[ SECRET POST #1552 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1552 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 09 pages, 205 secrets from Secret Submission Post #222.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ], [ 1 - unreadable ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

13. http://i54.tinypic.com/2lma2qw.png

[theditz.livejournal.com]

Don't let anyone ever tell you how emotional you should or should not get because of a game. If your friends are giving you crap then you put your foot down and tell them to stop telling you what to do with your life.

[views.livejournal.com]

don't be ashamed! I'm your age and I cried like a little bitch today when I finished Bioshock.

this isn't really directed to you, but I find it very, very strange that it's considered somewhat pathetic to cry over video games. I mean, you're involved with a game for at least ten hours or so, whereas movies consume only a few hours of your life. in a way, I think vidya-induced tears are far more sensible than those caused by films.

[caterfree10.livejournal.com]

I completely agree. When you look at games like Pokemon (or Bioshock or Kingdom Hearts or any other long ass game*), you're looking at 10, 20, 30, 40+ hours learning about the characters and connecting with them. It only makes sense that the same emotional reactions one can get from movies (which only last ~2-2.5 hours, occasionally longer) or books (...okay admittedly, some books/book series can take that long to read). But no~ video games are only playtoys made for children, it is clearly impossible for them to induce any kind of emotions in people besides YAY THIS IS FUN. /hates current culture so much

*and by long, I mean games that last longer than movie/tv show tie in games - I was legit shocked when I was able to finish an Avatar the Last Airbender game in less than four hours.

[blackjackrocket.livejournal.com]

Ugh for so many reasons. First the assumption that older people can't connect with games for kids, and the assumption that because something is made for kids somehow means that it has to be devoid of meaning or emotion.

Has that EVER been the case, in any culture anywhere at any time?

[caterfree10.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, tbh. It's like, crying at Disney films = normal, but crying at a video game = you're an idiot and/or read too much into things. So much cognitive dissonance, I cannot fathom it. *rubs temples* I almost blame the fact that because they're labeled as video games, which makes a lot of people who aren't familiar with video games themselves dismiss them thinking all video games are along the lines of, say Pong or whatever and don't grasp how a game can have a storyline or memorable characters or what have you. :/

[(Anonymous)]

itt let's admit silly times that we cried (or got a bit choked up, at least) at games! Mine: Portal (during the song - not sure why. They were tears of joy, I tell you!), ME2 (Normandy Reborn scene), and the end of Deadly Premonition (don't want to give spoilers...). So yeah OP, don't feel bad, you're not the only one haha :)

[cheshirecgrin.livejournal.com]

I had a similar feeling at the end of the game. It's really weird, like I was feeling my childhood end. It kind of hit me in that moment that I'm no longer a kid, that I'm an adult now. It hit me how much I'd changed and my world had changed since the first time I played a Pokemon game. I didn't cry but I came damn close.

And age should not be a factor. I'm almost 21.

_{Also, find some friends that like the game.}

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

I didn't literally cry but the ending did really hit me. Normally I'm solidly "I don't play Pokemon for the plot," but this one had a really killer ending.

And I have cried at video games. I cried twice playing Final Fantasy VI.

I'm 43.

[cheshirecgrin.livejournal.com]

I know I've cried at video games before, but I can't remember which ones.
Arguably, at the end of Pokemon Black it would have been better if I had cried because what hit me instead was this sort of horrible emptiness in the realization that I'm not a kid anymore.

I would have preferred to cry over just sitting there with that feeling.

[torakaka.livejournal.com]

Don't be ashamed! People that tell you it's stupid for you to get emotional over a video game are losers. I hate that everyone thinks it's okay to get emotional over tv or movies but not video games, when I think they're the best story telling medium these days.

[kallanda-lee.livejournal.com]

I had this when Generation X was cancelled. felt like the end of my childhood. And the sad thing is most people won't even know what I'm talking about...

[gs-disaronno.livejournal.com]

I felt the whole "end of my childhood" thing too, and I got kinda teary-eyed (especially since I named my character after myself, and N says something like "you can change the world, (name)". But hey, not being a kid anymore doesn't mean I have to stop enjoying Pokémon. I play video games, and Pokémon is one of the most successful and enjoyable games series of all time. So I will play it.

