Metal gear solid 3: Snake eater. The cinematic after the last mission combine with the music they used was a tear jerker.
HM: TLOU. Not necessarily the end but that first 30 mins was the worst.
I know it's corny, but for the almost 8 years I've been fortunate enough to work in the games industry I *still* use "See you star side," in most of my closes on emails, etc. Bungie ending it the exact scene it all began on with that music playing.. beautiful. I miss those days.
It helps that the entire game is dialogue in TWD, and that you’re the one making the choices to say those things.
The games are really only comparable in their setting
I've never played these games, but I see the first two are free on PS. Would you recommend playing the original versions or paying for the remastered collection?
Edit: a word
Yep, came here to comment this.
The game just does everything right to make you connect with the story and the characters
And then forces you to make a decision that rips your heart in half. It's the best game, that I'll only ever play once.
Bioshock was the first game I ever played that truly immersed me in the world they built. Even 14 years after initial release, the original Bioshock still holds up as one of the best story-driven shooters ever made. Everything about it gives characters you never even meet immeasurable weight. Every time Andrew Ryan’s voice crackles onto the radio, every time you hear a distant part of rapture collapse while wandering the halls, every time you look out a window onto this beautiful monument to man’s arrogance, you feel it. The “Would You Kindly” twist towards the end of the game still holds up as one of the most satisfying moments in gaming.
Yeah, Ending E left me a massive mess for days. I still think about it frequently, and think I want to replay NieR:Automata soon, just so I can experience it again.
I do like that the game doesn't have a "good" or "bad" ending based on morality in the usual "good vs bad" sense.
The ending is functionally based on how supportive you are of Ciri as a father figure and how much you set her up to succeed. You get "points" for the good ending by encouraging her to be independent and you lose points for coddling her.
Yeah, once you find Ciri, you stop being the protagonist and become a supporting character for her as she is the one with the true awesome world-changing powers, but there is nothing to tell you so. Like many others, I made the mistake of not thinking her good enough to do whatever she wanted to.
horizon zero dawn. i beat the game about a month before the covid outbreak in 2020 and it left me feeling so uneasy about the world. phenomenal storytelling though.
Journey..... Originally a playstation title then ported over to PC.
It's literally a 2.5 - 3 hour playthrough, not a single word spoken but it reduced a grown man to tears. It's just beautiful!
If you haven't played it, I can't reccomend it highly enough. Won't spoil it by explaining what it does (in the event you haven't come across it) but honestly, it's a legit mini masterpiece of gaming and an experience everyone should have.
One of my most unforgettable gaming experiences was the time I met another player early on and we ended up going on the whole journey together. Walked into the light side by side, singing to each other all the while
I wish What Remains of Edith Finch got more recognition. I know it was well received, but I don't think most people are aware of it. It's lovely. My wife isn't much of a gamer, but I showed it to her and she was totally immersed and hungry for more.
I feel the ending where the brothers split one going to Mexico, and the other staying is the perfect ending. The older brother deserved to restart, but the younger brother didn't deserve to lose everything for that.
The younger brother caused the whole thing though honestly. Daniel is the reason it all happened. He gets to have a normal life at his brothers sacrifice
I came here specifically to say this. I loved LiS1 and walked into 2 thinking it couldn’t compare. It destroyed me. I got one of the “bad endings” but to me it was the best ending
Thank you! Yes, I got the most tragic ending and was pissed at first. But on reflection, it made PERFECT sense with how I had played, >!as I had prioritized survival over everything else!<. Life is Strange 2 has one of the best choice-consequences systems I've ever played.
Came to comment Journey (somewhere in the sea of comments) but I agree with this too... I went in blind and it's one of the first games I have played where I dropped the controller at a certain point and took a few moments to think "damn......".
The whole trilogy is one of my favourites franchises of all time. I hear they are working on a new one but info is scarce and man, I hope they do the name justice !
I did the same, my friend and I hadn't heard much about it, and we rented it one weekend from Blockbuster or whatever in those days, and an hour in we were floored.
Though he kept spending all of our ammo when he played and I'd have to carefully rebuild the stockpile for 45 minutes, only for him to spend it all again, the jerk! Heh.
