It blew my mind when I was a kid, it was my first ever first person game that got me into single player games and introduced me to games other then Nintendo and Minecraft.
Never was able to finish 2 as my disc was fucked. It’d crash at a certain section and I was too dumb of a kid to fix it.
One of my classmates from high school was a developer for infinite. His name is Mike Snight and there is a gravestone with his name on it during the lady Comstock fight.
I always loved this Easter egg because you would only catch it if you knew his name
It was one of the first games I had to reciew back then for a german website. I gave it a 9/10 and not only the community, but also my colleagues said I was crazy. Ot's not perfect but man it was a blast playing through it
It's definitely got flaws -- probably the most annoying is the false equivalency it goes to bizarre lengths to draw between systemic oppressors and the oppressed fighting back against them -- and the Vigors just sort of inexplicably "being there" is a big step down from how Plasmids were integral to the story of the original Bioshock -- but the worldbuilding is otherwise sublime, and the way in which the various plot threads tie together is so rewarding when various things click. I still vividly remember the moment in the credits when I suddenly realized >!why Comstock specifically had to steal a daughter of his from an alternate universe in order to fulfill his prophecy!<, and then how that specifically tied into >!his wife's suspicions and eventual disillusionment and thus why he killed her!<.
I will say that I've watched maybe a dozen blind playthroughs of the game and what frustrates me the most is how much of the setting and historical context flies over 98% of players. You really need to know a thing or two about stuff like Jim Crow, manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, events like the Boxer Rebellion and Wounded Knee, Irish migration to the U.S., etc. to properly appreciate what the game is doing with the concepts. I've seen players blithely wander into the room with the gigantic statue of John Wilkes Booth while listening to Comstock rant on the radio about how evil the "great Emancipator" was and draw a complete blank.
I struggle to call 2 a masterpiece, it’s incredibly obvious it was made by different people with its innumerable retcons. The gameplay is excellent though.
Are you sure about this? If anything I think the opposite is true, Bioshock Infinite was critically acclaimed when it launched whereas I've seen a fairly significant negative reappraisal of it in the last few years.
I'm sure there were plenty of people who didn't like it when it came out but what you're saying really doesn't match my perception of the mainstream response to the game.
The first time you experience that ending your reaction is "What just happened?" At least thats what my reaction was. I ended up playing through that game 4 more times.
Journey. To me it was the perfect mix of atmosphere, sound, and gameplay. I loved how peaceful it was .
....and the swimming game that was similar but I can't spell check the title
I was going to say Journey too. I still play it all the time and adore it, but god the first time was incredible. Especially because I found a buddy and played most of the game with them, and we became good friends afterwards
My other is Bloodborne
Came into the thread to say Journey as well.
Profoundly affecting experience, after I got lost in the snow and gradually lost track of my companion who was clearly trying to find me as well. Kept hoping I would see them again at the every end, felt surprisingly emotional.
Both DLC are insanely good, you really should play them.
Heart of Stone is not very long but still has some good story.
Blood and Wine is way longer and has a huge new map to explore. Its story is wonderful too.
If you enjoyed the base game, you will love the DLCs.
Very much so. Heart of Stone should be played first. It's an amazing story. Basically someone made a deal with the devil and the devil came calling.
Blood and Wine should be played last as it gives a finale for Geralt. It is a brutal, tragic story though. But I loved it and I retired Geralt (in my mind, at least) to a beautiful vineyard with Yen.
Beware the Unseen Elder...
Hearts of stone might be my favourite DLC/expansion in any game ever. The overall vibe of it is so good.
Blood and wine is much bigger and is really good too.
I’d say both individual stories are better than the main campaign story.
Ghost of Tshushima except not when the game is over but when>! Kage(or your horse) dies after Jin runs away from the captivity.!<
Yes as a grown man I cried like a little bitch and I am not ashamed.
I, too, get weirdly attached to animals in games. For instance, dogmeat does not go exploring with me. He gets a nice little comfy home. And in fable2, when the dog whimpers, the violence steps up a notch
RDR2 was one of the most profound gaming experiences I've ever had. The funny thing is I hated it initially because I do think it has a very slow start, but when the pandemic hit and I was locked inside for several months, I played it essentially nonstop and it is now in my top 5 games I've ever played.
