depressive vs non depressive games

[compboyo]

DO you feel some games make you depressed....seriously.

Like I was playing Shenmue and the quiet atmosphere makes me quite depressed. Like playing many rpg games I think make me depressed somewhat especially ff8....but its weird its still enjoyable.

Like fallout 3 was depressing and I feel kinda depressed when I play it but I still like it. But fallout new vegas depresses me so much I cant play it.

Then I play mafia 2 and man the story quite depressing and slow driving depresses me

I guess like a dark movie, maybe its depressing but yo still watch it?

Then I was playing online PES and losing and making no shots I get depressed/

I try BF3 beta and I suck and our team was crap and I get frustrated/depressed.

lol


But then I play red faction armageddon and smash stuff up I was happy, I play tropico and its fun, I play l4d online and killing spree, I top player in bfbc2...I feel happy

 

[compboyo]

maybe I need to play

''Just Cuase 2''


I miss old GTA3,VC,SA

maybe saints row 3 will cheer me up

was gonna buy fifa 12 but I dunno

I look forward to full release of bf3 and getting good at it.

maybe ill play MW1 cod4 again...still many players?

 

[compboyo]

+

take away and some alcohol

 

[compboyo]

yes there is something about the loneliness off resident evil and such that is depressing, quiet, alone, in corridors lol.

ff7 I am playing onpssp and completed before its not as dark as ff8 and has much more colour in the enironmenet and characters as does ff9 but still i think rpgs and such have a ''lonely'' dark feel to them...whereas a game like super smahs bros doesnt.

When I play shenmue i feel like im this dude in japan and my dads been killed and im on my own just wandering about aimlessley its pretty depressing stuff

 

[compboyo]

If FF8 was depressing you playing it wrong, sure it had emotinal scenes but was awesome the whole way through. Cheer up, its only a game.

not depressing..i dunno the word...but ff8 us very dark moody game IMO.

As was Fallout 3.

Fallout vegas maybe it just bores me too death I cant play it.

Dead Space 1+2 I thorughly enjoyed and didnt feel depreesive but I was alone on a spaceship with alines..maybe I was too exicted to be depressed.

I think I cba with long story rpgs atm.

 

[compboyo]

maybe its where your at in life (no homo)

if you are lonley and depressed and play fallout 3 its a bit like listening to Radiohead when maybe Snoop Doggy DOg woudl be a bit more better for you. If youve been busy at work or study/life and wnat to lose your mind then fallout 3 is ideal, your in a dark spooky world. Nice change of pace.

Anyway I can safely say after 2 hours Just Cause 2 is like an anti-depressenat. Everyone should play that game it should be on the NHS...just blowing stuff up and the scenary..ace

Also maybe Im confusing depressing for boredom. If you feel bored its like dperessed? when I try to play fallout new vegas I get so fed up, walking for miles, ages to kill bad guys, so much rptitive of fallout 3.

Maybe online fps bore me as I play fps like 10 years everyday lol

 

[compboyo]

When I feel down I open up the latest compboyo thread.

When I feel down I make the latest compboyo thread.

 

[compboyo]

only thing that depresses me is you!

i am easily avoided you have an easy life

 

[compboyo]

must just be the games im playing cause after playing just cause 2 and fifa 12 i feel amazing.

wow fifa 12 is so good

 

[compboyo]

"those abandoned factories littered about filled with mutants?"

Man I hate games like this, plus anything with catacombs, that instantly rules it out for me. I hated the catacombs in Indiana Jones too but I persisted due to the awsomeness of the game, only that though, shame as it rules out all RPG's.

Yeah I'm a scardy cat

what indiana jones game.

same in oblivion..lots of caves

 

[compboyo]

As others have pointed out, depressing isn't really the correct term for what you're describing.

I personally enjoy a moodier atmosphere sometimes. For some reason, I love it when it's overcast and raining in GTA games. I loved Heavy Rain's atmosphere, and in Company of Heroes, I prefer it when it's raining.

You need to look at the content of those games. Shenmue and Final Fantasy VIII are not cheerful games, so it would be odd if the atmosphere was happy-go-lucky, just as it would be odd if you put Heavy Rain's soundtrack in a Mario game.

tRUE i ALSO LIKE RIAN IN GAMES, DRIVING in rain at night in GTA with nice music is amazing....driving in rain in just casue 2 in jungle etc...

Playing pes/fifa in rain.

I recall a level in enemy territoy which was in rain.

I love rain in video games.


But yeh some games liek metor and stalker are not meant to be happy dont mean they are not enjoyable. Like a horror movie it has its role.

I guess if you are depressed or in a low mood wtaching a horror movie is not a good ida as is playing fallout 3.