Most emotional moment in a game ever.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

Ok guys what do you think was the most emotional moment you've ever seen in a game? The moment of high drama that had you yelling, cursing, crying, laughing or whatever.

 

I mean there are the obvious like FFVII with Aeris. But one for me would be that CG video they show on FFVI. You know the one you get for winning. I loved it. It was very emotional and the things they said during it were great.

 

How about for you?

[Guest KoR Fungus]

Hmm, a few that stand out for me...

 

Sephiroth killing Aeris. Yeah everyone says it, but that's because it's simply an amazing moment. It came as a total shock to me, because I hadn't read a FAQ and had no reason to expect it. And thank God for that.

 

Sniper Wolf, right before she died. Damn near brought tears to my eyes.

 

Suikoden 2 at the very end, when the hero and Jowy meet back at the place where their adventure began. The dialogue there is absolutely brilliant, although a bad mistranslation kind of ruins the moment.

 

Final Fantasy 6 is just full of them, but if I had to choose one, I'd say the scene in the world of ruin surrounding getting the airship back. As the airship takes off, you can just feel the hope returning to the world. Magnificently done, as is the norm with FF6.

 

The battle with Magus in Chrono Trigger. Absolutely the best climatic battle ever in an RPG.

 

Wow, I'm now suddenly filled with a desire to go play all those games, heh.

[Guest chirs3]

I'd say Celes' suicide attempt in FFVI was the big one for me.

 

Aeris' death gets an honorable mention.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

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1. The Tagic Ending of Suikoden II - The one where Jowy Blight dies. I know the happy ending is the one in official canon, but I found this one far superior. Jowy is the best villain in any video game, and his death is one of the few times that I ever got choked up over a happening to a fictional character. It is the perfect end to his story.

 

2. Merkava from Xenogears - The whole sequence from when the good guys find Elly hung up on a cross, until after the party escapes. This is the point of the game where the villains get to explain everything. First, Miang (the only person he cares about) betrays Kahran Ramsus, completely destroying his mind. Ramsus proceeds to slaughter Miang & Krelian. The party rescues Elly, only to shoot Fei, and reveal that Miang took over her body. Krelian pops up, they explain everything, and then become one with Deus. The whole sequence is exhausting.

 

3. The Death of Aeris from Final Fantasy VII - Mentioned above, but made all the more powerful because she was the only living Cetra, and thus the only one who had the power to save the planet.

 

4. The Death of Gremio from Suikoden - He sacrifices himself to save the party from the man-eating spores of Milich Oppenheimer. Most emotional of all the party continues to talk to him through a sealed door, while he is slowly being eaten. It is hard not to cry after the spores clear out, and Tir McDohl enters the room, kneels down, and holds Gremio's cape, with no music or dialogue.

 

5. The Poisoning of Doma from Final Fantasy VI - There are a lot of mass murders in video games, but this is such a big deal because of the enormous impact it had on Cyan Garamonde. The guy is never the same again.

[Guest Lethargic]

The most tragic moment in video game history was a couple of days ago when I was playing NFL Fever on Xbox Live and I came back from a 21-0 deficit and threw a TD with 4 seconds left to take the lead. On the kickoff, my player was running up to the ball to kick and just as soon as his leg bent back to kick.....the son of a bitch I was playing quit the game so this hard fought victory I busted my ass to get didn't go on my record. That was very emotional for me and the controller that I threw.

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

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Zelda - Ocarina of Time - I *love* this game. It's got so many great little moments (the Goron dance; Twinrova's flirtatious wink) and big ones as well (Young Link leaving the forest; meeting Zelda in the Castle courtyard). And losing touch with characters you met as a child and meeting them again later in the story adds a lot to the game, I think.

 

The finale rocks, from Link burying his sword to the hilt in Ganon's forehead right up to Zelda sadly sending him back home. The "return scene" at the very end really did almost make me cry. The music is just PERFECT.

 

I *like* sentimental endings. Leave me alone.

 

Resident Evil 2 - 2nd Ending - The moment Birkin realizes he's gonna be real dead, real fast.

 

Dino Crisis 2 - Ending - Regina's salute to Dylan as the complex explodes around them. Too bad there'll be no follow-up on this in the sequel. Poor Dylan and Paula get blown to kingdom come, and next thing you know we're in space, flyng on jetpacks and playing "Jango Fett" with a bunch of mutant dinosaurs. Screw you, CAPCOM.

 

....*sigh* To hell with it. I know they own me. I love you guys!

