Tears are not enough

[Sotenga]

Okay, now this could be the most unorthodox topic on here, but was there ever any games that made you cry? I think I can recall going to pieces over this one game because I just couldn't win. I forget exactly what game that was... my guess is Ninja Gaiden. I'm thinking that at least one of you probably shed tears over Aeris in FFVII. I almost did... almost. :(

A silly question, I know, but did it ever happen?

[Gamereviewgod]

Contra: Legacy of War. No, really. After the initial shock of what happened to my beloved Contra series, I remember shedding a tear with 2 other freinds in my room laughing their asses off at me. I then proceeded to take my anger out them using a SNES controller, Cheez-It's and a snapping turtle.

[§ Gideon §]

Ooh, good question. I can't say that I have cried over a video game, although I've wanted to for some time. It seems strange that what is claimed to be the most immersing medium of art has yet to make me cry. But, then again I haven't ever cried over a movie or a book... perhaps, I'm just an emotional void.

[esquire]

Shaq-Fu for the SNES

Bubble Bath Babes for the NES

[Querjek]

The ending of Super Mario RPG... I don't know what it was, maybe the fact that my favorite game of all time was over?

[Cmosfm]

only once.

Gradius 3

Why you may ask, about 1-2 years ago I was on one of the later bosses, I think I tried maybe 100-150 times and out of pure frustration I threw the controller to the ground and the tears came flowing.

Imagine a 20 year old (19 at the time) crying from a space shooter game... LOL

[GameGuru]

Super Metroid's ending actually brought a tear to my eye. The way the metroid saved me and gave me the final boss' energy so I could defeat him.

[Achika]

For some reason, I didn't really care for Aerith....now if it was Yuffie on the other hand.....


Anyhow, Final Fantasy X & Final Fantasy IX I needed a box of tissues for the endings of those. I don't know how I'll handle FF X-2 which I'm closely closing in on.

[kainemaxwell]

Lufia 2's ending. Sure you know wha thappens but how it happens is quite sad and depressing...

[Sylentwulf]

Don't think I've actually CRIED, but Aeris death scene, and final fantasy 8,9 both had moments that were pretty damn tear-jerking. Final Fantasy 9, I actually believed <SPOILER> that what's his name, little monkey boy, WAS dead. And garnet was hot, the only saving grace for that sad sad game.

The Final Fantasy 8 Eyes on me video someone made is just flat-out BRILLIANT.

[Sotenga]

Don't think I've actually CRIED, but Aeris death scene, and final fantasy 8,9 both had moments that were pretty damn tear-jerking. Final Fantasy 9, I actually believed <SPOILER> that what's his name, little monkey boy, WAS dead. And garnet was hot, the only saving grace for that sad sad game.

The Final Fantasy 8 Eyes on me video someone made is just flat-out BRILLIANT.

His name was Zidane, and I thought the same thing about what happened to him.

These are all very interesting comments I've heard... especially Querjek's. That game may be my favorite RPG on Earth as well, and when it was over... whew. World coming down there, man. That was the feeling. Hey, I still play it whenever I feel like it.

And now, another thing to add: FFVII's ending. I was disappointed, as well as many of us were. I thought for some reason that Aeris was going to come back to life. But she didn't. She did not. That's not what got me, though. The ending was very ambiguous, and when I first saw it, I felt empty. Then there was a lump in my throat. I almost cried, but the tears didn't come out. I also thought something was going to happen on the screen where the stars keep coming towards you. I kept the game on for about an hour before realizing that there's nothing else. Turning the PSX off, I felt nothing. It was over, that was it.

... I didn't cry when me own father was hung for stealing a pig, but I'll cry now. :bawling:

[Griking]

Well, I didn't actually cry but the gaming moment that shocked me the most and made me feel the saddest was years and years ago when Floyd the Robot died in the Infocom game Planetfall. I'd grown so attached to him and his death was so unexpected.

BTW, Planetfall and all of the other Infocom classics can be found here (http://www.csd.uwo.ca/Infocom/games.html) if anyone's interested.

[maxlords]

Not even close. Not once.

[WiseSalesman]

I think I did during FFVIII's ending.

SPOILER WARNING

I was watching it in a room with a couple of guys, and when Laguna stood over Raine's grave we all just started crying just a little bit. I want to say there have been others too, but i'm not sure which ones.

[SoulBlazer]

Every Final Fantasy game from 6 forward has had tear jerkers......even Celes's attempted suicide in FF6 brought a tear. Some other RPG's like Arc II and Xenosaga have done it also.

[scooterb23]

Can crying because of laughter and / or extreme pain count?

Last time I was in an arcade: playing DDR...as a side note: everyone here should know two things by now. 1. I love DDR. 2. I completely suck at it (3-4 foot songs on light is pushing it for me).

