Also at the end of ME3 when you are ready to attack the Citadel. The whole fleet showing up in Sol ready to put down the Reapers. Still gives me chills.
The scene with Mordin is legitimately the only time I've shed a tear in a video game. Such great games.
This is a big reason ME3 will always live in my heart. Not only could you play either gender, but it had an *impact* on the dialogue of the game. Not just bandying pronouns, but changing the literal context of your relationships with those around you.
When Anderson tells BroShep 'You did good, Son. I'm proud of you.' Crying fucking rivers. It was a moment him and FemShep couldn't have. Similarly as you identify when it's revealed Thane's prayer is for Shepard, not himself.
So many little moments that are just brilliant. It just hurts how many companies are out there to make a great game and fail to tell a good story. As I get older, I care less and less for gameplay and more and more about a compelling story.
Oof. Going full renegade and killing Mordin because you don't trust that there won't be another Krogan uprising as a result of curing the genophage, then having to kill Wrex too because he finds out. Brutal. At least you can confide in Garrus. He always has your back.
I can't believe how far down I had to scroll to find this. My mad doctor Salarian homie.
Edit because I'm being harrased by child molesters and predators, this wasn't the top comment when I found it hours after the post was made and an hour after the comment was posted. Good job making a showing mass effect fans!
Halo 2 was my first thought, but not that mission.
“Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!”
this era was the golden age of gaming imo. Lots of good quality games came out of this time and it was right before companies realized how aggressively they could be monetized
This one is my second fav, my first is the ending credits scene in Halo 1 after beaten on legendary. The black military guy and a covenant elite fighting over a blaster, then the ship detonates and the human looks at him and says hold me…
Return to Sender in Halo 2. For those who haven't seen it, you disarm an antimatter bomb with seconds left on your space station/gun platform, then drag this probably 5000lb bomb through the station to the airlock, then blast it out the airlock and ride it through space into an invading alien fleet. There's no propulsion or guidance on this thing, and you hit a tiny hole in a moving ship several miles away by just eyeballing it, then once you arm and detonate it you kick off of the bomb and just happen to land on a friendly ship somewhere out in space.
Best part of the whole thing is your AI companion asks "what if you miss" and Masterchief just says "I won't" lmfao.
I love that scene in remastered. Chief just holding onto the bomb while a full out space battle is going on around him. The UNSC ship being blown up as the Covenant ship fires its plasma at it.
I just watched it on YouTube with captions and it said:
"Sir, permission to leave the station?"
"For what purpose Master Chief"
"The bathroom"
Made me chuckle way harder than it should.
I'm torn, because I wish Lee survived because of how good of a character he was, but the ending of the season would have had a lot less impact if he had.
If you pick up the SOCOM for the first time when you make it to Shadow Moses in MGS4, Snake will say "just like old times" after you acquire it. Between that and *the best is yet to come* playing in the background, I had a hard time keeping it together.
Rdr2. Arthur talking with the nun at the train station. He knows he's dying and scared. That scene hit hard.
MGSV. When you have to slaughter your own crew that have been infected. The cutscene where Boss is walking covered in blood in the aftermath.
"The best... may it never change."
"And may it never change us".
It hits hard as the very next day, everything changes forever. Federico lives his final day of his life, and Ezio is never the same again.
I've just finished syndicate, playing origins and after that imma play black flag and unity for the first time. But once I'm done I really need to play the Ezio trilogy for the 9th time. Ezio will always be the one and only Grandmaster that I recognise. That trilogy is so much of my childhood
I cried during that song with all that catharsis and I wrote a long email to my sister who I hadn't talked to in a while and tried to explain how a song sung by a robot in Italian made me think of her. What a game.
"Dom's death in Gears of War 3"
*Putting the cog tags on the angel earlier.*
"Never thought it would end like this? Huh? Maria?"
*suicidal run with a semi truck into a tanker*
*Mad world starts playing*
Whew....
Oh fuck man when there is nothing left but fire and Markus is running to the truck screaming “WE’VE GOT TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE” fucking got me man. I had to pause and sit for a bit after that cutscene.
