Author Topic: Moments in games that made you cry/tear up/get emotional etc(Use spoiler tags) (Read 1123 times)

Garlicbread · « **on:** November 19, 2023, 09:36:38 pm »

https://twitter.com/VideoArtGame/status/1725616045073817877

Inspired by this tweet. Do you lot have any moments in games or something like that made it feel like someone was chopping onions nearby?

stoa · « **Reply #1 on:** November 19, 2023, 10:00:18 pm »

Only one game where that really happened for me was Mass Effect 2.

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It's the quest about the genophage where Mordin sacrifices himself to cure it.

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Dench57 · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2023, 12:50:32 am »

RDR2. So many parts towards the end of Arthur's story were heart-rending (the "I'm afraid" bit where he's talking to the old lady stands out). Can't think of many games I've got so emotionally involved in.

JerseyKloppite · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2023, 08:05:37 am »

RDR when "Far Away" plays as you go over the bridge. And the end of RDR2.

Spiritfarer has a lot of emotion in it. It's basically a game about grief.

Those are the main ones that come to me when I try to think about it, but I know that there have been others over the years.

Zlen · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2023, 08:48:33 am »

Not in the spirit of this topic, but I nerly wept when I beat the final boss of Sekiro.

naYoRHa2b · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2023, 09:35:00 am »

A certain scene in Life Is Strange and a couple or moments in FFX

There's probably been others as well, maybe the end of MGS4.

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #6 on:** November 20, 2023, 10:48:32 am »

When I was playing Galaga and the little blue bastard came back up and wiped me out

Kenny's Jacket · « **Reply #7 on:** November 20, 2023, 10:56:53 am »

When Trent scored away at Leicester, that's when I knew.

Statto Red · « **Reply #8 on:** November 20, 2023, 11:14:45 am »

Red Dead Redemption 2, Eastward Bound, the cutscene [mostly for the music in the cutscene] when the gang are leaving the mountain hideout to go to a new hideout, but annoyingly Rockstar force you skip over the cutscene, as completing the mission within a certain time is one of the objectives for 100% gold,

Red Dead Redemption 2 again, the last few missions in chapter 6.&

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The end of the mission in Rhodes after Sean gets killed, that's when the story mode starts getting bleak

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Disregarder · « **Reply #9 on:** November 21, 2023, 03:09:07 pm »

Everyone's Gone to the Rapture ending. Made my heart soar.

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #10 on:** November 22, 2023, 09:55:09 am »

Quote from: Disregarder on November 21, 2023, 03:09:07 pm

Everyone's Gone to the Rapture ending. Made my heart soar.

Was a great game that.

Pity they fixed the glitch (Which let you climb behind the first railings and into the ending in 5 minutes

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Great story though. Amazing experience. Pity they didn't translate it into VR. Would have been astonishing.

macca007 · « **Reply #11 on:** November 22, 2023, 08:18:48 pm »

No idea how the original FF7 hasn't been brought up yet.

Another that got me was the walking dead by telltale

Garlicbread · « **Reply #12 on:** November 22, 2023, 09:26:30 pm »

Quote from: macca007 on November 22, 2023, 08:18:48 pm

No idea how the original FF7 hasn't been brought up yet.

Another that got me was the walking dead by telltale

Good pick

Malaysian Kopite · « **Reply #13 on:** November 23, 2023, 04:00:55 am »

Games don't have that effect on me the way movies do (to the point of tearing up), despite playing games like Walking Dead and TLOU.

Part of TLOU2 did really get me though after I finished it

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Ellie and Joel haven't been talking for a long time after she finds out what he did. When she finally decides to try and forgive him, he dies the next day before they can reconcile.

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Garlicbread · « **Reply #14 on:** November 23, 2023, 03:30:21 pm »

Quote from: Malaysian Kopite on November 23, 2023, 04:00:55 am

Games don't have that effect on me the way movies do (to the point of tearing up), despite playing games like Walking Dead and TLOU.

