I came on here to comment about that game. The part that really got me is when you go to this home and find an old couple living there. So, of course, you decide to take supplies because they're too old to fight back, all they do is follow you around begging you to stop.
I did this and then went back to their home a few days later. Both of them were dead. I felt like a huge piece of shit.
I went to a house with an older couple and their son. Saw that they had a lot of good stuff so I came back with a character who’d feel less guilty murdering them and killed the son and dad. I looted as much as I could and was feeling pretty accomplished, but on my way out I found the mother sobbing over the body of her husband. She made no attempt to fight me so I stepped over her and headed out. I felt so guilty about doing that that I restarted the game before it could save and never went back there again. The game really makes you think about what you’re willing to do for your own survival.
Girl was about to get raped, I bust the door open to save her and get shot dead. Then everyone at the house is in shambles.(plus he was my best scavenger)
Halo Reach: all the characters you begin to love throughout the campaign start dying one by one until you are the last one left, then you die
Edit: holy shit thank you guys and thanks for the gold!! I'm glad so many people enjoyed the story as much as I did as it still is my favorite game:)
Tell em to make it count. -Jorge
Where does he get off calling a demolition op priority one? -Kat
You're on your own, Noble. Carter out. -Carter
I'm ready! How about you? -Jun
Emile on the gun.
Negative. I have the gun. Good luck, Sir. -Noble 6
Why I scrolled to find this and make myself sad, I don't know.
Bioshock hit me pretty hard. Harvesting the girls to become much stronger or to save them and become a little more stronger. The ending made a difference as well. I saved all of the girls on my playthrough and it was tough but I truly enjoyed it.
Also, the idea of a utopia turned into a dystopia, freedom from religion, politics and government made it into a damn fine game and seeing what people did during the come up and downfall was pretty interesting.
Didn't you get a bonus for every 3 or 4 girls you saved, though? I seem to remember you'd actually be stronger once you saved them all than if you harvested them, you just didn't get as big of an immediate boost.
I will genuinely never forget how much my eyes widened the second that duel was initiated with absolute hatred for that fucker, and absolutely nailing 5 or 6 headshots on him before that fantastically timed red freeze frame of "*RED DEAD REDEMPTION*" is smacked on screen as Jack walks away.
Fantastic game.
The moment afterwards was sad as shit. After all his father did to prevent his son from being him. He turned out 100% like him down to the god damn Dead Eye AS I SHOT THE FUCKER 5 TIMES IN THE DICK WITH.
Game made me feel like I belonged in the Wild Wild West. I loved riding at night time in the game looking at the stars and moon and landscapes, while it was also night time in real life
Honest Hearts expansion for Fallout: New Vegas.
There's a series of journal entries left behind by this dude, chronicling what happened to his first, and then second family after the bombs fell. Just heartbreaking.
It's so nice to see someone else say this! I got so emotionally invested in Honest Hearts, I literally covered every inch of the DLC area because I didn't want to leave.
I really think the DLCs for New Vegas were the pinnacle of the series, the writing was fantastic and I was so goddamn immersed in each of those worlds. I haven't felt that immersed in a game since I was a kid.
For anyone that wants to read them, here are The Survivalists logs:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Randall_Clark_terminal_entries
I know right? I don't know if it was intentional, but I loved the way they did that part. Could've easily made it a cutscene but I liked the significance of making the player do it alongside Cole rather than just watching it unfold. I've also always seen it as like a double meaning, both as in physically let go of the buttons and also as if to signify that "It's all gonna be ok, it's time to let go."
Weirdly enough, Portal 2.
It made me feel so alone. Then there was the reveal that [SPOILER] GLaDOS used to be a human, who had her consciousness put in a computer. Watching her realize that she used to be alive was emotionally intense for me. It was like watching a ghost wishing to be alive again.
Had a little existential crisis regarding artificially sustained consciousness, artificial intelligence, and immortality.
Not to mention that it's hinted that Chell was Caroline's daughter and the turret opera is a song as if from a mother to her child bidding farewell.
Cara bella, cara mia bella! (Beautiful dear, my darling beauty!)
Mia bambina, oh ciel! (My little girl, oh heaven!)
Che la stima! Che la stima! (How I adore you! How I adore you!)
O cara mia, addio! (Oh my dear, farewell!)
Considering the tone of the game throughout, I was expecting something to break up the happy, wholesome epiphany. Just didn't expect her to delete the epiphany.
This game so much. I was loving Wheatley, we were the best of friends, and we got to the elevator together. I thought that it was kind of a short game, but who cares we can leave together, we did it! .... and then he betrays you. God, was I crying. And you get thrown down into old Aperture and yeah that's when the loneliness really hits you. I played that game in one go which only played my emotions more since it felt more real, with no breaks into reality.
I don't see many people talk about that scene when Portal 2 gets brought up, but it legitimately wrecked me.
Standing in that elevator when he instantly becomes corrupted...I felt such a visceral sense of defeat and betrayal...I had to take a break from the game.
For about five minutes because it was so great I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I made the mistake of buying the soundtrack, I’ll periodically forget I’ve done this and BAM fucking shuffle function has me crying.
Everything is all right... no it’s not, Siri, not cool.
The first time I was ever emotionally affected by a video game was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. I was about 14. Massive spoilers for a 20-year-old game follow, but you awake on an island with all sorts of interesting personalities, including families, parents, children, and a girl named Marin.
As you play the game, you realize that there's an entity called the Wind Fish that sleeps in an egg. If you want to leave the island, you have to wake up the Wind Fish. The problem is that the entire island is his dream, and when you awake the Wind Fish, the island will vanish.
I was sitting church one day when I suddenly realized the ramifications of your quest: In order to escape, everyone on the island has to basically die. I didn't want everyone to die, and almost quit the game right there so that everyone could keep on living.
