 4: The game never really scared me, except when you fought that huge thing in the water. Whenever it would knock me out of the boat, I'd panic and try to get back in. I dunno why, but one of my fears is being on a road/in water and not being in a vehicle (especially if something else is there).
Amnesia: The Dark Descent: The torture chamber.
Post by
Nathanyal
Minecraft
Mainly when you're digging and your start to hear the noises and you turn around and a zombie/archer/creeper are right there. Or when an enderman pops up out of no where. The noise around them are just scary on their own.
Post by
Hyperspacerebel
Game just don't scare me. The occasional unexpected, in-your-face sort of thing will make me jump, but I don't get any sort of pervasive feeling of fear from games.
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Post by
Shoadowolf
I like pie, but ice cream cake, on the other hand, is better.
Post by
Haxzor
I like pie, but ice cream cake, on the other hand, is better.
Those are some seriously scary video game moments.
The horror I experienced when I got up to Ice Cream Cake was like when you're home alone and you hear a light switch go off downstairs. You're the only one home, who switched that switch?
Post by
Shoadowolf
I like pie, but ice cream cake, on the other hand, is better.Those are some seriously scary video game moments.
The horror I experienced when I got up to Ice Cream Cake was like when you're home alone and you hear a light switch go off downstairs. You're the only one home, who switched that switch?
What?
Post by
Haxzor
I like pie, but ice cream cake, on the other hand, is better.Those are some seriously scary video game moments.
The horror I experienced when I got up to Ice Cream Cake was like when you're home alone and you hear a light switch go off downstairs. You're the only one home, who switched that switch?
What?
I'm joking with you. You didn't answer the question at all.
Post by
Nathanyal
I like pie, but ice cream cake, on the other hand, is better.Those are some seriously scary video game moments.
The horror I experienced when I got up to Ice Cream Cake was like when you're home alone and you hear a light switch go off downstairs. You're the only one home, who switched that switch?
What?
I'm joking with you. You didn't answer the question at all.
He answered the first question. He doesn't seem to know how this thread works.
@Shoadowolf
QOTD stands for Question of the Day, which means every day, or every couple of days, a new question is asked. This recent question was posted 10 hours ago a few posts up by Rank.
And Rank is the one to post the questions for use to answer.
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Rankkor
I like pie, but ice cream cake, on the other hand, is better.Those are some seriously scary video game moments.
The horror I experienced when I got up to Ice Cream Cake was like when you're home alone and you hear a light switch go off downstairs. You're the only one home, who switched that switch?
What?
I'm joking with you. You didn't answer the question at all.
He answered the first question. He doesn't seem to know how this thread works.
@Shoadowolf
QOTD stands for Question of the Day, which means every day, or every couple of days, a new question is asked. This recent question was posted 10 hours ago a few posts up by Rank.
And Rank is the one to post the questions for use to answer.
And by Rank he means me =P
But yes that's how this thread works, I ask a question, and people answer (if they want). Then the next day I ask a different question, and then change the title of the thread to reflect that new question.
The whole pie vs cake was my first question well over 2 months ago.
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Interest
I have a few as well...Lemme think back on them, but the ones I can recall on the spot.
5.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (Redeads)
Their @#$%ing scream. They also try to eat Link's brains. Not too scary compared to other stuff on the list, but meeting one can certainly put my hair on end.
4.
Banjo-Kazooie (Clanker's Cavern)
*!@# those stupid pipe monsters. Let alone the fact I had no clue how to kill them at all at first, but they also made a nasty roaring sound before surprisebuttsexpoppingout of their holes in the wall. The rest of the place looked pretty creepy too, especially inside Clanker himself. I was very young when I played this game.
3.
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Once upon a Steam sale I played this game. Got to the hotel mission and afterwards lost all interest in the game. While it's even remotely close to Amnesia's level of scariness, it was still pretty damned scary. Amusement parks don't have !@#$ on how much of a haunted house this place was.
2.
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (endless night event/Greatfish Island)
As someone who was still moderately young at the time of Wind Waker's release, this part scared the @#$% out of me. The game turns to eternal night (very dangerous for sailing in Wind Waker) with constant storms until you finally get Nayru's Pearl. It's like running a dungeon in itself with the amount of crap you have to put up with. Not only do you have to fight off constant swarms of sharks, but while traveling you can inevitably run into a Cyclone or (and this happened to me in one of my later runs) a 12 eyed squid. You have to traverse quite a lot of the game world too in order to get this done and the atmospheric music doesn't help either (goes into a minor key).
Edit: Of course now a gamer could just superswim past this *!@#...Oh well.
1.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent (the entire game)
I couldn't get through the game. I just couldn't. I don't even touch the damn game for fear I might lose my sanity based on gameplay I watched. There's some other certain games related to this I will never try to play either. Also made me absolutely convinced the first person FOV is a good way to invoke fear in games in general. Nothing beats being ambushed from behind by 5 wolves in Oblivion.
Post by
Haxzor
Game just don't scare me. The occasional unexpected, in-your-face sort of thing will make me jump, but I don't get any sort of pervasive feeling of fear from games.
Ditto, except for in games when I jump off something really high, I get a sinking feeling in my gut and start to anticipate the impact.
Post by
Rankkor
3.
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Once upon a Steam sale I played this game. Got to the hotel mission and afterwards lost all interest in the game. While it's even remotely close to Amnesia's level of scariness, it was still pretty damned scary. Amusement parks don't have !@#$ on how much of a haunted house this place was.
=D told ya.
Seriously, that hotel was SCARY AS HELL, and its even scarier if you do it as a malkavian (or any clan that has Auspex) because an upgraded auspex discipline can make you see.................. things you aren't really meant to see.
I must say though, you're missing out if you didn't finished it. That was one hell of an awesome game. Specially the final dungeon.
Say it with me: Vampire SWAT Geared Soldiers.
if anything, I'm sad at how limited the game is, since you can't be a sabbat, or an anti-tribu, or human or ghoul.
/sighs
I really miss the Old World of Darkness. That new one SUCKS.
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Rankkor
#362: Videogame Emotions. Volume 2: Laugh
Ok, second edition of this series of questions, this time, what are the videogames with the funniest moments. The ones that have made you burst with laughter.
The rules are a little different for this question. Rather than mention 3 or 5 funny moments, Mention 3 games, and then 3 to 5 funny moments within those 3 games. Give examples, so we can laugh too :P (For example, if a character says something funny, rather than say "That line barret says at wutai in Final Fantasy VII" you specifically say what he said)
So, mention 3 games, and then 5 funny moments within those games. The funniest ones you can remember.
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