For me, it was Princess Rosalina’s backstory in Super Mario Galaxy.
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.
“See you tomorrow, Harry” -Disco Elysium, final dream
Spoilers dude, the game is not that old.
So brutal. And relatable.
Beginning of last of us part 1.
The end of Red Dead Redemption. Spoilers for a game that’s over a decade old, but John’s death was a brutal cruelty that stayed with me for a long, long time.
The time I kept fucking restarting in GTASA trying to follow the damn train.
Mafia 1. “Mr. Salieri sends his regards”. Need I say more?
“To the moon” Nice little point and click adventure. I played it through one afternoon and was sad for the following two days.
I convinced my partner to play it recently and the way I knew she’d finished it was that I could hear sniffling from the desk behind me.
Oh yea, that one had me almost full on sobbing.
I’m a pretty emotional dude. I tear up at a lot of things, happy and sad. But, there are very few things in this life that have caused me to totally break down, ugly crying. The ending to “To the Moon” is one of them. Too visceral a reminder of saying goodbye to people I’ve loved very much.
In Medieval 2, when the love interest dies.
Shaka, when the walls fell
Stray ending
Shane’s 6-heart cutscene on the cliff in Stardew Valley.
I was crying so hard a contact popped out and I had to finish the game half blind!
spoiler alert
Witcher 3 when Ciri wakes up, hands down.
But also Priscilla’s song.
And also in RDR2 the cutscene with Unshaken. Arthur is alive and out from prison but broken, sick, and the writing is on the wall.
The first time was in Mass Effect 3, when Liara shows you her project in your cabin. For me, this was the first time in the trilogy where I felt that we could really lose the war against the reapers.
Another very good moment was in Life is Strange Before the Storm, when Chloe finds her dad’s car in the junkyard. That hit hard.
I was pretty emotionally stunted and depressed as a teenager and had trouble crying even when I wanted to (it’s a horrible feeling, physically) so Earthbound and Mother 3 were therapeutic
The opening of The Last Of Us
No spoilers but: Not just the opening
true, but you never forget the first haha. wasn’t expecting it so early in the game, so it hit me like a speeding truck full of bricks
Pretty much everything, in both games. Even the damn ending of Part 2. Emotionally brutal ride for sure.
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.