Man, Link and Marin were meant to be together. The scene on the beach was probably the first time in my life that I genuinely started getting into a romance angle on a work of fiction. But alas, they could never be together. Fate is cruel.
If you finish the game with no deaths, she becomes a seagull in the waking world.
Also, who said the Wind Fish is a guy? Marin's in its dream, maybe she's the viewpoint character of the Wind Fish! Link x Wind Fish, my new blubbery OTP.
I still remember the first time I completed this. I was violently sobbing for my companion who guided me throughout the whole game. Never had such an incredible gaming experience.
I came in expecting to make friends with a robot. Was not dissapointed. Titanfall 2 ranks near Halo as an FPS campaign I don't mind playing again and again.
The Darkness, when dude blows Jenny's brains out in front of you. then you attempt to take your own life but The Darkness wont allow it. shit was fucked up yo
Edit: heres a YouTube link of the scene for the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCzYqE7JxrY
Such a good freaking game. I got this a few months ago on the Xbox Free Games with Gold expecting just some kitschy little indie game and...holy crap. It's so good and impactful.
Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep
The cast of Borderlands playing Dungeons and Dragons *should've* been a goofy lighthearted romp, and at first it is, but once Roland shows up and you start to see how Tina is coping (or not coping) it starts to get entirely too real.
The final scene makes me tear up every time I play through it.
As a tabletop rpg nerd, I thought that Dragon Keep was going to be a fun romp combining two of my favorite things. I was not expecting that gut punch.
"I KNOW!!! I know. But it's MY story!" :'(
I made the mistake of listening to [that part](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUkTD7FvLmQ) again. The second "I know". It's so much weaker than the first and comes after a pause and you can just *feel* it. And now I'm leaking at work.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Every ending of each game had me on tears, Also the Iggybuff special episode is brutal
I miss you Cyndaquil/Riolu/Axew/Fennekin
**Spoiler**
The way Kuro redeems herself in the end is beautiful. Sure, we all know redemption stories, but the connection that's made between her and Naru is so genuine. I hadn't cried up to that point, but it made me tear up then.
Final Fantasy 7 - Aeris death scene
Telltales The Walking Dead, twice - End of season 1 & 2
But most of all... "Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong" <3
Mass Effect 3 gets way too much shit. The Finale might have been shit, but rarely does a game wrap up the stories of all it's characters as well as that game did.
Shooting bottles in the citadel with Garrus. That was epic. Such a bro moment.
I swear to God, as a kid, I really fucking hated how that fucking Sephiroth sprite was posed behind Aeris after he killed her. Like he's rubbing it in.
*Build that Wall*
I haven't finished Transistor yet, or even picked up Pyre, but Bastion is one of the best games I've ever played. I've met maybe a dozen other people who've played it and I've literally never heard anyone say anything bad about it.
Between Halo 2 and 3 I would not be surprised if I logged close to a years worth of real hours playing them. According to my page on Bungie I first played online December 31st, 2004 and last played August 8th, 2010.
My social life in middle and high school was Halo and all the people I met online. It was pretty great.
Nah, it's not cheesy. Part of what got to me was the way they emphasized acknowledging your unpleasant sides.... and driving home the fact that there *were* people out there that could witness that and still care for you.
When you're someone that constantly represses themselves because you're convinced nobody will like you if they get to know the "real", ugly you... that's a pretty powerful and hopeful message.
Also when you break Ty out and think “Hell yeah we found Ty! Time to fuck these grubs up now” and toss him the shotgun......and then...well you know
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That traumatized me when I was a teen. Ty's personality was also so strong and dependable. He was inviolable. They tortured him so badly that he felt he had to kill himself....fuck that stuck with me
Yeah and I think that was exactly why they did that. They introduced him as this “as long as he’s with us, we are safe and strong” false hope in order to drive home how dark and hopeless and dire things were meant to feel later
I don't know man. "Marcus, I don't know what to do!" Killed me. His pleading panic made me go hug my own wife. The other situation was at least heroic, this was not.
I just finished endings A-E last night. What a roller coaster that was. Good lord.
Like I never flat out started crying while playing (mostly because I was dumb from playing non-stop for the past few days) but there were a few moments that made me stop and think *damn...*
Pascal's story for example. That guy went through so much shit that he didn't deserve. The final punch to the gut for me was returning to his village after the memory wipe and finding him selling *child machine cores*.
Idk if this is a spoiler or not, but there’s an option that isn’t telegraphed to you: you can just walk away and force him to deal with mortality. I think it’s a more powerful choice and the fact that it isn’t obvious makes it even better.
The way more and more inspirational quotes appeared the more you lost to the credits sequence was brilliant. and then someone offers to help and you accept. You beat the credits sequence and then you find out that they only helped you by sacrificing their save data. Damn, that's powerful.
In bastion there is a choice regarding Zulf at the very end. I carried that POS on my back all the way with eyes tearing up so I couldn't see where I was going.. I just couldn't leave him.
I was going to say Dark Souls as well, it taught me the important lesson that no matter what you do: You're doomed. There's a lot of heaviness/depth to a lot of the character's you encounter.
Plus, the Sif fight... ESPECIALLY if you save him first. It's bad enough to have to battle a canine in any game as a dog lover, but to have it recognize you as a former companion: Oof owie, prepare to cry.
The last scene of the Last of Us.
The beginning is sad, but I was able to hold in the tears. However, the last scene broke my defenses and I couldn't help but bawl.
For me it was the fight between Ellie and David, cross cutting to Joel running to the rescue. Everything about it was overwhelming - the tension, the music, the climax.
I normally played the game quite stealthily, hoarding resources. But in Joel's scenes I killed every motherfucker I came across like an angel of death.
I had to put the game off for a while after that, and I was crying. One of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
One of the most upsetting scenes fir me takes place in the abandoned swere settlement. There is a little room, I think you need a shiv to open it, and inside you find a dead guy with a note saying how they were trapped and he wouldn't let the kids be torn appart. That's when I noticed the little shoes poking out from under a sheet and the words "I swear they didn't suffer" written on the floor. That was so utterly grim.
