Games that make you cry, What are they?

[Casual Shinji]

I've never cried at a game, eventhough there have been plenty of moments that made me sad or emotional. Yet with movies I cry all the time. It might be because I'm a superficial crier and movies are a passive experience.

The Walking Dead got me a bit misty eyed toward the ending though.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I don't usually post here, but I saw this on the first page and had to see if anyone mentioned To The Moon, and wasn't very surprised when no one had. Good way to remind me why I don't post here.

Someone did mention Dreamfall though, so things could be definitely worse.

Then maybe you should post here more often as to enlighten us all with your superior personal taste.

 

[mutantofspring]

The ending to Mass Effect 3 because it was a massive slap to the people who invested their time in the franchise

 

[Panorama]

ME3 Mordin.

This! Plus episode 5 of the walking dead

 

[acey195]

Well not neccesary cried, but felt bad for at least the rest of the day, the second one hurt me even longer.

Spec ops the line,

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It made me care enough to suicide (in game)

ME3

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Final moments with Tali, back on earth, both meeting with all the characters one last time and when the Normandy picks them up, those moments made me choose red over green

 

[Morsomk_v1legacy]

Whenever I play a JRPG I just get sad over the fact that I finished it and that I am probably not going to get any more out of the adventure. No more new dialogues with the characters I spend so much time with, no more fun adventures with these characters that I love. It's over and that is what makes me sad.

Proteus was a very strange game that toyed with my emotions. Sometimes I felt sad, sometimes it was happiness. All of the time I had no idea what was going on with my emotions. I started questioning what am I doing, who am I, what is this game, what does it mean to be a human, WHAT IS A MAN *punches Dracula away from the keyboard*....sorry.

 

[spartandude]

i finished episode 5 of The Walking Dead a few days ago... i cried at a few points in it, hell i cried at points through out the entire game

My face when people mention mass effect two or three:

its possible they cried over the state of the writing

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

I can't remember how many of these I actually cried over, but there's a good few examples I remember that at least brought me to the brink.

ICO: I'm pretty sure this one is the one that brought me the closest to it, at the very end of the game

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when Yorda pushes you away from the castle as it's falling apart I'm pretty damn sure I cried. Yes, that's the end of the game. It was perfect. Fuck the beach

SotC: Again, at the ending

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when Wander is struggling to get to Mono and reaching his hand out to her as Emon's soldiers are trying to kill him

Bastion: The exact moment that Ascend mentioned

Okami: Twice

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When you leave Issun behind to board the ark, and after that when he returns to help you after you've nearly been defeated

Journey:

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Watching my partner freeze to death. I kept trying to stay as close to him as possible to try and thaw his scarf. After he fell I just felt awful, but still forced myself to push on as far as I could... God, I loved this game

Final Fantasy X: This is the weirdest one, and I think there were also two times

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I'm going to get so much flack for this, but the laughing scene. It was surprisingly touching, and felt like a genuine bonding moment between them. He was trying to stay strong for Yuna and take her mind off of what just happened.

The second moment was when they arrived at Zanarkand, I don't exactly know why this moment hit me so hard, I heard the song "To Zanarkand" before, and even played it on the piano before getting the game. When I finally heard it in game I just realized that I had been playing it completely wrong all of those years, it was so much more of a depressing song than I thought it was

 

[pure.Wasted]

My face when people mention mass effect two or three:

So yeah, I've never cried over a game. They're not good enough yet.

As a general rule, I would agree. But attempting to delegitimize the way people actually feel about something by extrapolating from your own not having felt that way just makes you sound like a jackass. So what, I watch Titanic and Braveheart, don't cry, and conclude movies aren't good enough?

 

[NightmareExpress]

Haven't ever cried over entertainment, yet.
But the ones that brought some sadness would have to be:

Silent Hill 2 (there is no good ending, just varying degrees of horrible)
The Darkness (the ending sequence makes you feel helpless, weak, angry and doomed)
Valkyria Chronicles (few moments throughout)
Persona 4 (ending)
Red Dead Redemption (the two endings)
Spec Ops: The Line (a few moments throughout)
The Walking Dead (the ending bit, everything else was largely meh)

Those are the ones I can remember. Mostly from the last few years, because I'm uncertain if some older titles would hold the same impact and I might have somehow forgotten 'em/blocked out the PTSD.

I was considering putting Call of Duty 4, but then the sequels completely ruined whatever tragedy and ambiguity the ending contained (among numerous other things the sequels proceeded to fuck up).

 

[Mordekaien]

No game has brought me to tears yet, but DAMN, came Walking Dead close. I finished it at night before I went to sleep, and I just lied in my bed for two hours, feeling empty, sad and pretty weird.

 

[Redingold]

I don't think I've ever really cried at any piece of media, but my eyes were definitely moist at points in MGS3, MGS4, The Walking Dead and at the end of Mass Effect and Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

 

[Voulan]

A lot of mine people have already mentioned. The Walking Dead, Final Fantasy X, Silent Hill 2, The Longest Journey: Dreamfall. Another obscure game to add is The Cat Lady. It's so beautifully done, especially for an indie game.

But the one that really gets to me is Kingdom Hearts. Every time, every game. I find it hilarious when people who've never played them dismiss them as being to cheesy and happy, because they can get horribly dark at times, and so very sad.

 

[pure.Wasted]

I ment, not good enough for me. I don't mind if people cry over games (that is, because of emotional resonance induced by the writing. Any other reason for crying is fine) But crying over Mass Effect 2 or 3 means you're SO easily swayed by the most illogical heartstring pulling.

All right, that's fair. Although I must say, I'm not entirely clear on the connection between heartstrings and logic. Usually they really don't go together all that well.

Unless you're implying that the writing was SO bad that you couldn't even relate to the characters... which would really surprise me, because if there's consensus over anything apart from the ending of ME3 sucking, it's the Tuchanka sequence not.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

I've never really cried over a game but have felt a certain attachment to characters.

That is until Aliens Colonial Marines arrived and turned out to be nothing but a worse off game than DNF and the realisation that Randy lid to us for 6 whole years and used Sega's money to make Borderlands instead of ACM.

 

[Kingjackl]

Already mentioned before, but I cannot get through the end of The Walking Dead without bawling. A few games bought me close (Mass Effect 3 springs to mind), but that last section of the game kills me every time.

 

[PLightstar]

The end of Half Life 2 Episode 2, brought a tear to my eye.

The only other game to really do it was the end of Unreal 2, you get to a point when you realise you and your crew have been manipulated through the entire game and after surviving everything, your crew sacrifice themselves to save you and save the galaxy. You do get to have your revenge though and it was very satisfying.

I've had other sad moments in games, like the end of Halo 4 but nothing to make me cry.