Poll: Has a game made you cry?

[x EvilErmine x]

Once, there i was enjoying a good old session of Gran Turismo back in the day and the shelf over my bed collapsed dropping a Metal Gear Solid collector's edition right into my lap, just clipping my left nut...some tears were shed that night i tell you.

 

[Ghostface2206]

I got surprisingly close to tears when all the Lumas jumped into the black hole at the end of Super Mario Galaxy, the music was so sad. But I didn't cry.

I was deeply saddened by Skyward Sword in the scene where Zelda tells Link that she's sorry for having him being the Middle Man, she fooled herself into believing that she was playing him all along. Then she froze herself in a crystal for hundreds of years, waiting for Link to save her. Link's face when she told him, he actually started crying for the first time ever. But I didn't cry.

But both those times caught me off guard, Mario Galaxy I thought was just going to be Mario saving Peach, and then the universe collapses in on itself. And in SS, you had just got the true master sword after going on a wild goose chase of barely losing Zelda.

 

[Artina89]

The ending to Deadly premonition made me shed a tear or two. You know, when:

Spoiler

Emily dies and York's personality splits from Zach to be with her, and at the end when Zach tries to speak to York, he doesn't get an answer beacuse he is in the afterlife with Emily

Deadly premonition is one of my favourite games because of the story and the characters.

 

[Ghostface2206]

I got surprisingly close to tears when all the Lumas jumped into the black hole at the end of Super Mario Galaxy, the music was so sad. But I didn't cry.

I was deeply saddened by Skyward Sword in the scene where Zelda tells Link that she's sorry for having him being the Middle Man, she fooled herself into believing that she was playing him all along. Then she froze herself in a crystal for hundreds of years, waiting for Link to save her. Link's face when she told him, he actually started crying for the first time ever. But I didn't cry.

But both those times caught me off guard, Mario Galaxy I thought was just going to be Mario saving Peach, and then the universe collapses in on itself. And in SS, you had just got the true master sword after going on a wild goose chase of barely losing Zelda.

 

[Azaraxzealot]

You know, for all the hate it gets a LOT of people say Mass Effect 3 made them cry. It did that to me as well, just all those quick flashbacks, all the resolutions, just... everything was fantastic for me.

Mass Effect 2 made me cry at the end because I was so sad that 3 wasn't out yet and I was so god damn filled with emotion from it.

Also, To the Moon and Spec Ops: The Line,

 

[Stinovitch]

Mass Effect 3 did make me cry a few times. And that one scene in Bioshock infinite (I think you know which and if not I'm not gonna spoil it)...

 

[ItsNotRudy]

Lufia 2's ending

 

[Toxic Sniper]

Killing Maiden Astraea and Garl Vinland is one of those moments where you realize just how horrible you might have to be to save the world.

 

[Clowndoe]

Planescape: Torment. If you didn't feel something at some point, it's because you are dead. I'm sorry to break it to you.

The thing is, this game made me alternate between tears of joy, like when two of your companions share some banter, to tears of sorrow on so many occasions, to some emotion I couldn't understand, like how touching it was when Morte finally came clean about how you two met.

 

[Caiphus]

Really? I wish I'd been as emotionally affected by Mass Effect 3.

ME3 is a deeply flawed game absolutely riddled with problems, but it is not without moments of emotional catharsis. Sadly, one of those moments isn't the actual ending, but what can you do?

Fleets arriving at earth is pretty much the closest thing to a proper thematic climax the games had.

I wish I'd seen it that way. I was so ready to love the game after putting about 150 hours into the previous two in the series.

I think the closest I got to shedding a tear in ME3 was when
<spoiler=Hooray, spoilers> Mordin sacrificed himself But that's it.

Edit:
As for the invasion being the thematic climax. Yeah, it probably was. Sucks all the more for me that I didn't enjoy it. At all. It might have had something to do with the fact that Earth was unrecognisable (this was the first time we'd been there in the whole series so far, and we were there literally ten minutes before it got blown to smithereens).

I don't know. In any case, I'm glad someone enjoyed it.

 

[Grivahri]

Mass Effect - Got a lump in my throat when Shepard emerged from the wreckage.

Crisis Core - Cried when Zach died

Mass Effect 3 - Some tears or general sadness

 

[Rariow]

Walking Dead had me tear up a couple times, and I also teared up after ME3 was over (Not because of the content of the ending, but because this great big saga was finally over). I don't know if you can really count it as a game, but Katawa Shoujo, an anime-style visual novel extracted torrents of tears from my eyes.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

So far I've cried twice thanks to games.

