SkyTurnsRed
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Post sad gaming moments that made you cry, GAF.
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John Kowalski
Banned
wow thanks for the spoiler i just started playing this
Tigersprite
Member
Didn't cry, but was very upset
Ending of Crisis Core, as I had never played a Final Fantasy game and didn't know what was going to happen.
;_;
And, quite seriously, the ending of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. See, I played on the Gamecube while my brother played the PS2 version.
;_;
Ending of Crisis Core, as I had never played a Final Fantasy game and didn't know what was going to happen.
I felt so bad for not being able to go on that date with Aerith too
And, quite seriously, the ending of Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. See, I played on the Gamecube while my brother played the PS2 version.
We knew about the Heaven mode, but neither of us realised it was only on the PS2. Cue my character, the legendary Samuel, dying in a horribly sad scene (still can't believe Takakura outlived me), and then my shock when the game took me back to the title screen. I pressed continue, was forced to relive Sam's death again and then I shut off my Gamecube and sat there for awhile. RIP Sam.
Spinosaurus
Member
Yeah this one came close for me, too. I liked that, despite not being able to read Japanese, I understood fully what was going on.Ouendan 2
I know someone just mentioned the Christmas episode from EBA (which is also great by the way) but this one just took its time to bring all of the sadness.
EBA's Christmas level resonated with me more because it was my first Ouendan game so I didn't see it coming, and I personally liked You're The Inspiration more than Believe. (Granted I actually understood You're The Inspiration and that didn't help :lol)
buddha0991
Member
Metal Gear Solid 3: the ending
Well besides some obvious ones listed already (Walking Dead, MGS, Mother 3) I'll add this from Majora's Mask
Same answer as I've posted before
Edit: Video
fengshuifever
Member
It's a real credit to the artists that they're able to emote everything they need to through imagery alone.
The Ouendan series should be a focus study of 'Show, don't tell".
Also, the song and imagery for the Christmas chapter couldn't have matched better. SO good.
Now I'm sad because there won't be another Ouendan.
CitrusStorm
Unconfirmed Member
Kid Icarus Uprising:
At that part where Pit is trapped inside the ring and the little girl picks it up and you're controlling the girl, walking towards that war-torn town with the slow violin music in the background. Something about that combination of situation and mood just let the water leak from my eyes something awful.
Palculator
Unconfirmed Member
Nier had me well up after
That game overall made me very melancholy because of Yonah and her Dad.
Also, Kalil from the same game. There are Nier spoilers in that link so watch out:
Emil got his Tim Burton form and they depetrify Kaine. Just that tiny moment where Kaine recognizes Emil in spite of his deformity and his reaction to her.
Also, Kalil from the same game. There are Nier spoilers in that link so watch out:
Triggerhappytel
Member
Yeah, I definitely felt my manly eyes welling up at the end of Journey. One of the most rewarding and affecting games I've ever played.
The end of The Walking Dead S1
Lee's turn / death
I never cry in games but these scene had me going, god it was just utterly heartbreaking.
What made it even more gutting was Clem's superb voice acting. The anguish of a frightened little girl losing another loved one was almost too much for me to bear
I never cry in games but these scene had me going, god it was just utterly heartbreaking.
What made it even more gutting was Clem's superb voice acting. The anguish of a frightened little girl losing another loved one was almost too much for me to bear
THEAnderson21
Member
When I was a youth, I cried at the end of Klonoa. My mom thought I was crazy.
The ending of this game has made me cry more than anything in my whole life.
How could I forget this.
mcz117chief
Member
I never will. Life changing event for me, honestly.
HassanJamal
Member
InFamous 2's kill
Heart breaking.
Zeke moment.
- Playing the underwater section of TMNT NES and trying to avoid the deadly seaweed and other garbage while disarming bombs.
- Waking up from an afternoon nap on a weekend to discover that my baby sister was playing with my Mega Drive and had deleted all my Landstalker saves by button mashing.
- Reading the official update on the Final Fantasy XII site confirming that Matsuno had resigned as producer and director of the project.
- Waking up from an afternoon nap on a weekend to discover that my baby sister was playing with my Mega Drive and had deleted all my Landstalker saves by button mashing.