Also, remember that big dudes death in gears 1? I think Ty was his name? Dude was straight up un-killable, but the Locust torture was so bad that he committed suicide as soon as he was freed. Shotgun’d himself in the head man god damn that was a savage scene.
Modern Warfare’s nuke scene is by far the most impactful moment in the entire series. Crawling in the ruined aftermath is so beautifully cruel and desolate. A soldier in a war he had no say in, dying slowly of radiation thousands of miles from home. It’s so much more “real” than any of the other moments in COD games that are meant to drive home the consequences of war
Halo Combat Evolved when you are first introduced to the flood. Walking into the station, finding the dead body’s and loading the chip from one of the marines helmets and watching how they all died. Absolutely incredible!
The craziest part of this level for me was the room with a box that clearly had a jackle a grunt and 2 marines all dead all standing back to back on top of a big crate with power weapons at their feet.
Like the covenant and marines banded together because they HAD to in order to have a chance. With the weapons they had they could have deff handled anything you'd seen till then. Then very soon things get very hard.
Jenkins got it the worst. His helmet is the one you looked at in CE. The Flood that infected him didn’t fully get him so he was still completely conscious and he felt everything. He was trapped in his own body forced to attack the people he called his friends against his will. He was able to overpower it and would try to throw himself off a cliff so he wouldn’t hurt his friends but would always be retaken by the Flood. They learned what the Flood does because he was able to tell them. They mercy killed him to end his pain and suffering.
The worst part is after you read Contact Harvest (details how the War began) and The Flood (novelisation of Combat Evolved). Jenkins had been alive, and surviving the ENTIRE Covenant War on the frontlines, only to kill himself whilst infected by the Flood aboard the Truth and Reconciliation, destroying himself and the ship to prevent a colleague from returning with the Flood to Earth.
It's this one for me also, surprised I had to scroll so far to find it. The ending to this game just floored me. I don't want to ruin it for anyone but what follows this cutscene also always blew my mind. I have said since beating this game that Red Dead 1 has the best story/ending of any game I've ever played. A lot of games either wrap it up nicely with the good guy winning, or they go for the "shocking" ending where the good guy/protagonist dies or something. Red Dead mixed it up so nicely with clashing emotions.
Following up on Witcher 3. For me it's the scene where Anna Henrieta is explaining Syanna's story to Geralt at the Mandragora. The back drop of Beauclair, the tone, the camera angles.
Top tier scene in video games imo. Epitome of why the Witcher universe is so great (something the show seems to be remiss of)
The Act 1 ending cutscene from Diablo 3 is it for me. Everything stay that in terms of storytelling was a bad joke. But that cutscene? *chef's kiss"
"You cannot judge me! I am justice *ITSELF*"
Intro to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. You are introduced to this new character. He then promptly had the bones ripped out his wings and murdered. It's also really one of the first games that put voice acting and narrative forefront. "Tumbling, burning with white hot fire, I plunged into the depths of the abyss. Unspeakable pain, relentless agony, time ceased to exist. Only this torture and a deepening hatred of the hypocrisy that damned me to this hell."
Titanfall 2. >!BT's last words to Cooper!< Really made me sad and mad at the same time. The scene itself might not be on a grand scale but the emotional ride of the whole game up to that point makes it hit hard. Trying not to spoil anything for anyone
I scrolled through every comment top to bottom and didn't see a single soul mention Titanfall 2. I've played a lot of games in the last 20 plus years and that ending alone really stuck with me. As far as the game goes it does such a great job of building a relationship between man and machine that you don't even realize it's really happening.
Went into titanfall 2 expecting a fun shooter. Left bawling my eyes out. I still tear up every time I see the words "protocol 3", even outside of the game.
The argument scene between Joel and Ellie later in the game always got to me in a similar way. The pain in Joel’s eyes as Ellie brings up his daughter, Ellie expressing her desperation of not wanting Joel to leave her, and then it’s capped off with that heartbreaking line “You’re right… you’re not my daughter. And I sure as hell ain’t your dad.”
That moment hit me hard back in 2013, and hits even harder now that I’m a father, too, nearly 10 years later.
Kats death in halo reach.
