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"Nobody ever cried over a videogame character's death" claims film critic

Having recently viewed Max Payne and written up a review for it, where it was discussed how the film is an insult to the game and loses all of the interesting aspects of the game's intelligent and thought provoking plot, TVGB went online to see what fellow film critics had to say about it. We were confronted with one of the most insulting and ignorant statements about gaming we have ever read: "As good as a couple of its action beats are, Max still suffers from the heartlessness that makes games emotionally inferior to movies. Nobody ever shed a tear over a video-game character's death."

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Genesis5 - 432 days 18 hours ago

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Well tell him to play Half Life 2 Eps2 after he has become aquainted with characters. To me it was disturbing to see Alex's father die and to listen to her sobbing. I thought it was pretty sad.

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JustinSaneV2 - 432 days 18 hours ago

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Both when Alyx nearly died and her father...

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DavidMacDougall - 432 days 17 hours ago

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End of FF10 killed me same with MGS4

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Kigmal - 432 days 17 hours ago

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Pfft ... crying? That's for sissy girls.

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Dark General - 432 days 17 hours ago

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I didn't play the episodes of Half Life 2 even though i have them. But i did want that old guy to die. I forget his name but he was annoying.

As for crying over a video game characters death never happened to me. Came close with end of act 4 in MGS4 though.

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solar - 432 days 17 hours ago

1.5 - @ 1

i couldnt sleep the night after i finished Ep.2. nothing but a dark screen, hearing Alyx crying....it was very intense. i stared with my jaw on my lap not believing what i just saw.

@ 1.2

the ending of MGS4 would have been soooooooooooooo much more epic if SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

if Snake wouldve killed himself. when Octacon was explaining to Sunny about if Snake was coming back i couldnt help be almost ball my eyes out. i could only imagine have to try to explain that situation to a lil girl like that. very emotional.

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JsonHenry - 432 days 16 hours ago

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Gotta say he is right. No game ever made me cry. Other than when I was a kid and I was so angry tryin to beat Mike Tyson's punch out I cried angry tears. (and broke the contoller as well as the Nintendo in the process)

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Figboy - 432 days 16 hours ago

1.7 - hey, SPOILER ALERT # 1!!

i still haven't gotten around to Half Life 2, Ep. 2, so, yeah, thanks...

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Ren - 432 days 15 hours ago

1.8 - SPOILERS AHOY

I was really sad at the ending of FFX however that pain was gone when Tidus came back at the very ending of the credits and at the ending of FFX-2. :)

MGS4 the ending when Otacon is trying to explain to Sunny why Snake isn't coming back, after seeing Snake put the gun in his mouth , was the only time i ever shed a tear over a videogame/movie/song i have gotten teary eyed before but never actually cried......that is until MGS4. :)

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player911 - 432 days 14 hours ago

1.9 - well...

Aerith in FF7 had me tear up.

The first pass through I put a lot of energy into getting her beefed up as she was one of my main characters. When she died... I had a horrible party since I primarily played with Cloud, Aerith, and rotated a third.

Finishing the game the first time was really hard.

The second time through I got it on with Tifa.

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LastDance - 432 days 12 hours ago

1.10 - In metal gear

I started getting pretty upset when the colonel told me i was a loser and fat and should go outside and play like a normal kid :(

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shingo - 432 days 10 hours ago

1.11 - KINGDOM HEARTS 2

In Kingdom Hearts 2 when Sora cries while saying goodbye to his friends before getting into the train to start travelling through the worlds.. It was the "Roxas part" in him that let those tears roll down. That was deeply touching.

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Cryos - 432 days 9 hours ago

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when jenny dies in the darkness.....

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barom - 432 days 8 hours ago

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Okay I didn't actually cry and it's really weird game to feel sad about but at the end of DMC3, *SPOILER* when Vergil choose to go back down *END*. I felt really really sad. I thought the story was kinda wack but at the end, something just clicked and it was just awesome scene.

But yeah MGS4 was awesomely sad at the end.

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vhero - 432 days 7 hours ago

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Aeris on FFVII dying man that made me tear up people really dunno what they talkin about

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Bangladesh - 432 days 7 hours ago

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I've felt saddened by a characters death in the story plot of a game. But cried? No.

@JsonHenry
lol That first 1:30 with Tyson was a b*tch.

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thePatriot - 432 days 5 hours ago

1.16 - the Boss

sniff...sniff...

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Shepherd 214 - 431 days 19 hours ago

1.17 - well,

i admit i shed a small tear when Seargent Johnson died in Halo 3, he'd been a strong, funny character since the frst game and to see him get shot from behind made me feel pretty sour. The music that plays as he dies conveys the atmosphere of the situation, and the cinematography helped to build the scene.

Not too many game series can build good characters that the player can actually care about like Halo, Metal Gear Solid, and other RPG's and good shooters can.

