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Has a game ever made you cry

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,176 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Huh..huh...huh....huh....

    You cried....huh...huh...

    ...huh....huh....

    RetroGAYmer....huh...huh...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,680 ✭✭✭Tellox


    Originally posted by Syth
    At the end of Zelda: Link's awkening for the original Game Boy. Twas sad because <span style="background-color:#666666; color:#666666>They all dissapear at the end. tis all a dream. ah marian...</span> The again I was 9 at the time.

    Grim fandango was also, <span style="background-color:#666666; color:#666666">i loved that guy he's so cool.</span>

    For gods sake! use spoiler tags!


    Also, the secret of mana on the snes had me in tears.
    I kept losing to that fire golum thing (I was 7 or so at the time,and didnt know ice was effective against him,so didnt use magic, bar cure.), and every time I lost, I cleching my two fists and HAMMERED down on the console...

    Might explain why I had to get a new one.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,924 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Huh..huh...huh....huh....You cried.

    I'm sorry but I'm so far beyond your intelligence that I couldn't bother making a decent comment or getting into a flame war.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 762 ✭✭✭Terminator


    The end of Ico where you find
    her washed up on the beach
    brought a tear to my eye.

    Also the flying cap music in Mario 64 is quite sad when you listen to it repeatedly. Its like the composer is sick of doing the same mario tunes again and again so he makes it really really sad.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,176 ✭✭✭✭Sangre


    Originally posted by Retr0gamer
    I'm sorry but I'm so far beyond your intelligence that I couldn't bother making a decent comment or getting into a flame war.

    Sangre 1 RetroGAYmer 0


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,446 ✭✭✭✭amp


    Hey Sangre, how about a little game of shut the fuck up?

    Here's a primer on how to play:

    Step 1. Shut the fuck up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 867 ✭✭✭l3rian


    haha... that troll bait was so obvious guys... maybe your taking the pis$ too, i dunno

    no. never cryed over any games


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭TheSonOfBattles


    Just saw this thread and had to reply.

    First of all, yes I have to say I have cried playing a few games. I cried every single time i've played final fantasy 7 when
    Sephiroth kills Aeries
    , and Final Fantasy 8 when
    you see Squall laid out, and you don't find out he's alive till the very, very end
    and also Final Fantasy 10
    when Tidus is fading, and him and Yuna touch for the last time
    . Also, I did shed a few tears during Grim Fandango when
    Manny and crew parted with Glottis( one of the best characters ever)
    , and also during numerous games out of sheer frustration, because i'm not a very patient person, and i'm crap at said games, and these two facts annoy the f**k outta me.

    The reason I felt I had to reply isn't because I wanted to state above facts, but because of the obvious idiocy/gayness of certain individuals who have already replied to this thread. Namely Bazh and Sangria. Do these people think emotions are bad things, maybe they feel they have to repress these self destructive feelings, and that men are the only people who can have jobs as well? I admit I also cried when my aunt/grandparents died, and I will continue to cry at event's that make me sad.

    If you can't admit that you cry when your sad, or even worse, you can't cry when your sad, then, I have to say, your more f**ked up than I ever will be (and yes, I am quite the f**ked up individual :D ).

    No offense to either of the two named individuals, but loosen up, and take the stick outta your as*, your human - there for you have emotions, and therefor, your gonna cry. This fact doens't make you gay, being afraid of gays just might though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    There wasnt that need to get worked up over them. They were messing.

    But Final Fantasy games i dont know what it is, they alwayz have that way of makin u feel emotional. I think its the fact that in your head u are this caracter weather its Cloud, Squall, Tidus or (OMFG i 4get FFIX's name and i only finsihed it a coupla weeks ago), and u feel what they feel. Also the music really gets the waterworks going.

    But they can also make u happy. Remmember when vivi used his magic to attack other 2 black mages that were following them in the air coz he was so angry at them killing all vivi's family. That was just amazing. I felt so happy for him when he set them on fire!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭TheSonOfBattles


    Haha, yea true, did get slightly to worked up over it.

    One of my favourite final fantasy bit's is Cloud on the motorbike going down the stairs. Or in FF8,
    when Squall jumps in to rescue Rinoa when she gives herself up as a witch
    .

    There are some horrific moments there though as well, like when you realize in FF9,
    that the bad guy (name?) is about to destroy a whole planet, and then watch it happen.
    It's a sh*t hot movie scene though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,817 ✭✭✭✭po0k


    Cannon Fodder on the Amiga
    Mission 6 - Phase 1/2 I think
    Lost Jools, Jops , Stoo and RJ on that one. Unfortunate incident involving throwing a grenade at the wooden fence to shoot at the barracks across the canyon.
    The fucker bounced back, I quickly directed my squad out of harms way, only for them to get stuck in a hole, pile up and just as Jools dashed out the dip, the grenade went off tossing RJ and Stoo into the canyon, blowing Jops to bits and catapulting Jools towards the enemy on the right. When he landed his entrails were hanging out, coughing up blood, screaming.
    Johnny Arab came over and with one quick application of pressure to the trigger, ended his misery.

