Has a game ever made your cry?

[Ninjat_126]

I've never actually cried, but I've come very close. It takes a lot to make me cry over fiction, so this is as good as.

1. The Darkness. FUCK. YOU. UNCLE. PAULIE. Death was too good for you.
2. Metal Gear Solid 4 and the Microwave Hallway. Of course.
3. Metro 2033. There's a level (an annoying one) where you carry a small child from the body of his uncle back to his home station. Just at the end, you catch a glimpse of the sky above, and the kid is just amazed. He was something like 6-10 years old, and he'd never even seen the sky. That really hit hard.

 

[viking97]

bioshock and fallout 3.

both extraneous flavor text, actually. maybe i'm just so arrogant that only my imagination can shift my emotions.

in bioshock it was the sub-plot about the one family whose daughter gets turned into a little sister, one of the recordings was "saw masha today" *shudders*

in fallout three it was the one personal log entry in vault 86 (or whichever one has the super mutants) about the guy who goes insane his kid dies. theres a few other instances in fallout 3, most in computer log entries.

 

[theedbot]

Most recently was DA2. The first time was when in the deep roads with Bethany. The second time was with my mother. in both incidences i felt bad afterwords because there was a sense of personal failure, that if i had done something different things might have turned out differently. its kind of sad to feel survivors gilt about fictional characters, but i guess that its a testament of the potential that games have as an art form.

 

[Lbsjr]

Mostly I only cry in Action RPG games.... But that's because me and my friends like to go on the hardest difficulty, and they are the tears you get when you start bashing your head with your controller. But I have been moved to tears of sadness or relief. In Mass Effect 2 and Fallout 3 and a couple others, I went on sad killing sprees because of the stuff I'd read in the logs... Though in Mass Effect 2 I just had a save near the part where you can punch the reporter in the face when the game pissed me off or made me sad.

 

[SodaDew]

To be honest... Crises Cores ending did :/

 

[FuzzyRaccoon]

I haven't played any games that have literally moved me to tears, but there were a couple that came close.

Mass Effect: On my first playthrough, having to choose who to sacrifice on Virmire. I had fallen into the unfortunate meta-game trap of assuming all companions were invincible. Plus, both choices were my "go-to" squad up to that point.

I actually believed that too. I thought about it logically based on what I thought they could both do. The first time around, I made the choice that I thought would work out best and as a result I was utterly shocked to find out that one of them would die no matter what. As a result, I didn't cry, it just made me feel numb.

Anyway. I can't exactly remember any times I cried.

I got sniffly and mad when I played DragonAge: Origins, romancing Alistair as a female mage. I had firmly resolved my character to die, I had this sorta back story in my head and it all felt very noble. So when he just stopped me and said this whole long thing and then ran off to die I was so shocked and horrified and horribly angry. It was hilarious how emotional and real that felt. I also found myself thinking: That's kind of bullshit, I'd have mindblasted him. Ah well.

Otherwise I can't really remember.

 

[Pariah164]

The end of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future made me bawl like a sissy.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Never all the way to tear, but I came EXTREMLY close at the bad ending of Infamous 2.

The good ending didn't do much for me, but

[spoiler/]Having to actually kill Zeke[/spoiler]

in order to do what I felt was right, was heart wrenching.

Also, the closing sequence of Red Dead Redemption was like that as well. However, in that one, I got to have a fist-pump fuck yeah moment before the credits rolled.

 

[Jay Cool]

The scene that happens if you drop THAT weapon in Bastion. I was so moved because of how heroic a gesture it was, and the fact that I was doing it, it wasn't just some cut scene.

 

[Jake0fTrades]

I know I have, but I don't remember which game.

I know I made myself cry during a game before. In Fallout 3: The Pitt, I imagined the baby Marie going her whole life without her parents. I had to kill them in order to free the slaves. That thought really made me feel depressed.

 

[Archangel768]

Klonoa 2 ending.
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core
Shadow Hearts 1 and 2.

I just finished 2 for the first time about an hour ago. sniff
Although the saddest part was probably that bit a couple of hours before the ending.

I'll add more if I remember.

Final Fantasy X
I would have cried during the ending if my parents weren't there. I've shed a few tears over the ending since I've rewatched it a number of times.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

I cried manly tears at the end of Neverwinter Nights 2 when I got the "Sacrifice" ending

Or at the end of Fallout 3 when I got the "Super good" ending. But that's about it.

 

[TheSolemnHypnotic]

I just finished Kingdom Hearts and my eyes were hurt from crying so hard. It was amazing.

 

[Folksoul]

Only in hindsight. Usually i just go into stunned silence.

The Faithful ending in Catherine did make me sniffle a little though. IT'S THAT HEARTWARMING!

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

Gears of War 2
Dom finding Maria

 

[Zeitgeist1983]

That one depressing ending of Silent Hill 2, when she read the whole letter. When I finished the game I was finished.

 

[Liz Elric]

~ When I played Crysis 2 on supersoldier and was trying to defeat that Pinger. I cried from frustration.
~ The ending of Half Life 2: Episode 2 knowing I would have to wait years for it to be done.
~ In Enslaved when Trip got back to her village.

 

[Aprilgold]

Heavy Rain
I don't know if it was because Ethan was shot in front of his son,or if it was because the controller decided to fuck me over in the QTE preceding that,but that was the first time a game nearly made me cry. I still swear out Sony's Sixaxis to this day because of that.

Damnit, you have the perk NINJA'D! This perk allows you to tell other that this person NINJA'D you before you could post. I cried because of trying to fucking GET there, I mean, I was mother fucking in tears when I had to do those trials, I really bonded with the father. It was truly sad having to give mouth to mouth to his kid, I was in deep tears that time too... Also, got the best ending, first try, without fucking up, that made me cry manly tears.

 

[Curlythelock]

In short no, no piece of fiction has ever made me tear up in the slightest.

 

[FaceFaceFace]

Persona 4 made me tear up a little.

It was just so LONG. More than 80 hours spent with these characters, bypassing several false endings, reaching the final boss, getting most of the way through it's final form, and then the music goes from depressing and dramatic to an epic remix of the main battle theme. I was like, holy shit, I've played this for roughly the equivalent of four days and now its ending? Epicly? So I teared up a little.