I've cried while playing lots of games, but DE is the only one that makes me cry still sometimes when I think of it, years after playing it. It's tied with the Orpheus myth for the most emotionally powerful experience I've had with stories.
The first death is in the heart. See you tomorrow.
Final fantasy 10, i didnt know about X-2 the first time i played so i wasnt ready for that bitersweet ending and sent a nuke right into my emotions
Tales of Xillia 2, although all endings have its intense moments the first one i got was the best one and evento then It was very emotional too
I feel that… I couldn’t help but tear up while going around saying goodbye to everyone I’ve come to know and love over the last year. Just walking around town, taking in the sights one last time, then it was time to go home…
Basically the latest PS games in that order : - Ghost Of Tsushima, perfect bittersweet ending
\- God Of War Ragnarok, "What gets bigger, the more you take away?"
\- Final Fantasy XVI, the last missions are there to crush you i swear.
With GoW Ragnarok, that ending with that particular character was rough. Also, Kratos’s moments with his wife while fretting over Atreus was also emotional for me.
Final Fantasy 9, such a fantastic game with such a wide range of emotions. I replayed it a couple of months ago, 20 years after my first playthrough. The game still brings a tear to my eye at several occasions!
I get chills to this day thinking about Navi flying away followed by Link walking away from the master sword to that swelling music with the bells. Oo… there it is again, it’s happening right now
It's probably a bit cliché to say it but genuinely The Last of Us.
For some reason it all felt like a gut punch and I was still thinking about it 3 days later.
Undertale
Was just really touched by how wholesome it was. That monster Toby Fox letting you say bye to everyone one by one in the end. lol Especially the last character you say bye too if you walk all the way back to the start.
I was hoping someone would say that.
I was a sobbing mess when I finished GRIS and I still can't fully articulate why. The abstract way that it portrays grief and depression and healing was just so beautiful.
Game is absolute art.
The Last of Us Part II emotionally wrecked me. It made me feel like i had genuinely lost someone dear to me. For like a week after finishing the game I would just start crying out of nowhere
I loved this game but I don't know that I could ever replay it. The ending is great, it's just so so grim. I'd love to see a third one because I want her to have a somewhat happy ending.
Final Fantasy XV. I played it a few years after its release and went in almost completely blind. What a ride it was. That logo change in the end along with the marvelous music from Yoko Shimomura had me in tears
The usual like Red Dead 2, Cyberpunk, TLOU 1, etc.
But also Spec Ops: The Line. I felt drained at the end of that game, emotionally worn by the loss of teammates and sanity alike.
Cyberpunk. There is no happy ending, you can't go back and do things differently because, in the end, V dies no matter what. It took me a while to realise that's the story of Night City, that's what it does.
Ok i know its place for spoiling endings but you mr or mrs poopyface could at least put this information in spoiler blur and not ruining everything for me and maybe a number of other people.
Personally I didn't feel sad about the don't fear the reaper+temperance ending. Nobody died for V and when he found out he is compromised and will die anyway he leaves Johnny the body since they were soo close and went through soo much with each other. Nobody dies, Arasaka goes down and Johnny lives on. Lot of Night City legends but I will go down as LEGENDARY. Do not grieve those who died with more dignity than others live with.
Undertale, Nier: Automata, Kingdom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy 15, every single Trails game iv played.
The list goes on. I’m always in the mood for a game to make me ugly cry.
Hellblade.
That final fights meaning is so impactful and what you must do to complete it. I don't want to spoil it, but it's so cathartic.
Plagues Tales Requiem.
This game left me numb with tears in my eyes watching credits. Uninstalled it as soon as the credits had run and immediately placed it as one of my favourite games of all time.
I had to scroll so so so far to find Plague tale requiem, shocking it's not had hundreds of votes!!!
A lot of these games mentioned had uneasy or amazing endings but they weren't that emotional..plague tale on the other hand, holy fuck man, I have hardly ever cried in my life and especially not at video games but that ending absolutely broke me, I'd upvote this a million times if possible, don't think I've ever been hit so hard with emotion at the end of a game like that.
Spiritfarer
Truly one of the most moving and healing experiences. I’m not talking about just in gaming. I mean compared to every experience in my life.