    I was 11.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    lolololollololol that game was a bitch alright


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,982 ✭✭✭Big Ears


    i remember 1 time i was pritty close after i accidently erased my championship manager file for the third time(funny how this always happens while im doing well).I shutdown the Pc got my football from under the stairs and started belting shots into my goal outside.Im reminded of that moment every time i play soccer in my goals now because theres a 2 and a half centimeter dent in my goals .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    But Final Fantasy games i dont know what it is, they alwayz have that way of makin u feel emotional.

    Yeah, too right. FF8 didn't really do anything for me, because I wasn't too involved with the characters... But certainly the
    Aeris death scene
    in FF7 had a huge emotional impact, much more so because no game had ever done that to me before - I just completely didn't expect it. I don't recall shedding any tears, but I remember being utterly shocked by it - jaw open, saying "they can't fukcing do that!" over and over again...

    FFIX didn't really have any hugely emotional moments in it like that, although I did have huge warmth for Vivi by the end of the game. FFX though... Gah, that ending. I fully confess that by the time
    Tidus faded out
    , the waterworks were in full flow. Amazing how attached you get to characters after 40 hours of running around with them... That said, FFX brought other emotions with it too, and I'm pretty sure I've never laughed with as much sheer joy at a game as I did during the scene when
    they skate down the ropes from the airship to rescue Yuna
    !

    I can't think of any other real tear-jerker games offhand, although having spent 30 hours running around in Xenosaga Episode One and got to love the characters, I have a deep suspicion that Xenosaga Episode Two is going to do some deeply evil stuff. Another game that's simply full of joy, though, is Skies of Arcadia - Vyse and Aika are simply so irrepressibly cheerful and fun that it's hard not to play through the whole thing with a big silly happy grin on your face :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,935 ✭✭✭eyerer


    never cried, but zelda lll and oot have been the most emotional games i've played


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,997 ✭✭✭jaggeh


    Originally posted by amp

    In terms of sheer unadulterated, primal frustration, Frontier: First Encounter drove me insane when I had forgotten to save for a good while (due usually to "I'm too l33t now to get killed") and some bastard ship kills me and I have to redo all the freight runs and missions again.

    i know the hurt :(

    i used to forget to save after every jump doing the mad medicine run at the start, but for some reason every time i didnt save the game knew it and threw like 40 pirates at me :(


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,924 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    A game which I also felt strong connections to the main characters was Grandia. It was great seeing the main characters growing up as the game progressed, especially justin who went from clumsy immature plonker to a real hero by the end of it quite convinvingly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    i have to agree with Shinji,

    FF7 was my introduction to RPGs and i still consider it the best game i ever played. I like the new Kotor but i'm not attached to the players like FF7. i think westener RPGs focus more on plot development then character.

    You're making skies of Arcadia sound amazing. i really must pick up a copy. Too much work and not enough time at the moment though.

    I have to admit i am getting attached (in game sense) to link in Wind Waker. Have to play oot after it as i never had a N64.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,005 ✭✭✭Creature


    I nearly cried a few times playing Super Monkey Ball .

    Here come the flashbacks....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,265 ✭✭✭Seifer


    I came very close at least twice in FF VIII. I can't remember the exact moments but the on screen events and amazing soundtrack were enough to nearly overwhelm me at the time.
    I'd prefered FF VII as a game (prob cause it was the first rpg I ever played and completed) but there is an amazing bond built up with the characters in FF VIII.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,319 ✭✭✭sci0x


    Originally posted by Seifer
    I came very close at least twice in FF VIII. I can't remember the exact moments but the on screen events and amazing soundtrack were enough to nearly overwhelm me at the time.
    I'd prefered FF VII as a game (prob cause it was the first rpg I ever played and completed) but there is an amazing bond built up with the characters in FF VIII.

    Yeah this bond wasnt to be found in FFX coz the caracters talk themselves. Pity. Still a great game though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,275 ✭✭✭Shinji


    Yeah this bond wasnt to be found in FFX coz the caracters talk themselves.

    You reckon? I wasn't a huge fan of the American voice acting (please for god's sake Square, how hard can it possibly be to offer Japanese audio with subtitles as an option like so many other games?), but even at that I thought the way the characters would shout things to each other in battle and so on helped to build up their personalities from a very early stage.

    I don't think FFX had half the story that FF7 did, but yet by the end of it, Tidus, Yuna and Auron were characters that I had developed a much stronger bond with that Cloud and Tifa - which is kinda saying something given how attached I was to FF7...

