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Shadow of the Collossus was the first game where I actually cried a bit. The game forces you to destroy beautiful collossi that only walk around, they were harmless. And then there's the ending, I cried so much at the end. :cry:
 
I sobbed big, ugly sobs at the ending of Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time. Though I guess it's not so surprising since my cat had just died, my grandma was in the hospital and I was sick with mono...
 
I could really go on all day about this subject.

The Legend Of Zelda, Links Awakening. (gameboy)
Probably the first game that showed me just how brilliant and involved games could be, it's also a stunning achievement when you consider the hardware it runs on. Has a genuinely sad ending too.

Chrono Trigger. (SNES)
I can't really say anything about this masterpiece that hasn't been said already. These characters are my friends, I feel like I know them and have had awesome adventures with them. I also just love the way the narrative starts off; you're just a guy (yeah, I name the main character after myself) going to the local fair and gets swept off on a fantastical adventure.

Panzer Dragoon Saga. (Saturn)
Team Andromeda built an incredible and unique world for their Panzer Dragoon series, everything had a sense of place in it and although totally alien, it was very believable. Panzer Saga really does feel like a Saga, and you can tell it was a labour of love, it almost has a fatalistic feel to it that must have mirrored the developers feelings towards Sega's downward spiral into near financial ruin. The game's a rollercoaster ride of emotion, especially for the time, but the ending is the real killer. It throws an amazing twist at you right at the very end, before leaving it open (not "shell out money for the next game to see what happens" open)

Shining series (Mega Drive - Saturn)
I just love the world and Character design that they produced for the whole series up until the point where Camalot got fed up with Sega's bullshit and went off to do their own thing (Golden Sun) Whilst Sega retained the IP and proceeded to spend the next 15 years raping it until it became unrecognisable. Amazingly, the fallout from all this was still being felt within the very small but dedicated community even recently with Japanese fans of the "new" games getting Youtube to take down videos of the older ones under the guise of copyright infringement.

Metroid Prime (Gamecube)
It's just an absolute fucking masterclass in game design. To be fair, so is Super Metroid on the SNES, but Retro studios deserve credit for taking the totally unique atmosphere of "super" and perfectly translating it to three dimensions and a new generation (there was an eight year gap between the games releases) If somebody were to ask me what I think the best game ever made is, this is my most likely answer.

God, I could go on all day, but that'll do for now.
 
The only game where I've cried was Mass Effect 3. I put the part I mean under the spoiler.
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My God I sobbed like a bitch. I still haven't finished the game. I think it's mostly because I know he won't be there at the end. Fuck you Bioware. Fuck you.
 
I just finished L.A. Noire. I have to say that I was really impressed with the way Rockstar dealt with his character. While I didn't cry for Phelps, I felt that he was a very flawed character--in a good way--and it was refreshing to play as a character who was a victim of his own vices.
 
When I first beat Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines.

The final mission of that game was just so well done. Having a dramatic ramping up of the stakes and really showing how powerful the main character had become over the course of the game. Then it had such a great song during it's credits. When I beat the game I wished it didn't end, and I knew it was going to be a game that would stay with me for the rest of my life.

It made me stay up until 5 AM just because I wanted to see the ending so badly, and it was well worth it.

To this day I still listen to it's soundtrack, and I regularly send people themes of the game when we discuss music. The Chinatown theme in particular just resonates so strongly in the player. I've yet to see a game portray a World of Darkness so effectively.

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Hatoful Boyfriend (otome game). I don't care if the game's about the main character dating sentient birds in high school. The longer one plays this game, the more likely they'll be surprised at sadness and terror they'll experience as the storyline develops.

Also Yume Nikki (freeware game) wasn't ever the cheeriest game around, but once I actually got myself to beat the game (I knew what would happen at the end), I just felt an empty pit inside of me.
 
The two games I can think of that really give me all the feels are MOTHER3 and Baten Kaitos Origins.

Baten Kaitos Origins is a ridiculously overlooked Gamecube JRPG with the best cast of characters I've ever seen in any form of media. I seriously can't recommend it highly enough.
 
