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Yeah, I once walked into a Gamestop and saw how expensive new games have gotten...

Joking aside:

• Journey

• To the Moon

• Spiritfarer

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps

All good games, I can't recommend them enough.

Outer Wilds. Endings of both the main game and the DLC can still get me to tear up a bit. I saw a post somewhere, don't remember, that said something along the lines of "Listening to the Outer Wilds OST is the only way I feel my feelings any more." It's about like that.

My partner is chronically ill and Karlach's ending in BG3 made me sob because I was romancing her and it hit very close to home

• The Walking Dead. Clementine, my girl, she needs a hug.

• Journey. I will cry every time.

• Lethal Company. Laughter and fear crying.

• Neon White had a moment or two I think

• BioShock Infinite

• Celeste

• Assassin's Creed Black Flag

• A Short Hike

• Spiritfarer

• probably more....

Stray had some moments

Last of us part 2.

To the moon.

I may have teared up at the end of Half-Life 2.

"It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong".

• The last of Us 1 and 2
• Signalis
• Outer Wilds
• Nier: Automata

That Dragon Cancer made me fucking weep.

Clair Obscur, God of War 2018, What Remains of Edith Finch, The Last of Us, Bastion, Halo: Reach, Firewatch, Celeste, Telltale's The Walking Dead, FFXV, Baldur's Gate 3, Shadow of the Colossus, and more, all made me tear up.

Can you tell I'm quite emotional about video games?

• Literally yesterday I started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and just the prologue hit me.

• The end of Karlach's story in Baldurs Gate 3

Final Fantasy VII, the original one. Stopped playing it for a couple months.

Outer Wilds, both at the end and when I found the DLC spoiler character. Good tears, though. It's beautiful

To the Moon

Celeste is so. fucking. good.

absolutely amazing game in every way

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

An absolute emotional rollercoaster start to end.

33/33 would recommend

Absolutely not! I’ve never played The Last Guardian. (Yes)

When it’s the 8th anti boss blind, you have 11 aces, and you go through all your discards and hands without a 4 of a kind

• Ending of Link's Awakening
• Ending of Rain World
• Various incidents of save files becoming permanently corrupted halfway through the game and similar

Nier ending e

Disco Elysium the phone call and the dream

A few times.

Most notably, when playing Outer Wilds. I was playing it during the pandemic and had lost two friends, my grandfather and my cat within the span of around 3 months. I was struggling with depression and I got to one specific spot in the game and the revelation caused me to just sit there and cry for like 10 minutes, I was so emotionally shut down at the time that the tears felt like a life preserver. I had to stop playing for a bit, but it definitely helped me process my grief.

I also cried during a couple of quests in FFXIV. The post-Shadowbringers content especially, not because it was sad, just very poignant. And again in the last area of Endwalker, where Masayoshi Soken's incredible composition combined with some very emotional content just got to me (especially the Endwalk, jfc).

I think I cried a bit at the end of Journey just because it was a powerful experience, but I had an amazing partner in that game who stayed with me through the whole thing.

Both Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2 made me cry.

The metroidvania, Ori series.

Ori and the blind forest & Ori and the will of the wisps

• RDR2 of course: I had tears streaming down my face when Arthur said "I guess, I guess I'm afraid." Such an incredible performance from Roger Clark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbRHOt4EAoY

• Titanfall 2: "Protocol 3: Protect the pilot"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Rdx1g_4bo

• The Witcher 3: A few times, it's just a really good set of storytelling and cinematics all around, and I absolutely love games where your choices determine the outcomes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ZH2qqlOqs

• Cyberpunk 2077: When a close friend died, when V had to make a major decision at the end of the game, and when V has to make a decision to choose an ending in Phantom Liberty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF68EpmCxBI

There are certainly more games I probably have shed a tear or two or many playing, but those are the ones that immediately fill me with emotion looking back

Also all of these are spoilers lol, so don't watch them if you haven't played the games, but thankfully, none of them are recent releases

FFX. When Titus and Luna were playing/swimming in the lagoon/lake/whatever and being happy. If memory serves correctly, at that point in the game, it was very clear that Luna was going to be sacrificed to keep Sin from destroying the world, and she had accepted that as her duty like the other summoners before her.

When Jackie Wells died I sobbed, well more of a break down. My dad had just passed and something about it hit fucking hard.

Kind of weep a bit of joy playing my favorite games at times and still feel the bit of sadness when they are over.

When I played Hell blade: Senua's Sacrifice.

The symbology and story made me understand the struggles of a close friend, who succumbed to her psychosis many years ago. Felt like more than just a game.

RIP Bloodwing. 😭

Many times.
Nier Automata
RDR2
Danganronpa 2
Just to name a few where I really ugly cried.

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, right near the end. I don't want to spoil too much, but I never thought a game mechanic would make me emotional.

Nier anything I don't think video games are silly things

Yes, several times. The first one that comes to mind is The Last of Us Part 2.

Oh my, yes:

Red Dead Redemption 2

Final Fantasy 7 (original and Rebirth)

Silent Hill 2

Undertale

Starbound (because of the soundtrack)

Stardew Valley (because of the soundtrack)

Okami (because of the soundtrack)

• NIER Replicant
• Red Dead Redemption 1
• Everhood 1
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 the intro already fucked me right up. Not done the game yet.
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Planescape: Torment

Probably more but can't remember.

Yes once, and it was at the ending of "Brothers: A tale of two sons".
I bawled my eyes out.

Small game, but absolutely recommend for anyone that wants to clear out their tear canals.

Does anyone else remember this ad from back when EA didn't suck/wasn't actually evil?

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One I haven't seen in this thread yet: the last playable bit of Bastion, if you choose to take Zulf with you. An early example of Supergiant's mastery of interactive storytelling, coming to a head with a recognition of humanity in the midst of apocalyptic war.

Shadow of the Colossus. Hands down one of the saddest games I’ve ever played.

Have never cried because of a video game,

I was absolutely stunned and amazed when Ted Faro revealed what Zero Dawn really was in Horizon Zero Dawn.

Detroit become human, that game is art.

Have you even played Stray?

Yes, lots of them and for varying reasons.

Dead Island's cinematic trailer will tug at the heart strings. Wanted to mention this since many may have missed it now that it's aged a bit.

Just rewatched it, still hits me. The footage at the end is what really knocks the wind out.

Twice. Once at the end of Final Fantasy IX, realising who was monologuing the ending at what that meant.

Second one was at the end of What Remains of Edith Finch, pretty much for exactly the same reasons.

Thomas was Alone. Cried over quadrilaterals.