Have you ever played a game that made you cry?

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Quadocky

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Arc Rise Fantasia. Voice acting was goofy as hell, but there is one scene that doesn't pull any punches in regards to demonstrating the realities of war. It caught me by surprise really and I got all choked up.

I think what made it more compelling is that despite being the main character and the hero of the story, the game circles around you being pretty much always a few steps behind the bigger bad guy. So, when something bad happens you could have not done anything to stop it.
 

Trippy Turtle

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I can't name any off the top of my head for some reason but I've definitely teared up a few times. Generally over some death where a character I like is screaming over the dead body and sad music is playing.
 

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Skyrim just made me cry. 64 hours in, last trophy was Oblivion Walker, and it glitched out. And I really wanted Skyrim to be my tenth platinum.
 

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CrystalViolet said:
Your testosterone levels are too high. You're simply too masculine for crying. I bet all the women ovulate when you walk into the room. Congrats.
Yeah and I never even cries at sad scenes in movies let alone games. but majority of games i play are PC FPS so?
 

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None have actually made me cry, but one did come close.

When Raynor was declared "dead" by the Terran Dominion.. however there was a cynical part of me that knew they wouldn't kill him off. Unfortunate, because while it would've been sad it would've been a very gutsy way to take the story.
 

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The Ending of Mass Effect 3 Made Me cry! Apart from that Dark souls made me cry as i kept dying and dying! :p
 

FrozenLaughs

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The ending chapter to Lunar Silver Star Story made me misty eyed.

Not sure I cryed, but I remember feeling genuinely crushed for Dom when he decided to end his wifes suffering.
 

Robert B. Marks

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Didn't play, but watched the LRR Twitch stream of it, and the end of Valiant Hearts had my wife and I weeping.

If the end of Valiant Hearts doesn't make you cry, you have no soul.
 

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Never cried to my recollection, but I have had games that have made me severely depressed, that pit in your stomach feeling you get when you hear bad news like a death in the family.

2 Fairly recent games have given me this feeling, for separate reasons.

First is Bioshock Infinite, without spoiling anything, as I played the game, I enjoyed the characters so much I was hesitant to continue playing because I knew in Ken Levine fashion, that the later parts of the game would end up getting pretty heavy and I just wanted the game to just stop and say, Both characters escaped and lived happily ever after. The game's insane ending leaves that possibility on the table, but I cannot think that positively. I spent a few days feeling depressed, it was right during finals week on college and I promised myself not to touch the game again until I had a week of time to recover from any feelings it gave me. When I played it again and then played through the DLCs, I was less saddened despite the harsher ending to the DLCs.

The second game or games was the Mass Effect series. I got ME1-2 on Steam a year or so after ME2 released and played through them both back to back. I again was enamored with the characters and really liked the storyline, despite all of its flaws. I ended up with Ashley as my love interest and during Mass Effect 2 when you meet up with her or the other guy, and they yell at you and are mad, I felt horrible and upon beating the game could not wait to get ME3. I even preordered the damn thing, knowing full well it was Origin exclusive. First mission in to the game, Ashley gets hospitalized and no longer a party member for most of the game. I flew all the way back to the hospital after every mission hoping that there was a dialogue option or something to return her to the party. Again I felt the feeling of not wanting to finish the game because the game clearly sets up the idea that its not going to end well for Earth. Then the ending happened and I was depressed and furious. I picked the synthesis ending the first time and was furious, played through the mission again picking destroy and was still furious, I wanted a happy ending to be possible, I played ME1 and 2 like Mother Teresa with a plasma gun and the ending just pissed me off.

This one made me feel depressed and angry for several weeks. Additionally, I was the first of my friends to beat it because I have little social life. I tried not to spoil it for them but I told them it was awful. The one cathartic moment out of all of this was one day I saw a friend a week later who had been playing it, he walked up to me looking dead inside. All he said was "I finished Mass Effect 3." and that was all that needed to be said. We gave him his space for a while after that.

Ultimately, I had gotten over the whole thing by the time the directors cut came out, and playing through the final mission again, I was much more impressed by how atmospheric it was. And then the new ending happened and it continued to leave me pissed off because while slightly cheerier, it still left way to much shit open to interpretation. All it did was make me care again for a few hours only to piss me off when I would have much preferred to continue to consider Mass Effect dead to me. That said, if I learn that the new Mass Effect retcons a super happy ending in for Shepard if you import your save, I might consider buying it purely for closure.

