Tearjerking moments in video games

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Fei!

Elly!

I must have sobbed out a river over Xenogears. It's one of the ones I keep replaying over and over and over.

And over. What a work of art.

P.S. Good thread, rabbit!

End of Mother 3.

If you want it, just look on YouTube for yourself

I'm sometimes very impressionable about games... my favorites are:

Phantasy Star series on Sega (but I used an emulator for playing them on PC). I had a little tears when reaching the Bioplant in PS 4, and at the point of discovering in PS 3, and at one of PS 3's four endings - I was also very touched by it's final music. I regret I haven't played Final Fantasy the topic author wrote a lot about but I agree that Japanese games can make you experience such feelings.

Ecco the dolphin (Sega) - the first game I was later considering as great and outstanding. It had shaped my mind at that age. And the melody of timetravelling, it was fascinating. I never understand people who say 16-bit music is poor. Quality of sound or cool effects can't replace the music's emotional content, unique sense and associations with storyline.

Benoit Sokal's Syberia - many emotional moments, most of them taken out to video fragments.

shadow hearts for the ps2 is one of the most heart breaking and eye opening rpg's to ever experience alice and yuri show that opposites attract and can become true love.


i dont want to spoil anything if anyone hasnt played but rent or buy it,you will not be sorry

I was going through my closet the other day and found my Link's Awakening Cartridge... wow, that game gets depressing near the end. Especialy the ending itself - what other Zelda game do you know where the land you play in goes away?

That alone isn't what made it sad. What made it sad was, you were told this around the 6th dungeon, but by then you've played the game so much and grew such an attachment to it that you go into denial about it. You consider the fact that the inhabitants either are unaware or consider the Wind Fish as just a legend. As such, you beat the final boss, climb the stairs, meet the Wind Fish - and then your jaw drops as you see Koholint Island vanish into a sea of white pixels.

Its the only game where I"ve felt regret for beating it - but then I remind myself its just a game and move on.

I'm surprised this wasn't mentioned in the WoW examples, but there's one quest in Auberdine that gets me every time. On the docks, a night elf man asks you to put to rest the spirit of his lover, who haunts the Highborne ruins to the south. When you return her pendant to him as proof, his lover's ghost appears before him briefly, to tell him that she loves him before she fades away.

During the last Lunar Festival, when I saw Elder Ezra in Thunder Bluff, named in memory of the young boy whose wish Blizzard granted (he passed away last October), I was touched.

The endings of both Lunar games also bring tears to my eyes. Also, in Eternal Blue, when Nall activates the hologram message Luna left for Lucia was bittersweet.

Myst, when I beat the game half an hour after buying it, I remember thinking "that's it? what about the game? isn't there supposed to be something more to this than high quality (for the time) graphics?"

Wow, this thread is still alive? I guess I must be doing *something* right!

Anyways, I just remembered another moment which got me a little misty: The scene in Final Fantasy X where Tidus finally met up with his father, Jecht, after ten years. You see, when Tidus started the journey, he absolutely despised his old man, because the latter was always talking down to the former. But as time went on, Tidus began to realize just how much Jecht had changed during his pilgrimage 10 years ago. Anyways...after some awkward 'hello's' and 'have you been eating right?'...Tidus said "Dad...I wanna tell you something..."

Jecht says "What's that?"...and Tidus...after a long pause...said, in a voice barely louder then a whisper, and cracking with emotion..."I hate you." To which Jecht simply nodded and said "I know...I know."

That really hit me like a punch in the stomach, because that whole angle reminded me so much of my love-hate relation with my dad. (and any veteran of WP who knows me can attest to that) Earlier on, Tidus was boasting about how, if he did got to meet his father, he'd be able to tell him "I hate you!" with strength and confidence. But when the moment of truth came...damn...

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Silent Hill.

Where Lisa Garland dies/bleeds out. I get choked up just thinking about it. Poor Lisa.

The part in Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess where it seems like Colin is going to die was pretty sad. I was just playing that the other day.