[Guest J*ingus]

I'd put in more votes for Aeris and Sniper Wolf's untimely demises, but the single moment that hit me hardest was the first "Sending" in Final Fantasy X. They didn't tell you exactly what it was or what it would look like ahead of time, and when it actually happened... damn. Closest I've ever come to crying over a video game.

[Guest NazMistry]

This is not really a emotional moment in the same way that others have been describing but it was damn emotional for all my friends and me. It only happened two weeks ago.

 

My friend Mark is a demon at Tekken. the guy can wipe the floor with anyone. The thing was, I had inroduced him to the joy of Tekken when I lent him Tekken 3. Within a week of him borrowing Tekken 3, he was beating the crap out of me even though I had 4 years of Tekken experience behind me. After Mark gave me back my copy of Tekken 3, he went out and purchased a PS2 with Tekken Tag.

 

For about a year Mark went about beating everyone he played, after about two weeks of Mark's unbeaten glory, for a laugh we all agreed to keep a record of our Tekken wins/losses. In the course of said year, Mark lost no fights and only he only lost 21 rounds in total. I myself had 46 actual 5 round fight defeats, 33 of them to Mark.

One night not so long ago, about 10 of us returned from a night out absoloutely drunk out of our skulls. We decided that with nothing better to do, we would hold a Tekken Tag tournament.

 

The tournament format itself was quite complicated considering our condition. As we started the tournament, me and Mark were in separate pools, and as the fights went on, it became clear that me and Mark were dominant.

We decided that for the final we would have a first to seven rounds fight.

I picked Law and Baek, and Mark was King and Heihachi.

 

Round 1: I get the jump on Mark and pull of a quick sharp victory. 1-0

Round 2: I take the second round aswell as Mark starts to get pissed off. 2-0

Round 3: Mark obliterates me, as I only get two puches in. 2-1

Round 4: Mark levels it by 'Perfecting' me. 2-2

Round 5: Mark convincingly wins again. 2-3

Round 6: Mark takes me down again without using Heihachi. 2-4

Round 7: I pull one back by storming out of the blocks nailing Baek's big juggle combo twice within the first thirty seconds. 3-4

Round 8: Mark regains the 2 round advantage by slowly picking me apart with King's Chain combos. 3-5

Round 9: Long round as I just beat Mark with some low sweeps. 4-5

Round 10: I level it up by unleashing throw after throw from Baek onto King and Heihachi. 5-5

Round 11: I take the lead by tagging quickly and using all the kick combos of Law and Baek. 6-5

Round 12: Mark levels it up after he nails a 'Great' when one puch from me would have sealed the tournament. 6-6

 

We took a five minute break before the decider. Whenever Mark had lost one round he had destroyed his opponent in the next round. But somehow I had managed to take six from him. The room buzzed with anticipation for the final.

 

Final Round: This round lasted almost 15 minutes alone, as neither of us wanted to give away a chance. There was a lot blocking and parrys thrown about. Finally with Beak almost wiped out, and Mark with an almost fully refreshed HeiHachi but totally wiped King, I tagged in a half energised Law. Instantly Mark powerbombed me, and Law was down to 15%. Baek was still out so I hung back for a moment and proceeded to unleash a massive kick combo and finish Heihachi with the strong grab punch.

KO!

Law Wins!

The room erupted like it was the World Cup final, and everyone was chanting 'Holy Shit!'.

It must have been the alcohol, but everyone was genuinely excited about my win, and I was so ecstatic with beating Mark that I lost it and shouted crazily, Mark shook my hand and said 'nice one'.

We haven't played Tekken since.

[Guest Addy]

(Sniff) That was beautiful dude.

[Guest xerogame]

dude....SWEET story!

 

 

 

i think the best one was aries...

[Guest Angle-plex]

I didn't find Aeris getting killed to emotional.

 

MGS - Sniper Wolf giving her death speech.

 

MGS2- After you beat Solidus, and he's looking up at the statue of George Washington. Also when Snake jumps off Arsenal and after Metal Gear Ray.

[Guest kkktookmybabyaway]

I remember as a kid swapping game systems with a neighbor for a few days and all I did was play Ninja Gaidan (sp?) on the NES.

 

I can't quite remember what happened at the end, but all I do recall is that I thought the gamed ended 3 times, only every time a bigger, and badder, boss came out. That game was hard for me as a kid, and I remember when some alien (?) woke up nearly going into tears because I knew I'd be spending another 10 hours trying to beat the damn thing...

[Guest SupaTaft]

After beating Street Fighter 2 on the SNES on hard mode with Zangeif he partys down with Boris Yeltsin.

 

I cried after watching it.

 

Simply beautiful.

