What is your most EMOTIONAL moment(s) in gaming?

Let's try and keep this thread spoiler-free...or at least use spoiler tags. I have quite a few, so here we go:

-Shadow of the Colossus

-Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core

-Final Fantasy VII

-Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War

That's all I can think of right now, I'm sure there will be others.

I'd include the reasons behind my picks, but the editor won't allow me to use spoiler tags. These games are fairly mainstream, so figuring out the emotional parts shouldn't be too difficult.

FF7 as you have said. Why, I won't say in case one of the 2 people on this planet who haven't played it yet reads this.

MGS 3 : When you see Naked Snake (not yet Big Boss at the time) standing there saluting the Bosses' grave, knowing her true nature, that was a pretty powerful ending.

Those two made me actually shed a tear. Yep. I've said that before and will say it again.

Mass Effect on the other hand had a different effect on me. Upon completion of the game and seeing the vast tale of human drama and struggle, it literally made me sit there for 15 minutes after the credits rolled and think... "Is this a possibility of where humans are heading?". It was a metaphor for all of the hate and prejudice in the world, but spread upon a galactic scale, and showed how people can change things if they try, not to better their own lives, but all of those around them.

That was pretty powerful to me.

Most emotianal well i would have to say most recently mgs4, several scenes mde me shed a tear, the ending of that game was probably the most powerful ending ive ever seen in any media entertainment.

and also ffx right at th end it was just such a harsh ending and made me ask myself why did it have to be like this.

I am also going to agree with during several scenes of MGS4 and the end of MGS3.

For me I also was quite moved with the end of FFX...but not many games make me emotionally moved but those three did as so far I can remember...

for me it was the ending to Syberia...

also when I was younger I thought the 'bad' ending for Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was sadder and more moving than the 'real' ending.

Shadow of the Collossus really got me feeling the moment at the end of the game. All that hard work really hammered me.

Also the scene in Final Fantasy XII between Balthier and his father towards the end of the game was really touching... considering that playing the game to learn more about Balthier, really hit home.

hmm, depends what you mean by 'emotion'. Sure you've got your teary-eyes games, but i like to include any game that went beyond just a feeling of 'completed!' once the credits rolled.

So i'll include Portal, Indigo Prphecy, MGS series, Shadow of the Colossus and Ico in my list.

Mass Effect's ending was emotionally powerful.

and MGS3's ending was emotionally sad.

for me...ending of ff x and the "debriefing" in mgs 3

There are very few moments that have had an emotional effect on me - not that it doesn't happen, but videogames are a medium notorious for shallow characters and stories.

Having said that.

The end of Max Payne 2. Specifically, the last handful of panels, after everything Max has been through. The song they chose for the credits works with it as well.

The Darkness. No spoilers, but the end of the first chapter. It almost feels a bit cruel on the developer's part since they force you to invest into the characters as much as the Darkness itself forces you to do nothing but watch.

That's all that comes to mind. I can think of a lot of moments developers obviously wanted to be emotional but failed at.

MGS3 - ending

SotC - "Agroooooooooooooooo!"

Okami - when Issun is saying goodbye

MGS4 - microwave hall

Beyond Good & Evil

[spoiler] Sad-when I thought that Pey'j died,happy-when I found out he's still alive [/spoiler]

Laura's Letter to James in Silent Hill 2.

I got a sniffle then.

The death of Wrex in Mass Effect69ANT69

This quote from MGS 1 got to me "Snake. We're not tools of the government, or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing...the only thing I was good at. But...at least I always fought for what i believed in."

*MGS4 SPOILER*

When you go back to Shadow moses and find the socom pistol and aim it Snake says "that brings back memories", well that gave me a fuzzy feeling inside, especially with "the best is yet to come" in the background.

***SPOILERS***

The most emotional for me was in MGS2 (the first MGS game I played). The part where you had to rescue Hal's sister Emma. When walking on the oil fence where Vamp showed up, I beat him, but I thought I shot Emma and saw her bleed when in fact Vamp stabbed her in the back. The cutscene's that entrailed after that had me sobbing. Sobbing. The rarest moment in a game wher I was so connected to all the characters.

Also, GTAIV's greed ending had me feeling really bummed out for awhile, no tears, but a hollow feeling.

The ending of The Sands of Time.

The Most emotional moments I have in gaming is when you're done playing a game online and just thinking of all those online friends you played with, well you will never see them again:(BigGreenMango