Yeah, I once walked into a Gamestop and saw how expensive new games have gotten…
Joking aside:
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Journey
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To the Moon
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Spiritfarer
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps
All good games, I can’t recommend them enough.
To the moon is like a kick right in the feels. Had me and my wife in bits at the ending.
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The Walking Dead. Clementine, my girl, she needs a hug.
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Journey. I will cry every time.
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Lethal Company. Laughter and fear crying.
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Neon White had a moment or two I think
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BioShock Infinite
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Celeste
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Assassin’s Creed Black Flag
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A Short Hike
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Spiritfarer
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probably more…
Oh god… I forgot about the walking dead. Lee talking with Clementine at the end. I cried hard on that one
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Stray had some moments
The end of Stray killed me
Beginning of Stray: “Oh, this cat game is so cute!”
End of Stray: [Hey, come see this big, grown-ass adult guy start ugly-crying!]
Last of us part 2.
To the moon.
I may have teared up at the end of Half-Life 2.
I was full on ugly crying at the end of To The Moon.
Lol, I tear up just hearing River’s song, it’s such an amazing story. We also played Laura Shigihara’s cover of “Everything’s alright” for my wife walking down the isle. It’s a special game.
That rules
“It had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”.
Oof that hurts
- The last of Us 1 and 2
- Signalis
- Outer Wilds
- Nier: Automata
SIGNALIS fucked me up for like 6 months
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Literally yesterday I started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and just the prologue hit me.
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The end of Karlach’s story in Baldurs Gate 3
Expedition 33 had multiple moments for me, still enjoyed it a lot
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Celeste is so. fucking. good.
absolutely amazing game in every way
I wanna finish it but I’m stuck finding all the secret strawberries
I second this. Didn’t cry while playing it but did tear up listening to the Farewell soundtrack on full blast in my car.
To the Moon
this needs to be higher up. to the moon is a gem
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.
Haven’t been the same since I finished the game a few years ago. Andrew Prahlow dominated my Spotify playlist for two years following and now I have an emotional aversion to pulling the game open, after having played through it (and the DLC) three or six times over the course of 90+ hours gameplay.
10/10 would recommend lol
I had some friends I convinced to play through it and they just didn’t get anything out of it. Couldn’t believe it tbh
It’s no exaggeration to say it changed my perspective about life, I still can’t hear Final Voyage without tearing up.
My sister tried playing it and didn’t get very far, but her preferences are for highly character-driven material so I think it’s just not for her.
I was just about to mention exactly these games!
Outer Wilds’ ending was, to me, a beautiful meditation on confronting loss, the ending of things, and coming to peace with it.
Shadowbringers was along a similar theme. It was interesting emphasizing with Emet, and yet still realizing he’s wrong (“cool motive, still interdimensional genocide”). It was a combination of feeling unbearably sad for him, and yet thankful for stopping him. Also, seeing Ardbert during the camera pan in the Crystarium at the end.
Endwalker’s final walk had to have been designed in a lab to generate waterworks. What an experience.
My reaction to both The Dying Gasp and Seat of Sacrifice fights was “Can’t I feel good about winning just once?” and then speaking to Seto at the end was full on waterworks.
I cried for a good thirty minutes when I beat Outer Wilds, such a wonderful and bittersweet ending.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
An absolute emotional rollercoaster start to end.
33/33 would recommend
Just finished the main quest last night. My head is still spinning. Best story driven game I’ve played in some time if not all time for me. They really did a great job everywhere.
The only game I have sat still as the credits rolled absolutely dumbfounded for at least 30 minutes
Final Fantasy VII, the original one. Stopped playing it for a couple months.
Videogame’s “Rosebud” moment. 🥺
I feel old that I was to look this far to find it.
Absolutely not! I’ve never played The Last Guardian. (Yes)
Nier ending e
Disco Elysium the phone call and the dream
The call was bad, but the dream really got me.
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Exactly my choices as well, just want to add the “hidden” letter from disco elysium too
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
