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Games that made you cry the most!
- Thread starter Kain-Nosgoth
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What takes it out of Crisis Core is knowing the fate already of the protagonist since the game came way after FFVII. Had it been reverse, oh yeah. The music is so damn good in that game, especially tracks like Price of Freedom and Why which both end the game. Nevermind they are fantastic tracks in itself but especially during the time they play, they really add to the overall feeling.
Damn good protagonist nevertheless.
Damn good protagonist nevertheless.
Two games have made me cry, The Last Guardian and Final Fantasy X.
TLG's last third is probably the most emotional moment I've ever experienced when playing.
TLG's last third is probably the most emotional moment I've ever experienced when playing.
Abyss was quite good as far as happy anime endings go, Xillia 2 as well although certainly not a happy ending in that case
I have a 7month little dude. I don't even DARE to play that game.
Just thinking about it already makes my eyes tear up a little.
Yup. Absolutely pulled the heart strings. The last section is so emotional
MGS, MGS3... MGS4 as well.
Journey, every single time. I played through it about 6 times. That last level music.
Ico, SOTC and TLG. :| even though I expected to cry like a baby playing TLG, it took me off guard. I must have lost 5 pounds.
Rime. Again, I expected it to be sad. It delivered.
Rain. A hidden gem based around a wonderful piece music.
Journey, every single time. I played through it about 6 times. That last level music.
Ico, SOTC and TLG. :| even though I expected to cry like a baby playing TLG, it took me off guard. I must have lost 5 pounds.
Rime. Again, I expected it to be sad. It delivered.
Rain. A hidden gem based around a wonderful piece music.
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If visual novels (and I like nakige, VNs where are you are supposed to be bawling your eyes out by the end) aren't included, then Crisis Core.
Persona games in general, I start to empathize with the characters and don't want them to separate. Persona 4's ending had me devastated for a few days. It was "Looks like my summer vacation is... over: The Finale", and I wasn't having any of it after 100 hours with the party members.
This year - Nier: Automata.
If VNs do count then it would be G-Senjou no Maou's final sequence with the prison visits. Turned into a sobbing mess as soon as Close Your Eyes started playing.
Persona games in general, I start to empathize with the characters and don't want them to separate. Persona 4's ending had me devastated for a few days. It was "Looks like my summer vacation is... over: The Finale", and I wasn't having any of it after 100 hours with the party members.
This year - Nier: Automata.
If VNs do count then it would be G-Senjou no Maou's final sequence with the prison visits. Turned into a sobbing mess as soon as Close Your Eyes started playing.
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Never cried in a video game but Tales of Berseria's ending brought me the closest to breaking down in tears. Tales games have this notorious history of bittersweet, cheesy endings but in Berseria it was so extreme, deeply personal and depressing even though I expected things to turn out this way. After a 40 hours journey with this awesome gang it just broke me to pieces, couldn't stop thinking about it for almost a weak.
No other medium has the ability to make me feel emotions like video games. The interactivity just makes everything have a greater impact on me. Generally I tear up rather than flat out sob, but the tearing up has happened in a lot of games.
Mother 3, Terranigma, and Persona 4 are probably the games that made the tears flow the most and the hardest.
Mother 3, Terranigma, and Persona 4 are probably the games that made the tears flow the most and the hardest.
Not cry but had a deep impact is a combination of a game and a music video: Medal of Honor: Warfighter and Linkin Park - Castle of Glass
I saw the music video after I completed the game and the music video is like an epilogue to the game's story. The game's ending didn't affect me much but the music video did. I made me realize how much people in the military sacrifice for the safety of civilians and their nation. Hearing or remembering that song still makes me melancholy.
Terranigma's gotta be the most recent for me (replayed it a couple months back). The first town theme still gets to me a bit...
Illusion of Gaia hit me pretty hard, too, while on the topic of the Soul Blazer games. I really miss the series's strange, poignant storytelling. The grander aspects of its philosophies on reincarnation and spirituality went so well with telling more subtle, human stories about loss, growing, and life continuing on.
A lot have already been mentioned (Mother 3, Final Fantasy XV's last cutscene...), but I think the first for me was Breath of Fire II, but for the life of me I can't remember which part. I just remember being surprised that a game would make me get emotional like that (and, in retrospect, that such an awfully translated one could). Also, Breath of Fire IV's themes of finding beauty in a horrible world and sharing it with others got to me as well, as cheesy as it is.
When Super Mario Galaxy came out, I was playing it and I actually had a pretty high fever.
And then when the little story segment about Rosalina came up and how she was alone or something I started bawling. Like Niagara Falls.
