Homeworld: Cataclysm : The final cinematic sequence as they explain what happens to your clan in the aftermath of events, teary eyed love.
Homeworld 1: The opening cinematic when I first saw it choked me up. The sounds of Adigio for Strings playing as the maiden voyage of the Mothership is prepped for. Just wonderful.
Can't think of any others atm, though I'm sure there are a few more here or there.
The following list isn't just Sad Tears by any means, but also the Bittersweet/Poignant variety, which happen to be my favourite.
Dreamweb
FFVII
Metal Gear Solid
Halo 3
Halo 4
BioShock
BioShock Infinite
Red Dead Redemption
Lost Odyssey
Dragon Age Origins
Wolfenstein The New Order
Mass Effect 3 (maybe the other two as well, but I don't recall where/how)
Fable II
...EMOSIUNS! That's a few I can think of, but I'm certain there's more. I'm quite easily and often moved to various stages of teary/watery eyed states, and I love it when a game can get me like that, but only one game's ever had me break down and sob, and that would be---
Fappy said:
Walking Dead: Season One like everyone else
That ending... I just couldn't help myself. I don't think I cried playing any other game though. I may have gotten choked up a few times, but I've only ever sobbed like a baby once XD
No other work of art/entertainment's ever moved me as much (although the film, Magnolia's, almost matched it).
It was very moving for two reason; 1) ...duh, and 2) I'm not sure - in the thousands of MAKE A CHOICE IN A GAME! moments I've gone through as a gamer, I can think of any other 'choice' that I've so believed in before.
I had Clementine leave Lee, and his sentiment of 'killing changes you - it doesn't matter why you do it' so echoed my own beliefs, and my own rationale throughout the series that I was oddly proud of TWD/Telltale/Lee for somehow giving me a choice in a game I truly, profoundly believed in. As a kind of philosophical, existential resolution and grace-note to the series, I genuinely couldn't have asked for anything better.
I kept nearly everyone alive in ME3 that was possible, yet I still teared up like a baby at some of the sad moments.
The one that nearly did me in was
Mordin. When he gets up into the exploding tower, and says "Had to be me. Someone else would have gotten it wrong"
I bawled like a hungry, angry baby.
So much of Mass Effect had it, the deaths, some of the happy bits, some of the near deaths.
Also Halo 4. Cortana, man. I knew it was coming. I knew since Halo CE that an AI could only live 7 years before rampancy. But even still, after doing so much with her, to lose her at the end
I cried pretty much every time Jody was in Beyond two Souls, I cried alot in that game I was so attached to her and her unfolding life heck I even cried when she reunites with Cole I was so happy to see him again after him being gone in our lives for what felt like forever considering how the last time she saw him went. Never cried during a game before, I didn't even cry when Areith died! and at max you might get me a bit misty eyed for 2 movies but thats it, so it was a very impactful game. On the other end of the spectrum I went rage fest in The Last of Us I kept forgetting I was Joel and would go crazy on anyone trying to kill us because dang it I'm responsible for this kid and I'll rip you to pieces if you're going to try and kill her, very overprotective of her unlike Laura who they were trying to make me be protective of for her it was like, " Lets get out of this! Get a weapon and lets roll!".
Only two maybe; The Walking Dead Season 1 and The Last of Us. And that was only during the passive moments (a.k.a. cutscenes). I've felt plenty sad/heart broken during games, but I hardly if ever cry since I'm too busy controlling what's on screen. And that while I'm a big cry baby when it comes to movies.
You cried in The Ellen Page Crying Simulator? I guess it did it's job right, then, at least for some... I found a few moments near the very end quite poignant, but really only due to Page making the most of Cage's wonky script.
I just started a different thread talking about getting emotionally attached to fiction and thought this would be a good topic of discussion. What games if any have made you cry in the past?
For me:
- Metal Gear Solid
- Final Fantasy 7
- Mass Effect 2
I'm positive there were many more because I can be weirdly emotional at times, but I can't think of any more off the top of my head right now!
Takes a lot for me to cry (Like someone dying or something tragic, seriously my friends call me a robot and I don't blame em)
BUT there were a few games that had me actually forcing myself to not choke up and bawl like a 4 year old girl.
Nanako, seriously. Holy shit I had to walk away when they alluded to her dying and had you chose the killers fate before finding out that she's actually alive. Seriously fuck that part in it's entirety, like come on! That's just cruel!
Where you have to kill the Boss and then attend her funeral got me kinda choked up and that was my first Metal Gear game I played, well done Hideo, well done.
and then
Nina was sad because she was a cute and adorable little girl who had a sadistic father but
Hughes had me damn near in tears since he's characterised decently and is quite the helpful man and fanatical father, then BOOM. He's dead and that funeral with Mustang saying it's a terrible day for rain and then Elicia freaking out because "They're burying daddy!, why are they burying Daddy, Mommy?"
