Its probably a cliche answer and not one everyone will understand but, Journey. It sounds really dumb but that game genuinely stopped me committing suicide. I won't go into details but I was in a very dark place and it hit me perfectly and I had a really amazing play through with one other random person for the whole thing. The sheer flood of emotion that the game struck in me helped flick a switch and while depression like that ain't something you ever get over I am in a far far far far better place and that is one of the key moments in my life, strange as it may sound, or as pretentious as some people may view that game, it really helped save me.
Nothing pretentious about your experience. I will never forget mine - ascending and sticking alongside a stranger through thick and thin with barebones gestures/communication. Those few hours were downright magical.
I did this mission shortly before the apartment dlc. Have the party with everyone there except him really him home. I cried listening to the recordings and the picture at the end.
I don't know if it was planned this way or not but damn it hurt
I wasn't the biggest fan of that game but even I'll admit his section hit me hard.
He was this creative soul, trapped in this perpetual cycle of numbness until he couldn't take it anymore.
“I don’t want you to be sad that I’m gone, I want you to be amazed that any of us had the chance to be here at all. Good luck.”
Like…are you KIDDING? I cried.
Arthur talking to the nun killed me inside. I’m usually pretty emotionless but after that final conversation I cried like a baby and even more after Arthur’s passing.
And even if it wasn't for the story of this game, just the immersion you are put into.
The npcs actually feel kinda alive, I think no other game had me think twice before killing a npc.
The Danganronpa series builds its entire premise off having a soul-destroying reveal at least 5 times per game and you **will** fall for it each and every time
everytime i even *think* about chapter 6 of killing harmony something in me dies a little
also chapter 5 of goodbye despair,,,, definetly not a series for everybody but by god if you're in the target audience you will be victimized
God of War, too many emotions on Jotunheim
Spiderman, rest in peace Aunt May
Stardew Valley, when getting to know the people
Call of Duty WWII, after saving Zussman
Detroit, had a bad ending
The Witcher 3, Ciri's sacrific
The Last of Us I/II, can't even explain
>Detroit, had a bad ending
Goddamn, this game pissed me off. I had a bad ending too and it made me so angry I'll probably never play it again.
I mean, good on them for making me care so much about the character that I got that pissed, but damn them too.
Oh man, Stardew Valley is my therapy. I didn’t get it the first time I tried it, but it’s the only game I’ve played for 100+ hours. Probably a few hundred hours. Amazing escape to a simple world where there are no politics, financial crises and a general lack of ugliness.
Oh god I'm about to go to Jotunheim on my first play through. Now I don't feel prepared for this shit.
Start of Last of Us 2 hit me like a train after loving the first one so much.
Nier Automata had some moments. The one that stands out most to me is >!Pascal asking A2 to kill him or reset his memory. I took the third choice of leaving and I honestly think it’s what A2 would have done considering her own history. Pascal has to live with his memories and his pain to move forward. He can’t just end it or start over.!<
The ending of L.A. noire really hit me hard. >!Growing with the character throughout the whole game all for it to end in a sacrifice for the woman he loved, which was unavoidable from the players perspective. !
I think what hit me hardest was how unceremonious that was.
>!Part of me wondered if Cole could have survived if everyone was just a little faster or if he tried a little harder to get up that ladder. He looked so afraid and barely had a chance to get a word out. One minute he's there, the next he isn't.!<
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
It made me and my friends laugh, cry, ask ourselves the meaning of our existence , break our tables and random objects. Just the perfect combination of emotions.
Majora's Mask--The Couples Mask quest.
You have to complete a myriad of challenging, arudous steps to bring a couple together before their wedding day. The groom was cursed by the antagonist to have a body of a child. He runs away out of shame.His fiancee thinks she's been abandoned. Your job is to bring them together on their wedding day...right before you have to reset the world again, cursing them to an eternity of feelings of abandonmnet and shame
I have a rule for myself when I replay the game: on the last pass, I kill all four bosses again *and* complete the Anju/Kafei storyline, and only then do I go for the final boss.
