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Feature: The ultimate exclusive: Examining the emotional spectrum of video games

A common emotional reaction in video games.

So amid all the chaos that was GDC 2009, I managed to read a really great article on GameSpot about the societal impact of video games. One line stood out to me more than any other: “(Will) Wright also mentioned an experience he had with Lionhead’s Black & White, where he beat up his god creature ‘just to see what would happen.’ With the creature eventually bloodied and crying, Wright said that he legitimately felt pangs of guilt, an emotion that he couldn’t have gotten from other forms of media, such as movies.”

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Author: Cody