News David Cage: Emotions are hard to tackle in games

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06/26/david-cage-emotions-hard-to-tackle-in-games/1

David Cage, the director of Fahrenheit and Omikron, explains how his new game will attempt to tackle emotions in a brand new way.

 

The uncanny valley is UNBREAKABLE!

 

LOL

 

After playing through the HL2 series, the end of Episode 2 was a bit emotional... Heart-wretching and horrific at the same time.

 

LMAO!!

 

I don't know whether it's the insane pile of games that seem to be designed to make you hate the main character (Sorry, but I've had enough of the macho, giant gun toting Rambo ********, unless it's Duke Nukem), but I've recently found it even harder to get drawn into the 'emotional' side of games.

There were sections of GTAIV that were supposed to be really sad, I assume, but due to Niko being a completely unlikable, schizofrenic(sp?) assclown (IMO) I was sat there thinking "I really don't care. Where's the nearest Aston Martin styled car?"

I WANT to care about the main character, or any character, but they're just.. Really making it hard to give a crap these days. Last game I actually cared about any character in was Meryl in MGS1. Which is a damned long time in gaming.

 

i dunno about emotion but i sure wanted to save the human race in mass effect

 

Not true.

Quake covers all these quite well:
Love: "I really love the BFG"
Joy: "I'm having a great time shooting the BFG"
Sadness: "Oh no, I've run out of ammo for the BFG"
Jealousy: "Someone else has a BFG and I only have this crappy pistol"
Anger: "Damn, someone just shot me with their BFG"
Shame: "I think I might have peed myself when I got the BFG"

See? All the emotions covered.

 

I'm sorry. You've got it all wrong.

It is Doom, not Quake.

XD

 

All emotions covered, very shallowly.

 

There's a BFG in Quake (III Arena, the others I cannot remember clearly) as well.

 

Maybe there should be a game about going shopping.

 

I personally enjoyed Fahrenheit quite a bit, even if it was a little slow-going for my FPS-dulled attention span.

 

I cried for weeks after being forced to euthanize my beloved Weighted Companion Cube.

 

One doesn't have to look far in video game history to find emotions, such as love. Take the very first Mario Bros game, where Mario rescues the princess. If that's not love, I don't know what is. I'd be ****ed if I ever find myself walking on a retractable bridge above lava, with a 20 tonne menacing fire-breathing monster on the other side... There's other fish in the sea...

 

I think it's more to do with getting the player to feel that love to. Personally, I've never even liked Princess Peach, the whiny b***h...

 

...still have to play Farenheit...been installed for ages, as my girlfriend played it...