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Automatic Retard
Oct 21, 2010

PUT THIS WANKSTAIN ON IGNORE

Pumpy Muffinz posted:

why didn'y you make him? Or by over did you mean your mom's house?

nope im a big boy and I have my own house. And I did make him hand it over once the waterworks started. I was out the back drinking. Im sick of watching halo

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Calvin Johnson Jr.
Dec 8, 2009
the last of us remake for ps4 is the realest looking game ive ever seen man get high and play that poo poo

Mumpy Puffinz
Aug 11, 2008
Nap Ghost

Automatic Retard posted:

nope im a big boy and I have my own house. And I did make him hand it over once the waterworks started. I was out the back drinking. Im sick of watching halo

I can understand that.

psychologymonth
Aug 10, 2006
Dolphins are always plotting
I pity anyone who hasn't.

Savage For The Winjun
Jun 27, 2008


i creid at the end of mgs3 it was very emotional

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused
Earthbound probably has the best feel good ending of any game I've played. Nice music plays while you get reminded of all the places you visited during the game. Its rare for a game to make you feel genuinely great about completing it beyond a simple "congraturations hero :downs:".

Darse
Jan 14, 2008
Wake up young man.
I cried at server first Onyxia.

drink_bleach
Dec 13, 2004

Praise the Sun!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/104900/

Cried playing this game, out of laughter. It's the worst buggiest piece of garbage ever, was hilarious for like 10 minutes then got sorted into my garbage games category.

Realpostin in GBS.

bigzak
Aug 15, 2003
yeah after i paid 50 bucks for dark souls 2

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Darse posted:

I cried at server first Onyxia.

I cried at my 50 dkp minus

a shiny rock
Nov 13, 2009

bigzak posted:

yeah after i paid 50 bucks for dark souls 2

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

Blazing Ownager posted:

Anyone made to play this will cry. They will cry like a bitch.

Fortunately, it will all be tears of laughter.

Clothing sex scenes everywhere. Disgusting clothing sex. I still think the best was right after you murdered the woman's husband she decides she must have you. Talk about one hell of a cucking.

lalaland
Nov 8, 2012

Why is Aeris' death so significant?

One of the most common comments one hears from less enlightened critics of FF7 is "all Sephiroth did was kill a flower girl". The critic will usually go on to say that his favourite villain did something far better and that the reaction Aeris' death has received is completely uncalled for. It goes without saying that these people have clearly missed something important, but what, exactly?

Aeris' death is a masterpiece of storytelling. To begin with, let's look at the setup: the timing and location.

Before Aeris dies, she goes missing. Cloud knows where she is and what she is doing. She has gone to the City of the Ancients to pray for Holy, the one thing that can stop Sephiroth. When they get there and see her, the party is naturally relieved. However, a danger immediately presents itself. Cloud is possessed and attacks Aeris with his sword. However, for the first time in the game, he is able to pull himself together and shake off Sephiroth's control. Once this is done, Cloud faces Aeris whilst she prays. The danger is over, it seems. They look into each other's eyes and all is at peace. Then, out of nowhere, disaster strikes. No music is playing at the time, which highlights the sudden violence of the act and the fact that is comes with no warning. The scene changes before the player realises what is going on and the player is left with a sense of helplessness and shock. What just happened? She died so quickly and so unexpectedly? Anyone who has ever lost a person, except maybe when they died after a very long and drawn-out illness, can attest to the stopping power of death. The more quickly and unexpectedly it happens, the greater the stunning effect. The timing is perfect.

It is also no accident that Sephiroth kills Aeris in a holy place whilst she is praying. It many cultures, holy places are places of sanctuary. Killing someone in a place of sanctuary is not only a crime against the murder victim, it is a crime against the gods. There are few crimes worse than killing someone in a sanctuary because it violates the one place in which people should feel safe. This adds to the feeling of helplessness created by the suddenness of her death. If one can not be safe in a place of sanctuary, where can one be safe? If she had been killed in a random town or on the world map, the effect would not have been the same, in much the same way that being attacked in an unfamiliar place tends to have less of an affect on people than being attacked in their homes. Sephiroth shows that he has no respect for any laws and is willing and able to kill anyone at any time and in any place.

In fact, it is even worse than this. She was not only in a sanctuary and praying, but she was praying for the one things that could save the world. The only hope the world has seems to be shattered at that point. Sephiroth has seen her in the middle of the only plan for victory, something Aeris' may have spent year preparing for, and has ruthlessly destroyed that hope with an overwhelming display of shock and awe. This adds even more to the helplessness. There was one plan, one thing that could stop him, and he took seconds to foil it.