- Reading the official update on the Final Fantasy XII site confirming that Matsuno had resigned as producer and director of the project.
I have never cried from a game. The most emotional I got in a game was definitely Aries. I haven't played that game since it came out and I can still remember those feelings, where I was, how old I was, and how amazing that game was. I guess I'm more upset that after ff7 the series was dead to me.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
To the Moon and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons are the only two games of recent memory that made me, a grown man, absolutely ball like a freaking baby.
fengshuifever
Member
The thread title is sad gaming moments, not gaming moments which force you to run through the 5 stages of Loss and Grief.
To this day I still shed a tear for what could have been.
So much of Soul Sacrifice Delta. Pretty much every character episode involved me welling up at some point.
*Radux story spoilers*
The game has lots of stories like this, and it's unfortunate that the series isn't more popular than it is.
*Radux story spoilers*
Radux was abandoned as a baby and raised by monsters, so he had trouble speaking. When the player meets him, Radux is clawing at his chest. He says he does this because he's sick, and that it began when he sacrificed his monster mother, which happened when she turned on him.
It turns out in the end that his mother only wanted him to continue living as a human, and humans despise monsters by nature, so she had to instill that hate in his heart. And the reason that he claws at his chest so fervently? Guilt for killing the only mother he's ever known.
It turns out in the end that his mother only wanted him to continue living as a human, and humans despise monsters by nature, so she had to instill that hate in his heart. And the reason that he claws at his chest so fervently? Guilt for killing the only mother he's ever known.
The game has lots of stories like this, and it's unfortunate that the series isn't more popular than it is.
tringworldso
Member
The Infamous 2 hero (canon) ending:
"Let go"
OverturePT
Member
I don't remember shedding tears (maybe I did) but I definitely had watery eyes at the end of Terranigma. I was pretty young at the time, that game's atmosphere and that feeling of solitude has stayed with me longer than any other game related thing.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
Banned
Elite Beat Agents' Christmas level is the only one that made me tear up
HUGE punch in the gut. Did not see it coming considering how stupid and silly the rest of the game is.
Video
That was the only one for me too. Mostly because it is such a surprise.
Michael F. Assbender
Banned
The Last of Us:
The Last of Us:
Didn't actually cry, but my eyes got misty.
Sarah's death
Giraffes
Didn't actually cry, but my eyes got misty.
You jerk, I came to post this.
I´ll go with this then.
And this game is always able to grab you where it hurst, it has at least 2 scenes more that I´m pretty sure more people will mention, but this one sets the tone of the whole game.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
Persona q
Finding out Rei was already dead. I kind've suspected, but when it was revealed and what the items you were finding in the labyrinth were, especially when you realize the lock of hair was hers because she died of fucking cancer.
Cyrus_Saren
Member
Crisis Core's ending and To The Moon's ending are the first thing that come to mind for me.
Dombrowski
is responsible for the well-being of this island.
TLoU:
MGS4:
Journey:
This wasn't 'sad' per se, but the emotions once you
.. with that music.. it was just..
Sara's death.
The Microwave Hallway.
The ending.
start flying to the summit
Stevey
Member
I never understood this bit, why is it sad?
Why do people think it's so amazing?
It's literally just
some giraffes walking around that have escaped from a zoo
See the difference between you and me is that I had no idea what his fate was. I never really played FF7 but I was pretty sure he had a role in that game so I was not at all prepared for the ending to Crisis Core. Easily the closest I've ever comes to tears from a videogame, seriously welled up through the credits.
Funyarinpa
Member
999
is self explanatory, and hit me up if you ever find
as engaging and sad as the one
Virtue's Last Reward
I got this accidentally because
Still had my eyes watery. The feels ;-;
Ever17
Safe END and True END
Safe END
a sudoku puzzle
in the true ending.
Virtue's Last Reward
Luna END
I got this accidentally because
I thought I'd just missed the passcode and the ID for the computer. Looked them up.
Ever17
Sora Good End
Dying together with the AI you love in the passage between a secret underwater facility and an underwater theme park screwed me up, my favorite route in the game.
radios shipping overview
Member
The day I realized I have nostalgia for awful, awful things.
TsunamiOfSwagger
Member
A different part of TWD
when kenny finds the boy in the attic