Ask Lemmy

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.

Nier and Signalis are the first two that come to mind

Honestly also Minecraft but that was mostly because I was playing during a bad time and the ost kicked in

Breath of Fire 3. Spoilers but you’ve had decades to play.

The first boss, the nue chimera, you’re supposed to kill it because it’s terrorizing the town. You then find out as it’s dying (because it uses its final breath to jump in front of a cave to block it) that it was just trying to find food for its cubs that have already been dead for a long time. It also played some somber music during this discovery.

My 8 year old self thought it was incredibly sad.

The final zones for FF14 Endwalker and the most recent one Dawntrail had me sobbing (endwalker more so, but both did it).

Baldur's Gate 3 had a few moments as well.

Dragon Age: the Veilguard did as well, as did parts of DA2 and DAI on my most recent playthroughs.

There's probably a couple more but I can't think of them right now!

Nier anything I don't think video games are silly things

• NIER Replicant
• Red Dead Redemption 1
• Everhood 1
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 the intro already fucked me right up. Not done the game yet.
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Planescape: Torment

Probably more but can't remember.

Loom but I don't recall why.

Detroit become human, that game is art.

As annoying as she was, Fi from Skyward Sword almost made me cry at the end of the game. Well, a couple of tears.

Have you even played Stray?

Only once, season 1, the last episode of telltales walking dead, lee and clems last time seeing each other. Brutal

And got me really fucking close: 'Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong'

Yes, several times. The first one that comes to mind is The Last of Us Part 2.

The last encounter with Alexander the Warrior Jar in Elden Ring made me cry. What a brave jar and a good friend.

I think I might've cried for other reasons too when playing Elden Ring. :')

A couple of times, yes. I think the one I cried the most was the opera scene in Final Fantasy VI, it was just one of the most magnificent scenes in gaming.

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.

I don't think I've ever had a "sad emotion" at all playing a game... I rarely have any emotion besides happy or angry playing games lol.

A lot actually, I'm quite sensitive to emotional things. I've been playing Honkai Impact 3rd and it's made me tear up multiple times. I don't remember all of the games but some of the other games I remember are:

All of the Kingdom Hearts except "3D" and 3 because I haven't played them yet.

Metal Gear solid 1, 2, 3 and Peace Walker

Some of the Final Fantasy games

Castlevania Order of Ecclesia

Thomas was Alone. Cried over quadrilaterals.

The Witcher 3 is probably the game I have cried the most while playing. From the opening cinematic I shed tears because I found it so beautifully made, I cried when Geralt reunited with Ciri, I shed angry tears when I found a particularly gruesome crime scene during a quest.

The fucking Velen OST makes me cry sometimes.

And I'm only taking about base game here, I haven't finished any of the DLC's... Which I know are fantastic so there are still more tears to cry, so... I think I'm gonna go play just now.

I dont know why, but i cried in some wierd situations. Like at the endboss fight of ori 2 and the endboss of the pacifist ending of undertale. And not after the fight, during! I think it's some kind of being overstimulated and way to much things are happening, but in a nice way with the exact amount of difficulty.

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.

I'm crying again now thanks

I cried over darksouls when I first played it at 12. These were tears of frustration of course. I also cried after finishing hollowknight. Not because it was sad but because it was over.

Halo CE ending with Johnson and the Elite. Got me as a child, and also as an adult. Halo 3 nearly got me too.

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.

RDR2. RIP Arthur Morgan.

Oh yes absolutely, and the few people who have played these will likely agree:

• What Remains of Edith Finch - Lewis and the finale always get me

• Kentucky Route Zero - The expensive whiskey and "Then we buried the horses"

In my second play-through of CP77, I played as a female V just so I could romance Judy. It was great. Even went so far as to decorate V's apartments with pictures of the two of them together. So when the end came, I was not emotionally prepared for ...

Devil May Cry back in 2001, and hellblade in 2017. There weee probably others that I had a response to, but those both had tears falling.