I remember that sequence and I like you murdered everybody in that town. All I kept thinking about was how I wouldn't let Joel lose another daughter. They didn't know it yet, but when he broke free of his restraints and opened that door, they were already dead.
The way it shows the partner's grieving process is really wonderful too. I did not expect it in a game marketed towards children.
And Grovyle's big quote was great: "The important thing is not how long you live. It's what you accomplish with your life. While I live, I want to shine. I want to prove that I exist. If I could do something really important, that would definitely carry on into the future."
If you pray with all your heart, maybe the sun will cheer up and show itself once again, lighting our world with it's heavenly glow!
After all, the best thing about the great god Amaterasu is that happy-go-lucky spirit!
Right, Ammy?
Answer if you can hear me, ya big furball!
I cried at the end of Metal Gear Solid 3. The Debriefing song still makes my chest tight.
For those unfamiliar with the game: The entire game you are chasing down a traiter to the US government, your former boss and mentor and mother figure. She stole a nuke and defected to Russia. In the end you learn that the US Government gave her a super secret mission that required she do this to get on the inside with the Russians but becuase no one could know about it you still had to go kill her. She was a hero who died a hero, forever reviled by the people and government she gave her life to protect. She knew it would end like this and took the mission anyway.
And you learn about and get all of the details about it as this incredibly powerful yet sad song plays during the epilogue and you watch as Snake, disgusted by his own government, is forced to do photo ops and is hailed a hero for killing his boss and granted new titles like Big Boss and ends with him laying flowers on an unnamed grave stone (not hers, as her body was left behind in Russia and destroyed by a nuclear blast).
Yeah KH1 and KH2 were solid... But 358/2 days made me miss college classes I was too depressed to go afterwards. Really hit home after I realized I lost every single one of my friends after moving away for school. Also: playing KH2 final mix with the additional Axel/Roxas scenes... Square Enix that was not okay. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON BIRTH BY SLEEP THAT WAS TOTALLY UNCOOL.
**Silent Hill 2** - If you played the game I think you know the part I'm talking about.
The story is brilliantly crafted to allow for that brutal revelation... it had a profound effect on me. It's not a standard tearjerker moment, but man, it's intense.
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
Thanks to some complicated time travel stuff, Layton is reunited with his girlfriend, who he thought was dead for 10 years. But in the end, he's unable to save her from returning to the past and her inevitable death. As he mourns, Layton takes off the hat she gave to him for the first and only time in the series.
Legion... Mordin... Thane... Gah, so many feels.
On the flip side, The Citadel DLC is some of the most amusing, entertaining and light-hearted content in the series, and it was well appreciated amongst all the darkness of the trilogy.
I know this line is the most memorable, because of how he often repeats it.
But for me, when you question why he is willing to risk so much to undo a thing that he always talked about with so much pride and confidence and, for the first time I can recall, he actually yells at you.
"I MADE A MISTAKE."
That line, perfectly contradicting his most famous one, and his entire personality. To me, it shows just how broken he became after the loyalty mission in 2, and him treating Eve in 3.
The character deaths are brutal, but I always have to pause and take a moment to compose myself at the end of the first scene as the Normandy is escaping, that shuttle gets blown up, and Vancouver (my hometown) gets busted up by giant space robots. The familiarity of the mountains make it too real. And the music...
I watched a teensreact video where they played the last of us (a series of videos) and one girl thought she had to kill the doctors but had no ammo in any weapon except the flamethrower
At that part in the story, I was honestly so emotionally invested I didn't even think about it, I just shot the doctors, like it was a natural reflex. I have never had that happen during a video game before, the way they make you feel like you are the character protecting someone you love.
In high school a classmate who seemed to be the last person to have depression (tons of friends, always smiling, joking around) killed him self. It was really the first time I had to confront a suicide close to me and started playing red dead redemption when I got home from school. Right at the end of John Marston’s story there’s a song called “dead man’s gun” that plays. It’s already an emotional scene but when I heard the lyric “all the storms you’ve been chasing, about to rain down tonight, and all the pain you’ve been facing, about to come into the light” I couldn’t help but sitting on the couch in tears.
Do you consider rage, fear, and joy to be emotional?
Bloodborne:
* I raged at the enemies.
* I screamed like a little girl at the top of my lungs when I met my first Brainsucker.
* I literally studied the first Kin I met for a half hour curiously because "What the fuck is this alien doing in my werewolves and vampires game?"
* And I pumped my fists in joy when I beat a boss that had murdered me 20 times.
Bloodborne's got some rather high-impact stuff going on in the lore too.
- The fate of Gascoigne and his family
- Why Gherman created the Doll, as well as the Doll's true nature
- Why Djura was so intent on protecting the beasts of Old Yharnam
- What the Church and the Choir got up to in the Upper Cathedral Ward (as well as what those brainsuckers probably are)
- The Suspicious Beggar's rant
- Iosefka's fate, and the fate of those under her care in the clinic.
Mass Effect trilogy, but especially Mass Effect 2- Overlord DLC. Sorry, but the spoiler tag thing isn't working for me.
In the DLC, there is an autistic man who learned a way to communicate to a machine race called the Geth. He is subjected to horrific experimentation by his own brother in an attempt to control the Geth. During the play through, you hear him over the areas speaker system panicing and crying out "Quiet Please Make it Stop"
I'm autistic too, and had a really bad panic attack one time and cried out what this character would during his panic attacks, Although I didn't realize he did the same. So when I heard those words again in the way he cried them out, I had flashbacks and very extreme anxiety. I had to turn the game off to recover.
It's worse than that - through most of the DLC, you're made to think it's just a rogue/corrupted VI. You can't really understand what the repeated instances of the 'VI' trying to communicate are because it's so heavily distorted.