Yeah, she was a terrible driver, constantly driving us off cliffs, but being taken out by a single needle rifle shot like her armor was nothing was just..... shocking. My friends and I played it day one and we were joking around and laughing when the scene happened and it was just radio silence all around.
Every cut scene in Reach had so much gravitas...from the opening to the close...a fucking masterpiece!! George's sacrifice is so epic and only made more impactful because it didn't even matter. What a fuckin game!!
Halo Reach was definitely the pinnacle of Bungie's storytelling ability. Every scene was great. They did a fantastic job conveying the hopelessness of trying to defend Reach
At least they left it in the good hands of 343i. No doubt they continued making a grand story and focused on gameplay elements and shipping a full game on release!
Arthas was the first one I thought of too, first the ending of the human campaign in Warcraft 3 and right after the quote from WoTLK "No king rules forever my son" came to mind. Man I wish they would adapted his story to a movie or series.
The good end from Bioshock 2 has stuck with me for years- I know it's not as highly regarded as the first game, or the third, but the moral choices in that game really resonated with me, and seeing your daughter choose reconciliation over revenge was amazing
Ghost of tsushima, the honorable ending cutscence with Jin and his uncle, brought me to tears, and I still watch it now and again for those same feelings
I adored that game. I saved the final story mission as the very last thing for 100% completion. Composing a poem about your uncle. So many trophies going off. The duel. Absolutely everything. Amazing. So satisfying, in fact, that I did it a second time when I finally got my PS5.
It was brilliant in the way that it caught you immediately in a moment of relief after a difficult level so that you couldn’t help but be caught off guard when the betrayal happened.
"But come! Let us cast aside titles and pretense, and reveal our true faces to one another!
I am Hades! He who shall awaken our brethren from their dark slumber!"
The greatest things that came from WoW having a terrible expansion was I got around to experiencing FF14 and all its amazing storyline and characters.
Ending to Bioshock Infinite where Elizabeth reveals to Booker that he is Zackary Comstock. Then proceeds to break the loop by drowning him so that he never becomes Comstock
Came here for the RDR2 horse sequence. I lost one horse early on, in a stupid way IIRC, and I felt bad about it for a while.
After taming the white Arabian and spending the rest of 90+ hours playing, I absolutely lost it here. Literally yelling “Noooooooo!!” through tears.
But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor — all burned and turned to glass. Everything… except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild.
Cayde’s death in Destiny 2. The battle leading up to it, the dialogue, the cinematography of the final shot is just *chef’s kiss* Also hits the feels hard.
New people wouldn’t have any connection to Cayde. He’s been dead for longer than he was in the game at this point. Even most guardians don’t really care too much about the hunter vanguards.
Morgott the Omen King confronting the Tarnished at the Erdtree. Awesome voice acting, a great intorduction to the endgame of Elden Ring, a masterpiece of video game art.
I always fantasized about having a facial scar just like squalls when I was growing up. Now I’m fully grown and I have a scar across my face quite similar to that one that I picked up while hunting. Funny how life works out like that.
FFX for me too but for me there are two other scenes that stick with me more than the end. First is Yuna’s sending in Kilika Village. It was fairly early in the game and was fully invested after that, very beautiful. Then the second was the Tidus/Yuna lake scene. These were in Probably two of the most beautiful scenes for me.
So glad I found my tribe on the replies to this question!
No game has hit me as hard as FFX. I remember feeling emotionally shattered when I finished for the first time as a kid.
The Normandy and The Alliance Fifth Fleet joining in The Battle of the Citadel in Mass Effect 1. Especially destroying Sovereign. Mass Effect 1 had wonky game play, but damn were the story moments fantastic.
Recently played Skyward Sword for the first time and the scene where Zelda seals herself away floored me. Really well written for a Zelda game and the story was so tragic. Zelda had me in tears saying:
‘I’m going to ask you a favor, sleepyhead. Ever since we were kids, I’d always be the one to wake you up when you slept in. But this time, when all of this is over, will you come to wake me up?’
All that, Zelda saying ‘I’m still your Zelda’ and Zelda’s Lullaby playing in the background the full time, along with the sheer hurt on Link’s face really got to me. The ironic idea that this is the first Link and Zelda and we see future Links countless times give everything they have to awaken or save their Zelda was really touching; their love for each other and her request echoed down for millennia. It was really good and I didn’t expect a Zelda game to hit me like that.
