Has a video game ever made you cry?

Final Fantasy 8 was the closest I have gotten, but not quite tears. Anime and Movies oddly can move me more lol. Which I find slightly odd since I'm the one playing in a game and can sometimes be more immersed in the universe.

I've never cried or any game, though I have felt like "Oh, shit. That sucks."

And I laughed at my friend when I heard he had cancer. Just to give an idea. Laughed at friend with cancer, felt bad for VN. Weird.

EDIT: And I disagree with the statement about MGS having an amazing storyline, but its irrelevant. Don't even know why I thought it was important for me to go back, edit, and include all this shit.

I cried when I saw the last secret ending for Drakengard. I cried out of sheer anger. But seriously I don't think any game has made me cry.

People do buy games for fun, the attachment to characters develops later. I, for one, don't go to gamestop and reserve Modern Warfare 2 thinking "Oh, I just know I'll love the crazy mishaps and adventures of Soap and Roach." I buy it for the guns and crazy shit, then play a campaign mission and it just so happens Soap and Roach are two badasses I could jizz for (not really). No one here bought a game intending to cry, they bought them for entertainment, so I really don't get where you're coming from.

On another note, anyone that buys a VN and feels no attachment to a character just wasted their money. Some games I can see having zero care for any character, (Gears, CoD, hell just about any big name game lately INCLUDING Final Fantasy) but most visual novels are developed with no gameplay elements, thus making the story the ONLY apparent item in the game.

A video game can be bridged to the book of the 1800s. People read them for entertainment and still developed a tie to the characters, so long as they read the book voluntarily. Take any book you like (assuming you like any) and take a character that you could identify with, or maybe even like. It is the same principles, just a different medium.

Looking back on this post, I doubt you'll really listen, or care for that matter, but I figured why not say my piece.

I got close in Valkyria Chronicles with the sister... almost threw the controller at the tv :lol:

Lost Odyssey got emotional but never really eanough to make me want to cry...

No American games that I can think of though :?

Man...I cannot tell you how close I was to crying when I saw your vid.
If only I played the game then I probably would have.

Metal Gear Solid - The game that teaches you morals and makes grown men cry.

Dude, I think you're just looking for some dumb reasons to hate on people that crying when playing videogames. Seriously, do you also rag on people that cry because of dumber reasons like failing a test or getting a cut on thier finger?

Some people are emotional as hell and crying is an easy way to release those feelings.

Also, videogames are more than just toys these days. Hell, you don'y even have to be emitonally attached to something for you to cry. For example, I'm not afraid to admit that i shed some tears when Chris Benoit won the WHC at Wrestlemania XX. Sometimes, the moment just gets to you.

I said they can be bridged, because it's the same idea. The video game is nothing more than the current medium to entertain the largest demographic of people, just like movies were in the mid-nineties, radio was in the 20s-30s, and books were before then. Thinking that they are some all transcendent thing puts you a couple levels lower than anyone that has ever cried for a game, because you can't realize that.

Granted some are made for strict entertainment (Almost any sports game, Battlefield, MP-only games), but to deny the fact that a video game carries a storyline akin to a book or movie is a fallacy in and of itself, and if you play a game that has a very storyline-centric build, then I'd have to ask why you're playing it. I, for one, don't find it very fun to run around random dungeons or fields getting into repetitive encounters with the same monsters over and over to beat some super monster to get to the next dungeon or field just for the sake of doing it. Add in a driving storyline and characters and suddenly the prospect seems a lot less gay.

Kinda!

I always held it...

Always feel sad when I watch my favourite game end...

One of the game that make me really sad is Lagend of Legaia

I've definitely teared up a few times.

But then again, I'm not dead on the inside and can be emotionally moved by a story.

No matter the medium, video game, book, or movie, they all tell a story. And if the story is told well enough in any of those forms, it can move you.

Saying someone is sick in the head for being moved by the story of a video game is pretty ironic, considering they're posting it on a website featuring hentai which, let's face it, is not exactly a normal fetish.

Obvious troll is obvious.

Fun troll is fun, and I have time to burn.

Jericho, you deserve a salute for that.

Now I feel all warm and fuzzy. Raider, you just made my later afternoon/early evening.

The scene with E.E and Hal in MGS2 : Sons of Liberty. I started to tear up at Hal's reaction, after having grown a decent bond to E.E during the time you spent together with her as Raiden.

Even though I hated Raiden, but that's besides the point.