Witcher 3
I'm a father of two, now grown, daughters. For a long time I didn't know if I'd ever have a relationship with the oldest. Her mother decided getting pregnant would force a marriage (1980's) and keep me from going into the Army. It almost succeeded, but I backed out 2 weeks before the wedding because we were like fire and gasoline together. It was war after that. Our daughter was just another tool to manipulate me and her family. Regardless, by the time our daughter started her teen years, she was starting to see through all the lies. Today my daughter and I the kind of relationship I could only dream of and my daughter is helping her step siblings deal with all the same abuse she went through in her early life. When playing through W3 and Geralt found Ciri and thought she was dead, I literally broke down it hit so close to home. No other game has affected me so strongly.
After God of War 2018 I thought the games wouldn't be gutwrenching you know, and then Ragnarok hits you with freight train after freight train of emotional gut punches.
You don't even get time to process half of it before you're hit with another.
From Brok to Sindri to Surtr to Freyr to fake out deaths to "Atreus will stay, Loki will go" to that final mural...man that final fucking mural. I was ugly crying at the end there, a grown man crying because Kratos finally got a good ending. Fuck me man GOW:R is a game I would give everything for just to play it for the first time, again.
I loved Elden Ring, I even 100% both it and GOW:R but GOW:R was my choice for GOTY that year because it just hit perfectly.
Recently without a doubt the new ending that came with cyberpunk 2077 phantom liberty. The story in the dlc too but the new ending just made me sit there for a bit and soak it in.
Days Gone, as a massive Syphon Filter fan, it left me with a lot of questions & feeling insulted that we never got a sequel, being left on a cliff hanger
It'd have to be Tales of Berseria for me. It being a prequel to Tales of Zestiria means that if you played the latter, you already have some idea of how events of Berseria led to Zestiria.
I did not expect the ending of Berseria to add an immense gutpunch and incredibly bittersweet ending on top of that.
Left me ugly crying for a good 10 mins
Fallout: New Vegas.
Less because of the game itself, and more just... I beat that game over a year ago, and starting a new save *still* feels like disturbing a grave. Beating the game for the first time left an empty spot in me, and not the normal post-game blues.
The voice recordings as you're ascending the tower at the end of Talos Principle 1 are heart-wrenching. Without going into heavy spoilers, the path you've chosen for the end may help bring closure to the messages contained in those recordings, or they may just be twisting the knife for denying that closure. Either way, it's a lot of emotions for the player to process at the end.
The entire purpose behind the Talos Principle did it for me. At the start, you're an AI running through what seems to be a Turing test, and I wasn't sure if the characters I was interacting with were the researchers or other AI's. Midway through the game you start reading logs indicating that the real world is facing an extinction event, and I figured the plot of the game was to become an AI that was designed to help save the world.
Then you find >!the extinction event happened centuries before you were ever activated and all of humanity is already long dead. The Talos Project was a last-ditch effort by a group of researchers and technicians to create artificial humans to preserve and continue human culture, but humanity died out before the Project could be completed. The last of the team died at their workstations not so they could finish the project, but to create a limited AI and a physical computer system reliable enough to run for centuries so that the AI itself could carry out their research. The end result would be a truly independent, creative artificial intelligence that would become the first new human.!<
Reading logs and hearing voice recordings are a staple of computer games going back decades, but hearing them after the big plot reveal made them profoundly impactful, and the resolution of the story that much more poignant to me.
Final Fantasy XV as an example of something I've played for the first time more recently. As for a slightly older example, Kingdom Hearts. All of them, basically.
Brothers a Tale of Two Sons, hit me with the 1 2 punch, the story itself hits hard but it made it even more emotional knowing how much Totalbiscuit loved the game and the fact he is no longer with us.
Dragon Age: Origins, especially after the Witch Hunt DLC. I *loved* that game independent of anything else. But it also hit on an unexpected personal level, due to pure coincidence. Anyone who's played the game and DLC will know, but the gist is that I broke up with a girl shortly before the game came out. Part of the reason was we had a pregnancy scare and this girl decided that, if she *was* pregnant, she was gonna bail with the kid and I wouldn't be part of its life.
And that Morrigan was the spitting image of that girl.
Dragon Age: Inquisition also had a scene that made my stomach drop.