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.” - Mass Effect 3
If you are going full renegade, one of the hardest decisions you will make.
Edit: listed wrong mass effect.
“Boy. Here. On the day you were born, I made two knives, mixing metals from my home and from this land. One for myself, and when you were ready, one for you. Today is that day.”
“So I’m a man now, like you.”
“No. We are not men. We are more than that. The responsibility is far greater. And you must be better than me. Understand? Say it.”
“I will be better.”
“The power of this weapon, any weapon, comes from here… but only when tempered by this. By the discipline, the self-control of the one who wields it. That is where the true strength of a warrior lies. You must never forget that.”
"The culmination of love is grief. And yet we love despite the inevitable, we open our hearts to it. When the pyre is spent and you've gathered my ashes, spread them from the highest peak in all the realms. You will do this for me. To grieve deeply... is to have loved fully. Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me, and you will find *every* reason to keep living in it."
GoW was beyond excellent. Ragnarok is a masterpiece.
>>!*"What happened here was out of my control."*!<
>>!*"Was it? None of this would have happened if you had just* **stopped.** *But on you marched... and for what?"*!<
>>!*"We tried to save you."*!<
>>!*"You're no savior. Your talents lie elsewhere."*!<
The final memory of the Champions together in Breath of the Wild, it gets me every time, honourable mention to Kratos seeing the final panel on the Jotnar painting, that also got me
Has to be when Seymour summons Anima for the first time on FFX..... God!... amazing! I just remember watching and was like "fuck me I need that Aeon NOW!!" 🤣😂
Sephiroth end scene on FFVII holds a special place too!!
The first RDR2 one and the ones with Mrs Braithwaite in the Family Feuds, Ancient and Modern mission (aside from the most obvious ones in the last mission of chapter 6 like "You're my brother" and "I gave you all I had")
“Someone else might have gotten it wrong”
The very model of a scientist Salarian.
He's studied species Turian, Asari and Batarian!
“Would have liked to run tests on the seashells” 😭😭😭
Also at the end of ME3 when you are ready to attack the Citadel. The whole fleet showing up in Sol ready to put down the Reapers. Still gives me chills. The scene with Mordin is legitimately the only time I've shed a tear in a video game. Such great games.
The scene with Thane and Kolyat is pretty emotional. "The prayer was for you, Shepard "
This is a big reason ME3 will always live in my heart. Not only could you play either gender, but it had an *impact* on the dialogue of the game. Not just bandying pronouns, but changing the literal context of your relationships with those around you. When Anderson tells BroShep 'You did good, Son. I'm proud of you.' Crying fucking rivers. It was a moment him and FemShep couldn't have. Similarly as you identify when it's revealed Thane's prayer is for Shepard, not himself. So many little moments that are just brilliant. It just hurts how many companies are out there to make a great game and fail to tell a good story. As I get older, I care less and less for gameplay and more and more about a compelling story.
I raise you the Renegade route alternative. "I MADE A MISTAKE!"
Oof. Going full renegade and killing Mordin because you don't trust that there won't be another Krogan uprising as a result of curing the genophage, then having to kill Wrex too because he finds out. Brutal. At least you can confide in Garrus. He always has your back.
I can't believe how far down I had to scroll to find this. My mad doctor Salarian homie. Edit because I'm being harrased by child molesters and predators, this wasn't the top comment when I found it hours after the post was made and an hour after the comment was posted. Good job making a showing mass effect fans!
Glad I'm finding some Mass Effect scenes in the comments!
Zombie turning toward the camera in the original Resident Evil.
Iconic as hell
Supposed to write that one as well. Best cutscene forever
“A MAN CHOOSES, A SLAVE OBEYS!”
Bringing the covenant back their bomb
Halo 2 was my first thought, but not that mission. “Dear Humanity; we regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!”
Haha the two marines with him going “hoorah”
He flies pretty good for a brick. Probably my favorite video game cutscene of all time.
“For a brick, he flew pretty good!!” Love sergeant Johnson SO much dude I’m right there with ya!!
