Kingdom Hearts. The story is a little confusing at first but replaying them after getting it shows new things. The whole, “My friends are my power!” really resonates with me to this day. 358/2 Days is the best story, and I cry every time I hear Xion’s story. I named my dog Xion because I love the character and what she represents so much. Can’t wait till #4!
Desperados 3 did it for me. The game ends right where it promised, getting revenge and jumping to black as soon as the trigger’s pulled. Knowing something like this will likely never be made again drove me into a light melancholy.
Assuming I remember correctly, some ways into the game, you, the player, realizes your character is the one who has been committing all the horrible, tortures and murders. I stopped playing at that point. I never play “evil”. For instance, in FO4, I never took over the Commonwealth with the raiders, raiders are always cannon fodder.
So, it didn’t really change my life, per se, but I have remembered it all these years, and still have no interest in finishing the game.
the game that practically changed your life in terms of how it affected you… and the game that made you change the way you think.
For practicalitys sake, the game that had the most change and influence on my life was, ironically, Second Life. Just through the people I met and experiences I had over the course of the 15-16 years I played it.
I cant really tell you what one had the most profound impact psychologically, I was going to say the Sims or Fallout for the impact they had on like, how I see people vs how I see society. but Im gonna cop-out and go with Mass Effect 2 and 3. since The story is such an “epic” in that it tackles so many philisophical and existential questions, Mainly revolving around what living beings, and in some cases, individual heroes do in the face of death. the whole story is a broad tale of Machines vs Organics, but its done in a very doomsday/armagedon tone. stretched across a sci-fi galaxy instead of just talking about humanity.
A while ago i tried one of those mods bringing back the feeling of the 4J version of Minecraft.
Not sure if it is this one: www.curseforge.com/minecraft/…/legacy-minecraftBut they brought back even an updated version of the tutorial world. Its worth checking out, it even has controller support.
I’ve always thought about trying it out, and i think at one point i tried it for a few seconds but something just felt off? I want to give it another try though some day
How it changed my life: I have a much deeper appreciation to go into nature and feel more confident
Also having that deeper understanding to put together an earth quake survival kit.like you never know if you have to bail and you just gotta be ready to evacuate and survive.
Other games: Titan fall 2. I bawled at the end. I’m just now playing it through again. And I’m not one to replay a game but I would with that one given the bond. Never thought I’d cry at a game but that one …that one was special for me.
That’s fantastic. It’s a survival game ? I remember loving to roam the ashlands in Morrowind and that might have contributed to my tendency to walk everywhere. But nature itself, I’m not sure. I remember fondly the lush hills of Cyrodiil, the enchanted woods of Albion (Fable), but I don’t think any of these really turned me on nature as much as having an edible, strapping on my trekking shoes and getting lost in the forest around my home
Yup it’s a survival game but it has a peaceful option in it so you can just set it to roam and build to your heart’s content.
Elden ring as well has some similar breathtaking moments. not that any of that can be replicated in our earth nature but it is a game that I think of when I think of a beautiful game to play for just sitting there and beholding artist effort and content.
Death Stranding. Ok not sure if that actually really changed my life, but it left me in a bit of a mixed emotional state.
See the thing is that I became a dad not that long ago and during the pregnancy and maybe a year or so after the birth of my kid I had this somewhat irrational fear of finding my kid just dead at some point in the crib or something like that. I fought past that fear eventually and the kid is now three and as healthy as one can be.
Then was it 2024 or something when the Director’s Cut was released on Xbox. I never had a PlayStation (not for any other reason other than I just never happened to get one) so I was exicted to finally start playing this game I’ve heard so much about. I bought the game and played whenever I had time (if you have kids, you know how it can be) and loved the game, especially for the atmosphere and the sort of weird lore that was exciting to uncover for me.
