Have you ever cried (out of sadness) during a video game?

[The Ghost of RubangB]

rocketpig said:

The Ghost of RubangB said:
Yeah. All the time. Games have made me cry out of happiness, sadness, and everything else. Same thing with movies and music.

I wonder why movies, music, and books can get to me easily but games cannot. Strange.

I'll have to think about that for awhile.

I think the absolutely shit-writing of games gets in the way of most people's willing suspension of disbelief.  Menus, health bars, HUDs, high scores, save points, going back and forth between gameplay and movies, horrible dialogue, the uncanny valley, the controller in your hand as a medium between you and the game... all those things keep reminding you it's "just a game" so it's harder to invest emotionally in a story that could be a tearjerker in a book, song, or movie.  Games really suck.  I just cry a lot and game a lot, so sometimes they overlap.