Games that got Extreme Reactions out of me
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17 Games
The only horror game that scared me so much I jolted up to turn it off. (to be fair I was ten)
I hate that adult-me honestly kinda dislikes this game now because it's one of the rare games I actually cried at. (As a kid)
I don't think any moment in games is ever going to top the Big Rig Mouth segment. How hard I got chills and just looked at it wide-eyed in complete disbelief of what was happening. This is what video games is about baby.
This game's entire finale sequence is one of the hypest moments in all of video games and I am not kidding. Just thinking about it gets me excited.
This game didn't just get reactions out of me it changed by wholeass brain chemistry.
The way "This is the Hour" swells and explodes into the Halo main theme still gives me chills and makes me a little teary-eyed to the goddamn day.
Even if ever so briefly, the raw child-like whimsy of exploring a video game space came back.
One of those games that made me cry. The way this game is the most funny and saccharine thing ever before having THAT as an ending is absolutely unfair.
The gutteral and audible gasps I had at various enemies returning. (Mostly Water Wraith and The Egg).
The final choice was the longest I've ever lingered on a set of dialogue options in a video game ever.
The mirror room unnerved me so much I couldn't stop thinking about it for weeks.
Even when I already knew what the ending was, the whole walk to the surface had such a relieving but also really somber feel to it after most of the game up until this point felt so unnerving a rancid.
I felt viscerally big-brained like I never have with any other game when I discovered a sequence break all on my own.
The big reveal Adam does at the end followed by the whole final boss and ending sequence broke my brain a little.
It was like that part of Ratatouille when Anton Ego remembered his childhood so hard he had an out-of-body experience except it was me remembering how it felt to play a good Sonic game again.
I can't explain it but this game made me feel possessed.
Ever get teary-eyed just upon realizing a game's themes?
