There is a topic similar to this on the off-topic board, but I want to focus on just video games, not all forms of fiction. And try to avoid derailing this into another "males/females are so emotional" discussion.

Personally, the last time I cried was during Aerith's death scene. Even though I knew it was coming, I was not prepared for the music and elegance of it. Last time I teared up was yesterday, playing Mass Effect. AA Tower/bomb site. If you've played the game, you know.

The good thing about video games in our era is that some games have such a bloody compelling story that it can actually touch your emotional side aside from oooo.....owww....damn that must have hurt

For me the last game that made me cry was Metal Gear Solid.....the scene with the death of Sniper Wolf....something about that scene and the way it was carried just made me so sad

I might have, but can't remember, if I cried at the ending to HL2: Episode Two. I know some friends of mine admitted it felt really emotional to them.

Also, there's one scene in the first American Fire Emblem game (the one with Eliwood, Lyndis, and Hector) that's pretty surprising, revealing a number of things at once, and of course, a main character dies.

Never, then again I take most forms of media fairly emotionlessly on an outward level. Although I can be made fairly angry at the happenings in a game (which is probably closer to how I would really react if I was in the characters situation) I don't tend to find games instill sadness in me in the same way as films or books can, even then I don't tend express much to an outward observer. (Unless its saying "I want him to die" about a character)

Aeris' death - first and only.

I've felt fear, tension, anger, confusion and so forth. But can't think of any time a game has upset me.

Silent Hill 2 has to be probably one of the few games where I felt anything touching sadness - the whole game is chock-full of dispair and depression. The water ending (the first one I got before looking at any spoilers) didn't make me feel so much sadness as just depressed - a real kind of empty melancholy, a climax of a game full of empty melancholy really.

I find most games to be a melodramatic simply for the sake of being melodramatic. Especially JRPGs, but I have felt the need to tear up at certain moments in games. Probably the one that got to me was the death of Emma in MGS2. Mostly because I thought she had been saved, then she just collapses.

thebobmaster:
Personally, the last time I cried was during Aerith's death scene. Even though I knew it was coming, I was not prepared for the music and elegance of it. Last time I teared up was yesterday, playing Mass Effect. AA Tower/bomb site. If you've played the game, you know.

I saw that one coming. I thought FFVII was crap. But I guess a lot of people like it. Plus it's funny how you said that was the last time you cried and then went on to say the last time you teared up was during Mass Effect. So which one is it buddy? Lol.

Anyway, tearing up during a game is cool... for chicks.

Never O_o

Except Dungeon Siege 2. Cried because I bought that piece of crap, that is.

Lunar 2: Eternal Blue......truely loving someone is very very hard...

Never have, although Planescape: Torment's good ending has certainly gotten the closest so far. Like a sucker punch to the gut!

The Longest Journey made me feel really sorry for April Ryan at the end, but it never had any real tearjerking moments either. Close though.

Specific to games... Only times were the end of FF-X and the death of Aerith in FF-VII

You're kidding, right?

Never :S

games bring up on me loads of emotions, but never sadness, nor anything like it. Too busy doing my victory dance when i get to the end of the game :P

Never cried during a game but have gotten kinda depressed. Probably the worst was on KotOR 2, shortly after getting Visas Marr dark side. Realized what I was doing, sat down and said "Wow, why did I just do that?" (I think I just killed a refugee on Nar Shadaa.) Stopped playing that character and never went back.

mastersppd:
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I saw that one coming. I thought FFVII was crap. But I guess a lot of people like it. Plus it's funny how you said that was the last time you cried and then went on to say the last time you teared up was during Mass Effect. So which one is it buddy? Lol.

Anyway, tearing up during a game is cool... for chicks.

The way I look at it, crying is when you literally have tears going down your face, and tearing up is when your eyes are watering, but the tears don't actually come out.

I tear ran down my check in the Mass Effect AA Tower/Bomb Site scene. For some reason i let Kaidan die both times.

The end of episode 2 almost made me cry. It wasent realy the event itself since i dident like the person in question, but Alyx sobbing and mourning realy made me feel watery.

Someone's already mentioned The Longest Journey, which is the only video game that ever got tears out of me (I've cried playing board games when I was little, but that's only because I was losing and throwing a temper tantrum).

It was at the very end, and I wasn't sad, but overwhelmed. Sorrow isn't the only emotion that can make a person cry. April had been through so much, and I'd identified with her so strongly. The bitter, frightened teenager had passed through the baptism of fire and become a hero. It's a frequently used cliché, but this time I bought it, hook line and sinker. Brought a tear to my eye, it did.

mission 3 of homeworld... seeing your entire orbital fleet and planet getting cut to ribbons was just crazy

Jeeze, I forgot about Homeworld. When I played that I think I was 11 or 12, and at the time it was just a really cool cutscene. Now that I think back though, that was also sad. KotOR still takes the cake for me.

The end Boss fight in Metal Gear Solid 3, and then after all is said and done the ending sequence.

I didn't cry, but I definitely had to wipe my eyes.

The intro to Fallout.

I didn't cry, but it made me have this weird tingle inside.

I cried significantly during the endings of Metal Gear Solid 3,Persona 3, Xenosaga 3(long cry the ending last 1 hour or more)and Yakuza.

I forgot to mention Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne.

While I've never cried, I can recall a few times where I have teared up a bit.

Sergeant Johnson's death at the end of Halo 3

Kaiden's death in Mass Effect (well he died the during my first play through, because I went back for Ashley)

Wrex's possible death in Mass Effect (he too died on my first play through, although it did teach me exactly why the charm skill is so important)

There are several moments in other games where I just feel a depressed feeling over the loss of a character, no matter how insignificant they were to the plot. STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl had a lot of these moments:

Returning to the rookie camp at Cordon to find that Wolf had left to go into the zone... and then finding his corpse being crudely cremated by some Loner stalkers in the Warehouse area a few hours later, that struck a cord with me. The list of these goes on.

Mission 3 of the original Homeworld... Adagio for Strings was the single most perfect choice of music I've ever heard in a game... Nothing's ever got to me like that scene. With the picture of Kharak in the background, reduced to a molten glass orb in the stars...

I wish other games were so good they made me tear up. That really sold Homeworld for me, nothing that happened after that put me off the game, no matter what. Even that damned derelict that stole my entire fleet, I still loved the game.

I have never cried because of a video game. I never find them emotional. They are a game, to be played how you like.

When I realized the cake wasnt a lie and it was wayyy down at the bottom of the lab and i was way up on the top. oh the irony. the next portal should be the mission to save the cake.

(sorry had to be done)

^_^

never! but i did feal emotional in a flash game called passage, i cant believe how it all just ends, if youv played it you know what im talking about

I teared u end of Disgaea Hour of Darkness at the end when Flonne died.
I swear, that is the best game ever.

some how, the into scene into Kingdom Hearts with Simple and Clean always gets me. dunno why. the end of it too made me alil teary.

but the cake is taken when Tidus dissapears infront of Yuna's eye's at the end of FF10

When Black Waltz 3 slaughtered the black mages in FFIX.

I cried about halfway through the first level of fallout: tactics. That's about the time I realized that the franchise was officially dead.

Only two times have I cried in a video game

1. The end of blue rescue team "B-b-but... I don't want to go..." *Poof* "Waaahhhhh"
2. FF7 Aerith

Every fucking time I beat Chrono Trigger. It never fails. I get so sad when to game ends, so I played it again and again.
BAWWWW I remember that music now. =(