mostly it is adventure games and rpg's which had longlasting effects upon my mood
after having completed them...
to mention a few, the eye of the beholder series as well as the ultima series were
extremely intense. furthermore many lucasfilm adventures managed to held me
spellbound long after i had completed them, for all the characters and the stories
were so lovely that i missed them alot, just like "friends" you have to say goodbye to.
generally for me it's always a question of how much i could identify with games'
protagonists - the way they look like, move, act, communicate is what brings them
close to my mind.
this is especially true for old games. in new games it is more the graphics and effects
which made these games memorable, not their charismatic expression.
i think this is due to the fact, that old games concentrated mainly on atmosphere that is
created mainly by the story, because the story had to balance out the "lack" of audio-
visual technique. nowadays the most effective aspects of games are in their visual
appearance, which - in my opinion - often aims for balancing out weaknesses of their
plots.
so there has been a certain switch of intensity - appearance is more valuable than
story, back in the old days it was the other way round.
but of course there are as well many new productions which contain great atmosphere
by story. for example there is "the longest journey" or "syberia" which are top-notch
adventures with great contents, or "undying" being a truely frightful and intense horrorshooter.
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