The most touching games ever played

Planescape: Torment

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I like how the game centered around your flawed immortality, and that your goal is to regain your mortality and die. And when you finally do, the end cinematic plays where The Nameless One wakes up in the middle of a battle between demons and devils in the endless Blood War, picks up some bludgeoning weapon (don't remember what kind) and joins in the melee.

 

Halo 1, I played the entire game in a day and I was young and the Flood really freaked me out ... Nightmares the next 2 nights lol

MW2 where you shoot civilians in an airport ...

 

Xenosaga Episode III had me pouring tears, at the climax.

 

Final Fantasy X

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Gotta say... the ending was killer emotionally. That hit harder than Aeris getting killed off in FF7, though I was much older so that could perhaps be the reason.

Prince of Persia trilogy

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In the first two games, if you obtain the alternate ending for both and then beat the third game, it's just amazing. I couldn't believe what I had witnessed. It was truly awesome and touching. Everything comes full circle and it's like... wow, I think I need to take an hour to think about this!

Beyond Good & Evil

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Usually when someone in a game gets kidnapped or whatever, I'm not driven to be like "must get them back!!!!". It's just something to do. However, when Paige (the pig) gets snatched... I was like "I'll get you back for that you #%#%#%s. And I did!

Assassin's Creed

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This uber assassin with very little mercy you got to play as, Altair, shows restaint and can't destroy the apple in the end. Even one of the coolest modern game characters ever (just my opinion) had restraint. Touching to me, I guess. I felt nothing for the Old Man, however.

Mass Effect series - needs no explanation.

I'm sure over the next few hours I'll think of more!

 

Assassin's Creed 2

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The beginning where you see Ezio and his brother standing on top of the tower with that amazing music, was just so amazing and then watch him die along with your younger brother, gave me goosebumps

And obviously MW and MW2

Haven't played ME2 so cant say, but i guess its time i pick one copy already

 

the experiment/experience 112 definitively
It even beat the longest journey

I forgot creatures series
having your little virtual pet diing (cut in half with a chainsaw) it's very touching
I'm joking but this game was very touching

 

Touching?

 

lol i feel nothing in MW2 when i do that lol.. for me ending of COD4 when soap is being lifted to the heli makes me cry.. for no reason lol... but Brothers in Arms Hell's Highway is really touching..

 

I always forget how emotionally attached you get to FF10's characters. Especially with the voice overs and what not. While honestly I prefer the no-voice over style from the pre-FF10 days, I cannot deny this.

 

Well i cried at the end of cod 2.That was my first ever team -style game!

 

cod4 ending

 

lol we are buddies but seriously , some games just make u cry... brothers in arms hell's highway really touches u... through the whole game...

 

any game made by Team Ico:
Ico
Shadow of the Colossus

hopefully the Last Guardian too...

 

The only thing I was thinking during the airport level was: I hope mom doesn't walk in, cause if she does she'll ban me from MW2.

 

Mass Effect:

Shepard (Survivor-type chosen at the beginning of the game) returns to the Citadel after some time away, and for whatever reason (can't remember the sidequest), had to go down to the Security basement. Just as the elevator arrives, someone tells Shepard that there's a disturbance back at the docking platform.

You return to confront a woman ready to kill herself. The voice acting is well done as is the script, and the story, along with the way the character refers to herself, is heartbreaking. Perhaps the most well-spoken dialogue of a victim of abuse in the entertainment industry...I'm trying to remember a movie that conveyed those particular feelings as well as ME, and I can't think of one...and as far as TV, I would never admit to watching Lifetime...

PS. I don't think the above is a spoiler...was not part of the main quest or end sequence...and no conclusion is offered to the situation in this post...

 

Final Fantasy 9 was the most moving ive ever played mainly because of the characters and story especially when the tree top village gets ripped to shreds!! grrrrr!

Apart from that the general gaming and story for me it is oblivion and dragon age!

 

good thing my mum doesn't care..

 

For me it was the first game i ever owned, and that would be Megaman Battle NetWork 3 for the GBA. Awesome game and to this day is the best game i have ever played.

 

Baldur's Gate II

 

Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2...LOL

 

Bully for the PS2 left me with warm memories. I loved that game.

 

Hell yeah! I'm replaying KH1 for like, the bazillionth time now @_@

 

modern warfare 2, its just touching how the whole world dosent know how to use there brains

 

I remember arma 2 being very touching to me

Especially, when happily playing, my roomate pass behind the tv, touch it making it falling on my feet.
i remember expressing my happiness in front of a such touching game:
arrrrrrrrggg my feet



and then
.... a few minutes later
arrrrrrrrgggg my tv

 

Far Cry 2 Kinda:

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when you have to kill all your buddies at the end. Well, it stopped being touching when they started to shoot me.

 

Duhh spoiler?

 

Yea, I added spoiler tags for him.

 

But not for the quoted text, I notice.

 

What you talkin' about?

 

I just lol'd, so much quoting

 

@OP, that's why I buy games as well, for the story.
Most touching, or best story? For me I'd have to say the Freespace series, along with Homeworld, as far as story goes. Wing Commander 3 - 5 I thought had good story lines as well.
Edit: Come to think of it I thought Voyager: Elite Force (the first one) had a good story too.