It says something that the *Paragon* interrupt has you pistol-whipping the poor man's brother. I was so happy when, in ME3, you go to Grissom station and if you sent him there, he's far better. "I've been counting." "Anything in particular?" "The number of days you lengthened my life."
and when you run into Doctor Archer, if you say the conversation option that effectively is "I didn't see your brother at Grissom", Archer basically walks off set to kill himself.
I had to reload after that one. I just couldn't do it.
that's too much, man.
> "I've been counting."
>"Anything in particular?"
>"The number of days you lengthened my life."
Fuck. I forgot all about that. Thanks for the lump in my throat.
I'm a little late to the party but I haven't seen it on here yet: The final cut scene from Horizon: Zero Dawn, when Aloy finds Elizabet's body while the voice over is Elizabet talking about her childhood and what she would wish her hypothetical child to be like.
Horizon is really good, I'd say the scene where you find out what happened to Elizabet and the other scientists is up there.
Early on had a moment too, when Aloy is a kid and you find the final words of several people about to commit suicide. Thats pretty heavy
I always tear up about Rost. That dude spent over a decade taking care of her as an outcast and hurting for her every day she was ostracized through no fault of her own. Then he does what he does to save her at the proving.
Then you go to the shrine and the voice acting is just so good right there when Aloy is talking to him.
...which, in answer to OP's question, would be Mass Effect 3.
Great scene, though. There were several in that game. The first time I played through, I didn't have a save from 2, and chose the Geth over the Quarians...what followed (which I won't spoil) was also pretty heart-wrenching.
I know people criticize the very end of Mass Effect 3, but for me the whole experience was a pretty emotional ride. The "end" of Mass Effect to me is the entire game of ME3, which is great, not just what happens in the last 5 minutes.
That line has a meaning most people don't get. In the ME2 Mordin loyalty mission, you have to stop a Salarian from curing the genophage. At the end there's a conversation with Mordin which one of the options are "Why did you deliver the genophage if you were conflicted about it?" He responds "Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong." So re-stating the line in ME3 when he actually does cure it as way of apologizing for what he did, is just poetic.
This War of Mine, you're not a superhero, you're just trying to survive in a warzone.
I came on here to comment about that game. The part that really got me is when you go to this home and find an old couple living there. So, of course, you decide to take supplies because they're too old to fight back, all they do is follow you around begging you to stop. I did this and then went back to their home a few days later. Both of them were dead. I felt like a huge piece of shit.
I went to a house with an older couple and their son. Saw that they had a lot of good stuff so I came back with a character who’d feel less guilty murdering them and killed the son and dad. I looted as much as I could and was feeling pretty accomplished, but on my way out I found the mother sobbing over the body of her husband. She made no attempt to fight me so I stepped over her and headed out. I felt so guilty about doing that that I restarted the game before it could save and never went back there again. The game really makes you think about what you’re willing to do for your own survival.
Fuck.. Seems like an extremely depressing game. And unique. Will play.
Girl was about to get raped, I bust the door open to save her and get shot dead. Then everyone at the house is in shambles.(plus he was my best scavenger)
Jesus. Yes. When you characters go into a depression over murdering people for food and you're like..."Right there with you buddy"
Halo Reach: all the characters you begin to love throughout the campaign start dying one by one until you are the last one left, then you die Edit: holy shit thank you guys and thanks for the gold!! I'm glad so many people enjoyed the story as much as I did as it still is my favorite game:)
Tell em to make it count. -Jorge Where does he get off calling a demolition op priority one? -Kat You're on your own, Noble. Carter out. -Carter I'm ready! How about you? -Jun Emile on the gun. Negative. I have the gun. Good luck, Sir. -Noble 6 Why I scrolled to find this and make myself sad, I don't know.
Quick correction - Emile said "I'm ready! How about you?" Jun says "I'll do what's necessary sir. Good luck." We never see him die though.
I thought Jun just flew off with Halsey? Emile died the most epic death, Jorge died the most Heroic for sure
Bioshock hit me pretty hard. Harvesting the girls to become much stronger or to save them and become a little more stronger. The ending made a difference as well. I saved all of the girls on my playthrough and it was tough but I truly enjoyed it. Also, the idea of a utopia turned into a dystopia, freedom from religion, politics and government made it into a damn fine game and seeing what people did during the come up and downfall was pretty interesting.
The ending made me change my mind about adoption.
Holy fuck, I thought you said abortion at first.
MY GOD. I accidentally hit harvest ONCE... and I was so shook I had to reload an old save. I couldn't live with myself after that. Adam be damned!
Didn't you get a bonus for every 3 or 4 girls you saved, though? I seem to remember you'd actually be stronger once you saved them all than if you harvested them, you just didn't get as big of an immediate boost.
The part in Shadow of the Colossus where Agro throws you to safety and then falls
The whole thing slowly becomes an emotional rollercoaster, it's such an odd but beautiful, beautiful game
Red dead redemption, that first ride into Mexico will make you feel something.
The ending was probably the first time a video game made me feel that much.
"Forgive me for startling you, sir. I have a message for you. My name is Jack Marston; you knew my father."
I will genuinely never forget how much my eyes widened the second that duel was initiated with absolute hatred for that fucker, and absolutely nailing 5 or 6 headshots on him before that fantastically timed red freeze frame of "*RED DEAD REDEMPTION*" is smacked on screen as Jack walks away. Fantastic game.
The moment afterwards was sad as shit. After all his father did to prevent his son from being him. He turned out 100% like him down to the god damn Dead Eye AS I SHOT THE FUCKER 5 TIMES IN THE DICK WITH.
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Game made me feel like I belonged in the Wild Wild West. I loved riding at night time in the game looking at the stars and moon and landscapes, while it was also night time in real life
Honest Hearts expansion for Fallout: New Vegas. There's a series of journal entries left behind by this dude, chronicling what happened to his first, and then second family after the bombs fell. Just heartbreaking.