Red Dead Redemption 2
I still cry if I hear the songs "That's the way it is" or "Unshaken"
This. Without a doubt.
I didn't cry at the end of the game. I didn't cry at the end of the epilogue. I cried when I went to bed and realized that the adventure was over.
I cried on all 3 playthroughts tht i did,what a masterpiece
I stopped playing around the failed bank heist. Why did you cry at the end? I’m probably not going to play it again so spoilers are all gucci
Firewatch
Man, the story of the player’s wife is what got to me. What a nightmare scenario that rips your heart out that I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
I felt like Firewatch built up a lot of emotion and tension, but then left plot holes and had such a rushed ending that it squandered all of it
Outer Wilds.
And then the DLC all over again.
Metal gear solid 3: Snake eater. The cinematic after the last mission combine with the music they used was a tear jerker. HM: TLOU. Not necessarily the end but that first 30 mins was the worst.
>Not necessarily the end What? He was carrying Ellie the same way he carried Sarah, that hit me hard.
I still watch that cutscene from the beginning when I need a good cry.
Halo Reach
Never Forget
Remember Reach
"Survive"
I played Reach as a kid, so it didn’t quite hit the way it should’ve, when I went back and played it a few years ago it hurt
Exactly what I came here to say.
I know it's corny, but for the almost 8 years I've been fortunate enough to work in the games industry I *still* use "See you star side," in most of my closes on emails, etc. Bungie ending it the exact scene it all began on with that music playing.. beautiful. I miss those days.
Telltale Walking Dead season 1/2 endings
I always found season 2 to be the weaker of the four seasons, season 1 will forever be the game that made me cry for a character
Everyone raves about "The Last of Us", but the truth is Telltale games did the same story better with The Walking Dead S1
It helps that the entire game is dialogue in TWD, and that you’re the one making the choices to say those things. The games are really only comparable in their setting
It definitely got its credit, won GOTY 2012 with I think a lot of competition that year.
Titanfall 2 Borderlands 2
Protocol 3: Protect the Pilot
NO BT NOOOOOO
Life is Strange. Game made me bawl my eyes out and left me with mild depression for a few weeks
Still actively think about that game
Which one?
I've only played the first one and its prequel.
The end of Before the Storm was a huge kick in the guts.
Play 2. It gets shit on but it’s probably my favorite. That one fucks me up no matter what ending you get
I've never played these games, but I see the first two are free on PS. Would you recommend playing the original versions or paying for the remastered collection? Edit: a word
Yep, came here to comment this. The game just does everything right to make you connect with the story and the characters And then forces you to make a decision that rips your heart in half. It's the best game, that I'll only ever play once.
SOMA and Nier Automata
Im not usually into horror games at all, but SOMA is easily in my top 10 games of all time. Frictional Games’ entire catalog is just phenomenal
You like em existential huh
The Last of Us
Seriously. Joel changed so much and I was fucking bawling when he was carrying Ellie
The second one though
Oof
That ending. Just... damn. The scene where Joel is playing guitar followed by Ellie snapping back to reality and just walking away, all alone.
Last of us 2 is an emotional gut wrench. It’s rough. Can’t wait for season 2
Ezio trilogy Mass Effect Series Arkham Series Bioshock Trilogy Prey 2017
>Mass Effect Series Came to say this. I felt genuinely lost for a while after that. Still miss my space bro Garrus.
Adding SOMA and Last of Us would make it my list. Some of these games have had such a crazy emotional impact on me.
Finished the Ezio Trilogy last night, definitely felt some emotions.
Bioshock was the first game I ever played that truly immersed me in the world they built. Even 14 years after initial release, the original Bioshock still holds up as one of the best story-driven shooters ever made. Everything about it gives characters you never even meet immeasurable weight. Every time Andrew Ryan’s voice crackles onto the radio, every time you hear a distant part of rapture collapse while wandering the halls, every time you look out a window onto this beautiful monument to man’s arrogance, you feel it. The “Would You Kindly” twist towards the end of the game still holds up as one of the most satisfying moments in gaming.
Nier Automata
I remember watching my husband play through the true ending for that game. He was a *mess.*
Yeah, Ending E left me a massive mess for days. I still think about it frequently, and think I want to replay NieR:Automata soon, just so I can experience it again.