    (That said the trailer for Advent Children nearly made me wet myself ;) )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    I punched one of my mates after a game of FIFA 99 once. He bunny-hopped the entire way up the field with Gabriel Batistuta in the 4th minute of injury time, to score the winner. I saw red, shouted "Arragh YOU B*STARD", and belted him one.

    Five minutes later, while he was attempting to strangle me, I think I might have apologised.

    Still have the scars...

    I still hate Fiorentina too. Bunch of b*stards. Hope the club burns to the ground.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭Deadwing


    Originally posted by Seifer
    I came very close at least twice in FF VIII. I can't remember the exact moments but the on screen events and amazing soundtrack were enough to nearly overwhelm me at the time.
    I'd prefered FF VII as a game (prob cause it was the first rpg I ever played and completed) but there is an amazing bond built up with the characters in FF VIII.

    I dont think i know anyone who played either FFVII or VIII and DIDNT form a bond with the characters. I honestly hated Zidane from IX tho, he was so cocky and annoying, i hated him from the word go. Plus the story was sh*t. Kuja was about as intimidating as Dale Wintons poodle. But when you think about the amount of people who cry over movies, theyve only spent 2 or so hours getting to know the characters, in FF games youve got 40+ hours to get to know them...its only natural youd shed a tear over the loss of a main character.
    Aeris...i still miss you :(


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,924 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Actually I found that FFVIII was by far the worst of all the FF games. While not a bad game it just wasn't up to the standards of the other games of the series. The problem for me was the characters and story. The story I thought was just terrible. The scene when
    they find out they all knew each other all along but just forgot was cringe worthy
    and the best cene in the game, the space scene, was completely ruined by that lunar cry waffle. also
    the real bad guy appearing from nowhere towards the end was just ridiculous
    .

    However the the main annoyance was the terrible characters. Squall and Irvine were both ignorant twats throughout the whole game and i didn't once feel for them. Selphie was annoyingly cheerful and warranted a bitch slap to shut her up. Rinoa was only slightly less annoying. Zell reminded me of the spanner in secondary school who thought he was the man but everyone else thought he was a twat. Quistis however was a great character who unfortunately gets completely forgotten after an hour of gameplay. Seifer seemed a bit on the dense side and I didn't know what the hell he was doing half the time.

    FFIX may not have had a great story but there was a least some empathy with the characters. I loved the characters in FFX especially Yuna. She is very like aerith, she seems weak and frail but as you progress through the story you she that she is the strongest character of the lot.

    The female leads of all the FF games except FFVIII have been fantastic. Compared to the rest of the series the girls from FFVIII and merely bimbos almost on par with the big breasted characters from all crap western games (cough, Unreal 2).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10 trigg


    Super Mario Sunshine brought me close to tears a couple of times in those b*starding "retro" missions where they took fludd off you

    Also I seem to recall many an emotional moment, in my younger days, with sonic 2 in the level with the rising water, I can still hear that dramatic "your about to suffocate" jingle


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭scojones


    tomb raider made me smash my joypad off the wall. It was the only one i had. When i couldn't play it anymore - i NEARLY cried. Until i bought a new joypad that is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,075 ✭✭✭ReefBreak


    I very nearly cried last month when I bought Rugby 2004 for the PC and realised how jaw-droppingly bad it was. Awful, awful, awful. Brings a proverbial tear to the eye just thinking about it now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,312 ✭✭✭mr_angry


    Can I point out that all I can hear at the moment is "You f*cking rekap fag b*stard!!!" coming from Trigg playing Legend of Zelda on the Gamecube...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,918 ✭✭✭Deadwing


    Originally posted by Retr0gamer
    However the the main annoyance was the terrible characters. Squall and Irvine were both ignorant twats throughout the whole game and i didn't once feel for them. Selphie was annoyingly cheerful and warranted a bitch slap to shut her up. Rinoa was only slightly less annoying. Zell reminded me of the spanner in secondary school who thought he was the man but everyone else thought he was a twat. Quistis however was a great character who unfortunately gets completely forgotten after an hour of gameplay. Seifer seemed a bit on the dense side and I didn't know what the hell he was doing half the time.

    The female leads of all the FF games except FFVIII have been fantastic. Compared to the rest of the series the girls from FFVIII and merely bimbos almost on par with the big breasted characters from all crap western games (cough, Unreal 2).
    I dunno, i just couldnt warm to any of the characters in FFIX. They were so insultingly twee. Far too cute for their own good. I think if it came down to a choice between having someone like squall who, to me, just came across as being a moody bastard, and Zidane, who i thought was a cocky, annoying, monkey tailed cheesefu*ck f*ckface, ill choose Squall *L*
    So far, i think only FFX has had a storyline and characters to compete with FFVII. Mmmmm...Lulu. :D
    Cant wait for advent children..tho i cant help but wish it was just a new FFVII game...


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