Has a game ever made you cry?
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never cried at a game, but the ending of red dead redemption left me seriously depressed for a few days 
I?ll just start by saying, that making my eyes water is no great feat. Movies and television especially, has an ability to screw with me. If I like a character, make them go through hardship(or even sometimes resolution) and queue the right music, and you´ll hear mw quietly sniffing and trying to discreetly dry my eyes.
I love that. Sure I might be a little silly sometimes. And it can be very embarrassing in the company of the wrong people, but I love have my emotions messed with. If I cry(or get angry, depressed or whatever) it means that I?m emotionally invested. And the fact that something can get me emotionally invested makes it art. Or at least good storytelling. (Kinda over- simplifying art here?but there you go.)
And a lot of games have made me tear up. I happens so often that I?ll just mention a few.
There may be spoilers.
The Darkness, while not being perfect, has some pretty emotional scenes.
Mass Effect (both of them) has a lot. They do such a good job at making you like the characters, that you want to see them safe. And while some of their problems might seem sort of silly sometimes, you don?t really notice, because you care about them.
In ME1 when you have to sacrifice a crewmember, really made me frustrated(in a good way) and almost made me paralyzed with indecision.
And in ME2 during the Joker Descend part. Every crewmember that got taken, made me want to charge the Collectors with suicidal abandon.(Again...this was a good thing)
The whole Final Fantasy series have kinda the same thing. But I actually thing that sometimes the music sort of ruined the mood(especially in the ?older games?)
I could go on?but I won?t.
I love that. Sure I might be a little silly sometimes. And it can be very embarrassing in the company of the wrong people, but I love have my emotions messed with. If I cry(or get angry, depressed or whatever) it means that I?m emotionally invested. And the fact that something can get me emotionally invested makes it art. Or at least good storytelling. (Kinda over- simplifying art here?but there you go.)
And a lot of games have made me tear up. I happens so often that I?ll just mention a few.
There may be spoilers.
The Darkness, while not being perfect, has some pretty emotional scenes.
Mass Effect (both of them) has a lot. They do such a good job at making you like the characters, that you want to see them safe. And while some of their problems might seem sort of silly sometimes, you don?t really notice, because you care about them.
In ME1 when you have to sacrifice a crewmember, really made me frustrated(in a good way) and almost made me paralyzed with indecision.
And in ME2 during the Joker Descend part. Every crewmember that got taken, made me want to charge the Collectors with suicidal abandon.(Again...this was a good thing)
The whole Final Fantasy series have kinda the same thing. But I actually thing that sometimes the music sort of ruined the mood(especially in the ?older games?)
I could go on?but I won?t.
Okami for me, when Reset (Thank you version is playing) and when the game ends. It was a real rollercoaster for me
I once borrowed my friend's copy of some JRPG, and fell in love with it. I played it for a few months, and had to give it back to him. This, combined with the fact that it's Chrono Trigger, got me on the last time I was able to play through the game. It was like tears of love, though.
The World Ends With You came close, too. I have to give that back tomorrow. I hope to get my own copy soon.
The World Ends With You came close, too. I have to give that back tomorrow. I hope to get my own copy soon.
Okami, the cutscene before the final fight with Yami's true form
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIer6R8sIQ
I'm sure there are other ones, but thats the only one I can think of at the moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AIer6R8sIQ
I'm sure there are other ones, but thats the only one I can think of at the moment.
D on the Dreamcast. Maybe not make me cry, but holy anti-depressant, Batman! does it seem bleak if you are going through a rough patch in life.
The last boss tortures you, seems impossible to beat when you don't know the trick, then makes you deaf, then blind (yes, the screen turns mute and then completely black, the only indication you are still alive is the rumbling controller).
Then the end credits start reading half an hour worth of depressing stuff like: (and those who finished the game will remember that well)
- There are over 50 million children dying everyday.
- There are over 1 billion AK47 in circulation right now.
- every second, someone's mom dies of brain cancer.
- kitties have a 50% chance of being eaten by their mother at birth.
- Buddah once said: "Existence is pain."
- God invented AIDS because he was bored.
- The gestapo just arrested your neighbors and is coming for you next.
- Suicide pact is the most sincere form of love.
- The only reliable mean of contraception is being an euneuch.
- The game design team slept with your mom yesterday... and she liked it.
- Babies defecate inside their mother's womb.
- Nobody loves you. Nobody, period. You hear?
I mean seriously, my friend and I looked at each other and started countering the real-life death statistics on-screen with our own. We just had to l;augh because it really depressing.
The last boss tortures you, seems impossible to beat when you don't know the trick, then makes you deaf, then blind (yes, the screen turns mute and then completely black, the only indication you are still alive is the rumbling controller).
Then the end credits start reading half an hour worth of depressing stuff like: (and those who finished the game will remember that well)
- There are over 50 million children dying everyday.
- There are over 1 billion AK47 in circulation right now.
- every second, someone's mom dies of brain cancer.
- kitties have a 50% chance of being eaten by their mother at birth.
- Buddah once said: "Existence is pain."
- God invented AIDS because he was bored.
- The gestapo just arrested your neighbors and is coming for you next.
- Suicide pact is the most sincere form of love.
- The only reliable mean of contraception is being an euneuch.
- The game design team slept with your mom yesterday... and she liked it.
- Babies defecate inside their mother's womb.
- Nobody loves you. Nobody, period. You hear?
I mean seriously, my friend and I looked at each other and started countering the real-life death statistics on-screen with our own. We just had to l;augh because it really depressing.
There were two small parts very close together in Mass Effect 2 that made me cry.
The first was finding and returning a locket with a picture of a smiling couple in it to it's rightful owner, and finding out that her love in the picture with her had died. She was so grateful and it was so upsetting and well voice acted and.. yeah
The second was a little after that, when I overheard a husband with his step-daughter trying to find a souvenir for his wife , until I realised he said he was nearly 40, and thats round about how old his race live for. He wanted to buy her somthing really nice for her to remember him after he died, and the daughters voice cracked and promised him she was sure her mother would love it.
Illium was just full of tear jerkers
The first was finding and returning a locket with a picture of a smiling couple in it to it's rightful owner, and finding out that her love in the picture with her had died. She was so grateful and it was so upsetting and well voice acted and.. yeah
The second was a little after that, when I overheard a husband with his step-daughter trying to find a souvenir for his wife , until I realised he said he was nearly 40, and thats round about how old his race live for. He wanted to buy her somthing really nice for her to remember him after he died, and the daughters voice cracked and promised him she was sure her mother would love it.
Illium was just full of tear jerkers
Okami. Everyone who has played to the end knows exactly what I'm talking about. Also, a few little moments in the middle, one that sticks out involves a particularly endearing scrap of paper.
The ending to Red Dead Redemption was so shocking to me that I was stunned before just completely losing my shit. I had to walk out of the room.