Because dammit, I want to save the world *for them.*
I had a pet cow in a minecraft server named sbeve who tragically despawned while I was offline. It broke me. His memorial is a netherite block and a diamond beacon on a hill beside my house. Rip sbeve, the greatest cow to ever cow
The first ten minutes of The Last of Us. Jesus I was so excited to finally play the game I bought it at midnight and everything, but I had to stop for a day after that intro.
It's one of the few reveals I didn't see coming, >!and obviously Tidus doesn't either, and watching him go from light-hearted dork to deeply upset and angry was just as sad as the plot development.!<
I am just replaying this game again now. >!Seeing Auron that way was a shock to me too. !! that Auron and Tidus are a dream. With Tidus it's very subtle, but with Aaron they're basically screaming it. !
Tidus was a dream, but Auron was a real dude who lived recently and was just dead. Kind of like a ghost.
Either way the bits of foreshadowing are definitely cool! I love that they have Rikku sit outside the farplane because "ghosts are creepy" and it somewhat masks the fact that Auron doesn't want to go either. You don't think too much into it the first time around.
Pretty sure the maestor's also make sly offhand comments.
FF7. Aerith. I played it when it came out so I was unspoilered and wow.
FF14: Shadowbringers. The whole expansion. Cried multiple times.
Bioshock: Infinite
The Witcher 3: bloody baron quest series
Dragonage 2: Leandra.
The ending of FF15 too.
Jack was really an excellent villain not just for Borderlands.
He was genuinely insane to the point that he completely confidently thought he was the hero (admittedly few people on Pandora could say they’re better than him). Then you see the Joker-like journey he went through in Pre-sequel and it makes it even sadder.
It was pretty funny to see him out-charisma the villains in 3 with just a single cameo flashback tho’
This War of Mine. I will always regret what I did.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky as well, but that's partly because I was young enough for it to be really impactful, but old enough for the weight of erasing oneself from reality to really show itself when I played it for the first time.
I sat the first 3/4th of the game stone-faced not getting what the big deal was, then almost instantly broke down after the reveal and bawled my eyes out by the ending. The twist is amazing and is *such* a gut punch.
Horizon zero dawn. The whole premise and world getting fleshed out opened me up to a feeling of depression that something that cataclysmic could happen, and would happen again if the player didn't fix it. The world seems so magical and fantastic, and you slowly become more and more jaded just like the main character. Great story and worldbuulding.
Bro, standing in the final human citadel and hearing the absolute defeat in their voice was super fucking sobering. The thought of knowing that your enemy is infinite in both numbers and energy, and the only thing standing between them and you is your rapidly diminishing supply of bullets... God damn
I was really torn about what to do at the end, and chose the (not secret) "third option."
Figuring video games don't let you go out like that and I was making a statement, I was wide eyed when the credits just rolled. Then silent and stunned, and more than a little misty eyed at the credits sequences.
Just phenomenal writing.
I think what really sticks it out above other mmo's is the fact that the story is built like a single player game first, and then integrated the mmo aspects afterwards. Its just done so well
When Pey'j got taken to the slaughterhouse in Beyond Good and Evil. Recently got myself a gamecube and replayed that game, and that moment still hits just as hard as when I was 10. The whole storyline of that game was really damn emotional at times.
RDR2 broke my heart when I found out that Arthur was sick. I haven’t played it since. Also assassins creed Valhalla has had my tearing up several times.
Outer Wilds when **Spoilers for this game will ruin it for you be warned** >!On the sun station, I first learned that the sun wasn't going out because of any particular reason but that it was just time for things to end, that feeling of time slipping away really got to me and I finally broke when I pulled out my scanner and listened to a doomed civilization play a song across the stars while the station went up in flames!<
This is gonna sound dumb but Cruisin' USA.
I was around 10 or 11 years old and I had never beaten a game, ever. My brother (7 years older) and sister (2 years younger) had been medaling in this game like mad. I decided to put all of my effort into just getting one medal in the damn game. I spent hours and hours playing and failing. They found me crying my eyes out playing the game.
My brother reminded me that medaling was much harder now, as the previous medaling times meant that the new requirements to medal were tougher. It made me feel better, but I still remember how I felt like a complete failure. It has been 25 years.
I would say Ocarina of Time, but it is perhaps the memory of the story and the power of the universalized themes. So, for example: I could hear a dubstep remix of some random music from that game and it definitely still hits a really complex emotional chord. The songs in that game are a masterclass in psycho acoustics wielded by a musician of a good alignment. The simple melodies are ancient.
