#video game trauma

[ezraynei]

What part of a video game has given you trauma?

I'll start, these motherfuckers in A Hat in Time

Every time I'm in the part of subcon with them in it my awareness of my surroundings peaks. These things have jumpscared me more than any horror game ever will.

[jolikmc]

A Daffy Dwarf uses Hi-Ho Chrous on the party. Chrono Cross (1999)

[j0them0971]

Me: SSE I'm sueing your asses for traumatizing me.

SSE: please elaborate.

Me: Pandoria.

SSE: ...

[xpaintedladyx]

Oot has come back to haunt us... D:

These. Fucking. Things.

what are they. why do they scream when they see me, THEY DONT HAVE FREAKING MOUTHS WHERE IS IT COMING FROM. why did I die so many times. why are they giving me flashbacks to dead hand in OOT I did not need to remember that childhood trauma.

here look, same picture:

[prokopetz]

The trouble with modern computer RPGs is that even the Fucked Up Little Guys tend to be muscular and hairless these days, which is almost comically missing the point. Where's my knobby-kneed weirdo with a moustache and goatee so sharp they could poke your eye out and a pronounced tendency to lurk?

[welcome-to-alice-in-helll]

[blueskittlesart]

in the nicest and most non-confrontational way possible. i feel like some of you think that anything that isn't directly openly spelled out for you within a story is "missed potential" or "unexplored." like. sometimes there are implied narratives. sometimes the point is that you as the reader are supposed to think and draw your own conclusions and participate in the story. the writers not directly spelling every little detail out for you doesn't mean that the story is poorly written or missed its own plot details somehow. PLEASE.

[dismembered-narrator]

i finished playing ocarina of time and majora's mask for the first time and i have so many thoughts....... one of the themes of oot is about growing up too fast and the world becoming dark around you, and losing the innocence and happiness of childhood. link doesn't belong in kokiri forest, he will grow old while the others stay the same, he can't remain a child forever, and he's forced to grow up in the time skip. he's a child in an adult's body pushed into a huge responsibility he isn't prepared for, but by the end of the game he's an adult in a child's body, sent to go live out a childhood that he's already lost. so in the beginning of majora's mask, he's searching for a childhood friend that he never reaches, and he's plunged into a surreal nightmare where this disconnect between his body and mind becomes literal with the transformation masks. the elegy of emptiness creates statues of the dead characters who gave link the masks, and a dead version of link himself, that child that is long dead and he's only wearing the mask of. the dialogue at the end of the game references this, with one of the moon children asking link what his real face looks like. it's only with the fierce deity mask that link appears as an adult again, but it's filled with a horrible dark power, maybe his trauma overpowering him like majora's mask overpowered skull kid. but at the end of the game, things are at peace, and it finally seems like link will be able to move on

[heatherchasesyou]

[greatdisaster]

mama

[strawbuddy-luv]

Tim Drake would love video games sm tho, and I do not see that represented enough.

He'd be a total nerd about it to. He'd rant and rant and rant about all the games he's played and all the cheats and the secret cut scenes and the hidden lore. He'd be a game theorist for sure, probably has a YouTube account dedicated to it since he's such a little detective. He knows the true lore of FNaF.

He'd definitely speed run minecraft, rp to probably. First person shooter? How about first hand experience. FNaF fanatic oh my God he'd LOVE that game so fucking much. Absolutely a Sonic kid, like you cannot convince me otherwise. Mario less so but you knows hes probably played every single game anyways. Pokemon? Every single one memorized down to their exact coloration. Stardew valley? Do i even have to ask. Animal crossing? Perfected his village, villagers and all. Zelda? I cannot prove it but he has a lino Cosplay somewhere and he's worn it for under cover missions. He'd slay in DTI, have like 5 different mansions in Bloxburg, defiantly played Royal High until the capitalism became to close to the real world, probably has hundreds of avatars to. An expert at games like fnf has played half the mods to ever be made for that game. He's been playing fortnite since it's release. He'd have one of the top scores ever in subway surfers. He'd download those "complete your restaurant" type games and finish them in two weeks and it'd only take that long because the game forces him to wait sometimes. Candy crush is his bitch 100%. He'd download mobile games and finish them in a day and then keep redoing them till he's perfected his method. He has played and replayed countless driving based games, can learn almost any new one in 6 minutes. Going back to the speed run thing I think he'd just enjoy speed running games in general, and gridning. He'd love minecraft so much omg-. Last of us? Played. Iron Lung? Played. Cuphead? Played. Detroit Become Human? Played. Kindergarten? Played. Sallyface? Played. Splatoon? Played. He'd love small games to I just am not that into video games to know any to list- :').

