[Melbu Frahma]

Originally Posted by nohero

Legend of Dragoon, for two reasons:
1) The ending, when Rose and Dart's dad turn into birds or some shit. I honestly don't remember, having played it a long time ago, but I remember it tugging a bit on the ol' heartstrings.
2) The god-awful voice acting.

For me, the god-awful voice acting was more hilarious than anything. To this day, one of the funniest things to me in any video game is the voice acting in the fight between Haschel and his daughter. Cracks me up every time.

The ending really did tug at the heartstrings, though, especially when Rose is getting all philosophical and speaking to Dart.

[HoboKa]

Originally Posted by Melbu Frahma

For me, the god-awful voice acting was more hilarious than anything. To this day, one of the funniest things to me in any video game is the voice acting in the fight between Haschel and his daughter. Cracks me up every time.

The ending really did tug at the heartstrings, though, especially when Rose is getting all philosophical and speaking to Dart.

Hmm, for me Lavitz's "return" from hell (after you kill the demon) got to me more; more-so because the theme for it was so epic...sigh if only ppl cared more about that game

Oh and Geoffry Taucer covered the other things that got me as well (except strangly enough the FF6 opera scene made me sad too - god I'm such a hopeless romantic for low-fi sprite drama)

[nohero]

Originally Posted by Thylacine

Majora's Mask. This scene --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnOFADtAdmo

I don't know what it is: The crowd cheering for him. Darmani's tears. That nod of acceptance at his own death. I just always realize that even when all is said and done, and Link saves the Gorons, Darmani is dead and he won't be coming back to that loving community. I don't think any video game death leading up to that had quite as much impact for me.

The Zelda series, as a whole, handles the issue of loss really well.

I went to see Seeking a Friend for the End of the World the other day. Now, I'm going to assume no one cares about implicit spoilers for the movie.
During the last minute or so of the film, my girlfriend was getting all teary. While admittedly a sad and bittersweet ending, all I could do was marvel over its similarities to the Anju and Kafei scene as they stand side by side, ready to greet the end of the world together, so long as they have one another. THAT scene got me back in the day, and remains one of the strongest moments in a video game, to me.

[hakstock]

Originally Posted by Geoffrey Taucer

Radical Dreamers -- Star-Stealing Girl

The ending+credits were more heartbreaking

Other than that, I let some tears at the endings of FF8, FF12, Crisis Core and Chrono Cross... damn you Square!

[Damashii!!]

i've never actually cried tears, but the endings to Tower of Heaven, Gears of War 3, and Arkham City totally left me speechless and in deep thought several hours after the game play.

[Unstable Hamster]

Shadow of the colossus,

Spoliers!

Ablo (That's what it sounds like the wanderer says). When that horse fell down the cliff to save the wanderer, all of what Ablo did flashed before my eyes, all the long rides to my goal, jumping on the horse to save me from certain smushing, showing up every time I wake from the colossus' dark energy. It all came back, I don't think I cried, but I never have cared about a character dying in a game that much,

and it was a horse.

End Spolier!

[Sixto]

mordin's scene in me3 and the end of crisis core brought me close to tears

[The Coop]

The moment I realized what I'd done after buying (full price no less) and playing Slaughter Sport and Soul Fighter back when each was new.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

To add to my earlier post:

In ME 3, there are several points in the Curing the Genophage mission which consistently bring me to the edge of tears. partly because Eve's theme is so amazing, and partly because of the grandiosity of the idea of giving the Krogan a new future, destroying the plague that has destroyed their society for thousands of years.

Have I mentioned I love ME3?

[HoboKa]

Originally Posted by Geoffrey Taucer

To add to my earlier post:

In ME 3, there are several points in the Curing the Genophage mission which consistently bring me to the edge of tears. partly because Eve's theme is so amazing, and partly because of the grandiosity of the idea of giving the Krogan a new future, destroying the plague that has destroyed their society for thousands of years.

Have I mentioned I love ME3?

The ending of ME3 made me cry tears of rage for being so bad
But to be serious, I found the scenes you mentioned (and many more) to be quite profoundly sad, because they represent the real tragic follies of mankind...something that Japanese game devs seem to fail to grasp these days.