Has there ever been a game that you played and it really made you think about stuff. Like a game that you feel really speaks to you.
No. People who have their life changed by a book/movie/videogame are weak willed morons who are immature to begin with.
Mgs2 made me question everything
>>323171425
>gleaning insight from any form of consumable media or literature is "weak willed"
I'll be very surprised if 2016 manages to bring about a post more autistic than this one.
>>323171425
I see a lot of people who really turn a 180 when stumbling upon some book, more often than a movie, probably because it requires more effort to go through a book than a 2 hour movie, and then later on in life they cite it as part of who they are now. Didn't know it was that common to be honest.
Super Mario Bros. 3
>>323171275
are you fucking kidding? have you not...? video games are art what a very stupid question. good games are the ones that speak to you, drop CoD and mobas for a minute fucking amped up faggot neet
>>323171425
>t. I've never read any great literature
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>>323171425
>learning things from stuff you encounter in life and analyzing it critically for value is for idiots
You basically just admitted to being a complete tool
>>323171275
desert golfing
>>323171641
Autistics don't understand empathy. It's not their fault.
>>323171425
wew lad sweet fallacy
suck my cock moron
>>323171425
I just finished code geass and im kinda Saddid lelouch really died
Also kallen is my waifu
>>323171641
Every single person that can attribute part of their beliefs/core values to a book, movie or videogame is a grade A tool.
>>323171851
>he thinks there's life after birth
>>323171910
I'm assuming you're part of an African tribe that passes legends down via fireside storytelling.
>>323171425
For your own sake, I hope you're trying to bait us.
If not, you may actually, in real life, have legitimate textbook autism
A video game? None that I can think of but some games had me so infatuated with them that I genuinely wanted to live in their worlds and couldn't stop thinking about all the adventures I would relive.
Video games taught me how to drive.
How to analyze feedback from the car.
Spatial awareness.
Going fast with no fear.
>>323171881It's generally believed that he's the driver of the hay-stack thing that green-haired bitch rides on at the end.
I still prefer to think he's dead.
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>>323171641
>All of these people who attribute a lot of who they are and what they believe based on other people's fantasy work, which are written purely for entertainment purposes.
Top fucking kek
>>323171425
Movies and videogames, yes, but people have been writing things down for millennia.
Videogames.. taught me to love..
>>323172206
Videogames taught me I need to get rid of my FF and get a RWD.
>>323172476
Stories exist solely to repackage ideas in a more palatable way. Individuals, societies, and cultures all parse their beliefs and outlook through stories.
Literally High School Lit class shit, anon.
>>323171910
Fuckhead, read your post back to me and then tell me your beliefs/core values are not at all attributable to books. Civilizations across history owe more to literature than you owe to your parents for not abandoning you on a doorstep.
>>323172476
Reading a book from a great author is not much different from having a mentor telling you things directly or your parents teaching you the ways of life. It's simply in written form.
inb4 edginess
>>323172476
Important lessons get passed down through fictional stories anon. Many children learn morals and values and how to interact with others from works of fiction, that's why children's storybooks and television programs are frequently about making friends and getting along and shit.
However, the post everyone was quoting never specifies fictional work >>323171425 , just "any book/movie/videogame", so you can just move your goalposts right into your ass.
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>>323172869
Sure, anons. Next time someone talks about how Atlas Shrugged totally changed their life, I won't think of them as the biggest tool in the toolbox.
I loved the father/ daughter relationship in Bioshock 2 between Delta and Eleanor.
Made me really think about having kids, being a father, that kind of stuff. Its been a long time since I played it, but I still think I'd be pretty good dad.
>>323172476
People package morals, their beliefs and societal messages in their work. It's why we can get a greater understanding of cultural attitudes from centuries ago by reading Shakespeare.
>>323172981
No one ever said that all books are equally quality sources of information. Your strawman looks very pretty sitting there in the sun, but you're clearly a fucking idiot.
Planescape Torment
I've become a pacifist and no longer seek immortality.
[Spoiler]katawa shoujo
>>323173053
>Gleaming morals from Shakespeare
>Stories where 13 year old girls are fucked and then kill themselves for 'love'
Okay.