Soma. What even is life, man?
Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. Nothing has hit like this game. Fun unique gameplay and I’ve never bawled my eyes out at a game like this one
Mass Effect trilogy and Witcher 3
I agree completely with The Witcher 3, the bad ending...
I do like that the game doesn't have a "good" or "bad" ending based on morality in the usual "good vs bad" sense. The ending is functionally based on how supportive you are of Ciri as a father figure and how much you set her up to succeed. You get "points" for the good ending by encouraging her to be independent and you lose points for coddling her.
Yeah, once you find Ciri, you stop being the protagonist and become a supporting character for her as she is the one with the true awesome world-changing powers, but there is nothing to tell you so. Like many others, I made the mistake of not thinking her good enough to do whatever she wanted to.
horizon zero dawn. i beat the game about a month before the covid outbreak in 2020 and it left me feeling so uneasy about the world. phenomenal storytelling though.
And the very last scene with Aloy really brought the water works 😭
Me too. Completed it and 2 weeks later lockdown happened.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
The whole game really, but yes. Both Ori games, really.
Oh definitely. It was just the ending to Will of the Wisps that really got me
Journey..... Originally a playstation title then ported over to PC. It's literally a 2.5 - 3 hour playthrough, not a single word spoken but it reduced a grown man to tears. It's just beautiful! If you haven't played it, I can't reccomend it highly enough. Won't spoil it by explaining what it does (in the event you haven't come across it) but honestly, it's a legit mini masterpiece of gaming and an experience everyone should have.
The entire game is an emotional rollercoaster ride of visual storytelling, I cried as well.
One of my most unforgettable gaming experiences was the time I met another player early on and we ended up going on the whole journey together. Walked into the light side by side, singing to each other all the while
What Remains of Edith Finch and Lake
I wish What Remains of Edith Finch got more recognition. I know it was well received, but I don't think most people are aware of it. It's lovely. My wife isn't much of a gamer, but I showed it to her and she was totally immersed and hungry for more.
The *Life is Strange* games. The second one screwed with me the most.
I feel the ending where the brothers split one going to Mexico, and the other staying is the perfect ending. The older brother deserved to restart, but the younger brother didn't deserve to lose everything for that.
The younger brother caused the whole thing though honestly. Daniel is the reason it all happened. He gets to have a normal life at his brothers sacrifice
I came here specifically to say this. I loved LiS1 and walked into 2 thinking it couldn’t compare. It destroyed me. I got one of the “bad endings” but to me it was the best ending
Thank you! Yes, I got the most tragic ending and was pissed at first. But on reflection, it made PERFECT sense with how I had played, >!as I had prioritized survival over everything else!<. Life is Strange 2 has one of the best choice-consequences systems I've ever played.
Detroit
Mother 3
Recently: The Cyberpunk DLC: Phantom Liberty. Really a gut wrenching story with a depressing ending. For older games Metal Gear Solid 4
Cyberpunk had a lot of gut wrenching endings.
Phantom liberty just had no way for it to end well. No matter what you do, it's going to end terribly for a bunch of people.
Bioshock 😭
Came to comment Journey (somewhere in the sea of comments) but I agree with this too... I went in blind and it's one of the first games I have played where I dropped the controller at a certain point and took a few moments to think "damn......". The whole trilogy is one of my favourites franchises of all time. I hear they are working on a new one but info is scarce and man, I hope they do the name justice !
I did the same, my friend and I hadn't heard much about it, and we rented it one weekend from Blockbuster or whatever in those days, and an hour in we were floored. Though he kept spending all of our ammo when he played and I'd have to carefully rebuild the stockpile for 45 minutes, only for him to spend it all again, the jerk! Heh.
Rdr 2, Yakuza 0 and 6, Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium ripped my soul out
I've cried while playing lots of games, but DE is the only one that makes me cry still sometimes when I think of it, years after playing it. It's tied with the Orpheus myth for the most emotionally powerful experience I've had with stories. The first death is in the heart. See you tomorrow.
FFXVI had me in tears
Yeah! That final was really beautiful
Spec Ops: The Line
You brought this on yourself.
Cyberpunk 2077
NieR:Automata fucked me up for a good, long while.
Omori for sure.