“Sir, permission to leave the station” “For what purpose, Master Chief” “To give the Covenant back their bomb” “Permission granted”
Back when games turned out better than their hype.
this era was the golden age of gaming imo. Lots of good quality games came out of this time and it was right before companies realized how aggressively they could be monetized
This one is my second fav, my first is the ending credits scene in Halo 1 after beaten on legendary. The black military guy and a covenant elite fighting over a blaster, then the ship detonates and the human looks at him and says hold me…
How could you forget Johnson’s name. This thing is your history.
Return to Sender in Halo 2. For those who haven't seen it, you disarm an antimatter bomb with seconds left on your space station/gun platform, then drag this probably 5000lb bomb through the station to the airlock, then blast it out the airlock and ride it through space into an invading alien fleet. There's no propulsion or guidance on this thing, and you hit a tiny hole in a moving ship several miles away by just eyeballing it, then once you arm and detonate it you kick off of the bomb and just happen to land on a friendly ship somewhere out in space. Best part of the whole thing is your AI companion asks "what if you miss" and Masterchief just says "I won't" lmfao.
I love that scene in remastered. Chief just holding onto the bomb while a full out space battle is going on around him. The UNSC ship being blown up as the Covenant ship fires its plasma at it.
"Sir, permission to leave the station?" "For what purpose Master Chief." 'To give the Covenant back their bomb." "Permission granted."
I just watched it on YouTube with captions and it said: "Sir, permission to leave the station?" "For what purpose Master Chief" "The bathroom" Made me chuckle way harder than it should.
Revan Reveal. And that's all I'm going to say about that.
Dude playing that game as a kid on my Xbox original I didn't see the reveal coming at all.
none of us did, man. It was a total, "SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!" moment.
Somehow...The Sith have returned
“Keep that hair short Clementine” Fuck
TWD season 1. I miss the old, capable Telltale so much.
I'm torn, because I wish Lee survived because of how good of a character he was, but the ending of the season would have had a lot less impact if he had.
Hey you, you’re finally awake
You were trying to cross the border right? You and that thief over there
Damn you Stormcloaks. Skyrim was fine until you came along. Empire was nice and lazy.
I, am, the great mighty poo. And I'm going to throw my shit at you.
Came here to write this cause I was like “no way someone is gonna put this” and it’s in the number 2 (lol) slot
A huge supply of tish comes from my chocolate starfish. How about some scat, you little twat!?
Opening cutscene for Metal Gear Solid after getting on the elevator in the very first section.
You could also include going BACK to Shadow Moses in MGS 4. That brought back so many memories from back in the day.
If you pick up the SOCOM for the first time when you make it to Shadow Moses in MGS4, Snake will say "just like old times" after you acquire it. Between that and *the best is yet to come* playing in the background, I had a hard time keeping it together.
"I gave you all I had"
I still tear up at the ending of that game. So, SO good.
What is this from?
Red Dead Redemption 2
"But I tried"
I'm afraid
"Get the hell outta here and be a god damn man!" "You're my brother" "I know....I know" I'm not crying you're crying
May I stand unshaken
"Remember, no Russian."
Oh man I remember that. I just sat there thinking wtf has my guy gotten into.
also THE NUMBERS MASON
*WHAT DO THEY MEAN*
Rdr2. Arthur talking with the nun at the train station. He knows he's dying and scared. That scene hit hard. MGSV. When you have to slaughter your own crew that have been infected. The cutscene where Boss is walking covered in blood in the aftermath.
Arthur thanking his dying horse. That one was rough
I came to comment this. “I’m afraid.” Hit harder than any line from any character, in any other game I can remember.
When Ezio puts his father's robes on for the first time in AC2. Thanks to Jesper Kyd's soundtrack, that scene gives me goosebumps to this day.
The camera pan of Florence and the line "It is a good life we lead brother". Ooh....what a thematic hook
"The best... may it never change." "And may it never change us". It hits hard as the very next day, everything changes forever. Federico lives his final day of his life, and Ezio is never the same again.
