Poetic thief on 25/5/2010 at 23:55
Can you guys recommend any games where your character feels like a hero?
Let me explain what I mean. In Hellgate London, you can play an engineer. There was a moment when I was alone in the sewers, and I only had my robots to keep me company.
I imagined that they were my companions, and pretended to go to sleep while they kept watch. (3 of these robots are like flying cameras, so they literally were keeping watch over me.)
I got this incredible feeling and I thought to myself, "here I am, sleeping alone in the sewers, fighting creatures that would kill an ordinary human in one swipe."
It's hard to explain. I just want to know if there is any other game that recaptures that feeling of being alone and surrounded by foes that would easily kill a normal human being. Yet, you are able to survive.
Hellgate london, despite the flaws, managed to capture that sensation very, very well with foreboding atmosphere as you're alone in the sewers.
Jason Moyer on 26/5/2010 at 00:01
Like 3/4 of every PC game made in the past 15 years?
steo on 26/5/2010 at 00:28
Doom. If you can take a baron of hell with berserk fists.
Poetic thief on 26/5/2010 at 00:35
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Like 3/4 of every PC game made in the past 15 years?
Really? Maybe you're right, or maybe you misinterpreted me. Can you name some specifics please if there are so many?
catbarf on 26/5/2010 at 01:10
Quote Posted by Poetic thief
any games where your character feels like a hero?
Like Jason said, just about every FPS ever, barring perhaps survival horror games that deliberately make you feel weak so you're scared.
Tonamel on 26/5/2010 at 01:19
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Stalker
Fallout 3
Serious Sam
ercles on 26/5/2010 at 01:31
Did the robots touch you in special places while you slept? This seems to be how most fan fiction ends.
Poetic thief on 26/5/2010 at 02:19
Quote Posted by Tonamel
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
Stalker
Fallout 3
Serious Sam
yeah, I think you're on the right track here. :D
I should have emphasized that the
loneliness/sense of isolation was big part of what I'm trying to talk about.
I guess my original post was unclear. it wouldn't be the first time i failed to adequately communicate something.
Jason Moyer on 26/5/2010 at 02:31
Penumbra is probably the loneliest game I've ever played. Even the parts in the second game where you wish you were more lonely. :)
Tonamel on 26/5/2010 at 02:36
Also, while not a PC game, the greatest lonely/powerful game out there is probably Shadow of the Colossus.
