I don't recall ever crying, because of a game. (Nor movies for that matter.)
I do recall feeling sad for Goku's dad in that one DBZ movie where Freeza blows up planet Vegeta, lol.
The closest I've come to crying in a video game is in Final Fantasy VI, when I didn't feed Cid enough fish, he died, and Celes tried to commit suicide while her opera theme played.
Same here. The music, the direction, & the entire vibe of their current situation was just depressing.
FF 6 desperately needs to be rewritten like the FF Tactics PSP port.
One of the saddest parts I've seen in a game is during Persona 2 Innocent Sin when one of the main characters gets stabbed to death right after they defeat the final boss.
They couldn't heal her wounds so she died from extreme loss of blood.
The real tragedy is when Philemon offers to prevent the oracle of maiya, before innocent sin began.
(Oracle of maiya is the name of the apocalypse that occurred in IS.)
What happened is that Philemon didn't give birth to a new world at all.
What he had done was channel in the psyche of the world populace before the events that led to the Oracle of Maiya, but with one concession.
He erased all traces of the masquerade & Maya Amano of ever being friends with each other.
Therefore effectively blocking out the conditions needed to fulfill the "Oracle of Maiya" all together.
I'd like to elaborate more about the background story, but I'd need at least 3 post to do so.
I'll just add that the "Innocent Sin" of Persona 2 Innocent Sin is that Tatsuya couldn't forget his friends.
This is the exact moment when Tatsuya f'ed up everything for everybody.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBH5aL9K0SgThis in turn led up to the "Eternal Punishment" of Persona 2 Eternal Punishment.
I'll quote an old post that I made in some other forum. In order to explain in as few words as possible what the Eternal Punishment actually is.
The core conflict in Eternal Punishment is about a boy who created a paradox. He still retained memories from the "other side".
The "other side" is the world of Innocent Sin.
What triggered his past was a woman who destroyed the world through her death. A ritual called the Oracale of Maiya.
That woman Maya Amano, who will be referred to here on out as "Longinus Lady"
That woman labeled that kid as the Deja vu boy, because that boy who she bumped into at the subway station seemed oddly familiar to her.
With the appearance of the Deja Vu boy, like a domino effect.
Deja Vu boy had unintentionally awakened her memories too.
The deja vu/paradox boy & Longinus Lady were like Adam & Eve & the apple would be their memories of each other.
However unlike Adam & Eve, Paradox boy & Longinus lady don't give birth to mankind, they DESTROY IT!
Or in other words they are both Harbingers of non thought.
The existence of the paradox boy awakened a mechanism that allowed the populace of the world to regain their memories of the other side.
The world of Eternal Punishment was in danger of vanishing If too many people recalled their past lives in Innocent Sin.
(Since you know. Half of these assholes are already dead in the other side. The other side known as "Innocent Sin".)
The saddest part is that Maya Amano. (The girl who died from loss of blood in Innocent Sin.)
Is forever forbidden to remain a stranger of the masquerade.
(The cast from P2 IS.)
The Persona 2 duology finally ends with Maya watching her "past" pass her by.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbAslwd_kZYShe would've opened another can of worms/pandora's box had she approached Tatsuya in that ending.
If there's one game that came the closest to having a story that was so touching that it could make a grown man cry. The Persona 2 games were probably it.
I almost cried when "The Boss" died in MGS3.
I almost cried from embarrassment. MGS's overly elaborate melodrama just sickens I.
Another game that was tragic imo is Suda 51's Moonlight Syndrome.
It's about a guy who had an incest love affair with his older sister.
She dies in a traffic accident.
The guy clings on to a girl named Mika Kishi, because Mika reminded him of his older sister. In order to persevere the memory of his older sister. Mika Kishi later gets killed by a rapist.
The guy makes a deal with the god of contracts, Mithra.
In order to anull Mika's death, & extend her lifespan.
I'll skip all the details & say that the guy had to kill Mika himself in order to bring her back to him. If only for a few seconds.
The real tragedy happens in Suda 51's "Silver Case"
When the guy from Moonlight Syndrome gets gunned down by a cop, lol.