Thread 718112247

Do you have any video games associated with traumatic memories?

>BioShock 2.

Call me a fucking wuzz idc. But I was 12 years old when BS2 came out. Begged my dad to get it for me because I read about it online. Usually they wouldn't get me 18+ games, but for some reason they were OK with it.

Close to the beginning of the game you get the choice to press [X] to let a little sister into a whole in a wall or [B] kill her for life juice (or whatever the lore term in BS is again). I sat on that screen for a good minute. Pressed [B] to kill her and the animation was really gruesome. My heart dropped and I turned off the XBox choking back tears.

Still have not played BS2 ever again, but finished 1 and infinite. Should I play it again?

>>718112247 (OP)
It was so unpleasant that I got about halfway into it and just stopped playing, and then relapsed into drug addiction. It was bad enough that I can't even enjoy the base game anymore.

>>718112247 (OP)
The reason this happens btw is bc nostalgia is the fear. While we remember the games fondly, the inherent emotional baggage that comes with that passage of time from a desired and inaccessible thing is working in the subconscious. It reunites with the game in the form of horror so that we can experience catharsis that is consciously about the game, but subconsciously about our nostalgia, and move on.

>>718112247 (OP)
No because I'm not a child.

>>718112247 (OP)
Yes a lot.

Other than the graveyard at the start of nightmare creatures scaring the shit out of young me, no.