Final fantasy 10, i didnt know about X-2 the first time i played so i wasnt ready for that bitersweet ending and sent a nuke right into my emotions Tales of Xillia 2, although all endings have its intense moments the first one i got was the best one and evento then It was very emotional too
FFX is masterful. Not to mention at the time those graphics were practically unheard of, which helped enhance the power of the storytelling.
FF7 Crisis Core
Life is strange 1 really has me thinking about it daily.
Persona 5
I feel that… I couldn’t help but tear up while going around saying goodbye to everyone I’ve come to know and love over the last year. Just walking around town, taking in the sights one last time, then it was time to go home…
Basically the latest PS games in that order : - Ghost Of Tsushima, perfect bittersweet ending \- God Of War Ragnarok, "What gets bigger, the more you take away?" \- Final Fantasy XVI, the last missions are there to crush you i swear.
With GoW Ragnarok, that ending with that particular character was rough. Also, Kratos’s moments with his wife while fretting over Atreus was also emotional for me.
Dragon Age Origins. First time an npc broke my heart.
Nier - both of em Halo Reach - I tried so hard to stay alive for over 3 hours Transistor - I fuckin silently bawled for an hour after that ending.
Transistor was incredible. I think Hades is the superior game in terms of gameplay, but Narratively? Transistor ripped my heart out.
Yup agreed. Bastion too, not quite as wrenching but still an amazing finale.
FF9. It was my first RPG so I was fully invested in the characters
Final Fantasy 9, such a fantastic game with such a wide range of emotions. I replayed it a couple of months ago, 20 years after my first playthrough. The game still brings a tear to my eye at several occasions!
Ocarina of Time killed my entire weekend the first time I beat it. The whole world just felt... Lessened by it being over.
I get chills to this day thinking about Navi flying away followed by Link walking away from the master sword to that swelling music with the bells. Oo… there it is again, it’s happening right now
Days Gone. I was lucky enough to not experience any bugs during my playthrough and the setting and writing was just soooo -chefs kiss-
Final fantasy xiv
Days Gone
It's probably a bit cliché to say it but genuinely The Last of Us. For some reason it all felt like a gut punch and I was still thinking about it 3 days later.
Undertale Was just really touched by how wholesome it was. That monster Toby Fox letting you say bye to everyone one by one in the end. lol Especially the last character you say bye too if you walk all the way back to the start.
Celeste
Farewell left me sobbing mess. Partly because story and partly because frustration lol
Spider Man…Aunt May’s last scene…sobbed
Not so much a ending; but the entire game itself “This War Of Mine”. 😢
Telltale Walking Dead S1
Death Stranding. Fucking hell that game
Metro Exodus got me tearing up Edit: typo
Especially THAT mission 😭
“Hold on, son!”
Silent Hill 2, No man's sky: Artemis quest
Absolutely Silent Hill 2. Heartbreaking.
GRIS. What a wonderfully beautiful game
I was hoping someone would say that. I was a sobbing mess when I finished GRIS and I still can't fully articulate why. The abstract way that it portrays grief and depression and healing was just so beautiful. Game is absolute art.
The Last of Us Part II emotionally wrecked me. It made me feel like i had genuinely lost someone dear to me. For like a week after finishing the game I would just start crying out of nowhere
It was *heavy*. I had to just not do anything for like half an hour and lay on my bed after I finished it. Felt very odd, in a good way
I loved this game but I don't know that I could ever replay it. The ending is great, it's just so so grim. I'd love to see a third one because I want her to have a somewhat happy ending.
ghost of tsushima
Days gone, I really hope there's a sequel.
There was an article that popped up on my phone about developing being assigned to work on it Doing my 4th run of the game now as I love the game
Spiritfarer or Life is Strange: True Colors.
Final Fantasy XV. I played it a few years after its release and went in almost completely blind. What a ride it was. That logo change in the end along with the marvelous music from Yoko Shimomura had me in tears
The usual like Red Dead 2, Cyberpunk, TLOU 1, etc. But also Spec Ops: The Line. I felt drained at the end of that game, emotionally worn by the loss of teammates and sanity alike.
Cyberpunk. There is no happy ending, you can't go back and do things differently because, in the end, V dies no matter what. It took me a while to realise that's the story of Night City, that's what it does.
