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What’s a single shot from a game that will haunt you forever?
- Thread starter Futabaisthebest<3
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Ellie holding a knife to an incapacitated Lev because Abby said she wasn't going to fight (and this is after Abby and Lev had been starved, tortured, for who knows how long). Absolute rock-bottom for Ellie. She became a huge piece of shit.
Ellie is a total garbage person, just like Joel. Great characters all around though.
And then Ezio wondering who is Desmond. Yeah, this one is up here for me.
This freaked me out and caught me totally off guard when it became clear that Minerva was talking to Desmond, not Ezio. Was not prepared for that stare.
Can we get some context here? I played through Fable 2 recently, but this looks like something from the DLC which I played 8 years ago lol.
Fable 2
Have to look up the monologue on YouTube once a year and I still get goosebumps.
Almost screamed
The Sorrow fight doesn't really stick with me exactly but in the moment it never fails to creep me out as someone who is very bad at horror games. The first time I played it and saw this I think I shut the game off.
Some other moments -
from Twilight Princess
and this moment from FFXIV Shadowbringers
Some other moments -
from Twilight Princess
and this moment from FFXIV Shadowbringers
"Haunt me forever"? There aren't any. But this is easily the most disturbing image in the thread:
Behind one of the demon doors is a lovely snowy cabin, once you get too close the a scream is shouted and the entire scene changes in an instant. Instead it turns into a burnt down shack with dead bodies and other horrifying stuff.
I finished it a week ago so it's very fresh in my mind
Ellie's quest is 'complete' - she found Abby, or at least what's left from her. This reveal was so tragic - and the follow up fight even moreso because both sides were desperate to survive even though Abby didn't want to fight at all and just wanted to run away with Lev to safety. Ellie's actions here are irredeemable and made me disgusted to take part in that fight (as the player).
This last shot of Ellie after the fight, all broken after sparing Abby's life and staring into the abyss is really powerful imo. It stuck with me for a while after finishing the game. This part of the game made me feel things I never did with any other games to date.
Ellie's quest is 'complete' - she found Abby, or at least what's left from her. This reveal was so tragic - and the follow up fight even moreso because both sides were desperate to survive even though Abby didn't want to fight at all and just wanted to run away with Lev to safety. Ellie's actions here are irredeemable and made me disgusted to take part in that fight (as the player).
This last shot of Ellie after the fight, all broken after sparing Abby's life and staring into the abyss is really powerful imo. It stuck with me for a while after finishing the game. This part of the game made me feel things I never did with any other games to date.
I can't really think of something exactly. My only guess would be Arthur saying "I'm afraid," to the Nun?
The end of Life is Strange episode 3
Where Max enters the alternate timeline and Chloe is paralyzed even though Max had good intentions by saving William
Just gonna save my game real quick
(doesn't really haunt me as such, but the moment was very much "oh shit")
YesI finished it a week ago so it's very fresh in my mind
Ellie's quest is 'complete' - she found Abby, or at least what's left from her. This reveal was so tragic - and the follow up fight even moreso because both sides were desperate to survive even though Abby didn't want to fight at all and just wanted to run away with Lev to safety. Ellie's actions here are irredeemable and made me disgusted to take part in that fight (as the player).
This last shot of Ellie after the fight, all broken after sparing Abby's life and staring into the abyss is really powerful imo. It stuck with me for a while after finishing the game. This part of the game made me feel things I never did with any other games to date.
the protag never did learn the difference between Copy/Paste and Cut/Paste
one of the game narratives that'll always stick with me
Once a week I remember this expression and hits hard.
Honestly I'd have to agree with this. TLoU:P2 had its fair share of problems in retrospect but something about those final few scenes, and the sheer 'rawness' of the emotions on display really got to me; I can't put it into words, I suppose. I just feel a deep sense of... something whilst thinking back on those moments.
Would love if they came out with a statue of this moment. I've genuinely been thinking of getting the Collector's Edition to have some sort of memorabilia from the game, but I'm not a fan of the whole "omg so edgy she's playing guitar with an open wound on her head woooow," thing lol
Yeah, gotta give props to ND's tech and Ashley's acting here. Both delivered the best they could in this scene.
Tails is dead because you fucking failed.
This is a good one. Spent all that time trying to beat this bullshit and you get rewarded with that because you didn't find the emeralds.
And if you actually get all the emeralds they both die and you realize Sonic 2 is a video game adaption of 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and the entire game was the dying fantasy of Sonic after being defeated by Robotnik sometime after Sonic 1.
And if you actually get all the emeralds they both die and you realize Sonic 2 is a video game adaption of 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and the entire game was the dying fantasy of Sonic after being defeated by Robotnik sometime after Sonic 1.
just want to say kudos for the literary reference hope I'm not the only one who gets it
Man that's a deep cut. I loved the first Suffering game a lot. Criminally underrated
The Suffering.
Context: you're looking at CCTV monitors in the prison, which are scanning channels randomly. You see a bunch of messed up stuff going down on some of the cameras. Then the channel goes to a feed of YOU in the monitor room... and that other guy is in the room with you, shambling towards you. I never hit the B button so fast! Then you turn around... and he isn't there anymore...
Haha, one of the endings of Silent Hill 1 basically cribs the entire idea from that story, actually!
Super weird because I referenced the story today (An Occurrence At Owl Creek) - in a completely unrelated discussion before this one. What're the odds!?
Funnily enough I've never actually read the story (although I have read some other short stories by Bierce IIRC), but know of it via Jacob's Ladder. I should read it sometime.
so it's not scary at all, but a shot that has stuck with me is from near the end of Life Is Strange: Before the Storm ep 1, where Chloe (spoilers for that ep and the original LiS) is raging at everything in the junkyard and then discovers the car that her dad died in
Knowing what happens seeing her go from sore, but ultimately teenage rage to pure, absolute pain and sadness just kills me inside.
Knowing what happens seeing her go from sore, but ultimately teenage rage to pure, absolute pain and sadness just kills me inside.