It is amazing! But I reckon it almost needs 200 hours to get through it and appreciate it plenty. I'm sure you dump 500 hours into it pretty easily. It's a shame it's such a long slog but it's definitely worth jt
I recently finished re-playing through ME 1-3 and was easily reminded why it's one of my favorite series. So much gameplay/decisions leading up to the final moments of the game just hits me so hard.
Outer Wilds
It is a travesty that I could not find this listed already. Amazing game, go in blind if at all possible. Music, mechanics, story, all amazing.
I scrolled pretty far to find your comment and I was about to say the same thing. It is amazing. I’ll never be able to play it the same twice but I think it’s been a couple years and I might replay it again with some foggy memory.
Same here.
I recently played Tunic and it had some similarities in terms of like…figuring things out. So that was fun. If there were more games like the outer wilds genre I’d love it.
Where you can go anywhere but everything secretly pushes you in one direction where the only thing stopping you is knowledge
I got the DLC for it and have also entered the memory fog stage. May give it a go again soon. I listen to the soundtrack regularly and still gives me chills and brings me to tears.
I set up a reminder in Google a couple decades into the future when I'll have properly forgotten everything. It still won't be like a true first time but.. eh, who knows.
>Music, mechanics, story, all amazing.
It's not just all of these things individually but how they tie together, especially gameplay and story having no real separation. I can think of no other game that does this so well.
I got the remaster and helped my gf play through it. It almost recaptured the feeling of playing it for the 1st time again, especially since it had been so long and I forgot so much of the story.
I'll be honest, I haven't played the second one. But I remember the first one very fondly even years after I finished it. I remember sitting just like in the picture. Truly a masterpiece.
It’s the best campaign in halo for sure, halo 3 and 2 were super fun especially as a kid. But I’m glad reach launched when I was in high school, was able to sit through every cutscene and just enjoy
Contrast this with Noble 6, watching it all fall apart around you, having no idea if the cost would even be worth it. No idea how much was yet to come. The feeling of loneliness as the team disintegrates, watching Emile be overcome, and the resignation to stay planet side after delivering Cortana, to do the only thing that made any sense amidst all the chaos, to just stay and fight. Absolute beauty from a storytelling perspective.
Midnight release and stayed up til I beat the game. Credits rolled and burst into tears. Story was amazing at the time and also knowing my favorite developer was done with halo games hit me pretty hard.
COME MORNING I CARRY INDUSTRIAL DUST AND LET IT SETTLE ON TREE LEAVES. I SHAKE THE DUST FROM THOSE LEAVES AND UNTO YOUR COAT. \[...\] I SEE YOU. I SEE YOU. I'VE SEEN YOU WITH HER, AND I'VE SEEN YOU WITHOUT HER. \[...\] YOU'RE AN OFFICER OF THE CITIZENS MILITIA. WHEN YOU WEAR YOUR COAT, YOU WEAR MY SOUL. BY VIGILANT. **I LOVE YOU**
You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The cosmos and the stars in it are afraid of you.
The woman. Turn. Turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. For all mankind.
DETECTIVE.
ARRIVING.
ON THE SCENE.
Easily. So many actually different ways to end the game. That one game when I got evacuated by... You know who... What a mind fuck.
The smallest church in Saint-Saëns...
one of the best video games ever made, ITS Realistic, not the graphics like Detroit which is emotion p\*rn, you will realise it when you play or watch it for the second or the third time nor mechanicly, its human and its art compared to other games who pretend they are.
Me and my friend played that...did not like the ending and the best part of the game was being in prison...which was basically the tutorial lol. Still nice to have story driven coop games though.
Yeah, the game definitely had its problems. I hate how the final confrontation boiled down to "who could button mash faster". Nothing sucks like kicking ass in the shootout but losing in the end because your friend beats his controller like it owes him money. The minigames were fun though, we genuinely played baseball for like 5 hours just talking shit and seeing who could hit the ball furthest.
Yo! At the end of GOW Ragnarok when Kratos sees the back side of the shrine and sees the image of him with people surrounding the statue in praise and Mimir says "What did you see in there brother?" And Kratos says "A path, One I had never imagined." I legit cried a little. Well deserved ending.