[corvigryph.livejournal.com]

That is really sweet, OP. The nice thing about pokemon is that there are over 500 of them and you can keep re-starting your adventure if you really want to.

Your childhood may be over but the little things FROM your childhood don't have to disappear! <3

[lljscrawls.livejournal.com]

Dude, I cried when I finished Black, and I still think that's what GF was going for. I mean, "N's Farewell" is a piano version of the Love Theme from Mother 3. You can't get me to believe that wasn't on purpose. As if the ending itself isn't emotional enough for people who loved N as a character, what with him basically telling you that you changed him, he doesn't know what he's going to do now but he has to figure it out, goodbye, etc., they had to go in and add that music. I believe the scene wouldn't have been half as emotional without the music, and as such the emotions just got shoved into overdrive.

An interesting note, though -- there's a track called "N's Farewell ~Refrain~" on the soundtrack that I didn't hear anywhere in the game (maybe I just haven't gotten to it yet, but yeah). It's the same track, but much more uplifting rather than sad. This gives me hope for Pokemon Gray. =D

TL;DR: Don't be ashamed, OP. You're not alone. And as someone whose best friend constantly looks down on video games, please tell whoever tells you that you shouldn't get emotionally attached to fuck off. That's what I tell my BFF. Video games are even more adept at gripping me than movies, personally, because I'm interacting with them, rather than just staring mindlessly at the screen. Seriously, don't be ashamed at all. You are nowhere near alone.

[(Anonymous)]

Aww, it's OK. I kinda felt the same way the last time I played through Crystal Version... though, that was several years ago. It didn't happen in Black, but the ending of Black was definitely strong.

(Maybe it would've hit me harder if I'd gone through the game over a longer period of time instead of just rushing through it and then BAM it's over...)

[masked-creator.livejournal.com]

Thanks for inspiring me to actually play this game all the way through, OP. (I love HG and SS and I still haven't finished those, argh.)

[illittorate.livejournal.com]

I definitely teared up, and I'm 20. I probably would have full-on cried if I hadn't been playing in public. The ending was so strong. I liked the credits music too /slightly irrelevant

I cried at the end of the second two Layton games too. AND THE END OF POKÉMON MYSTERY DUNGEON 2. Oh mannn.

OP needs to find some Pokémon-playing friends. I'm always sad when people younger than me are looked down on for playing a "kid's game" because almost all of my friends play Pokémon.

[joatamon.livejournal.com]

Be not ashamed, Anon. Why in the world shouldn't you get emotional over a game?

Okay, well, if this secret was about Minesweeper, embarrassment would make a little more sense. You click the wrong tile, you blow up, game over, it's just not complicated enough to angst over.

But Pokemon B/W? If you read the comments of almost any of the other secrets on it, you'll see the kind of effect it had on players, many feeling exactly like you. _{Personally, I started crying when that one Plasma grunt admitted to bonding with her Pokemon. So so sad.}

Ohh, and don't let the jerks in your life give you crap for the things you like. (Unless you smoke or something, in which case smoking's bad, mkay?) "Friends" like that can shove it. Or, well, they don't have to shove it entirely, but don't let them belittle you over things like what video games you like. Part of growing up is developing your own conviction, after all. :)

[bandnerd88.livejournal.com]

I didn't cry at the end of Pokemon Black, but I think that was solely because it was 3 AM and I was trying to finish so that I could go to sleep because I had to be up in a couple hours. But under normal circumstances, I bet you anything I would've cried. And I've cried at plenty of games. There's nothing wrong with it.

And hey, if it makes you feel any better - I realized that at the rate we get new gens (once every four years or so) I will be like 27 when the new gen comes out. Which means that I will definitely be married and possibly have a kid, or at least be pregnant. And guess what? I bet you I'll still play it. Childhood may be over, but that doesn't mean we can't keep some of the things that made/make us happy. :)

(But I totally understand that "whoa, my childhood is kind of gone" feeling and how much it sucks. I had one of those, too.)

[avroillusion.livejournal.com]

Your friends are mean.

I think it's because N decided he had to go out there and start experiencing the world and trying to understand people. I'd like to travel too, someday. There's this person I know who spent some time travelling the world, and I think he's just such a smart, admirable person.

Also, the ending theme is fuck awesome.