History TearJerker / Videogames

** Hell, most of the final mission can feel like that. You've watched as the squad you got to know [[spoiler: get killed one by one untill it's just you left, then you refuse to take the only option to escape Reach to ensure your final mission will be complete and to protect others. You know you will die but don't know just how much your sacrifice will contribute to the war, dammit Noble 6, I didn't want you to die...]]

** These are all magnified a hundredfold if you opt to name Lucas' family after your own. Particularly if your family matches up, having two parents and two brothers, you being one of the brothers. I did this. And was especially stricken with {{Wangst}} during the final boss fight when [[spoiler: your own brother knowingly [[HeroicSacrifice commits suicide]] to effectively save you]].

*** On the subject of ''You're the Inspiration'', this Troper has a display where he works that holds CDs and randomly plays segments of them if you press a button. One of the buttons will play a song off a CD by Chicago. Yes, the song played is ''You're the Inspiration''. If this Troper is not on cash, I walk over and turn it down every time. I just can't listen to that song after EBA. Can't do it.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYma2tRjz8 Mokou's]] [[TouhouProject backstory]] is tragic enough to squeeze some tears out of [[AceOfScarabs this troper]], especially when paired with her [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme song]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=majdtmwRWfU Yuyuko's]] backstory is just as bawl-worthy. To explain,[[spoiler: Yuyuko's ability was, at first, to manipulate spirits of the dead. As time went on, it grew stronger and stronger, to the point of being able to will death onto mortals. Terrified of her ability, she committed suicide, and her body was used to seal off a misfortune-bringing tree, which later lead to the events of Perfect Cherry Blossom.]]
** While this is a fanwork, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ8jpIY5nj0 Cool&Create's]] ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40fwAWEiE3M&feature=response_watch S Complex]]'' puts a really tragic spin on the less memorable Aki sister, Shizuha. [[spoiler:She loves her sister dearly, but feels left out and lonely because Minoriko is constantly being invited to feasts. Harsh words are said, and Shizuha's heart is broken.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7_400E6p4 Double Scarlet]] tells a story about the Scarlet Sisters. [[spoiler:At the beginning, Flandre and Remilia are lonely, so, with the help of Patchouli Knowledge, they go conquering lands and make friends with Sakuya Izayoi and Hong Meiling after [[DefeatMeansFriendship besting them in battle]]. Over time, though, Flandre becomes more distant from Remilia, and is assumedly locked up in the basement. But it gets better. Patchouli shows Remilia a picture depicting the sisters holding hands that Flandre drew. Overcome with guilt, Remilia runs into the basement [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and shares a tearful and apologetic hug with the sister she's been ignoring for some time.]]]]
*** The [[{{Doujinshi}} fancomic]] ''Red Sky of Japonesia'', where Shikeiki passes judgement on Remilia for her crimes against her sister, has a massive double whammy in its second half: [[spoiler:first, Shikeiki defeats Remilia in danmaku combat ''very'' thoroughly, [[BreakTheHaughty completely shattering Remilia's facade of being an arrogant, in-control vampiress]] and causing her to scream for help in ''exactly the same way her sister did'' while locked in the basement, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone making her realise the weight of what she did to her own sister]]; the second whammy comes when Flandre interrupts Shikeiki's judgement to ''forgive'' her sister of the crime of locking her away out of fear of her power to destroy, [[TakingTheBullet absorbing Shikeiki's danmaku barrage]] and giving her sister a tearful hug.]] It's difficult to hold the tears in after that.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWpsZi4Sy0 Miku Hatsune's rendition of "Cirno's Math Class"]] is a far cry from the cute and energetic {{IOSYS}} version. [[spoiler:The Cirno portrayed here is a much older one who has taken up the mind-numbing life of an office worker in the city. There's a very real sense that an essential part of Cirno's character has been lost over the years, and that she resents the loss of it quite bitterly, as well as the loss of the friends from those carefree days. The video ends with Cirno leaving her job and the city towards an unknown future, presumably never to return]].
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CRLDxNEV1g This]] Touhou PV. ThisTroper survived all the examples above, but in this one, he couldn't hold back tears. Warning: [[WaddlingHead Yukkuri]] Material
** The final stage of the fangame ''Concealed The Conclusion'', where it is revealed that [[spoiler:Reimu is dying, and when she dies, all of Gensokyo will go with her. After battling through countless foes, Marisa, perhaps Reimu's greatest friend, has to face her down in one final danmaku duel]].