Part of TLOU2 did really get me though after I finished it
Spoiler
Ellie and Joel haven't been talking for a long time after she finds out what he did. When she finally decides to try and forgive him, he dies the next day before they can reconcile.
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Spoiler

The aftermaths of Joel's death, going through his house made the lip go as well

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Kashinoda · « **Reply #15 on:** November 23, 2023, 03:46:34 pm »

FFIX ending
FFX ending
Various scenes in the original Last Of Us, the climax to the David encounter hit hard.

tubby · « **Reply #16 on:** November 23, 2023, 03:57:27 pm »

The end of Toem was really lovely.

darragh85 · « **Reply #17 on:** November 26, 2023, 07:54:35 pm »

not to the point of tearing up but the end of mass effect 3 was sad to me as that was it.

Likewise with half life 2 episode 2.

Links awakening made me sad a kid because the whole thing was just a dream. That a game like this on the original gameboy could have so much depth and evoke such emotion really highlights what a wonder the original gameboy was.

Snail · « **Reply #18 on:** November 28, 2023, 12:37:54 pm »

Ending E, NieR: Automata.

Played during Covid, was probably at my lowest ebb… it absolutely broke me, but in a good way.

Disregarder · « **Reply #19 on:** November 28, 2023, 06:52:09 pm »

Quote from: Statto Red on November 20, 2023, 11:14:45 am

Red Dead Redemption 2, Eastward Bound, the cutscene [mostly for the music in the cutscene] when the gang are leaving the mountain hideout to go to a new hideout, but annoyingly Rockstar force you skip over the cutscene, as completing the mission within a certain time is one of the objectives for 100% gold,

Red Dead Redemption 2 again, the last few missions in chapter 6.&
Spoiler
The end of the mission in Rhodes after Sean gets killed, that's when the story mode starts getting bleak
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On my second play through and onto chapter 6. Just got to a part where I am at a station at the end of a mission and i meet a character I helped on a side quest earlier in the game. A poignant, deep but brief conversation about morality and fate occurs that really touched me. Then I was struck by how many players would never see that particular exchange if they skipped the earlier quest or did it differently. An incredible, beautiful game.

BER · « **Reply #20 on:** November 30, 2023, 03:06:20 pm »

That mission in Spider-Man 2. Had already been half "spoiled" before doing it but it still got me good.

WillG.LFC · « **Reply #21 on:** November 30, 2023, 09:35:29 pm »

When my psone memory card I saved over the wrong slot and wiped my metal gear solid save

Darren G · « **Reply #22 on:** December 1, 2023, 04:08:24 am »

These, from RDR2, Mass Effect and The Witcher 3:

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The end of Arthur's arc in RDR2 (Arthur dying on the mountain side), the end of Mass Effect series (I think that the 'an end, once and for all' music got to me) and in TW3 when Geralt finds Ciri, thinks she's dead and then the music kicks in and she wakes.

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Bread · « **Reply #23 on:** December 1, 2023, 06:52:26 pm »

A very recent one, but the ending of Like A Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name properly tugs at the heartstrings.

Armand9 · « **Reply #24 on:** December 12, 2023, 02:37:46 am »

the wife cried at this particular scene everytime she saw it, which included watching me play the game twice, my son play the game twice and she played it once, yep everytime

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FFVII - Aeris death

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and it's not as tho she's given to crying with games, i dont know any other game that made her cry

CortexVortex · « **Reply #25 on:** December 13, 2023, 12:26:53 pm »

That moment in FFVII was probably the first time a game left me heartbroken.

Other than that several moments in TLOU1 and 2, as well as that moment in Telltales Walking Dead. Suikoden 2 had some very emotional moments as well.

Fabulous_aurelio · « **Reply #26 on:** December 13, 2023, 06:01:21 pm »

Another for RDR2. Arthur's final ride back to camp. I didn't expect it. The song that plays, god it hit me hard. I had tears!

Sangria · « **Reply #27 on:** December 13, 2023, 06:41:10 pm »

Quote from: Armand9 on December 12, 2023, 02:37:46 am

the wife cried at this particular scene everytime she saw it, which included watching me play the game twice, my son play the game twice and she played it once, yep everytime

Spoiler
FFVII - Aeris death
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and it's not as tho she's given to crying with games, i dont know any other game that made her cry

The music.