Scenes with emotional reactions.

[Xooiid]

The Thread is simple: What scenes in what games elicited an emotional reaction from you? Any emotion works, from happiness to complete sorrow.

WARNING! Spoilers will abound. Please use proper spoiler tags to make sure you don't ruin it. Or, you know, let it all hang out. Either way.


For example:

Spoiler

Sadness: The end of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. You just saved the world, your friends and the princess. Everything is about to be made right...and your friend tells you that your memories are fake, your Grandpa was a plant and that the process of making the world right again will exile you from everything you know.

Anger: Your best friend being shot by the woman you spared in Zone of the Enders. Yeah, you're welcome for letting you live to think about your evil deeds! Also, the Zombie Neith fight after that...

Joy: Watching the Evil Pirate LeChuck turn into a fireworks show at the end of Secret of Monkey Island. So worth it..and Guybrush gets the girl. So worth it...

 

[Darkwhite]

This

Spoiler

The scene where Jenova kills Aires in FFVII, a real tear jerker there

 

[bknesal]

Mass Effect 2

Spoiler

The last couple scenes in Mass Effect 2. Deep sorrow if anyone you cared about died, but you get a huge sense of triumph if everyone survived. It always makes me feel like I'm actually making a difference in something.

 

[Fr]anc[is]

What I always say in these threads. The end of Garrus's recruitment mission when he goes down. NOBODY FUCKS WITH GARRUS YOU BLUE SUNS SON OF A *****!

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

Persona 4:

Spoiler

Many tears were shed.

 

[Z of the Na'vi]

Spoiler: Oh come on, its been over 10 years. If this is still a spoiler, shame on you. I'm only putting it here for the sake of decency.

"You've met a terrible fate, haven't you..."

 

[doggie135]

Silent Hill 2: Major spoiler alert
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Spoiler

The scene in Room 312 at the Hotel, where James plays the Videotape and sees himself suffocating Mary with a pillow

 

[Reallink]

Agh, you just beat me to this topic!

 

[Drakmorg]

Spoiler: Saints Row 2 Spoiler

That made me shed a single manly tear

 

[Xenomorph42Q]

From BlazBlue:

Spoiler: Guess who gets killed off?

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It's strange considering how horrifically brutal Nu is to everyone other than Ragna (and even with him she gets kinda weird), but seeing her gasp out that she has always loved Ragna and always will, even though he's had to kill her (3 times no less) is moving. Although her death had nothing on Ragna breaking down and sobbing, now THAT had me in tears.

However, that tearjerker is immediately followed by Ragna pulling the biggest badass moment in the entire series which gave me a massive feeling of...not sure how to describe the emotion...Triumphant? Vengeance? Satisfaction that Hazama got the SHIT beaten out of him so hard that he was actually asking for Ragna to hurry up and kill him? Yeah that last one.

Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World

Chapter 8.

Spoiler: Just...Chapter 8...

Whether it's Marta and Emil's tearjerker of a kiss, Emil trying to sacrifice himself, the deaths of Alice and Decus, the final goodbyes between Emil and the rest of the party or Emil and Marta's reunion after the credits this entire chapter will leave you emotional.

The bad ending is even more moving, but doesn't leave you with a happy feeling at the end.

I'm currently playing Tales of Vesperia, and given the fact that I already love my small party, despite being less than a fourth of the way in, I know I'm gonna be a complete wreck by the end of the game

 

[Xooiid]

A few more:

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Shock: Dead Space 2: While you're riding on the tram with Ellie and Stross, just after surviving a swarm of Tormentors and finally on your way to the Titan Station Core. Guess what pops out? The USG Ishimura, the start of this whole nightmare scenario and the ship that you crashed into the planet at the end of the first game. Seemingly unharmed, just chillin' like a villain...then you have to go back onboard.