Rest of the post contains spoilersThen I got the the part where you have to cut the umbilical cord of Mama’s BT baby. I wasn’t prepared for that at all and it kinda just broke something in me. I had to stop playing and didn’t play for like at least 6 months or so. It brought back too many of the feelings and fears I had previously gone through so I just needed to take a break. Like don’t get me wrong, I actually DID like the scene for the beautiful moment it was and think it was amazing storywriting, it just caught me so off guard that I had to take a moment or ten. After the break I kept going and the game still managed to keep me hooked and the story just kept getting better and better imo. And then the ending. I cried. A lot. I have never ever cried out loud to any piece of media, but I could literally feel Sam’s emotions when he noticed that BB wasn’t moving and was likely dead already. That was pretty much exactly the fear I had so you’ll probably understand why it hit me so hard. And then when I hear that cry come from the game, the relief I felt was something I can’t really describe well. And after that I was sitting there in the living room, tears in my eyes, laugh-crying and just… wow. I don’t know, if I’d played the game when it came out in 2019 before my kid was born and before the pregnancy and everything, I would’ve probably just thought it to be maybe a decent story and maybe tear up a bit at the end. But with all the other stuff that piled on before I got to play the game, it just added it’s own effect to the experience. I really don’t know if I can say that I was changed in any meaningful way, but I do kinda think that it might have at least helped me deal with the past fears a bit better so maybe in the future if I need to face them again, I can do it with more confidence. One thing that I can say for sure at least is that I loved the game and I kinda wish I could play it again for the first time. The emotional roller coaster might’ve been a bit rough at times but damn it was a good one.
Boy oh boy, don’t play the second one. It’ll tear your heart out, throw it in a blender and force feed it back to you through a straw! The game is absolutely amazing but the emotions that 2 brought to the table were stronger than anything I’ve ever played.
Even though it was such a rollercoaster, I watched a friend beat it, and we cried together too. I’d give up a lot to play it again for the first time. Just, be prepared. If you dare!
Honestly I would expect nothing less given the first game. It’s very likely I will play it eventually if it ever makes its way to the Xbox or if I happen to find myself owning a PlayStation, which means it’ll probably take a while. Regardless, thanks for the heads up!
It’s the same thing as saying a good book can ruin your day when it’s over. Just because someone has an emotional attachment to a really good story, whether game, movie, or book, doesn’t mean they have a boring life.
It’s like saying “if artistic work/expression changes you, you’re a rube.” What changes you, if not expressive works? Who cares if games mostly describe tropes and isms. I’d argue almost the opposite of what you wrote, but this is the internet, and it’s a boring discussion. Bless up your house. Your experience of reality is constantly being shaped by the by your participation in sensation and your faculties of knowing.
A massage can change you, just as much as a really good meal, or a particular smell, or an advertisement. What is wrong (for lack of a better word) with being changed by an immersive experience in a video game? I guess my questions are: what allows us to validate certain types of experiences that others have, and invalidate others? It’s the prerogative of other minds, no? Do you or I dictate what is of vivifying value? Maybe not. My knowing of words, pictures, sounds, so on, is not yours. Dumb things exist that shape people’s personhood, from time to time. Peace out - I’m compelled to respond by my rejection of this kind of anti-experiential nihilism. I just drank like four beers. They are changing me, as a person.
I’m surprised you’re downvoted like this, but I had a similar thought. I understand the meme, that it is about the feeling when you finished a game with a story that made you involved. But calling it a “lifechanger” feels like exaggeration.
I have played a game that touched me deeply, leaving me emotionally out of my socket for about a week. But I wouldn’t say it “changed my life”. I can feel the echo of that experience when I remember, but that’s all.
Every single thing we do changes our lives, including posting throwaway comments on the internet. Games just tend to do it in ways people actually remember.
For pure entertainment or passive turn-brain-off type games I’m inclined to agree with you. Mario Party isn’t exactly changing lives out here.
Games that tell a story though, they can be extremely impactful just like any form of story. Through stories I myself have changed my world views, taken new perspectives in life. Star Trek The Next Generation’s season 6 episode Tapestry changed my outlook on risk taking especially in my professional life, my username reference to the Legend of Zelda Majora’s Mask got me to overcome my extreme fear and anxiety of being rejected by friends. Was I much younger when I experienced those stories, sure, but they still changed the course of my life.
My day job is working on satellites, I’m a hobbyist carpenter, been teaching myself to play piano, frequently go camping/hiking into Colorado’s mountains, work on a project car, and sure this evening I’ve been playing Factorio but I’ve been doing so while sipping wine that I made myself.
You could call me many things, but I don’t think boring fits.
I understand that it sounds kind of hyperbolic, but I’ve played a few games that changed my life, and I consider myself to have normal emotional depth. I’ve played some games that simply affected me on a core level in ways I hadn’t felt since childhood.
Spiritfarer, though it’s more crying than drinking. It took playing the game alongside my best friend to get me to finish it, because I cried at the first spirit and couldn’t continue on my own.
It didn’t help that my grandma died right as I started playing the game with my friend, and I was beating myself up for missing that last phone call.
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