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The Castlevania Dungeon Forums => Hardcore Gaming 101 => Topic started by: Clara E. Leet on March 03, 2008, 10:16:06 PM
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What's the most emotional game you've ever played? One that just really tugs at your heart strings or strikes you deep down inside. It can be an entire game or a certain part of a game.
Please mark any spoilers.
For me, Lost Odyssey has to be the saddest game I've ever played. I don't think I've cried so much during a game. I just got to the part where you first meet Mack and Cooke and I cried nonstop throughout the entire scene. It was so sad... and the dreams that Kaim remembers are so well written and very moving.
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I thought the ending to FFTactics was kinda sad - with Ramza & co. being killed by defeating Altima.
A lot of people think or thought Aeris' death in FFVII was sad, but I didn't. However I thought the part when Sector 7 collapses & kills Biggs Wedge & Jesse was pretty fucked up.
When Sonic Adventure 2 was released I thought the end was a bummer when Shadow seemingly falls to his death. That should've been Shadow's demise right there & left his character out of any other game.
Megaman X5 had a sad ending with Zero's destiny coming full circle. Again, they should've left that as is instead of churning out more sequels involving him.
There's a lot of RPGs that have emotional moments, can't think of any right now..
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Some parts of Metal Gear Solid.
*HERE BE SPOILERS"
Especially Sniper Wolf's death. Poor Otacon...
In FFVII, I found Red XIII's scene at his father's statue to be much more sad than Aeris's death, really.
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Normally I'd probably say Xenogears, since it did everything more or less almost perfectly. But emotional... hmmm.... Can't say it did, it did what it had perfectly, but it was never the tear jerking type.
The one I remember now..... either Valkyrie Profile or Lost Odyssey. But my memory is rather incomplete right now.
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I never really got emotional in a game...except in Super Metroid when Mother Brain kills the Metroid that just saved your life. I got so pissed off that dying was not an option.
BEST SNES GAME!!
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In Reply To #5
I. Fucking. Love. You. T_T
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Any of the Dynasty Warriors games. If you go in and read about all the characters, they all have rather sad endings. All the people in that game (except for a few) actually existed at one pointed in time, and they're all dead now.
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Considering they lived quite a couple of centuries ago, I'd expect them to be dead.....
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Shadow of the Colossus. It was rough watching Agro fall down the chasm, but then when you see him limping back at the very end, it was just about too much to take. It's awesome how a game with just about no dialogue can make you care about the characters so much. Especially when one of those characters is a horse.
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It was a little while ago since I've played it, but:
Cave Story
**some spoilers**
Yeah, I know its a very well made homebrew game and not one of those normal games coming from the industry. But I was rather shocked on what happened through the game and did get attached to the characters... I was crushed when I witnessed certain characters die in front of me, of who you wouldn't expect that to happen to. **(Curly comes to mind.)
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In Reply To #9
I don't like horse. Beef tastes waay better.
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For me it's FF VIII! It was the whole story of the game, the love between Rinoa & Squall and for the time that i was playing it, i thought that i was Squall!! Squall was very much like me!!
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The Longest Journey (2000) maybe fits the category. I remember gaving this game a chance. I didn't perticularly like it and wasn't the gaming experience it promised to be but I got very attached to the character and cared about what she went through.
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Considering they lived quite a couple of centuries ago, I'd expect them to be dead.....
Well, aren't you a quick one?
After playing for hours and hours with these characters that you grow attached to, then go read their biographies, it can get a bit sad.
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Shadow of the Colossus. It was rough watching Agro fall down the chasm, but then when you see him limping back at the very end, it was just about too much to take. It's awesome how a game with just about no dialogue can make you care about the characters so much. Especially when one of those characters is a horse.
Amen.
I was also really sad at the end of DMC3. I am closer to my older brother than anyone. So that one hit close to home.
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In Reply To #3
Dude I actually cried when that happend and I was only 9 or 10 years old when that game came out.
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In Reply To #14
Can't tell if you're trying to insult me or not. But since I just took a test (which I probably didn't do good on, but I'm glad its out of the way) I'll think of it as the latter.
