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Has a game ever made you cry?

I don't think I've ever cried during a game but 3 times I've come very close.

Read Dead Redemption
The "real" ending

The Last of Us - Prologue

Life is Strange
Seeing Chloe in the alternate timeline and then killing her on request
 
The ending of FFVII: Crisis Core made me bawl, big time. I haven't played it again, so I'm not sure if it holds up, but I remember it being really powerful stuff. Tearaway too, not for the same reasons though, but during its ending it all felt very personal to me.

Also, the conclusion to the first 30 minutes of The Last of Us hit me hard. And probably the ending of Persona 3 too. Man, I'm such a baby.
 
I wonder if the decision to
kiss Chloe
is what did it for most people in LiS? I felt the two characters deeply cared for each other in a way most games don't do very well, and then after all you go through
to get her back again, only to have to let her go and that kiss at the end. Actually sitting in the bathroom where she's bleeding out on the other side of the stall destroyed me, knowing how helpless you are, especially after being able to rewind whenever bad things had happened before.

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Anyone want to start a Life is Strange support group? :(
 
One that has been mentioned was the Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC ending. After how long a journey I'd been through with the 3 games and the emotional connection I'd built up with my favourite franchise, I definitely had a large lump in throat as the dlc ended knowing this was the last I'd see of Shepard and the gang.
 
Persona 3 ending did that to me. The scene at the end,
Aigis' monologue
, seeing the credits, hearing the music, reflecting on what a ride that game was and realizing what just happened...that got me.
 
Both seasons of the Walking Dead, actually. The first season isn't a big surprise, but for the second season I got the ending where
Kenny had to leave Clementine and the baby at the settlement they reach. Even though he was getting crazy it still sucked to see him leave Clem.
 
StrawberryJam said:
I remember playing TLOU for the first time when my dad was in the room. He's never been interested in games so he didn't pay it any mind. As the prologue went on he started to pay more and more attention and then by the end of it I looked across at him hiding his face behind a newspaper. He then said something along the lines of 'Oh... That's quite sad... I need to go now...'. That game managed to make someone who doesn't care about the medium at all pretty emotional. Great game.

Also Journey made me cry like a child. Can't even explain why.
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Amazing.
 
Never. I've felt kind of bad during the endings of episode 1 and 2 of PSO but that's about it. A few movies and one specific scenario in one very specific anime have though.
 
Zyrox said:
Persona 3 ending did that to me. The scene at the end,
Aigis' monologue
, seeing the credits, hearing the music, reflecting on what a ride that game was and realizing what just happened...that got me.
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It really is one of the most powerful scenes in gaming for me.

Edit: the atmosphere after the death of
Shinji
was really affecting too. It didn't have me crying but was definitely a holy shit, this game just changed completely moment for me.
 
Persona 4. I'm finishing up my second playthrough, so I already know what happens and how to make everything turn out good. But I still got a little choked up at the (vague spoiler)
hospital scenes.
Even the second time.
 
Undertale. My eyes watered up a little after
Toriel's fight
. But I really started crying on the
final pacifist battle, when you need to rescue your friends.

Persona 3
ending too, at first.
 
I teared up a bit during the scene in Trails in the Sky SC when
Estelle was caught in a dream as her younger self with her mother.
 
Cliche but whatever, Aeris in FF7. I was a kid, heavily invested in the story and characters for the first time in a game and completely unaware that killing a main playable character was even something that might happen. Oh and Nobuo Uematsu certainly played his part in it.
 
Don't know if I got to cry with it, but Digital: A Love Story was very touching and moving. The same goes for To the Moon and Mother 3. (That last one I'd probably end up teary a couple of times if I played it straight again, since I wasn't very well-versed in English when I first finished it)

I might have gotten teary eyes during Luna's route on VLR, though.
That music was too much https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFJ1r6_4mW4
 
Yep. The ending of Limbo moved me greatly and possibly more so than anything else in gaming. A moment in Journey when you essentially are flying through the sky.

Also, playing Dark Souls II with some friends I literally laughed to the point of tears.
 
I partially attribute this to being VERY tired at the time but when I finished Telltale's The Walking Dead season 1 I cried, like, a lot. I'm not talking a tear rolling down my cheek, I was literally sobbing, had to grab tissues, the whole thing. It was bad.
 
The Walking Dead season 1. Goddamn that entire last part was better than anything the show has done and probably ever will do.

Bioshock Infinite "Give me back my
Daughter
!!!"

The opening of The Last of Us came close. I think I was too shocked to even have sadness register at that moment.

