Henry having to kill Sam then himself, in the first Last of Us. There are obviously sad moments in the game, but this was the first time I ever cried about a scene.
Either ending of Expedition 33 after the final duel. >! But especially listening to Verso if you picked Maelle. The voice acting as he begs to die is unbelievably gutting. !<
There’s something deeply sad about Final Fantasy Tactics’ ending, but FF7’s infamous sequence is pretty emotional (especially at my age on release, I think I was 9-10). Didn’t know that could happen to a friend in a video game-
Dom and Maria in Gears of War 2. For such a hyper masculine hopped up adrenaline kinda ridiculous series (don’t come for me, I love it).THAT scene blew me away as a kid.
The end of Shadow of the Colossus when it plays the credits as the main character now possessed by a demonic god is slowly sucked into a shrine. Whats makes it sad is the player still controls the character and can resist but there’s no way to prevent it from happening. This right after you realize(or atleast the character) that they’ve been tricked.
When Sony shut down the servers for Everybody’s Golf on Vita, the few remaining players gathered in the hub to say goodbye. For me, that was the saddest I’ve felt about a game.
Lisa realizing she was a monster and essentially dead the whole time from silent hill. I was gonna say Angela from silent hill 2 just in general but the scene where Lisa begs us to stay with her and hold her because she’s so scared, followed by her changing right before our eyes, coupled with the somber and heartbreaking music, made me tear up and take a break for a sec. A sweet and wonderful person who to this day I wish I could’ve saved.
Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons. The scene just past the climax when you’re given control back. It’s a moment that hinges on the unique gameplay mechanics you’ve spent all game learning and it’s absolutely heart wrenching.
all these posts are really new stuff. i’m gonna go with the scene in homeworld 1 where they return back from their hyperspace test to find out the planet was destroyed to the music of samuel barber’s adagio for strings
It’s the entirety of That Dragon, Cancer. Nothing else even remotely comes close. The game designer recorded themselves and their own son as they tried to get him to take his cancer medicine.
One of the audio logs hidden away in Horizon: Zero Dawn
> FROM: Roshana Guliyev
>
> To: Sgt. Guliyev
>
> SUBJECT: Please reply!
>
>STATUS: Rejected
>
> MRS. GULIYEV: Ames… I don’t even know if you’re alive anymore. The mails I get from you, they say they’re from you, but they don’t sound… They sound… recycled. Phrases put together. And you don’t say anything about the news I pass on! The containment zone, the re-breathers, the rioting, 1Earth – what happened in the Dallas Bubble, Ames, that wasn’t the robots! They won’t even give me a straight answer when I demand to know if you’re still alive! They just say if your messages keep coming, then… you’re still… “operational.” It’s not fair, Ames. It’s not fair that you won’t be with me when the lights go out. I love you.
That last line gets me.
> It’s not fair that you won’t be with me when the lights go out. I love you.
I still remember being super young and bummed when Sora had to say goodbye to Kairi at the end of KH1, telling her he will find her as they drift apart while the slower Simple and Clean starts. I remember feeling pretty emotional about it and I was like 8-9 years old lmao
For me, it was Halo Reach last mission, the first time i played that shit and i saw the first helmet crack, my heart fucking DROPPED, i knew that shit was coming and i started tearing up
It doesn’t stay sad for very long, but Geralt discovering Ciri’s lifeless body in the Mists in The Witcher 3 made me emotional as hell. The motion capture and facial animation when he turns her body over to see that she’s dead and the way he recoils, all of his preternatural composure finally gone in the face of his worst nightmares come to pass, is so good. And the music is incredible.
Of course she comes back to life immediately and then the sad tears turn to happy tears.
You spend all of the game with this beautiful, happy go lucky, golden retriever of a barbarian by your side. You work to keep her out of the hells. You help her track down the asshole that sold her to Zariel, forcing her to serve for ten years in the blood war. And you help her turn him into a pile of goo on the floor.