** The ending is made worse with FridgeLogic in that after Lan wakes up post-credits, ''MegaMan doesn't speak''. The poor kid could've dreamed he was talking to him...
* The ending to ''[[MegaManStarForce Star Force]] 3'' was this combined with a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Geo's beaten the big bad twice, the second in such a way that it will never return. Except... by doing so he has sentenced himself to death in space, since fighting Meteor G generated so much noise that the rocket - the one that Geo ''needed'' to be able to get to and from the Earth and the Meteor - has completely failed. Not only that, but unlike the first game with a similar scenario, theres no capsule for Geo to ride off in, no capsule which his friends could send a signal for it to track back to Earth - nothing. And then you see everyone in the WAZA hq realising this. But then, a message is sent to everyone's Hunter. The sender? Kelvin - Geo's dad. [[HotShounenMom Hope]] proceeds to break down into tears as she hears her husband's voice for the first time in three years. But thats not where it ends, far from it. You see the reason Kelvin has sent out this message - and to the entire world even - is to ask them, plead with them - no - '''beg''' them to please help his son who is now floating in space, protected only by a small field of EM waves that won't last long. He asks them both as a human being and as a father, to help the boy who saved their lives. Now if you know the MegaMan series, you know that it puts a lot of effort into proving just how HumansAreBastards, so you really don't expect much... The entire world gets to work, distributing power to WAZA, as well as creating a Purpose signal so strong, that it literally becomes ''Purpose wave'' which begins to tug at the EM waves surrounding Geo, and bringing him home. One small problem though - it seems that Omega-Xis and Kelvin aren't gonna be able to come with him, setting it up to be a BittersweetEnding. And during the credits we're treated to drawings depicting how Geo's life continued once he came back to Earth. However after the credits you see that though two weeks have passed, Geo has been hiding his sadness over his loss of both his best friend and his Father for a second time. Then suddenly, we see a blue shooting star crash down towards him, revealing that not only is Omega-Xis fine, but he's brought someone with him. Cut to the Stelar household where Hope has just finished making dinner, to find her son walk through the front door with not only everyone's favourite alien - but with the man she loves. Cue the HappilyEverAfter.

* Many of the endings for {{Dawn of War}} Dark Crusade. Especially the Tau, Eldar, and Space Marine ones.

* Dead Rising pits you against many psychopaths as the game progresses. Most of them are just normal people who snapped and went crazy when the zombies arrived, and the player must kill them to protect other survivors. One of them is a crazed Vietnam veteran carrying a machete, who wanders around in a hardware store. Only after fighting and nearly killing him does he reveal that he has been suffering from flashbacks to Vietnam the entire time. While this was obvious to most players, what he revealed next came as a shock: [[spoiler: He had been out on a shopping trip with his young granddaughter when the zombies arrived, and he watched as she was torn apart and eaten by zombies. He tells you this as he hands you his wallet with a bloodstained photo of his family. After his granddaughter died, his vision "flashed white" and he starting suffering from flashbacks. He tells you this after you, the player, have just ensured his death.]]

*** Mao's Japanese voice actor, Hiromi Hirata, is literally a walking TearJerker. [[http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=MNZMCdO3KAs# t=4m48s Just watch this scene without tearing up.]] And then you actually have to ''fight'' them with all their battle voices in the same tear jerking tone [[spoiler:calling out to Mao's dad.]]

