The Things That Made You Emotional in Gaming... Surprisingly

[Yoh3333]

The ending of Red Dead Redemption.
I loved the ending for all it was worth and thought to myself that more games shouldn't be so afraid to end like that. (i hope that was spoiler free)
It was mostly because John Marston is propably my favorite videogame character.

 

[Artina89]

Angela Orosco in Silent Hill 2. When she walked up that burning staircase I felt like crying; not just because of the music or anything, but because she was this sad little woman made far older by her time and overstretched by the world.

What was the biggest surprise was because of how she was in the game; she was spiteful, and murdered her own father, but despite her apparant evil, it was still upsetting.

However, it was heavily implied (looking at the monster that was attacking her and from various newspaper excerpts) that she was

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sexually abused by her father while her mother and her brother allowed it to continue

As a result, she was mistrustful of men, I have never thought of Angela as evil, but cornered with nowhere to go and noone that she felt, truly loved her and took care of her. That's what I think anyway.

OT: The most emotional that I have ever felt in gaming was when I was playing Persona 4 when

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Nanako apparently died

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I was so attached to her by that point in the game, and she is one of my favourite characters, and I was compelled to play the true ending to right everything again. That was really good writing on the part of Shin Megami tensei and the Persona 4 crew because I invested time in the characters and had genuine affection for them (aside from Yosuke as he annoyed me at times)

 

[Sacul]

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...Now I have to play AC2 again.

Surprise nobody's said this yet. Saint's Row 2:

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That really got me actually, and I'm putting it as surprising because of how much the rest of the game is built around fairly ridiculous concepts and actions. That bit came out of nowhere.

I was actually going to post this, I remember crying a bit at that part. It made

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The revenge where you put the gang's leader's girlfriend in the trunk of a car he is about to crush with a monster truck, sooooooooo much more awesome. That was for Carlos, damnit!
And I love how they decided to have it without music or sound, really added to the effect.

I agree, it really wasn't expected at all from a game like that.

And surprisingly from Dragon Age 2.

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Hawke's Mom's death. I remember thinking throughout the entire quest that I was going to save her but I kind of knew that she was probably already dead and I was too late. And when you got to her and fought the guy I remember wishing that I could make him suffer before he died and when Hawke talks to his Mom in her final moments it was even worse because I was choosing the sarcastic comments and Hawke was putting himself down saying how he was too late and sorry. Then the part with your Uncle where Sarcastic Hawke once again puts himself down. And I recall talking to a member or two of my party about it. The worst part was how afterwards everything went back to normal, there was no real changes, everything was the same. I was just saying "What the hell? Everything is just back to normal? That's it!?"

It was surprising because you don't really talk to her all that much beforehand and I never really cared about her one way or the other. But that quest just did it somehow and seeing her all sewn up...

 

[White_Lama]

Well, I don't usually get emotional to games, but there's been two I can remember:

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Basicly, the first, probably only me but yeah, Call of Duty: United Offensive (last good COD game), when you fly in the bomber and one of the other bombers around you go down and you hear their screams over the radio, that made me sadface.

Secondly, Splinter Cell: Conviction (newest one, not sure it's that one), I had been playing it Co-op with a friend for a whole day (first time I played it, we did it on Professional of course) and the last level, last cutscene. Damnit. Made me hate that douché whos name I can't remember, I mean, damnit!, I've been playing this game and struggling at the last level for hours, now you kill me? F-you!

 

[CRRPGMykael]

Oh,forgot to tell one:Mafia II.Just.The.Whole.Game.I became very emotionally attached to all of the characters and seeing them all just fucked over was pretty sad.This is why the story was amazing.

