Poll: Has a game ever made you cry?

[cannot_aim]

I got very close to crying at the end of Mass Effect 2, so many great characters and I was sad to be done with the game. (I saved everyone)

I eventually watched a video when everyone died and it was very hard to watch.

 

[Chrissyluky]

Game stories just aren't good enough yet to make me tear up.

Play better games.

 

[wammnebu]

When you kill mission and zalbaar in KoTOR

When was this?!

O.T. Never. Not at a book, film or piece of music... I'm not exactly proud of that fact but not ashamed of either.

On the unknown planet, bastila tells you to kill the unloyal members of the Ebon Hawk, you kill mission first, then zalbaar attacks you

 

[Irridium]

Game stories just aren't good enough yet to make me tear up.

Play better games.

Some suggestions would be nice.

 

[dancinginfernal]

I cried when Persona 4 was over.

Such a great experience.

Captcha: FRASER; urtai

 

[Death-of-Penguins]

Jumping on the bandwagon- Final Fantasy X. Not because of Tidus or anything. Because of the summons. They had saved my ass so many times, and then... Well. I teared up. I can't think of any others off hand...
Oh. The fate of Ezio's little brother in Assassin's Creed II made me sad, but not quite enough to cry.

 

[Antidrall]

Sonic The Hedgehog (2006). Never has my childhood been so traumatically sodomized.

 

[Tsaba]

I personally found the ending MOH emotional.
other than that,
KH2
FF IV VIII IX
HL2 E2 ending
if I can think of others I'd be sure to add them

 

[tommy15994]

Oddly enough i always considered myself dead to any form of entertainment. Endings of films, where i was supposed to be sad, Absolutely nothing. I chuckle at jokes but that is it. That was until i played Ratchet and Clank: A Crack in Time. If anyone knows what i mean by the "Alisters Folly" Cutscene, And have been playing the games growing up. Good god. My Lower jaw became very familiar with the floor followed by "What...WHY?!! This Cant be Happening!" Also the Very Ending of that Game, was a masterpiece

 

[Chrissyluky]

Game stories just aren't good enough yet to make me tear up.

Play better games.

Some suggestions would be nice.

I wish I still kept a list of them ill just list off some of my all-time favorites.
RPG's:
Anything from bioware
Star ocean the second story(don't get the psp version)
Mother
Chrono Trigger
Persona 4
Indigo Prophecy
Heavy Rain if you own a ps3(Why did this have to be an exclusive title?=/)
There are more I really loved but I can't remember names offhand =/.
Survival Horror
Obscure 2(this is honestly just a guilty pleasure it's not such a great game but if you have a friend to play with it's a blast IMO)
Amnesia
Resident Evil 4
Nightmare house 2(hl2 episode mod)
Fps's
Stalker series(avoid clear sky if you don't like chernobyl just skip to pripyat)
Battlefield bad company 2.
There are a lot more but again I can't think of them all off the top of my head.

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

When I left Kaidan to die in ME1 (I didn't cry when Shepard dies at the beginning of ME2 but that's probably just because I'd heard about it beforehand.)

Gaz/Grigg's death at the end of CoD4 (Don't judge me. I consider CoD4 on a completely different level to the other installments, I never got emotional over any of the others)

The ending to Halo: Reach *prepares for scorn*

Those are the only ones I've ever actually cried over but I almost did at Cristina's death in AC: Brotherhood.

Edit: I was just reminded of the MOH ending... again I didn't actually shed tears but I was moved.

 

[Antidrall]

The Darkness, when you spend a night with Jenny, and when she gets killed.

As for the people who cried during FF7 through 13, read a godamned book. How can you possibly be emotionally invested if the characters are unlikeable idiots or unrelatable idiots? If you want a real Final Fantasy story, play Final Fantasy Tactics.

 

[MetroidNut]

I've come close enough to tears that I just put "yes", heh. But I'm, ah, too embarrassed to say which game. I was young and...it...yeah....

Anyway, I came pretty close to tears during the opening of Mass Effect 2. Not quite there, but it was definitely emotional, heh.

Spoiler

The destruction of the Normandy, not Shepard's death.

 

[Pontus Hashis]

Joy, the boss, and her horse!
*Singel manly tear*

 

[Fenra]

I cried manly tears while lifting wieghts the day Duke Nukem Forever got a release date!

....