We should also look at how this affects Cloud. He has been at the mercy of Sephiroth for years, and mercy is something Sephiroth lacks. It seems to be yet another item in a long line of crimes against Cloud that Sephiroth has committed. Cloud must be wondering why Sephiroth has such a grudge against him. Sephiroth burnt down Cloud's hometown, breaking all his link to the past and killing his mother. Sephiroth had used Cloud as a puppet and was already making him doubt who he was and whether he was in control of his actions. One wonders whether it was simply out of sadism that Sephiroth allowed AVALANCHE to get the black materia instead of sending a flunky to solve the puzzles for him. Perhaps Sephiroth got some joy from letting Cloud think he was saving the world and then forcing him to hand it over, leading him to think instead that he doomed the world.

This must be the greatest crime against Cloud that Sephiroth commits. As we have seen, his timing is brilliant. He lets Cloud think that everything is OK and that he has finally overcome Sephiroth's control. Then, WHAM! In an instant, Cloud's world is torn apart and for the second time, the most important person in his life is killed by Sephiroth.

Let's also look at the significance of Aeris' character. Had any of the characters been murdered in the City of the Ancients, it would have hit the player hard. But Aeris has a special significance.

Firstly, her personality is bright and cheerful, and she is innocent and well-meaning. Although she knows how to defend herself, Aeris is likely to be the character the player feels most protective towards. It is no surprise that in visual novels, the cute, kind and innocent girl who does her best to make everyone happy will nearly always be the perpetrator or the victim of some horrible crime. Usually both. We feel especially violated when these characters are involved in violence because of our image of them. Aeris was not only killed in a sanctuary; she *was* a sanctuary. Aeris is the antithesis of pain, violence and death, so it is all the more shocking when she is killed.

However, that is not the most important thing about her character that one must note. The most important thing is her role in the wider world of FF7.

Firstly, she is the last of her kind. This means that Sephiroth not only commits murder; he commits genocide. He has finished off the last Cetra in existence.

Secondly, Aeris, as a Cetra, has a unique effect on the world of FF7. FF7 has an environmental message, and it is made clear by many characters, both good and bad, that humans are bad for the planet. They suck out its life to use as energy and they were the ones seen by Sephiroth as responsible for the near extermination of the Cetra 2000 years ago.

Aeris is the opposite of this. I couldn't help but notice just how much of a contrast there was between where Aeris lived and the rest of Midgar. Midgar is the ultimate example of the harm that humans are doing to the planet. There are only two places in Midgar where flowers grow and only two places in the slums where one sees sunlight: Aeris' house and the church in sector 5. If one runs around in the sector 5 slums, one will be conscious of the massive change in atmosphere when one goes from the seedy, dead, brown cityscape of the rest of the slum and into Aeris house. The change is huge. Aeris seems to be the one thing that can make flowers grow in the slums and, as we have seen earlier, offers respite from the gloom of day-to-day life in Midgar. Her job as flower girl is interesting because only she can be a flower girl. Without Aeris, I cannot see the flowers blooming for much longer in Midgar.

Aeris, then represents hope and life within the FF7 world. Where everything else is dangerous, she is safe. Where everywhere else is brown and dead, her places are green and blooming. As long as Aeris is around, flowers can grow in the most depressing place in the world, and hope can not die.

Therefore, Sephiroth not only killed the planet's hope by stopping her from summoning Holy, he killed it by killing its human form. He killed the one thing that made everything better. He put out the one light in a world of darkness.

Let's see Kefka top that.

vyst
Aug 25, 2009



Aeris had some nice polygon titties.

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦
Nier

naem
May 29, 2011

Dark souls made me cry because I sucked at it

scuba school sucks
Aug 30, 2012

The brilliance of my posting illuminates the forums like a jar of shining gold when all around is dark
I was really looking forward to Mercenaries Two because Mercenaries One kicked rear end on the PS2 at the time even though it was a little buggy, so I was looking forward to a sequel with more content and polish. I swear to GBS that I cried real tears the day I heard that EA bought the developers.

SD87
Jun 7, 2011
i want to become a pro league of legends player but im not good enough so i cry at night

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




When it became clear the Yakuza series would never again get English releases. :qq:

Laughing Man
Feb 11, 2008
I thought what I’d do was pretend I was one of those deaf mutes, or something...

Network Pesci posted:

I was really looking forward to Mercenaries Two because Mercenaries One kicked rear end on the PS2 at the time even though it was a little buggy, so I was looking forward to a sequel with more content and polish. I swear to GBS that I cried real tears the day I heard that EA bought the developers.

