I'm talking about an emotional moment in any game, that stands most in your mind that made you go "sob, sniff! assholes!" or even just "sob, sniff!" at the blatant attempt to pull at your heartstrings.

Mine is when I was just a kid, barely a newb, and was playing ninja gaiden II on ye olde NES, and after playing like mad and clearing level after level I stood infron of Asthar, finally in a cinema, and that prick Asthar impaled Irene, Ryu's girlfriend with a sword made out of a friggin' bone, and then chuckled. Seeing that as a little kid was pretty out there.

Any stories of yours?

EDIT: See that happy O?

The largest memory of that sort of thing that I can think of was the ending of COD4, Everybody dies!! that was horrible!

When i lost 30 hours of gameplay in morrowind...

I was full of... emotions...

broke my mouse...

Do you mean in regards to the game's plot or like something I achieved in game?

Well, the end of HL2: Episode 2 was slightly emotional, seeing as I followed the series since the beginning (and I won't say what happened, spoilers, blahblahblah)
Also, the day I rented Superman 64 was pretty emotional. I thought I just sucked horribly at video games, ended up it was the game.

I meant anything deliverately geared at pulling at your heart strings. But really, can be anythin that moved you.

Geez, Franzuu, 30 hours of lost playtime on Morrowind seems geared to pull at your sanity more than your heartstrings. Was that deliberate? Did someone really, intentionally, mess with your game?

Wing Commander 2. Spirit, one of my favourite wingmates and favourite characters from the games, reveals that she's been doing favours for the Kilrathi because they've been holding her fiancee hostage. Kilrathi let slip that they killed, filletted, sauteed with mushrooms and ate the guy a while back and Spirit loses it- arming all her missiles and slamming into the Kilrathi outpost your group has been dispatched to attack. I was playing a speed-adjusted version of the game on a PC that was waaay too fast for it (we're talking a 1993 game on a 2000 PC here, folks) and a lot of pervious battles had been exercises in frustration and I was usually happy to get away with my flaps still attached, but after what they did to my wee mate Spirit I could've killed every hairy motherfucker in the universe right there and then.

System Shock 2 made me piss my pants, but no other game has driven me to such blind rage over the death of a barely animated bitmap.

-Nick

First off, the obvious. Aeris dying in ff7, yes in retrospect it's hackneyed and emotionally cheap and her character was essentially a sexist stereotype designed to appeal to Japanese men with a moe fetish but i was 12 at the time. I cried like a bitch.

Secondly I'd say the whole experience of the first disk of ff7 on my second playthrough (ten years later) there's just such a sense of melancholy in the design of midgar (the upper section) and the music, the characters, everything is kind of ruined and sad. It's something I missed the first time through as I wasn't emotionally mature enough to appreciate it but it's something I think, that really makes the game what it is, even when you realize the story and characters weren't all that good.

Dead tie.
Portal has my nomination for Game of All Time, and when I was forced to kill my companion cube, I actually cried a little.
In Call of Duty 4, the Shock and Awe sequence completely changed all of gaming. Just, no words can describe it. All I could think was, "Well, damn."

...This thread has been done before.

thebobmaster:
...This thread has been done before.

it had better spelling too. Am I really the only one that noticed this? emptional?

I noticed too.

unabomberman:
I meant anything deliverately geared at pulling at your heart strings. But really, can be anythin that moved you.

Geez, Franzuu, 30 hours of lost playtime on Morrowind seems geared to pull at your sanity more than your heartstrings. Was that deliberate? Did someone really, intentionally, mess with your game?

I was using autosave, my morrowind crashed as I was saving and I ended up with a save that wouldn't load.

Ho hum. You are right about the spelling.
In all fairness, it's an honest typo, not a glaring "can I has insurance" sort of grammatical thing. As for the thread being done before, sorry.

Maybe not my most emotional gaming moment ever, but one that sticks in the mind is Glarthir's mission in Oblivion. After completing the mission and burglarising his house, finding all his notes in the basement. It made me feel quite rotten.

thebobmaster:
...This thread has been done before.

Am I the only one that search feature only gives me stuff from the magazine and not forum threads?

the ending quarter of Mass effect

Bulletinmybrain:

thebobmaster:
...This thread has been done before.

Am I the only one that search feature only gives me stuff from the magazine and not forum threads?