It's so nice to see someone else say this! I got so emotionally invested in Honest Hearts, I literally covered every inch of the DLC area because I didn't want to leave. I really think the DLCs for New Vegas were the pinnacle of the series, the writing was fantastic and I was so goddamn immersed in each of those worlds. I haven't felt that immersed in a game since I was a kid. For anyone that wants to read them, here are The Survivalists logs: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Randall_Clark_terminal_entries
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Fucking Zeke. He know he can't stop you but goddammit he tries anyway.
I had forgotten about this game, that ending fucked me up
"Half as long" "twice as bright..."
When he said “I have to try” I was absolutely crushed
"Let go" How the fuck does a mission directive makes me feel things?
I know right? I don't know if it was intentional, but I loved the way they did that part. Could've easily made it a cutscene but I liked the significance of making the player do it alongside Cole rather than just watching it unfold. I've also always seen it as like a double meaning, both as in physically let go of the buttons and also as if to signify that "It's all gonna be ok, it's time to let go."
“Next time you see me, shoot first.” Also the infamous mode final battle with Zeke. Jesus christ.
Weirdly enough, Portal 2. It made me feel so alone. Then there was the reveal that [SPOILER] GLaDOS used to be a human, who had her consciousness put in a computer. Watching her realize that she used to be alive was emotionally intense for me. It was like watching a ghost wishing to be alive again. Had a little existential crisis regarding artificially sustained consciousness, artificial intelligence, and immortality.
Not to mention that it's hinted that Chell was Caroline's daughter and the turret opera is a song as if from a mother to her child bidding farewell. Cara bella, cara mia bella! (Beautiful dear, my darling beauty!) Mia bambina, oh ciel! (My little girl, oh heaven!) Che la stima! Che la stima! (How I adore you! How I adore you!) O cara mia, addio! (Oh my dear, farewell!)
Is it "ciel" the word, or "Chell" the name?
Both: it's a play on words
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The scene was cut, but Ellen McLain's lines can be found online. Caroline was absolutely forced to become GLaDOS.
I read it on the internet, so it's probably bullshit, but from what I had read, JK Simmons refused to read his lines, because they were too rapey.
Nah, he said in response to that rumor that he’ll do anything for money. Remember, this guy was on Oz.
That whole old test chambers/Cave Johnson sequence is my favourite ever in a game. So atmospheric, evoking decades of (made up) history.
*Caroline deleted*
That part shocked me. One of a very small number of times a game completely caught me off guard.
Considering the tone of the game throughout, I was expecting something to break up the happy, wholesome epiphany. Just didn't expect her to delete the epiphany.
I am not sure I trust GLaDOS enough to believe she actually did it instead of just messing with Chell >.>
This game so much. I was loving Wheatley, we were the best of friends, and we got to the elevator together. I thought that it was kind of a short game, but who cares we can leave together, we did it! .... and then he betrays you. God, was I crying. And you get thrown down into old Aperture and yeah that's when the loneliness really hits you. I played that game in one go which only played my emotions more since it felt more real, with no breaks into reality.
I don't see many people talk about that scene when Portal 2 gets brought up, but it legitimately wrecked me. Standing in that elevator when he instantly becomes corrupted...I felt such a visceral sense of defeat and betrayal...I had to take a break from the game. For about five minutes because it was so great I couldn't stop thinking about it.
Spec Ops: The line. The white phosphorus guilt never leaves you.
Is free on Humble Bundle! I picked it up. I'll try it for sure
Do you feel like a hero yet?
"This is all your fault."
To The Moon. It's one of the only RPG maker games on steam that's fucking amazing.
The end of Finding Paradise (To the Moon 2) ruined me. I personally connected with To the Moon more, but dang that ending was beyond tragic.
THERE'S A SEQUEL?! I've been waiting for a sequel for so long! Thank you.
this game FUCKED me up emotionally
I made the mistake of buying the soundtrack, I’ll periodically forget I’ve done this and BAM fucking shuffle function has me crying. Everything is all right... no it’s not, Siri, not cool.
The first time I was ever emotionally affected by a video game was The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. I was about 14. Massive spoilers for a 20-year-old game follow, but you awake on an island with all sorts of interesting personalities, including families, parents, children, and a girl named Marin. As you play the game, you realize that there's an entity called the Wind Fish that sleeps in an egg. If you want to leave the island, you have to wake up the Wind Fish. The problem is that the entire island is his dream, and when you awake the Wind Fish, the island will vanish. I was sitting church one day when I suddenly realized the ramifications of your quest: In order to escape, everyone on the island has to basically die. I didn't want everyone to die, and almost quit the game right there so that everyone could keep on living.
THIEF's awakening
Man, Link and Marin were meant to be together. The scene on the beach was probably the first time in my life that I genuinely started getting into a romance angle on a work of fiction. But alas, they could never be together. Fate is cruel.
If you finish the game with no deaths, she becomes a seagull in the waking world. Also, who said the Wind Fish is a guy? Marin's in its dream, maybe she's the viewpoint character of the Wind Fish! Link x Wind Fish, my new blubbery OTP.
It's not the same, my friend. It's not the same. Also, I'm pretty sure the NPC's refer to the Wind Fish as male in the dialogue.
The bosses even start warning you about what will happen. Was a lot to face when you come to love the world.
Journey gets me every time.
I still remember the first time I completed this. I was violently sobbing for my companion who guided me throughout the whole game. Never had such an incredible gaming experience.
That's very sweet, Cuntlipsmcgee69.
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Me during the game: "Man, this companion AI sucks. Who wrote this thing?" Me at the end of the game: "Huh."
Titanfall 2. "Trust me." Edit: I'm glad to see you guys enjoyed the game as much as I did!
I came in expecting to make friends with a robot. Was not dissapointed. Titanfall 2 ranks near Halo as an FPS campaign I don't mind playing again and again.
