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What games have made you cry tears...
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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SOTC end sequence after the boss battle. God damnit!!! 
HyperCubed4
Member
I cried like a motherfucker right before Okami's final boss battle.
I got so goddamn emotional during that scene.
Also, this. I was way more invested than I thought I was.
Issun becoming a Celestial Envoy to help Ammy out right before the last battle.
I got so goddamn emotional during that scene.
Okami is the only game I've cried at the ending for. Not because it was sad, but because I got so into it and more invested than I realized. The ending sequence is so heart warming I can't help but run the waterworks.
I'm kind of a wuss like that
Also, this. I was way more invested than I thought I was.
cosmicblizzard
Banned
I'm not sure I agree. They may not be the main focus for many, but story has definitely become an important part of gaming, for better or worse.
I also disagree that someone should limit their own emotional reactions just because someone else says something that moved them isn't deep. People react to all media in different ways, and if they interpret something as having enough depth to make them cry, then hey, that's just how it affected them.
A fair question.
I did get teary-eyed briefly during Super Mario Galaxy when I first arrived at Gusty Garden Galaxy and the theme music hit me for the first time. The art style and the gameplay were already fantastic enough, but the music sent me over an emotional tipping point that had me proclaiming aloud, "THIS! This is why I love these games!" It was a pretty powerful moment, and to hear that music was no small part of it.
Like the hat?
Banned
Ditto
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Nothing embarrassing about that.
Oh shut up I was nine !
As for me, I've cried way too many times during video games. For various reasons.
Right, it isn't as if these games have suddenly instantly disappeared and are no longer relevant. Shifts like this don't happen overnight, or in a year, or in a generation.
But it's pretty clear which way we're moving. Just a decade ago "cinematic" games seem to be the obvious and clear future of gaming, with virtually all the blockbuster games of that time (GTA, MGS, FF, etc) being of that ilk. Since that time, most of the new blockbuster franchises have not fit this description, and it's becoming clear that these types of games are no longer the clear future of the medium.
Right, this is an important distinction I seem to have with many people here: I am not a post modernist. I do not believe in absolute subjectivity of all mediums, and that any reaction to any product is equally valid.
Some things are more intelligent and sophisticated than other things. A child may be overjoyed by Pokemon, but that doesn't make his happiness as complex or rich as someone seeing/playing something more complex.
But this gets in to a fairly complex disucssion that would require its own thread; suffice it to say that I reject absolute subjectivity, in significant part due to its anti-scientific roots in universities.
manly tears were shed
You know it was coming, but dayum.
Meatvillain
Banned
The Walking Dead is the only game to have made legit tears stream down my face. A handful have brought tears to my eyes, though. Most recently it was Mass Effect 3's Extended Ending it was sort of a sad happiness. >.>
thebaroness
Member
T_T
might be alone here but in Mass Effect (the first) on Virmire when that Salarian Captain (Kirrahe or something?) gives his speech about how he and his men are going to probably die in this battle and then never have songs sung about them.
"Our influence stopped the Krogan, but before that we held the line. Our influence will stop Saren, but today, WE HOLD THE LINE."
single manly tear.
"Our influence stopped the Krogan, but before that we held the line. Our influence will stop Saren, but today, WE HOLD THE LINE."
single manly tear.
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
Only FF7. I shed like two tears or something.
That would have been evocative if either of the characters weren't fucking awful.
T_T
MuddyDonut
Member
Got choked up at the end of fucking BASTION because of the music. Was really strange, think the same thing happened in Journey.
I also got watery eyed at the end of MGS3, but then again I was like 13.
guitarhero
Member
Borderlands 2, on the Wildlife Explotation Reserve.
That ASSHOLE.
Handsome Jack said:
That ASSHOLE.
Phonomezer
Banned
None, though came close with some of the short stories in Lost Odyssey and parts of Mass Effect 3.
If you didn't feel any sort of sadness at this part, then you have no soul.
Chie Satonaka
Member
and yet a game that relied solely on it's poorly told story managed to sell enough copies to ensure a sequel. I don't think it has as much to do with what the public wants as what publishers and devs can justify producing based on past success. Also I find it kind of misleading to suggest that there is a singular entirely homogeneous gaming public. There is the suggestion in your post that Angry Birds and Call of Duty are tapping the same market which I simply don't think is true.
That's not to mention the excitement over games like Uncharted 2 and the upcoming Last of Us or the narrative elements in a game like Red Dead Redemption. To say it's dead or unwanted seems to be a highly simplistic interpretation of many many variables.
dragonelite
Member
Tears not really i have problems with showing emotions.
But i did feel a lot anger how bioware handled me3 ending.
But i did feel a lot anger how bioware handled me3 ending.
Dion Blaster
Member
As a child the last screen of Ocarina of Time kinda got to me
The way Link walks up, and Zelda turns around, unaware of who you are or what you did to save her and Hyrule ;_;
Yeah I think it was the music and how well done the scene was, but it really hit me and I wasn't sure why (played it for the first time a couple years ago).
