Biggest Tearjerkers in video games (Spoilers for any listed ones)

^ But everyone already knows about Aerith' fate!

The Ending of Okami, Where Amaterasu goes home.

I don't ever recall a game moving me to tears, but in terms of the biggest Downer Ending that I've ever had the displeasure of playing, the Total Party Kill ending of Mass Effect 2, simply so that I could see how bad it was.

The Worst Ending of Persona 4 is up there.

Any time you get a Song of Healing cutscene in Majora's Mask.

Any time you down a Colossus in Shadow Of The Colossus.

edited 30th Sep '10 1:42:03 AM by PsychoYoshi

Well, the Normal end of the Heaven's Feel routeo of Fate Stay Night is ungodly depressing.

For more conventional games:

Neverwinter Nights 2: The game was at best passable, but Shandra Jerro's death was awesomely done. The sequence with the fiends was just fantastic. Here

Planescape Torment "Regret", 'nuff said. It's kind of complicated but at te beginning ofthe game you find the ghost of a woamn who loved you, later on you find her memories encased in a special stone, and you get a kind of dual-vision bit where you both exprience her memories of an encounter with an earlier incarnation as well as reliving your own memories of the same encounter and well... T He dissonance is jarring, she loves you, you're just using her. Fantastic stuff.

The fight with Roach in Heavenly Sword made me bawl like a baby. It was like beating up a little boy! :(

I've never understood why people find the Colossus's deaths tearjerkers. They were jerks who tried to kill me. They deserved to die.

Arilou: Planescape Torment "Regret", 'nuff said. It's kind of complicated but at te beginning ofthe game you find the ghost of a woamn who loved you, later on you find her memories encased in a special stone, and you get a kind of dual-vision bit where you both exprience her memories of an encounter with an earlier incarnation as well as reliving your own memories of the same encounter and well... T He dissonance is jarring, she loves you, you're just using her. Fantastic stuff.

Pretty much all moments involving Deionarra for me. Planescape Torment is definitely the game that had the most powerful emotional impact on me, EVER. No other game came even close.

This music, god damnit.:

^^^That game was obviously not for you.

They're just defending themselves from you.

You Monster!.

The Daryl's Tomb scene in Final Fantasy VI made me all misty-eyed. There's something tragic about the death of a free spirit.

most video games don't have enough sad endings

if you really want tearjerkers play visual novels , i suggest clannad you may die crying however

fate/stay night has lot of cannon sad ending

You babies cry too easily. REAL MEN don't cry....easily.

I was all ready to talk about that scene in Torment, then you guys beat me to it.

Second place for me has to go to Heavy Rain, especially Jason's death. I had to spend the title sequence convincing myself that it wasn't my fault.

^^ Tch, sure we do.

Your monster dying in Monster Rancher 2—especially if it's your fault like sending them on an expedition when they aren't built for it. From experience, my monster got injured and was in hospital for several weeks, only to die shortly after he comes back. I felt like I murdered my dear sweet Skipper. Q_Q ... And needless to say I did not save.

The ending of Max Payne 2. Well, not on the hardest difficulty mode at least.

Metal Gear Solid 3 ending is the most memorable one. Another, more personal one when I was younger was the time I finally beat the original Star Fox on the hard route... but at the cost of all my wingmen. The somber finale music only helped to drive the point that Fox is all alone now.

The good ending to Persona3. Oh, did I ever bawl. Also, the true ending to Persona4, but those were happy tears. :')

I cried in MGS 2 and MGS 3. In the former when E.E. died, and the latter during the ending.

edited 30th Sep '10 12:44:24 PM by DrFurball

Not only Emerl dying in Sonic Battle, but having to kill him yourself.

edited 30th Sep '10 12:52:02 PM by Pykrete

Phantasy Star III “Lyle bade farewell to Thea and then he died.”

Seriously, I got nothin’.

edited 30th Sep '10 2:38:16 PM by Bananaquit

The ending of Final Fantasy Tactics. You save the world from the revival of the Bloody Angel, but your entire party is lost in the world of the dead, and the person who wrote down the true story is burned at the stake for heresy. Your childhood friend Delita marries princess Ovelia, whom he swore to protect, and becomes the king, but she tries to kill him for manipulating and throwing away the lives of his friends, and he kills her in self defense. In despair at realizing that his ruthlessness has bought him power, but left him with nothing of value in his life, he cries out "Ramza... what did you get!?"

Yeah, the translation was sucky in places, but it pulled through when it really counted.

The ending to Silent Hill Shattered Memories, especially if your profile got you the Love Lost section to the ending.

edited 30th Sep '10 3:51:47 PM by Scisless

The ending of Red Dead Redemption.

The hero is John Marston, who has spent the whole game doing hard tasks for the government, to escape his past and live a simple life with his family. Once you finish these tasks, John gets to go home, and do what seems to be a Playable Epilogue where he reunites with his wife and son, and gets his ranch going again.

In the game's final mission, John is having a heart to heart with his son, Jack, in the barn. Uncle, John's friend and ranch-hand, calls him over. There is a whole ARMY on the horizon, sent by the government agent he's spent the game working for. John is able to hold them off for a bit, but Uncle is fatally shot and he has to escort his family to the barn.

His wife and son get on a horse, and John sends them away, saying that he'll catch up. He peeks outside the barn door, seeing a whole firing squad waiting for him. Knowing that soldiers will keep going after him as long as he lives, he steps outside, and is shot by about 20 bullets at once.

To make it even worse, he just stands there for a moment, trying to breath and with blood all over him. He eventually collapses, as the government agent sits there satisfied. This is even worse because his sacrifice is almost meaningless, since his wife dies less then three years later and his son has taken up the life of an outlaw, the very life he wanted him to avoid.

Sorry for the Wall of Text, but I had to go into a lot of detail. >_<

Ah, can't forget Klonoa Door to Phantomile's tearjerkers either. Grandpa's death and the ending, where you get separated from Huepow.