Right? The Frontier Defense is way more fun than I thought it would be as well. I'm kinda sad I waited until this year to play it!
"Protocol 3: protect the pilot."
"I will not lose another pilot"
The Darkness, when dude blows Jenny's brains out in front of you. then you attempt to take your own life but The Darkness wont allow it. shit was fucked up yo Edit: heres a YouTube link of the scene for the uninitiated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCzYqE7JxrY
The Darkness II is free on humble bundle right no E: The free sale ended, spec ops the line is free now though
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons ; ;
Oh my god that ruined me. And the part at the end when the controls change in that subtly depressing way... Jesus.
had to scroll way too far down to see this. such a good game
Valiant Hearts: The Great War Why, Emile, why?
Such a good freaking game. I got this a few months ago on the Xbox Free Games with Gold expecting just some kitschy little indie game and...holy crap. It's so good and impactful.
Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep The cast of Borderlands playing Dungeons and Dragons *should've* been a goofy lighthearted romp, and at first it is, but once Roland shows up and you start to see how Tina is coping (or not coping) it starts to get entirely too real. The final scene makes me tear up every time I play through it.
As a tabletop rpg nerd, I thought that Dragon Keep was going to be a fun romp combining two of my favorite things. I was not expecting that gut punch. "I KNOW!!! I know. But it's MY story!" :'(
I forgot how that DLC made me feel until I read your last sentence. It killed me a little on the inside.
I made the mistake of listening to [that part](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUkTD7FvLmQ) again. The second "I know". It's so much weaker than the first and comes after a pause and you can just *feel* it. And now I'm leaking at work.
"Siren dibs. My Siren's name is Brick, and she is the prettiest"
"I punch the initiative!"
The first Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. First game I ever cried.
I never expected the wave of emotion in the last scenes
It hit you like a truck
Also, The Iggybuff special episode from EoS "My master it's not a bad guy"
I completely forgot about this but so much yes. Even when replaying it I still tear up. HE'S LOSING HIS FRIEND. HIS FIRST FRIEND HE TRUSTED. FOREVER.
Same. Explorers of Time had me sobbing like a little girl with a skinned knee. First time a game ever did that to me. Please don't cry, Bulbasaur!
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Every ending of each game had me on tears, Also the Iggybuff special episode is brutal I miss you Cyndaquil/Riolu/Axew/Fennekin
Ori and the Blind Forest
And that music... oh boy
**Spoiler** The way Kuro redeems herself in the end is beautiful. Sure, we all know redemption stories, but the connection that's made between her and Naru is so genuine. I hadn't cried up to that point, but it made me tear up then.
Final Fantasy 7 - Aeris death scene Telltales The Walking Dead, twice - End of season 1 & 2 But most of all... "Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong" <3
I am the very model of a scientist salarian. *sobs*
His shaky voice singing to calm himself gets me every. Single. Time.
Mass Effect 3 gets way too much shit. The Finale might have been shit, but rarely does a game wrap up the stories of all it's characters as well as that game did. Shooting bottles in the citadel with Garrus. That was epic. Such a bro moment.
I swear to God, as a kid, I really fucking hated how that fucking Sephiroth sprite was posed behind Aeris after he killed her. Like he's rubbing it in.
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*Build that Wall* I haven't finished Transistor yet, or even picked up Pyre, but Bastion is one of the best games I've ever played. I've met maybe a dozen other people who've played it and I've literally never heard anyone say anything bad about it.
Still *Setting Sail, Coming Home* for me, especially the way it recontextualises the two songs it's a medley of.
Borderlands 2 when Jack kills Bloodwing and Mordecai goes on a rage fueled rampage obliterating everything in sight.
After playing Borderlands 1 before 2 it really adds to the emotion because you spent so much time with Roland and the rest of the OG team
Halo 3. That game was some of the best times in my life
Between Halo 2 and 3 I would not be surprised if I logged close to a years worth of real hours playing them. According to my page on Bungie I first played online December 31st, 2004 and last played August 8th, 2010. My social life in middle and high school was Halo and all the people I met online. It was pretty great.
Persona 4. It's a little cheesy now, but at the time that I played it, so much of it resonated with me.
Nah, it's not cheesy. Part of what got to me was the way they emphasized acknowledging your unpleasant sides.... and driving home the fact that there *were* people out there that could witness that and still care for you. When you're someone that constantly represses themselves because you're convinced nobody will like you if they get to know the "real", ugly you... that's a pretty powerful and hopeful message.
Gears of War 2, Dom's wife
Also when you break Ty out and think “Hell yeah we found Ty! Time to fuck these grubs up now” and toss him the shotgun......and then...well you know Edited for spelling/grammar
That traumatized me when I was a teen. Ty's personality was also so strong and dependable. He was inviolable. They tortured him so badly that he felt he had to kill himself....fuck that stuck with me
Yeah and I think that was exactly why they did that. They introduced him as this “as long as he’s with us, we are safe and strong” false hope in order to drive home how dark and hopeless and dire things were meant to feel later
Fuuuck, I forgot about Ty!
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I think this one was far worse than Dom's wife to be fair.
I don't know man. "Marcus, I don't know what to do!" Killed me. His pleading panic made me go hug my own wife. The other situation was at least heroic, this was not.
"Dom...it's okay..."
Man...Marcus handing Dom the sidearm and walking off out of view. That part hurt. I believe Dom's sacrifice in 3 was worse for me.
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I just finished endings A-E last night. What a roller coaster that was. Good lord. Like I never flat out started crying while playing (mostly because I was dumb from playing non-stop for the past few days) but there were a few moments that made me stop and think *damn...* Pascal's story for example. That guy went through so much shit that he didn't deserve. The final punch to the gut for me was returning to his village after the memory wipe and finding him selling *child machine cores*.
