Has a game ever made you cry?

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#1  Edited By Cwaff

Answering my own question, No, I have never cried at a videogame. (I am dead inside) :P
That's not to say I haven't almost cried at a game.
Those games were FF7 (Obvious reasons), Persona 4 (Ending and one specific scene) and MGS4.

I'm sure theres plenty other ones that I have missed but those are the ones that spring to mind.
Now, who here has ever cried or almost cried (For the manliest of you) at a game? (Be considerate with spoilers)

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#2  Edited By CL60

Big Riggs: Over the Road Racing made me cry a little bit.

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#3  Edited By Illmatic

Haven't even come close so far. Of course, I've never played the games people bring up that have brought them to tears or strong emotions: FF7, MGS4, Shadow of the Colossus to name a few.

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#4  Edited By Video_Game_King

No, but several games have come close to doing so. Games like:

  • FF6 (oddly enough, not when Celes wanted to die)
  • FE4 (this)
  • DQ4 (obvious)

Oh, wait, there's actually a game that made me cry: Tetrisphere. I won't count it, though, because it wasn't out of any emotional attachment to the game; it was because the game WAS BURNING MY EYES.
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#5  Edited By The_A_Drain

Wont be the first or the last to say this but Aeris death choked me up. That's as close as I come to outright bawling, even the saddest or most uplifting of movies etc only ever choke me up and bring a tear to my eye I never audibly 'cry' or bawl.

But yeah, Aeris, possibly the girlfriends death scene in The Darkness I dont remember, I think maybe I was angry instead of sad. Other than that I don't think theres been anything at all.

Oh wait, possibly Lost Odyssey at some point. Don't remember.

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#6  Edited By AhmadMetallic

Didnt cry but got very emotional, maybe some tears included, during Half-Life 2 and its episodes.



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#7  Edited By dethfish

I might have shed a tear or two playing Lost Odyssey.

I cried while playing lots of games when I was little. Mainly because I sucked at them.

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#8  Edited By TobyD81

Elite Beat Agents, the level with the girl's dead father.

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#9  Edited By NeoTheta

Only games that have made me cry are MGS2 (when Emma Emmerich dies) and MGS4 (just the whole ending in general hit me pretty hard).

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Holy Fucking Spoilers.
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#11  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Braid nearly made me cry out of frustration.

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#12  Edited By Illmatic
@The_A_Drain said:
" Oh wait, possibly Lost Odyssey at some point. Don't remember. "
Now that you brought it up, I do recall a point I did choke up a bit on that game.

SPOILERS

When the two kids' mother dies, that scene was pretty touching. Come to think of it, I did enjoy the first half of that game before the story got way too outlandish and out there.
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#13  Edited By Bigvic785

No i havent cried because of a video game.

I think I probably would have cried during GTAIV if I hadn't been desensitized from all the killing; I think the ending and story was good enough to make one cry.

"So this is the American Dream..."

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#14  Edited By Icemael

Nope. Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII and Persona 4 came close though.

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#15  Edited By MKHavoc
@TobyD81: The part felt so out of place since the rest of the game is so silly.
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#16  Edited By somerandomdude

This is a cliche but Aeries death in FFVII made me cry. :(

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#17  Edited By CowMuffins

MGS4, so close. So close.

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#18  Edited By sdodd02

Not that I can remember, some have made me pretty sad, but never to the point of crying...

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#19  Edited By lemon360

shadow of colossus at how terribly bad that piece o' shat is

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#20  Edited By HandsomeDead
@NeoTheta said:
" Only games that have made me cry are MGS2 (when Emma Emmerich dies) and MGS4 (just the whole ending in general hit me pretty hard). "
Exactly this.
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#21  Edited By Drebin_893

MGS2 and MGS4.

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#22  Edited By Muttinus_Rump

Like guys have said before, I came close with MGS4.

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More than a few games have caused me to get misty-eyed, but the only games I think I can say actually made me cry were Final Fantasy X, Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Metal Gear Solid 4. At least, those are the only ones I can remember at the moment.

Damn you MGS!

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#24  Edited By TheMustacheHero
@CowMuffins said:
" MGS4, so close. So close. "

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#25  Edited By ShadowKiller

The ending to Crisis Core was probably the closest to making me shed some tears.

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#26  Edited By Death_Unicorn

Too many to count...

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#27  Edited By CowMuffins

So we can all agree. Metal Gear Solid is the most emotional game series of all time and shall be held in the highest regard and closest to having video games as a form of art.

