My favorite game is Tales of Symphonia, and while it didn't make me cry when I played it (age 10), it sure does now. Just hearing the title music puts me in tears, probably nostalgia or something
Ahh and I cry every single time Mufasa dies in the Lion King. Every time... We watched it at school a couple times and I had to draw a picture or write or something because I didn't want to cry at school

I also used to cry about Utena at night...

Up had me bawling several times.

I cry, lots or a little, at a ton of entertainment. Sad, happy, sappy... I'm quicker to laugh or blush with entertainment than many people, too.

Over the weekend, I got teary during my friend's novel (Blessed and Cursed Alike, aka The Heart Distillers), the death of Robin in Batman Inc, that  Robotech episode where Lisa gets drunk and sings Stage Fright, Giovanni's Room when they talk about the French being "measured," Stevie Wonder's Sir Duke, and that's just entertainment. During my revisions on Juliana, too, but that's mine so it's practically cheating.

One of the strongest lessons from my family, intentional or not, was that you can get emotional at emotional stuff, that's legit. But, if someone hits you, suck it up; don't give'em the satisfaction. Culturally, this makes sense. (Geopolitically, this may be the equivalent of writing "please conquer" on your flag.)

Sidenote: I played the audio from a Paris, Texas scene for a class last semester, when he's telling the fable version of a relationship going septic and ending in fire and running for days. When I stopped paying attention to their papers in front of me, and looked at the students, no one was taking notes and the majority of them were crying.

E.T. and the twist in Phenomenon make me bawl every time.  Eric Clapton doing the soundtrack to the latter doesn't help.

Kexx wrote:

It was late at night, and I got to the end of the Walking Dead game. Now, I don't want to spoil anything, but I was sobbing on and off the last 5-10 minuets or so of the game, and just broke out bawling when the credits started to roll for a good 5 minuets. And after that, the next day, I watched some fan videos that showed the last scenes of the game. Those also made me burst into tears.

My life for the past half hour.

Dr.Who keeps giving me major sads.

Bugger you, Mass Effect 2 DLC Overlord. I'm not even playing and I got all teary and gave Gio shit for days when she went renegade on it.

QUIET PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

Yasha wrote:

Bugger you, Mass Effect 2 DLC Overlord. I'm not even playing and I got all teary and gave Gio shit for days when she went renegade on it.

QUIET PLEASE MAKE IT STOP

Yeah I had no idea Yasha had such a soft spot for horrifyingly tortured autistic savants.

(I had to replay the mission due to a hard drive swap, and went Paragon with it. I HOPE YOU'RE ALL HAPPY NOW THAT I HAVE TO ABUSE MY TEAM RELENTLESSLY SO MY RENEGADES HIGH)

I was bawling like a bride that was stood up on her wedding night by the end of the Adventure Time episode "I Remember You". Granted, I wasn't in the most stable of emotional states at the time, but the episode is easily the most tear-jerking one yet imo.

(Hell, I even think I'm an emotional masochist, I seek out depressing and sad stories because I like feeling sad. weird I know)

I don't think this is really weird, depending on exactly what you meant.

There's various reasons to be attracted to various shows/games/media, of course. But stuff that let's you cry... if you're left crying it's because you're able to relate to it powerfully on an emotional level. I think, ultimately, that this is the goal of many (if not all) forms of art - they actively /want/ you to relate to it on a deeply personal level. They want what they do to, somehow, impact you. Whether you see a potential future you embrace/abhor, or relate to a moment you aspire to/abhor.... a lot of media really wants to bring this out I think.

This is trite maybe, but it goes back to my high school Shakespeare course, talking about a decent tragedy allowing the audience an opportunity for catharsis, etc, etc. As high school english as that is, I think it's a solidly true point. People do long for well presented opportunities for catharsis. It's hard to pull off /well/ without ending up as overly melodramatic or without managing to sufficiently invest the audience in the characters. Good media is valuable, because it reflects life and various truths. I believe.

I'm not an English major, but that's still my take.

As for what's left me crying... that depends on if I've been drinking or not :x

Hmm. I have cried with a few things sober though. Utena was actually one of them. I didn't start balling or anything, but i did cry a bit at various points. There's something in SKU for almost everyone. Personally, I was really touched by Utena's desire to go on for her ideals, and her quest to prove that ideals exist as such. That's how I interpreted it, anyways. A few of the side stories got to me too. I think it's a fairly well done anime, if you can get past the (opinion) bad graphics and somewhat trite scenes ("you've lit the fire to my heart, baby").

If we're looking at anime, Nana is definitely another that made me cry. I really can relate to people who  are friends, but fall away from each other. Despite neither party actually wanting to fall apart. It just struck me as so sad and relatable on such an intimate and personal level, that it really hit me. It made good use of music too.... music is very powerful emotionally.

I don't want to say those are the only anime that have made me cry (they're not), but they're the principle two.

Other things.... wow. It just varies so much. Sometimes even songs do. And there's nothing wrong with crying through/because of media. It's one of the most valuable things to be gained from various media, imo. Even non-sad movies have occasionally dragged a tear from me. Tears of joy, or what have you. Music typically plays a key role there as well. Music is very, very, powerful emotionally. When you can tie it up with visuals, it's even more so. It's not easy to tie music to pictures... but when you do it /well/, you can really move the audience. I don't even see the point in listing movies that have brought brief periods of tears to my eyes, because there are just too many.

Watched Therese and Isabelle again, last night, and about two-twenty in the morning I just lose it. Not bawling, but that steady sort of streaming tears.

Something about it being semi-biographical, you know, a writer working out their own personal shit through thin filters, and the director clearly trying to restrain his porniness while making a movie about lesbian schoolgirls generates this sort of stress-horny-lamentation that equals me sitting in the dark, lines down my cheeks, all this is so saaaaaaad.

This one of my favorite tear jerkers. I have the movie and soundtrack via iTunes. Being the odd child of a single mom, this movie hits close to home.