And it doesn’t solve anything. She’s still going to die, and she knows it.
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That song. On the slow motion ride back to camp. RDR2
Arthur Morgan’s “I’m afraid” speech.
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong”
Henry having to kill Sam then himself, in the first Last of Us. There are obviously sad moments in the game, but this was the first time I ever cried about a scene.
MGS3’s ending cutscene, specifically the salute.
“What am I fighting foooooooorrrrrr?!”
Karlach burning up on the docks is certainly pretty high up there.
Don’t know about the saddest of all time, but the final duel in Ghost of Tsushima was pretty up there for me.
John Marsden’s death in RDR 1
Either ending of Expedition 33 after the final duel. >! But especially listening to Verso if you picked Maelle. The voice acting as he begs to die is unbelievably gutting. !<
For me, the opening of the last of us. Joel losing Sarah has made me more upset than anything else I’ve played.
It was her scared, desperate whimpers that did it for me.
FF7
There’s something deeply sad about Final Fantasy Tactics’ ending, but FF7’s infamous sequence is pretty emotional (especially at my age on release, I think I was 9-10). Didn’t know that could happen to a friend in a video game-
Arthurs Last Ride in RDR2 and the Final scene of FFX come to mind. Both killed me.
Brothers… terribly sad scene:
Cyberpunk 2077. Final scene of The Tower.
Arthur’s death scene in RDR2. First time a game has ever made me cry.
I do not forgive Odin for the SHIT HE PULLED IN GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK, HAND ME THE AXE KRATOS
Dom and Maria in Gears of War 2. For such a hyper masculine hopped up adrenaline kinda ridiculous series (don’t come for me, I love it).THAT scene blew me away as a kid.
The end of Shadow of the Colossus when it plays the credits as the main character now possessed by a demonic god is slowly sucked into a shrine. Whats makes it sad is the player still controls the character and can resist but there’s no way to prevent it from happening. This right after you realize(or atleast the character) that they’ve been tricked.
Cyberpunk 2077. The ending where you agree to let them upload your consciousness onto an engram. The look of resignation on V’s face really got to me.
The end of Stray when the last human fades away and the little cat tries to cuddle him ;_;
“Protocol 3: Protect the Pilot.”
For me, it is Asriel’s conversation with Frisk at the end of the pacifist run.
Saying goodbye to Jackie in the cab
To The Moon.
Everything will be alright.
Killing the elephant in it takes two…like wtf
Joel having his daughter shot in the first 10 minutes of the game
Assassins Creed Odyssey! >!Phoebe’s death,!< especially as Kassandra. The anguish in her voice gets me every time
I always thought the end to Bioshock: Infinite was so insane. Wow!
Arthur Morgan solemnly telling his dying horse “thank you” before going to his death
Clementine shooting Lee in The Walking Dead“
Disco Elysiums dream sequence towards the end
Any Outer Wilds fans here?
Karlachs breakdown after the Gortash fight in BG3 really got me.
When Sony shut down the servers for Everybody’s Golf on Vita, the few remaining players gathered in the hub to say goodbye. For me, that was the saddest I’ve felt about a game.
Lisa realizing she was a monster and essentially dead the whole time from silent hill. I was gonna say Angela from silent hill 2 just in general but the scene where Lisa begs us to stay with her and hold her because she’s so scared, followed by her changing right before our eyes, coupled with the somber and heartbreaking music, made me tear up and take a break for a sec. A sweet and wonderful person who to this day I wish I could’ve saved.
Dom finding Maria. Or his sacrifice in the subsequent game.
First one that got me bad was John Marston’s death in RDR1. Just didn’t think it was gonna end that way.
Arthur Morgan’s was expected. Yeah, it was sad, but we knew it was gonna happen as soon as he passed out in the streets of Saint Denis.
MGS 4. “This is good… Isn’t it?”
the walking dead, when clem loses lee. rubs salt in the wound when it was discovered her parents are walkers
Vesemir’s funeral.
Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons. The scene just past the climax when you’re given control back. It’s a moment that hinges on the unique gameplay mechanics you’ve spent all game learning and it’s absolutely heart wrenching.
“Lucas remembered his brother’s smell” at the end of Mother 3
all these posts are really new stuff. i’m gonna go with the scene in homeworld 1 where they return back from their hyperspace test to find out the planet was destroyed to the music of samuel barber’s adagio for strings
It’s the entirety of That Dragon, Cancer. Nothing else even remotely comes close. The game designer recorded themselves and their own son as they tried to get him to take his cancer medicine.
Ellie and Joel’s last conversation outside his cabin in Part II
Every part of that dragon cancer, and the bath in what remains of Edith Finch.
Final Fantasy 10 and Tales of Symphonia.
One of the audio logs hidden away in Horizon: Zero Dawn
> FROM: Roshana Guliyev
>
> To: Sgt. Guliyev
>
> SUBJECT: Please reply!
>
>STATUS: Rejected
>
> MRS. GULIYEV: Ames… I don’t even know if you’re alive anymore. The mails I get from you, they say they’re from you, but they don’t sound… They sound… recycled. Phrases put together. And you don’t say anything about the news I pass on! The containment zone, the re-breathers, the rioting, 1Earth – what happened in the Dallas Bubble, Ames, that wasn’t the robots! They won’t even give me a straight answer when I demand to know if you’re still alive! They just say if your messages keep coming, then… you’re still… “operational.” It’s not fair, Ames. It’s not fair that you won’t be with me when the lights go out. I love you.
That last line gets me.
> It’s not fair that you won’t be with me when the lights go out. I love you.
The alternate cutscene where Sif recognizes you.
SPOILER ALERT
When Mario finds out that our princess is in another castle
I still remember being super young and bummed when Sora had to say goodbye to Kairi at the end of KH1, telling her he will find her as they drift apart while the slower Simple and Clean starts. I remember feeling pretty emotional about it and I was like 8-9 years old lmao
MGS3 (Metal Gear Solid 3:Snake Eater). The ending. There is no other ending that can make me cry like that does.
Spiritfarer when you really find out what’s happening.
Cried for a minute at that.
The beginning of Ori and the Blind Forest
Twilight princess as she shatters the only way into her dimension, and Link can never see her again.
“For me it’s always like this.” from Silent Hill 2. It’s haunting and I wouldn’t spoil the context for anyone who never played it.
For me, it was Halo Reach last mission, the first time i played that shit and i saw the first helmet crack, my heart fucking DROPPED, i knew that shit was coming and i started tearing up
Mordin Solus sacrifice on Tuchanka. Mass Effect 3
Jackie Welles death, Cyberpunk 2077
Ghosts of Tsushima
When your horse saves you from the enemy mansion. And dies because of taking close to 10 arrows.
I teared up
When Geralt finds Ciri’s body.
It doesn’t stay sad for very long, but Geralt discovering Ciri’s lifeless body in the Mists in The Witcher 3 made me emotional as hell. The motion capture and facial animation when he turns her body over to see that she’s dead and the way he recoils, all of his preternatural composure finally gone in the face of his worst nightmares come to pass, is so good. And the music is incredible.
Of course she comes back to life immediately and then the sad tears turn to happy tears.
Final Fantasy 15, the final campfire scene and then after the fight when it starts replaying the opening scene again.
Breaks my heart just thinking about it.
When a game of expert minesweeper comes down to a 50/50 choice and you guess wrong
Karlach’s breakdown after you kill Gortash.
You spend all of the game with this beautiful, happy go lucky, golden retriever of a barbarian by your side. You work to keep her out of the hells. You help her track down the asshole that sold her to Zariel, forcing her to serve for ten years in the blood war. And you help her turn him into a pile of goo on the floor.
And it doesn’t solve anything. She’s still going to die, and she knows it.