Taking a Step Back

[Delock]

Not too long ago, I was playing the demo for Dante's Inferno. After my intial impressions of "Is this what God of War would be like if it was based in Christianity instead of mythology?" and "How do you kill Death?!" I looked at the story again. The first time I watched it, I thought it was basically God of War with some pieces switched out, but looking back on it, it presents an astounding comparison between society and religion on good and evil. The main character, Dante, is a crusader who like all the others has been convinced that his quest is just and that all his actions are justified since they are for the greater good. Sadly for him, no. Death shows up to inform him that he's headed for hell (at which point he steals Death's Scythe and brutally murders him thereby adding to his sins). Dante then stitches a cross onto himself with what looks to be his sins displayed on it in a form of attonement. Then he visits his lover, Beatrice, who has sacrificed everything for love and surprise, she goes to hell for it. From what we can see though, this was the type of love that is idealized and glorified by society today. The demo goes on, but that part really got to me if only because I didn't expect something like that from a God of War clone.

Now for my question for you all:
Have you ever taken a step back from a game and found something surprising like that, be it a message or whatever?

 

[DeviousJ]

I don't know if this counts, but I once played Max Payne 2 and if you know the game, you'll know Max has a sad story.
His wife and daughter were killed and he searched for their murder in the first game.
So the sequel continues where Max thinks it's all over, but he knows he is wrong.
Through the whole game there are always graphic novels, that give the story. And the story is so depressive and dark. I felt actually most the time sad playing the game as the story unfolds in the first game, but I was angry with Max in the sequel.
I was thinking he was way too much living in the past, always thinking of his dead wife and how it should have come, what he should have done.

I seemed to me really cheesy until one scene where he finally understands:
If it had come different, there would have been still questions about how it could come different.
And that's the point. There is no sense in moaning about the past, because you can't change it. You have to live with it and it's about you to change the future.

Yeah, and that was some kind of a magic moment where I had really deep thoughts.

 

[Erana]

TF2.

If you step back for a second, you gotta realise that its not about the secret military organizations or whatever, its about a bunch of sadists who are just here in the first place 'cause they get paid to do what they shamelessly love-
dismembering, shooting, and burning their fellow man.