Moments in video games that impacted you emotionally. - Games

I'm probably gonna get mocked for this, but I really found the Halo:Reach storyline emotionally engaing. I love the Halo storyline, but Reach really brought home how much humanity has suffered. So many good moments; the bit where Jorge stays behind, the bit where you listen to the radio chatter as the Covenant shoot down a civilian transport and the bit right at the end after you die being my particular favourites.

Yeah, I aint too much of a fan of Halo, but Reach had some great moments.

Episode 1, when Alyx smiles and hugs you :3:

Fable 3, When walter died mad me pretty sad

Knights of the Old Republic 2 [sp]There is a part where you arrive at this Czerka Complex in the jungles of Telos. The place had just been overrun with mindless droids that attacked and killed the workers. As you fight them you come across a long door that is in the middle of a hallway of doors. You can either destroy or pick the door (should you have the proper skill.) In doing you are greeted by a petrified green Twi'lek Czerka whom tells you in a terrified tone that he was a worker whom sealed himself in the room when he saw droids killing everyone in the facility. You can ask the man to follow you, in which you will rescue him. However, should you take the dark side, you will ask the man for him to give you everything he has on him. Fearing for his life, the man agrees. Asking him for more stuff will trigger the man to become aware of your dark side and will scream for you to get away from him. Afterword, you start fighting him, in which you will easily win, and the man falls to the floor dead.[/sp] I always seemed to feel so bad after doing that. The guy was just so desperate that you feel like a criminal when you choose the dark path. Gears of War 2 [sp] There is a scene where after you scour the Locust hollow, you find the cell where Dom's wife is being held. Dom had spent years searching for his wife. When Dom opens the cage, Maria comes out and wobbles over to Dom, who is relived to see her and smiles happily as she falls on his arms. However, Marcus speaks to Dom and Dom soon snaps out of his vision and finds Maria horribly disfigured from the locust labor camp. She has cuts all around her, and isn't even aware of her surroundings. Terrified, Dom begins crying and asking Marcus what to do. Marcus tells Dom he knows what to do. Dom does. He cries and hugs Maria and tells her he loves her before he pulls out a pistol, aims it at her head, and pulls the trigger. [/sp] This scene was spoiled for me, and I didn't cry on it, but it did make me feel so sad for Dom. It was also the most realistic moment in a video game. The way Dom cries and yells is so realistic that I swear he has soul. Truly one of video game's greatest moments. Also, the scene in which [sp] Cole Train gets on the microphone and smack talks the Locust Queen[/sp] was hilarious for me. First time I have ever laughed so hard in a game. I also never saw it coming too, which made for an even bigger surprise. Developers should definitely start doing this in more games. Minecraft [sp] After you have dug down to the bedrock and have spent days branch mining for minerals, you come across as 2x1 piece of diamond block. Thrilled, you mine it quickly before taking your mine cart to the surface where you cross your railroad lines to your house to smelt your bounty. Your eagerness gets you, and you quickly open the chest which you had hidden in your bed wall behind a painting and you take out it's one possession: the first diamond you ever mined. Your hands shaking from excitement, you quickly take the three diamonds and craft your first diamond pickaxe. Thrilled, you decide to test the pick out by mining rock. The incredible mining rate comples you, and you decide to do what you always wanted to do: mine obsidian. You make your way down to your branch mine and follow one of the trails untill you reach a cave section you've discovered. (Which turns out to be part of your original mine where you got your first diamond that you sealed of because you kept dying from lava.) You make your way to a part where you have made an obsidian goldmine from pouring water on a pool of lava. You viciously mine the obsidian, pouring water at places where lava still flows. After mining the floor, you assume the ground is safe, so you decide to simply power mine the ore. However, your cockiness gets you, and you realize too late that the ground is now lava and you fall in. You try to get out your bucket, but you are not quick enough and you die in the lava pit. The lava than proceeds to melt your diamond pickaxe, the 26 pieces of iron you were to busy to store, and the rest of your valuable inventory.[/sp] FML!