 

-Taft

[Guest RenegadeX28]

Well, this moment had emotion in it, crazy emotion and laughing.

 

Ok, I am at my friend's house playing GTA3. So, I get stupid and I decide to get into a chase. I am killing everyone in my path, blowing up everything. My star meter gets to 3. Ok, every GTA3 player knows that by 2-3 stars, the police get REAL aggresive. They kill themselves just to get me. Ok, so I rob some car on the street. I race away. I look behind me, and about 5 police cars are racing to me. Two of them get side by side with me. They do a sandwich on me. Both my doors go flying off. Then, there was a crack in the road, and the car on the left flips and blows up. I was loving it. The other cars were behind me. The other car next to me was still bumping me. Then, up ahead I see a cliff. Basically, I am thinking..I am dead. To add on to the suspense, another car gets on the other side, so back with the sandwiching. I didn't want the rampage to end. I decide to trick them. I drive at full speed to the cliff, then I make a FULL stop. The two cars beside me fall off the cliff, another car is speeding directly at me!! I make a quick reverse to the left, then that car falls off!! I speed away, but speeding is bad. I crashed into a car, then flipped, then fell off the cliff. That moment (Reversing and dodging the cars) was the craziest moment for me in a video game!

[Guest redbaron51]

I remember playing GTA 3, and I was in a limosine. I pick up a hooker do the deed, run her over get my money back, like usual. Well I was not paying attention, and I backed right up into a police car. Luckly for me i had my machine gun, and the pig was dead. I see a taxi cab, pick that mother up, and start driving away, nailing everyone in sight. Well when you do that, feds get on your ass.

 

I got my cab and put a bomb on it, and i stopped in the middle of an intersection, grabbed another car, and back up a few meters. One fed car nails the cab, instantly blowing up, killing another three pedestrians and blowing up a cop car.

 

Jesus Christ I'm on a roll. Go into my Viper looking car, and drive off. I was driving along, killing pedestrians as I go along. I was having fun, but I died in the shittiest way. Hitting the damn street light and my car was blown to pieces

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Planescape: Torment. Touching Deionarra's memory stone made me cry.

[Guest areacode212]

Nice to see another Planescape: Torment fan here.

 

In Starcraft, I marked out pretty hard when Kerrigan was "reborn".

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Nice to see someone else who appreciates Blizzard's superb storytelling here. Blackmail, treachery, sacrifice, and politics are a thousand times better than puerile, whiny, preadolescent soap opera angst. <coughFinalFantasycough>

I also got upset when Kerrigan was abandoned by that lunatic but I was delighted when she came back, and despite the self-sacrifice of that one Protoss I was rooting for the Zerg to win ever after. I thus found Brood War very satisfying.

[Guest areacode212]

Hey, nice avatar. I once made a Half-Life spray logo with that exact same Brood War image.

 

Yeah, Starcraft's single-player game is probably my favorite video game storyline ever. I was playing it around the time The Phantom Menace was in theaters and I remember thinking that Starcraft was SO much better. Even the cutscenes had better direction.

 

Tassadar's sacrifice was somewhat moving (mainly due to the way that final cutscene was shot...hmm, maybe I'll load up the game and watch it again), but overall, I found the Protoss to be pompous asses. Give me the vengeful bitch over the noble, pure-hearted aliens ANY day.

 

Have you ever played Fallout? It's by the same people (Black Isle Studios) who made Planescape: Torment, and I think you'd like it.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Yep, both 1 and 2 and Tactics. Atrocious inventory management in all but the last, and I didn't think the story was that great either, but the character development and the sheer number of things you could do hooked me. Fun combat and crits, too, especially in Tactics, although the mission-based structure of that last one sucked, as did the absurd scarcity of resources meant to pressure you into following the railroad... the best tactical combat ever is still in Jagged Alliance 2.

Arcanum was by people from the Fallout team too, but it was a major disappointment for me.

[Guest chirs3]

Blackmail, treachery, sacrifice, and politics are a thousand times better than puerile, whiny, preadolescent soap opera angst. <coughFinalFantasycough>

 

Final Fantasy VI is, of course, exempt from that statement... right?

[Guest J*ingus]

Yeah, the FF series didn't get locked into its current plot formula rut until part VII. Since then, every single one has been about a smartass teenage boy with weird hair and mental problems who lusts after a flat-chested, magically gifted girl and saves the world from some kind of unimaginally powerful evil family member.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

Final Fantasy VI is, of course, exempt from that statement... right?