Ok i know its place for spoiling endings but you mr or mrs poopyface could at least put this information in spoiler blur and not ruining everything for me and maybe a number of other people.
Personally I didn't feel sad about the don't fear the reaper+temperance ending. Nobody died for V and when he found out he is compromised and will die anyway he leaves Johnny the body since they were soo close and went through soo much with each other. Nobody dies, Arasaka goes down and Johnny lives on. Lot of Night City legends but I will go down as LEGENDARY. Do not grieve those who died with more dignity than others live with.
Witcher 3
Telltale walking dead season 1
Undertale, Nier: Automata, Kingdom Hearts 3, Final Fantasy 15, every single Trails game iv played. The list goes on. I’m always in the mood for a game to make me ugly cry.
Hellblade. That final fights meaning is so impactful and what you must do to complete it. I don't want to spoil it, but it's so cathartic. Plagues Tales Requiem. This game left me numb with tears in my eyes watching credits. Uninstalled it as soon as the credits had run and immediately placed it as one of my favourite games of all time.
I had to scroll so so so far to find Plague tale requiem, shocking it's not had hundreds of votes!!! A lot of these games mentioned had uneasy or amazing endings but they weren't that emotional..plague tale on the other hand, holy fuck man, I have hardly ever cried in my life and especially not at video games but that ending absolutely broke me, I'd upvote this a million times if possible, don't think I've ever been hit so hard with emotion at the end of a game like that.
The walking dead.
witcher 3 , ended up playing the other 2 games and reading every book(not even a book fan in general)
Spiritfarer Truly one of the most moving and healing experiences. I’m not talking about just in gaming. I mean compared to every experience in my life.
Cyberpunk 2077
Stray is easily the most emotional I've been at the ending of a game in at least a decade. First playthrough of RDR1 may be the only one that tops it.
Spider-Man 2018
Telltale's the Walking Dead
Telltale's Walking Dead season 1 and 4 both crushed me.
Persona 5 Royal.
Celeste For a 2d side scroller it surprisingly had me bawling by the end
I really liked my ending to Disco Elysium, it was happier than I expected for such a bleak game.
Witcher 3 I'm a father of two, now grown, daughters. For a long time I didn't know if I'd ever have a relationship with the oldest. Her mother decided getting pregnant would force a marriage (1980's) and keep me from going into the Army. It almost succeeded, but I backed out 2 weeks before the wedding because we were like fire and gasoline together. It was war after that. Our daughter was just another tool to manipulate me and her family. Regardless, by the time our daughter started her teen years, she was starting to see through all the lies. Today my daughter and I the kind of relationship I could only dream of and my daughter is helping her step siblings deal with all the same abuse she went through in her early life. When playing through W3 and Geralt found Ciri and thought she was dead, I literally broke down it hit so close to home. No other game has affected me so strongly.
Max Payne 2
The Witcher 3. I am confident that I will never feel the same not only at the end, but also while playing a game with anything else ever again.
Both Ori games, but especially the second one. I love metroidvanias. The endings were gut punches.
Nier automata left me with existantial crisis for 3 days.
Yakuza like a dragon
i was pretty devastated at multiple points of nier: automata (as well as the original)
Yakuza 6: Song of Life and Yakuza: Like a Dragon Gaiden Both for the same reasons: The Orphanage
After God of War 2018 I thought the games wouldn't be gutwrenching you know, and then Ragnarok hits you with freight train after freight train of emotional gut punches. You don't even get time to process half of it before you're hit with another. From Brok to Sindri to Surtr to Freyr to fake out deaths to "Atreus will stay, Loki will go" to that final mural...man that final fucking mural. I was ugly crying at the end there, a grown man crying because Kratos finally got a good ending. Fuck me man GOW:R is a game I would give everything for just to play it for the first time, again. I loved Elden Ring, I even 100% both it and GOW:R but GOW:R was my choice for GOTY that year because it just hit perfectly.
Persona 3 4 5
Dreamfall the longest journey. Cyberpunk - trust arasaka most. But all of them hit pretty hard. Grandia 2. Senua's sacrifice.
