Most Emotional Scenes in Video Games (unmarked spoilers)

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Dusk Golem

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Hey everyone, this is Dusk Golem aka AestheticGamer. I have posted on NeoGAF since 2011, and have decided to resign. I have enjoyed posting about horror games here for years, but I no longer wish to support the site and will be leaving for good. I will still be around the internet, I go by AestheticGamer on YouTube, I make games on Steam as Yai Gameworks, and I plan to go by Dusk Golem on other forums. I'll be joining an off-set of the GAF community leaving to try other ventures like ResetEra (Official Twitter for that here: https://twitter.com/reseteraforum ). I hope some of you who read this may consider it, and I plan to try to expose more people to horror games in the years to come. Just not here.

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FF6 - Gau's retarded father.

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This scene got to me when I first played this game but it would be laughable to be affected by it now I think. Looking back it was probably the heavy cello that made it effective.
 
Some of the cutscenes and ending of Lost Odyssee. And pretty much every single 'A Thousand Years of Dreams' story.
 
MAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAAA

DOO DEE DOO DEE DOO DOO DOO DOO

A certain ladies death in Sons of Liberty really choked me up.
Poor Hal :/
As did two others in MGS1 but one of those was spectacularly ruined in Guns of the Patriots.
 
I shed four tears over the course of playing Zelda: Skyward Sword, but the most prominent had to be when either Zelda by her own admission chose to be frozen in the Temple of Time, or when finding the true identity of Impa, and then
watching her die before your very eyes.
 
John Marston. You know which scene.
I think the scene that almost tore me up was when Lee had to reveal what was gonna happen to him to Clementine in the last episode. Holy crap at her reaction.
 
Yeah, Too the Moon's ending was pretty good. I liked the payoff.

The ending of HL2: Ep2 was certainly more effective than HL2's ending. Watching Eli die and Alyx's reaction made you realize how high the stakes had become, that characters you knew and loved over the years could die, and that the immediate future was going to be pretty grim.

Also, Portal 2 ending (throwing Wheatley into spaaaaaaaaaace, having Glados let you go, turret opera) was good, especially the very last bit with the companion cube.
 
Majora's Mask is possibly the most intense and emotional of all of Nintendo's games. It conveys joy (at Link's little victories like liberating the Gorons, or saving the farm from the aliens). It conveys abandonment (the boy whose father is locked in a cupboard due to Majora transforming the parent into an undead killer). It conveys isolation (Majora's tree, and the crying incarnation of the demon beneath). It conveys hope (the festival), rage (Majora's Wrath), determination (when less than four giants are summoned, they try to hold up the moon knowing its not enough and it will still kill them), and quiet sadness (when the Song of Time must be played, and all your hard-earned victories are erased and disaster returns).

Of course, it also conveys love - Anju and Kafei are the best romance in the Zelda lore, and subtly done. Many players don't even know they are there.

Consideration should be made to the final day of Majora's Mask - through music, through dialogue, through the changes in behaviour of the previously-happy characters knowing that their deaths are inevitable. It conveys despair, hopelessness and realisation that the moon is coming, to crush them all.

The game is a rollercoaster of human emotion. Why Nintendo didn't learn more from it, I'll never know.
 
Holy shit, this thread is already fucking rife with unmarked spoilers.

Edit - I'd better stay the hell out of this thread if it anything is allowed to get spoiled then.
 
No offence to the OP, but 'unmarked spoilers' is a pretty dumb idea for a thread. It takes about five seconds to add tags, and unless you've literally played every game ever made you're going to wind up reading something you wish you hadn't.
 
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Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core's ending really got me. The inevitability of it followed by the feeling of helplessness during the last battle is tragically frustrating, as all you want is a happy ending for the characters after all they've been through.

Plus this music is beautifully awesome.
 
Nier

Entire second playthrough.
I shed tear when the wolf boss died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxzCn1wHa_A#t=24m40s

Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations

The last case and this was the most emotional moment in the game.