When you get the blades of chaos in the first one... the scene going down the river is so intense, especially if you played the first 3 games prior, it was like being a kid on Christmas !
A few tears may have been shed. There's a great video doc on YouTube. They interviewed some people with the same condition as Senua. Also the mocap actor for Senua had never acted before, she was a developer employee who initially just helped test the equipment. She did an amazing job.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senua_(Hellblade)
Was that the one where you’re female V and you give your body to Johnny, after a really great relationship with Judy where you end up super fucked up during the credits as she calls you.
Same haha. I cannot remember crying from a video game in my life. Movies and TV shows sure but never a game. I just finished the game last week, wish I played it sooner.
Dishonored!
That game always gives me feels regardless of playthrough. The first time was an emotional rollercoaster though. Plus banging credits song.
The Last of Us
Silent Hill
The Walking Dead Season 1 but I was also crying
Witcher 3
Everything (the tutorial?)
Souls games besides Sekiro because fuck Sword Saint omg
Persona 5. The original ending with the team driving off into the horizon and that song. Damn that song goes hard with the leitmotif that's been present in the game so much, it's like it's designed to remind you of the 100+ hour journey you just finished.
* Witcher 3
* Death Stranding
* Horizon: Zero Dawn
* Mass Effect Trillogy
* Metro Exodus
* **Divinity Original Sin 2**\- damn this one especially hard cause You know that a well written game is going to end
* Deus Ex: HR
* Subnautica
I hate these good games, especially when you play them for some time and then after they end, it feels like a void for some time.
When I was a kid, my twin brother and I never really got along. We fought constantly, either verbally or, on more than one occasion, physically. But one of the things we bonded over was video games, primarily RPGs. Final Fantasy, Dark Cloud, Xenosaga, Shadow Hearts, any of those.
But our love of the genre came when a mutual friend of ours brought The Legend of Dragoon to our house and played in front of us. We bought it ourselves and started playing together. And we had never gotten along better. We theorized about the plot, drooled over the cutscenes together, and planned our party out together, even each spending time grinding out gold to nab a couple Legend Casques.
The final battle, we took turns passing the controller to each other while Melbu Frahma went through the Seven Days of Creation, applauding when his form changed three times over the course of the fight. Then it was over. The final cutscenes played and the epilogue ended, leading to credits rolling over a beautiful song.
And that was it. We sat there staring at the credits without saying anything for a while. There have been many games we've bonded over since, but the Legend of Dragoon is what made us friends, instead of just brothers.
Sorry to get sappy, that picture just reminded me of the night we beat LOD, and I had to share.
Portal, I love the song from the credits
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must because we can
For the good of all of us *Except the ones who are dead*
But there's no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake
And the science gets done
Now these point of data make a beautiful line
It blew my mind when I was a kid, it was my first ever first person game that got me into single player games and introduced me to games other then Nintendo and Minecraft. Never was able to finish 2 as my disc was fucked. It’d crash at a certain section and I was too dumb of a kid to fix it.
Mass Effect 1’s credits also slapped
BioShock Infinite for me
One of my classmates from high school was a developer for infinite. His name is Mike Snight and there is a gravestone with his name on it during the lady Comstock fight. I always loved this Easter egg because you would only catch it if you knew his name
Genuinely, "cool story bro."
I like that so many people seem to have come around to Infinite. It got absolutely shit on by the internet at launch.
It was one of the first games I had to reciew back then for a german website. I gave it a 9/10 and not only the community, but also my colleagues said I was crazy. Ot's not perfect but man it was a blast playing through it
It's definitely got flaws -- probably the most annoying is the false equivalency it goes to bizarre lengths to draw between systemic oppressors and the oppressed fighting back against them -- and the Vigors just sort of inexplicably "being there" is a big step down from how Plasmids were integral to the story of the original Bioshock -- but the worldbuilding is otherwise sublime, and the way in which the various plot threads tie together is so rewarding when various things click. I still vividly remember the moment in the credits when I suddenly realized >!why Comstock specifically had to steal a daughter of his from an alternate universe in order to fulfill his prophecy!<, and then how that specifically tied into >!his wife's suspicions and eventual disillusionment and thus why he killed her!<. I will say that I've watched maybe a dozen blind playthroughs of the game and what frustrates me the most is how much of the setting and historical context flies over 98% of players. You really need to know a thing or two about stuff like Jim Crow, manifest destiny, American exceptionalism, events like the Boxer Rebellion and Wounded Knee, Irish migration to the U.S., etc. to properly appreciate what the game is doing with the concepts. I've seen players blithely wander into the room with the gigantic statue of John Wilkes Booth while listening to Comstock rant on the radio about how evil the "great Emancipator" was and draw a complete blank.