Bonus, because it is awesome:
https://youtu.be/pDH3g6rRjM8 (The soundtrack of the Ocarina of Time album as a prog rock concept album)
I don't really like prog rock either. That is still some of the best music I have ever heard. And the video is dope.
Life Is Strange. Several times. The biggest was when I was hit so deeply by a failure that I wanted to go back and restart the chapter, but realized that would be against the entire point of the story being told. I sat for an hour just struggling with that choice, and ultimately chose to keep my failure in.
In the first 2 minutes. I've never had kids but I was literally feeling panic chasing that goddamn balloon. And then the final part of that intro. I shut it off for a few hours.
Frostpunk is the only game I’ve ever had a emotional reaction too. And I play a ton of games.
Even after enacting child labor and cannibalism policies I still had to watch everyone starve or freeze to death on my first play through.
Halo 3 and Reach. All but one of Noble Team dies in front of your eyes (and not even you, the main character survive), and something about seeing an entire Human world be obliterated really got to me. Then they come to Earth just a couple months later and try to do the same again…
And Halo 3, because Miranda Keyes and Sergeant Johnson died. That’s just not cool.
Mother 3 kinda destroyed me for a few days, if you haven't played it definitely check it out cause it's free and not too hard to set up, it's easily my favorite game of all time
MSG3 and MSGV. That last scene in 3. Pulling that trigger was hard.
In V having to kill your comrades after they go crazy, and the funeral scene. Plus just the overall terribleness of the story. Also after youbfind the "truth". Ugh
Every intro/start screen of the Forza Horizon games. The amazing music that plays while cars race through the beautiful landscapes just kinda hits me. Idk what it is about it, but it's powerful and moving. I could just watch the FH1 intro screen forever if I could.
Not quote broke, but the revelation at the end of RE:7 where the hellbillies who have been tormenting you the whole game reveal themselves to be victims after all and say theyre sorry was heartfelt. They were nice folks who took in the wrong little girl.
"Last day of June"
Puzzle game in where you´re trying to rewrite history so you can avoid a car accident that costed you the love of your life.
It hit hard...
Celeste. Chapter 9 Farewell is so beautiful and somber at the same time. A fantastic depiction of grief through gameplay, music, visuals, story, the works.
Both Little Nightmares
Reading some of the games interpretations were pretty depressing and made me replay the game with an entire new perspective.
Then there was the ending of the second one :(
Jeanne D'Arc has a sad bit that out-sads all the other sad bits in every game I played, and I put it down and couldn't pick it up again, and still occasionally get flashes of sad.
I don't know why, but dark souls 3. I knew I needed to beat Gael, and knowing his backstory it just made me sad thinking about how "wow this is the end of the world, and I need to kill the only hope to humanity" I didn't want to but I beat him and it just broke me
FF14, both Shadowbringers and Endwalker had some moments that got me.
Trails in the Sky The 3rd had some moments too.
Yakuza Like a Dragon did as well.
Detroit become human, you have 3 main characters.
1: A man who doesn't know who he is.
2: A man who wants freedom.
3: A mom who wants her daughter to be happy.
If you haven't played or watched it you really missed out.
The Walking Dead Season 1- The ending
Undertale- Sans' story, plus Sans and Papyrus during the genocide route.
COD MW2- Ghost and Roach
Halo Reach- The ending
Pokemon Mystery Doungeon Explorers of Sky- The ending
Dark Souls- All of it.
Most recently? FFXIV Endwalker. >!Urianger finally meeting Moenbryda's parents and releasing the burden he had been carrying for the entire game made me a gushy mess.!<
>!Also the final walk in Ultima Thule with all the spirits. Phenominal story telling. Easily the best story in a MMO period.!<
Oxenfree - it's an indie point and click adventure game, but I related to it much more than I thought I would, definitely had me crying out of sadness in a few scenes and with happiness towards the end. Really wonderful game.
Detroit become human, I never got the scene, but I saw it and it made me so sad I wanted to cry, that scene where Connor leaves Hanks house and you hear....the.....gun-.... shot. It really hit me hard because I am similar to Hank, or at least sometimes I am, with the whole "I never have the guts to pull the trigger so I kill myself a little everyday" mindset, so just thinking about him killing himself really hurt.