The introduction for Opflash: Red River got me ready to kill some shit... and then I realized I was depressed. Angry and depressed at the same time.
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When Crysis 3 gets all touchy feely, you'd be surprised at how invoking it is of your cry (I see what you did there) reflex. Everybody except for Psycho, who kind of hates you either way, just calls you "hardware". Prophet isn't even Prophet anymore, he's just a suit.

Brütal Legend, to a Metalhead, that game is THEIR GAME. This games belongs to them. The soundtrack is amazing, the worlds are fantastic, everything just kicks ass. And there's this one line that always got to me:
"What do you do with a bunch of kids who don't do anything except bang their heads all day?"
"Start a revolution."

Half-Life 2: Episode 2: Those who've beaten it know what I'm talking about.

Star Craft 2: Heart of The Swarm: Once again, those who've beaten know what I'm talking about. You go through all of the stages of grief. Denial, anger, sadness, acceptance, and then it's like: "Just kidding."

When I first heard the theme song from Oblivion.
 
Bioshock Infinite gave me some feels, mostly at the end. It was the first time in a long time that I set the controller down and paused for a minute to process all the feels. After that was probably Virtues Last Reward. That game is fucked up.
 
This is going to sound lame.

Skyrim gave me feels twice.
The first one was not quest/story related. Outside of Markarth there's a farm inhabited by an elderly couple. I talked to them and sold them vegetables. After a little while, the woman said something like "You're such a good person. Your parents must be very proud of you." Oh man I teared up. I get a little misty eyed writing about it.

The second one is quest/story related.

At the end of the Dark Brotherhood questline when you kill the Emperor, I always get upset killing him because he is so dignified about it. Like "I know you're going to kill me, and I'm going to make it easy for you". I don't know, it just bothers me.

The Last of Us just hurt. No 14 year old should have to go through what Ellie did.
 
I just played through the third chapter of the Walking Dead game. Every decision I made made me feel like crap. Ended up letting Kenny beat me up, had Kenny kill his son, left the crazy chick on the road, seemed too aggressive against Ben. I felt like I could do nothing right.
 
Kamen Rider Black said:
I just played through the third chapter of the Walking Dead game. Every decision I made made me feel like crap. Ended up letting Kenny beat me up, had Kenny kill his son, left the crazy chick on the road, seemed too aggressive against Ben. I felt like I could do nothing right.
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Then you win.
 
junglist said:
The death of the weeb emma in mgs2 is always hard too take,you serch so hard, put up with all her shit, save her multiple times...then she dies by the cocksucker vamp, Poor emma.
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Seconded. I didn't like Emma much, but her death scene got me choked up a little.
 
Kamen Rider Black said:
I just played through the third chapter of the Walking Dead game. Every decision I made made me feel like crap. Ended up letting Kenny beat me up, had Kenny kill his son, left the crazy chick on the road, seemed too aggressive against Ben. I felt like I could do nothing right.
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Yeah, the first time that I played the third episode it's like a rollercoaster of feels. And then there are some few decisions in the two next episodes that make you feel rather depressed too.
 
Springblossom said:
junglist said:
The death of the weeb emma in mgs2 is always hard too take,you serch so hard, put up with all her shit, save her multiple times...then she dies by the cocksucker vamp, Poor emma.
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Seconded. I didn't like Emma much, but her death scene got me choked up a little.
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Perhaps I'm a cynical monster, but I think Otacon's voice actor made that scene sort of humorous to me. I'm certain there are those out there who blubber and shriek like that, but I was a lad at the time, so that might have contributed to it. Not to mention Vamp was a fun villain for me and escorting Emma was a bit obnoxious(not difficult, just...escort missions, no), so the impact was much less.


Everyone Otacon loves dies, even Snake.
 
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The soundtrack of this game really mellows me out.
 
Ohhhhhhh man, The Walking Dead: Season 2 has just been announced!

The feels. They will come back. Like a tsunami.

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Whenever I hear the Morrowind theme I just have so many emotions. I can remember the sense of wonder I felt when I first played that game, having this big alien world to explore all on my own. Maybe it was just the age I was at when I played it, but no other game has made me feel that way.

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Princess said:
Whenever I hear the Morrowind theme I just have so many emotions. I can remember the sense of wonder I felt when I first played that game, having this big alien world to explore all on my own. Maybe it was just the age I was at when I played it, but no other game has made me feel that way.
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