The ocarina music was perfect in pretty much every scene.
Nealand Liquor
Member
Super Mario Brothers, that damned princess bitch was never in the fuckin' castle. She was taunting my love, mocking my effort, my tiny premushroom manhood. Cried evertime.
SaintMadeOfPlaster
Member
I guess I should've stressed that the ones meant to be taken seriously are in the minority. Games like Journey, the Zero Escape series, and Shadow of the Colossus are at least attempting to be taken as real pieces of art, and they make gaming better because of it.
Sure, the popular games are the ones that aren't to be taken all that seriously, but it doesn't mean that there aren't a good number of games that push the medium, and what it can do on an emotional level, forward.
EDIT: And I disagree that we're moving away from narrative heavy games. More and more games are being made, and just because the MOST popular games aren't narrative heavy doesn't mean that more and more narrative heavy games aren't being made. It just means that the non-narrative heavy ones are growing at a faster rate. It's just a product of mass appeal. Lowest Common Denominator yadda yadda yadda.
That is not at all the suggestion of my post and if you read it that way you are wrong.
I didn't say it's dead. I didn't say it's unwanted. That would indeed be a highly simplistic interpretation.
This I can agree with, to an extent. Journey (as an example) did it much better than most. I just think gaming's emotional palette is different than movies (as it should be, as they are different mediums!) For example, I think films and novels and other non-interactive mediums will be expressly better at telling stories, forever. In exactly the same way that sculpture is a perfectly valid artistic medium that is good at certain things, but not very good at telling stories compared to some other mediums, so too are video games, in my opinion. So video games may not be as good at evoking sadness or happiness, but may be much better at evoking a sense of achievement or failure.
I don't mean that games can't try, and certainly Journey did better than many others. But all mediums have strengths, and I don't think the emotional palette we typically associate with movies and books is a particular strong suit of video games.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
the first time i played Mario 64 in a pre-release demo in a store. it was the most amazing and beautiful thing I had ever seen. I think 3D gaming was probably like color TV would've been. Just incredible
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
Megaman Legends 3
Blood Diamonds
Banned
MGS 3 Ending is the only one.
The only one!
The only one!
SaintMadeOfPlaster
Member
Man, I wish I could've been old enough to appreciate that leap when it happened. I'm hoping to be able to experience something like that before getting too old and jaded.
alf717
Member
BrokenEchelon
Banned
The only game that made me tear up was MGS3's ending (what a crazy answer).
MGS4 was mentally excruciating towards the end. Watching Snake suffer for the entire game was just heartbreaking at moments.
MGS4 was mentally excruciating towards the end. Watching Snake suffer for the entire game was just heartbreaking at moments.
This one. Not out loud, but a tear was certainly shed.
Also notable;
- The ending of The Walking Dead got me all teary-eyed
- In VLR (again) I found the part where (not really a spoiler, but to be sure)
K rides the kids ride
- To The Moon (probably the closest to really crying here).
cosmicblizzard
Banned
There already exist stories that are only possible in video games. That's why I think striving to be "better" than films or novels isn't the best way of looking at the whole thing. They should strive to be different, taking advantage of the medium to evoke both the same and different emotions as other mediums.
BladeoftheImmortal
Member
Ouch...
You know my feelings, bro?
And BAM. You get Dark Souls.
No game has ever made me cry.
Not trying to sound like a badass, either, because I've cried at some pretty ridiculous movies. Games have just never had that effect on me.
I've had emotional reactions and connections to games, but never quite caused the salty water to roll down my cheeks.
Not trying to sound like a badass, either, because I've cried at some pretty ridiculous movies. Games have just never had that effect on me.
I've had emotional reactions and connections to games, but never quite caused the salty water to roll down my cheeks.
The Take Out Bandit
Member
Profound Sadness - Klonoa: The Door to Phantomile, dat ending. D:
Profound Sadness - Gurumin, dat ending. D:
Hot Blooded Tears - Code of Princess, dat shonen fight camaraderie cliche gets me when executed well.
Profound Sadness - Gurumin, dat ending. D:
Hot Blooded Tears - Code of Princess, dat shonen fight camaraderie cliche gets me when executed well.
They will not be as effective at evoking the "Same" emotions. They will be better at evoking "different" ones.
If you think that video games are just as good at evoking all the emotions that movies can, then you are effectively saying that video games are the evolution of movies; that they do everything that movies do, and then some. This is certainly a possible perspective, but it seems extremely unlikely, just as movies did not prove to be the evolution of books, which still clearly have their strong suits and billions of readers.
I mean, there are also stories which can only be told through sculpture, as well. Stories which rely on particular, exquisite three dimensional detail, such as Bernini's Hades and Persephone. This doesn't realistically make Sculpture a good medium for telling stories relative to others; so too, video games.
AdventChild
Neo Member
Tears?
Final Fantasy X ending.
Final Fantasy X ending.