Have you ever played a game that made you cry?

[Platypus540]

Yeah, and I've actually noticed myself getting more emotional about this stuff as I get older, go figure. Maybe I'm more mature and can connect to it better?

Anyway:
Telltale's Walking Dead, the train (I guess that was more shock than anything though) and the endings to both seasons
Mass Effect 3
Katawa Shoujo, practically the whole time
And I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple, I guess I'll edit them in if I remember.

 

[babinro]

My second playthrough on the Walking Dead Season 1 had me teary eyed at the end.

I'm not entirely sure why it was only the second time through.
Guess the story had more of an impact on me a year later?

Oh well, it gets the distinction of being the first and only game, movie, book, etc to evoke that response out of me.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

I'm almost thirty and I still get a little tear in my eye whenever I see Aeris die.

Other games include Mass Effect 3, Thane.
The Last of Us, the very beginning.
Spec Ops: The Line.

I know there are other ones out there, but those are the three most recent ones that come to mind.

 

[Story]

I cried during the ending of Okami, not once but twice.
I'm not what that saids about me...

 

[Fappy]

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

 

[BrokenTinker]

Final Fantasy 4(2 in the US)
Final Fantasy 6(3 in the US), Celes' suicide scene. Cyan's entire storyline. Terra's story and Leo's story almost had me as well.

Terranigma (not cry cry, just tear?)

Chrono Trigger+Cross (same as above)

Resident Evil series, Fatal Frame series, Clock Tower series, Silent Hill series, F.E.A.R (cry as in jump out of my chair screaming).

Seiken Densetsu series (aka Secret of Mana).

Breath of Fire series.

That game where you played as the hero to slay all the evil overlords, only to be revealed that you are the reincarnation of an evil overlord, losing control yourself to the past incarnation and slay all your party members, so you reset the world anew without yourself with cut scenes of your party that never got to meet each other cause you no long exist.

A strategy game where you are rushing back to save your kingdom as a prince after going abroad, get aided by a mysterious general all the way to the end only to accidentally kill your family. Then the ending was you using the family heirloom to go back in time to become the mysterious general to aid your past self.

Shadow of Colossus (I don't remember why)

Dance Dance Revolution (cause I accident stub my toes into the sofa, far too many times after stepping off the dance mat).

Romancing Saga (I think it was?)

The Walking Dead Season 1 ending with the handcuff.

First time playing Fat Princess (crying from laughter)

A long slew of RPGs that I can no longer remember.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Nope. Not really much of a crier.

Games have made me sad though, or a least affected me emotionally. Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword comes to mind, as do 9 Hours 9 Persons 9 Doors, The World Ends With You, and Thomas Was Alone.

 

[Loop Stricken]

The ending of Bastion came so very, very close. Even though I went into the game knowing full well what the ending was.

 

[Vigormortis]

A few I could list have already been listed, so I'll go with one that hasn't yet.

Spoiler: Spoilers

[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.

 

[Funyahns]

Couple of visual novels really did. Kana little sister was a real tough game to go through, some of Key games are harsh too, Little Busters and Clannad.

 

[Ihrgoth]

Mass Effect 3, Thane's death made me cry, Legion's death made me cry, yeah you get it. Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII also made me cry, that ending was so well written and designed, and so sad. Also Mass Effect 2 when Tali finds her father dead, well that also made me cry. Halo 4's ending with Cortana's sacrifice made me cry. Now disclaimer, I mean tear up, not out and out bawling my eyes out.

 

[Solbasa]

I'm generally fairly emotionally stoic, so it's incredibly rare for a game to make me cry. That being said, there is one game that put a tear in my eye: Xenogears. At the beginning, after that attack on the village...if you've played it, you know what I'm talking about. If not...

Spoiler: Xenogears, what happens to the home village.

You destroy it. You get in the damn robot, and lose control, killing everyone, including your two best friends who were going to get married the next day. Maybe I should've seen it coming, but it wouldn't have been nearly as bad if it wasn't ME that killed them.

Other games have come close, though. Xenoblade Chronicles, Final Fantasy IX, Mother 3, Persona 3, Final Fantasy X, Okamiden, and (although I don't know if this counts as a "game" that you "play") Katawa Shoujo - hell, I had to suspend my reading of Katawa Shoujo partway through the Hanako arc because it hit a little too close to home for me.