Try the other search function, just below and to the right of that one, next to User CP. I did that too.

the ends of zelda ocarina of time and paper mario, i was a child and somehow see that those long games with those characters that i was starting to like and all that... i dont know i simply didnt wanted the games to end or something.

thebobmaster:
I noticed too.

well now it just looks absurd...

I would have to say about 5 minutes into Turok Evolution, I was frustrated becasue I had actaully payed for that game.

Almost definitely the part in Beyond Good & Evil where they capture Pey'j. I nearly cried the first time (I was still a bit young), and every time I replay the game that part always gets me.

1. The good ending of Bioshock. So touching.

2. Hanging out with your girlfriend in The Darkness. Reminds me of real life and makes it very sad when she gets iced.

Yumil in Orge Battle 64.

I was young, I cried...sniff....AAAHH MAN !!!!

na seriously.

But gameplay wise, I was pretty bummed when my bro beated my score in starfox 64.

The intro/end vid of Shogun total war was a good moment.

Also on the second level of CoD2 when the Russian officer shouts "Comrades, fro the Soviet Union and your glorious Motherland! GET READY!!" Then the Germans come screaming out of the somke! That gave me chills up my spine, for a sec I was ready to die for the Motherland!

Bioshock - The good ending teared me up...

CoD4 - My balls grew bigger during that last scene.(Not epilogue.)

KOTOR 1&2 - That game was filled with emotions good and bad...But I loved it each time.

Half-Life 2 Episode 2 - You know what i'm talking about.

MGS4 - Not very sad or anything but it was such a clusterfuck when vamp dies I became even more stupid because of it.

MGO - Triple knife kill...

hmm in kotor whare i had to kill bastila man i cryed

franzuu:
When i lost 30 hours of gameplay in morrowind...

I was full of... emotions...

broke my mouse...

Try losing over 700 hours of total gaming time thanks to the USPS... I didn't turn on a console for three months.

Most emotional moment in a game... first thing that comes to mind is Haseo's lecturing tirade at Ovan in .Hack//GU Redemption, that was pretty powerful stuff.

Mostly old-school RPGs, but not FF7's clincher.

Breath of Fire 3: Balio and Sunder burn down your home and kick your butt. Ryu wakes up in old man Bunyan's house and every single bit of evidence agrees that Rei and Teepo are both dead forever. For a long time, I believed it. This version of Ryu's something of a crybaby, but coupled with the music of that scene it's very moving. Consecutively, killing the Horsey twins later on became immensely satisfying. The whole game has several moments like that, free of excessive melodrama but unexpectedly jarring.

Kingdom Hearts II: 'Looks like my summer vacation is over'.

Front Mission 4: Wagner's explosive death. Sure, he's an arrogant jerk, and more than a little insane thanks to repeated defeats at your hands. But in the end, he was just following orders, even though those orders led to him and all his comrades dying for it. Like Kahran Ramsus from Xenogears, he's a guy I kept expecting to switch sides and eventually join me. Ah well.

Well I have to say I nearly cried at the end of Halo 3, only because I knew there was going to be another. (Bungie has a hand in my pocket, and doesn't want to leave). But for an actually emotional moment was choosing which character died in Mass Effect, caught me off guard and it was a really tough choice because I didn't want to lose either of them.

When I thought Snake gave his gun a termial blowjob at the end of MGS4. I cried like a pussy.

The very end of Metal Gear Solid 4.
The point in Grand Theft Auto 4 where you finally find the guy who betrayed you.

The very beginning and the very end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2. The beginning made me pissed off that an in-game friend I liked got stabbed, and the end was just sad.

Erm....losing my level 99 barbarian in Diablo 2 because I forgot to log on to my account for three months....that was rather aggravating.

The most fantastic game moment for me was forcing Zaalbar to kill Mission with the life debt he owed you in KotOR. I laughed at its amazingness for a good five minutes and then later felt an emptiness for making such an evil decision.

Mass Effect spoilers ahead:

When I thought for sure that Bioware had killed of Commander Shepard at the very end of Mass Effect with a piece of frigging' space junk. It then turns out that the good Commander is alive and well, and just when s/he does that confident "Hah, that all you got!?" grin as s/he climbs out of the wreckage, I laughed my ass off in joyful elation.

thewalex:
The most fantastic game moment for me was forcing Zaalbar to kill Mission with the life debt he owed you in KotOR. I laughed at its amazingness for a good five minutes and then later felt an emptiness for making such an evil decision.

You could do that?!? I may need to try that.... Sorry that was off topic. (I could never be a truly evil character, I always feel bad about killing people.)