Mass Effect 3. During the scene where Mordin Solus sacrifices himself. I kinda felt myself choke up a bit when he mentioned that he'd been looking forward to analyzing those seashells... but I managed to maintain composure... until he started singing his song from ME2 and got cut off before finishing it. Yeah... then I lost it.

The Walking Dead. Keep that hair short, Clem.

 

[Raikas]

I've never cried actual tears, but I've gotten that throat/gut ache pre-cry feeling a handful of times.

The end of Walking Dead, the Mordin bit in ME3 and - this one is a little less common - the third time I played DA2 (I can't explain why I played that that many times, but I did), I picked the "goodbye" option at the serial killer plot, and the line turned out to be totally different than what I'd expected and it just slapped me. I mean, the first two times I played that scene I thought it was poorly done, I complained about it as a missed opportunity, the whole thing - but fuck - it *got* me that third time.

 

[Azwrath]

Legacy of Kain: Defiance

Spoiler

Let's set up the scene - the main character, Raziel, begins the first game he is in by BEING THROWN IN (effectively) A VAT OF ACID TO SUFFER FOR AN ETERNITY. Things get better...slightly, and he is only in constant pain for...somewhere in the region of few millennia but then comes back as a wraith. And then he finds out that the life he had before the previous one (he was a vampire, so his human life) was that of a noble vampire hunter. His turning but a mockery of his previous self. And then he finds out his entire lineage is destroyed. And then he manages to meet his human self (time travel) only to find out he was actually a fanatic bastard who brutally murders the only person in wraith Raziel's existence who showed any care or kindness. So wraith Raziel kills human Raziel as a final twisted mockery oh his own existence. And in the process, finding out he is now doomed to be consumed in a sword (the Soul Reaver from the title of the games) and become its...for a lack of a better term, "power source". For an eternity.

Let's say Raziel Did Not Have A Good Week. And that's the state he's in at the start of Defiance. He desperately seeks to evade his fate, only to find it sealed with lies and deceit at every turn. Finding


This cutscene...this cutscene has so much impact. The entire series have been leading up to it. Moebious killed. Moebious seeing the "face" of his master was something Raziel mentioned in Soul Reaver 2. Then he gave Moebious' soul to the abomination he suddenly realized he worshipped. After that, Raziel sacrificing himself, willingly imprisoning himself to give Kain a chance of saving the world. It's simply beautiful on so many levels. If the game had ended there and then, it would have been well, but it had to really nail it with Kain't final words.


Bitter illusion indeed.

That... that right there was going to be my response. I still remember feeling sad and somewhat proud for him at that moment. And the timing, the characters, the lines, everything was perfect... the mantears were just a natural response.

 

[Drauger]

I see a lot of eh? western stuff? sorry i just haven't cried with any, buuuut I have cried my eyes out playing some visual novels, Saya no uta and Kana little sister, these 2 just made me cry so bad.... sad really sad.

 

[Poetic Nova]

It happend quiet a few times that I shed some manly tears, 2 examples are MGS2 and Journey.

 

[Xan Krieger]

Spoiler

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

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.

Final Fantasy X, when Yuna does the sending for the people of Kilika.

Front Mission 3 when your sister sacrifices herself to destroy MIDAS

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.

Seriously, use the spoiler tags. You are exposing important plot events here and it's not certain everyone has played the games you are talking about. I have just got Valkyria Chrnocles and now I am going to try to forget what you said about it before I am going to play it. It's a matter of a few extra seconds and you avoid spoiling the games.

I didn't spoil it because the game came out over a decade ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie_Profile
"It was released on December 22, 1999 in Japan and on August 29, 2000 in North America."

That does not mean no-one is going to play it. I played Lufia 2 13 years after it was released for the first time.

If you are going to reveal a major plot event ALWAYS use spoiler tags. Don't care about the age of the game. It should also be noted that you did post Final Fantasy X spoilers, which is spoilers to a game that is being released later this year for those who either missed it the first time around or wants to replay it. So age is no excuse here.

my apologies, I have since edited the post. I thought after 10 years it was okay. I know not to post spoilers for games that came out within like the past 3 years but I thought a decade was fairly safe.

Yeah, it's fair to assume that no-one is going to play a decade old game, especially with console games that you can't actually play on any of the current systems. I apologize if I came across as rude, it's just that there has been so many blatant spoilers without spoiler tags lately.

No offense taken though I did have to look up what Valkyria Chronicles was, I'd only head of that game previously from a Zero Punctuation episode.
"I have just got Valkyria Chrnocles and now I am going to try to forget what you said about it before I am going to play it."
I understand the mistake you made thinking I mentioned that game instead of Valkyrie Profile, don't think the game I said sold all that well but it had a great battle system and I might have to play through it again.