CoachKevin
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I picked this up on one of the gamefly PC sales for $5 a few months back after hearing that the story was worth experiencing...
On the day I bought it, I booted it up, and put in about 90 minutes before finding it pretty boring and being distracted by other games.
Between yesterday and today I went through the whole game and I honestly felt disgusting as a gamer through much of the play through. I think a major part of it is related to my feelings about the tragedy in CT this past week. Blowing dudes heads off, especially American soldiers didn't give me that, "Fuck Yeah!" emotion that I usually get from killing locust in Gears or Zombies in L4D.
The choices that you are making were also interesting and I was surprised about the amount of choice I had (like shooting warning shots into the sky instead of the crowd), even if it did not matter in the end.
Then there were the scenes with dozens of people hanging from light posts...And the major event of you killing all the innocent civilians...Not just by shooting them, but burning them alive. Throughout the play through the most I could play is 30-45 minutes at a time because of how over stimulating and graphic it was.
All of that had a much bigger impact on me than the final reveal, that you basically were the, "bad guy."
Having just put the controller down, I feel sick to my stomach and have no interest in playing another shooter anytime soon. Maybe I just need to spend a few weeks dedicated to the SNES and my portables...
How did you guys feel after finishing the game? Am I just overreacting?
On the day I bought it, I booted it up, and put in about 90 minutes before finding it pretty boring and being distracted by other games.
Between yesterday and today I went through the whole game and I honestly felt disgusting as a gamer through much of the play through. I think a major part of it is related to my feelings about the tragedy in CT this past week. Blowing dudes heads off, especially American soldiers didn't give me that, "Fuck Yeah!" emotion that I usually get from killing locust in Gears or Zombies in L4D.
The choices that you are making were also interesting and I was surprised about the amount of choice I had (like shooting warning shots into the sky instead of the crowd), even if it did not matter in the end.
Then there were the scenes with dozens of people hanging from light posts...And the major event of you killing all the innocent civilians...Not just by shooting them, but burning them alive. Throughout the play through the most I could play is 30-45 minutes at a time because of how over stimulating and graphic it was.
All of that had a much bigger impact on me than the final reveal, that you basically were the, "bad guy."
Having just put the controller down, I feel sick to my stomach and have no interest in playing another shooter anytime soon. Maybe I just need to spend a few weeks dedicated to the SNES and my portables...
How did you guys feel after finishing the game? Am I just overreacting?