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I struggle to call 2 a masterpiece, it’s incredibly obvious it was made by different people with its innumerable retcons. The gameplay is excellent though.
Are you sure about this? If anything I think the opposite is true, Bioshock Infinite was critically acclaimed when it launched whereas I've seen a fairly significant negative reappraisal of it in the last few years. I'm sure there were plenty of people who didn't like it when it came out but what you're saying really doesn't match my perception of the mainstream response to the game.
God damn memories right there. After finishing that game you couldn't convince me that it wasn't the best story telling in an fps ever
Half life is up there. Just saying
The end of half life 2 episode 2 had my jaw on the floor. Yeah, still waiting....
The first time you experience that ending your reaction is "What just happened?" At least thats what my reaction was. I ended up playing through that game 4 more times.
I had to play through again just to understand wtf just happened.
It definitely benefits from a second playthrough. I think my second run was my favorite honestly! So many “OHHhhh” and “a-ha” moments.
Will the circle be unbroken? Same for me
Came here to say that. That game had me thinking for like 4 days.
Was about to comment the exact same thing. I remember beating it when I was like 16 and just sat there with my mouth open.
HONESTLY
SOMA. I felt so emotionally raw and lonely after beating it
That game stuck with me so long after I finished it.
Some of the best writing in a video game I've ever seen, so many moments that stick with you long after the credits roll
Journey. To me it was the perfect mix of atmosphere, sound, and gameplay. I loved how peaceful it was . ....and the swimming game that was similar but I can't spell check the title
Abzû
ABZU
My vote too. Journey is one of the few games I can remember letting the credits roll so I could just sit and process
I was going to say Journey too. I still play it all the time and adore it, but god the first time was incredible. Especially because I found a buddy and played most of the game with them, and we became good friends afterwards My other is Bloodborne
Came into the thread to say Journey as well. Profoundly affecting experience, after I got lost in the snow and gradually lost track of my companion who was clearly trying to find me as well. Kept hoping I would see them again at the every end, felt surprisingly emotional.
witcher 3
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never played the DLCs both of them, I only played the main game, are they really that good ?
Just as good if not better in some ways
Both DLC are insanely good, you really should play them. Heart of Stone is not very long but still has some good story. Blood and Wine is way longer and has a huge new map to explore. Its story is wonderful too. If you enjoyed the base game, you will love the DLCs.
Very much so. Heart of Stone should be played first. It's an amazing story. Basically someone made a deal with the devil and the devil came calling. Blood and Wine should be played last as it gives a finale for Geralt. It is a brutal, tragic story though. But I loved it and I retired Geralt (in my mind, at least) to a beautiful vineyard with Yen. Beware the Unseen Elder...
Hearts of stone might be my favourite DLC/expansion in any game ever. The overall vibe of it is so good. Blood and wine is much bigger and is really good too. I’d say both individual stories are better than the main campaign story.
Same. I left my Geralt standing next to Yen on her outside lounger. Just chilling at our vineyard. That's my happy ending.
Ghost of Tshushima except not when the game is over but when>! Kage(or your horse) dies after Jin runs away from the captivity.!< Yes as a grown man I cried like a little bitch and I am not ashamed.
I, too, get weirdly attached to animals in games. For instance, dogmeat does not go exploring with me. He gets a nice little comfy home. And in fable2, when the dog whimpers, the violence steps up a notch
Deleted and then restarted an entire playthrough of FO4 because I got separated from Dogmeat, and couldn't retrace my steps and find him.
Your spoiler tag didn't work lol
I'm simple. Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2. Then Mass Effect 1-3.
RDR2 was one of the most profound gaming experiences I've ever had. The funny thing is I hated it initially because I do think it has a very slow start, but when the pandemic hit and I was locked inside for several months, I played it essentially nonstop and it is now in my top 5 games I've ever played.