I'm sure there have been other games in the past, but none come to mind right now.

 

[Jiggle Counter]

The ending of Lufia 2 on the SNES

Spoiler

With the main enemies finally defeated, their flying fortress begins to collapse. It starts to fall towards the main character's home.

The main character, Maxim, leaves his wife behind (who is in critical condition from the final battle) as he frantically runs off to destroy the magical crystals which are keeping the floating fortress afloat.

One by one the crystals are destroyed, but by the time Maxim reaches the final crystal, he is too exhausted to destroy it.

He collects what life force he has left into an energy sphere, which he then hurls it at the crystal.

The floating fortress begins to collapse into the sea, everyone on the ground (including the other heroes) are cheering.

Maxim is still on the floating fortress, he collapses, then sees the ghost of his wife, who has obviously died from her fatal wounds.

They hold hands and glide towards their home.

One by one it shows everyone they ever saved, everyone they ever helped or loved, they're all cheering and gathering up together for one gigantic celebration, waiting for the heroes safe return, not knowing of their sacrifice.

The final scene is of their baby son Jeros, safely at home, opening his eyes and speaking his first words

 

[BathorysGraveland2]

Hmm. Can't say I have. Probably the closest I've ever come to weeping in a game would be in the first Witcher. On the fourth chapter, right after finishing the main plotline involving two sisters, a husband and a vengeful admirer. Well, right after finishing that tragic story up I was just standing there reflecting upon it all while the absolutely brilliant soundtrack played in that area, and that came pretty close to me shedding a tear.

That'd be the most emotional I've gotten in a game, I think.

A close runner up would be more recently in Risen 3: Titan Lords. On the Fog Island DLC. It was a similar situation. I resolved the main plotline, which ended up being quite tragic and just reflected on it while some really, really good music was playing. That also brought a feel out in me. I think it's mostly the music that plays while the events are fresh in my mind. That's what does it.

 

[Issurru]

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.

Spoiler: Persona 4

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!

Spoiler: MGS3 Snake Eater

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

Spoiler: Fullmetal Alchemist

Nina was sad because she was a cute and adorable little girl who had a sadistic father but

Spoiler: This one

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?"

Like Damn

 

[Malbourne]

Yeah, there's a reason Telltale's The Walking Dead shows up a lot. It's cuz it makes people cry like two-year-olds. People like me.

The ending of Okami, especially after all that time spent just adventuring through Nippon.

Spoiler: At the end of the game

At the end of the game, I teared up when Amaterasu had to leave with the half-baked priest Waka to go back to their day jobs protecting Earth. It didn't help that she and Issun barely got to say good-bye to one another, but when he started spreading his illustrations of the wolf-god and begging for aid of the people of the land, it got to me. There was the boss Sparrow, the Poncles, Oki, and all the other people Issun and Ammy helped along the way, all of them putting their faith in a white wolf when she was on the brink of death. And when the music started playing for round 3 with the god of darkness, the game got to me again.

 

[Pyrian]

A few I could list have already been listed, so I'll go with one that hasn't yet.

Spoiler: Spoilers

[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.

This one is far more messed up due to the series essentially ending right here.

 

[Ambient_Malice]

I hesitate to say "cry". Perhaps "sniffly" would be a better term.
Peace Walker. (Metal Gear kills itself.)
Crysis 3. (Prophet choosing to not give up.)
To the Moon. (Ending.)
Conker's Bad Fur Day. (Conker's closing speech about loss and regret.)
999. (Final puzzle.)

That's off the top of my head. I tend to remember "euphoric" and "bitter" moments from games more strongly than "sad" ones.

 

[Evonisia]

The closest two would be Silent Hill 2's burning staircase scene, because "it's hot as hell in here" and also that it carries on when the cutscene ends so I was just like "oh God why". After that scene I just sat there in awe and sadness.

Halo 4's ending also comes close, but to be honest I was too busy calling bullshit on how Cortana did what she did so I was not really in the right position to be punched in the feels. I also hate how the opening of a trilogy felt more like the conclusion of a series.

 

[Aesir23]

Let's see. I would say that Crisis Core is definitely one that got me to shed a few tears.

Red Dead Redemption, however? So far there has not been a single time where I have seen that ending without weeping like a small child. I really have no idea what it is. With most movies, books, and games I will cry the first time I see/read the scene and that's it. Red Dead Redemption? Every single time.