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

[Fleetfiend]

The whole mark meltzer thing in Bioshock 2 affected me incredibly strongly, especially when you process his fate and the fact you've killed him.

Ah, that got me as well. Mainly because of how much I hated him and wanted to kill him, but at the same time I didn't want to because he was helping me out. In the end I did. He sure sniveled a lot. Jerkwad.

Are you sure you're not thinking of sinclair, you never actually talk to meltzer and his story is told entirely through audio logs.

Really? Hmm... No I'm clear on Sinclair, I really liked him as a character. I was thinking of

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the guy that flooded Dionysus Park and took Eleanor to the orphanage. Stanley Poole! That was his name. Mark Meltzer was the guy who went to Rapture to rescue his daughter, wasn't he? Yeah, I remember that as well... when you kill him as a Big Daddy and realize he did it just to be with his daughter... I felt terrible. Just adds to what I said in the original post. xD

 

[Heartcafe]

Persona 4
When Nanako...

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almost dies and you have no idea if she's going to be ok or not. I got real emotional because I was so used to coming back home and hearing her say "Big Bro!" And then suddenly, coming back and seeing an empty house was... sad :/

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Spoiler: Shadow of the Colossus

When Agro sacrificed herself to save the wanderer and fell from the bridge. I actually yelled, "NO!" when it happened. She doesn't actually die, but I didn't know that until the end. It still really bummed me out.

 

[Akytalusia]

there was a part in i think the first xenosaga, where commander cherenkov was getting something to drink, and had some kind of attack and dropped it. to this day i'm still not sure why that scene affected me way more than it should have.

 

[CleverCover]

Sad: When I romanced Alistair in DA:O and he left me behind to kill the Archdemon. I immediately went "NOOOOOOOO!" cried and re did it so my character would die.

Extremely Conflicted: Choosing between Kaidan and Ashley. Most painful decision ever.

Supremely Angry: In Bully, I've never been so excited to kill someone since Bioshock than when the game gave me an option of beating Gary into the ground. Shame it didn't last longer.

: In Bioshock, when Adam turned on me. Spent the rest of the game in a "MUST KILL FONTAINE" haze. I don't like betrayals. At All.

Extremely Happy: The good ending in Bioshock. It was just a center of warm love and happiness. God, even now it brings a tear to my eyes.

Captcha: illmays AGAINST

Another group to dislike on facebook, Captcha? Can I do that?

 

[Brutal Peanut]

Sad: When I romanced Alistair in DA:O and he left me behind to kill the Archdemon. I immediately went "NOOOOOOOO!" cried and re did it so my character would die.

Ugh, I felt terrible after that. I reloaded a previous save and ..

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talked him into sleeping with Morrigan. o_o;;

 

[Rabish Bini]

I'm not sure if Volition wanted me feel bad for him, but god damnit I was saddened at that poor Shogo kid in Saints Row 2. Even his fate made me sad, despite him being a total prick.

 

[Traun]

Starcraft 2 - I never knew I could get this mad at a video game. The rage, anger and frustration are something I never, ever, ever expected to feel at that level from something that is no better than a simulator.

Other than that I know there were moments of sadness, but I can't recall them at the moment.

 

[CleverCover]

Sad: When I romanced Alistair in DA:O and he left me behind to kill the Archdemon. I immediately went "NOOOOOOOO!" cried and re did it so my character would die.

Ugh, I felt terrible after that. I reloaded a previous save and ..

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talked him into sleeping with Morrigan. o_o;;

I would have, but silly me had saved over that point with the point of no return and my other save was too far back to even bother with.

So I just killed off my character. Painful and the funeral part wasn't fun, but Alistair was King and Anora wasn't.

Thanks Bioware for that kick in the gut.

 

[ThePurpleStuff]

Skies of Arcadia, the scene where you finally find Drachma again, with him by the dying Purple Gigas named Rahknam, who he chased after almost his entire life, supposed to be a spin on the tale of Captain Ahab and Moby Dick.

One of the few scenes from a video game I ever shed a tear to. Trust me, the game's plot is a bit generic, you go around the world collecting magic rocks, blah blah, but the characters are so likable, you don't notice it and you just love them so much. So likable to care about even those you'd consider bad if things happen to them.