Fallout 3. No moment specifically, but I always thought: "Wait, what if people run out of ammunition/food/etc.? I don't see any factories..."(Before the Pitt was released). Really, all humanity did was prolonging their death. Using the past to prolong the present a tiny bit more. Made me kind of sad through the whole game, because everything was futile anyway :smith:

[QUOTE=Canuhearme?;27563078]Rockstar actually meant for it to be that way, it's supposed to be symbolic.[/QUOTE] I know, it's still sad though

In Super meat boy when I [sp] unlocked The Kid's stage[/sp][sp]Then I stopped playing[/sp]

In Oblivion a mod added 3 Mystics that travelled along the road and would bless the player/ heal him for free. I really started to like those three because they got me out of trouble so many times. Then one day I was walking along the highway and I saw that familiar figure standing still. I decided to check it out and the mystic was standing over the two corpses of her fellow mystics, heavily bloodied and with scattered goblin corpses around her. For weeks in game time, every time I walked past that place the Mystic would still stand there, looking at her former Mystics. Usually with more corpses around then last time. I'd always drop some food around her because I felt really bad for her. Then one day when I passed by again and brought some food, I didn't see the familiar shape of the Last mystic bearing a torch. Instead I saw an Hill Giant standing over 3 bloodied corpses, 3 dead mystics. I was really touched by this, from the start where i just saw the 2 dead till the very end where I found 3 corpses. Closest point to crying I've ever been because of a game. Yet the beauty of this is that this was just an entirely random event, generated by a few mods that just changed the main game.

BioShock 1 good ending: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbD5_1qxE3E[/media] You take these little girls up to the surface, away from the horror that is Rapture. You treat them like your own daughters; you give them good lives and memorable experiences. And then you die. With your family.

[QUOTE=sniperkitty;27555496]When John Marston died. :smithicide: [editline]20th January 2011[/editline] Damn ninja.[/QUOTE] Go fuck yourself.

The Isolation of Portal really got to me on my first playthrough. After staring speechless at the ending credits I just sat staring at the screen thinking of how alone it made me feel, about the people who wrote on the walls, about the people who worked at Aperture, about how it became what it was in the game. Another scene I remember was in Mass Effect 2 (A brilliant game for this kind of thing, especially the ending :'c) on Illium there's a salarian and an asari (father and daughter respectively) arguing over what to get the asari's mother. Each time you come back their lines change and eventually you realise what the gift is for. salarians only have a 40-ish year lift span where as asari have a life span over 1000 years. The father is looking for something for the asari's mother to remember him by as he is soon to die and she is to live for many more centuries. By the last line the undertone of sadness and acceptance in the salarian's voice was at full and the resonating feelings of his daughter showed in her voice as well. It added a whole new depth to the mass effect universe and was a truly sad moment. I hope Bioware do something like this in Mass Effect 3.

When, to get the neutral ending in Bioshock 2, wherein you [sp]die[/sp] instead of [sp]being absorbed into a teenaged girl, who is almost certainly your daughter[/sp], you had to kill a single Little Sister, causing Eleanor to [sp]go absolutely BATSHIT, resulting in the wholesale slaughter of the entire prison, including Sophia Lamb and about 20 Little Sisters.[/sp] Also, when I found out that Duke Nukem Forever was back and being made by Gearbox.

When my [sp]father got killed[/sp] in Fallout 3

The end of Ac:BC. Seriously, wtf was that?!

Final Fantasy 3. Half way through the game and suddenly the fucker flips the switch. It stops being about saving the world... and starts being about revenge. Best FF of them all. Kefka is one of the coolest and most realistic villains I've ever seen.

[QUOTE=Doomish;27560127]Dead Space. [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/"]View YouTUBE video[/URL] [URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=7aNlQ8rBQHs[/URL] Throughout the ENTIRE GAME, Isaac shows not one single emotion besides pain and anguish as his armor and flesh are practically ripped from him by dozens of horrible monstrosities. He's overcome every obstacle. He's returned the Marker to its rightful pedestal. It's just before the final boss, and then he and his girlfriend can escape and have hot space engineer sex on the escape shuttle. Isaac enters the decontamination chamber for the final time, its autocycle begins. Then Kendra steps out of the shadows. Outside the chamber. The conniving bitch undoes everything you've just gone through, the Marker is practically removed from its place, and then she springs it on you. She tells you to watch the video from Nicole again, "and this time, watch it all the way through." You watch the same message that came upon you in the very beginning of the game, but this time, Nicole takes the easy way out to spare herself. As she brings the needle to her arm, Isaac reacts for the first time. He partially covers his eyes and turns away. It's a small, simple motion, but it lets you know that underneath all the armor, Isaac is still human, and all this emotion is just thrown at him out of the blue. Everything he's believed so far has been a lie. The player is in full control of him as he does this, and all they can do is watch as his hand falls from his face, curls into a fist around his weapon, and continues to listen to Kendra's smug, annoying voice.[/QUOTE] Thing is, From the fist 15 mins of DS2, He seems to have gotten over it (Aside from the Dementia)

When I drowned the adoring fan. I've never been so happy...

