Poll: Do you REALLY cry over Games,TV shows?

[RedDeadFred]

Can't say Walking Dead has ever moved me all that much but I have multiple times for other shows:
Game of Thrones -Only in the first season since I read the books after that and was prepared for the other stuff.
Breaking Bad -"You're the smartest guy I ever met, and you're too stupid to see, he made up his mind ten minutes ago."
Lost -despite all of the shit, it had a really emotional ending.
Spartacus -a couple key character deaths
FMA: Brotherhood -I can't remember off the t0p of my head, but there were a couple of spots.
Code Geass. -one of the most perfect endings ever.

Games that I can think of off the top of my head:
Mass Effect series -several times throughout
Halo 3 -the ending
Bastion -saving Zulf (probably my favourite moment in gaming)
Bioshock Infinite -the ending.

Movies:
Way too many to count. I cry very easily in case you haven't noticed from this list.

It's never been full out sobbing, but many tears have been shed.

 

[volcanblade]

Managed to survive one minute before feeling like about to cry in a corner. So yes.

Aaaaaand now I am too. That one always gets me.

For me though I've teared up at a few, but I was bawling my eyes out at the end of the Refrain Arc of Little Busters in the VN, I teared up for the anime, but only because it reminded me of the VN bit. I think I went through most of a box of tissues on the route. I still can't hear the song Faraway without tearing up a bit.

So yes, I don't cry too often, but some hit me hard.

 

[Something Amyss]

Not since I was a child. Nothing wrong with it, but I come from a family in which displays of emotion are the devil. Like, tears are literal Hitlers or something.

 

[darkcalling]

One that gets me every time is the death of Optimus Prime. The original movie from the 80's. I've seen it 100 times and it still gets me.

 

[AetherWolf]

Believe me, no game will ever make me cry more than the ending of Shadow of the Colossus did.

Spoiler: But there are also unusual things that have made me cry

There are times where I cry from a form of "euphoria" experienced while playing/watching something in which the visual, audio, beauty, or general "art"y-ness filled me with such a sense of awe and happiness that it became overwhelming. I think. It's really hard to explain. An example would be the sensory overload I got when I played the fifth level of Rez for the first time, or the first time I played the "Evolution" level in its sequel Child of Eden. For some reason I'm still trying to discern I cried during the final parts of Okami. IT'S WEIRD TRYING TO EXPLAIN THIS. Sometimes it happens when I listen to particular music. Hell, I don't even understand a single word of Icelandic yet the album "Go" by Jonsi had me in tears once.

I guess it's not so much the events that happen in a work so much as the execution that pulls at my emotional strings. I'm not even known to be a particularly emotional person. I just really fucking love art. I guess?

 

[NeutralDrow]

Far more often these days, and more readily. I'm not sure why, whether it's because I've played/read the right things, or because I've become more empathetic with time, or because I'm more aware of the implications of works...or maybe all of those things. I know after I played Kanon and Kana: Little Sister, suddenly any kind of "die-in-their-arms" death scene is completely heartwrenching to me, even when I don't know who the characters are.

So yeah. Not going to list things, because it'd take some time.

 

[Yuiiut]

Very rarely, and normally for something that I've invested alot of time/emotional attachment to (such as Dr Who. regeneration scenes. Typically the first time I watch/play though an emotional moment, I'm too focused on the story/seeing what comes next, but the second time round I'll get misty-eyed.

 

[Chewster]

Well, my old man never discouraged me from showing emotions, so I've always had more of a tendency to cry when angry or frustrated, something that lead to no end of grief from other kids when I was young. So yeah, sometimes I might cry over a show or whatever, especially ones I'm heavily invested in (classic TV example but The Wire had some seriously heart-wrenching scenes, even more so when you realize how close to the truth the show was supposedly).

I dunno. Sometimes I just let it happen instead of "manning up" or whatever the fuck. Try it sometime. It can be cathartic. You feel much better after.

 

[BabyLavosKiller]

How ironic, just today I cried about an IDEA I had for a game.

The only time I've cried from a game was after FF9.

 

[Olas]

I think Majora's Mask is the only game to actually make me cry, though I'm not certain, and lots of other games have brought the feels as well.

Movies? I'm sure I've cried during several, I just can't remember many specifics. I'm sure I cried during moments of Return of the King and that one part of Toy Story 2 for instance.

Lost -despite all of the shit, it had a really emotional ending.