* [[spoiler:Sophia's letter to Anton]] during the ending of ''{{Professor Layton}} and the Diabolical Box''. I've got [[SandinMyEyes something in my eye]]. * sniff*

** What got me was the animation Isaac goes through during the revelation - even though you never see his face, his body , because [[language speaks volumes for just how badly it hits him. Even worse if you read his in-game diaryspoiler: he knew Nicole was dead, but kept himself in denial up until that point]]. Ouch.

**** This troper recalls watching as Briden Brad was taken to...Valhalla, heaven...or whatever the afterlife for those warriors of the light is and too this day this troper swears that as he vanished into the sky a [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence bright shining start that wasn't there before appeared]].

**** This troper recalls watching as Briden Brad was taken to...Valhalla, heaven...or whatever the afterlife for those warriors of the light is and too this day this troper swears that as he vanished into the sky a [[AscendedToAHigherPlane bright shining start that wasn't there before appeared.]]

** ''ResidentEvil2'': [[spoiler:the apparent death of Ada Wong.]]
*** See also : {{Narm}} due to cheesy voice acting.
*** In fairness, [[NarmCharm most RE fans have a high tolerance for this.]] Of course, the ''novelization'' of that scene hits a lot harder, mostly because we as readers get to hear a lot of [[spoiler:Ada's]] thoughts.

* ''ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', when [[spoiler: TragicMonster Steve changes back to human form, but then dies]].
** This troper may or may not have a little of a sibling complex, but she finds [[spoiler: the twins' "reunion" after Alfred gets owned]] rather twistedly ("twistedly" being a given when talking about the characters in question) moving. [[spoiler: He gets shot, falls down a huge pit, and still manages to drag himself to the spot where Alexia's frozen leaving a bright red blood trail all the while just in time to see her wake up - the last things he sees and probably in his eyes the best thing he could've picked, having literally missed her [[VillainousCrossdresser like]] [[SplitPersonality crazy]] while they were apart. As for her, oh, what a fine thing to wake up to, and while herself doesn't change expression at all she blows up Claire and Steve's snowmobile from probably miles away, proceeding to cradle her dead brother, stroking his hair and singing him a lullaby. Somehow it makes it all the worse that with the time Alexia's been frozen for, this is the first time - and obviously ends up being the ''only'' time - they've seen each other since they were kids.]]
* The remake/port of the first game on the Gamecube has one. If you are playing as Jill, [[spoiler: when you meet Barry in the underground of the mansion, he points his gun at her since Wesker manipulated him by using his family as blackmail. Jill wrestles the gun out of his hand and aims it at him. The monster that has been stalking the player appears and Barry frantically begs Jill to give his gun back. If you say yes, you'll be on the road to the good ending. Say no, and you'll see Jill hesitate, which at this point, the monster attacks Barry, knocking him into the abyss as he drops a photo of his family near Jill.]]
** For that matter, the story behind the monster, [[spoiler: Lisa,]] herself, [[spoiler: she was once a little girl whose father designed the mansion and unfortunately knew its secrets. She and her mother were kidnapped when Umbrella muredered her father. The two were experimented upon with what would become the T-virus until her mother died. Lisa wasn't as fortunate; she mutated into a grotesque form and her mental faculties degenerated. Lonely, and obsessed with her mother, Lisa went insane. It gets really depressing when you read her diary and the messages from her parents dotting the game.]]
*** "mom, where? I mis yuo" (typos are from the original, due to [[spoiler:Lisa's]] mental degeneration). Nothing that horrible should happen to a child.
* Hell, if you really wanna get down to it, Resident Evil in general. The premise. The whole town of Raccoon City: innocent women, children, the elderly, hell AndYourLittleDogToo, being infected, killed, and resurrected into flesh-eating, shambling corpses, that [[YouBastard YOU]] have to kill. The worst part? AllOfThisCouldHaveBeenAvoided if Umbrella weren't such dicks.
** Even Outbreak, a side title, manages to be depressing. 8 people fighting desperatly to survive, seeing familier friends, co workers, and family all shambling undead. Cindy sees her co-worker eaten alive, Jim may be forced to kill some of his own co workers, Kevin witnessing the fall of the RPD...Even Bob, Marks friend, can get this troper misty eyed. The only one who seems not to go through any variety of trauma at all from the incident is antisocial plumber David.
*** Maybe somewhat similarly, in ''[=REmake=]'', just clear the mansion as much as you can, wander the halls, and ponder the deaths of the other members of S.T.A.R.S. for a little while. Especially Edward ([[WhatHappenedToMommy poor little teammate Rebecca]]), Forest (Jill's version of the scene where he's discovered dead does have impact), or Richard (especially if you fail the TimedMission that ensues after first running into him). All a bunch of brave and perfectly likable men who had no idea what they were up against and ended up brutally murdered. They had a certain amount of backstory, character, and all of that. And you know what? Most of S.T.A.R.S. were kind of friends. And you have to turn out to be just too late to help them out. Seriously do factor in characters' histories with each other the best you can, too - fail the aforementioned TimedMission as Chris and Rebecca has to watch the guy who showed her the ropes as a S.T.A.R.S. member die; Chris and Forest were somewhat close as well as friendly rivals, and if the latter's zombification doesn't hit you a little bit during a Chris playthrough, have a peek at [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CgbQnI_oeA this]], focus on Chris at the very end and listen to the zombie's moans niiiice and closely... Oh. Also Enrico. There was a mission in ''Umbrella Chronicles'' from Rebecca's point of view in which she and Richard are searching for their captain, sure that once they find him, everything will be all right. Yeah. Not only does he die, he's last in the game's body count. Not only is it painfully clear that he wasn't able to save his men, the last thing he realizes is that it's because they were all betrayed that all of this had to happen to them. Whether or not any of this actually gets you crying depends on who you are, but it's bound to at least spark a "...son of a ''bitch''" kind of reaction.