I can't grow attached to Dynasty Warriors characters... at least not from the game. When I play it, I just play for the running around and slaughtering hundreds of people.
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In Reply To #1
I actually hate games like this. it's a real problem with just about everything that comes out of Japan.... Everything is ridiculously tragic. Everyone has such a sad past. It gets old, and ridiculous.
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My vote goes to PONG.
Well, now seriously, The final moments of ICO are pretty emotive, and by saying that I mean FUCKIN TEAR INDUCING. Yeah, I admit I cried with that game.
...but not as much as playing COD
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Silent Hill 2. The characters are so damn hopeless. Eddie is a paranoid murderer, James is depressed,repressed and simply losing his mind, Maria is a creature sent to torment an already unstable young man and Angela was raped as a child and probably killed her whole family. I mean..goddamn.
Overall, the game is a brilliant mixture of creeping horror and sadness, but one scene stands out in terms of sadness and that's Angela walking up the stairs.
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Vandal Hearts II (even more if you don't get the best ending)
Vandal Hearts I
FFT
Legend of Dragoon
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Silent Hill 2. The characters are so damn hopeless. Eddie is a paranoid murderer, James is depressed,repressed and simply losing his mind, Maria is a creature sent to torment an already unstable young man and Angela was raped as a child and probably killed her whole family. I mean..goddamn.
Overall, the game is a brilliant mixture of creeping horror and sadness, but one scene stands out in terms of sadness and that's Angela walking up the stairs.
AH!!! YOU STOLE MY GAME!! >:( >:( >:(
*Ignores this post*
Silent Hill 2. The game was truly more sad than frightening. Angela walking the stairs is truly an annoying scene. There's this part where the movie sequence ends and you get your controls back, and then you see her slowly going up the burning stairs, and you try to run forward and stop her, but you can't. The game doesn't let you.
Though the scene in the game that touched me the most was the one where James sits in the room and watches the tape of his vacation with Sarah. And then he sais: "Sarah didn't die. I killed her." You don't it. You simply don't get it. After all, she died from a disease. All he did was end her suffering. And still, his conscience (Pyramid Head) was torturing him for that. Now that's a strong message here.
After playing for hours and hours with these characters that you grow attached to, then go read their biographies, it can get a bit sad.
Age of Empires 2. XD
You know, the part in the France campaign where Joan of Arc is executed. It's not sad, it's just annoying. Throughout all of the Campaign you must keep Joan alive to complete the level. And then, before the final level, they go and tell you: "Oh, too bad for you, but this is a historical game. And if you know your history, Joan died in the end."
NOOOO!! But why? She was such a nice character! Only at 18, she liberated France and lead its armies to victory. And you worked so hard for it, too. So how does the game repay you? It burns her alive. Thanks.
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My vote goes to the original Ecco the dolphin.
Ecco pretty much goes on a quest to save his family all on his own, fights off legions of evil sea creatures and finally the vortex queen herself. aside from a few words of aide from a couple of pods he saves along the way not even big blue can help him.
this makes it really feel like your alone in an eerie massive empty ocean after he was hyped up to be the most likely candidate to help you out.
it just makes Ecco seem like such a Heroic character who has had nothing but struggle since the vortex captured his family.
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Though the scene in the game that touched me the most was the one where James sits in the room and watches the tape of his vacation with Sarah. And then he sais: "Sarah didn't die. I killed her."
Not Sarah. Mary.
I do agree with you and A-Yty though, Silent Hill 2 is an incredibly emotional game. And I really hate that line where James says, "I killed Mary." It's like the game spends all this time building up the foreshadowing and the hints at what really happened, then it goes and makes it all worthless by spelling out exactly what happened in three little words. Anyway, the depth of the game and the levels on which it toys with your emotions are nearly unrivaled in gaming.
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Any game that kicks my ass repeatedly makes me emotional (in a RAARRGH SMASH & SWEAR kind of way).
Example: Ninja Gaiden.
Twin Cobra is filling that niche at the moment.
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Oh yeah.. The ghost in Link's Awakening that you had to take him to his ruined home, then his grave. That made me tear up when I was a kid.. No idea why. x.x
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In Reply To #24
lol. I don't know why I called her that. Probably confused her with some other character.