Games that make you cry/sad

General Discussion
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My MGS4 moments:

End of Act 3, the realization of everyone sacrificing so much for a plan to fall through shows how cruel and evil war can be. Snake holding his dying mother in his arms while seriously injured made you the only man that can save the world feel like a worthless failure.

Act 5: After defeating Screaming Mantis, Meryl and Snake are trapped fighting all those frogs. Low on ammo Snake realizes he must advance in order to shut down GW and leave Meryl to defend him. When Meryl says “see you on the other side” you felt as if this was the last time we were ever gonna see Meryl.

Snake crawling into GW’s core, the whole mood was literally walking to your death in the most painful way possible. You knew whatever you do the outcome would not be pretty.

Another one that surprised me as to how emotional it was was in Shadow of the Colossus when Agro falls off the ledge, you the only person in this world has just lost your only companion. With no story to follow you manage to become attached to this character solely through gameplay, and when you lose them its completely devastating.

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Suikoden 2, when Nanami “dies,” depending on the ending you’ve accomplished.

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didn’t make me cry, but the saddest thing i’ve seen in a video game is still FF6, when cyan escapes the phantom train to the afterlife, only to watch his family board it for the next second.

that shit was fucking depressing.

there’s also Lost Odyssey, when Kaim regains his memories of his daughter by looking at her on her deathbed. What the fuck Mistwalker… what the fuck…

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Overblood for the PSX. When the Lord takes Pipo

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As far as the Final Fantasy series go, I think Celes throwing herself off of a cliff in VI is probably the most heartrending thing I have ever seen in a video game. That was some heavy duty shit.

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Alot have been said already
Suikoden 5, Ferid and Arshtat, Sialeeds, the scene with Miakis in Doraat, all sad
Valkyria Chronicles, happy go lucky until the sad part :frowning:

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Watching the Seattle Mariners

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I cried manly tears at the final part of the ending of MGS4. Also, how is it possible that no one mentions Celes suicide attempt in despair in FF6?

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Chrono Trigger got me choked up a few times but no tears. That’s as close as it got. Suikoden was another one. I don’t remeber the characters names, but one dies becasue he gets trapped in a room with a flesh eating virus and another dies in one on one combat with your father. There was some pretty sad music playing that the dialouge was really emotional. Oh, and Final Fantasy Tactics had a few very sad parts to.

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Actually 2 people did, I did on the first page and Steve White did a few posts before yours.

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Panzer Dragoon Saga also had a pretty sad ending - not “break down in tears” sad, but definitely “depressing” sad.

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Pokemon Battle Revolution, Why Nintendo?! WHHHHY!?!?!?

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Tali’s Loyalty Mission in ME2.

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I cant believe no one mentioned Lost Odyssey. Hands. Down. Saddest. EVER.

Little info:

-Lost Odyssey was produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the famed Final Fantasy series.

-Lost Odyssey’s “Thousand Years of Dreams” were penned by an award-winning Japanese short story writer, Kiyoshi Shigematsu, who worked directly with the game’s producer Hironobu Sakaguchi on Kaim’s backstory

Thousand Years of Dreams is a collection of short stories shown throughout the game. Basically, Kaim is immortal, and the stories cover his thousand years of everyone and everything he knows and loves withering away and dying while he can never age or die.

Play this game. Even if you dont shed a tear, you will be at a loss for words.

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I mentioned LO last page, but yea i didnt bring up the thousand years of dreams though. all the stories were both amazing and extremely depressing.

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Raiden getting run over by Arsenal Gear while trying to protect Snake didn’t make me feel sad at all, but I was tripping over how crazy the entire thing was. I was more in “HOLY SHIT!!” mode than sad. Probably because Raiden kept beasting throughout the entire game. He fucking stopped fucking Arsenal Gear. HOLY SHIT!

It was kind of fucked up though if you mash on X while his death scene is playing. You see and hear MGS2 ending flashbacks with him and Rose, and Rose being pregnant.

Real talk, almost every thing in Shadow Moses was sad. Even the fucking boss is crying all the damn time (Crying Wolf). And most of the sad moments were just from walking through the areas you used to run through as young Snake 10 real life years ago from MGS4’s release year (9 years ago in MGS time).