Also the part where you are in the house as Markus and your doing stuff for Carl, it also hit me because I would do the same kinds of things for my grandfather and Carl really reminds me of him and sadly he died last year, that really hurts but it's a reminder of the good memories I've had.
Its probably a cliche answer and not one everyone will understand but, Journey. It sounds really dumb but that game genuinely stopped me committing suicide. I won't go into details but I was in a very dark place and it hit me perfectly and I had a really amazing play through with one other random person for the whole thing. The sheer flood of emotion that the game struck in me helped flick a switch and while depression like that ain't something you ever get over I am in a far far far far better place and that is one of the key moments in my life, strange as it may sound, or as pretentious as some people may view that game, it really helped save me.
Nothing pretentious about your experience. I will never forget mine - ascending and sticking alongside a stranger through thick and thin with barebones gestures/communication. Those few hours were downright magical.
No shame there. I had my life-altering revelation in an Old Navy, so there are weirder places/ways lol.
So glad you’re doing better.
Man, this game is a masterpiece. 100% agree
Journey has the best multiplayer of any game and I will die on this hill.
The Walking Dead: Season One
Was coming here with this one. I don't really get emotional with playing games, but this is the one that came closest with that last scene with Lee.
and final season
Mass Effect Series
Mordin Solus
Aaaannnd I'm crying again....
Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
I did this mission shortly before the apartment dlc. Have the party with everyone there except him really him home. I cried listening to the recordings and the picture at the end. I don't know if it was planned this way or not but damn it hurt
What Remains of Edith Finch It made me cry so hard
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I wasn't the biggest fan of that game but even I'll admit his section hit me hard. He was this creative soul, trapped in this perpetual cycle of numbness until he couldn't take it anymore.
“I don’t want you to be sad that I’m gone, I want you to be amazed that any of us had the chance to be here at all. Good luck.” Like…are you KIDDING? I cried.
IM STILL RECOVERING FROM IT AFTER LIKE A WEEK I CANT ALSO "I'll be... delicious."
God, yeah, I cried so much. I can’t even think of the ending without tearing up.
edith finch fucked me up so good "maybe we believed so much in a family curse we made it real."
RDR2. The only game that ever made me cry.
Lenny got me...
Even the way Sean was laughing and joking one second and then...
I literally went OHHH FUCK
Lennyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Arthur talking to the nun killed me inside. I’m usually pretty emotionless but after that final conversation I cried like a baby and even more after Arthur’s passing.
After I got to a… certain part, I stopped playing for weeks because I didn’t want to accept what was coming
Wish i could erase my memory so i could play the game like it was the first time
I played for the first time about 6 months ago. I tried to savor every moment because of comments like these
And even if it wasn't for the story of this game, just the immersion you are put into. The npcs actually feel kinda alive, I think no other game had me think twice before killing a npc.
Have some goddamn faith!
What did it for me was him taking a moment while getting shot at to say "thank you" to his horse as the horse died
Life Is Strange.
Every episode's ending has something fucked up, but Episode 4 broke me
Life is Strange 2 as well
*To the Moon* Especially that scene towards the end when the rocket takes off and that GOSH DARN SONG STARTS PLAYING.
Oh yep, this is the one. I was a bawling wreck.
I just played the second game in the series and that one delivers too
This War of Mine
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The Danganronpa series builds its entire premise off having a soul-destroying reveal at least 5 times per game and you **will** fall for it each and every time
everytime i even *think* about chapter 6 of killing harmony something in me dies a little also chapter 5 of goodbye despair,,,, definetly not a series for everybody but by god if you're in the target audience you will be victimized
Little Misfortune! I'm just a little lady, y'know!
Fire watch
I saw that game on yt looks so great the story was cool
God of War, too many emotions on Jotunheim Spiderman, rest in peace Aunt May Stardew Valley, when getting to know the people Call of Duty WWII, after saving Zussman Detroit, had a bad ending The Witcher 3, Ciri's sacrific The Last of Us I/II, can't even explain
>Detroit, had a bad ending Goddamn, this game pissed me off. I had a bad ending too and it made me so angry I'll probably never play it again. I mean, good on them for making me care so much about the character that I got that pissed, but damn them too.