That happens when I have a fever like that though. Another time I was sick I was at home watching 2020 or something and they looked back on when mr. Hooper died on Sesame Street and it was curtains for me. Curtains.
And then when the little story segment about Rosalina came up and how she was alone or something I started bawling. Like Niagara Falls.
That happens when I have a fever like that though. Another time I was sick I was at home watching 2020 or something and they looked back on when mr. Hooper died on Sesame Street and it was curtains for me. Curtains.
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why wouldn't VNs count? I mean there's a VN in my OP! you should read it at least :3
I haven't seen it. The intro to TLOU was sad, I'm saying I'm affected more strongly by things that happen at the end of games once you've formed an attachment to the characters
Good old Persona 4 Golden and the best ending had me cutting onions all night long.
Last Guardian destroyed me. But I got back up after that nice after credits ending.
Last Guardian destroyed me. But I got back up after that nice after credits ending.
Maybe cheesy but I got a bit choked up during the final Lee/Clementine sequence in TWD S1 and subsequently the Lee flashback in S2.
TLG didn't make me cry or anything but I did develop an attachment to Trico and really hated seeing it get hurt when it would be attacked.
TLG didn't make me cry or anything but I did develop an attachment to Trico and really hated seeing it get hurt when it would be attacked.
Brothers a take of two sons almost had me but nothing compares to The Last Guardian
As a dog owner that ending absolutely destroyed me. I was bawling for a good 20 minutes after.
I still haven't built up the nerve for a second play-through despite the game being my GOTY.
As a dog owner that ending absolutely destroyed me. I was bawling for a good 20 minutes after.
I still haven't built up the nerve for a second play-through despite the game being my GOTY.
Nah man I don't think you have a problem. But if you can't let a game (or a movie, or a book) have any emotional impact because you know it's fake then I think you're missing out, or just different to me I guess.
I dont want to feel the emotion of losing a loved one, or running for my life, or facing the fact I'm gonna die. But art lets us do that from a distance, and that's the whole point of it in my opinion.
Less "cry" and more just general feels, but
I loved how Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was able to present a gripping mystery without being overly heady. It's a game that manages to be all heart and melancholy without ever being cringey or overbearing. My favorite moment is walking out of the church and encountering the light path character transition thing for the first time. It really stirred something in me that I didn't expect.
This is also a good one. What got me was definitely the "swimming" moment near the end.
Also have to add this:
in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain really wrecked me.
I loved how Everybody's Gone to the Rapture was able to present a gripping mystery without being overly heady. It's a game that manages to be all heart and melancholy without ever being cringey or overbearing. My favorite moment is walking out of the church and encountering the light path character transition thing for the first time. It really stirred something in me that I didn't expect.
This is also a good one. What got me was definitely the "swimming" moment near the end.
Also have to add this:
Quiet leaving forever
I wasn't like super attached to the character, but the music, and seeing the credits roll and knowing that I had probably played the last true MGS game ever when it is my favorite series ever was a real big experience.
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Good shout. Despite the pacing and slow walking speed the voice acting in EGTTR was incredible. Some real gut wrenching dialogue delivered in a very believable and heartfelt way.
Nothing in the Last of Us made me cry but that game pulls emotions in so many ways. Anger, sadness, frustration. It's an emotionally draining game. That's why its awesome.
Beginning of Chapter 7 in Xenoblade 2 goy me though. No tears but that misty eye shit for sure.
Beginning of Chapter 7 in Xenoblade 2 goy me though. No tears but that misty eye shit for sure.
The music too is perfect. It's one of the only "walking simulators" that really nails some of that stuff.
Oh man good thread OP.
I suppose for me it may need to be Nier 1 and MGS4 That moment in Nier when
In MGS4 the hour long credits cutscene was really well done with the music and script. 'no, maybe the world is better without snakes' and 'this is good, isn't it?' are quotes that I remember hitting me real hard
Staying true to my pfp I have to have the shoutout to FFXIV: Heavensward expansion where
I'm sure there have been more that have made me wept somewhere along the lines but these are definitely the more recent/memorable.
I suppose for me it may need to be Nier 1 and MGS4 That moment in Nier when
Well, pretty much anything that happened with the people of the mask, stuff like the wedding and right towards the ending had me bawling my eyes out
In MGS4 the hour long credits cutscene was really well done with the music and script. 'no, maybe the world is better without snakes' and 'this is good, isn't it?' are quotes that I remember hitting me real hard
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My bro, my husbando, Haurchefant dies protecting you since you recklessly dashed to The Archbishop and leaves us with his final words 'Oh, do not look at me so. A smile better suits a hero...'
I'm sure there have been more that have made me wept somewhere along the lines but these are definitely the more recent/memorable.