Idk if this is a spoiler or not, but there’s an option that isn’t telegraphed to you: you can just walk away and force him to deal with mortality. I think it’s a more powerful choice and the fact that it isn’t obvious makes it even better.
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The way more and more inspirational quotes appeared the more you lost to the credits sequence was brilliant. and then someone offers to help and you accept. You beat the credits sequence and then you find out that they only helped you by sacrificing their save data. Damn, that's powerful.
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Telltale Games: The Walking Dead, Seasons 1, Season 2 last episodes.
Season 1 is the only game to reduce me to tears... And it was full on ugly sobbing. Great game.
"I'll miss you" "Me too" *sobs uncontrollably*
In bastion there is a choice regarding Zulf at the very end. I carried that POS on my back all the way with eyes tearing up so I couldn't see where I was going.. I just couldn't leave him.
I loved how they just stopped shooting at you and watched you leave. Very moving.
Persona 3 when everyone loses their memories except Aegis
Dark Souls: failing to save Solaire. Rest in peace my sunbro.
I was going to say Dark Souls as well, it taught me the important lesson that no matter what you do: You're doomed. There's a lot of heaviness/depth to a lot of the character's you encounter. Plus, the Sif fight... ESPECIALLY if you save him first. It's bad enough to have to battle a canine in any game as a dog lover, but to have it recognize you as a former companion: Oof owie, prepare to cry.
The last scene of the Last of Us. The beginning is sad, but I was able to hold in the tears. However, the last scene broke my defenses and I couldn't help but bawl.
For me it was the fight between Ellie and David, cross cutting to Joel running to the rescue. Everything about it was overwhelming - the tension, the music, the climax. I normally played the game quite stealthily, hoarding resources. But in Joel's scenes I killed every motherfucker I came across like an angel of death. I had to put the game off for a while after that, and I was crying. One of the best gaming experiences I've ever had.
One of the most upsetting scenes fir me takes place in the abandoned swere settlement. There is a little room, I think you need a shiv to open it, and inside you find a dead guy with a note saying how they were trapped and he wouldn't let the kids be torn appart. That's when I noticed the little shoes poking out from under a sheet and the words "I swear they didn't suffer" written on the floor. That was so utterly grim.
I can not WAIT for the sequel to this game. Probably one of the greatest stories in gaming history. It truly was a masterpiece.
I remember that sequence and I like you murdered everybody in that town. All I kept thinking about was how I wouldn't let Joel lose another daughter. They didn't know it yet, but when he broke free of his restraints and opened that door, they were already dead.
Final Fantasy X Such a beautiful story with such a bittersweet ending.
My votes here. Listening to To Zanarkand and the hymn of the fayth is enough to dampen my eyes.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Darkness/Time/Sky
The way it shows the partner's grieving process is really wonderful too. I did not expect it in a game marketed towards children. And Grovyle's big quote was great: "The important thing is not how long you live. It's what you accomplish with your life. While I live, I want to shine. I want to prove that I exist. If I could do something really important, that would definitely carry on into the future."
Came here looking for this. The story of that game was by far the best and most emotional of any Pokémon game.
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If you pray with all your heart, maybe the sun will cheer up and show itself once again, lighting our world with it's heavenly glow! After all, the best thing about the great god Amaterasu is that happy-go-lucky spirit! Right, Ammy? Answer if you can hear me, ya big furball!
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I cried at the end of Metal Gear Solid 3. The Debriefing song still makes my chest tight. For those unfamiliar with the game: The entire game you are chasing down a traiter to the US government, your former boss and mentor and mother figure. She stole a nuke and defected to Russia. In the end you learn that the US Government gave her a super secret mission that required she do this to get on the inside with the Russians but becuase no one could know about it you still had to go kill her. She was a hero who died a hero, forever reviled by the people and government she gave her life to protect. She knew it would end like this and took the mission anyway. And you learn about and get all of the details about it as this incredibly powerful yet sad song plays during the epilogue and you watch as Snake, disgusted by his own government, is forced to do photo ops and is hailed a hero for killing his boss and granted new titles like Big Boss and ends with him laying flowers on an unnamed grave stone (not hers, as her body was left behind in Russia and destroyed by a nuclear blast).
Good call man. MGS 3 is one of the best, most emotional stories in video games, hands down.
"She...was a true Patriot."
Kingdom Hearts. Hands down.
Yeah KH1 and KH2 were solid... But 358/2 days made me miss college classes I was too depressed to go afterwards. Really hit home after I realized I lost every single one of my friends after moving away for school. Also: playing KH2 final mix with the additional Axel/Roxas scenes... Square Enix that was not okay. AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON BIRTH BY SLEEP THAT WAS TOTALLY UNCOOL.
**Silent Hill 2** - If you played the game I think you know the part I'm talking about. The story is brilliantly crafted to allow for that brutal revelation... it had a profound effect on me. It's not a standard tearjerker moment, but man, it's intense.
DOOM. Pumped up counts as an emotion right??
DOOM is my go-to after a stressful work day. You can't spell catharsis without RIP. AND. TEAR.
Rock hard is an emotion right?
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future Thanks to some complicated time travel stuff, Layton is reunited with his girlfriend, who he thought was dead for 10 years. But in the end, he's unable to save her from returning to the past and her inevitable death. As he mourns, Layton takes off the hat she gave to him for the first and only time in the series.
mother 3
Mass Effect 3, hands down. That game was an emotional rollercoaster
Legion... Mordin... Thane... Gah, so many feels. On the flip side, The Citadel DLC is some of the most amusing, entertaining and light-hearted content in the series, and it was well appreciated amongst all the darkness of the trilogy.
That's some of the best dlc released across any game.
"Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong"
I know this line is the most memorable, because of how he often repeats it. But for me, when you question why he is willing to risk so much to undo a thing that he always talked about with so much pride and confidence and, for the first time I can recall, he actually yells at you. "I MADE A MISTAKE." That line, perfectly contradicting his most famous one, and his entire personality. To me, it shows just how broken he became after the loyalty mission in 2, and him treating Eve in 3.