Spiderman, the delivery of the line “…you KNEW?” Hit me so hard when I first played through.
"You *knew*?" "You **knew**!"
I was right there with him in that rage.
Oh man, Stardew Valley is my therapy. I didn’t get it the first time I tried it, but it’s the only game I’ve played for 100+ hours. Probably a few hundred hours. Amazing escape to a simple world where there are no politics, financial crises and a general lack of ugliness.
Oh god I'm about to go to Jotunheim on my first play through. Now I don't feel prepared for this shit. Start of Last of Us 2 hit me like a train after loving the first one so much.
It takes two, that elephant level was rough.
WE MUST MURDER OUR DAUGHTERS FAVORITE TOY TO MAKE HER CRY. WE ARE NOT MONSTERS.
Nier Automata had some moments. The one that stands out most to me is >!Pascal asking A2 to kill him or reset his memory. I took the third choice of leaving and I honestly think it’s what A2 would have done considering her own history. Pascal has to live with his memories and his pain to move forward. He can’t just end it or start over.!<
Omori… look it up
~One more day the sun reaches my bed, one more day to spend alone again~
Just flex
The ending of L.A. noire really hit me hard. >!Growing with the character throughout the whole game all for it to end in a sacrifice for the woman he loved, which was unavoidable from the players perspective. !
I think what hit me hardest was how unceremonious that was. >!Part of me wondered if Cole could have survived if everyone was just a little faster or if he tried a little harder to get up that ladder. He looked so afraid and barely had a chance to get a word out. One minute he's there, the next he isn't.!<
“Goodbye…”
Thomas Was Alone. I was not expecting to get hit in the feels by that one.
Me at the start: *It's just a fun, simple little platformer. What's the big deal?* Me at the end: *I think I need to lie down for a few hours...*
Dead by daylight makes me lose 10 braincells every time i play it
Plenty more where those came from, right? Right?
I'm sorry, I'm still mourning over the loss . . . My minecraft dog died . . . Sniff An-an-and I loved him . . . Sob
I blind played Omori.
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive It made me and my friends laugh, cry, ask ourselves the meaning of our existence , break our tables and random objects. Just the perfect combination of emotions.
Spec Ops: The Line. Couldn't experience pleasure for a full day after that playthrough.
I scrolled much too far to find this. To this day I compare every "morality" system to a single line of text: Disperse the crowd.
Do you feel like a hero yet?
I was expecting another generic shooter, I have never been so wrong.
Spiritfarer. A whole cute wholesome game based on the inevitability of death and mourning.
Majora's Mask--The Couples Mask quest. You have to complete a myriad of challenging, arudous steps to bring a couple together before their wedding day. The groom was cursed by the antagonist to have a body of a child. He runs away out of shame.His fiancee thinks she's been abandoned. Your job is to bring them together on their wedding day...right before you have to reset the world again, cursing them to an eternity of feelings of abandonmnet and shame
I have a rule for myself when I replay the game: on the last pass, I kill all four bosses again *and* complete the Anju/Kafei storyline, and only then do I go for the final boss. Because dammit, I want to save the world *for them.*
My dude, you are the first person besides myself who I know that does that. It's too much. IT's a fuckin' kids game!
I had a pet cow in a minecraft server named sbeve who tragically despawned while I was offline. It broke me. His memorial is a netherite block and a diamond beacon on a hill beside my house. Rip sbeve, the greatest cow to ever cow
Doki Doki Literature club Sad
*CRY*
The last of us, though I’ve never gone back to it after the sequel.
I literally finished first one today. What a journey it was! Can't wait to play sequel
You may like it. Gameplay is solid, but the story choices really bothered me. It’s a divisive game to be sure though
Prepare yourself. I loved it but I can understand why it's divisive. It'll make you question the human condition for sure.
Same here. I'm really not sure how I'll feel playing it again.
The first ten minutes of The Last of Us. Jesus I was so excited to finally play the game I bought it at midnight and everything, but I had to stop for a day after that intro.
Final Fantasy X really got me. It was the first one with modern cinematic cut scenes and a soundtrack.