SPOILER ALERT(if you wanna read this wall of text anyways):
Imagine this:you have a mobster that you don't care about first,you just do a little job for him,then you waste 7 years of your life in prison because of him,where you receive a letter saying that your mother is dead,try to get raped by 3 fatsos,and have to clean urinals,aside from meeting some old guy and participating in a fight ring to get better at fighting.Then,that mobster shows up and you start making REAL money with him,and all is going well.Until suddenly you start getting in debt to the whole city and you find that very mobster lying in a pool of blood with his whole body chopped apart with meat clevers.Just lying on the ground in the middle of a park.Oh,but the sadness doesn't stop there!Then,your don tells you he wants to talk to you,but at this point you know that everyone in the city wants to kill you,but as you get out of your tiny smelly apartment(did I mention that all of the money and clothes you had earlier got burnt down when some fuckin' bikers decided it would be fun to throw Molotov Cocktails at your expensive house and you had to run away in your underwear?),when LOOK WHO COMES UP!It's your mentor,the old guy you met in prison,who by the way you also saved once because the same mobster that you befriended tried to kill him but you came to an agreement.Anyway,your mentor tells you that you're fucked,that the mobster you befriended was actually a rat,and that now you gotta escape town.You,obviously refuse,kill everyone on the way to killing your don,then LOOK WHO YOU MEET!It's your best friend who is now on the side of the don!But no,not really,both of you fuck him up,and then the old guy comes up again and says "lets celebrate!".But your friend is taken in a different car,which at the end,takes a different route,and the old guy says "Sorry,kid.Joe wasn't part of our deal.",while the main character seems pretty sad and then the game ends.

HOW ABOUT THAT FOR A GAME STORY?

 

[RuralGamer]

Spoiler: Another Far Cry 2 story here

Warren Clyde had been my best buddy the WHOLE first part of the game, and I'd subverted every mission and pulled his ass out of the fire in one piece. Then, we made our stand at Mike's and lost. For the second half, I had Flora the whole time.

At the end of the game, I got pretty pissed when she tried to get me to come along, but Warren was the one who spoke out that they should just kill me. I fired the first shot and proceeded to kill all my buddies. When the smoke cleared, Warren wasn't dead yet, but even though he'd betrayed me, I couldn't just shotgun him. I decided he deserved a mercy kill.

Yeah, that bit was really emotionally draining; darn that game had a depressing ending...

One of the holorecordings in Fallout 3; one of the ones you need to get into the National Guard bunker for the Experimental MIRV really made my heart drop out of my ribcage for a moment (or at least it felt like it did)

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The woman is crying; she can see the mushroom clouds and can't believe its finally happened. Realistically, she's got no hope; she'll never actually reach the bunker.

 

[Folksoul]

Persona 4. The entirety of December. Unnerving, terrifying, disgusting, and draining doesn't begin to cut it. It transcends the concept player punch and makes the player directly responsible to enforce one of the key moral points of the game. Reach out to the truth by ignoring easy answers despite your feelings. Failing to learn these nets you the bad ending which, in the long run, makes Evangelion look like Friendship is magic.

 

[Hristo Petrov]

Max Payne 2 when Vlad shot Mona I yelled "you bastard"

 

[Android2137]

Playing "Cry Wolf! Meteorology and Parenting!" mission of Elite Beat Agents. For some reason, I always get a bit teary when I play.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

When that bully kicked the dog in Fable 2
When Lucien shot my dog in Fable 2
The part where you must choose Bob's fate in Fable 2

When a Super Mutant Overlord ash'd Dogmeat in Fallout 3

Signal Oscar Zulu in Fallout 3 was....heartbreaking...in a way
"If anyone can hear this, this is Bob Anderstein . My family and I have taken refuge in a drainage chamber not too far from a radio relay tower outside of D.C. My boy is very sick, needs medical assistance. Please help if you can. We're listening for your response. 3950 kilohertz"
I was pretty sure I could help...all I found were bodies...

Rex in New Vegas....his brain is dying and the ending if you dont finish his quest:
If he never receives a replacement brain, Rex finally succumbs to old age, abruptly shutting down forever one quiet morning. After two centuries of life and decades of service to humanity, Rex collapses and dies.