Nothing else comes to mind, but I just finished episode 4 of Life is Strange and I already know it's going to happen sometime in episode 5.
 
All the time.

Sometimes it's the emotional content of the game, but quite often there's just a catharsis about having finished a mammoth game - I cry at the end of most big RPGs, even though I'm not often particularly emotionally attached to the end storyline, for instance.

For emotional content, though, I'm fairly sure I cried while playing Photopia. I don't think Life Is Strange managed actual tears, but there were a few times it made me - for want of a better word - stop and contemplate things.

If they ever make Call The Midwife: The Video Game, there's no hope for me.
 
Undertale - When this song started playing during the final stretch of the Neutral run. Oddly enough the big Pacifist moments didn't really hit as hard, although they certainly came close.
Mother 3 -
"I have good news and bad news..."
Also the moment in the finale when
Claus takes off his mask and fires PK Thunder at your Franklin Badge...

Honorable Mentions:
999 - The moment
Morphogenetic Sorrow
started playing almost got me, with the combination of the track itself as well as its place during the reveal of the big twist. Slightly ruined by said track being played over
a sudoku...
Okami - The credits song Reset gets me slightly teary after spending something over a hundred hours in that world.

I think it's mostly the music that does it for me.
 
Got a little teary eyed at Life is Strange, and I didn't even play the damn thing, just watched the Giant Bomb playthrough.
 
From literally crying my eyes out to having misty eyes.

Niagara falls level of crying:
NieR
Valiant Hearts the Great War

shed some tear/s:
Shadow of the Colossus
Final Fantasy XIII-2 and 3
Final Fantasy IV
Ace Combat 5/6
Child of Light
Final Fantasy IV
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Red Orchestra 2
Loom
Sunrider Academy
ICO

Got misty eyes:
Halo 3/Reach
Max Payne 2/3
Guild Wars: Eye of the North
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (2012)
Shogun 2: Total War
Metro 2033
Shadow Warrior (2013)
Sleeping Dogs
Journey
Drakengard 3

These are the ones I can remember from the top of my head, surprisingly games like The Last of Us, Walking Dead, Half-Life 2 didn't really move me.The ending of The Last of Us a little bit, but not even close to crying.
 
Silent Hill
At the end when
Lisa finds out she was dead the whole time. She begs Harry to stay with her cause she's scared, doesn't want to be alone, and starts bleeding out her eyes. Harry responds by bolting out the room and locking her in
 
Bioshock 2. The neutral ending is sad af. That game made me sad in ways I had not ever felt up to that point. I didn't really
feel sad at the end of
Life is Strange.
I felt that the time that Max had with Chloe was one that nobody ever gets to experience with a loved one after they have passed. Max feels anger, joy, and everything in with Chloe on her week or so of time travel; she got to have an unadulterated experience with her, as real as it would have been if she would have continued living. I thought there was beauty in that. Also, if not obvious, I went bay over bae.
 
Thinking more about it, there were definitely some Steins;Gate scenes that me welling up. I was just so invested in the characters.
When Okabe finally gets to wordline B after sacrificing Makise and breaks down it definitely hit me hard. As did the final moments of the true ending.
They were tears of Sadness and joy throughout. Such a powerful game
 
Ruins by Jake Elliott, who later made Kentucky Route Zero.

Once Upon A Spacetime by RMIT, Digitalis, Kalonica Quigley, Tim Goschnick, Rhys van der Waerden, and Kim d'Amazing.

Maybe Aquaria, Gone Home, and The Walking Dead (seasons 1 and 2).
 
The Last of Us and Persona 3. Both in the ending.

Not really cried tho. I just teared up. It is funny actually: in both cases I was at the same time very fucking sad and very fucking happy. Great games man...

Edit: Also ICO ending!!! The music got me hard.
 
The opening of The Last of Us. There are moments when I get misty-eyed in Legend of Zelda games too but I think that's more of a personal thing.
 
Christmas mission on Elite Beat Agents is a sucker punch, one moment you're a ninja car salesman and then BOOOM!
Little girl gets the news that his father died on a trip and wont be back on christmas like he promised.
That wasn't okay, at all.

Mother 3's final battle, when the masked man takes off his mask, the moment is very powerful, and it's not even a twist, you know all along who is the masked man, but the moment is not about that, it's really powerful and hits you really hard.
"I am going to where mom is now, im sorry about all the problems i caused"

Undertale was weird one for me, cause it didn't happen as i played/finished the game, but several days later as i talked about the game with another friend, it kinda all set in and i started tearing up.
 
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