Yeah, I think that Final Fantasy X had a pretty emotionnal atmosphere for me. Tidus looked so real the way he acted. (OLD SPLOILER)Knowing that he was actually dead during all the game, I found it was a sort of deep sadness.

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[Edited by - BlackThirteen on August 25, 2008 5:10:54 PM]

Homeworld.
That had me in absolute ribbons when their planet was destroyed.

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Maybe if the player was so single minded in killing the 'last boss' (as all games are) that his girlfriend was shot and killed while he was out of town and didnt even know. I know I would be thinking 'shit...I was tottaly focused on brining down Mr. last boss...I didnt even think about her....', and I would maybe feel guilty.

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Conker's Bad Fur Day. The entire game is a constant stream of fart, piss and poo jokes. Then, about three quarters of the way through, you get sent to war and the tone of the game changes. There's a Saving Private Ryan parody with squirrels exploding all over the place. For a start it's played for laughs, but as the scene goes on the tone changes and things get more serious. From then on, the rest of the game is far darker. Throughout the game, Conker has been completely obsessed by collecting money - the kidnap of his girlfriend is a minor distraction. At the end, he and his girlfriend raid a bankvault in a great parody of the lobby scene from The Matrix. You take on the final boss, the evil Panther King who turns out to be a nasty space alien. The Panther King kills Conker's girlfriend and whips Conker's ass - so Conker cheats and threatens the game's programmers. You win. Cue celebration - until Conker realises that his girlfriend is still dead, and that in his desire to kill the boss, he completely forgot to ask the programmers to bring her back to life. Conker gets to be King, and get's all the cash, but, in one of the most depressing end-sequences ever, he winds up surrounded by people he hates and completely miserable. Although it didn't make me cry, it's a great example of the developers suddenly and dramatically shifting the tone of the game, and completely demolishing your expectations.

The only game that's made me cry also happens to be my favourite game. It's a freeware IF game called Photopia. There's some argument that it's not actually a game at all, since it simulates choice rather than actually offering you choices, but that's a necessary evil since the whole thing is an excercise in precisely paced storytelling. To discuss the plot at all would rob it of it's power, and while not everyone will appreciate it, I would recommend that people try it. Personally, when I finished playing it I felt like I'd been punched in the gut.



[edited by - Alf_Fly on April 15, 2004 5:51:27 PM]

Some games made me cry when I thought of how I said goodbye to such a huge chunk of change.

speaking of crying,

i''ve heard all over about that aeris part of FF7. Since i''ve never owned FF7, i never got to experience what it was like.

and i don''t easily cry, so I''m just wondering, what''s up with aeris dying? What''s so sad about it?

FF6, the Opera Scene. Best Videogame Scene Ever.

It didn''t make me cry at the time, but I get a little choked up when I listen to the soundtrack. A deep mix of sadness, heroism, desperation, catharsis.

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Grim fandango, and loom.
Most beautifull games ever.
Still brings so many emotion just thinking about them, no wonder some tears got out when salvador died.

Well, no game made me actually cry, but I can remember that I had a big urge to cry when I finished Max Payne 2 (where Mona died). And, I almost cried when I saw that beautiful bay in the first level of Far Cry. I don''t know what came over me, I think I simply couldn''t believe my eyes... or I realised the power of my PC?

This thread is so full of game ending spoilers that it makes me cry.