Submitted 11 months ago by Puppet007@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
For me, it was Princess Rosalina’s backstory in Super Mario Galaxy.
FFXIV, over and over. The kind of nobility and self sacrifice displayed in that story has set me crying several times. Honestly, I can feel it a little bit just thinking of some of those moments, but I try to smile through it.
Because a smile better suits a hero.
There’s three big moments in the game that I think got it for me; Amaurot, Close in the Distance, and The Dead Ends. But there’s plenty to feel more invested in, especially with all the side quests that focus on so many personal endearing struggles. Heck, even the Dark Knight job storyline has a great emotional payoff to it.
I can think of three in Shadowbringers alone, Amaurot, the conversation against the rock in upper Kholusia, and that one part right near the end, the one that requires channeling a large amount of environmental power.
(Trying to avoid spoilers while being unambiguous)
Oh goddess and the role quests, particularly the healer one.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow reliably makes me tear up.
Beginning of last of us part 1.
Ugh, my husband made me play the role of Vincent in “A Way Out” and didn’t tell me anything about it beforehand.
I had such a good time playing that game all the way until the final battle where instead I just bawled my eyes out and refused to play.
Great game, but I would never play it again.
End of BioShock Infinite
The end of Horizon: Zero Dawn
Zack’s final battle. Yes dude, you are a hero.
Fuck Shinra.
Losing the main characters mother in Fire Emblem Engage.
Getting the True Ending in the base game of Outer Wilds. Including the credits, including after the credits. So beautifully bittersweet.
There are few games that I wish I could selectively erase my memory of, this is one of them. Just so I could play it again brand new. Love that game so much
Before your eyes
Game that uses your blinking as it’s controls
Ending just had me in tears
A weird one that I’ve not seen mentioned: the intro to Battlefield 1. It is really well crafted and was emotional in a way I’ve never felt from a war FPS.
The multiple unavoidable deaths and brief epitaph shown on screen, before hot swapping to the next soldier felt poignant. Really hit me with the pointlessness and futility of WWI, the plight of the common soldier and the sheer scale of death.
For me, it was Princess Rosalina’s backstory in Super Mario Galaxy.
This is probably a joke, but I’ll still answer:
The whole second play through of Nier Replicant.
Binding of Isaac: Repentance, the true ending. It hits harder because it’s the first time we got a definitive ending since the original game came out in 2011.
Last of Us, both parts. Ghost of Tsushima. Can't think of any others at the moment but I'm sure there are more, I'm a big softy.
A certain scene in SOMA.
Walking dead. In retrospect not that great of a game, but damn clem got me crying
Final Fantasy XI, both getting access to Sea and finishing the last chapter of Chains of Promathia, when it was still fairly uncommon to have progressed that far in that expansion.
The completion of Lohse’s character arc in Divinity:Original Sin 2.
The death of Chrono in Chrono trigger and the trupe ending of 8doors.
Lots of moments in Honkai Impact 3.
There’s literally a YT channel that collects tears from streamers playing the game.
There’s a lot of context needed to understand why anyone would cry playing through HI3 though. I’ll give a high level summary here, but I highly encourage people to play it, even if it’s a gacha game. You can really ignore the gacha and just play the game for the main story. Do be warned that the story isn’t something suitable for kids — it can be quite a bit too heavy for them.
The theme of self-sacrifice is covered quite extensively, with the main character being the centrepiece of the theme. There’s also deep self-loathe, with an eventual self-acceptance, also from the MC. Mix that all in with some sense of duty.
There’s also a tragedy, but from the tragedy, a narrow path to hope was born. The people in the tragedy mostly hoped only for a simple life, or to live their lives atoning for their sins, but circumstances forced them to become warriors against a great, unstoppable force of destruction. As if to make things harder to swallow, their digital clones that survived into the future have to experience yet another tragedy that would eventually destroy all of them, and the player will see this through. Yet, in the second tragedy, these clones further sowed the seeds of hope for the future.
Chinese company or not, HoYo has pumped out a lot of very human stories that I think deserves attention and praise. Genshin Impact has also started to go down a similar path.
I don’t remember that happening
Kairi’s heart sequence in Kingdom Hearts
“Kairi… Kairi’s inside me?”
Subsequent playthroughs of Ace Combat 4, knowing the full story of Yellow 13 and 4 with the Spanish guitar accompaniment (even though blah blah war crimes etc). I guess because I know I did it while jamming to rock ballads with qaam spam. Mihaly of AC7 was such a weak arc by comparison.
Assassin’s Creed Unity in the post-Templar part, my 3rd experience with Ubisoft avoiding happy endings but my first Assassins creed
One of the more recent ones was the ending of A Plaguetale: Requiem. Amicia and Hugo stay near and dear.
Not sure Cyberpunk has actually made me cry but there’s been more than a couple moments where I was right there emotionally.
Trails in the Sky, at perhaps two moments. They’re very long JRPGs, and I could argue longer than they need to be with some not so great moments - but the payoff for their better characters is really good.
It’s often cited as “establishing backstory” to the rest of the Trails series. 1 and 2 are basically one complete story; but even the first game sets up a villain and resolution well.
(There is a third that dives a bit too far into setting up “background lore for twenty more games and little else”)
About half of GLaDOS's scenes in either Portal game.
The ending of Valiant Hearts, and the ending of FFXIV’s Myths of the Realm.
In Medieval 2, when the love interest dies.
Shaka, when the walls fell
Temba, his arms open!
For me it was The Last Guardian’s ending.
Among the Sleep - Game hinted at the ending which made me cry multiple times and ball when the ending happened.
overthebrink90@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ori and the Will of the Wisps has some great emotional moments that are complemented by a fantastic soundtrack. Learning about Shriek’s backstory after being hunted by her the entire game was just too much.