Some other games that have given me this depressed feeling but not as long lasting were Bioshock 1 and 2, 2 more so than 1 since Bioshock 2 doesn't have a crappy cheerful ending option like 1 did.

Metro Last Light gave me this depressed feeling, since they chose the bad ending as canon for Metro 2033, I assume if they make a direct sequel to Last Light they will repeat this and I hated the bad ending in Last Light. Liked both endings in 2033 though.

LA Noire kinda gave me this feeling but it also pissed me off because of how illogical it was, I resign to believe that lots of Cole's characterization was scrapped since LA Noire was a production nightmare and that it was just financial reasons they couldn't explain Cole's mistakes.

Oh and still fairly dead inside from the ending of Half-Life 2: Episode 2. Get to work Valve.

Emergency Edit: Completely forgot about the one that brought me fairly close to tears, Starcraft series. That game is full of depressing moments, although Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty was spoiled for me in that I saw the cutscene where someone says they can give Raynor what he always wanted, I knew right away what that was going to be. But then it all goes to shit in Heart of the Swarm. Worst part about Heart of the Swarm was when something happens early on. I had preordered the game so no plot synopses were online and right after something heartbreaking happens, my computer died. Had to wait 2 weeks for a new graphics card to arrive (yay warranties). That was really crappy because it took about a week before I finally found online some more information and learned that the heartbreaking thing was only a ruse. Still horrible few days though.
 

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The same two as last time:

Chrono Trigger The Sunken Desert sidequest, the one where Lucca goes back to save her mother's legs. Absolutely horrible, particularly given how depressed she is in the modern age.

Bayonetta Chapter XIV: Isla Del Sol. Yep, the rocket level. For those few minutes I wasn't a thirty-one-year-old man snarking at yet another reference to some ancient game; I was a five-year-old boy with his nose pressed up against the window of Thomas's Amusement Arcade in Hunstanton staring in awe at the full motion Space Harrier cabinet.
 

razer17

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Walking Dead Season 1, both times I played it. Cried at season 2 as well. And Persona 4. There could be others, but htose are the ones that stick out in my mind.
 

Dagda Mor

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The only thing that springs to mind is The Walking Dead season one, and I got a little teary eyed at the end of season two. There might be others, but I can't think of them right now. I'm a pretty stoic guy, though, and even when something does profoundly affect me, I usually don't cry.
 

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I don't exactly cry when I play games. Instead, I tend to go silent or feel chills whenever something sad or depressing happens. I still feel the sadness though. I guess it's just the way I am, I guess.

Others in the thread have listed games that I've felt sad at (To the Moon, Valiant Hearts, multiple Final Fantasy games, MGS3 & 4, Mass Effect 2 & 3, BOTH seasons of The Walking Dead, Persona 3 & 4), so here's one part of a game that no one has mentioned:

Fire Emblem Awakening
End of chapter 9 and the ENTIRETY of chapter 10. Emmeryn's death threw me for a loop, and the battle/escape afterwards in chapter 10 didn't help things either, with a VERY sympathetic boss that you HAD to kill to proceed.

The music in those chapters made it even worse......

[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxLcjA1BG_8 [/link]
[link]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIlEZjz_j8M [/link]
 

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I cried at the end of Okami, when...

... Ammy is getting thrown around by Yami, and all the people you've met in your journey are watching as the sun goes out. And then, encouraged by Issun's tireless efforts, they all start praying for him to be alright!


...God, it's making me tear up even remembering it! Wouldn't have had such an effect if it hadn't been such a beautiful game throughout, artistically.
 

klaynexas3

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To the Moon and Persona 3.

Anyone that has played either of these games knows why.
 

layne

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I shed a few tears while playing The Last of Us. It was the near the beginning of the game when what happened to Sarah...happens.
 

Ragnar47183

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Never. No movies have either. Or books. I have only cried a few times in my life not including when i was a baby.

-Parents Divorce when I was a kid
-First time I got broken up with (Think that was 7th grade)
-Grandmas funeral on my moms side.

Other than that I have cried every time my dogs have died. (5 so far)

I think if you cry so often that you cry at fictional pieces of work it takes the effect away. It should be saved for big events in your life that have actual meaning.

I once had a friend that would cry over songs.... like more than once. I have never met anyone who cried more than he did and it grew to be quite bothersome and annoying.