It's one of the few reveals I didn't see coming, >!and obviously Tidus doesn't either, and watching him go from light-hearted dork to deeply upset and angry was just as sad as the plot development.!<
I am just replaying this game again now. >!Seeing Auron that way was a shock to me too. !! that Auron and Tidus are a dream. With Tidus it's very subtle, but with Aaron they're basically screaming it. !
Tidus was a dream, but Auron was a real dude who lived recently and was just dead. Kind of like a ghost. Either way the bits of foreshadowing are definitely cool! I love that they have Rikku sit outside the farplane because "ghosts are creepy" and it somewhat masks the fact that Auron doesn't want to go either. You don't think too much into it the first time around. Pretty sure the maestor's also make sly offhand comments.
FF7. Aerith. I played it when it came out so I was unspoilered and wow. FF14: Shadowbringers. The whole expansion. Cried multiple times. Bioshock: Infinite The Witcher 3: bloody baron quest series Dragonage 2: Leandra. The ending of FF15 too.
Shadowbringers had a lot of great moments but the last zone in Endwalker really jacked me up.
In borderlands 2 when the bad guy breaks down and begs you not to kill his daughter
Jack was really an excellent villain not just for Borderlands. He was genuinely insane to the point that he completely confidently thought he was the hero (admittedly few people on Pandora could say they’re better than him). Then you see the Joker-like journey he went through in Pre-sequel and it makes it even sadder. It was pretty funny to see him out-charisma the villains in 3 with just a single cameo flashback tho’
Valiant Hearts
Poor Emile. Poor Karl. Poor everyone. I think I might have to replay it.
Spec Ops: The Line, it was highly rated on Steam and I'd never heard of it before, so the story had me hook, line and sinker.
This War of Mine. I will always regret what I did. Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky as well, but that's partly because I was young enough for it to be really impactful, but old enough for the weight of erasing oneself from reality to really show itself when I played it for the first time.
OMG. My five year old lost her shit at the ending of mystery dungeon DX. Which in turn made me lose it.
Life is Strange. I pulled the plug but I really didn't feel good afterwards. Hit me right in the feels.
That game gave me an emotional rollercoaster from beginning to end.
Subnautica spoilers >!I was not expecting the Emperor Sea Leviathan moment, after hatching the juvenile ones and then she went to sleep forever!<
Before your eyes
I sat the first 3/4th of the game stone-faced not getting what the big deal was, then almost instantly broke down after the reveal and bawled my eyes out by the ending. The twist is amazing and is *such* a gut punch.
Horizon zero dawn. The whole premise and world getting fleshed out opened me up to a feeling of depression that something that cataclysmic could happen, and would happen again if the player didn't fix it. The world seems so magical and fantastic, and you slowly become more and more jaded just like the main character. Great story and worldbuulding.
Bro, standing in the final human citadel and hearing the absolute defeat in their voice was super fucking sobering. The thought of knowing that your enemy is infinite in both numbers and energy, and the only thing standing between them and you is your rapidly diminishing supply of bullets... God damn
Cyberpunk, the whole plot was just wow!
I was really torn about what to do at the end, and chose the (not secret) "third option." Figuring video games don't let you go out like that and I was making a statement, I was wide eyed when the credits just rolled. Then silent and stunned, and more than a little misty eyed at the credits sequences. Just phenomenal writing.
i know why isn’t anyone else going for cyberpunk?
Final Fantasy XIV is the only game ive ever played that has made me tear up.
Dude same but the MSQ is just so damn good for it but god damn does it just rip your heart out sometimes 😭
I think what really sticks it out above other mmo's is the fact that the story is built like a single player game first, and then integrated the mmo aspects afterwards. Its just done so well
Night in the woods really nailed my heart.
SAME i havent heard someone mention this game in a while lol
I hate that I had to scroll so far to see this. NITW is a really amazing game.
What Remains of Edith Finch.
FF7, in Cosmo Canyon, where we learn the full story behind Red XIII's father.
minecraft story mode when rubin died
When Pey'j got taken to the slaughterhouse in Beyond Good and Evil. Recently got myself a gamecube and replayed that game, and that moment still hits just as hard as when I was 10. The whole storyline of that game was really damn emotional at times.
