Let's see, I've cried at MGS3 and 4, FFX and XIV, Mass Effect 3... I'm know there are quite a few others but I'm drawing a blank. But I'm a bit of a crier anyway.
Oh! The Walking Dead season 1, Gone Home, and Brothers as well.
I'm a very cynical and dickish person, so I tend to not cry when it comes to games because the medium doesn't really "earn" those payoffs. I'm just not a big lover of the "then the sad music plays."
But I remember vividly my first experience of a scene with a door in Witcher 3 that had me bawlin' and all of it without a lick of dialogue.
Spoiler in case anyone hasn't played Witcher 3 yet:
Everything in this scene from the cinematography to the animation and music gets me.
Other moments are probably:
-Fire Emblem Awakening: The Cliff and the Aftermath
-Aeris
-Shadowbringers - Everything after Mt Gulg and everything involving Ardbert and Seto
I hated Final Fantasy 9 so much the entire main cast could have been wiped out in the end and all I would have given is a sensible chuckle.
However the bitter sweet ending of final fantasy 10 did make me somewhat emotional, at least until x-2 came around and reconned it.
I have played a lot of games in the last 30 years but none has made me even close to tears. Honestly, game writing is better than it was, but it really doesn't come close to well written movies and TV.
FFIX's ending definitely does it. I was even spoiled on it happening but it still got me
FFXIV Shadowbringers' "say his name" gets me, and everything involving that character. Ardbert and Seto, too.
FF Type-0 is a messy game but the final scene in the (not goofy) ending is really well shot and edited to bring out maximum emotions. Bump of Chicken's vocal theme emphasises it.
Oh and the Ice Cream Trio being reunited in Kingdom Hearts 3 makes up for any and all of that game's shortcomings.
Life is Strange is the only game that's gotten to me like that. I expected to see more ppl list the game as well, and it hasn't even been brought up yet. :(
Life is Strange is the only game that's gotten to me like that. I expected to see more ppl list the game as well, and it hasn't even been brought up yet. :(
LiS1 didn't do it to me but oddly Before the Storm and 2 did. The ending I got for the latter is honestly one of the best directed things I've seen in any game.
Where Sean goes to prison but Daniel gets to live a normal life. They're reunited after a few years and revisit the campsite they made but Sean just breaks down crying and the two ultimately drift apart.
LiS1 didn't do it to me but oddly Before the Storm and 2 did. The ending I got for the latter is honestly one of the best directed things I've seen in any game.
Wow really? Funny cuz BtS didn't really do it for me, tho I really enjoyed it. Still haven't finished LiS2. Just didn't click with me as much as LiS did. Only did the first episode so far. Still need to get to Tell Me Why as well. I'm slacking on these story games. lol
I've never had a game bring me to tears. I feel like I'm missing out by not connecting emotionally to games in the same way that other people do. I just don't seem to get over the fact that none of it is real.