Ok more seriously, I have it happen a lot, at least getting emotional while not necessarily crying my eyes out. I've been told its for all sorts of reasons in the past but personally I think its due to me being (or at least I liked the way one of my friends put it best) "emotionally sensitive with an active imagination". It helps me get invested in a game, its world and its characters to the point even things that werent necessarily intended to be emotional strike a chord with me.

Prime example, it was an odd one that I didnt expect, was playing far cry 2, and had one guy (Paul Ferenc, god rest his computerised soul, myself playing as Hakim) who had been my best buddy since my first mission, always going to him to help me and giving him a hand with his problems too, and he had saved me a few times aswell.

I know it might seem strange but I had got pretty attatched to that guy, props to the developer for making my link with a character so well, particularily one that, in essence, is interchangable with any of the other characters in that game. He just happened to be the one who was chosen randomly to phone me up when I did my first mission.

Then I did this one mission and at the time I had no idea that your buddies had a sort of "3 strikes and out" system (on the xbox one I played anyway, dont know if thats universal), I had only let him down twice before so when I saw the blue flare after I had finished off the remaining guys I sprinted over too him, thinking "I've got the spare injection, he'll be fine in no time"... then when he took the fist and didnt get better I was confused but thought "I've got 3 more, maybe he just needs some more this time", then a third went in and he wasnt getting any better and I thought "hey come on now this isnt funny, get up, get up!", then my character lay him back on the grass as he let out a last sigh of life and closed his eyes.

What made it even more poignant were the words that came in the "achievment unlocked" message at the bottom of the screen, "goodnight, sweet prince"... I must have sat there for half an hour in shock with tears in my eyes...

 

[Katana314]

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Wow, I honestly didn't know that could happen in FC2. I unfortunately couldn't manage long-term relationships with the characters.

I got a bit emotional on a replay of FF7, having forgotten how well done the Aeris scene was (my expectations were a bit medium-rare, har har). I think the first time I played, music was bugged out. This time, I got the full impact with her theme song playing through to the boss fight.
Also, Phoenix Wright: Justice for All's last case had me really on the line, especially up to the "final question".
Finally, I remember figuring out the significance of Braid's ending, in one whole swoop, was a pretty strong moment.

I don't think I've ever really been "sad", but it's just recognizing the emotional power of a scene.

 

[starkiller212]

2 I can think of off the top of my head (major spoilers!)

Mass Effect

Spoiler

After defeating Saren and Sovereign, it makes it look like Shepard and his team are dead or missing. Combined with the music it brought a tear to my eye to think that they sacrificed themselves like that in the end. BTW, in ME2 I had too much adrenaline in me to feel much sadness during the suicide mission, lol

Heavy Rain (seriously don't read unless you've played it. If you haven't then go f*cking play it already!)

Spoiler

THIS GAME had so many sad/disturbing parts, but the main moment that really made me cry like no other game or movie I've seen was when Ethan got to his son and managed to get him out of his 'cell', but couldn't revive him. Trying to get him to breathe again was the most intense gameplay I've ever done, even more than the desperate fight against the Origami Killer right after. After about a minute, Ethan gave up in despair and the camera zoomed out slowly... I honestly thought I had failed because Ethan hadn't found the warehouse on his own. Then I almost felt better when the boy came to, but then I realized that my Ethan only had about 10 seconds left to tell his son how much he loved him before the poison killed him. If you played the game like me then you know what happens, but that scene was one of the most emotional things I've experienced so far in my life. Hell I'm choking up a bit just remembering it.

 

[Knusper]

When you kill mission and zalbaar in KoTOR

When was this?!

O.T. Never. Not at a book, film or piece of music... I'm not exactly proud of that fact but not ashamed of either.

On the unknown planet, bastila tells you to kill the unloyal members of the Ebon Hawk, you kill mission first, then zalbaar attacks you

That must be if you take the dark side. I was a good little Jedi.

 

[Defense]

Why the hell are so many people putting Final Fantasy games as something they cried over?

Even if the story is nice (which it isn't go watch review on http://spoonyexperiment.com/) I find it a little hard to invest in the story when the gameplay is so dull and repetitive. I can maybe see someone being sad, but actually breaking down and crying is just unfathomable.

Well, it's not really crying, just being teary eyed. I never bawled because of a game myself.

And I actually really like turn based combat. So yeah D:

 

[AnthonTheSkabot]

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 made me shed a single tear.