Dammit...why oh why did you have to remind me of that bit if FMA. Holy crap that was sad as fuck.
I shed the odd tear for bits of things that are either really sad or really powerful.
I have shed some manly tears in:
- Baldur's Gate 2: The bit where all the mages gang up on Irenicus with you. I was young and that was just so damn awesome that I was overwhelmed.
- Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 and 3 (don't laugh).
The death of Jiraiya in 2 and the entire storytelling sequence involving Naruto's mum in 3. They were sad as hell in the anime and the game actually made them sadder somehow. Just the bit where his mother is standing there, dying and leaving her last message for him - and it's just good everyday advice to help him grow up - ...yeah.
- The end of Bioshock Infinite. I managed not to get spoiled on it and *damn* I did not see that coming.
- The death of a certain character in Resident Evil: Code Veronica. I don't remember his name or anything much about him except that he seemed to be channeling Dante from Devil May Cry. Except that suddenly at one point the game went from ultra cheesy zombie shooter to really, really sad death scene. That is the only thing I can remember about the game.
- Mass Effect 3:
- Mordin's final line.
- Tali's suicide (seriously, fuck you Bioware).
- The end of the game and the feeling of finality that came with it.
A few I could list have already been listed, so I'll go with one that hasn't yet.
[HEADING=1]Half-Life 2: Episode 2[/HEADING]
I'll freely admit to shedding a single tear when I was forced to watch the death of Eli Vance. Throughout the series he was the quintessential father figure, a wise-man who helped guide and encourage Freeman as well as the Resistance. He was also the core of Alyx's emotional foundation. The one thing, besides D0G, she had left to love in the world.
It was a punch to the gut having to watch him be "de-brained" as Alyx screamed in protest. Especially considering he was always one of my favorite characters in the series.
Holy shit did the "A Christmas Gift" stage (You're the Inspiration) come out of fucking nowhere, with the young girl's dad dying. The complete tonal shift of that stage from the rest of the game probably made me cry more.
I had a good cry when Nanako "died".
Do I even need to say anything? I'd say I cried most after learning that River and Johnny had met as children, but Johnny couldn't remember her because the beta-blockers, and she couldn't remind him directly because of her condition. Sometimes even just listening to For River can get me to tear up a little bit.
Bonus: A game that made me cry from laughing so hard:
So when you create a new character, if you keep cycling through random names, the game will occasionally suggest random words as names. I didn't know this at the time. I was creating a character and kept going through random names, and I eventually got "Corded Phone" as a name. It just caught me so off guard that I ended up collapsing onto the ground laughing.
You cried in The Ellen Page Crying Simulator? I guess it did it's job right, then, at least for some... I found a few moments near the very end quite poignant, but really only due to Page making the most of Cage's wonky script.
She did a really great job bringing the character to life and her emotional deliverance was done in the right moments, it was odd very different having a game effect me like that most games that go for sad moments either look cheesy, forced, or over done but with this game I felt it was all appropriate especially if you can relate to her like losing your family for things not within your control and such.
Mordin's sacrifice on Tuchanka made me shed some manly tears, as did Anderson's death. Thane's death filled me with rage and the desire to fly the Normandy up Kai Leng's arse at top speed!
When Thessia falls to the Reapers and we see Liara in tears...well that just tore my heart out!
MGS4, even with its mood whiplashes and general silliness.
Big Boss: Boss... you were right. It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world... the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others, and believing in your own.
If you had been in my place back then, maybe you wouldn't have made the same mistakes I did. Ever since the day I killed The Boss with my own hands, I... was already dead.
Multiple paths in Grisaia no Kaijutsu made me tear up pretty heavily. Sachi's and Michiru's routes were particularly emotionally painful. I guess it doesn't really count as a game, but the Kara tech demo made me tear up when she screams that she's only just been born. There was a lot of raw emotion in that line.
Katawa Shoujo got me more than enough times. Special mentions of Rin's 'Neutral' ending which somehow managed to be even more heart-wrenching than her 'Bad' ending.
Metal Gear Solid 3 hit me so far that Way To Fall's ending mix of the MGS2 theme brings about PTSD.
My earliest memory though is Sonic Adventure 2. E-102's entire story was WAY too much for the child I was back then. I was not equipped in order to handle the story of a robot killing all of his brothers in a murderous rampage caused by a malfunction giving him an obsession with free will. To this day that story arc serves as an example of one of one of the strangest tonal shifts in a game.
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