Them. Too brutal, cannot watch.
Ahsoka leaving Anakin, both times.
Ahsoka is the best girl, but does Anakin even deserve her? Could she fix him right?
For me it was Nier: Automata after the Pascal’s rage. I just dropped my controller and cried for an hour. Their hatred, their loss… I couldn’t even find a space to place it. To place myself. Anywhere. Anyhow. I felt defective.
Nier automata never clicked with me and I feel kinda sad for it. It’s my most hated good game
It’s OK. Yoko Taro is an outlier and a niche in himself. I, for example, can’t even enjoy Souls games besides Bloodborne, and I feel a little sad about it. But what games are to your taste?
Outer wilds, Katana zero, Disco elysium. Games that gets me emotional. For me, Nier was way too pretentious and anime for me to care about its world
I’m yet to try Disco or Katana, but I’d do, eventually. Any suggestions before I dive into them?
Go in blind For disco elysium, failing the checks are part of the fun too
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye. i can handle horror just fine, but Echoes of the Eye is on entirely another level of horror than most everything else. i was only able to complete about a third of it before i got too psyched out to continue
Eote is a masterpiece and I had to rly battle my fears to do it. Unlike the base game, you can play it in smaller pieces if playing it gets overwhelming
Is that some kind of DLC to an original game?
EOTE Spoilers
I think what’s crazy about eote is that you figure things out that make everything visible, and once you understand how things work it really shouldn’t be scary anymore… but it is. As soon as you go back into the lantern’s bubble you’re just consumed by darkness and it feels just as scary as it was before - even though you know exactly what’s in the dark.
Black Swan. Too intense for me, although I’ll probably try to finish it sometime.
Another Darren Aranofsky’s movie? Yeah, he’s aiming at piercing you, whenever you want it or not. And that one isn’t the worst of his.
One of my favorite movies…that I will absolutely never watch again.
The documentary Dominion that is narrated by Joaquin Phoenix.
I had to stop about 16 minutes in. I did come back and finish it the next day.
You humans will laugh, but for me, it was Marley and Me, a film that allows you to watch a dog live and then die.
i was a fun loving guy with a golden and I met my Jennifer Anniston so it was just too similar and painful and remembering my dog makes me sad.
There’s a reason https://www.doesthedogdie.com/ exists after all
Any time my wife and I are watching a horror movie and see a pet, I immediately pause and go check.
If the answer is yes, I look for the times to skip, and ask her if she wants to keep watching knowing what happens.
So far we’ve only ever skipped parts for two movies, usually it’s just a “let’s find another movie”
I should have done that for “I am legend”
Grave of the Fireflies, a Ghibli film. Stopped it a couple times. Ended up finishing it eventually, wish I never had.
I’ve heard so much about it and never watched it. I love the Ghiblis though
It’s not Miyazaki but it’s a masterpiece nonetheless.
Yeah, that film crushed me.
This exists and is one of my favorite / most horrible shelf decorations
Silent Hill 2.
I was playing it at night at a campground that was terrifying by itself at night. My roommate had gone to sleep and I was getting more and more scared as the night went on. I couldn’t find a save point and I was getting frantic just trying to save my game and go to sleep. I couldn’t find one after an hour or so so I said fuck it and turned it off.
Cue a mouse eating something in our loft or some other small animal making it so I had to wake up my roommate telling him I need to talk for a minute to a real person before falling asleep. I didn’t sleep much that night and didn’t pick the game up for another 6 months.
Played it in the day time with people in the room. Fuck that game and it’s still one of my favorites of all time to make me feel that way.
And I thought I wouldn’t see a SH2 comment here, silly me.
How does it age for you? For me, it looks pretty nice, comfy, with all these PS1 gfx. Still haunting. But I guess it’s not the same for everyone.
I don’t know if this counts, but I own multiple copies of Spiritfarer and haven’t played it yet, because my mother suddenly passed away shortly before I learned about the game, and just watching the trailer still breaks me up a bit.
edit: sigh correction, just thinking about the trailer breaks me up a bit
Welcome to the no mom club. It sucks. It gets easier, but not for two years….
It’s… heart-wrenching.
I haven’t played it in over a year and just can’t bring myself to fully finish it. I think I was right there, but I just… can’t.
Just thinking about it makes me misty.
I hope you’re in a better place emotionally now. But maybe continue to put off playing, unless you feel you’re ready to stare some potentially difficult things directly in the face.
Thank you for the kind words. I could tell from the trailer and reviews that it’s a beautiful, glorious labor of love that I definitely need to play… someday. I’m not there yet, but I will have a generous supply of tissues available when it happens.
Take care of yourself. 🫂
Yup, Spiritfarer is my answer too. I played up through the first person to pass on and then couldn’t keep going.
It counts. And I hope you are in a better place now.
Mr. Robot. I think I got a few seasons in and realised that watching it was negatively impacting my mental health. It’s just too depressing in parts, amazing show though. Its on hold for me to rewatch when I’ve got the emotional capacity for it.
I’ve already watched it, but my husband and I are going through it again because he hasn’t seen it. We binge watch most shows, but Mr. Robot is HEAVY and it gets heavier and weirder until the end.
My advice while watching it is to detach from the characters. Accept that anyone can die at any moment, often horribly, but know that the ending is bitter-sweet and that the show is absolutely worth the watch
Finished it this morning, it’s quite the rollercoaster and it gets even darker in the last season before getting lighter… My girlfriend needed a couple of breaks to get through it so don’t feel bad, it’s not for everyone…
The George Floyd video.
I watched maybe a minute of it the day it came out and that was enough for me forever.
Same there. I watched a lot of horror movies and another kinds of gore, and it felt like I almost lost my senses at all, but the way Chauvin did that filled me with so much confusion, hatred and sadness I couldn’t stand watching it. So routine, so senseless, like he’s used to do this daily and likes it. I felt sick. And I want this mfer to rot.
With horror movies, you at least have that layer of knowing it’s not real. Seeing the real horrors of mankind without that to protect you is truly disturbing.
The Gantz manga. I took a break after an event that could be described as a terrorist attack.
Full Metal Alchemist, the episode with the girl and the dog.
FMA one is a real hearthchewer. I’m with you on that It came out of nowhere and it put a rail in my guts.
Gantz is an edgy circus tho. Reading it after this kid’s story, after all other things, I was somewhat prepared to this. I don’t blame you. It’s just when I was at this point, I felt like they’d do that or even worse.
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I remember that episode very well. Absolutely heartwrenching and disturbing
Breaking Bad. I made it to the end of season 4 after trying once and stopping after just a couple episodes because the tension was so intense. I just couldn’t push further than season 4, it was taking a toll on my nerves. Brilliant writing
I stopped for a while after Walter walked into the room and walked right out. If you get my gist… Also the penultimate part was a bit too numbing to get through.
Tbh I don’t get your gist 😅 which scene?
Walter watches Jesse’s girlfriend Jane choke on her own puke as she’s overdosing and does nothing to help her.
He was sneaking around in their home and did not want to risk getting caught, so he almost intervened, but then decides against it, and regrets doing nothing as she dies in front of him.
He later reveals this to Jesse during a conflict.
From Jesse’s perspective, he had just woken up and she was dead, choked on her own vomit.
Walter tells him he watched it happen and essentially admits that he could have helped.
I often had to pause during episodes of Violet Evergarden. My wife always knew when I was watching it because I would be a complete mess every single episode. I finished the show but some episodes I could not take in one go.