 

[Ephyon]

Final Fantasy VII

Red XIII's grandfather passing away. I'm an orphan living with my grandparents since I was a baby, so this scene hits me hard.

 

[Riggnarok]

I'd have to say, as many others have stated, the Dom's Wife scene. Although, it seemed out of place in the game, if you've read Aspho Fields and then played the game, man it hits you hard.

They could have done better at making it fit with the story, but they really out did themselves on that cutscene. At least I can't say they don't know how to put emotion into something.

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

Both the BioShock games, mainly with:
1. Letting the Little Sisters live gave me a nice, warm fuzzy feeling because it seemed like the right thing to do.
2. The Bioshock 2 good ending almost made me tear up, and it takes something pretty high-up on the emotional chart to do that.

 

[crazie_soviet]

hate to admit it but hell everyone else has done so.

*SPOILER!!* (suposing you have not finished or played LoZ:TP)

Near the end of TP when Midna puts on the mask and fights Ganon. At first i thought "huh someone other than Link will kick Ganons ass". then the castle blows up and i was filled with rage when i saw Ganon still alive. Sure Midna was a pain in the ass from time to time but she really grew on me and when Ganon held up her destroyed mask i felt like something had died in me. easy to say when i killed him i felt better then when i saw "bigger" Midna i was overjoyed.

and there you have it the time when a game made me emotional

 

[Tim Willard]

When Morrigan betrayed me in DA:O I actually yelled at the screen "I should have killed you when I had the chance, whore!"

In Mass Effect 2, I kept trying to romance the cute blond.

And got there seconds too late to save her.

I wonder if the Reapers know they have to die just because of that?

 

[Jedoro]

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.

 

[b3nn3tt]

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.

 

[Agarth]

I was unbelievably irritated at the end of Dragon Age 2.
Your going to tell me that I was doing all that questing, going through all of those EXACT FUCKING SAME hovels, mansions, warehouses, caves, other fucking caves, other types of warehouses, ruined tunnels, even the same entrance to the god damn deep roads, plus gaining approval with my allies (except Fenris) and even going out of my way to romance one of the characters, just to get an ending that made me literally say, "What the fuck was that Bullshit? What about all of that hard work I put into EVERYTHING!?! Is it seriously going to end like THAT!?" I just hate a lack of explanation in the end of something that isn't supposed to stay a mystery.

Hell. Most of my hatred of the ending is caused by all of the focus on showing Hawke TEAR THE AROSHOCK IN FUCKING HALF in the trailers, and then both Isabelle permanently leaves my party, the Aroshock just falls down and have Hawke stab him unclimatically (Yes I was a rogue. Female Hawke if your wondering) for my play-through. Than suddenly "Oh sorry you still have to play for another completely unnecicery hour to beat the game." At that point I was thinking something along the lines of, "Are you kidding? Not only is my fight with the Aroshock boring but it resulted in NOTHING!?" And the ending only has about four extra words added in if you "Complete a Romance" and it doesn't even mean shit!

I guess I the main reason I'm so disappointed with Dragon Age 2 is because I was expecting it to be just as good, if not better, than the first. The first one being one of my favorite Fantasy RPG games of all time. Also, in my honest opinion, If your not a female rogue Hawke that romances Anders at some point, your doing it wrong.

 

[CRRPGMykael]

The intro of Assassin's Creed II.
Ezio and his brother,Frederico,climb up a tower,while Frederico gives Ezio a hand for him to grab.Then,Frederico says "It is a good life we lead,brother." to which Ezio replies "The best.May it never change",and Frederico says "And may it never change us.",then they both stare away at the sky,an emotional soundtrack starts up(obviously,by the awesome Jesper Kyd),and then the words "Ubisoft presents" appear and the title screen comes up.
The whole thing made me teary eyed and gave me goosebumps,specially because we all knew what was going to happen afterwards.

I can only tell you one thingLAY THIS GAME.
If you don't want to or already have,then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJshVVtEyso&feature=related -it's the same title intro I've been talking about.Put it in 1080p and skip to 01:00