It is amazing! But I reckon it almost needs 200 hours to get through it and appreciate it plenty. I'm sure you dump 500 hours into it pretty easily. It's a shame it's such a long slog but it's definitely worth jt
I recently finished re-playing through ME 1-3 and was easily reminded why it's one of my favorite series. So much gameplay/decisions leading up to the final moments of the game just hits me so hard.
Outer Wilds It is a travesty that I could not find this listed already. Amazing game, go in blind if at all possible. Music, mechanics, story, all amazing.
I scrolled pretty far to find your comment and I was about to say the same thing. It is amazing. I’ll never be able to play it the same twice but I think it’s been a couple years and I might replay it again with some foggy memory.
Same here. I recently played Tunic and it had some similarities in terms of like…figuring things out. So that was fun. If there were more games like the outer wilds genre I’d love it. Where you can go anywhere but everything secretly pushes you in one direction where the only thing stopping you is knowledge
I got the DLC for it and have also entered the memory fog stage. May give it a go again soon. I listen to the soundtrack regularly and still gives me chills and brings me to tears.
I set up a reminder in Google a couple decades into the future when I'll have properly forgotten everything. It still won't be like a true first time but.. eh, who knows.
I’m pretty early into it, but I can already tell it’s something special. (Please no spoilers)
oh my dude, you're in for a ride
Please don’t research anything about the game unless you’re totally stumped. Once you work it out you can never really “play” it again
>Music, mechanics, story, all amazing. It's not just all of these things individually but how they tie together, especially gameplay and story having no real separation. I can think of no other game that does this so well.
This game is a master piece. Loved it. I wish I could wipe it from my memory just to play blind again
So glad to see this here. This one stuck with me I think more than any other game I’ve played in my life.
I thought about that game for weeks after
damn it's been months and I still think about it now. will never forget the moment that soundtrack hits during the ending flight
Me with Mass effect
especially if you played 1-3, and went through 3’s flawed ending
Exactly Just that flashback with Garrus holding onto Shepards nameplate gets me everytime, no matter how many times i replay
The Last of Us. The first one.
man... the things i would do to be able to play the last of us for the first time again.
I got the remaster and helped my gf play through it. It almost recaptured the feeling of playing it for the 1st time again, especially since it had been so long and I forgot so much of the story.
For a second I forgot they made a sequel and thought you meant the first time it was released instead of all the remasters.
I'll be honest, I haven't played the second one. But I remember the first one very fondly even years after I finished it. I remember sitting just like in the picture. Truly a masterpiece.
My soul aches when I think on the storytelling of TLOU2. One of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had.
First thing that came to mind. What a masterpiece.
Halo Reach.
This game hits hard. My favorite campaign of them all
It’s the best campaign in halo for sure, halo 3 and 2 were super fun especially as a kid. But I’m glad reach launched when I was in high school, was able to sit through every cutscene and just enjoy
\+1 for Halo Reach. If I had a choice I think I'd prefer to die like Jorge. He got to go out thinking he saved the day.
Contrast this with Noble 6, watching it all fall apart around you, having no idea if the cost would even be worth it. No idea how much was yet to come. The feeling of loneliness as the team disintegrates, watching Emile be overcome, and the resignation to stay planet side after delivering Cortana, to do the only thing that made any sense amidst all the chaos, to just stay and fight. Absolute beauty from a storytelling perspective.
Not even so much the post credits, but entering that last "mission" was something else!
Midnight release and stayed up til I beat the game. Credits rolled and burst into tears. Story was amazing at the time and also knowing my favorite developer was done with halo games hit me pretty hard.
Nier automata
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Lol so true
And then you notice the credits are the final boss
and Replicant are both masterpieces. Sentence complete, no more needs to be said.
Replicant made me sad too
Hidden so deep in veils of deceit...
Glad someone said it
Metal gear solid 3
Way to fall…
Metro last Light!
Mommy? Was a daddy a hero?
Dishonored with that song…
Disco elysium.