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Suikoden II

-When you wait for Jowy to return in Muse.
-When Nanami carried Riou to escape from Tinto after Neclord's attack.
-When Nanami gets shot in Matilda.
-And the final moment of the game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MgrFx_F2Fw
 
Red, green or blue. Mass Effect 3. Emotionally engaging!

I kid, i kid..

Seriously though, Red Dead's ending really had me choking.
 
Two people already posted MGS3...

...so I'm gonna do with destroying my entire existence in NieR. All of the subsequent playthroughs in the game seem to be aimed at making you feel like the worst person in the world, which is bad enough considering that you find out that Replicants were made to live miserable existences to begin with, and saving the day only in the end means you bought a little bit of time at expense having to never exist to begin with.

Eishima: "But…you see, if 5 years pass, then the Replicants with Gestalts will start dying one after another due to the black scrawl~ (*looks faraway*)"

Yokoo: "Even if the destruction system is gone, everyone is going to die, be it late or soon~ (*looks faraway*)"

Natori: "Right~ (*smiles*)"

Note from translator: "How cruel."
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Man, why on earth did you make this an unmarked spoilers thread? Now I can't participate as much as I would have liked.

Anyway, Final Fantasy X ending will always be the most intense scene for me. Nothing topped it yet.
 
hayguyz said:
and this is what exactly??????????????????????????????
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Spec Ops.

You get to a point where there's a large military camp and you're like "fuck we can't take them on, oh wait there's a white phosphorous launcher let's use it" and one of your guys kind of says that's pretty fucked up we shouldn't (since they're american soldiers just like you), but you do. You spray the hell out of everyone there and after walking through it you find a point where it's all civilians and they were all under a bridge (or something like it) trying to hide.

That's the turning point in the game where you realize you're a massive douchebag who's lost control and perspective over what's going on.
 
Unmarked spoilers for everything? ...okay, this thread is going to be a bombshell for some.

Farah's death - Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
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Basically you spend the whole game building up this reluctant relationship with a princess from a different country your country actually fought in war and won conquest over, and you're forced to work together. Over time though, they inevitably warm up to one another. Then she runs off with the Dagger of Time. You then get this very painful (in many ways) scene where the Prince has to hold on to the sharp end of a knife she's holding onto to pull her up from falling to her death. He can't, she dies.

What's worse is what happens after; he resets the events of the game, but in doing so he resets everything they did together, and of course she doesn't even know who he is. A fate worse than death, perhaps. She returns in Two Thrones, but I'll be honest, I never played that and I preferred to see Sands of Time as a standalone. Had a pretty conclusive plot.

Mass Effect 3 - Mordin's Death
"Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong."
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ME3, for all its faults, handled the emotional pathos of the characters really well. The way his reaction, and his final line change depending on what alignment you are is great, and the way you can only save him if you're a complete asshole is bittersweet.
 
Metal Gear Sold 4 - Microwave scene with Old Snake

Nier - the game

Metal Gear Solid 3 - Ending salute

Final Fantasy 7 Crisis Core - Zack ;_;
 
Vigilant Walrus said:
Pressing the trigger, MGS3.

A son is not supposed to end his own mother:(
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NotLiquid said:
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That whole ending was just rough. Still is. I seriously waited a long time before I pulled the trigger. That final reveal at the end too...right in the feels. We'll never forget you and your sacrifice Boss.

Xenogears, for me, had a lot of really emotional moments. It was a bit shocking, but very sad during and the aftermath of Alice and Timothy's deaths during the battle and destruction of Lahan. Then all the times it comes up with Dan. It's rough because you understand Fei was only trying to help out and he effectively had no control over what ultimately happened. It was really nice that there is some resolution between Fei and Dan late in the game.

Xenogears did have some pretty heavy stuff going on. One of the reasons why I liked it so much.
 
FFIX - Ending scenes with Vivi talking.
Spec Ops: The Line - Various points, but mostly Lugo's fate. So fucking pointless and sad, plus the rash decisions it might cause you to make shortly after.
 
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