Kick to the face..."he shuts down forever" how peaceful "collapses and dies" wait what!

 

[MightyMole]

Borderlands... Yeah those of you who have beat the game know what's in the spoiler tag...

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I honestly don't think I've ever been at a loss for words with a video game until the end of this game. I still don't really know what to say about it even now... I just... It... Octopus!?... Satellite!?... Interplanetary... What!?

A little more seriously though, Dead Space...

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I really liked Niccole, her character design was cute, I liked the voice they chose for her, so I really legitimately wanted to rescue her. I knew something was weird when she started saying "Make us whole" though... And when you figured out Niccole was dead, I had an authentic "WTF!?" moment. Boy that was a great game... Then they went and changed her design and voice actress in Dead Space 2 and now she reminds me of my mom... Smooth one Visceral...

Dead Space 2 also invoked an emotional reaction if you include how freaked out I got trying to beat the game on Hard Core difficulty. I went through the first 10 Chapters without saving, so anytime I died on the first disc (I was playing on 360) I'd have to start all over. You want to be legitimately scared? That mode is definitely for you.

Silent Hill 2 also invoked some tension.

 

[deserteagleeye]

Nanako
you know the scene...

 

[DigitalAtlas]

When Nintendo of America denied Wii owners any of the three titles in Operation: Rainfall.

What? You said in gaming. You never said it had to be in a game.

 

[Balmong7]

the death of yellow squadron in acecombat04. even though i killed them knowing that i had just robbed the narrator of his second family just killed me.

 

[C117]

The Ultor Corp. Stronghold in Saints Row 2. Me and that ATV I stole went through hell together, being assaulted by numerous armed guys in massive armored cars. And I promised myself if the little ATV could get me out of here, I'd bring it home to the garage, repair it and be generally nice to it.

And we made it. We were both beaten and rugged, but we made it. My dear ATV took me past all their defenses, and at last we could both feel the fresh air in our faces. And so I fulfilled my promise, and we both lived happily ever after.

 

[5t3v0]

Fallout New Vegas for 2 things.

well, the first sorta emotional, more shocked and awed, was Vault 11: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_11

and the main one was In honest hearts, the story of Randall Clarke: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Randall_Clark_terminal_entries

That one is especially heartbreaking. I actually think I was on the border of tears.

 

[SamtheDeathclaw]

Two, from the same game- Mother 3.
Tanetane Island in general, but the point where "Wess" apologizes to Duster always makes me sad.
And in New Pork, when you find out who Fassad was, it always depresses me, and then the mouse or whatever it was that says Fassad always gave him bananas. :[

 

[Triskadancer]

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 1's storyline. I panicked/raged at the part where Gengar made the townsfolk try to kill you, and cried with my partner when you had to leave and turn back into a human. Never before has a game made me do that. I've replayed that game 80+ times just for the story

This. I did not expect a Pokemon spinoff game to make me feel such emotion.

After that, I kept an eye out for other Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, and Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky was even more emotional. I cried a little when...

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Grovyle sacrificed himself to push Dusknoir back into the future, knowing that timeline would be wiped out when the hero and partner reset the time spire thing; and especially when the hero said goodbye to the partner and faded away as well.

 

[KaizokuouHasu]

SPOILERS FROM FF6

The end of the Phantom Train part where Cyan sees his family and everyone from Doma boarding. Also from the same game when Cid dies and Celes contemplates suicide, then when she sees Locke's headband on the bird.

Same here. Had me in tears when I though Celes was going to die just like that.
Also, the ending. I though Terra was going to die too, but instead she just becomes full-human. Nice ending, unlike other Final Fantasies (I'm looking at you two FF7 and 13). ¬_¬
Terra's Orphanage. Sweet.

Oh! The obvious one; The death of Aerith. Waaaah!! TToTT