Pride: Beating the final level in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, watching Officer Tenpenny, the corrupt cop that killed your mom, dragging himself from the wreckage, screaming at the world...then dying. I felt a real sense of accomplishment at finally ending his reign of terror.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Spoiler: Saints Row 2 Spoiler

That made me shed a single manly tear

I would have shed a Manly Tear, but my character was wearing a Spartan Helmet and a black suit so the whole bowing the head moment at the end just made it look awesome... And y'know cockneys don't cry guvner!

OT: The Darkness

Spoiler

When your girlfriend gets shot down in front of you, The Darkness holding you back from saving her and you shoot yourself in the face with The Darkness screaming at you not to do it... It was tragic yet awesome

 

[michael87cn]

Red Dead Redemption spoiler:

Spoiler

when John Marston tells his family to get to safety, approaches the barn door, peeks through and sees 30+ riflemen waiting for him. He sighs and shoves open the doors, guns blazing... to his final moments, spent saving his family from his past.

There have been many good emotional moments for me when gaming, but for the life of me I can't remember any more really good ones. There are a lot of them, but they don't happen often enough for me to remember very easily it seems... maybe once or twice a year..

 

[Jonluw]

Spoiler

Sadness: The end of Klonoa: Door to Phantomile. You just saved the world, your friends and the princess. Everything is about to be made right...and your friend tells you that your memories are fake, your Grandpa was a plant and that the process of making the world right again will exile you from everything you know.

Anger: Your best friend being shot by the woman you spared in Zone of the Enders. Yeah, you're welcome for letting you live to think about your evil deeds! Also, the Zombie Neith fight after that...

Joy: Watching the Evil Pirate LeChuck turn into a fireworks show at the end of Secret of Monkey Island. So worth it..and Guybrush gets the girl. So worth it...

Putting stuff in a spoiler box doesn't help if you don't explain which games' plots are being spoiled inside. (Write spoiler=title for spoiler box to give spoiler boxes titles.)

OT: No game has ever provoked a significant emotional reaction from me.

 

[sdfgsdfgdfsg]

Spoiler: The end of Metal Gear Solid 4

The end of Metal Gear Solid 4.From the moment when Snake was crawling through the corridor full of microwaves to the moment when he talked to Big Boss.I shed many, many manly tears.No other game made me feel feelings towards main character before.It was awesome.

 

[V TheSystem V]

Red Dead Redemption - Sorrow

Spoiler

John's death. Nearly cried, I swear to God.

Anger - Modern Warfare 2

Spoiler

Just the whole storyline. Loved the missions, but WHAT THE HELL? WHY DID SHEPHERD BETRAY GHOST AND ROACH?

Joy - Any Pokemon game when you defeat the Elite Four

 

[The Madman]

Not gonna lie, there were a couple moments in The Longest Journey which had my emotions shifting from triumph to indignant anger, sadness, and even melancholy. That game is the closest any game has come to date towards achieving that 'emotional roller-coaster' experience good books and movies are capable of. Ragnar Tornquist has a talent for writing believable and likeable characters. Hopefully he'll eventually be given the chance to flex those skills once again because right now I feel his abilities are being wasted on an MMO.

If you want a more specific description... well, the entire end sequence of the game where things begin falling down around the protagonist is heart-wrenching. You spend the majority of the game on this often silly fantasy-esq adventure that builds up April Ryan as a legitimately amazing character, and then to sudden have everything crash down around her and the story take an abrupt turn towards the grim is saddening because by that point you, or at least I did, want things to turn out alright for her. But it doesn't. Add to that the final two twist near the end: Her confronting the 'ghost' so to speak of her abusive father, and then later realizing that she's not the proverbial chosen one she'd thought she was finally culminating in our hero wandering aimlessly into the horizon, without a home to return to or friends left to call upon.

Yeah, that's not what you expect from games. Left me in a bit of a melancholy mood for almost a week.

 

[Trolldor]

Spoiler: Oh come on, its been over 10 years. If this is still a spoiler, shame on you. I'm only putting it here for the sake of decency.

"You've met a terrible fate, haven't you..."

In all my years of that game I've never once 'lost', never once seen that in-game.

 

[gustcq]

The tidus and yuna scene at the lake in FFX