Is that why Mercs 2 sucked so much? gently caress Mercs was one of the best games I ever played, if there was justice in this word it would have blown up bigger than GTA ever was.

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW
I cried when they stole my cloudsong.

lonesomedwarf
Mar 22, 2010

my car was stolen by a viking once so mercenaries triggered me and made me cry

tango alpha delta
Sep 9, 2011

Ask me about my wealthy lifestyle and passive income! I love bragging about my wealth to my lessers! My opinions are more valid because I have more money than you! Stealing the fruits of the labor of the working class is okay, so long as you don't do it using crypto. More money = better than!
Why do people compare Final Fantasy 7 to Hamlet or Macbeth? Do they have no loving perspective? I don't understand. These people make me cry.

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

Internet Kraken posted:

Earthbound probably has the best feel good ending of any game I've played. Nice music plays while you get reminded of all the places you visited during the game. Its rare for a game to make you feel genuinely great about completing it beyond a simple "congraturations hero :downs:".

also you get to play the ending which is awesome and I never really saw that before or since

univbee
Jun 3, 2004




tango alpha delta posted:

Why do people compare Final Fantasy 7 to Hamlet or Macbeth? Do they have no loving perspective? I don't understand. These people make me cry.

Literally :eng101: the Macbeth comparison is somewhat off, but Hamlet has a perfect opportunity to kill his uncle but doesn't take it specifically because he's praying (and has a soliloquy bitching about his poo poo luck, being so close yet so far, because no matter how heinous their crimes you don't assassinate someone mid-prayer, God hates getting interrupted mid-conversation like that). Othello does something sort of similar (Othello asks his wife if she's said her evening prayers and only kills her once she confirms she has). Sephiroth killing someone who's praying and clearly not giving a gently caress about it does establish his character somewhat.

But if the comparison is about the story/writing quality that's doubly hilarious since Final Fantasy 7 is notorious for having a really flawed translation to English (which also impacted the other languages because they all did their translations from the English version :cripes:).

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW
Threads dyin cloud.

Trixie Hardcore
Jul 1, 2006

Placeholder.
If you're playing NES & your stupid brother runs through the room & trips on the cord & knocks your NES on the floor & you have to restart the game from the beginning then it's okay to cry.

Internet Kraken
Apr 24, 2010

slightly amused

Trixie Hardcore posted:

If you're playing NES & your stupid brother runs through the room & trips on the cord & knocks your NES on the floor & you have to restart the game from the beginning then it's okay to cry.

I cried tears of rage as a child when, after finally getting all the pokemon, my dog jumped onto the table to grab my pokemon cartridge and chewed it up :qq:

Hometown Slime Queen
Oct 26, 2004

the GOAT

Internet Kraken posted:

I cried tears of rage as a child when, after finally getting all the pokemon, my dog jumped onto the table to grab my pokemon cartridge and chewed it up :qq:

Killed dog in fit of pokerage

Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW
good dog.

The Croc
Dec 19, 2004

A-well-a everybody's heard about the bird!

OH YEAH!



Indigo Prophecy as I got scared and confused as the game fell off a cliff in storytelling.

Pochoclo
Feb 4, 2008

No...
Clapping Larry

Internet Kraken posted:

I cried tears of rage as a child when, after finally getting all the pokemon, my dog jumped onto the table to grab my pokemon cartridge and chewed it up :qq:

The good dog sensed danger and tried to save you. Considering you're posting on SA, he failed terribly. But he tried.

EmperorFritoBandito
Aug 7, 2010

by exmarx

lalaland posted:

Let's see Kefka top that.

He tops that five or six times before lunch every day.

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



Trixie Hardcore posted:

If you're playing NES & your stupid brother runs through the room & trips on the cord & knocks your NES on the floor & you have to restart the game from the beginning then it's okay to cry.

Thanks for triggering my hampster eating throught my snes wire memory. I'm cryingm. Dead snes.... dead hampster

dirty nub
Jan 19, 2009

To the Moon

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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i cried when i played the witcher 2 because everyone loves it and it turned out to actually kinda suck

bigzak
Aug 15, 2003

Fojar38 posted:

i cried when i played the witcher 2 because everyone loves it and it turned out to actually kinda suck

I agree

ethanol
Jul 13, 2007



Fojar38 posted:

i cried when i played the witcher 2 because everyone loves it and it turned out to actually kinda suck

goons base their adoration for this game on the facial expressions of the men whenever a woman comes into the scene

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Al Borland
Oct 29, 2006

by XyloJW

EmperorFritoBandito posted:

He tops that five or six times before lunch every day.

Pretty much.
Before he got going he started to poisoning kingdoms full of people before breakfast.

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