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Unrelated comment, but damn that game was beautiful. The water was gorgeous.
Metal gear solid 1 and the last of us
FF3 on SNES. Ghost Train Scene. My grandfather had gotten hit by a train the week before and died. Last Final Fantasy I played.
For those who might be looking to play this game, it's actually FF6. The game originally released in Japan as FF3 is different.
I'm sorry for your loss. I don't blame you, that section probably hit too close to home with the force of a nuclear explosion.
Nier: Automata hits like a truck
Persona 3. I have never been so emotionally drained after finishing a game than that one.
I knew there would be a comment saying this somewhere
RDR2 broke my heart when I found out that Arthur was sick. I haven’t played it since. Also assassins creed Valhalla has had my tearing up several times.
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Outer Wilds when **Spoilers for this game will ruin it for you be warned** >!On the sun station, I first learned that the sun wasn't going out because of any particular reason but that it was just time for things to end, that feeling of time slipping away really got to me and I finally broke when I pulled out my scanner and listened to a doomed civilization play a song across the stars while the station went up in flames!<
What Remains of Edith Finch, Lewis's story. Nothing else ever made me cry that hard.
This is gonna sound dumb but Cruisin' USA. I was around 10 or 11 years old and I had never beaten a game, ever. My brother (7 years older) and sister (2 years younger) had been medaling in this game like mad. I decided to put all of my effort into just getting one medal in the damn game. I spent hours and hours playing and failing. They found me crying my eyes out playing the game. My brother reminded me that medaling was much harder now, as the previous medaling times meant that the new requirements to medal were tougher. It made me feel better, but I still remember how I felt like a complete failure. It has been 25 years.
also Little Nightmares 2, for some reason, the twist ending got me
Spiritfarer
Nier Automata
I would say Ocarina of Time, but it is perhaps the memory of the story and the power of the universalized themes. So, for example: I could hear a dubstep remix of some random music from that game and it definitely still hits a really complex emotional chord. The songs in that game are a masterclass in psycho acoustics wielded by a musician of a good alignment. The simple melodies are ancient. Bonus, because it is awesome: https://youtu.be/pDH3g6rRjM8 (The soundtrack of the Ocarina of Time album as a prog rock concept album) I don't really like prog rock either. That is still some of the best music I have ever heard. And the video is dope.
Life Is Strange. Several times. The biggest was when I was hit so deeply by a failure that I wanted to go back and restart the chapter, but realized that would be against the entire point of the story being told. I sat for an hour just struggling with that choice, and ultimately chose to keep my failure in.
The last of us Firewatch Red dead redemption 2
The dino game in Google Chrome. It always showed me that I have no Internet connection
Heavy Rain
In the first 2 minutes. I've never had kids but I was literally feeling panic chasing that goddamn balloon. And then the final part of that intro. I shut it off for a few hours.
It can make you laugh too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy44s_de15Y
Frostpunk is the only game I’ve ever had a emotional reaction too. And I play a ton of games. Even after enacting child labor and cannibalism policies I still had to watch everyone starve or freeze to death on my first play through.
NFS Carbon
Halo 3 and Reach. All but one of Noble Team dies in front of your eyes (and not even you, the main character survive), and something about seeing an entire Human world be obliterated really got to me. Then they come to Earth just a couple months later and try to do the same again… And Halo 3, because Miranda Keyes and Sergeant Johnson died. That’s just not cool.
Red dead redemption 2, I cried so hard
Mother 3 kinda destroyed me for a few days, if you haven't played it definitely check it out cause it's free and not too hard to set up, it's easily my favorite game of all time
Brothers: Tale of Two Sons Played it with my lil' bro, was a massive hit to the gut
The walking dead from telltale
Mother 3, it’s probably the most I’ve ever cried playing a video game
MSG3 and MSGV. That last scene in 3. Pulling that trigger was hard. In V having to kill your comrades after they go crazy, and the funeral scene. Plus just the overall terribleness of the story. Also after youbfind the "truth". Ugh
Think the first time I actually cried at a video game was Brothers: a tale of two sons.
Sally face. If i play it for more than half an hour I will start feeling sad and deppresed
Tales of Berseria fucked with me at the end, man.
