[ragnar]

I have played TLJ through at least 2 times.

[remixor]

Originally Posted by Dylan_Dog

I really don't know how a game can touch you or get you emotional. I think thats a sign that you are spending too much time in front of the computer or maybe there is something hollow in your life and you really need to think things over. Or see a doctor or something.

Can a book touch you, or a movie? Why not a game? All three are essentially just forms of media that convey some sort of story (obviously, this is more common for games in the adventure genre than in the FPS genre). In all three, someone has to invent some characters and a plot, and describe situations through some sort of storytelling device, and provide some kind of conflict and resolution. If they do a particularly excellent job or if it somehow relates to one's life, who's to say it cant be touching regardless of what kind of media it is? Obviously, games are traditionally less cohesive plot-wise (due in some part to the dictations of interactivity), but that does not have to be the case. Just becuase you have never been particularly emotionally affected by a game doesn't mean other people can't be; that's absurd. TLJ hasn't connected with me in this way, but I haven't finished it. Even if it never does make that connection with me, it would be quite arrogant for me to assume that if it does make a strong connection with someone else, there's something wrong with them.

[Marek]

Originally Posted by Dylan_Dog

I really don't know how a game can touch you or get you emotional. I think thats a sign that you are spending too much time in front of the computer or maybe there is something hollow in your life and you really need to think things over. Or see a doctor or something.

Yes, if a game makes you emotional you're obviously mentally insane.

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Originally Posted by Dylan_Dog

I don't know what you people are talking about TLJ being close to my heart or TLJ touching u or......The game is not that emotional and it means nothing to me......I really don't know how a game can touch you or get you emotional. I think thats a sign that you are spending too much time in front of the computer or maybe there is something hollow in your life and you really need to think things over. Or see a doctor or something.

So then, if TLJ had never touched you or get you emotional, how is it that you're so vehemently defending the game as...

...a technical, artistic, and literal piece of art. It is obvious that the game is written with passion and by a person with incredible imagination and creativity (PURE TALENT)....

...and that the game possesses a...

...balance between creativity, technical oblivion, ingenuinality and inperfection, it is these things that make this game a true masterpiece. Not just to all those "adventure gamers" out there but to the whole gaming community as well.

So you're saying that your evidently strong response to TLJ was all in your head, not even an ounce of it gave you a rush while experiencing it or lingered with you long after you watched the final cutscene where April looks back over her shoulder at the tower she had just been in.

You need to know something, dear. Detractors once said the exact same thing you said about films. They said the exact same thing about photography. They said the same thing about music (try listening to Albinoni's Adagio, or Ave Maria). For someone who is such a strong advocate of adventure games, it's ironic that you attack a critique of one you obviously find powerful and affecting to your person, while at the same time denying that games are not supposed to mean anything emotional to anyone. Please get off your soapbox now, I can hear it cracking under the weight.

[twifkak]

Trep won't be needing his herb-spiced popcorn..

*grabs popcorn, drenches it with salt, and digs in*

[Intrepid Homoludens]

Enjoy, twifzilla, there's plenty fo' everyone.

[Christina]

I think it's ludicrous to insinuate that if someone feels an emotional connection to a game, they are crazy. I suppose everyone who has ever cried at a movie is nuts too then?

Granted, not nearly as many games connect emotionally with players as movies do with viewers, but there are some out there.

For me, personally, Gabriel Knight 2 & 3 always effect me emotionally.

And the emotion doesn't always have to be sadness. Haven't you ever laughed at a game like Leisure Suit Larry or Monkey Island? If so, then those games have illicited emotional responses from you, as well.

[Tyler Durden]

Originally Posted by Christina

And the emotion doesn't always have to be sadness. Haven't you ever laughed at a game like Leisure Suit Larry or Monkey Island? If so, then those games have illicited emotional responses from you, as well.

Wise words! I can't agree more...

[Ninth]

Yep, games make me emotional, that's the very reason why I play them (not all games, mind, I'm talking about the very best adventure games).
And I don't really think I need to see a doctor. My life is not so full that I have no room for emotions, and I don't really see how one could like the Longest Journey without feeling the same, since this game is all about them (emotions). It's a fairy tale, and reasonable, rational adults shouldn't feel concerned about it.

[eriq]

Originally Posted by Dylan_Dog

I really don't know how a game can touch you or get you emotional. I think thats a sign that you are spending too much time in front of the computer or maybe there is something hollow in your life and you really need to think things over. Or see a doctor or something.

OMG! :eek: I have to call my therapist at Kaiser and make an appointment!

[davez82]

actually i think dylandog is half right.. your not a wierdo if you emotional an adv games, thats what they try to do. But i think when your playing tlj for 20 hrs, and you finally get to pass it, you've stared at this april character for so long you feel 'something' when it finally ends.

but to play adv games you have to be willing to be taken by the game, that is why people play adv games, rpg games, and some action games, i think the ww2 shooters are great at conveying simulation in a battlefield, i dont feel scared but it feels intense, oops intensity is an emotion too.

[michael1123]

I just wanted to add that anyone that only played through it once, should give it another shot. I thought it was very good the first time, but I got a lot more out of it the second time through (a few years later). Now I'd have to put it on my top 10 list, but I wouldn't have before.

Kind of like a complex movie that may bore you the first time, you can get a lot more out of it the second time through, and find it much more enjoyable and rewarding.

[Captain Blondebeard]

I never finished the game but I played enough to say that I could not tie myself to the character and it just didnt have what I took to get me through it.

By the way, when I registered I first attempted to make my nickname Tyler Durdin but it was used. I finally figured out who took it first lol. My name in all of my online games is Tyler Durdin. Halo, SWG, Unreal etc.