does the game make you feel good or depressed?

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something like a good round of Battlefield, the type that makes adrenaline or something come out, can make me feel happy afterwards.
I guess it would be because it made me feel like I accomplished something (without actually doing it), or because adrenaline or something is still there, or maybe good chemicals go into your body after your body is excited.

but then something like a dark part of a STALKER game or mod, where it is lonely or sad, doesn't make me feel sad afterwards or actually sad during it. Maybe even happy afterwards, because a game managed to make a feeling that is really really mild and different than actually being sad, but something was there and that's pretty coool.

a scary game like SCP: Containment Breach would probably make me scared to walk around at night afterwards.

Sometimes I get different "feelings" from different games... for instance, if I play the Wind Waker, I get a kind of adventurous and almost care free feeling from it. If I play Silent Hill 2 I get a sad feeling from it. If I play Pokemon I get a competitive feel from it. These aren't things I feel myself, but feelings I feel the game projects.

If a game has well developed, likable characters and something especially good or bad happens to them, then I suppose I feel a little happy or sad. Or if a game has a big epic climax, I feel a bit excited. Mostly though I just feel interested, and less bored than I would be if I wasn't playing it.

Edit: In Final Fantasy XIII-2 there's a chapter called A Dying World, with an extremely bleak and lonely environment, dark except for a fabulous crimson sunset, very somber music playing, etc. That really got me lol. They did an absolutely fantastic job with the atmosphere there.

Any Dragonball Z game makes me feel happy because of the nostalgia factor. It reminds me of my childhood.

Same goes for any other game based on an anime from my childhood. Like InuYasha Secret of the Cursed mask or YuYu Hakusho Dark Tournament.

Braid makes me feel depressed because it has a very depressing ending.

Grandia 3 makes me very happy because it's got such a nice atmosphere. I've never said this about a game before, but it's got great charm. The game is extremely polished, the story is very interesting thanks to the very well done cutscenes and great voice acting. (Aside from Alfina's voice actress.)

Don't really know any. Though If I play some games when I'm feeling unhappy, a lot of times it tends to make me feel irritatedand frustrated. That's when picking up an old favorite game and getting lost in it can usually make me feel better.

A few games did this.

Twisted Metal Black on the PS2 had such a depressing vibe I sold it. I don't have a problem with dark or depressing games in general, or ever, actually, but Twisted Metal Black just had this incredible blue monday feeling.

On the other hand Chrono Cross gave me a very happy feeling, the game's atmosphere was so absorbing with beautiful locations, paradiselike weather and happy, loveable characters.

Those are 2 games I can recall that actually changed my mood significantly.

i dont know about down and depressed....but ive played games that absolutely make me giddy...usually my old games for nostalgic reasons....

games are like time markers for me. if i was playing a game around the time i was feeling down and depressed in real life, i tend to not play it because there are memories attached to them...but not the content itself. i guess im not as into a game to bring those kind of emotions....

I used to love playing alternate history games like Freedom Fighters and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty for this reason- watchinng the invasion of the russians or the germans inspired a sense of horror in me when I considered it from a 'what if' viewpoint. Other games make me feel like a badass, but of differennt shades- WET and Arkham City make me feel like an angry badass, Captain America: Super Soldier makes me feel like a heroic badass, and WH40K: Space Marine makes me feel like a righteous badass(although the scope of the conflict, interaction with the NPCs, and audiologs add to the same kind of horror I mentioned above).El_Zo1212o

Where you been El Z, haven't seen you around in a while?

[QUOTE="El_Zo1212o"]I used to love playing alternate history games like Freedom Fighters and Turning Point: Fall of Liberty for this reason- watchinng the invasion of the russians or the germans inspired a sense of horror in me when I considered it from a 'what if' viewpoint. Other games make me feel like a badass, but of differennt shades- WET and Arkham City make me feel like an angry badass, Captain America: Super Soldier makes me feel like a heroic badass, and WH40K: Space Marine makes me feel like a righteous badass(although the scope of the conflict, interaction with the NPCs, and audiologs add to the same kind of horror I metioned above).MirkoS77

Where you been El Z, haven't seen you around in a while?

Dead or Alive Extreme games make me depressed, because they remind me that in the age of the internet there are still people ready to pay $60 for some softcore pornBlack_Knight_00

Way to ruin my day, now I am depressed.

Games like Uncharted have always cheered me up because of how 'soft-hearted' they feel. Funny characters, great adventures and overall games like that just feel rewarding. Then there's games like The Darkness which, as the title already kinda explains, are darker toned. The mood is depressing. Even after succesfully completing a chapter, I feel a bit down because the story still remains sad lol.