>Next year a jury of game industry professionals from Ubisoft, Rockstar and other ventures will seek to honor games that provoke emotional experiences in the inaugural Emotional Game Awards.
>The affair is the brainchild of French video game producer and researcher Dr. Erik Geslin, and it may offer developers a new space to garner attention for their work and celebrate games as a medium of emotional expression.
>It's also a potential opportunity to take part in a big ol' game jam. The EGA organizers intend to hold a 40-hour "Emotional Game Jam" that will be livestreamed closer to the event, which is slated to take place on February 12th.
Has /v/ ever cried during a video game?
because "her story"'s highjack was just too obvious, now it gets a special award for nongames. Epic
>>319684767
>Make an emotional game in 40 hours
>>319684767
Source pls
>>319685327
Kitten Cannon, only you play as the environmental traps and it's nearly impossible to stop killing the kittens.
And you lose points for killing them.
>>319684767
>PhD in video game production
>published research on video games and emotions
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. I work in academic research and I've seen some retarded shit, but a PhD in fucking how video games elicit emotions? That's a whole new level of bullshit being Piled higher and Deeper.
Think about it. Most all research is tax payer funded. So people's taxes were used to hire this asshole to make up a couple correlation studies about how pictures and sounds tied to clicking elicit emotion. Literally entire bodies of psychological research already dedicated to this, yet here he is marketing himself as an "expert". Fuck me, I wish I didn't have such a well conditioned sense of right and wrong or else I would be duping retards all the god damn time.
>>319686080
Come one friend. You must know nothing about the gaming industry. I have a specialized PhD in videogame character deconstruction and wrote a 5 thousand page thesis about the subject. Step it up kouhai-kun
>>319686019
>Kitten cannon
My nigga
>>319684767
I've never cried while playing a game, and I'm the kind of person who cries pretty often.
Though I will say, if I could get some decent Zelda 2016 info I might cry right now. I'm dying to play that game.
On a side-note, I've teared up before listening to the Zelda 25th anniversary soundtrack, but never during any game.
sahz (sp?) from FF13 made me cryenough is enoughbang
>>319686323
Ssssshhhiiieeeeeeeeeet. I guess I'm a fucking pleb when it comes to this shit. I didn't realize the video game industry had such an illustrious academic program.
Are there non-profits centered around getting people to donate for important video game research? I'd love to support such important research!
>>319684767
I'm ready for the roast
GAMES I'VE CRIED TO (That i recall)
MGS1
MGS3 (alot)
MGS4 (alot)
MGSPW
MGSV (barely)
Deadly Premonition
Xenoblade Chronicles
Beginner's Guide
Max Payne 3
Persona 3
Persona 4
>>319684767
Ubisoft and Rockstar. The two names I immediately think of for emotional games.
I can't believe they forgot to invite EA aswell.
>>319686476
Play some emotional games and you'll cry. Nintendo won't get you anywhere in the feels department
>>319684767
during the ending of ocarina of time, I was happy to have beaten it, but sad that it was finally over the music didn't help either
So.... If someone make a game about sexy girls being fucked and that game makes you have a boner... Then that game is a good emotional game?
Because a boner is a feeling.
cried multiple times playing ffx
Saya no uta is the closest I've ever got
I've never cried to a video game. I got teary eyed in a couple like MGS3 and Persona 3.
Only media that I remember making tears run down my face was Forrest Gump.
ghost trick made me cry
Mostly because VNs,
Last time was like 2 months ago, because of KiraKira -when Kirari dies.
And do you see any Oscar award for emotional excellence?
Once again, vidya shows it's superior.
>>319686990
The only Nintendo games I really play are Mario and Zelda titles. Most of the games I play aren't from Nintendo. What's a game that's supposed to make you cry?
>>319687342
>Forrest Gump
When he finds out he has a son and is just worried about whether or not he's smart and then Jenny does and he stands out by her grave I can't ever help it.
Max Payne
Asura's wrath
MGS
Phoenix Wright
Splatoon (played it after Iwata's death)
>>319684767
Mass Effect made me cry.
I was having my Shepherd romance Ashley the republicunt and things were starting to pick up.
Suddenly we're on a mission trying to blow up some robot factory or something I forget, I think it was the same mission where I shot Wrex for questioning my glorious leadership.
Anyway Kaiden who I strongly disliked was dealing with the bomb while Ashley solo'd a bunch of robots or mercs or something I can't remember.
They both needed my help, after some hesitation I chose Kaiden. The bomb afterall is the priority.