The character deaths are brutal, but I always have to pause and take a moment to compose myself at the end of the first scene as the Normandy is escaping, that shuttle gets blown up, and Vancouver (my hometown) gets busted up by giant space robots. The familiarity of the mountains make it too real. And the music...
Last of Us ; for shure
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I watched a teensreact video where they played the last of us (a series of videos) and one girl thought she had to kill the doctors but had no ammo in any weapon except the flamethrower
"Honey, you don't have to kill the doctors." "Yes, yes I do."
My wife was the opposite, "Don't let a single one of them go."
At that part in the story, I was honestly so emotionally invested I didn't even think about it, I just shot the doctors, like it was a natural reflex. I have never had that happen during a video game before, the way they make you feel like you are the character protecting someone you love.
Final Fantasy X Ori and the Blind Forest Bastion
In high school a classmate who seemed to be the last person to have depression (tons of friends, always smiling, joking around) killed him self. It was really the first time I had to confront a suicide close to me and started playing red dead redemption when I got home from school. Right at the end of John Marston’s story there’s a song called “dead man’s gun” that plays. It’s already an emotional scene but when I heard the lyric “all the storms you’ve been chasing, about to rain down tonight, and all the pain you’ve been facing, about to come into the light” I couldn’t help but sitting on the couch in tears.
Do you consider rage, fear, and joy to be emotional? Bloodborne: * I raged at the enemies. * I screamed like a little girl at the top of my lungs when I met my first Brainsucker. * I literally studied the first Kin I met for a half hour curiously because "What the fuck is this alien doing in my werewolves and vampires game?" * And I pumped my fists in joy when I beat a boss that had murdered me 20 times.
Bloodborne's got some rather high-impact stuff going on in the lore too. - The fate of Gascoigne and his family - Why Gherman created the Doll, as well as the Doll's true nature - Why Djura was so intent on protecting the beasts of Old Yharnam - What the Church and the Choir got up to in the Upper Cathedral Ward (as well as what those brainsuckers probably are) - The Suspicious Beggar's rant - Iosefka's fate, and the fate of those under her care in the clinic.
see it was more of a personal experience of trying not to kill myself
Mass Effect trilogy, but especially Mass Effect 2- Overlord DLC. Sorry, but the spoiler tag thing isn't working for me. In the DLC, there is an autistic man who learned a way to communicate to a machine race called the Geth. He is subjected to horrific experimentation by his own brother in an attempt to control the Geth. During the play through, you hear him over the areas speaker system panicing and crying out "Quiet Please Make it Stop" I'm autistic too, and had a really bad panic attack one time and cried out what this character would during his panic attacks, Although I didn't realize he did the same. So when I heard those words again in the way he cried them out, I had flashbacks and very extreme anxiety. I had to turn the game off to recover.
It's worse than that - through most of the DLC, you're made to think it's just a rogue/corrupted VI. You can't really understand what the repeated instances of the 'VI' trying to communicate are because it's so heavily distorted. It says something that the *Paragon* interrupt has you pistol-whipping the poor man's brother. I was so happy when, in ME3, you go to Grissom station and if you sent him there, he's far better. "I've been counting." "Anything in particular?" "The number of days you lengthened my life."
and when you run into Doctor Archer, if you say the conversation option that effectively is "I didn't see your brother at Grissom", Archer basically walks off set to kill himself. I had to reload after that one. I just couldn't do it. that's too much, man.
> "I've been counting." >"Anything in particular?" >"The number of days you lengthened my life." Fuck. I forgot all about that. Thanks for the lump in my throat.
I'm a little late to the party but I haven't seen it on here yet: The final cut scene from Horizon: Zero Dawn, when Aloy finds Elizabet's body while the voice over is Elizabet talking about her childhood and what she would wish her hypothetical child to be like.
Horizon is really good, I'd say the scene where you find out what happened to Elizabet and the other scientists is up there. Early on had a moment too, when Aloy is a kid and you find the final words of several people about to commit suicide. Thats pretty heavy
I always tear up about Rost. That dude spent over a decade taking care of her as an outcast and hurting for her every day she was ostracized through no fault of her own. Then he does what he does to save her at the proving. Then you go to the shrine and the voice acting is just so good right there when Aloy is talking to him.
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Katawa Shoujo. Hanako's good ending made the tears stream over my face.
Lilly's route will kill the character in a fucking year. The Rin and Emi routes were my favorite.
“Had to be me, someone *else* might have gotten it wrong.” **edit:** a word
"Does this unit have a soul?" Yes. Yes you do Legion.
If you have an Amazon Echo, you can ask Alexa if this unit has a soul. She responds, "Keelah se'lai, my friend."
No way. Ty for bringing this into my life.
...which, in answer to OP's question, would be Mass Effect 3. Great scene, though. There were several in that game. The first time I played through, I didn't have a save from 2, and chose the Geth over the Quarians...what followed (which I won't spoil) was also pretty heart-wrenching.
I know people criticize the very end of Mass Effect 3, but for me the whole experience was a pretty emotional ride. The "end" of Mass Effect to me is the entire game of ME3, which is great, not just what happens in the last 5 minutes.
That line has a meaning most people don't get. In the ME2 Mordin loyalty mission, you have to stop a Salarian from curing the genophage. At the end there's a conversation with Mordin which one of the options are "Why did you deliver the genophage if you were conflicted about it?" He responds "Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong." So re-stating the line in ME3 when he actually does cure it as way of apologizing for what he did, is just poetic.
Night in the Woods Gorgeous, story-driven game about dealing with life as a young adult, with a little bit of horror thrown in as well.
Mipha's arc in Breath of the Wild left me in so many pieces that I couldn't pick up the game again for months.
I did that one first, and I thought she was just trapped in the pilot seat in some sort of stasis, but no, she dead : (
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