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The Lazy One - 432 days 17 hours ago

2 - bullshit...

is what this is... flat out.

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Steven Colbert - 432 days 17 hours ago

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When Aerith died,people cried.

When the horse(forgot the name) from Colossus died,my girlfriend cried

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harry190 - 432 days 17 hours ago

3.1 - You are

beating me to it everytime. Just what I wanted to say except that I felt nothing for Agro. I was rather chagrin for the Colossi that I was taking down.

Aeris come back.

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DeZimatoR - 432 days 17 hours ago

3.2 - I think that would be Agro ;)

Anyways, I didn't cry, but I was like 'ah f#ck.... >.<' when Otacon told Sunny that Snake needed to rest when she asked him where he was going...

And then a major 'Noooooooooooooo!' when Snake pulled the trigger and the scene faded to black...or were these scenes in the opposite order?

Bah, can't remember, but they were both pretty intense :)

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arvfab - 432 days 17 hours ago

3.3 - @3.2

Yeah that's the same part were I had wet eyes in the ending of MGS4. The music, the story, Otacon's words.... The only other time I was "sad" by viewing/playing something was at the end of Armageddon, when Bruce Willis talks for the last time with his daughter.

How can these people say that games are emotionally inferior?

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flOw - 432 days 17 hours ago

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People = Me... Aeris.. I miss you... :´(

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OnslaughtX - 432 days 17 hours ago

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Yeah, tell them to play MGS3, MGS4, FFVII, and Shadow of the Colossus.

Then tell them to eff off.

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ReTarDedFisHy - 432 days 17 hours ago

4.1 - Exactly.

Those are my games of choice when it comes to... erm, crying.

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IDemonstalkerXI - 432 days 17 hours ago

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FFVII Crisis Core added salt to the wound.

When dudes daughter died in Lost Odyssey too.

FFX

FFVIII - Themesong and certain moments in the game.

MGS4

I don't cry during games or movies really but there are times when Its harder to hold the tears.

/sniff

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Maldread - 432 days 17 hours ago

4.3 - OnslaughtX

Agree with MGS3 and FF7, but i havn`t completed Shadow of the Colossus, so i can comment on that. As for MGS4, i didn`t like the ending at all, but thankfully a new one is coming before christmas.

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TheZippo - 431 days 23 hours ago

4.4 - @4.2

The death of his daughter really got to me also. Along with some of the memories that he had. That first one with the little girl may have been the worse though.

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Spike47 - 432 days 17 hours ago

5 - When

I played Half Life2, I cried of dissapointment.

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Alcohog - 432 days 16 hours ago

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Probably because you played it on a console 3 years after it was released...

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mortification - 432 days 17 hours ago

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i cried when Kratos died after repeating the level over and over again... no serieusly i cried when Red was told he'll never walk again(brothers in arms)...:(

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ReTarDedFisHy - 432 days 17 hours ago

6.1 - *sniff*

Don't remind me...
LBP Face D-Pad Down x3

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IzKyD1331 - 432 days 17 hours ago

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I dare anyone who's played MGS3 to say they didn't get atleast teary eyed at the end

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SlyGuy - 432 days 17 hours ago

8 - WARNING! SPOILER ALERT!

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DO NOT read further if you did not play Heavenly Sword as yet (you should do yourself a favor and play it).

When Nariko dies at the end, I actually shed a tear. To me that game was FULL of emotion. This guys is FULL of sh&t!

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harry190 - 432 days 17 hours ago

8.1 - I thought

the father-son relationship between Roach and Bohan was also quite interesting. I hadn't experienced something like that in a game before.

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Marceles - 432 days 17 hours ago

8.2 - ANOTHER HEAVENLY SWORD SPOILER

My cousin cried when Flying Fox hung Kai

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ReTarDedFisHy - 432 days 17 hours ago

8.3 - Sh*t!

I read it anyway and I only got it yesterday!
I blame myself *shame* T_T

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SlyGuy - 432 days 9 hours ago

8.4 - @8.1 and 8.2

You guys are very right. There are some VERY emotional moments in that game. Two of those that you both mentioned stand out greatly.

@8.3: Sorry man. On the bright side, I don't think the spoilers are gonna prevent you from crying anyway! lol.

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TheZippo - 431 days 23 hours ago

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*SPOILER just in case people didn't see the ones earlier* I agree with both parts. However Kai being hung may have been more emotional for me because I totally didn't expect that.

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bigman7387 - 432 days 17 hours ago

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I don't know how to cry...

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RJ2000 - 432 days 9 hours ago

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^^^ Epic Fail

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Charmers - 432 days 17 hours ago

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Oh I don't know I have cried playing many games, I remember Mercenaries 2 brought me floods of tears, mainly because I couldn't believe I had forked out good money for that pile of crap.