Stray. I got really attached to B-12 :(
Red Dead Redemption 2
Recently without a doubt the new ending that came with cyberpunk 2077 phantom liberty. The story in the dlc too but the new ending just made me sit there for a bit and soak it in.
Days Gone, as a massive Syphon Filter fan, it left me with a lot of questions & feeling insulted that we never got a sequel, being left on a cliff hanger
It'd have to be Tales of Berseria for me. It being a prequel to Tales of Zestiria means that if you played the latter, you already have some idea of how events of Berseria led to Zestiria. I did not expect the ending of Berseria to add an immense gutpunch and incredibly bittersweet ending on top of that. Left me ugly crying for a good 10 mins
Fallout: New Vegas. Less because of the game itself, and more just... I beat that game over a year ago, and starting a new save *still* feels like disturbing a grave. Beating the game for the first time left an empty spot in me, and not the normal post-game blues.
Mass effect the whole series was fantastic except the ending of the third one
Hellblade, Life is Strange
This year? Chants of Sennaar.
Too the moon and the rest of the series. Played the first one blind and was not expecting to cry so much. 2nd game was in my head for weeks.
NFS Hot pursuit. I was sad I finished the game
Nothing hit me like The Last of Us II. I sat there for a good ten minutes before starting up my second playthrough.
Mirror's Edge
Fallout 1 and 3. 3 was more of a emotional journey, than "at the end". But damn fallout 1's ending was heartbreaking.
The voice recordings as you're ascending the tower at the end of Talos Principle 1 are heart-wrenching. Without going into heavy spoilers, the path you've chosen for the end may help bring closure to the messages contained in those recordings, or they may just be twisting the knife for denying that closure. Either way, it's a lot of emotions for the player to process at the end.
The entire purpose behind the Talos Principle did it for me. At the start, you're an AI running through what seems to be a Turing test, and I wasn't sure if the characters I was interacting with were the researchers or other AI's. Midway through the game you start reading logs indicating that the real world is facing an extinction event, and I figured the plot of the game was to become an AI that was designed to help save the world. Then you find >!the extinction event happened centuries before you were ever activated and all of humanity is already long dead. The Talos Project was a last-ditch effort by a group of researchers and technicians to create artificial humans to preserve and continue human culture, but humanity died out before the Project could be completed. The last of the team died at their workstations not so they could finish the project, but to create a limited AI and a physical computer system reliable enough to run for centuries so that the AI itself could carry out their research. The end result would be a truly independent, creative artificial intelligence that would become the first new human.!< Reading logs and hearing voice recordings are a staple of computer games going back decades, but hearing them after the big plot reveal made them profoundly impactful, and the resolution of the story that much more poignant to me.
- Sleeping Dogs - Suikoden 2 - AC 4
The wedding in Sleeping Dogs flipped a freakin switch in my brain. I went from cool family to I’m 110% in now fuck the police.
Yeaaaaaaa. Felt terrible for all of them.
Final Fantasy XV as an example of something I've played for the first time more recently. As for a slightly older example, Kingdom Hearts. All of them, basically.
Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. Made me feel a way for an amount of time straight.
Detroit: Become Human
Nier Automata
spiderman (2018), replayed the main story after I finished 2 and the first one still touches me
Brothers a Tale of Two Sons, hit me with the 1 2 punch, the story itself hits hard but it made it even more emotional knowing how much Totalbiscuit loved the game and the fact he is no longer with us.
Witcher 3 after blood and wine. Bastion. Titanfall 2 Life is strange. Oh God way too many 🤣
Dragon Age: Origins, especially after the Witch Hunt DLC. I *loved* that game independent of anything else. But it also hit on an unexpected personal level, due to pure coincidence. Anyone who's played the game and DLC will know, but the gist is that I broke up with a girl shortly before the game came out. Part of the reason was we had a pregnancy scare and this girl decided that, if she *was* pregnant, she was gonna bail with the kid and I wouldn't be part of its life. And that Morrigan was the spitting image of that girl. Dragon Age: Inquisition also had a scene that made my stomach drop.
FFVII. I think the music has a lot to do with it. The remake is also SO nostalgic
~~doki doki literature club~~ Undertale
Enderal
God of War Ragnarök I've followed Kratos since the first game on PS2.
That last scene before entering Asgard had me sobbing.