You'd know better than I would. First and only one I played was VII. Hated it. The magic system was nice, combat was fun, and I even enjoyed stat development, but I was railroaded along a dumb story with incredibly pathetic characters and I couldn't just go out and whack big ugly things with sharp pointy things like I wanted to. And who the hell thought up those default names? "Cloud Strife?" "Tifa?" Plus the interface was godawful and I despise "save points."

A good example of this genre done right is Septerra Core. Decent storyline, excellent characterisations, and similar combat, although I have to admit that the stat development is much less complex (well, practically nonexistent really) and thus less interesting than FFVII's. But at least the characters weren't whiny insecure six year-olds with more neuroses than animations. Seriously, I've never wanted to bitchslap any fictional constructs more than "Cloud" and all his snivelling "love interests."

Anyway, from everything I've heard every subsequent FF has stuck to the same formula as VII, and that holds no attraction for me.

[Guest J*ingus]

I'd still give part X a mild recommendation to you, Marn, just to see what you thought. It still kinda sticks to the same formula, but is a lot more thoughtful than the previous installments (it even seriously discusses the origins and meanings of religion).

 

But in general, the plots of the FF series have centered around rather whiny main characters who usually suffer some sort of nervous breakdown during the game. That's been my main gripe about their plots, aside from the fact that at least half the time the final boss turns out to be some completely new entity which just shows up to kick your ass for no good reason (IV, VIII, and IX, I'm looking at you!). And if you didn't like Cloud, you'd HATE Terra from part VI... though I think you'd rather like Celes.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

I have to admit I'm tempted, even though I know the whole game will be pretty much predetermined from beginning to end, and the "romance" will get on my nerves. I just like all the fighting.

But save points are a total deal-breaker for me. If X has them, I won't play it.

[Guest areacode212]

A good example of this genre done right is Septerra Core. Decent storyline, excellent characterisations, and similar combat, although I have to admit that the stat development is much less complex (well, practically nonexistent really) and thus less interesting than FFVII's.

Really? I just saw this game bundled with Shogo for $1.99 (yes, two dollars) at Best Buy. I guess I'll pick it up next time I'm there.

[Guest chirs3]

Well, I think you'd be hard pressed to find anything common between Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy VII. The party you gather is something like 16 people, so it's more a focus on the group than one particular character. Plus it's got the best music in any video game... ever...

 

But then again, I liked FFVII - I agree with points given about character recycling (Cloud, Squall, Zidane), but only VIII was bad enough to make me actively hate the game and want to destroy every copy in existence. VII and IX have more than enough good qualities to make up for it.

[Guest Cancer Marney]

212, Septerra Core is a great game; it just doesn't have enough character development for my taste - basically the only way you can increase your stats is to buy better equipment (which requires advancing along the main storyline) or by levelling up (which also requires the same thing, eventually). And you don't get to choose areas to improve or anything; everything's determined by level. That's my only gripe, but it makes it sound worse than it is, actually, because the story is really pretty good, the characters are great, and the setting is cool. Voice acting is excellent although they reuse NPC portraits way too much. And combat is still fun because there are loads of status effects and you can use completely different attacks (9 per character, fully levelled and equipped) depending on how long you let them charge up. The magic system is nice, too. You combine "Fate cards" to produce different effects - one character can use a Fire card to attack an enemy with flames, but combine it with a Barrier card and you get protection against fire, &c. Very fun game, and anyway you can't really go wrong at that price. <g> I can't remember the last time I bought anything for two bucks.

Oh, and you can save anywhere, and the interface is decent. Inventory can be a bit confusing at first but you quickly get used to it.

[Guest HartFan86]

I always go crazy in games. I'm usually yelling and screaming at the end of each game...even if I played it 203498 times.

[Guest HoffmanHBK]

SPOILAHZ~!!!~!!~!!!!!!!!!~!!!11

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From three all-time classics:

 

Final Fantasy 6: My nod goes to the flashback scene of Locke's in Kohlingen, where Rachel dies. The music is there, and you get that glimpse into why Locke is so protective of the ladies...impressive.

 

Final Fantasy 4: The scene on Mount Ordeals where Cecil becomes a Paladin is just too awesome. I mean, the man has to fight himself, and then the line "Justice is not the only right in this world. Someday, you will see..." which sums up so much of the game, and then the change from the black and blue of the Dark Knight to the dazzling Paladin. Yeah, I think the color change really seals it.

 

Chrono Trigger: Not many, but the trail of notes in Balthasar's laboratory, leading up to the finding of the Epoch, is pretty cool. The clincher is when the Nu shuts itself off and "sleeps beyond the flow of time." Kind of cool to think about, and the music is like "whoa...dramatic." Kind of odd, but cool.