Nobody ever shed a tear over a video-game character's death.

[PedroSteckecilo]

This is a quote regarding the Max Payne move from Roger Moore, critic for the Orlando Sentinel.

Link:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/orl-movie-review-max-payne,0,1552695.story

Now I'm sure this is falacious, but why do film critics keep thinking games do not present emotional moments? I can understand "some" comments on solidarity of narrative, but come on now, sometimes a game presents MORE emotion than a film can ever achieve. Like some television series' you get to spend FAR more time with Game Characters than you ever do with their celuloid counterparts, sometimes you get into their heads better and often even feel more of a kinship with your on screen avatar than you do for some distant celebrity acting out a pathos loaded scene on film.

So, what are the Escapist Communities favorite/most impacting emotional moments?

Personally, the end of Final Fantasy X still makes me cry like a baby, I have the Ending Theme on my IPod and I will occasionally weep openly on the train remembering how sad it made me when

Spoiler

the lead hero, whom I had grown to like despite his annoying nature

met his sad fate at the end of the game.

Further more sequences like the ending of Shadow of the Colossus, or Raiden's well written (but sadly pointless) greatest moment in MGS4, really hammer home the emotional impact of videogames.

 

[MGG=REVIEWS]

There is a rumour that in fable 2 a certain specail character dies and it makes you cry?

 

[mr mcshiznit]

I dont know bout openly weeping..thats kind of odd to be honest. I don't claim to be sir manley man either, but iI have never cried over a character. I have also never cried at a movie. This is not to say I dont have attachments to the characters in movies or games because I do. I really do feel bad when the story turns against the characters, I guess I'm just not much of crier. Nothing wrong with crying in games or moves though either. As to what that guy said and you assuming that he means games are not powerful enough to envoke tears I think he is most likley wrong. I can very much so see games making people cry. He seems like kind of an idiot to me.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Finding Cloud again in FF7.
Cait-Sith's fate.
Homeworld's intro.
Psychonaut's underwater race.
Kerrigan's Loss (Starcraft)
Diablo's End
Seer Marino Arc in City of Villains
'Rescue the Journalists' in City of Heroes

 

[indyfan]

I shed some tears during the ending of MGS4, when you-know-who dies and I got a little sniffle when Boss died in MGS3

Games can make anyone cry

 

[Supernovajake]

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MGS4 Naomi's death. Saddest moment I've ever seen in a game (and yet sadder than anything I've seen on TV or in films)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MKFctUN_L5E

 

[CastaliaMoirae]

It's true, the end of FFX is heartbreaking at best. So is Tales of Symphonia, with Kratos' final speech, and Zelos' should you choose to play the game that way.

And it's not just bawling your eyes out moments that make a game great. Does anyone else recall that moment in KotOR when you felt mind-splintering shock, which was quickly replaced with gibbering glee at the game's sheer audacity? Yeah, good times.

 

[nepheleim]

Hmm... The end of Beyond Good and Evil, when I realized that the story was over now, and I had to go do something else.

 

[Xalmar]

I've never cried, but there are a few moments that really affected me, particularly in Half-Life and Mass Effect.

Spoiler

Eli's death and Alyx's reaction, this was the closest I've ever gotten to crying over a video game. The next one would be on Virmire (I think) where you have to choose which of your human teammates lives and which one dies.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

Haaaahhhh...
Video games have no emotion... Pah!

I was sad when:

Midna left
Toon Link left Outset Island (that face ;_
I saw (heard really) the flashback of (Bioshock Spoiler)

Spoiler

Jack's mother getting killed in Bioshock

OH! (Silent Hill 3 spoiler)

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When Harry Mason died in SH3, I never even played the games, just watched the walkthroughs, that got to me

I see games as movies but better, they're not that different if you think about it.

 

[Corven]

I felt sad when argo(right name?) the horse saved you then fell down the canyon in shadow of the colossus, then I was happy when I found he survived at the end of the game, one question remains, How did he survive the fall?

 

[Avida]

I felt sad when argo(right name?) the horse saved you then fell down the canyon in shadow of the colossus, then I was happy when I found he survived at the end of the game, one question remains, How did he survive the fall?

Ditto, outside of the MGS series thats about as close as ive been - and MGS mainly because something that was screwing me over in life was wonderfully reflected in one of the lines ^_^

 

[JaKhajiit]

I teared up at the end of Shadow Hearts 2. Although, when my boyfriend caught me I claimed to "have something in both my eyes."

 

[Gordan87]

Okami
Grandia
Metal Gear Solid 4 on my second play through, i cried from beginning to end
Zelda Twilight Princess
Does crying in a corner count? Because thats what Dead Space is doing to me whenever I start it up

 

[Virgil]

While it didn't come to tears, I felt so bad playing KOTOR after making Zaalbar kill Mission (in a dark side playthrough) that I had to turn the game off for a while.

 

[Hunde Des Krieg]

I've never cried, but there are a few moments that really affected me, particularly in Half-Life and Mass Effect.

Spoiler

Eli's death and Alyx's reaction, this was the closest I've ever gotten to crying over a video game. The next one would be on Virmire (I think) where you have to choose which of your human teammates lives and which one dies.

Yeah both of those got me a little depressed, and angry at the parties responsible, On each of those days I swore to; destroy the combine and; kill Saren

 

[this_was_a_mistake]

I saw (heard really) the flashback of (Bioshock Spoiler)

Spoiler

Jack's mother getting killed in Bioshock

I don't recall.

 

[black lincon]

the side quest in Tales of Symphonia where you find out 2 of the character mothers is insane kind of mad me a little sad, that and if you choose to get a certain character back you have to kill one of the funniest character in the game, that was always a hard decision.