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#28  Edited By Icemael
@CowMuffins said:
" So we can all agree. Metal Gear Solid is the most emotional game series of all time and shall be held in the highest regard and closest to having video games as a form of art. "
I disagree. I have only played one of the games, but while the narrative seemed really good, the god-awful gameplay prevented me from enjoying the game -- like a barrier between me and the game's 'essence'. It was like listening to a fantastic song, except with horrible sound quality.
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#29  Edited By damnboyadvance

Nope. Never have. Although I've cried during a movie before. Don't ask.

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#30  Edited By PercyChuggs

Ha, of course not. I only cry over things that happen in my own life, not the fake lives of virtual characters.

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#31  Edited By Red

I came pretty close in Metal Gear Solid 4, around the ending. Snake was just so darn depressing. I did, however, actually cry in Persona 4 on December 3rd, and in the ending of both Shadow of the Colossus and Final Fantasy 7: Crisis Core.

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#32  Edited By angelkanarias
NEVER
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#33  Edited By Atlas

One of the Brain Training games made me cry. Yeah. Well it said my brain age was like 55. To be fair, I was also having a REALLY bad day.

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#34  Edited By ch13696

I would have to say Final Fantasy X-2. When Yuna was singing that song on Thunder Plains. Basically when she was having memories of a guy that looks like Tidus because of her dressphere. That hit me good.

And Metal Gear Solid 4. When Snake wanted to kill himself. I was thinking don't end it like that. It's sad.

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#35  Edited By dwil83
@CowMuffins said:
" So we can all agree. Metal Gear Solid is the most emotional game series of all time and shall be held in the highest regard and closest to having video games as a form of art. "
shadow of the colossus IS art.  dont get me wrong, mgs is a great series and my number 2 on the "games as art" list, but shadow of the colossus is definately number one
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#36  Edited By dwil83
@CowMuffins said:
" So we can all agree. Metal Gear Solid is the most emotional game series of all time and shall be held in the highest regard and closest to having video games as a form of art. "
shadow of the colossus IS art. don't get my wrong, mgs is a great series, and the second on my list of "games as art", but sotc is definately number one
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#37  Edited By Kazu666

I cry at a lot of things xD Games though....uhh...FFX, MGS4..FF7, probably most of all Lost Odyssey (even cried reading some of the memories, a little kid dying? im sure they were intending to make me cry. xD)  

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#38  Edited By ververdan0226

Most of the Final Fantasy games are the ones that have evoked heavy emotion out of me, with FFVII being the clear top one. There are some others as well, such as Shadow of the Colossus and Kingdom Hearts when Sora and Kairi couldn't be together. And this may be kind of pathetic, but when Bentley the turtle was (SPOILERS) crippled at the end of Sly 2, I came very close to a single tear running down my 14-year old cheek.

Also, I've only watched The Last Guardian trailer and I'm already balling my eyes out for what's inevitably gonna happen to that creature. Please make me ball my eyes out Team ICO, make me cry like I've never cried before.

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When Emma Emmerich died in Metal Gear Solid 2 I cried.

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#40  Edited By Hitchenson

When I collected all of the Orbs in Crackdown and I didn't get my achievement... that was... emotional. 

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#41  Edited By penguindust

I've gotten "choked up" during games, but never to the same point of emotion as I have with some movies.  Oddly enough, I don't cry over things in real life.

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#42  Edited By Arkthemaniac

I cried when I was a kid and certain games were too hard. I don't think I've ever cried out of emotional response, just out of anger.

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#43  Edited By tineyoghurt

Closest I've been was when a certain person died in Half Life 2: Episode 2. I think Half Life is the only "story-driven" franchise I've played, so I haven't had many of those moments.

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#44  Edited By FunExplosions

maybe a litte watery eyes every once in a few years.
when i was little i can remember getting really frustrated with my Sega Genesis games and throwing tantrums when i got game overs.

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#45  Edited By Gahzoo

Huh, Persona 4's ending was a happy one, well it still is sad.


But atleast it's not like Persona 3's ending.
Also, a game has never made me cry.

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#46  Edited By L33tfella_H

MGS3's ending almost had me split a tear, but FF6 really had me crying during some of the story moments (Cyan's are a good example, Also, i was 8 when i last played FF6...so take it how you will). Other than that..no game has ever managed to make me dig into it that much.

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#47  Edited By Ineedaname

F4 I'd never played it, and did so for the first time on the DS, and when Porom and Palom turned into stone to save Cecil =(

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#48  Edited By Kaido

Vampire: Bloodlines almost made me cry during the whole ordeal with Heather Poe.

But you've never played it though, nor shall you. Bastard.

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#49  Edited By Skillface

MGS3 came close.

That's it though.

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#50  Edited By DerekDanahy

Nope, but the most "emotional" I've gotten with a game was probably Braid.