Poll: Has a game made you cry?

[chakra7777]

Yes, well not to the point of sobbing, but i can remember a lot of times getting teary-eyed over a character i felt invested in or an ending. To name as many as i can:

Ogre Battle 64
Final Fantasy X (the theme song gets me everytime)
Kingdom Hearts
Tales of Symphonia (havn't finished Abyss yet)
Shadow of the Colossus
Various Metal Gears


Yeah, i'm an emotional guy. Enjoying the highs n lows!

 

[Mrkillhappy]

It has only happened once during the end of MGS3 because that ending is depressing as shit and even then it was one single manly tear just like big boss.

 

[Ryotknife]

I haven't gone full wetworks crying, but there are a few games where I had to strongly fight back the tears and failing:

Halflife 2 ep 2
Valkyrie chronicles
Xenosaga 3
Walking Dead


Xenosaga 3 is probably the most constantly despressing game of the bunch (the last 25% of the game is one big ole sadness train), but Halflife 2 hit me the hardest

 

[Callate]

I think this poll just needs a "Walking Dead" option.

Yes, I shed a few tears at the end of that one, I'm not too proud to admit. The original "Bioshock" had moments that came close.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

I've never openly wept over a game, but The Walking Dead has brought me the closest I've ever been. I choked up multiple times, and I had a few tears at dat ending.

 

[Fidchell Attano]

This game made me cry, a lot....

 

[Wafflemarine]

Dragon Age Origins and the Grey Wardens. They fight without any thought of gain for themselves and risk death just to join the group.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Every Metal Gear Solid game leaves me in tears at some point.

Spoiler: Valkyrie Profile

there's this woman who loves the ocean but her parents died at sea. One day she's down at the ocean and a wave drags her out to sea and she drowns, she had wished to be with her parents and that's how her wish came true.

Spoiler: Final Fantasy X

when Yuna does the sending for the people of Kilika.

Spoiler: Front Mission 3

when your sister sacrifices herself to destroy MIDAS

Spoiler: Fable

when I killed my sister to keep the sword, reminded me of my own dead sister and I felt like I had just killed her.

 

[nimbylive]

I have never actually cried while playing a game but the worst, most upsetting moment in my gaming life came toward the end of (*spoilers to an old game*) Shadow of Colossus when I almost did not make it over a huge bridge and my horse, who was my only friend threw the whole thing struggled and did not make that jump. That one actually hurt me.

(*Another spoiler to the same game*) He does end up living, but you only find him later after taking on a Colossi so by that point he is presumed dead.

That game has an excellent feel of isolation and huge scope. Losing your one friend in all of that is heavy, at least it was to me.

 

[AlbertoDeSanta]

The Walking Dead almost made me cry, but I knew it was happening; inevitable once you saw Episode 4. I even said (Spoilers here): "I bet it will just be Clem and Lee in a room and she'll have to shoot him". It fucking was.

Regardless, the one game that has done it was this: Okami. Towards the end, there is the most heartwarming moment ever seen, where it shows the many people you have met praying for you. It's awesome and it made me cry.

 

[Voulan]

I get very emotionally invested in the things I watch/play, so absolutely I've shed a tear or two.

Kingdom Hearts (all of the games), The Walking Dead, Final Fantasy X and Silent Hill 2 get me every time.

 

[SirPlindington]

Sooooooooooooo many times. I'm a manly men, and truly manly men aren't afraid to let their true emotions show. That's just how I roll. Like, Bastion? Lots of tears there, and don't even get me started on Thomas Was Alone. An entire box of tissues, straight down the drain. SIgh.

 

[ThatLankyBastard]

I teared up in every Katawa Shoujo route but...
Rin's Route...
*shudders*
...Jesus, I never expected to cry THAT much...

Other then Katawa Shoujo: No, I have not cried during a game.
Not in Walking Dead, not any Final Fantasy... Not even a tear when my favourite Squadmate in XCOM gets killed in a complete bullshit way.
[sub]But that fucking Visual Novel[/sub]
[sub][sub][sub]"GODDAMNIT RIN, CAN'T YOU SEE YOUR ART IS TEARING US APART????"
*Lay down*
*try not to cry*
*Cry a lot...*[/sub][/sub][/sub]

 

[darthzew]

Mass Effect 3 gave me quite a few. Most notably, though, was when I decided to play 100% renegade and was forced to shoot a certain someone. I didn't know it was coming and he was my favorite.

The Walking Dead had me going more times than I care to count.

 

[Issurru]

I was going to say none at all, that i'm too broken to do any of that touchy-feely stuff. Then as people have pointed out, Persona 4. Holy balls did I have to grit my teeth and sit there going "WHAT IN THE FUCK!?!" And sat there for like ten minutes not knowing what option to choose for Namatame

 

[themyrmidon]

I could list all the manly tear scenes in ME3, but I want to get some sleep tonight. I'll just say that the end made me break down (in my defense I was up for 34 hours at that point, so my emotions were raw).

Other games have drawn the manly tear once or twice, but ME3 in my true weakness. It's a raw, exposed emotional nerve.

Although mark my words, if I ever beat Civ 5 on Deity I will unleash a flood of tears.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Dragon Age Origins and the Grey Wardens. They fight without any thought of gain for themselves and risk death just to join the group.

The grey warden stuff gets lost under EVERYTHING ELSE trying to be so dark, edgy and depressing. Why no tears for the mages? Why no tears for Morrigan and what she has to do to save people from her mother?

 

[ecoho]

the ending to mass effect with all the ships coming in to save the Destiny Ascension. the music always makes me tear up.

and well anyone who didn't at least get misty eyed on Tuchanka is lying......

 

[RedDeadFred]

Many times in Mass Effect 3.

The ending of Bastion.

When I thought MC was dead at the end of Halo 3.

Twice in Borderlands 2.

Low chaos ending in Dishonored.

Probably many more. I cry a lot at movies and games...

 

[soren7550]

Let's see... the ones that I can recall are:

Fable 3 - I got really teary eyed at the end but managed to not cry until I made it to the safety of my room.

BioShock 1 & 2 - Cried big ol' fat tears for the good endings.

BioShock Infinite - I got a bit wet eyed at the end. Probably would have cried a little if I understood what was going on at the time.

EDIT: Whoops, thought this was only for game endings. Clarifying the above and adding in Mass Effect 3 for when two major characters died.