Puppet007What moment from a video game made you cry?
“Would have liked to run tests on the sea shells.”
~Mordin Solus (Mass Effect 3)
“Had to be me. Someone else might haven gotten it wrong.”
Brutal every time. 😭
I am the very model of a scientist Salarian
iAmTheTotIt had to be done rightly and so I'm the one it had to be!
In Medieval 2, when the love interest dies.
Shaka, when the walls fell
NakedmoleTemba, his arms open!
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!
Baaron87The end of disc 1 for the original Final Fantasy VII. (I’m being intentionally vague here for anyone that hasn’t played it and will be playing the newer FF7 games)
The last of us part 1, Pittsburgh, with Sam and Henry. Gets me every fucking time, even though I know exactly what’s coming
ArtVandelayThe end of Tiny Tina’s assault on dragons keep where she admits she knows Roland is dead, and gives his statue a big hug
Borderlands 2 is such a masterpiece of storytelling mixed with silliness
Macaroni_ninjaThis is a prime example why bl3 sucks. Moments like these made bl2 a true gem.
willyaBeginning of last of us part 1.
The ending of Valiant Hearts, and the ending of FFXIV’s Myths of the Realm.
Coelacanth“See you tomorrow, Harry”
-Disco Elysium, final dream
FollyDollyOh god I just finished this game and you are making me want to cry all over agian.
Spoilers dude, the game is not that old.
AshtearSo brutal. And relatable.
“To the moon”
Nice little point and click adventure. I played it through one afternoon and was sad for the following two days.
brenticusI’ve cried a few times in my life at games. This is the only one that had me outright 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.
CosmicApeOh yea, that one had me almost full on sobbing.
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.
WodgeMy wife played this through one evening, I thought i’d done something wrong for the next week.
I don’t think I ever cried playing a video game, but I can think of three moments that almost got me. Spoilers, obviously.
Big_Boss_77DDLC fucked with me hard core... first time I played it and got to "that" part, I cold killed my pc and sat in the shower in the fetal position until I ran out of hot water.
Didn't play it again for several days afterwards.
finthechatI had a really good time with DDLC. I'm glad I went in blind.
Two games, that I can remember.
One was a particular Journey playthrough, where I happened to match with another really good player. We spent basically the entire game airborne, which if you know Journey mechanics, takes some doing. They drew me a heart at the end, that did it.
Second was my first successful Suzerain run. A morgna wes core.
Suzerain was awesome. I need to go back to it. I still haven’t seen most of the endings.
Hell yea! I’ve been wondering how long it’d be until I ran into someone on Lemmy had played it. lol Yeah it’s pretty good. I’m glad the devs have returned to the project too. I know they wanted to try out other stuff, but in this one subgenre, they’re the fucking kings man. Biggest fish in the whole pond imo. It’s a good spot to be in.
One of the more niche games around, for sure though. lol
Yeah I found out about it from the YouTuber quill18, who basically only does content on weird niches in gaming.
Phantom Brave, when Marona finally makes a real friend. I lose it every time.
zibDamn near everything in Nier Gestalt/Replicant. That game wrecks me every time I play it.
No spoilers but the ending of Life Is Strange made me cry.
HubiMafia 1. “Mr. Salieri sends his regards”. Need I say more?
When doomguy pick the super shotgun in doom eternal. Most moving moment of video games history
“Trust me.”
WytchStarThe 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 sequel was even more brutal. I cried like crazy at the end of both games. Like full on sobbing into a paper towel bc tissues weren’t going to cut crying.
When I was in the final mission of chapter 6, on my first playthrough, my wife came in to tell me it was time to put the kids to bed. She took one look at my face and the tears rolling down it and put the kids to bed without me.
After everything you do in the game to get Abigail and Jack back, and to see John get to be happy and enjoy his ranch in the final act to it being tragically cut short. I know a lot of people don’t like playing as John in the RDR2 epilogue but I felt like it gave me needed closure from Red Dead Redemption
Aviandelight When my husband was playing this through for the first time I was watching him play and guessed what was happening when John was getting ready to propose to Abigail. We both watched that lovely cutscene teary eyed. It really reminded us of our engagement.
I played through it for the first time this year and had no idea that’s how it ended. Left me gutted.
About half of GLaDOS's scenes in either Portal game.
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.
HopeOfTheGunbladeFFXIV, 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.
Shadowbringers was just so good. The parts that really get me were in 5.3 and just… everything. Probably the best patch the game ever had. One quest in particular left me a blubbering mess (returning a certain crystal), even thinking about it now chokes me up. The voice acting is also just top notch the whole expansion.
Endwalker also had several moments that got me and basically the entire last zone (and the music. Omg).
BaroqueInMindThe time I kept fucking restarting in GTASA trying to follow the damn train.
Aw shit, here we go again…
Carighan MaconarPuuuh, a fair few over the years.
- Same one as you, Rosalina’s backstory made me tear up a little bit. It was really really well done, and so unexpected in a Mario game of all places.
- When first reading through Katawa Shoujo, Shizune’s path (botched as it is) still hit me really hard with Misha being an aside that can’t fit in, then later Rin’s neutral ending also got me really bad.
- Teenage me at the end of disc 1 of FF7, of course.
- The ending of Signalis just recently.
And probably a lot more. FFXIV has a lot of sad and emotional moments, although none of them hit me quite as hard as some other games did.
ShaunaTheDeadUgh yeah, FF7 when Aeris is killed by Sephiroth. And the scene where Cloud carries her into the water... I was bawling. Afterwards I think I just sat there dumbfounded, staring at the empty spot in my party until after like 5 minutes I turned off the game cause I needed a break to mourn. I know the graphics don't really hold up these days, but it was all to real to me as a child and it was one of my first experiences with death even though it was just a video game character.
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”)
The opening in the second when Estelle comes home and it finally sinks in 🥲
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.
Stray ending
Th4tGuyIII'm not really a crier when it comes to games, but what brought me close most recently was when I was doing a run of the entire Metro trilogy for the first time.
Spoiler ahead for Metro Exodus
If you're doing the good ending run of Metro Exodus, then you spend most of the game beating the odds and being able to save everyone...
So watching Colonel Miller, someone you become fairly attached to throughout the series, succumb to radiation poisoning while you drive out of Novosibirsk, knowing that there was absolutely nothing I as the player could do but watch was heart-wrenching.
He'd completed the mission, but he just couldn't make it home - it's such a bittersweet ending, but including his speech at the end, it's a good one.