How Can Videogames Make Us Cry?

[duchaked]

When Anthony Carmine dies in Gears 2. I didn't even play the game! Just watched clips from youtube...

I saw that. Teared like a baby because he was just so innocent. Also when Dom found Maria again. I wanted to throw my controller for some odd reason with that.

As well as in Assassin's Creed 2, the last part of 16's files before you see his final 'memory'. When he was just begging to be let go and telling us that 'his mind is gone' and 'Lucy. I'm just ready to go...' just made me almost bawl like a baby, I had gotten to attatched to him.

dude I forgot about Gears 2...yeah it didn't sadden me to tears, but it did make me feel really really really bad
like from the moment we first saw Tai broken...bleh

shoot I haven't played the AC2 DLCs aaugh gotta get them (I got SO into AC2, beat it 100% but seeing the ending I was like nooo what happened to Ezio...)

 

[Dirty Apple]

Movies and television have made me weepy and shiny-eyed on countless occasions. I have yet to experience sadness from a game though. I find it difficult to empathize to that degree with any video game character. The closest I've come is literal heart thumping adrenaline during certain FPS's.

 

[Aerodynamic]

They have never made me cry, just rage.

 

[SimuLord]

Fallout 3, Mr. Rouse? That game didn't make me cry. It made me angry. It made me think "this could've been game of the year, but the ending sucked so badly that I have to give this award to another game". It's the reason I wouldn't recommend anyone even consider the game without at least Broken Steel added on to it.

Bad example.

I'll agree with it as an example but "not even consider"? It's just one mission at the end, if you don't do it you can keep on playing or at least reload after the ending.

As for this topic, I have yet to get teary from a video game but I think it is possible... still waiting on it though...

With the Game of the Year edition out it's kind of a moot point, but Broken Steel is otherwise the most essential ten bucks you can spend on that game. Not only does it fix the ending but it raises the too-low level cap to a point that makes a bit more sense.

 

[Flight]

I'll admit it: I cried at the end of Persona 3. I cried like a little girl, and then my roomie mocked me.

I also cried near the end of Okami. "Reset: Thank You" combined with the scene in which the song was played had that effect on me.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

By stabbing you with a knife hidden in the USB ports every time you die.

 

[Katana314]

Most of the common death ones don't do it for me.

Mass Effect: Oh man, obligatory "big choice" part of the game. I'm sure it's something the writers barely thought about, as it can go both ways and can have no major plot significance at all. (vs FF7: Aeris' death allowed for the world to be saved in the end. It meant everything)

One that did it just from the THREAT of someone dying was Phoenix Wright: Justice for All.

Spoiler: JFA Case 4

Your assistant, Maya Fey, is kidnapped. The kidnapper demands that you find a super-rich suspect in a murder case innocent via trial. Thankfully, he is able to prove to you that he didn't kill anyone. Unthankfully, it turns out the killer is the kidnapper; a hired assassin who now wants to clear his client's name. So after 2 days of trial, it turns out your client IS the murderer after all. And what's worse, there is currently jack shit you can do about it. Ends in a big finish, as always, and definitely put me on-edge enough that when you finally win out in the end, I was honestly in tears.

Braid's ending was pretty influential as well.

 

[Aesir23]

For me, what really brings me to tears is usually the death of a character I've become really attached to or cases of self sacrifice in games.

Spoiler: Like...

Aeris and Zack of the FFVII Compilation as well as Rush and Emma in The Last Remnant

The stories in the Lost Odyssey are the only exception to that. Those things make me bawl like a little girl.

 

[Nouw]

When Anthony Carmine dies in Gears 2. I didn't even play the game! Just watched clips from youtube...

I saw that. Teared like a baby because he was just so innocent. Also when Dom found Maria again. I wanted to throw my controller for some odd reason with that.

As well as in Assassin's Creed 2, the last part of 16's files before you see his final 'memory'. When he was just begging to be let go and telling us that 'his mind is gone' and 'Lucy. I'm just ready to go...' just made me almost bawl like a baby, I had gotten to attatched to him.

Did you come here just because of March Mayhem? If yes, that's my story! If no, Welcome To The Escapist anyway.

Dom found Maria, wait what? Tell me the full-story using spoiler-tags. If you don't know how to use them:

Spoiler: whatever you want to come up as text when someone sees the box7

The Context[/spoiler7]

Without the 7s of course.

 

[Centheon]

Every time a 60$+ game comes out I cry.

 

[Ushario]

Thats easy, Hellgate London made me cry.

At how bad the game was.

 

[blaze96]

When chopper died in Ace combat 5 on the Journey Home Mission. I'm not putting it in spoilers because if you haven't played the game by now you most likely aren't going to. That mission though was the first time I cried during a game that wasn't rage induced.

 

[aaron552]

Beyond Good and Evil came pretty close.

Spoiler

In the ruined lighthouse, where Jade talks to Woof...

FFX came pretty close, FFVI, too. FFVII didn't, however. I just didn't like it, or its characters, as much as VI. A videogame has never made me cry... yet. Once I get round to playing the Kanon or Clannad VNs, I'm sure it won't last.

 

[legion431]

Bioshock 2 good ending made me sad at most

 

[solidstatemind]

You guys make me chuckle. Unlike the games that evoke such a powerful emotional response from me that I was moved to tears.

And that's the crux of the matter, isn't it? Are you so jaded at such a young age that you can't be sucked into a story- can't become emotionally committed to the point where you are moved to the deepest levels of sorrow? If you can't, then I frankly pity you: you're life is going to be pretty emotionally empty. If you can't experience the lows in life, you will never appreciate the highs. (Sorry to sound so sanctimonious, but it's true.)

I will admit that there are several subjects that don't draw an emotional response from me, because they are rather hackneyed. That in no way means that I am immune or insensitive to a well-written and well-executed statement in a game.

Take Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee: if there is a game that makes a better commentary on humankind's nihilistic voraciousness driving the world to fatal ecological imbalance, I really haven't seen it.

The opening to that game still breaks me down... call me a 'sap' if you want. I call myself 'human'.

 

[MiserableOldGit]

"Johnny Cash hasn't had a particularly sad or tragic life" - he might want to know what he's talking about before making comments in such a public forum in future-it makes you look like a twat.

 

[Leroy Frederick]

Yes they can, Final Fantasy VII is my example too.

 

[Samarith]

I'd have to be honest and say that Mass Effect 2 brought me a few tears.

The most memorable being the destruction of the original Normany and then the commissioning of the new Normany. I shed some tears during both sequences whilst swear oaths of retribution to come.

I don't think I've ever had a game mess with my emotions to the extent these sequences did.

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

ending of MGS3. nuff said.

a tear came to my eye just thinking about it.

Also it made me sad at the end of dragon age when everyone was moring me and the things they did afterwards

 

[Woodsey]

I think I shed a tear at the ending of Mafia and PoP: The Sands of Time. Maybe not Mafia, but I was still pretty upset. Fantastic ending.

I'd have to be honest and say that Mass Effect 2 brought me a few tears.

The most memorable being the destruction of the original Normany and then the commissioning of the new Normany. I shed some tears during both sequences whilst swear oaths of retribution to come.

I don't think I've ever had a game mess with my emotions to the extent these sequences did.

Totally forgot about that. ME2 has, ironically, the most memorable beginning to any game I've ever played.

When the screen fades to the game title I was sat there with my mouth hanging open until I got to the next play section.

I had a pretty good ending, but the final level was so intense especially with the knowledge that we were all expendable that I really cared about getting everyone through.