Red Dead Redemption/Tear Jerker


 * Speaking of westerns, Red Dead Redemption. "Dead Man's Gun." You cried, admit it.
 * Kind of a Fridge Horror Tear Jerker:
 * Another retroactive one:.
 * The game Foreshadows it a lot...Even if you don't know, You will feel unrested and unhappy with this new life.
 * "Compass", as you return home.
 * The simple piano piece in the song Exodus in America, which makes its reappearance in the credits.
 * abrupt, pointless death. It doesn't help he's one of the few decent characters in the game.
 * The fact that you can wipe out all the bison. Its far from the saddest thing in the game, but its kind of depressing gunning down a lone bison and realizing that you've killed them all and that bison, at least in the scope of the game, was the last of its kind.
 * John Marsten's  and...I'm sorry, I have something in my eye...
 * It's telling that out of all of the Stranger missions, the happiest one has you reunite a zoophile with his favorite horse. Almost all of them are grim and depressing, and even when you do the "right" thing, you often end up making people's lives worse. Probably the saddest is the "California" mission. You meet a friendly man, Sam, traveling in the wilderness, looking for California. Marston does his best to help him on his way, but he keeps wandering. Marston keeps running into him, and he looks more and more haggard, eventually threatening Marston with a gun. Marston eventually finds his corpse being eaten by vultures. In his possession was a letter to his wife. He explains that ever since his ancestors left the Black Sea, his family has been travelers and explorers. He that California would bring him hope, but America is a land of broken dreams. He says that he loves his wife and leaving her was the stupidest thing he ever did.
 * Also,
 * Tethercat Principle: The game takes place over . Some of the "Stranger" side-missions are open from the beginning (almost) and can be finished at any time, even after the game is completed. This could mean that guy on the Mexican cliff has to work on his flying machine for a very long time... and that poor Jenny will be withering away alone in the desert forever.
 * Now, this only happened to me, but it still got to me: It was hard to watch something awful happen on the way to what should have been a joyous moment.
 * Now, this only happened to me, but it still got to me: It was hard to watch something awful happen on the way to what should have been a joyous moment.