She didn't make it to the ship, but she had time to tell me she understood why I did what I did and admired my decision before she was vaporized.
>>319686990
>Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
>Super Mario Galaxy
They're not known for it, but there's still some tearjerkers.
>>319684767
Yes
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XunyDxGie2o
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4HeIPsBvZLI
>tfw good midi music from older games is the only thing that gets me emotional
Anyone else?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMEQmwV8Q8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nq-gEG-E04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joMEQmwV8Q8
Is it just me?
I was fucked up one night and some of the Red Dead Redemption soundtrack made me cry, does that count?
>>319687730
My nigga, exactly when it hit me.
>>319687916YOU EAT BABIES
>>319686990
Mother 3 will
>>319687913
>no ocarina of time
>>319687916
Yes, yes it does.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7IkvAb6THQY
>>319687730
>>319687342
Bubba's death always gets me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXR6o7h2Y4
>>319684767
I didn't cry but the ending of FFVI made me get one of those bitch lumps in my throat when I was a kid. Sad it was over.
That ending to lufia 2 man gets me everytime
I nominate the Monster Girl Quest series desu. Felt a lot of feels in those games. I also felt my own penis a lot, so there's a bonus.
>>319684767
MGS4, Persona 4 (currently playing 3), and TitS FC/SC are the only games that I can recall that have made me teary.
>Can only think of the worst for this thing
Last time something made me cry I had to hold back tears. I forget the movie.
>>319684767
Yeah, a couple times. From memory I cried at
>Telltale's TWD Ending
>Bioshock 2 Neutral Ending
And honorable mentions to Metro 2033 and HM2 for making me feel really shitty but didn't actually get me to cry.
There's nothing wrong with having emotional connections in games, This War of Mine was a game I had fun with while also seeing a deeper message and it's connections to current events, but what will end up happening is the awards with be full of games like Emily and Gone Home that title themselves as emotional experiences yet are completely hollow and don't really affect the player.
>>319686323
>you got a PhD from a 5000 word thesis
don't know whether to be highly sceptical or just disgusted
chibi robo
it was barely the game at all, that sad giga robo music was just too much
>>319684767
>yfwDeleting a Chao in Sonic Adventure wins every award
>Adult men
>Crying because of a toy
This is it. Our planet is fucking doomed. Men have officially been castrated.
>>319687075
Girls can't get boners so it doesn't count.
>>319684767
I just want this industry to fucking burn.
>>319688865
>>Telltale's TWD Ending
This tbqh fäm
>>319689010
>>319689010
>being too scared to show emotions
Grow up, kiddo. A good crying session is good for the soul.
>>319687490
Depends on what makes you cry. MGS3 and 4 fucked me up because I have attachment issues with my brother. He was who I looked up to my whole life, so killing my mentor and brother in MGS3 and 4 were death to feels.
I'm also a sucker for self sacrifice for the good of others, So MGS3, P3, Max Payne, and quite a few others did me in the rear
The problem with an "emotional game awards" is that emotions are entirely subjective.
I think the most emotional a game has ever made me was Journey, because my partner disappeared literally right before the final walk and I waited a good five to ten minutes for him to return before I realized he wasn't coming back.
Ignoring the fact that that simply won't happen to each player because of how Journey is designed, there are people that this probably also happened to at some point and didn't think much of it, but might have been bawling their eyes out to the ending of The Walking Dead S2 (which I didn't really have any feelings either way towards).
It's not really possible to rate a game objectively I suppose, but you can at least try. You can look at the graphics or the music or the voice acting or the gameplay design and try to see where it works and fails. But emotions will vary from person to person and I mean, as much as that leap of faith in the final level of nights into dreams mattered to me I know 90% of people that played that game thought nothing of it at all.
I don't sob or anything but it doesn't take much for viddygames/tv shows/whatever to make me tear up, even if I'm not rationalizing it as something that's particularly moving
Am I just a faggot?
>>319689041
Thank you for reminding me of this
>>319689010
Well excuse me for not dying for corporate America in Durkadurkastan. Some of us have unhealthy emotional experiences.
>>319689235
Has anyone looked to see who actually makes comments with that hashtag?
I wanna know what gives girls wood...
>>319684767
Maybe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVMP3h2DDk
>>319689093
Crying is fine, but crying over a toy meant for kids is fucking pathetic.
Oh boy, a bunch of games that try to force emotions onto the player with minimal gameplay.
>>319689685
>Crying is fine, but crying over a set of moving pictures is pathetic
>>319685708
google.com
>>319689052
I'm still mad that Telltale completely squandered season 2 except forstaying at wellington.
