What are some of the most heart-wrenching moments you've experienced while playing a game. Moments that have made you feel connected to the game, made you feel an emotional response, maybe even made you shed some tears.
For me Journey was moving in its entirety. I can't really put it into words. Along with that:
When Anderson tells you that he's "proud of you son" just before he dies, I started to tear up.
The mission where you can choose to leave or rescue Zulf in Bastion got me as well, mainly because the gameplay and soundtrack blended so well to draw you in. "Mother, I'm Here" is a wonderful song.
I think that I can easily say that Aerith's death in final fantasy 7 was the saddest moment that I've come across in gaming. Dom's death as well in gears of war 3 was also very hard to get through.
This is nowhere near the saddest moment in video games and I have played other games that should have made me sadder but for some reason (perhaps it was just the mood I was in at the time) the only thing in a game that has ever had me in tears was the neutral ending for bioshock 2. Specifically when she says ?But father, wherever you are...I miss you."
Arrgh my emotions make no sense sometimes. I watch it now and I even find it all that sad.
Rule of Rose Just... Just Rule of Rose. There is nothing happy about the story in that game. The entire game is just sad, disturbing and utterly depressing in the end. It's dark, but also very beautiful at the same time, so I'd say it's an excellent choice.
Also, I thought Clock Tower 3 had some very emotional moments to it with the various people you "save" throughout the game. I guess they were a bit more "heartwarmingly sad", and the game did handle it well for the most part.
And one more, from Dead Rising:
The death of Cliff Hudson, one of the game's bosses. At first, he just seems like any other psychopath, but once you defeat him, he manages to tell you his own story just before he dies. I actually felt really sorry for him once you learned what happened to him, and that made the game so much better for me. It was very unexpected.
I don't have to think these ones for long: Red Dead Redemption
Death of John Marston. Say what ever you want about mr. Marston but for me he is one of the best video game protagonists ever. I really felt sad after he died.
Kingdom Hearts
Sora and Kairi parting ways at the end when Simple and Clean started to play. Oh the sorrow when I realized that the great game was over...
A memorable moment while playing Planescape Torment was when I learned what one of the Nameless One's incarnations did to Ignus in the past. I was so deep in the story at that point and identified myself with TNO that I was appalled and disgusted by myself. Rather intense that one.
Ok, I have kind of an off the wall one. Yes Aeris' death (can't help it, both my copies, pc and ps1, say Aeris and as long as I live so shall I) was HUGE I agree. But the thing that affected me the most... Wing Commander 3.
The game had already hit you with the death of a companion that went back to the series beginning.
You watch them execute Blair's (the pc) girlfriend Angel
And just one chapter later reveal the identity of the traitor that's been betraying you since the beginning of the series. And here's what made it so sad and hit home so hard for me.
He was the ONLY one I trusted totally and completely and KNEW could NOT be the traitor. It was like finding out a really good friend is in actuality a clone of Hitler. The game gives you the "choice" of letting him fly away, or disobeying orders and chasing him down and vape him for the bastard pretending to be your friend while actually quietly ruining your life for the last several years.
Guess what I did? And after a few seconds of pathetic stunned silence, I began screaming (what probably could not be understood as the swearing that it was in my head) and chased the SOB down. Which was bad for 2 reasons. 1. In your abscense the Kilrathi attack and you lose 3 rookie pilots you are responsible for. And 2. IRL at the time I was in college and lived in the dorms. My RA poked his head in a few minutes later to see if I was all right, and I got some funny looks at dinner later.
I have never had a videogame provoke such an emotional response from me (I don't get controller breaking frustrated over difficulty and most videogame stories are rudimentary or simple enough that I can't get THAT into it.) But this one did. I followed this series from it's earliest (now painfully dated) beginnings until it's (and seemingly the whole fricken genre's) unfortunate demise. I love space combat sim, and HotT adding full motion movie and story (and a compelling one) to the mix made it very memorable. Gameplay wise... it's no TIE Fighter. And Freespace 2 and StarLancer make it look very un-pretty.
But it's still one of my favorites. Yes, for making me sadder and angrier than I ever had been at a game.
I honestly thought it was a necrobump of the one a couple weeks ago, until none of the posts looked familiar. Aeris, Red Dead Redemption (and organically through gameplay, not cutscene at that) and the new Walking Dead adventure games are turning out to be some well written and executed stuff...they've been emotionally gripping so far.
Cause I saw this thread countless of time in other Forums, I will answer with a different game:
Saya no Uta
Aside from I believe the recent Silent Hill and Resident Evil games much take a lesson from this game for a "unique" meaning of the horror, I cry a lot from two ending this game have [it have hree endings].
At some point you know all these are wrong, but your "feeling" say to you, that all the actions the hero made was right........in a mysterious way...Even in the ending I should normally cry.....but...but.........GOD DAMMIT the game make my heart to break into tiny little pieces....
Hmmm. Infamous 2's good ending, Mordin's death in ME3 (oh, come on, this isn't a spoiler any more!) the ending to Final Fantasy VII: crisis core and the endings to Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon Red/Bluerescue team and Explorers of Time/Darkness. Why can't the writing in the main Pokemon games be as good as the spinoffs!?
It may be a testament to how few games I have actually played that I to choose Mass Effect 3, though a different scene.
The moment after the credits if you pick the refusal ending. It's a different kind of sad then the other sad moments in Mass Effect... sad yet hopeful I guess. I may have picked it because its so fresh in my mind, I just replayed ME3 and chose that ending all of half an hour ago.
Also no one has mentioned the death of Thane or Legion.
There's also the death of Lucy in Assassins Creed 2. More shocking in its execution, still I was sad.
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