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Unknown emotion - have you experienced Talos?
9 years ago
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In the past, I've talked about how much of a sucker I am for a really amazing final level for some video games. I unilaterally declared "Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies" as one of the best videogames of all time because the buildup and subsequent climactic battle was, and still is, one of the most amazing gaming experiences I've had. Everything from the cinematics, to the dramatic and epic soundtrack (I have it on my Zune), to the intense and chaotic communications, they did everything they could to make that battle an incredible experience.
When I listen to that soundtrack, something happens. More on that in a bit...
How many of you have played the Talos Principle? I bought it a while ago because it looked like a fun puzzle game. I wasn't ready for what it threw at me though. I think I went through almost the full emotional spectrum playing that game and learning the backstory. No anger, but definitely intrique, hope, curiosity, determination. Oh fuck, that determination. As I gathered the last few tidbits of backstory and pushed onto the top of the tower, I've never felt determination like that before. I was fighting back tears and bursting at the seams with determination. I kept barreling forward, not taking "no" for an answer, because I was going to see this through to the end, damnit.
It's the sort of experience that drove me to read so much as a kid. When you get a really, really good story, and you're clinging onto every last word and you have to, have to keep going no matter the cost. It's amazing, and very rare. I don't know if anyone here played Talos and felt the same sort of thing I did, but I hope you did.
For those that did, do you ever go back and listen to that final music? Here, I'll post the link to youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDAszFV-7U There's something that happens to me when I listen to that music. It's the same thing that happens to me when I listen to the final level music to Ace Combat 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBoiW460nU I start listening to those tracks, and I'm not just taken back to those incredible moments of experience. I start to get overwhelmed with emotion. But the thing is, I don't know what that emotion is. I find myself anywhere between tearing up a little, to outright balling my eyes out. But I'm not feeling sad or depressed. They're not tears of joy, either. Only my baby girl could make me cry tears of joy. So I'm left with this feeling. Some of it is determination. I feel that welling up inside me when I listen to those music tracks. But that's only the half of it. I can't identify the other half. It doesn't feel negative at all. But whatever it is, it's powerful. Very, very powerful. Is it awe? Is awe, an emotion? Am I awestruck by the music that takes me back?
When I listen to that soundtrack, something happens. More on that in a bit...
How many of you have played the Talos Principle? I bought it a while ago because it looked like a fun puzzle game. I wasn't ready for what it threw at me though. I think I went through almost the full emotional spectrum playing that game and learning the backstory. No anger, but definitely intrique, hope, curiosity, determination. Oh fuck, that determination. As I gathered the last few tidbits of backstory and pushed onto the top of the tower, I've never felt determination like that before. I was fighting back tears and bursting at the seams with determination. I kept barreling forward, not taking "no" for an answer, because I was going to see this through to the end, damnit.
It's the sort of experience that drove me to read so much as a kid. When you get a really, really good story, and you're clinging onto every last word and you have to, have to keep going no matter the cost. It's amazing, and very rare. I don't know if anyone here played Talos and felt the same sort of thing I did, but I hope you did.
For those that did, do you ever go back and listen to that final music? Here, I'll post the link to youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCDAszFV-7U There's something that happens to me when I listen to that music. It's the same thing that happens to me when I listen to the final level music to Ace Combat 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBoiW460nU I start listening to those tracks, and I'm not just taken back to those incredible moments of experience. I start to get overwhelmed with emotion. But the thing is, I don't know what that emotion is. I find myself anywhere between tearing up a little, to outright balling my eyes out. But I'm not feeling sad or depressed. They're not tears of joy, either. Only my baby girl could make me cry tears of joy. So I'm left with this feeling. Some of it is determination. I feel that welling up inside me when I listen to those music tracks. But that's only the half of it. I can't identify the other half. It doesn't feel negative at all. But whatever it is, it's powerful. Very, very powerful. Is it awe? Is awe, an emotion? Am I awestruck by the music that takes me back?
BarryUhm
~barryuhm
Maybe it doesn't act on the same medium as video games, being a movie, but Interstellar's soundtrack makes me cry :(
wambiri
~wambiri
Man I freakin' love the Ace combat series, and Shattered skies was definitely one of the best! I haven't seen any Ace Combat releases for the ps4 yet but I'm sure it won't be long :D