People get so caught up in the ending to that show that they seem to forget just how good most of it was. Setting aside all the time travel technobabble and wizardry, that show had a very solid and powerful human element to it as well.

 

[DanielBrown]

Not really. It can happen though. If I'm watching a movie about a father who struggles for his kids I can get a bit teary eyed. Hotel Rwanda and Seven Pounds also got to me.

 

[Kae]

Spoiler: Only in the ending of the first season of Walking Dead (Game)

It felt like everything that happened was my fault to some degree and now Clementine was going to be alone because I fucked up and then I was making her shoot me just because I didn't want to become a zombie and tears just started coming out of my eyes and it was weird, it's probably why I love it so much I had never gotten that emotionally invested into any piece of media, that being said nothing else has made me cry.

Spoiler: I came close in Madoka Magica but in the end there were no tears, that's about it though.

The scene where Homura finally breaks down and cries, telling Madoka how important she is to her, I thought that was really sad, I found that to be the saddest moment in the show.

 

[Raikas]

The only things I've genuinely cried over were one game (the end of Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons) and one movie (I saw Marley & Me on a plane the week after my dog died - that was embarrassing).

I've gotten that pre-teary feeling for plenty of things though: the end of the Tuchanka part of ME3, the pre-execution march in Valiant Hearts, the last bit of TWD 1, and easily three times that number of books.

Not since I was a child.

Heh, I'm your perfect opposite then - I'd never gotten teary over any book/movie/game/whatever until I was well into my late 20s. Approaching middle age has either killed off my macho-ness or made me into a terrible sap, I think.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Games less so, because of it being an interactive experience, making it so I need to keep my head in the game, leaving little time for tears.

Movies though (being a passive experience), I fucking bawl my eyes out. Prime example; The Land Before Time. That movie turns me into a mucous encrusted mess of a man everytime.

 

[Irregular Dice]

I very rarely tear up playing games, I mostly just feel sad. Except for Mother 3, that game made me tear up a storm.

Games less so, because of it being an interactive experience, making it so I need to keep my head in the game, leaving little time for tears.

Movies though (being a passive experience), I fucking bawl my eyes out. Prime example; The Land Before Time. That movie turns me into a mucous encrusted mess of a man everytime.

Dinosaurs man, also add an American Tail for me.

 

[Silvanus]

Occasionally, yes. I cried during Okami, near the end. I also cried during the Rains of Castemere episode of Game of Thrones, even though I had already read the books.

I cried an absurd amount watching Grave of the Fireflies, too.

 

[TallanKhan]

Crying over a game or TV show isn't really something I do, but I wouldn't be ashamed if I did.

 

[linwolf]

No, I haven't cried in since I was a small child. And don't remember ever to have cried over anything fictional. I just don't like to show emotions, at least non other than anger.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

Yup. Not just the feelings, but waterworks as well.

I find it extremely easy to get emotionally engaged with a story, something that I feel isn't too common, especially among other men. To me, it makes the experience that more memorable, when I actually have a physical reaction to what's on show.

I cried when Sam carried Frodo.

God damn it. That entire sequence (well, pretty much all of the movies) is so very melodramatic, but it just punches me right in the feels every time I see it and I've seen it MANY times. Thinking about it gives me goosebumps and gets me a little teary too.

Their exchange during that sequence is just perfect, especially Sams words of action:

Spoiler

Sam: [Both are overcome by exhaustion] Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It'll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they'll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields... and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?

Frodo: No, Sam. I can't recall the taste of food... nor the sound of water... nor the touch of grass. I'm... naked in the dark, with nothing, no veil... between me... and the wheel of fire! I can see him... with my waking eyes!

Sam: Then let us be rid of it... once and for all! Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you... but I can carry you!

Ack! I got something in my eye...

 

[gunny1993]

Definitely yes, I would note however that I cry far less at real life than I do at books, but i'm not a psychologist so I have no idea for the reason ... probably a coping mechanism.

I use crying as a determiner of a very successful narrative, character, scene etc, etc. It is however relatively rare and only the best works can be added to the list:

TWD game Season 1
First 15 mins of Up
Schindler list (Last 10 Mins)
Last bit of Angel Beats (I feel this one was a cheat because it blindsided me so hard)
Flowers For Algernon
To The Moon (Seriously, the song 'everything's alright' will make me tear up ..... IT'S A LIE I SAY, EVERYTHING IS NOT ALRIGHT)