The closest I ever got to crying was during the good ending of Bioshock

for some reason I was actually touched by the story and the love shown between the main character and his adopted daughters

especially since you could have been a douche and had everything you ever wanted but instead chose to help these little girls

I always love playing video games that have a sweet as hell air strike scene in it. like you finish defending after 10-15 min and as your about to be overwhelmed the entire area just lights up with bombs and artillery fire. I just have to stop and say holy balls... it's good to be an American

I can't say that I've felt close to tears of emotion [saddness] over any game, apart from tears of frustration due to being stuck at some point.

The ending to Kingdom Hearts 2. Completely dazzling, heartwrenchingly beautiful and a perfect ending to a fantastic story arc.

Sadly, the last time I cried during a video game was at the end of some of the Phoenix Wright/Apollo Justice cases, particularly at the very end of Trials and Tribulations. It's kind of pathetic, but hey... it was kinda sad.

I haven't ever had tears streaming down my face over a video game (books, a different matter), but I did find the AA Tower/Bomb Site mission in Mass Effect sad. I teared up a little, but that was it.

Pssh, I'm sure it's been said, but, when Aries dies in Final Fantasy VII.

Also the scenes where Squall rescues Rinoa and the return to the planet on the Ragnorok are pretty touching, especially with Eyes On Me playing in the background.

Also, when Rena finds out that she's not 19, and actually 20,000 years old in Star Ocean the 2nd Story, and she curls up into Claude and cries because her world is falling apart. (And was literally destroyed)

I haven't really teared up/cried per se, but at the end of the COD4 single player, when you're doing your last stand and everyone around you dies, I have to admit I was all "WHAT THE FUCK!!! NOOO!!!! FUCK YOU TERRORISM!"

When I had one person left to throw off the arena in 100 man brawl, and then I accdently fell off...

Oh, your talking about "emotional" moments and not "frustrating" moments....

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

Fallout: Tactics was excusable though, because it wasn't an "official sequel" - just a spinoff.

The time I've cried because of a game is over the "good ending" in Bioshock. It was so touching; and I have a little daughter which only made it even more emotional for me.
Even if I watch it on Youtube it gets to me.

The ending to Hotel Dusk: Room 215 for the DS had me really close to tears. Then I completed the hidden mini game that gives the full ending and that was the last straw.

End of Halo 3, that was pretty sad how chief drifted through space at the end (in the other half of the ship)

I haven't but LoK has certainly made me feel despair. Oh and in any game if a character kills someone I like I will go on and all out war with them. This will actually have me start narrating against the bastard. THis happens quite often actually. Oh and in the end I try to finish it with a flashy move.

Upon seeing this thread I took it upon myself to send this question out to all the people on my Xbox Live friends list and then turn off the 360 and check my message inbox again later, just to gauge how much stupid people there are in the world. And the result is: One..........(Dots), and one smart human who took this seriously and didn't bash me, actually agreeing with me on the Bioshock thing.

Two replies out of 100 people? Not very promising.

Anyway, the good ending to Bioshock really did bring me to tears. I'm a sensitive guy.
Also, I would have to say the ending to FFX nearly made me cry. It was sad...

I'm sure there was another, because something is clawing at my mind, but I will post when I remember it.

For some reason, i let myself drift too much into my emotions and I start thinking about the video game characters possible families i would be affecting if i killed the person.

I don't know why, but every time i'm going to shoot someone, and they are cowering in fear yelling "I don't wana die!" it always just wrecks my gut! Though then i just kill them and move on. But it does make me think way too much.

When I found out what happened to Erana.
I was a little emotional then.

Games that almost made me tear up.

1.Kane and Lynch
2.Lost Odyssey
3.CoD 3
4.CoD 4
5.Yoshi Touch and Go, it sucked so bad.

Teared up a little after beating a Sour Shellybean half to death with a jagged shovel.
Now...I was under the impression that sour piņata were bad for my garden, and true enough
they are, but, as I'd just got the game, I didn't realise you could make them good.

So, my first response was to whack it to pieces with the shovel...two whacks and the piņata lay on it's side, and began to make the most pitiful whimper I'd ever heard. I felt really really bad then for having crippled the piņata like like that, and almost started crying a bit.
Then of course, I realised I couldn't make it better in this state, and it's whimpering continued. So, my only choice left was to mercifully end it's life. Having done so, I made sure to pick up all the tainted candy lest my other piņata eat it and get sick.
Thus I vowed from that day onward, to never raise my shovel in anger again!

Revelations to the characters that Neku partners up with in "The world ends with you", and with Neku himself.

