Poster Claiming to be IW Dev Weighs in on MW2 Furor

Exactly, as I said earlier, this is no different to scenes from some films, however, the purpose is, in general, to invoke an emotional response. Though, admittedly, Slasher movies are frequently so badly made that it's hard to empathise with someone who you are actually hoping will hurry up and die. So if it succeeds in creating such a response then it means the scene was well made, if it doesn't, then it means it wasn't, at least for you, which seems a bit strange, because it's invoked an emotional response in most people have viewed, be that response positive or negative.

Who really thinks that though?

-Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis-It is best to endure what you cannot change-

Oh come on. Surely you've gotten emotional (as in upset/sad) from a movie before. In Titanic, when all of those innocent people are dying. In I Am Legend when his dog dies. Maybe even Zombieland when you find out the truth about Talahassee's "pup" (which was particularly emotional for me because my best friend's dad was sitting right next to me in the theater when we saw it together. My best friend had passed away in August, I can't imagine how his dad felt). I wasn't bawwing my eyes out or anything, it just seemed to hit home to me, something about innocent people dying. Try watching Flight 93, which is based off of the plane that crashed into a field in Pennslyvania in the 9-11 attacks without getting any emotional response. I think my response was fairly appropriate if we are looking for video games to be considered more as a serious art form instead of just "lolz fun killin ppl," being able to garner emotional responses from people, in the same way that depressing scenes from movies can make an emotional response.

Jeez, I say one sentence and everyone assumes that I'm a giant pussy or something. Different crimes/deaths/situations hit home a lot harder for different people, and this one hit hard for me. This is coming from a guy that LAUGHS at accidental death videos seen online and gore pictures that are posted on 4chan, yet still assisted the internet in tracking down that douchebag that was torturing his cat and posting vids of it online. Some things are just really emotional for me. A good example is a speech about dog grooming that a student gave a couple weeks after my dog who I had had since I was 5 died. That speech for whatever reason was just really depressing for me.

Also, I *do* have mild depression and/or bi-polar disorder (I stopped seeing the psychiatrist before he made a formal diagnosis), I might've just been sad that day.

-Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis-It is best to endure what you cannot change-

Uh...that's exactly what I'm saying. I got to THINKING because of this scene. This elevates this game to the status of any movie that has made me have a similar feeling (come on, surely you've cried during Titanic or something before, died at the depiction of hundreds of innocent deaths). Of course I know it's a game, just like Titanic is a movie. But the actions in the game (like the deaths in the movie) are based off of real life events that have cost hundreds/thousands of lives, and it got an emotional response out of me. That's a good thing. The feeling I got would be closely compared to when
*SPOILER ALERT FOR THE MOVIE "I AM LEGEND"*
his dog got infected, and Will Smith had to put him down the in the emotional way that he did. Not enough to bring me to tears, but enough to get a "oh wow... imagine if that were true, I couldn't handle losing my only companion that I've had for the past 3 years, etc," and make me get a little queasy inside.

-Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis-It is best to endure what you cannot change-