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;27571877]Final Fantasy 3. Half way through the game and suddenly the fucker flips the switch. It stops being about saving the world... and starts being about revenge. Best FF of them all. Kefka is one of the coolest and most realistic villains I've ever seen.[/QUOTE] I thought that was FFVI.

[sp]Claus' death and resurrection as the masked man[/sp] in Mother3 :smith:

[QUOTE=Mr. Massacre;27572133][sp]Claus' death and resurrection as the masked man[/sp] in Mother3 :smith:[/QUOTE] [sp]And then his SECOND death, accidentally by his own fucking brother, after being convinced of his evil ways by his dead mother.[/sp] :smithicide:

Leaving [sp]Sev[/sp] behind on Kashyyyk

[QUOTE=Hashmere;27556366]Pretty much all of Majora's Mask. That's an emotional game. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDX4ZwUeOok[/media][/QUOTE] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALzUypz-EQw[/media] :ohdear:

When i played grand theft auto 3, San Andreas, i would always attempt to complete every mission and do it the way i wanted to. I had completed all the missions, got my outfit, bought all the houses, and gotten the specific car i wanted to, except for a mission where you had to fly a little fucking red baron toy plane and destroy a few cars. I spent 4 hours straight on that mission, and when i had just destroyed it, the power went off in the house, and it didn't save. I literally curb stomped my ps2 and it has never worked since then :(

[QUOTE=Septimas;27573000]When i played grand theft auto 3, San Andreas, i would always attempt to complete every mission and do it the way i wanted to. I had completed all the missions, got my outfit, bought all the houses, and gotten the specific car i wanted to, except for a mission where you had to fly a little fucking red baron toy plane and destroy a few cars. I spent 4 hours straight on that mission, and when i had just destroyed it, the power went off in the house, and it didn't save. I literally curb stomped my ps2 and it has never worked since then :([/QUOTE] Your own fault for not saving, i saved after everything i did, missions, mini-missions shit like that.

Bioshock 2 ending.

[QUOTE=WhoopingCrane;27568339]Minecraft [sp] After you have dug down to the bedrock and have spent days branch mining for minerals, you come across as 2x1 piece of diamond block. Thrilled, you mine it quickly before taking your mine cart to the surface where you cross your railroad lines to your house to smelt your bounty. Your eagerness gets you, and you quickly open the chest which you had hidden in your bed wall behind a painting and you take out it's one possession: the first diamond you ever mined. Your hands shaking from excitement, you quickly take the three diamonds and craft your first diamond pickaxe. Thrilled, you decide to test the pick out by mining rock. The incredible mining rate comples you, and you decide to do what you always wanted to do: mine obsidian. You make your way down to your branch mine and follow one of the trails untill you reach a cave section you've discovered. (Which turns out to be part of your original mine where you got your first diamond that you sealed of because you kept dying from lava.) You make your way to a part where you have made an obsidian goldmine from pouring water on a pool of lava. You viciously mine the obsidian, pouring water at places where lava still flows. After mining the floor, you assume the ground is safe, so you decide to simply power mine the ore. However, your cockiness gets you, and you realize too late that the ground is now lava and you fall in. You try to get out your bucket, but you are not quick enough and you die in the lava pit. The lava than proceeds to melt your diamond pickaxe, the 26 pieces of iron you were to busy to store, and the rest of your valuable inventory.[/sp] FWL![/QUOTE] Inv edit does wonders.

Meeting [sp]Agrippa[/sp] in Amnesia... Or the [sp]Torture chambers[/sp].

[QUOTE=shadow_of_intent;27572565]Leaving [sp]Sev[/sp] behind on Kashyyyk[/QUOTE] What the hell happened to him :/

Oh yeah, also Mafia. It deserves to be a movie. A fucking Oscar winning movie.