Yeah because games are so mature aren't they?
Bioshock made me think soo much with it's ''moral dillema'' that was ''go ahead kill the kid you monster! It's more profitable to save her as well''
not to mention people who say games are art play such artsy titles as Counter Strike, Skyrim, Fallout 4, Street Fighter series, Battlefield and XCOM all very deep games that most likely moved them in a way nothing ever moved them before
>>323173271
I ain't saying the nigga was right, but that was a beautiful love story at the time.
>>323171275
It didn't change my life or anything faggoty like that, but Persona 3 really did make me think hard about mortality for a bit
>>323171425
Read some of the best classic literature and see if that opinion still holds up. This opinion screams "I'm a kid."
>>323173143
Eh it's the same shit. If you're going to have your life changed over some piece of fiction meant as a source of entertainment then you can fuck right off.
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>>323173352
Young love being frivolous is one of the ideas Romeo and Juliet tries to get across.
Criticizing it for that is like calling Schindler's List racist for having racists in it.
>>323173385
Sunbro's story was so sad.
>>323172981
Let's go slow, so you can keep up. Reading is obviously something that disagrees with you.
Your original post:
>>323171425
>People who have their life changed by a book
>book
Book is a broad term, and as you've gone on throughout the thread you've elected to ignore non-fiction entirely, as if civilization as a whole hasn't benefited from literature produced pertaining to politics, engineering and medicine. If you seriously think your worldview hasn't been demonstrably affected by books throughout the ages, then you are a fucking idiot.
>>323173271
>not knowing that 13 year olds fucking was pretty common at the time
>interpreting a historical work through our contemporary morals and values
Everyone in this thread is an idiot, including me.
>>323173467
Like what, Frankenstein? Ohhh joy a 'modern' tale of Faust telling us the dangers of forbidden knowledge and playing God. Yeah I'm sure someone has picked that up and become a better person for it.
>>323173492
Fair enough. I suppose you can also take a message away about pointless grudges away from the feud of the Capulets and Montagues. We don't even get told why they're fighting, they just don't like each other. Their seemingly meaningless rivalry leads to plenty of senseless violence and death, including the deaths of the titular characters.
>plays MOBA's and FPS games
>GAMES ARE ART GUYZ
yeah no games are the lowest form of entertainment aside from music
>>323173752
if you can't see how relevant frankenstein is in modern/ near-future society you're a moron.
>>323173645
It's funny how not a single one of you faggots are defending movies or videogames but have this big hard on over books, as if that means anything besides how long ago they were made. Basing any of your morality on old literature is even dumber than basing it on a movie made in modern times.
>>323171275
the Talos Principle
Pathologic
>>323173929
That's why everyone is always quoting fucking Frankenstein wherever I go, I guess!
Oh wait they fucking don't because no one gives a shit, so fuck you.
>>323171275
Yes
This game
This game made me ask myself what it means to be myself when I was at a time when I felt like I didn't know who I really was. It made me think about what I would do, thrust into a dire situation, having to fight and survive in a nightmarish dream-like labyrinth beset upon by ungodly abominations that seem to reflect the very sins of mankind with the safety of the entire world resting upon my shoulders
And most importantly, it taught me that pro wrestling solves literally every problem. That there is no challenge in the world, no horrific demon in existence that cannot be overcome with a german suplex followed by a boston crab.
>>323173928
>paint some multicolored soup cans
>PAINTING IS ART GUYS
Not every piece of art is a masterpiece, and not everyone will agree on any one piece of art being a masterpiece. I seriously have no idea if you're trolling or just stupid.
>>323171425
But anon you've had your life changed by vidya enough to the point where you frequently come to /v/ to discuss games. This doesn't happen with everyone who likes to play video games. Whether you realize it or not 4chan is its own subculture that you are a part of. Guess that makes you a weak willed moron.
>>323173978
>Basing any of your morality on old literature is even dumber than basing it on a movie made in modern times.
its funny because you basically described most religions
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>>323173978
Art is art, no matter how good it is at getting its ideas across. Video games, by nature of the medium (and the low standards of its fans) might not shine as often as other mediums do, but they still exist to get ideas across.P.S. stop moving goalposts and getting angry at strawmen that exist in your head. Almost everyone on /v/ respect movies, music, books, and games as a medium.