** Everywhere in the ending ''{{Professor Layton}} and the Unwound Future", but especially during the third-to-last cutscene. [[spoiler: "I don't want to say goodbye again! I can't! I won't!" All the more heartrending when you remember Professor Layton usually plays the part of the unflappable, unemotional English gentleman; for that one moment, the mask slips, and you get to see his heart in the process of breaking -- and your own breaks with it.]]

** Depending on how sympathetic you are to him, [[MissionControl Dura]][[AIIsACrapShoot ndal's]] death(s) are this. [[DeathIsCheap All of them.]] Especially the one in Marathon 2 where the player himself has to kill him by smashing the computer core that he's running on, telling you to do so in his normal [[TheStoic cool, collected]] manner while literally falling apart. Of course, [[IGotBetter he gets better]]. Also, the end of Hang Brain where Durandal is taking himself apart so that he can store some fragment of himself in the [[PlayerCharacter Player Character's]] brain.
*** -> "Finish me. I won't [[MindRape be]] like [[StaffChick Le]][[StuffedIntoTheFridge e]][[BusCrash la]]."

* And there's "Minerva's Den", a new single-player story mode, available as DLC. After the twist revealing that Subject Sigma is [[spoiler:Porter, and that it was The Thinker impersonating Porter's personality in order to guide you, it gets even sadder; Sigma/Porter, optionally, finds an Audio Diary where Porter has put his recently-deceased wife's personality into the machine so she can still be with him...but he realizes that he can't live with a fake wife, and decides to follow Tenenbaum to the surface, where not only is his human self restored, but he visits his wife's grave one last time to leave a letter saying he's ready to "let her go her way" on her tombstone, accepting the fact that she's gone.]] After receiving a PS3 Trophy for beating that campaign, I put the controller down and sobbed.