Seeing the surveillance camera break down was sad.

Standing at the heliport was sad.

Getting the SOCOM pistol was sad.

Rotating the camera to top-down view and hearing Snake say “Just like old times” was sad.

Returning to the electrified floors and to the room where Snake and Otacon first met each other… seeing the locker in that very room where Otacon hid, and seeing the Otacon’s piss stain from when he pissed his pants when Grey Fox was about to wreck his shit, the Snake saved him. Just that entire cutscene, when they both reminisce and talk about how much time has passed.

When it was mentioned that the sea levels were rising and Shadow Moses will soon be wiped off of all world maps because the sea would swallow it made my soul empty.

Seeing Metal Gear Rex made me mad depressed. It took me back to all the good times in MGS1. I remembered MGS1 final battle, when Grey Fox [media=youtube]IimjoFyUktY[/media] and wrecked metal gear’s shit, ultimately sacrificing himself to save Snake, Shadow Moses, and the entire world. If Grey Fox wasn’t there to destroy the radome, the world would have ended. It was all him. Seriously, seeing Rex again just brought it all back, and it reminded me that I am now old, and times have changed, and I started to remember other things that were going on in my life 10 years ago, and how things have changed. That shit made me mad sad. Powerful emotions from just seeing Rex. No other game has made me feel like that.

Naomi’s sacrifice scene actually didn’t do anything for me. I was like “ho-hum, okay. Stop crying, Otacon. Oh snap, they brought back that MGS1 song, **[media=youtube]Y6TAZ_BsCXY]Encounter[/b[/media]! That’s sick!” I don’t what it was about the scene, but that shit didn’t strike me in any way whatsoever. Probably because what Naomi was doing was the equivalent of a very slow suicide, and there was no real reason for her to do what she did. That’s a bullshit way to “repent for your sins.” Plus her death created a big plothole for when Big Boss showed up at the end, but we can discuss this more in the MGS thread.

Rex vs. Ray was fucking epic, but it was also sad as shit. Seeing Ray took me back to MGS2 days. The times when I had thought that there would never be a continuation to MGS1 and I got so blown. Then ZoE came out and there was the MGS2 demo! Remembering all those good times and how things have changed made me bummed.

Seeing Ocelot fuck with Snake was actually funny, but it was sad as shit at the same time. It was funny because Ocelot was doing some epic trolling, but it was sad because you see Snake and you think. “The man, the legend himself… the man I went through hell and back with 10 years ago to save the world… what the fuck happened? Look at him now…” as he’s hobbling on one working leg and trying to aim and shoot Ocelot with his one working arm. Then Ocelot trolling even further and trying to run over Snake with Arsenal. That one shot right before Raiden appears looks so heartbreaking.

Seeing the wolves after fucking up Crying Wolf was sad, because you remember the baby wolf after watching **[media=youtube]wriaT32v2T0]Sniper Wolf’s epic death scene[/b[/media], which was the best scene in MGS1. Listen to the fucking MUSIC.

Not being able to explore all of Shadow Moses also made me sad as shit.

Shadow Moses should be a playable level in MGO.

All this MGS1 talk… MGS1 was a game that had a lot of sad moments as well.

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Also, I need to play FF6 again. I forgot how serious shit got in that game.

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Yeah, Lost Odyssey was pretty much MVP in fucked up depressing moments. They hit you like a truck in some of the scenes, and especially in “A Thousand Years of Dreams”.

And yes, that game was gdlk. Play it if any of you haven’t.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and even though it was said at the beginning, I wholeheartedly second Crisis Core’s ending. That was the most epic final 10 minutes of a game ever, even knowing full well how it ends. Zack turned out to be an incredible character.

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chrono cross made me cry, cuz i actually bought it :frowning:

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LOL. :rofl:

But speaking of, Chrono Cross did have a really effed up moment. That scene when Lucca’s orphanage gets torched by Lynx and only Kid comes out of it alive (as we find out that’s thanks to Serge saving her)…that was some bullshit. That music coupled with that scene…damn.