So there's this scene in this old video game...

[MayorReynolds]

...that brought me close to crying

I'm referring to the Mother/Earthbound series, particularly the first installment that never got an official release. The idea of *** SPOILERS *** defeating the final alien boss not through brute strength but with love and kindness, which involves singing a lullaby to him that his surrogate human mother sang him to sleep with when he was a baby. His mind becomes torn between the mindless destruction he's been set out to do on Earth and the unconditional love his surrogate mother showed him through her song. His body is destroyed through the conflicting emotions.

That almost brought me to tears, tears over a game coded in 1989 with graphics that look like they're from 1986.

My point: it almost (almost, but didn't) made me delete the incest stories I wrote for this site and trash the ones in development hell on my flash drive. I played that scene and that lullaby over and over in my head after I was done with the game and I thought to myself, "Goddamn, that's real parental love. I might have written some perverted shit here!" I changed my mind of course, but the point stands that Mother moved me...to tears as well as well as a different way of thinking. At least for a little while.

 

[Recidiva]

Fable 2 made me cry straight for about 2 hours. Over a pretend dog.

 

[lovetoread]

You do know the real story behind earthbound?

 

[islandman]

I don't know Earthbound, but Boom Beach on my phone is hella addictive!

 

[MayorReynolds]

You do know the real story behind earthbound?

To the extent of the Giygas final battle in Mother 2 being based on Shigesato Itoi's childhood trauma of walking into the wrong movie theater and witnessing what he mistook for a rape scene, yeah. Dude had some nightmare fuel to spin into gold.

 

[Lord Pmann]

I can't unread this.

 

[Littlefinger]

One of my favorite games of all time. There's just so much in them and I love that, the rediscovery of new things upon each replay.

 

[MayorReynolds]

One of my favorite games of all time. There's just so much in them and I love that, the rediscovery of new things upon each replay.

There are so many things I love about it, and the whole Mother trilogy in general. If I had to name one positive aspect it'd be the overall tone. The games present this quirky, candy-colored caricature of Americana. Everything is presented with childlike innocence, from the themes to the enemies to zombies, hippies and bottle rockets. But all along, there's this underlying feeling that something isn't quite right, like a gloomy song I can barely hear but I know is there.

Then I get to final boss. The music shuts off. Isolated. Alone. Innocence gone. And then the game rips my fucking heart out. I watch the end credits with tears threatening to well up. That's the kind of impact I can only dream of having on an audience. Goddamn. It hurts and it feels so good.

 

[Conager]

I can't unread this.

Right?

Apart from the fact that if he spent any signifigant time out of the house, he would find that there are three billion women in the world that are not his mother, at a minimum if he would make it to the video game store he would find that they have made some new games since 1989.

 

[MayorReynolds]

Right?

Apart from the fact that if he spent any signifigant time out of the house, he would find that there are three billion women in the world that are not his mother, at a minimum if he would make it to the video game store he would find that they have made some new games since 1989.

Wow, dude.

 

[MayorReynolds]

Here is the scene if anyone is interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REqJ-hd68HE

 

[Conager]

Wow, dude.

Wow, what? You're waxing poetic about incest and video games from 1989.

 

[MayorReynolds]

Wow, what? You're waxing poetic about incest and video games from 1989.

I'm a gamer. I'm also a retro gamer. There's nothing wrong with enjoying old games or getting emotions from them.

Incest is the most popular story category on this site. It's relevant because people on here talk about them, a lot, and I've written some myself.

 

[lovecraft68]

This is something that I can relate to.

When I write or read incest stories for me they stay in the moment. The son is 19/20 and that's where he stays. The story is about the here and now, he is hot for mom or her for him and one seduces the other and the stories are pure erotic fantasy

On occasions I will see a mom with her young son or daughter out and about. Watch them play with them, sing to them, read them stories, kiss their scraped elbow...and show that unconditional love of a mom.

In those moments I question my stories. I think how could a mother go from acting like this to lusting after her child? I suppose I can see a son somehow getting misplaced emotions about a mother at some point the wires being crossed, but a mother would never taint her love for her child...

I guess that's why these are fantasies we tell here and there's a reason that in real life the topic is pretty un-sexy.

Interesting to see some one else has hit that same thought

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm a gamer. I'm also a retro gamer. There's nothing wrong with enjoying old games or getting emotions from them.

Incest is the most popular story category on this site. It's relevant because people on here talk about them, a lot, and I've written some myself.

Speaking of retro gaming....

My sister has an original atari and we sat there playing asteroids and Yar's Revenge and Pitfall and kaboom...it was like turning back the clock.

 

[pointless]

i'll just stick with baldur's gate ee for now, thank you. i just had pg/offscreen lesbian sex with a drow, yo. suck it, aerie. whiny bitch.

 

[pollynova]

I've gotten very frustrated while playing Mario Kart, but I haven't cried, even though I suck really bad at it and everyone laughs at me when I play.