 

Sorry about that Thanks for fixing it

 

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Max Payne. In the first game when you find your family dead... man that set my blood on fire for the guy.

Final Fantasy 3 is also great. Probably my favorite FF story.

 

Max Payne (the first) was good, no tears but a very good story.

One old game I really really liked and loved the character (Sir Daniel Fortesque ) was the Medievil character, it was on playstation. Sad guy :/

Edit. spelling

 

how do u add the spoiler tages? As for Max Payne, first ones quite crappy but second one was excellent but not very touching lol except for mona dying..

 

[SPOILER]I don't get paid for this :p[/SPOILER]

Ends up looking like this:

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I don't get paid for this

 

So that's how you break HTML for certain statements...

 

Shenmue...

 

Final Fantasy X and X-2 for me
My sister and I used to eat noodles and beat the bosses (miserably) just to continue the storyline..

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I cried when Yuna sang (forgot why or where) .. Oh yeah I remmeber, it was 1000 words..

Also played Shenmue 2 on Xbox.. it was great -- I loved this game. Too bad Shenmue 3 didn't get released..

 

+1 very emotional indeed

 

LOL just noticed this thread
Just finished crysis, when prophet is still alive at both scenes

 

Same here, FFX and X-2 really got to me emotionally. Just listening to some of the tracks from those games makes me feel more nostalgic than anything else (although some Star Wars themes come close). I'm brought back both to the storyline of the games itself, and the time that I played them, before I started high school.

The game touched me enough to get into music composition, and once I'm out of college I'd like to go towards a career in game music.

 

Anyone remember playing Harvest Moon and finally getting the girl you want to like you! It was like YES! Finally!

Epicness.

 

This thread is comical to say the least, especially seeing how 80% of the recommended games have little to no plot, or are pretty much generic space marine clones. If that's what get's your interested, don't want to knock anyone's passion; but you guys seriously need to check out some other genres.

This by far, and Metal Gear Solid 3 is probably the top of anyone's list who's played it. Bonus points if you successfully got the last smidgen of details (bonus plot slivers) out of the codec convoys from a few well placed calls.

If anyone hasn't played it, go do so asap. The tale of Naked Snake becoming Big Boss at the height of the cold war is one for the ages.

 

Chrono Trigger
ME series
FF VI

 

I hope you're not talking about Mass Effect :l

 

Okay, I wanna get this straight.

What, in all honesty, is a "generic space marine clone"?

I've heard the phrase before, but I was not aware that there were enough "space marine" type shooters to call them generic.

Okay, back in the day you could make the claim - there was the Doom series, the Quake series, and all their spin-offs and clones (and yeah, the clones were very blatant and guilty of little to no innovation).

But I can't think of more than a handful of modern games that could be called "space marine shooters".

Dead Space - far from generic, this game had a fair helping of innovation.
Crysis - arguably a "space marine shooter", though only because you shoot things that are from space, not because you're a "space marine" of any description.
Aliens vs. Predator - You have the option of playing as a space marine, but you also have the option of playing a non-terrestrial critter. This game, again, was anything but generic (it was flawed, but not generic).
Gears of War - Okay, I think this is as close as we can get to something fitting the title of "generic space marine shooter" in the last 5 years. Still, a fair bit of innovation here.

And... that's about all I've got.

(Halo doesn't count because the last real Halo game was made back in 2004)

You know what sounds fun? Playing a game where you're a space marine and you shoot nasty aliens. But, obviously, well-made, unlike AvP, catered to PC gamers, unlike Gears, and fun to play, unlike Mass Effect.

It looks like THQ has got this idea with their appropriately-named Warhammer 40k: Space Marine game under development. It's just too bad you'll be playing as a brainwashed pawn fighting for the glory of a brain-dead emperor instead of playing an agent of Chaos fighting for the much more awesome might of the Blood God. But hey, I guess shooting orks is good fun no matter who you get to be while pulling the trigger.

/rant

We now return to your regularly scheduled spoilers- I mean, thread!

 

I have to say- it really isn't your place to comment on what people find emotional or not. I haven't played it, but if someone does get choked up at the airplane bit in one of the CoD games, the fact that someone else just stoically soldiered on (bad pun) through it doesn't mean that their feelings during that scene were "comical". The same goes for those who felt that way in ME1 and ME2, which really are great games in their own right, even though they're far from perfect.

I know you said you don't want to knock anyone's passion... but you sorta did.

But I do agree about Metal Gear Solid 3- if I could get it working with PS2 emulation software, I would love to do a few replays. Major goosebump moments towards the end.

 

It was Persona 3 for me. Seconded by Tales of Symphonia

 

Oh! I just thought of another great game, that hits emotional chords!

Psychonauts!

Just pure awesome how you get to learn everyone's deepest, darkest secrets by seeing them directly manifest into metaphors and symbols inside their minds.

And then... well, to say more would be to give away massive spoilers, so, just trust me: play the game (if you haven't), and you will not be disappointed.