The Things That Made You Emotional in Gaming... Surprisingly
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I agree with you on all of those. I was legitimately surprised at what happened at the end of Dead Space 1, and I.... I was just ticked at the end of Borderlands because for some reason I just found myself hating it.MightyMole said:
I thought, although this one was really good, the whole part where you find Tai was the one to really pull the heartstrings. Poor guy...Lord Beautiful said:
OT: Aside from the aforementioned GoW2 stuff, probably the part in Fable 2 where the bad guy goes to shoot you and the Dog jumps in the way. I was so going to take the cash until Theresa said I could get my Dog back.
This reminds me of a discussion I had, where we concluded ME2 would be better if, instead of just some straight romance options, there was an option to have a lads night with Garrus, Thane or Legion to Omega, where they end up drunkenly wing manning you to a patron of your choosing. That might not have quite fitted in it's place, but would be awesome.Riobux said:
I am ashamed of myself for forgetting that part.Zantos said:
Jesus, that game really was well made.
Shadow of the Colossus. Two things. One. Killing the colossi that weren't trying to hurt me ie: the flying one in the desert. It's just peacefully flying around and I had to kill it. Two. The death of Agro(fuck I'm too tired for this to fully think but I think that's the horse's name). I got really attached to my horse. And after I lost my horse my first play through I wouldn't touch the game for a month. I still do that. I know its going to happen and I still can't help but not play the game for a month cause of the death of my horse.[sub]I've never felt more like a girl before in my entire life[/sub]
My gosh, that was tied for the second saddest part of that game. You're in for quite a treat. Final Fantasy VI is incredible.Shoggoth2588 said:
OT: Rogue Galaxy. A lot of people just found the entire game to be a cliche, and a lot of it was, but the tears flowed when...
...the cast was pursuing their drigellums (little balls of energy formed when someone finds peace with themselves in their hearts; I know, I know). The nice thing about this was that it allowed each character to have their own climax to their character arcs. When Jaster, the main character, went to get his, he talked to his younger self and the man who raised him. That man asked grown Jaster if he had realized his dream, and Jaster replied that he had indeed seen space, and it was incredible. He was fulfilled. To which his younger self replied, "Your dream is just to go into space? That's boring!" Jaster was taken aback as his younger self explained that he wanted to go into space so he could explore new places, discover new things, and help the galaxy with those discoveries. Jaster had been so caught up in his adventures that he had forgotten the true end goal of his dreams. That was good.
EDIT: Actually, I think finding Maria and finding Tai in Gears of War 2 are better examples of this, since I was not expecting great storytelling from that game. Gears of War had some great story concepts and hinted at a deeper backstory, but refused to actually go into any of it and, as a result, was a very shallow and forgettable story. The second one wasn't exactly Mass Effect, but they did a much, much better job.
Okay, both of you. Memorize this code.KaizokuouHasu said:
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Take out the asterisks, put the spoilers inbetween them, and you have one of the most important functions you could possibly learn how to do on this site. Always, always use these when talking about spoilers. ALWAYS.
Mass effect spoiler AHOY!!
The first time I did the final mission. I lost miranda, grunt, and jacob. Just seeing the Cerberus coffins as I walked past was very powerful. In most games, they die, but just seeing the coffins and knowing it was because I let them down really hit me.
In DA:O in the city elf orrigin (female in my case) My charachter wasnt exactlaly as thrilled as her fiancee about getting married to him, but he was nice enough
anyway when she gets kidnapped along with the other elves he comes in trying to save you and gets killed
anyway thats the REAL thing however is after its all over and you get recruited and all that..you have a "wedding ring" in your inventory.....its just a weird kind of thing, It didnt feel right selling it even though you can, I actually held onto it in memory of him, even though it was obvious my charachter didnt actually love him
that and in Red faction Gurrella I'm having moral delemas..aparently doesnt earth need the rescources on mars? I mean I feel for the people who are suffering on earth..I know this is kind of silly, but it feels kind of like AVATAR when if you think about it the main charachter is pretty much say "nah fuck earth, I wanna live with the blue people!" but Im sure its not the same thing here
anyway when she gets kidnapped along with the other elves he comes in trying to save you and gets killed
anyway thats the REAL thing however is after its all over and you get recruited and all that..you have a "wedding ring" in your inventory.....its just a weird kind of thing, It didnt feel right selling it even though you can, I actually held onto it in memory of him, even though it was obvious my charachter didnt actually love him
that and in Red faction Gurrella I'm having moral delemas..aparently doesnt earth need the rescources on mars? I mean I feel for the people who are suffering on earth..I know this is kind of silly, but it feels kind of like AVATAR when if you think about it the main charachter is pretty much say "nah fuck earth, I wanna live with the blue people!" but Im sure its not the same thing here
Everyone I know felt nothing at that final scene those heartless jerksSoranMBane said:Wheatley's betrayal in Portal 2 hit me really hard. It was the first time the whole betrayal twist had actually felt like a betrayal, because I'd genuinely become attached to him and because it obviously wasn't premeditated; things just sort of happened that way, and up until that point he'd genuinely been trying to help me. I couldn't help but break down crying when he apologized at the end.
In God of War 2, when you accidentally kill the last spartan. I realized then that Kratos is the last spartan, and I felt sad. But it didn't take long for that to turn into rage, and made me want to slaughter Zeus all the more.
Weirdly, a couple of things from Saint's Row 2. I re-discovered them while finally playing the game through without cheats:
When taking down the Brotherhood, the mission where their gang kidnaps Carlos and drags him along by a chain behind one of their trucks. The cutscene when you stop them but he's already dead is just... I didn't even like Carlos that much but it still made me sad.
Again, the Brotherhood missions. When you kidnap Maero's girlfriend Jessica and stuff her in the trunk of a car before Maero crushes it with his monster truck. It actually made me hate The Boss a little bit. Killing her yourself is one thing, but making him unknowingly do it then walking away smiling to yourself while he mourns for her is just twisted.
Aisha dying to save Gat's life, then him getting stabbed in the ensuing fight scene. Even though Aisha didn't do much in the story, her getting killed by that Ronin chronie was pretty damn sad.
At the graveyard, where Gat just beats the shit out of the kid who was running the Ronin then stuffs him in a coffin and buries him alive.
This would have been for me too, except for the fact that i happened to have left a boom shield on the exact spot where his wife is, so he delivers all his lines to a shield and hugs it and everything. I lol'd so hard.Lord Beautiful said:
Sorry, but I figured with games as old as Final Fantasy 6 and 7 the people who don't already know what happens will likely never find out as they are probably not fans. That said, I didn't know the spoiler code until not too long after my post.Thaius said:
By the way, do you know how to change the text in the spoiler box? I don't want it to read "Spoiler: Click to View".