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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.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

An absolute emotional rollercoaster start to end.

33/33 would recommend

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

Celeste is so. fucking. good.

absolutely amazing game in every way

• 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....

TF2, when I get repeatedly owned by the same enemy. Especially if they're a soldier with love heart cosmetics.

The Last Of Us Part II.

Revenge. Revenge never changes.

What's done is done and it can never be undone.

It is such a tear jerker. So good

Journey's ending hit me pretty hard: the score's composer, Austin Wintory, did such a great job channeling emotions into the game narrative

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

Stray had some moments

Last of us part 2.

To the moon.

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

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.

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Darkness/Time/Sky

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

To the Moon

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?

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.

RDR2, when Arthur stopped to thank his (dying) horse (near the final mission). I got a lil choked up.

Brother's got me ugly crying

Braid's ending.

Tim (the player) is likely the villain. His quest was never about saving the princess but about his own selfish desire to reclaim something/someone that no longer wants him. The game masterfully subverts expectations, making players reflect on perspective, responsibility, and consequences.

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.

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

RDR2. Miss you, Hamish, thanks for the good times.

To The Moon, The Beginner's Guide, and Night in the Woods all made me cry like a lot. Probably have been a few others, but those were the big ones.

• 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

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.

Skyward Sword… Zelda’s story was so moving.

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

Many times in many games.

Probably the most in Mass Effect series, so many emotional moments. ME2: Overlord's end hits the hardest.

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)

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

Mass Effect 3 Citadel DLC. One last fun ride with a bunch of friends before the final reckoning.

For added gut punch: romance Thane.

Nier ending e

Disco Elysium the phone call and the dream

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

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

• 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

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

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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.

I've only seen it in the s thread once, and just up voting it didn't seemed enough. I've played the majority of games people are mentioning here, some of them are quite sad and hit you like a punch in the stomach. Another one I also didn't cried but felt very strongly about it and I don't think I've seen it mentioned here was Life is Strange, there's one particular scene that got me very hard.

All of this is to say, I don't usually cry on movies, books or games, it's not a "boys don't cry" kind of thing, I don't have a problem with crying or with getting in touch with my feelings, I just don't cry very often or for any reason. However, I don't know if it was the story on its own or the blinking mechanic but Before your eyes had me crying, and wasn't just a couple tears either, I only held myself together because I couldn't leave the game until it finished. That game was an experience, I recommend going in blind and using the camera.

The metroidvania, Ori series.

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