Also, the ending to FFX. I was just hit so hard by the story since I had gotten so emotionally attached to it. Auron's theme music was really powerful in a cool way when you first met him then at the end it was so sad and strong. <3

I didn't cry when Aerith died when I first played FF7. It made me laugh because I was a terrible person. XD; I fully admit that.

Shaun of the dead; Nooooooooooo Eddddddddddddd

I cried in empathy of the guy I crotch-KO'd in TF2 with the sniper.

I'm a rather unemotional person (partly by nature and partly because I have something of a hangup about showing weakness); it takes a seriously heavy-duty punch in the proverbial gut to even make me tear up, and I don't think I've ever actually started crying over anything in a work of fiction.

That said, the incineration of the Weighted Companion Cube in Portal had me making quite the :( face. (However, I knew it was coming, so the emotional impact may well have been lessened; that's the only spoiler I've seen for years that actually managed to negatively affect my enjoyment of a work.)

***GTA4 SPOILERS AHOY!***

I was playing Call of Duty 4, after getting an almost perfect round of 45-2, thinking i'd made it big.

The next round I got pwned in the face and was at 0-5, so I smashed my xbox controller, mashed the front of my console until the disc fell out, wildly scrambled over to my cutlery drawer, pulled out a steak knife and scratched various words jesus doesn't like into it, then threw it out of my 8th story window.

I wasn't crying though, I was laughing maniacally.
(I took back a bunch of crappy Wii games and bought it again a month later)

Hoo boy. I cried when FF7 was over, I cried when FF8 was over, then... um. FF9. FF10. Pretty much all the FF games I have played. =| Then again, I cry at the drop of a hat.

games that made me tear up

1.COD4 (at the end)
2.Halo 3
3.Kameo
4.(didnt make me tear up, but depressed me) Gears of War
5.COD4 (when i got my RROD)

At many times while playing .hack//G.U.
Namely when Atoli went crazy because she was so alone.
She tried to kill Haseo.
Or with all of the inside jokes and sexual innuendos that make me laugh till i cry.

Aeris dieng.
OMG.
Balled.

You know, sometimes I wonder if I was the only one who was glad that Aerith was finally out of the picture... /off

The openings to CoD, CoD: UO, CoD2, and CoD4 really affected me, but not to tears.

I almost cried at HL2 Ep2's ending. Almost at the first Hunter sighting, too, but it was so quick! :D

aquana:
You know, sometimes I wonder if I was the only one who was glad that Aerith was finally out of the picture... /off

hate to burst your bubble but she kind of still in the picture....a lot.

Though no, you arn't alone. Most people hate the "perfect healer/innocent girl" type. She was a Mary Sue...not the "OMG shut the heck up Kagome" Mary Sue but still a Mary Sue none the less. Somewhere around Misane Amaha's (Witchblade) level of Marysueness. She actually had a plot and character flaws growth, etc.

mostrescent is when I replayed chrono trigger. Schala's death gets to me every time. she's a minor character, she never joins your party, but It's just the way Janus reacts when she gets sucked in. it's just damn.

Other times would be, end of FFX, the first time I played throung chrono cross i think it was when kid was in the room where you fight fate after the battle, and thats all there was.

MRMIdAS2k:
***GTA4 SPOILERS AHOY!***
Kate dying.

YES I expected it, but it still felt really shitty for him to have found someone, only for it to be snatched away.

You piece of s**t (irony and exaggeration). I read that before I knew what I was doing and now it's spoiled. And I LIKED here. I would have liked to have felt that emotional hammer blow.

I suppose Tsukihime still counts, as it is still *Technically* a game, but with all the gameplay replaced with story.

This entire post is pretty much a spoiler, but unless you decide to import Tsukihime and get the translation patch, you probably won't matter.

Yeah, you'd have to be some sort of monster not to tear up at that.

Saskwach:

MRMIdAS2k:
***GTA4 SPOILERS AHOY!***

Spoiler: Click to View

YES I expected it, but it still felt really shitty for him to have found someone, only for it to be snatched away.

You piece of s**t (irony and exaggeration). I read that before I knew what I was doing and now it's spoiled. And I LIKED here. I would have liked to have felt that emotional hammer blow.

Spoiler: Click to View

SPOILERS TO QUOTED CONVO

I didn't know we HAD spoiler tags here.

Sorry dude.

Not fe quite teary, but more a sense of depression pre-credits of Halo 3. When I played through the first time, I accidently skipped the credits, so didn't find out the true ending. I then realised that surely they can't have killed MC, then couldnt complete the final mission again! Eventually did it, and was very pleased with the outcome.

Also, in Mass Effect, was kind of shocked when Wrex died because of my actions-even though it's just a game, you still kind of feel like you've killed someone.