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Transporter47 - 432 days 17 hours ago

10.1 - LMAO

very funny :)

@ Disagrees, those don't even make sense i just laughed at his comment, seriously what the??? lol

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LastDance - 432 days 12 hours ago

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haha dude.....you deserve more bubbles! so i will give them to ya.

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SlyGuy - 432 days 9 hours ago

10.3 - LMAO

so true! I also got really choked up after wasting $60 bucks on Army of Toots.

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Spike47 - 432 days 17 hours ago

11 - Why the

disagrees on half life 2, that game really made me cry, I wasted $60 on that game, money I could've used to buy Dead Space.

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solar - 432 days 17 hours ago

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troll fails. fails to the point of complaining about disagrees. you'd probably be the same kind of troll that would buy BioShock for ps3 for $60 bucks when you can buy it for $40 bucks on 360 or $20 bucks for PC. then celebrate the fact you got a 360 console exclusive on the ps3.

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Transporter47 - 432 days 17 hours ago

12 - This article is a joke lol

Come on i bet there is 1 game that someone cried at because their favorite character dies, there are a lot of games out there, like in MGS1 when Sniper Wolf died, and if that is a spoiler for you, you don't deserve to be a gamer you had to at least played MGS1 and beat it, if your even a gamer

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DanteLinkX - 432 days 17 hours ago

13 - MGS games

can make even Chuck Norris cry, sometimes crying outside is not the true show of emotion, now, crying inside, like at the end of MGS4, is what its all about. When you feel that black hole inside....

:'(

BTW Back when Aerith died, I didn't cry, because i was expecting she to be revived, I was like heh, she will be revived so everything is alright then I was like.... :O wait wtf? revive her please BUUUAAAAHHHHHHHHH MOM TELL'EM TO REVIVE AERIS!!!!!1

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Snake Raiser - 432 days 11 hours ago

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SSSSSSSSSSSSNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEE EEEEEEEEE

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Harry Flopper - 432 days 17 hours ago

2 - "Nobody ever shed a tear over a video-game character's death"

!!!!SPOILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!!!!!SPO ILER!!!!IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED MGS4 DON'T READ THIS COMMENT!!!!SPOILER!!!!!

I cried when Big Boss died,yeah I said it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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ThatCanadianguy420 - 432 days 17 hours ago

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I think we all did..

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Rapture333 - 432 days 15 hours ago

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but...oh never mind...

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Snake Raiser - 432 days 11 hours ago

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Me too

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mohib-uddin7986532 - 432 days 17 hours ago

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Final Fantasy VII made me cry ( Not aries, but RedXIII past, he always thought his farther run away when his village was attacked. but he didnt, he stood like a man and defneded it until died !)
Final Fantasy IX made my eyes waterY (becuase of the amazingly done ending)

Final Fantasy X(made me cry and cry, eveytime i think about it i cry, so many good memories, first game to make me cry !).

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ReTarDedFisHy - 432 days 17 hours ago

3.1 - Yeah T_T

Red XIII's father was a truly sad story *sniff*
Didn't care much for Aeris though. haha :S

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cow moolester - 432 days 17 hours ago

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While I've never cried over a movie or a game, I have felt sad when a character dies or something bad happens to them. Ask any gamer from any side.
*SPOILERS*
Ps3 fans would've felt sad and emotionally attached to Big Boss in MGS4 dieing and Xbox 360 fans would've felt the same about Cortana being tortured by the gravemind or Miranda and Johnson dieing.

Mr Moore please go play Bioshock and then get back to me after you get to the end

The movie industry is just trying to fight back at the games industry because its encroaching on it's territory

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harry190 - 432 days 17 hours ago

4.1 - The gaming

industry has already surpassed the movie industry since long.

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mohib-uddin7986532 - 432 days 17 hours ago

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FF12 SUCKS ASS

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ReTarDedFisHy - 432 days 17 hours ago

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Agreed.

I'm Captain Basch of Dalmasca!
'nuff said. seriously.

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air1 - 432 days 17 hours ago

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why no npd numbers? shouldnt it of had been out today at 4? i need a laugh from you sony fanatics.

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cow moolester - 432 days 16 hours ago

7.1 - @Ali

You're 100% right.
In a game, your actions can lead to bad consequences which can evoke emotions.
*Spoiler*
I'm gonna take Mass Effect as an example here, but at a certain level in the game when the planet is being attacked, you can either choose Kaiden or Ashley to save. If you choose Kaiden then you get the emotional response from Ashley which can be upsetting..on the other hand if you pick Ashley, you get some bom chicka wow wow

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AngryTypingGuy - 432 days 8 hours ago

8 - "Nobody ever cried over a videogame character's death"

No, but there sure was a lot of whining and crying about certain games jumping to the 360 and even a lot of accusing entire companies of being traitors because they brought big titles to the 360. Babies.

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