what is the most emotional game you have ever played and why?

By emotional I mean you felt a strong emotion, may it be crying of sadness, happiness, filled you with joy, made you feel really angry at something in the game, etc...

In my case it would be a toss up between MGS4 and Shadow of the Colossus

MGS4 made me tear at different occasions and feel desperate (microwave tunnel ;)) and Shadow of the Colossus was just an epic journey of a lonely man seeking to bring back his love. throughout that game i always felt almost in the characters skin, holding on for dear life and running through the plain with only the horse and the wind.

What about you? what is your most emotional experience? Why?

By emotional I mean you felt a strong emotion, may it be crying of sadness, happiness, filled you with joy, made you feel really angry at something in the game, etc...

In my case it would be a toss up between MGS4 and Shadow of the Colossus

MGS4 made me tear at different occasions and feel desperate (microwave tunnel ;)) and Shadow of the Colossus was just an epic journey of a lonely man seeking to bring back his love. throughout that game i always felt almost in the characters skin, holding on for dear life and running through the plain with only the horse and the wind.

What about you? what is your most emotional experience? Why?

swamplord666

though question man... NES games always made me angry (because I was a small kid, a lot of games were very hard and there was no save feature, so it was play it like 6 hours in a row and beat it in one sit)...

FFX story was touching... and after playing it like 100 hours you end up caring for the characters... listening "To Zanarkand" still makes me sad...

Silent Hill 3 got me all stressed whenever the world change from normal to hell-ish.. mostly because of Heather.

Oh and lately I got really mad when in Fable2 *SPOILER* that damn dude killed my dog, luckily was brought back with the right ending choice... but they didn't bring back Rose, I liked her even she's only like 15 minutes at the beginning of the game (because of her voice)*/SPOILER*

that's the ones I remember right now

Lost Odyssey, especially the short stories.sandroDX

Full of Spoilers here so if you haven't played the game dont read!

FF7 = When you know who dies and at the end. Great story.

MGS = When snake finds out what he is and about fox die I just felt terrible for the guy. It was like the whole world was aganist him.

MGS 3 = Every time you fight The Boss is emotional. Especially the last fight and the ending with Big Boss saluting her grave.

LBP = nothing but joy playing this game

Madden = I feel like punching my dog in the head after losing an online game.

metal gear solid 3 snake eater. the ending was sad, snake had to kill big boss (i think thats what her name is). she was the person who trained snake. iam2green

she was just called "the boss", which is why he was named "big boss" and it was a tragic =[

i felt MGS3 and 4, FFX were the most emotional games i had ever played.

Funny, but I came into this thread meaning to mention Shadow of the Colossus, but you already did it for me. It is without a doubt the most emotional game I have yet to play. It not only spoke volumes about just the characters within it but after playing through the game, but after wandering around for ages looking for these massive colossi you have to beat this game turns into an, and I may regret this, almost spiritual experience.

Final Fantasy VII - Aerith's dead was pretty traumatic, ain't gonna lie.

Gears left me shellshocked as ****.

Silent Hill I creeped me in broad daylight.

Anju and Kafei. Majora's Mask. The hardest side quest in the game with its best reward being that last little cutscene. But man, that cut scene just touched my heart.DOS4dinner

Also the ending to Brother in Arms Hells Highway...wow. Never seen a male lead (in the case a US solider) tear up.

By emotional I mean you felt a strong emotion, may it be crying of sadness, happiness, filled you with joy, made you feel really angry at something in the game, etc...

In my case it would be a toss up between MGS4 and Shadow of the Colossus

MGS4 made me tear at different occasions and feel desperate (microwave tunnel ;)) and Shadow of the Colossus was just an epic journey of a lonely man seeking to bring back his love. throughout that game i always felt almost in the characters skin, holding on for dear life and running through the plain with only the horse and the wind.

What about you? what is your most emotional experience? Why?

swamplord666

Hmm, I guess I could say God Of War. I can't really say why, I just kinda felt bad for Kratos and I felt he deserved to have his nightmares taken away.

Final Fantasy VI was one of the first games that came to mind for me as well. I'm glad other people said it because now I don't feel like I'm out of my mind or just being contrarian for choosing it over newer games with realistic cut scenes.SpaceMoose

...FFVI's theme of loss was well done and its moments I may have in my head for the rest of my life. While I played the original copy back in 1994, it is the real translation that unlocked the true power of the game. The GBA version was okay, better than the SNES version....but I like the real translation. Here is an example......Celes's suicide scene...uncensored. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3BWIEm_i2U SNES version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aVUM0CcfiA I think this is probably one of if not the most emotional moments I have seen in a game.texasgoldrush

Probably FFX is the most emotional game I have played. I really enjoyed the story.

Valkyria Chronicles was also touching with a good story behind it. Persona 3 and 4 were also good.

Silent hill 2&3. because those two games actually had a depth and complexity and emotional attachment most games do not,on par with books and movies. And since they are both interactive I was actually closer to it than with a book or movie.mattykovax

Metal Gear Solid 2. I felt sad when [SPOILERS] Emma died. [/SPOILERS] I also felt incredible joy when Solidus began destroying the RAYs.

Metgal Gear Solid 4, defintely.

[spoiler] Snakes Apparent Suicide was the saddest thing I ever seen in a video game. It was the only thing that really got me actually sad. Of course it went away when he didn't actually shoot himself, but the emotion I felt the first time watching that was unlike anything any other video game could do. [/spoiler]

Final Fantasy X

This story in this game is incredible, and the ending almost brought be to tears.

That's fair - VI and the other's were great. For some reason though, VII just resonated - I feel like it was my Bambi's mom moment haha. Part of it was probably because it was so cinematic. Evilgodmonkey

LO- the 1000 years of dreams was truly epic, whoever wrote those is a genious.

The metal gear solid series- (Grey fox in mgs1, Olga/Emma in mgs2, boss mgs3, pretty much all of mg4s).

The ending to FFIV.

Resident Evil 2- I guess when Ada dies (killed by the tyrant, not falling from the platform).

That's all I can think of at the moment.

[QUOTE="texasgoldrush"] ...FFVI's theme of loss was well done and its moments I may have in my head for the rest of my life. While I played the original copy back in 1994, it is the real translation that unlocked the true power of the game. The GBA version was okay, better than the SNES version....but I like the real translation. Here is an example......Celes's suicide scene...uncensored. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3BWIEm_i2U SNES version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aVUM0CcfiA I think this is probably one of if not the most emotional moments I have seen in a game.SpaceMoose

Its a fan created translation...and it is so much better and more realistic. There is more talk of death, Kefka (which is Cefca in this version) can say "kill them" unlike the censored NOA version. Edgars sexual comments are more apparant and their is some language (they took out the worst language in the newer patches, which is okay). Also, there is a new title screen with Celes standing on the beach in her opera dress on solitary island, looking almost as good as the FMV still for FF Anthology. I have played up until the start of Sabin's scenario...but this translation is so far so very good. I had to get used to the espers being called phantom beasts though.texasgoldrush

Sounds interesting, but I've already played the game so much that I'll probably just wait for the inevitable official remake. I don't think different text is enough to make me play through the game again at this point, especially given that I'm relatively sure they are going to remake all of them up to IX (or at the very least VII) in the not too distant future.