Has a video game ever made you shed a tear?

[Hobie-wan]

Are you hiding your tears behind that hairy arm hobie?

No, I was shaking my hairy arm/fist and making an angry face. Kinda hard to hold the camera out to take your own picture.

[glynnahab]

I'm gonna be Captain Obvious and say Mother 3.

The ending of that game stuck with me for weeks. Everything about that scene was perfect.

[Gamerforlife]

Yeah. The bad endings for Heavy Rain are extremely depressing.

The bad ending? I got the best possible outcomes for all of the playable characters and I still saw at least one character, arguably two, get screwed in the end. It's a depressing game

I cried in tears of joy for a long while at the end of Flower. It was just so overwhelmingly beautiful...

Flower's final level is something I can only describe as euphoric. I loved every moment of that stage

[BoneSnapDeez]

I cried at the end (the good ending) of Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World. Kinda cheesy, I know.

[Bikeage]

The music from the first Final Fantasy on NES gets me teary eyed sometimes. In '91 a friend of mine died far too young, who was crazy about FF... it was likely his last completed RPG.

I never really played the game until it came out on the VC, and those haunting, melancholy chiptunes sound so timeless and ethereal I can't help but think about his short time on earth, life and death and the great beyond.

[AdamGomez1987]

Final Fantasy VIII's ending cinematic when Rinoa meets what looks like a dead Squall at their happy spot. Great game!

[YoshiEgg25]

...as well as at the end of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.

I just beat the Unwound Future and I nearly cried.

[JimmyFraska]

The end of Half-Life 2: Episode 2 always gets me.

[lisalover1]

...as well as at the end of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.

I just beat the Unwound Future and I nearly cried.

I got almost to the end of that game a while back, but for some reason, I never finished it. I think I'll do that before summer is over.

[alienjesus]

I cried in tears of joy for a long while at the end of Flower. It was just so overwhelmingly beautiful... I also cried near the beginning of Final Fantasy VII during the cutscene that occurs when you return to Aeris' mother's house after she is kidnapped. Oh, I also cried during pretty much every Phoenix Wright game, as well as at the end of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. Finally, I bawled like a baby from the events leading up to and including the "Heaven" dungeon in Persona 4.

Games are most definitely an art if they can evoke such powerful emotions.

I thought the ending of Prof Layton and the Lost/Unwound Future was sadder. It really aims to hit you where it hurts for that one