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That's right, this is a challenge to all of you gamers out there who, in the past, have become emotional to the point of tears over a video game. Chris Bateman of blog.ihobo.com has put up a blog detailing his argument as to why it's not possible for a game to evoke such emotions. His answer, it's the story.
For a long time, the games industry debated the question of whether a videogame could make you cry. But as I hope to demonstrate, this question is either irrelevant, or a game never has nor never could make you cry.
Games (under the systems view) cannot make you cry. Videogame titles can include narrative material that makes you cry, but no-one can claim to be surprised that a story can make you cry. Barring some serious change in what constitutes a videogame, the only way they are ever going to make you cry is via their narrative elements, and never by their game elements.
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- Final Fantasy VII [PC, PSX]
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Additional sources:
- 'A Game Has Never Made You Cry' (kotaku.com)
- A Game Has Never Made You Cry (gonintendo.com)
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Most recently commented on by on Dec 20, 2008
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"Story has to be excluded, because by the process of empathising with fictional characters it is possible to evoke any emotion in a story."
First, they (according to Firefox spellcheck), wrote "empathising" wrong.
Second, if you exclude story from the games as an example on why you wouldn't cry from them, would you not have to also remove story from movies that make you cry as well? Story from a song that make you cry? If you take away the story from any form of art and/or entertainment, of course you will more than likely feel emotionless to it, video games are just another vehicle people use to express a story.
I can't believe I just read that whole article, what a video game hater that person must be.
Second, guess he just doesn't perceive video games as some passionate gamers might. His argument isn't very strong, but he has the right to... not cry, I guess. It IS a blog post though, so what can you expect, eh?
He's written such a long and descriptive blog, but in the end it's common sense.
This Chris Bateman guy needs to have more empathy.
Personally, I was close to a tear when I first saw the ending for Ocarina of Time, but that was when I was like six years old.
Seriously though, what a dumb ass. Of course its the damn story that makes you cry. But since the story is part of the game, yes, games do make you cry.
Unguard *bleep*
The next set of tears was the shoddy online.
I also cried at the end of KH, cause it was sad after all that Work Sora went through not only did he not save Kairi and Riku and go back to Destiny Island, he has to do the process all over again.
Between the background behind it, the music, the setting, everything was just perfect.
Even when I replay VII, I still get a bit emotional at that scene, and the cutscene after.
Now the space rescue of Rinoa in FF8 that bought a tear to my eye. Because that time I actually cared about the characters. Rinoa's plight was quite upsetting and no one had to die to accomplish it.
Really, plenty of people have said it, of course its the story that make people cry, not just for video games, for just about everything fictional, freeking ejit.
'Side's, some games can get so frustratingly difficult people will actually cry. Bloody moron
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R.I.P <3
THAT WAS SAD.
Gears of War 2 and Fable II came close recently. But the closest I've come to crying over a game was over Okami and Shadow of the Colossus.
This guy is free to have his own opinions, though I'm sure he's wrong in the sense that somewhere out there, hundreds have wept over a video game.
Poor aggro
He didn't die though! The freaking game lied to us.
Although, Mother 3's ending was the closest thing I came to crying.
When I first tried to play Gears of War 2 online, I was crying alright.
I was really crying.
After playing some awesome online games and getting completely stoked about Gears I put it in.
Tell me if you won't cry if the game you waited so long for takes 30 MINUTES TO FIND A SINGLE DAMN PERSON TO PLAY WITH!!!
And I am a veteran
I nearly cried to I am SAM! I mean I am legend, when the dog was killed and Will Smith just sat with the dog in its last few moments.
Other than that never shedded a tear to anything...there are sad endings that I admit but not sad enough to make me cry
Now being a total hypocrite, lol at a netball becoming a guy's best friend.
Because it sucked so much.
I cried during Half-Life Episode 2 when Eli was killed. I was like,"HOLY *bleep*, WE GONNA GET READY TO LEAVE!" Then the damn Advisors come and killed Eli while DOG comes in and kicks one of them to the curb
*bleep* you, Advisors..*bleep* you...
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