>>323171275
>tfw didn't want p4 to end
Yes. I've been a pretty simpering motherfucker for most of my life, and way back when Persona 3 first came out I was going through a bout of depression after my mother died. Basically didn't leave my room for anything. When the MC died at the end it got me thinking a lot about life and how easily it can slip by. I felt a desire to actually try and accomplish something.
I wound up confessing my love to the girl on the floor above me in my dorm, who'd been coming by a lot with notes on the classes I'd been missing. She turned me down and told me I was just desperate and not thinking clearly, but she did help me back into the rhythm of going to classes again, and going to therapy to deal with my depression.A year and a half later after I'd gotten back on track I tried again, and she said yes. We've been together since.
tl;dr Door-kun saved my life.
>>323171275
Not videogames but one of the episodes of Kino no Tabi really fucking hit me hard. It's the one with the two countries that go to war with each other by attacking a much weaker country.
Then at the end people from that country attack Kino for no real reason but to make themselves feel better, which they acknowledge. The best bit is that before the attack, Kino was feeling sympathy for that country and then she's attacked by them because travelers are lower than people in the country.
No idea why but the whole thing has really stuck with me, that people who are of a lower status will attack those that they believe are even lower than them, for no real reason but to make someone else suffer. And that the best way to stop a conflict between two equals is to bring down someone else.
>>323173978
>as if that means anything besides how long ago they were made
You are actually autistic holy shit.
>Basing any of your morality on old literature is even dumber than basing it on a movie made in modern times
But you do this, you fucking idiot. You've been imbibing "morality" as defined by laws and legislature, which were probably written in a book funnily enough, since you were born. That was my entire point.
>>323174384
I said 'a' book/movie/videogame, not the medium itself. You're the product of your experiences but if you're somehow capable of pinpointing a change in your life to a single movie/book/videogame then you've apparently got a lot of growing the fuck up to do.
>>323174802
inb4 a fat, autistic garbage bag of a human being on /v/ legitimately tries to claim he is the superman that rejects the morality of society and formulates his own.
>>323174593
Bumping because if you're at all weebshit inclined and you still haven't watched Kino no Tabi, then you're a faggot.
Binary Domain with its goddamn robots that think they're human
fuck
>>323175642
I kept putting it off because other people were recommending it so hard and things that 4chan likes are usually shit, but god damn it was really good.
>>323171275
Undertale has got me thinking to not be autmatically cynical towards people
>>323171275
>Persona 4 as an example
Stalker SoC taught me what it meant to be a man
Yeah, sometimes games suck so much I can feel the makers laughing at me for even playing it.
I loved FF8 for the comfy university feelsies it gave me while I was also in uni. Have had an Edea fetish ever since.
The ending on got in Catherine made me consider my own ability to commit. Can't think of any other games that really made me reflect on myself.
>>323177513
lel my brother stopped playing this halfway because he was afraid it might change his view about getting married
>>323174497
neither atlus
>>323171425
I read a few engineering books during college and now make 140k a year.
Get fucked faggot.
>>323172476
Simulators are often derided as "games", but the truth is that we are getting closer and closer to emulating real life virtually. They are not based on fantasy, but real physical laws. The better we get at emulating reality, the better we'll understand it.
To me, the ever-increasing accuracy of the physics in games is a marker to humanity's technological progress. 25 years ago, the only machines that could run what rFactor or DCS do were industrial supercomputers dedicated to physical study.
Now we can simulate not one, but hundreds of vehicles moving independently, interacting aerodynamically and physically with each other, each one with it's own, individual, realistic physical model. Not only that, but we can put all those vehicles in control of a human, thanks to the Internet.
You can learn much from a video game. The trick is figuring out how it applies to the real world. If you can't apply the learnings, you haven't learned anything.
>>323173169
This, there is no evil without reason.
Also I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
i can't get this out of my head
>>323172641
video games taught me that all drivetrains are fun,
especially race-prepped, tripodding FWD shitboxes
