Most powerful videogame moment?

[Marky Tee]

when stiener and beatrix defend alexandria

the last few battles of advent children( does this count?)

when raziel succumbs to his fate.....at the end of defiance

[Shadowdust]

The scene in Shadow Hearts: Covenant in which (SPOILER)Alice is temporarily revived using the Emigre manuscript is pretty power. Here's this document that you've seen several times has done nothing but harm and it's being used and it seems to be going so well and then it doesn't work and she passes away again. Very powerful. Also in SH:C (SPOILER)the bit when Ouka dies. I really liked Yoshiko Kawashima in the original and to have her die in Kato's arms a second time really made me quite sad.

Yeah, that was pretty powerful.

I have to add when Kaim from Lost Odyssey(SPOILER)finds his daughter only to lose her to death. The poor guy is finally reunited with someone he thought to be dead only to have her die right before his eyes again. It was very powerful to me.

Also the ending in FFVIII with Laguna flashing back to his proposal to Raine and then coming back to the present made me tear up a bit. FFX's ending had the same effect on me.

[Quindiana Jones]

I can't believe I forgot this.

The Darkness:

(SPOILER)1. Your girlfriend is executed in front of you.
2. You look in the mirror as you shoot yourself in the head (at the end of the first Act of 5!)
3. First entering the Underworld.
4. Everything in the Underworld.
5. The scene where you're being tortured by having a drill taken to your face. Ouch.
6. When you blow yourself up.
7. The ending scene.

That whole game is incredible.

[Marky Tee]

apparently ICO is supposed to be awesome that way
i bought it years ago but have never played it lol

[Jessweeee♪]

I just played Oregon Trail II again, and it's a really depressing game!

I ran into some girl who said:

"I hope we meet up with some more wagons with children. My friend Jenny Carlson got drowned back crossing the Platte, and I'm mad at Tommy Blaine because he called Susie here just a dumb old doll."

Speaking of Persona 4 (which I just got and I have to say is the most fun I've had with a game in a while), I got pretty choked up when (SPOILER)Ryotaro crashed his car while chasing Namatame, then asked the protagonist to save Nanako because she's his "only reason for living along with lamenting that he was absolutely helpless to try and rescue her.

Oh, yeah, and just about everything Nanako says cuts right through me.

(Sidenote: P4's the first SMT game I've played, but after this I'd certainly be interested in the others.)

That whole month was just amazing

[Wolf Kanno]

Cherenkov's story in Xenosaga Episode 1. He was truly one of the best written characters in that series and his climatic end in the Cathedral ship was truly epic.

Pretty much all of BoFV is pretty awesome. Especially learning through flashback why Nina can't talk as well as Bosch's childhood and the first time Ryu turned into a dragon in that game.

The ending to Xenosaga Pied Piper,(SPOILER) when Ziggy chooses to kill himself rather than become Wilhelm's Testament. Its truly a shame we will probably never see this game outside of Japan.

[strawberryman]

Speaking of Persona 4 (which I just got and I have to say is the most fun I've had with a game in a while), I got pretty choked up when (SPOILER)Ryotaro crashed his car while chasing Namatame, then asked the protagonist to save Nanako because she's his "only reason for living along with lamenting that he was absolutely helpless to try and rescue her.

Oh, yeah, and just about everything Nanako says cuts right through me.

(Sidenote: P4's the first SMT game I've played, but after this I'd certainly be interested in the others.)

That whole month was just amazing

Yeah, at the time I'd posted it I wasn't through that month, but now that I've beaten it I will have to agree. Definitely hands-down one of my favorite games ever.

[McLovin']

Balamb Garden avoids the missiles. Awesome.

[leader of mortals]

I actually don't think I have ever cried at any video game other than crisis core's ending...

Also, the triumph I felt when I saw the ending of FF9 was great. I actually threw my fist up in a "YES!!!" expression. Basically...

Good old tiger