Have you ever cried because of a video game?
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Oh yes absolutely, and the few people who have played these will likely agree:
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What Remains of Edith Finch - Lewis and the finale always get me
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Kentucky Route Zero - The expensive whiskey and "Then we buried the horses"
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I definitely have, but can't remember which off the top of my head. Looking at other comments, Ori and Stray are likely on the list. But I cry at movies too (off the top of my head Artificial Intelligence, The Bicentennial Man, Cloud Atlas, The Other Sister) and even books (bawled at Gloriously Bright's story in Xenocide).
i remember crying reading xenocide too!
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Cyberpunk, but only because that fucking song came on the radio.
Witch one?
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Played through Before Your Eyes and it absolutely broke me. I'd 1000% recommend using a camera and going in blind. Very emotional experience.
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- RDR2 of course: I had tears streaming down my face when Arthur said "I guess, I guess I'm afraid." Such an incredible performance from Roger Clark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbRHOt4EAoY
- Titanfall 2: "Protocol 3: Protect the pilot"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Rdx1g_4bo
- The Witcher 3: A few times, it's just a really good set of storytelling and cinematics all around, and I absolutely love games where your choices determine the outcomes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ZH2qqlOqs
- Cyberpunk 2077: When a close friend died, when V had to make a major decision at the end of the game, and when V has to make a decision to choose an ending in Phantom Liberty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF68EpmCxBI
There are certainly more games I probably have shed a tear or two or many playing, but those are the ones that immediately fill me with emotion looking back
Also all of these are spoilers lol, so don't watch them if you haven't played the games, but thankfully, none of them are recent releases
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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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In life is strange 2 there's a scene where you have a dialogue option to come out of the closet to your dad. It was such a a personal experience I related to and the exchange felt authentic.
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Final Fantasy IX and X, Detroit: Become Human
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Yes once, and it was at the ending of "Brothers: A tale of two sons".
I bawled my eyes out.Small game, but absolutely recommend for anyone that wants to clear out their tear canals.
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Yes once, and it was at the ending of "Brothers: A tale of two sons".
I bawled my eyes out.Small game, but absolutely recommend for anyone that wants to clear out their tear canals.
This game destroyed me.
It wrenched my soul from its mortal prison and threw it on the ground to pound with a mallet like a fucking Gallagher watermelon
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Thomas was Alone. Cried over quadrilaterals.
Oh gosh, it's been so long since I played, but I remember doing the same.
To be honest, there were a ton of PS3 games that wrecked me. Papa y Yo, Brothers, Journey.
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I've cried really hard to the track "Confronting Myself" from Celeste, which counts as "because of a video game" even though I wasn't playing it at the time.
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
I was off my SSRI meds at the time, and it seriously broke me up listening to how the characters' instruments and motifs and the buildup and release of tension in the track mirror the kind of dialogue they're in when it plays. It's also a climactic scene with a lot of mental health allegory going on at the same time, which really adds to the emotions here.
:::I'm crying again now thanks
Celeste is beautiful. I also cried during the game
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Many times.
Nier Automata
RDR2
Danganronpa 2
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Some
Ok. Maybe some.
And still I'd rather invest my emotions into real life than in a means of killing time.
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- Ending of Link's Awakening
- Ending of Rain World
- Various incidents of save files becoming permanently corrupted halfway through the game and similar
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When I was a child I was very moved by the sequence in Homeworld where they returned to Kharak. Everything was burning and Adagio for Strings playing.
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The ending of Crisis Core thoroughly wrecked me.
Hey, would you say... I became a hero?
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons, in the early months of the pandemic, when the villagers threw me a surprise birthday party. I was living alone at the time and missed my real friends so much.
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No, but Persona 3 came close.
BEWARE, CONTEXTUAL SPOILERS AFTER THIS
I mean, it's a very Jesus-inspired story (I wasn't religious at the time but having a self-sacrificial nature is always touching), starring a dude who is less 'social butterfly everyone knows and loves' and more 'asocial newcomer who feels somewhat annoyed with life/slightly suicidal' and then there's friendship and he finds the value of life. Bretty gud, 10/10, would definitely recommend the remake that came out recently.
