Yes, really.
REALLY.
In fact, I can think of a game right now.
The Sims 2.
There's just something about seeing your favorite simkid growing up into a great man, only to get killed by a bumbling fool who sleeps in front of the pool ladder, that kills that sim.
But the thing on that game that really pulls on my heartstrings is the way the games views itself on reality. It jokes, yet replicates reality, and giving you a behind the scenes footage on what family life is about, and seeing behind the locked doors.
For example, there was this really nice family. The Roberts. They were a great family, and worked as a team. But when the husband started cheating on his wife, and her knowing, they get into a heated arguement. But what really gets me is not the big things, but the little things. After the couple split up, the kid would pass by his mom's room, and burst into tears, thinking about the state of his family. Every night, he would cry himself to sleep, dreaming horrible dreams. For a secpnd there, the game seemed so real...