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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kristivas" data-source="post: 2664485" data-attributes="member: 34179">It can sometimes work against you, but if you know your players really well and know the things that are deep-seeded within them, it can come out playing.For example, there's a good friend of mine that usually always played a paladin (recently, he's branching out into other kinds of characters) because he's got that kind of personality in real life.  When he saw a guy slap his daughter across the road when we were all in high school, rather than call the police, he picked up a stick and just started marching toward the scene (it wasn't pretty what followed).In games even where he doesn't play a paladin, scenes like that have his character flying into the worst types of rages, and he'll drop whatever he's doing to stop or avenge such kinds of abuse.After a long game that involved something like that, I'm wondering what his character (and he) would do if the little girl he saved went to him, holding her Mother's hand and looking down at the floor all shy, offering him a daisey and then just hugging him with tears streaming down her little cheeks and saying thank you (much like the OP had mentioned).  I bet I'd probably see one of the toughest guys I know shed a tear or two.Still, might not always turn out that way.  Some people, even ones you know for years, can become a very different person when the right emotion hits.  I'm not saying like violent or crazy or anything, but you never know.  It could enrich your game, or cause everyone to wrap it up early because the person(s) got a little sad, or depressed, or reminiscient and decided it was time to go home for awhile.I'm all for a touching scene, though.  When I was playing FF7, and Aeris died..  and Cloud was holding her..  I shed a few tears and had to stop playing for a few minutes.  It also made killing ol' Sephiroth that much more rewarding..  (Imagine a big ol' guy, standing about three feet from his tv with the controller in hand..  yelling at the screen..  "You killed Aeris, huh you ************!?  You're going to pay, you *******!  Oh yeah!  Try some of this!  *Knights of the Round, dancing with the controller when the little figures do damage to Seph*  You like that, huh boy?  Oh, the WRITING ON THE WALL, eh?!  Bring it on!!!"  Which led to my Mom bursting in and thinking I was beating up one of my friends or having a fit or something lol..  but that's another story..)</blockquote>

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