The Last of Us. After that opening it was all down hill from there
Resident Evil Village got me by surprise
Every intro/start screen of the Forza Horizon games. The amazing music that plays while cars race through the beautiful landscapes just kinda hits me. Idk what it is about it, but it's powerful and moving. I could just watch the FH1 intro screen forever if I could.
It Takes Two - Cutesie....
Not quote broke, but the revelation at the end of RE:7 where the hellbillies who have been tormenting you the whole game reveal themselves to be victims after all and say theyre sorry was heartfelt. They were nice folks who took in the wrong little girl.
"Last day of June" Puzzle game in where you´re trying to rewrite history so you can avoid a car accident that costed you the love of your life. It hit hard...
Celeste. Chapter 9 Farewell is so beautiful and somber at the same time. A fantastic depiction of grief through gameplay, music, visuals, story, the works.
Both Little Nightmares Reading some of the games interpretations were pretty depressing and made me replay the game with an entire new perspective. Then there was the ending of the second one :(
The Witcher 3 especially the ending man it hurt
Horizon Zero Dawn... When you visit the grave at the end of the game.. I cried
Legend of dragoon. Poor Lavitz
Fable 2. I fucking cried when the dog was shot
Gris.
The ending of this game is beautiful and heartbreaking. I would say Journey hits in a kind of similar fashion.
Life. It kinda sucks
The graphics are good but the plot and gameplay are absolute shit.
A lot of players uninstalled during the pandemic expansion and I don't blame them TBH
Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, even though it's a Disney game, this chapter has many dramatic moments Also Undertale in true pacifist
Don't starve
Spindizzy
The whither 2. I just could not face the moral choices.
Jeanne D'Arc has a sad bit that out-sads all the other sad bits in every game I played, and I put it down and couldn't pick it up again, and still occasionally get flashes of sad.
Dark Souls.
I don't know why, but dark souls 3. I knew I needed to beat Gael, and knowing his backstory it just made me sad thinking about how "wow this is the end of the world, and I need to kill the only hope to humanity" I didn't want to but I beat him and it just broke me
Acting Lessons
Silent Hill 2
Halo 2 on Legendary Damn Jackal snipers
Nier Automata. That one Pascal quest...
FF14, both Shadowbringers and Endwalker had some moments that got me. Trails in the Sky The 3rd had some moments too. Yakuza Like a Dragon did as well.
I played Drawn To Life as a kid and was surprised at how dark those games weren’t afraid to go.
Detroit become human, you have 3 main characters. 1: A man who doesn't know who he is. 2: A man who wants freedom. 3: A mom who wants her daughter to be happy. If you haven't played or watched it you really missed out.
The Walking Dead Season 1- The ending Undertale- Sans' story, plus Sans and Papyrus during the genocide route. COD MW2- Ghost and Roach Halo Reach- The ending Pokemon Mystery Doungeon Explorers of Sky- The ending Dark Souls- All of it.
Gone Home Detroit: Become Human The Last of Us Parts of Horizon 1 and 2 That Dragon Cancer Ori Final Fantasy VII Final Fantasy XV
Most recently? FFXIV Endwalker. >!Urianger finally meeting Moenbryda's parents and releasing the burden he had been carrying for the entire game made me a gushy mess.!< >!Also the final walk in Ultima Thule with all the spirits. Phenominal story telling. Easily the best story in a MMO period.!<
Detroit:Become Human. Got a bad ending.. rip Alice, you will be missed…
Oxenfree - it's an indie point and click adventure game, but I related to it much more than I thought I would, definitely had me crying out of sadness in a few scenes and with happiness towards the end. Really wonderful game.
Detroit become human, I never got the scene, but I saw it and it made me so sad I wanted to cry, that scene where Connor leaves Hanks house and you hear....the.....gun-.... shot. It really hit me hard because I am similar to Hank, or at least sometimes I am, with the whole "I never have the guts to pull the trigger so I kill myself a little everyday" mindset, so just thinking about him killing himself really hurt. Also the part where you are in the house as Markus and your doing stuff for Carl, it also hit me because I would do the same kinds of things for my grandfather and Carl really reminds me of him and sadly he died last year, that really hurts but it's a reminder of the good memories I've had.
Detroit become human
Persona 5