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What Game Made You Cry The Most?

Japan’s Oricon Life polled 500 men between the ages of teen and 40-something about which games have made them cry the most and complied a list of the top five. Weepy drumroll please…

5. Mother 2
4. Clannad
3. Final Fantasy VII
2. Dragon Quest V
1. Final Fantasy X

What about you? What game made you ball your flaccid heart out?

最も泣いたゲーム、ドラクエをおさえ1位『ファイナルファンタジー10』 [ORICON via 痛いニュース(ノ∀`)]

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  • Akran

    Modern Warfare 2 when the treated the PC as if it were another Console.

  • Lost Odyssey – those who’ve played it know where

  • Davin

    couple have had me close to tears,
    the moment after the fight with ‘the boss’ in Metal Gear Solid : Snake Eater. I swear it takes me close to a minute to press that button everytime.

    Also, the path to the final Colossus in Shadow of the Colossus, when the bridge falls apart. I swear my motions mirrored Wanders

    • MGS 4 has it moments to

      • Davin

        yeah, all the metal gears solid titles have had some sort of tear jerker moment really. Strangely, i found MGS4 the least emotional of the games.

  • Cymelion

    Suikoden – “WAAAAAAAH GREEBO” …. (I think thats the name)

    Not sure what else got a little emotional from Alyx’s voice in HL2ep2 it’s such a shame that I’ll never know what happened since Valve have abandoned HL2ep3 :( Actually now I am sad about that not being released and abandoned.
    RIP Half Life 2 episode 3 :(

  • Everquest. Everytime I died. I cried like a little girl.

  • Michael

    Metal Gear Solid 4 when Snake was crawling to the server room through the heat/ When he was in the graveyard about to commit suicide/ during the wedding when wedding when Otacon tells Sunny about Snake.

  • METAL GEAR SOLID 4 ! =[

    • Drunkspleen

      Yeah, I can understand MGS4 doing it, movies have always been better at evoking emotions than games… ZING!

      Oh man, now I feel dirty and ashamed.

  • Thomas

    Homeworld 1, when you see your planet burning and the last survivors of your race being slaughtered. I took the time to read the back story in the manual before I played and by the time it happened I actually cared. Also the song didn’t help :( sad…. very sad

  • GrizzlyBum

    Aces Combat 5 upset me a bit, especially because the radio really makes you feel like part of a team, but when the game gets sad everyone just stops speaking and you’ve still got to keep fighting.

    As for HL2 – (SPOILERS)
    Alex has been captured:
    (Well i rescued her no surprise there)
    Now we’re both being exploded:
    (okay magic teleporting out, bit cheap but i can handle it)
    Now Alex has been fatally stabbed to death
    (more magic wtf?)
    The ending of EP2 was sad but I was actually slightly relieved that i could get upset without the possibility of his brains getting put back in EP3, I’m 90% sure that won’t happen, even with alien magics.

    Sorry for the rant, that’s been bugging me for a while :)

  • Elite Beat Agents. >_>
    The one with the girl whose father passes away.

  • Andy

    No game has ever quite got there for me, many a movie, tv show, books even. I’ll admit HL 2 Ep 2. final scene, got the closest.

    What do you mean Valve abandoned it???!?!!

  • Andy

    Just as I thought… lies.

  • APK

    Ahhh… Clannad, definite good to see it on the list.

  • Planescape:Torment the ending of that game is the only game to have generated excess eye water

  • American Psycho

    The Darkness

  • Lebolicious

    Shadow of the Colossus & MGS3

  • Costy

    Lost Odyssey for sure. Every scene is sadder than the last.

  • Braid, the ending you get if you have all puzzle pieces but no stars. Very powerful. Shame about the existence of that other ending.

  • toejam

    Has to be Ico, the ending chokes me up every time.

  • No one has mentioned FFVII?

  • ShipsAhoy

    FFVII.
    +1 for Alyx in hl2ep2
    after these comments i’ve decided i do need to play lost odyssey. been considering it for a while.

    oh and lol @ Drunkspleen

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