The final episode of season 1 was fucking fantastic throughout, and then they go and fuck it up bymaking Kenny liverather than sacrifice himself and then have the guts to sayhe hated Benrather than have his character progress to forgive him or at least realize that Ben, while he fucked up, at least gave a shit most of the time rather than the season 2 cast who were both retarded and made terrible decisions.
I cried at
>Bastion
>Infamous 2
>1-2 others I can't remember
I teared up at
>Journey
>Undertale
>Mgs3
>Mgs4
>>319688302
>tfw watched this in american history class and ended up crying in the back of the class
Hopefully nobody saw me.
>>319689685
>videogames = toys meant for kids
can't tell if you're b8ing or actually retarded
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdux5CnfPIk
I sobbed at the last episode of parks and rec, but to be fair that was also the same time as one of the more low points in my life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yag41F7eCLU
/v/cûcks cry all the time when their favorite games get jacked by mentally ill feminists
>>319688131
This game was fucked up.Even though I guessed the twist hours before the ending
>>319688876
5 thousand page.
I admit, I teared up when Joel's daughter died in his arms in TLoU. I think it was those desperately gasping for air sobs that rustled those feels.
>>319684767
I never cried during a game. I've felt bad, but never cried cause i'm not a pussy.
Spore.
All that wasted potential.
so what are the chances this shit is just full of bland, completely emotionless AAA shit?
>>319691001
>crying makes you a pussy
Pussy detected.
>>319691291
Crying makes me a penis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOeiJ6Qtpzw
"Did I do the right thing?"
Goddammit. I started to get teary eyed fighting all of Rando's men. I was able too keep it together even while fighting Rando, but when I read that line I bawled like a baby. After the credits rolled , I just turned off my computer and went to bed. I didn't start my second playtthrough until nearly a week later. I've never had a video game impact me on such a level like Lisa did.
>>319690868
>I'll miss you
>>319691256
100%.
>>319691256
Hard to say.
It might be just as you said, or it could be more geared towards indie stuff such that it only looks like the big corporate studios give a fuck about smaller studios.
>>319691451
deciding wether or not to hug brad was probably the toughest choice of gaming.
nipple or arm was also way too hard to me. great game, didn't like the dlc though
>>319684767
I cried when Iran out of puzzles in picross 3d
Let's be real this is just a category to give light to indie shit that relies on how hard the protags live is cuz he/she is a snowflake
>>319689010
>Crying because of a story
FTFY
>>319691732
It was nipple or your party.I chose to kill party
>>319688649
>MGS4
This is good, isn't it?
>>319686838
im actually super curious, what part in max payne 3 got to you?
>>319688228
>tfw taste
>>319689795
I know that all award shows are fraud, but we can hold out hope that they'll acknowledge games with engaging gameplay and fun stories that can actually do shit (MGS3, Max Payne, Red Dead) instead of being melodramatic (Cageshit)
>>319690132
>tfw I cried over most of the movies shown in classes
Cinderella Man
Gump
Gattaca
>>319691952
oh yeah! that's why it was so hard, because you could chose either someone who hadn't chosen to be a part of this, or you could chose people who had chosen to be a part of it but they were doing it for you.
i think i did the same thing, didn't want buddy any more scars or traumasdeep down i wished she'd hate me less for it
>>319689010
Come on, you can't say that here. /v/ is filled with angry man children.
>>319684767
>emotional game jam
I think this will be the moment vidya historians identify as "The Second Crash of the Video Game Industry"
I cried to to the moon. . . .alot. Played it like 2 months after a long time relationship. It got me hard. . .
>>319690710
wait what hang on how the fuck do you produce 5000 pages on video game character deconstruction what the hell what could you possibly fill 5000 pages with my god
>>319684767
>the video game industry is STILL desperately trying to be taken seriously
I think that's the only thing that makes me crywith laughter
>>319693080
i filled them with 5000 words
>>319691895
muh representation!
All emotional games will feature a fat, black, 1 ft tall quadrapeligic wheelchair transgenderfluidqueer that is obese, has anorexia, BPD, suicidal depression, schizophrenia, OCD, and is a dragon otherkin who's parents were killed by racist cops that were also donald trump.
>>319692079
When he turned his life around from alcoholism.
He thought of his wife and child and decided to do it for them, opposed to his entire past. Until that point, he somewhat blamed them and their deaths for his addiction, but he realized that he should be the man they would have wanted and stops the drink.
He actually showed love for his dead family and acted responsibly, instead of using them as a crutch
