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Destiny 2 - RIP CAYDE 6

He was such a likable character by the community that Bungie actually brought him back... somehow, as some sort of reincarnated-ghost-person-thing

Yes, once after accidentally wiping my Donkey Kong 64 save when I was like 5 and then during Horizon Zero Dawn, I think during RDR2, Life is strange and probably some others. Btw I also made plenty of people cry during the N64 split screen days so that part evens out nicely.

Final Fantasy 14.

• A few times during A Realm Reborn (they began early with ruthlessly killing characters)
• About twice during Heavensward and Stormblood
• Several times during Endwalker

Many times, but the one that got me more than any other game really surprised me: Insomniac's Spiderman 2. Specifically the pidgeon side quest. I don't think I've ever had another experience where I actually had to put the controller down for 5 minutes to stop sobbing. it was just... so beautiful but so heartbreaking...

It's not even the saddest scene in any video game I've played, but I think something about swinging around, beating up bad guys, and then suddenly getting hit with this deeply personal and very real scene broke me. I strongly recommend this game if you have a ps5.

The first one I remember crying from (because the game itself and not just out of frustration anyway) was when Arith dies in (the original) Final Fantasy 7.

Modern games, with more sophisticated stories and actual acting tend to elicit emotional responses more than when I was a kid; though some of the epic CRPGs still hold up because they were just better written.

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.

Yes, multiple times

Most recently it was "In stars and time"

Yeah for sure. I can be over-stimulated by the story pretty easy. The first couple endings I pulled in Cyperpunk were very dark and tragic. Plagues Tale: Requiem after playing both games is a killer. I had some bad decisions in the final run in Veilguard that got my favorite character killed in a tragic way then had to answer for it later. Of course Last Of Us 2. Many others.

Gears of War 3 - Dom

Sekiro almost but not because of the story

MGS4…

Everyone Dies. You can't stop it. You can't run from it. Let me tell you something... Don't... Don't waste the life you have left fighting.

• Big Boss

I think Yakuza/Like a Dragon wins the crown for game series that's made me emotional the most times. Majima seeing Makoto in the ending of 0 and in 2, Kiryu seeing the message the orphanage kids left him in The Man Who Erased His Name, Kiryu going on a tour of his old haunts in Infinite Wealth, Majima visiting Kiryu in the hospital at the end of Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii...there are plenty more, but those all came to mind. They really use the fact that we've been following these characters for decades to the fullest extent.

As a kid I cried out of frustration while playing Dragon Ball Z Budokai during the Super Saiyan Goku vs 100% Full Power Frieza fight. It was just a massive difficulty spike that I'd constantly struggle with. My mom would make fun of me for it for a long time.

For anything more recent, I did cry in Danganronpa V3 at the end of the fourth trial. It was the only time my favorite character in one of these games died and the reason it happened sent me into a batch of sadness that lasted a few days where I just refused to keep playing the game.

It didn't quite make me cry, but the ending of Planescape Torment got me right in my feels.

"Jade Shadows" quest in Warframe.

Borderlands 2 TTAODK expansion

The ending

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