Let's just say I won't be playing "Little Bitch" on anything higher than Beginner for a while...between falling down twice, faceplanting into the rail once, and knocking down a guy on the machine NEXT to me...many tears of laughter were shed...I was mainly crying though because I hurt my knee really badly on the second fall... :)

[Milk]

Chrono Trigger and Phantasy Star IV both really tugged on my emotions, even though I knew the character deaths were coming. I guess I'm just silly like that...

[BHvrd]

Does crying of laughter count? I've done that many a times with games, most recently when I put the "flying car" cheat on GTA: VC and was trying to make a next to impossible jump to a very high building.

I tried for nearly 10 minutes when all of a sudden I was speeding towards another attempt and an AI car was running right beside me. We both took off in the air, but only the damn AI car made it. Funny as all get out.

I couldn't believe an AI car was flying beside me, let alone made it! LOL

[jaydubnb]

When I was a kid, Robert T.S. fighting and being apparently overtaken by the demons in Ninja Gaiden II didnt inspire a tear, but made me deply concerned.

[BHvrd]

Well, if laughter doesn't count "though I spend most of the time crying of it in videogames".

I guess I would say the part in Final Fantasy Tactics where the kid is playing that flute or whatever, and is talking about losing whoever, or whatever. I just remember being really moved by that game, and that part...

[bensenvill]

bambi... when the mo..... oh wait that was a movie.

~Tj

[Zubiac666]

not from a game but from a fan-art poster of Zelda which was in a german videogames magazine called "MANIAC"
It's the best Zelda-art I've EVER seen.
There was a huge dragon in the background and princess Zelda with Link in next to him.As far as I remember the dragon was dead laying in a lake of blood on the ground.Link was kneeling on the ground with Zelda in his arms.She was dead and Link was crying.
When I looked at the poster the first time for a long time,my eyes began to wet slowly till tears dropped........the poster was just too sad to look at so I removed it the next day
Too bad I lost it someday...I really would like to scan and show it to you

TO HYDROX: Maybe u remember this poster too? or maybe u even have it? :D

[GameGuru]

Come on people! Didn't anyone else win Super Metroid? It was kinda sad! Geez! ha ha

[GamecubeFreek]

that whole crying from laughing so hard thing happened when Aeris died in FF7... Man, I hated her (I dont even know why)

Otherwise, however, I agree that the end of Super Metroid was very touching. I think I came close to crying, and thats the closest I have come....NO,NO WAIT...
I cried when I dropped my Gameboy when I was like nine. It was fine, in case you were wondering. Nintendo makes a darn fine piece of equipment!

[Dire 51]

Never cried because of events in a game, but I do know the sadness of seeing what happened to Contra with LoW.

That sadness was of course followed by pure, unadulterated rage at Appaloosa. :angry: Damn them to hell.

[Eternal Tune]

Lunar: SSSC made me shed a little tear during the credits, only because I love that game so much.

FFVII made me cry for an entirely different reason then Aeris dying...I knew that was coming...but....the ending...and my entire Christmas break spent playing the game....for that lame ass ending. I remember sitting watching and waiting for something to happen after the credits rolled, cursing at the TV saying "THIS CAN'T BE IT!!!!??"

I think I may have cried during the final battle in Suikoden 3, only because I re-did that boss so many times, until I discovered an easier way to beat it.

[Evil E]

Nope...never

[AB Positive]

You'd think the time I cried at a video game would be the obvious FF VII one... but no.


It was the ending of Wild Arms. For some reason I sympathized WAY too much with the mech from the game. *shrugs*

-AG

[Duncan]

Zelda games, particularly Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker (when you leave the Kokiri Forest and your grandmother's house, respectively) have made me a bit melancholy.

I don't remember ever physically crying over a game (unless there was a sibling fight involved), but some of the license tests in Gran Turismo 2 have made me come close before. RRRRGGGGHHH... :angry:

[rbudrick]

Ikari Warriors.
Yep...true story.


If you die on the last screen of any level, you are screwed, you can't continue. Back to the beginning of the game (hey, enter the 2nd player just before these screens...just in case you die, he may still be alive...gives you an extra edge).. I'll never forget being on the last screen of the game when my brother came in the room (he was a little kid then) DEMANDING that I look at his new Ninja Turtle (he was actually kicking down the door, or damn near it. My mom was yelling at me too to look at it..."get away from that damn tv for a minute!") Screaming and banging on the door, he was. I died at the last boss (that wussie-ass last boss). I was so mad, I cried. Sure I was 11 or 12 or 13, but it had taken me 3 years to get that far, and 4 hours alone that day (it's about 1 hour per level, right?).

So yeah, Ikari Warriors.

-Rob

[Balloon Fight]

The game that came closest for me was FFX.