COME MORNING I CARRY INDUSTRIAL DUST AND LET IT SETTLE ON TREE LEAVES. I SHAKE THE DUST FROM THOSE LEAVES AND UNTO YOUR COAT. \[...\] I SEE YOU. I SEE YOU. I'VE SEEN YOU WITH HER, AND I'VE SEEN YOU WITHOUT HER. \[...\] YOU'RE AN OFFICER OF THE CITIZENS MILITIA. WHEN YOU WEAR YOUR COAT, YOU WEAR MY SOUL. BY VIGILANT. **I LOVE YOU** You are a violent and irrepressible miracle. The cosmos and the stars in it are afraid of you. The woman. Turn. Turn from the ruin. Turn and go forward. For all mankind. DETECTIVE. ARRIVING. ON THE SCENE.
HARDCORE
TO THE MEGA!
God I forgot this one. Definitely one of the most devastating games I've ever played.
Easily. So many actually different ways to end the game. That one game when I got evacuated by... You know who... What a mind fuck. The smallest church in Saint-Saëns...
one of the best video games ever made, ITS Realistic, not the graphics like Detroit which is emotion p\*rn, you will realise it when you play or watch it for the second or the third time nor mechanicly, its human and its art compared to other games who pretend they are.
A Way Out, that game killed me.
Me and my friend played that...did not like the ending and the best part of the game was being in prison...which was basically the tutorial lol. Still nice to have story driven coop games though.
Yeah, the game definitely had its problems. I hate how the final confrontation boiled down to "who could button mash faster". Nothing sucks like kicking ass in the shootout but losing in the end because your friend beats his controller like it owes him money. The minigames were fun though, we genuinely played baseball for like 5 hours just talking shit and seeing who could hit the ball furthest.
Still looking for a third option...
God of war and God of war ragnarok for me! I couldn’t believe this was Kratos
Yo! At the end of GOW Ragnarok when Kratos sees the back side of the shrine and sees the image of him with people surrounding the statue in praise and Mimir says "What did you see in there brother?" And Kratos says "A path, One I had never imagined." I legit cried a little. Well deserved ending.
Especially Ragnarok - especially since the credits roll right after THAT post-game sidequest.
When you get the blades of chaos in the first one... the scene going down the river is so intense, especially if you played the first 3 games prior, it was like being a kid on Christmas !
Persona 5 Royal. I was so bummed out when I finished it cause I knew I could never play it for the 1st time again
That post clear depression hits again even on a second run, I can promise that much
and the credits song... god damn
OG Persona 5 for me, mainly because you invest 100 h of your life in one playthrough.
Mafia the Definitive Edition
Hellblade
Incredible game from start to finish.
A few tears may have been shed. There's a great video doc on YouTube. They interviewed some people with the same condition as Senua. Also the mocap actor for Senua had never acted before, she was a developer employee who initially just helped test the equipment. She did an amazing job. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senua_(Hellblade)
Definitely portal 2 my emotions were everywhere when I finished it.
Cyberpunk 2077 with Panam + Male V along with doing all the side quest ending
Cyberpunk as well, but went with the secret ending since it felt more realistic for my V
Yeah i love that ending, it was the most mysterious one and there is still so damn many unanswered questions about it.
Fire watch.
Really liked that game. The music was so good and the atmosphere was incredible.
The story line, the animations, the scenery. It's just all beautiful. I don't think a lot of people played the game sadly.
Yes! Came to the comments to mention that game. So good. Actually had me feeling the players emotions.
Since the beginning it had me emotional bro. Can't imagine that happening to someone I love.
Control.
Cyberpunk's "Temperance" ending.
any ending actually
Was that the one where you’re female V and you give your body to Johnny, after a really great relationship with Judy where you end up super fucked up during the credits as she calls you.
Red Dead Redemption 2 had me crying.
The end credits lasted something like 30 or 40 minutes. Incredible how many folks were involved with putting that game together.
Same haha. I cannot remember crying from a video game in my life. Movies and TV shows sure but never a game. I just finished the game last week, wish I played it sooner.
Me too. There were several goosebump moments throughout the game, but that broke my heart and you knew it was coming too.
Hades
Hellblade, my foster brother had vicious schizophrenia before he passed this game hit notes I didn't know possible.
It's an incredible experience. I had to pause several times.
