History TearJerker / QuestForGlory

* The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series features plenty of such moments ([[GagSeries when]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments it]] [[AffectionateParody wants]] [[YetAnotherStupidDeath to]]), especially the DarkerAndEdgier fourth game. Just a few highlights:

** Katrina. Dear GOD Katrina. ''Shadows of Darkness'' was one of the few games at the time to have truly complex character development (this being the height of the 16-bit Era, so most games were still largely relying on {{Excuse Plot}}s) and one of the earliest where the player could advance the story as if his character was actually falling in love with another character in the game (you even have the option to TELL her you love her at one point). Not only that, but you eventually learn that she was genuinely in love with you. And then she lets herself get manipulated into performing a HeroicSacrifice to protect you from [[TheStarscream Ad Avis]]. [[FromBadToWorse It gets even worse]] when you read [[http://www.theschoolforheroes.com/questlog/1570/daughter-of-darkness/ her]] [[http://www.theschoolforheroes.com/questlog/1597/women-of-glory-4-dark-mistress/ backstory]], which unfortunately never made it into the games themselves. Her life has been one long KickTheDog moment.
*** Fortunately, you can give her a second chance at life in ''Dragon Fire'', but it's a shame that only the Wizard and Fighter can court her.
** In a more "meta" but ''definitely'' no less valid sense, the ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'' disc contains a text file addressed to fans of the games that has led to more than one player insisting there was something in their eye...

** Julanar's story in the second game. A woman who was captured by brigands, all because she wanted to be a healer, and who was turned into a tree by a Djinn so that she could escape from them, but was unfortunately doomed to remain a tree permanently unless someone breaks her spell. One of the quests in the game has the hero help her to remember her humanity, and she thanks you by giving you a magical fruit. However, you cannot change her back, because only her true love can do that, and it is not you. This becomes a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, however, if you play the latter games, as you can tell a character in the third game about her and he will be moved by her story and say that he'll go visit her. You meet him again in the fifth game, and also the restored-to-human Julanar, who is his wife.

** Nikolai and Anna in the fourth game. It's heart-wrenching to see how broken the old man is over losing his beloved all those years ago, and the {{Bittersweet}} conclusion to their storyline manages to be as sad as it is heartwarming.

** Nikolai and Anna in the fourth game. It's heart-wrenching to see how broken the old man is over losing his beloved all those years ago, and the BitterSweet conclusion to their storyline manages to be as sad as it is heartwarming.

* The ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series features plenty of such moments ([[GagSeries when]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny it]] [[AffectionateParody wants]] [[YetAnotherStupidDeath to]]), especially the DarkerAndEdgier fourth game. Just a few highlights:

** Julanar's story in the second game. A woman who was captured by brigands, all because she wanted to be a healer, and who was turned into a tree by a Djinn so that she could escape from them, but was unfortunately doomed to remain a tree permanently unless someone breaks her spell. One of the quests in the game has the hero help her to remember her humanity, and she thanks you by giving you a magical fruit. However, you cannot change her back, because only her true love can do that, and it is not you. This becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, however, if you play the latter games, as you can tell a character in the third game about her and he will be moved by her story and say that he'll go visit her. You meet him again in the fifth game, and also the restored-to-human Julanar, who is his wife.

** In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'' the Rusalka, or the leader of the thieves guild who was transformed into a giant cockroach. You can't save both of them as you have to either be a Paladin or a Thief. Meaning one is doomed by canon.
*** Actually, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything it IS possible]] to play a Paladin with the Lock Picking skill, AND to save both.

** In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'' the Rasulka or the leader of the thieves guild who was transformed into a giant cockroach. You can't save both of them as you have to either be a Paladin or a Thief. Meaning one is doomed by canon.

** Nikolai and Anna in the fourth game. It's heart-wrenching to see how broken the old man is over losing his beloved all those years ago, and the conclusion to their storyline manages to be as sad as it is heartwarming.
** Julanar's story in the second game. A woman who was captured by brigands, all because she wanted to be a healer, and who was turned into a tree by a Djinn so that she could escape from them, but was unfortunately doomed to remain a tree permanently unless someone breaks her spell. One of the quests in the game has the hero help her to remember her humanity, and she thanks you by giving you a magical fruit. However, you cannot change her back, because only her true love can do that, and it is not you. This becomes a crowning moment of heartwarming, however, if you play the latter games, as you can tell a character in the third game about her and he will be moved by her story and say that he'll go visit her. You meet him again in the fifth game, and also the restored-to-human Julanar, who is his wife.

* The ''QuestForGlory'' series features plenty of such moments ([[GagSeries when]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny it]] [[AffectionateParody wants]] [[YetAnotherStupidDeath to]]), especially the DarkerAndEdgier fourth game. Just a few highlights:

** In QuestForGloryIV The Rasulka or the leader of the thieves guild who was transformed into a giant cockroach. You can't save both of them as you have to either be a Paladin or a Thief. Meaning one is doomed by canon.
** In a more "meta" but ''definitely'' no less valid sense, the ''QuestForGloryV'' disc contains a text file addressed to fans of the games that has led to more than one player insisting there was something in their eye...

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0t33RDuzVA Toby's sacrifice]] had this troper wavering between ManlyTears and OcularGushers the first time he saw it.

* Julanar's story in the second game. A woman who was captured by brigands, all because she wanted to be a healer, and who was turned into a tree by a Djinn so that she could escape from them, but was unfortunately doomed to remain a tree permanently unless someone breaks her spell. One of the quests in the game has the hero help her to remember her humanity, and she thanks you by giving you a magical fruit. However, you cannot change her back, because only her true love can do that, and it is not you. This becomes a crowning moment of heartwarming, however, if you play the latter games, as you can tell a character in the third game about her and he will be moved by her story and say that he'll go visit her. You meet him again in the fifth game, and also the restored-to-human Julanar, who is his wife.