I mean think about it. Going off the "Tim's parents are never home" version of him, he'd have so much time to just sit around and play video games. He has the money to buy them and the time to spend getting ungodly good at them. He'd have amazing equipment, and it'd give him some sort of community even if he doesn't really interact with it personally. Like if he's not out stalking Batman or at school, he's playing a video game. Even after he starts working for Batman, he'd overwork himself to the bone and he'd STILL find a way to go pro gamer in-between. Probably for like 0.5 seconds whenever he's got to stand up to get himself another energy drink.

Like please, video game nerd Tim Drake on my knees begging you add this to your stories and headcanons. Have him introduce other batfam members to video games. HAVE HIM INTRODCUE BRUCE TO CANDY CRUSH AND MAKE THEM GET INTO A COMPETITION ON WHO CAN GET TO A HIGHER LEVEL FASTER. He shows Damian animal crossing. He gives Jason a gaming console and like 50 different shooter games and one copy of stardew valley as a joke and did not expect Jason to get so into it. Him Cass and Steph would love those Roblox horror games. He'd force the whole family to start having game nights and they'd have a world on Minecraft that has the most insane lore you've ever heard. Like please give me more video game nerd Tim and tell me your headcanons on what games he'd like and what he'd introduce different batfam members to in the comment I am begging you.

[downbadbytheriver]

OK so I had a thought today while playing BG3 re: Astarion. Out of all the companions/party members, Astarion is the one who looks towards "you", aka the PC, more than any other during dialogues. And no matter if you are romancing him or have high approval. I've noticed this fact is often used in screenshots where people are like, "aw look how he looks at my Tav/Durge 🥹".

BUT, here's a different take on that ^.

TW: discussing abuse, trauma

Astarion's particular trauma is in the form of long-term abuse and manipulation where he had to obey and perform 'correctly' for Cazador, or face serious consequences and punishments. People with this specific flavor of trauma are often very, *very* in tune with others' behavior and emotions, due to the fact that their survival depended on this skill and their ability to read their abuser(s) and their mood, perception of them, etc. *Even if* what the abuser(s) are upset about is not their fault or even may have anything to do with them - almost *especially* then, actually.

I think Astarion watches the PC intently out of survival habits and a need to read them constantly for any sign of behavior change.

It's not a signal that the PC is abusive; it's just a survival skill Astarion will probably never stop using, like any of us who have ever *had* to use it constantly. It doesn't stop once you're out of the abusive situation or relationship, safe, or even in a healthy relationship. Once your mind learns to do it, you never stop. (It can also have positives, like being very empathetic towards others and picking up on moods/behavior changes in a way that makes you very good at supporting and helping others.)

Watching Astarion do it makes my heart hurt, but also love his writing even more.

[the-abyss-of-fandoms]

Me when the villagers start throwing their axes at me and I’m at low health: Please stop I’m just a woman. Playing this nightmare of a game

[nerdragenewvegas]

"I'm really glad I got out of the Mormon church before they managed to get me married because then it would have been REALLY hard to get out, I'm one of the lucky ones, I came out basically unscathed" I say to myself as I open fifteen tabs of the most unhinged, filthy, ethically questionable, heretical Joshua Graham fanfiction I can possibly find. (I will insist these things are entirely unrelated.)

[temeyes]

random cod oc post, but anyway: their and Gaz's dynamic

[frobby]

rin 1000000% has a list somewhere of things hes good at that yukio is bad at