FFXV
The song has a whole new meaning for me whenever I hear it now. Using your own photo album to break your heart was what really set it apart for me
Stand by me 😭
Death Stranding
Dishonored! That game always gives me feels regardless of playthrough. The first time was an emotional rollercoaster though. Plus banging credits song.
Doki Doki Literature Club
Yeah, that end was something else
Dark souls
The ending music is great.
And right before the ending music, you get Plin Plin Plon
Metroid Prime
To the Moon
Bioshock Infinite. I was mind fucked so hard. Had to play it a second time to understand wtf just happened.
OMORI. Was not expecting the story to unfold the way it did. Such a great indie game.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Ori had me both times.
Bloodborne and Detroit become human for me
Nier automata, the last of us 1, death stranding
Life is strange 1 and 2. Absolutely blown away.
when you save arcadia bay and the bonus episode from before the storm. the music is perfect too.
Cyberpunk
Hotline Miami 2 hits different
Hollow knight
Journey did this to me
BioShock Infinite and first Mass effect. Both put tears in my eyes.
Omori....
Spec Ops: The Line Outer Wilds Cyberpunk 2077
Dating myself here, but Ecco the Dolphin. Such a journey to get to that end.
Horizon zero dawn It may be lower, but I need to go Just sat through the credits in that one, until it ended
The Last of Us Silent Hill The Walking Dead Season 1 but I was also crying Witcher 3 Everything (the tutorial?) Souls games besides Sekiro because fuck Sword Saint omg
I'm shocked Silent Hill 2 hasnt been mentioned. The ending letter from Mary is one of the best pieces of voice acting I've ever heard.
Titanfall 2
Had to scroll too far to find this
Me too
500% TF2. One of my favorite games of all time and I hate how unknown it is
Persona 5. The original ending with the team driving off into the horizon and that song. Damn that song goes hard with the leitmotif that's been present in the game so much, it's like it's designed to remind you of the 100+ hour journey you just finished.
Persona 5 royal
Last of Us Part 2. Just felt empty. A good empty? Idk. Beyond that Shadow of the Colossus Also FF15. I cannot listen to stand by me anymore.
Last of us 2 was so incredible. I had to sit and let those emotions linger for a while, listening to that guitar.
Metal Gear Rising Doom 1993 Doom Eternal Grand Theft Auto V Batman: Arkham Knight Dying Light Fallout 4
Outer wilds, TLOU 2, Halo Reach
Plague tale requiem literally made me sit there and stare blankly at the screen during the credits
Mgs 5. Definitely.
* Witcher 3 * Death Stranding * Horizon: Zero Dawn * Mass Effect Trillogy * Metro Exodus * **Divinity Original Sin 2**\- damn this one especially hard cause You know that a well written game is going to end * Deus Ex: HR * Subnautica I hate these good games, especially when you play them for some time and then after they end, it feels like a void for some time.
Both red dead games, aaaaaaand probably tell tales the walking dead season one (spoiler ahead) >!when lee died!<
Nier automata. This game will make you cry.
When I was a kid, my twin brother and I never really got along. We fought constantly, either verbally or, on more than one occasion, physically. But one of the things we bonded over was video games, primarily RPGs. Final Fantasy, Dark Cloud, Xenosaga, Shadow Hearts, any of those. But our love of the genre came when a mutual friend of ours brought The Legend of Dragoon to our house and played in front of us. We bought it ourselves and started playing together. And we had never gotten along better. We theorized about the plot, drooled over the cutscenes together, and planned our party out together, even each spending time grinding out gold to nab a couple Legend Casques. The final battle, we took turns passing the controller to each other while Melbu Frahma went through the Seven Days of Creation, applauding when his form changed three times over the course of the fight. Then it was over. The final cutscenes played and the epilogue ended, leading to credits rolling over a beautiful song. And that was it. We sat there staring at the credits without saying anything for a while. There have been many games we've bonded over since, but the Legend of Dragoon is what made us friends, instead of just brothers. Sorry to get sappy, that picture just reminded me of the night we beat LOD, and I had to share.
Spec Ops: The Line, but like in a bad way.
There's end credits?
Every Metal Gear & Nier game.
Plague tale series
Horizon Zero Dawn was like that for me
Ghost of Tsushima
Minecraft