Games that make you sick!

[Kinoko]

Slightly misleading topic there.

Do any games affect you strongly enough that you get a physical reaction? I could name a few that have made me cry, but nothing does as much for me as Terranigma (SNES). Just thinking and reading about that game is enough to make feel goose bumps, cry or just make my stomach weird.

I've just been reading a thread about it for the last couple of hours and I feel sick to the stomach a little just for being so emotionally charged. I can name a few books that do this to me, they just happen to hit the right note (Never Ending Story is one) but Terranigma takes the cake as far as games are concerned. The way it tells the story is just brilliant and the ending leaves you feeling sad and satisfied and happy and insane at the same time.

After a little thought, I honestly think a lot of it has to do with how much the game makes me want to just envelope myself in that world. I feel sad having to wrench my brain back to reality.

Honestly, it's a feeling like being in love. Like falling in love, rather, and still being in those beginning stages where all you want to think about is that person.

[Babar]

I get a weird feeling everytime I hear the Monkey Island tune and see the Island appear with "Deep in the Caribbean". I suppose that is just nostalgia, though.

I can't think of a game that gets me a such a reaction as you're describing. The early Sierra games (KQ3, SQ2) did give me occasional "shocks" (what with the sudden appearances of Mananan) that actually "jerked" me, left me dazed and forced me to pause the game to realise it wasn't real life.

[esper]

Normally, the games that have this type of effect on me are RPG's, because the stories get so deep and involving. I think the first game that ever got any kind of emotional response from me was Lunar: The Silver Star, followed by Lunar: Eternal Blue, both on Sega CD. When I played the Playstation versions not too long ago, the feeling I got wasn't "nostalgia," it was more of, "I feel like I'm home again."

[BOYD1981]

playing Soul Reaver 2 always fills me with an overwhelming sense of joy, i'd probably cry if somebody stole it (and eat their soul).

[DGMacphee]

There were parts in Phantasmagoria that made me ill. Like the bits where she gets force-fed the guts (if I remember correctly). It was pure shock value with little point to it. That would have been okay if the actual game was up to snuff, but that was boring and shitty too. That's why I think it's one of the worst games ever.

[LGM]

I think the new trailer to Killzone promises something that will evoke emotion from me.

The only games that have really taken my breath away are the Silent Hills, Metal Gear Solids, and the opening to Final Fantasy X.

Oh, and when I was younger, Resident Evil II  and House of the Dead rocked my emotions.

[RocketGirl]

I honestly can't play more than a half hour of Doom 3 before getting so twitchy that I jump at noises that aren't even there...

Oh, and in Wing Commander 2 when Spirit  died...well, I didn't cry, but I was down in the dumps for ages. I liked her.

Other than that, the only games that really have any visceral effect on me are those with an ambience that I really like. For example, any Star Wars game, especially KOTOR 1 & 2 and BattleFront, affect me because I tend to feel more at home in the SW universe than in real life sometimes... If I'm depressed, playing those games helps.

[Anarcho]

Yeah, I found Doom 3 nerve racking for a little while.  But after 233,403,234 levels of the same monster filled hallways...the tension disappears. 

The MI theme music definitely floods my memory with friendly thoughts.

I can't really think of any games that really effected me in a deep (or harmful) way.  Oh wait, Castlevania III used to totally freak me out...when I'd sit in my basement as a kid with the lights off.  Those vampires would scare the hell out of me!  Oh, and the opening screen of The Black Cauldron.  For whatever reason, I think that is the best damn theme music ever, even though it's only 3 notes.  That game also scared the hell out of me...for whatever reason.

[WanderLady]

ICO

The game had such an impact that although I had a great desire to play it again I couldn't immediately because I was afraid of what it invoked in me. Very powerful. The physical description that comes to me is one of lightness or airy-ness(?).

[vict0r]

Sick as in bad or good? I really dont see why sick would be good, but most of you seem to talk about good feelings... Anyhoo! Games that really wake my emotions are all the MI games. Especially CMI And another game series that make me all emotional is... Half Life! They really catch the right atmosphere at the right time! Especially hl2!

[ManicMatt]

Yeah Soul reaver 2! Or rather whichever episode concluded most of the story line (I reckon it was the game after this one) the ending of that ruled when the bad guy got his come uppance!

FF9 made me cry. Yup! I could associate myself with the lead character in that game than any other FF game!

[CoffeeBob]

No game has ever made me cry, though, the scene at the end of the first disc in Final Fantasy VII was touching. But I was only 10 or so the first time I saw it.

But by just hearing the Monkey Island-melody on a good ol' adlib makes me want to weep of happiness. MI1 and 2 rocks so much that it's undescribable.

[LimpingFish]

The first Klonoa game on the Playstation... :'(

When the prince confesses to Klonoa that he doesn't actually exist, and that the prince just dreamed him to help save his kingdom.

Its a short CG, beautifully animated even by Namco standards.

Only people who have witnessed it will understand.

Jeez, I blubbed like a baby. 

[Redwall]

Grim Fandango, Beyond Good & Evil, and The Longest Journey all had me sad at their conclusions.

[Kinoko]

I'm at work today, it's almost 0 degrees, I didn't have time to eat breakfast or put my garbage out and despite it being Saturday tomorrow and me being in dire need of a good sleep in, I have to get up -extra- early tomorrow to go a stupid meeting more than two towns away for a 3 day job I'll have next year.

Yet, I'm strangely happy and relaxed today. I feel like I had really good sex last night - but I didn't (unfortunately)! A good discussion of Terranigma is -like- unto good sex.

[BOYD1981]

Yeah Soul reaver 2! Or rather whichever episode concluded most of the story line (I reckon it was the game after this one) the ending of that ruled when the bad guy got his come uppance!

that'll be Defiance, wasn't too keen on that one, i didn't like the way i couldn't control the camera and i didn't like being limited to just the reaver either, and i missed the elemental fonts that were in SR2 that controlled which power the reaver had, plus the "puzzles" were too samey and boring and there weren't any cool demons until late on and Kain killed those guys easily.
i don't like the way the story was concluded in such a boring game and there were some continuity errors that are just annoying, it'd be great if they made another proper Soul Reaver game where you just get to play as Raziel with some awesome puzzles.

but apart from all that another game that really does something for me is EVE Online, which i haven't ever actually played but it's so beautiful i just love looking at screenshots.

[PsychicHeart]

Silent Hill 3. It's like a psychotic thriller mixed with a horror.
Excellent shit, i have to bring a bottle of water whenever i play so it doesn't look suspicious.

[LGM]

What the hell do you need a bottle of water for?

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

My guess would be wetting himself...

Warcraft 2.  Such a nostalgic feeling, it makes my stomach feel queasy and my bowels shifty.  Dead serious.

[Nikolas]

I think that I've mentioned this game a bunch of times in these forums but still I have to metnion it once again.

Bard's Tale I

Very old game by Interplay! A decent game.

Probably the first rpg with 3d graphics (well... you know back in 1987... still the city looked so real. The catacombs where freaky...) The monster portraits all had great animation  and the music. Ah the music. Through the lousy speaker of a PC 8086! But the composer had arranged the notes to be so quickly and close with eac other that you thought that you had polyphony although you didn't. And what's even best I transfered the music to my mobile phone so now, everytime that for no reason I think of Skara Brae (the city), I know that my mobile phone is ringing (although I can't hear the ringing consiously)

And I'm not sure if it is abandoware yet! It doesn't seem to be...