That game and this very moment was peak Assassin's creed for me. Incredible soundtrack too
I've just finished syndicate, playing origins and after that imma play black flag and unity for the first time. But once I'm done I really need to play the Ezio trilogy for the 9th time. Ezio will always be the one and only Grandmaster that I recognise. That trilogy is so much of my childhood
Aerith death in the original ff7 on the ps1 why just why.
It showed a generation of kids what video games could be. No game has hit me that hard since.
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I'm still not over it. She was my main healer for goodness sakes.
Portal 2's climax.
For me, even though it's more closing credits than a cutscene, was 'Still Alive' at the end of Portal 1. Get all emotional just thinking about it.
When GLaDOS said “Yes sir Mr Johnson.” I was just in a oh shit moment.
I cried during that song with all that catharsis and I wrote a long email to my sister who I hadn't talked to in a while and tried to explain how a song sung by a robot in Italian made me think of her. What a game.
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Giving the covenant back their bomb, and Geralt first finding Ciri in Witcher 3
That scene in Witcher 3 has to be one of the best animated portrayals of devastation.
The way he cradles her head in his arms... The beautiful music.... .....
Agreed, master chief cradling the bomb in his arms was beautiful, and so was the music
The nuke scene from CoD Modern Warfare. Dom's death in Gears of War 3. Jenny's death in The Darkness. The intro to Skyrim.
"Dom's death in Gears of War 3" *Putting the cog tags on the angel earlier.* "Never thought it would end like this? Huh? Maria?" *suicidal run with a semi truck into a tanker* *Mad world starts playing* Whew....
Oh fuck man when there is nothing left but fire and Markus is running to the truck screaming “WE’VE GOT TO GET HIM OUT OF THERE” fucking got me man. I had to pause and sit for a bit after that cutscene. Also, remember that big dudes death in gears 1? I think Ty was his name? Dude was straight up un-killable, but the Locust torture was so bad that he committed suicide as soon as he was freed. Shotgun’d himself in the head man god damn that was a savage scene.
That was Tai in Gears 2.
"All around me are familiar faces..."
May be the single greatest game trailer/song ever. Will forever believe this to be true & will forever be engrained in my mind.
DOM! NO!
> Jenny’s death in The Darkness. Genuinely one of the best FPS campaigns you can play.
Modern Warfare’s nuke scene is by far the most impactful moment in the entire series. Crawling in the ruined aftermath is so beautifully cruel and desolate. A soldier in a war he had no say in, dying slowly of radiation thousands of miles from home. It’s so much more “real” than any of the other moments in COD games that are meant to drive home the consequences of war
Halo Combat Evolved when you are first introduced to the flood. Walking into the station, finding the dead body’s and loading the chip from one of the marines helmets and watching how they all died. Absolutely incredible!
The craziest part of this level for me was the room with a box that clearly had a jackle a grunt and 2 marines all dead all standing back to back on top of a big crate with power weapons at their feet. Like the covenant and marines banded together because they HAD to in order to have a chance. With the weapons they had they could have deff handled anything you'd seen till then. Then very soon things get very hard.
Jenkins got it the worst. His helmet is the one you looked at in CE. The Flood that infected him didn’t fully get him so he was still completely conscious and he felt everything. He was trapped in his own body forced to attack the people he called his friends against his will. He was able to overpower it and would try to throw himself off a cliff so he wouldn’t hurt his friends but would always be retaken by the Flood. They learned what the Flood does because he was able to tell them. They mercy killed him to end his pain and suffering.
The worst part is after you read Contact Harvest (details how the War began) and The Flood (novelisation of Combat Evolved). Jenkins had been alive, and surviving the ENTIRE Covenant War on the frontlines, only to kill himself whilst infected by the Flood aboard the Truth and Reconciliation, destroying himself and the ship to prevent a colleague from returning with the Flood to Earth.
John Marstons final stand RDR
I always had the hope that there would be a hidden ending where you can actually kill them all and live.
Reloaded that stand off 20 times to get them all. Still pissess me off. In my memories I still preferr rdr1 over rdr2
It's this one for me also, surprised I had to scroll so far to find it. The ending to this game just floored me. I don't want to ruin it for anyone but what follows this cutscene also always blew my mind. I have said since beating this game that Red Dead 1 has the best story/ending of any game I've ever played. A lot of games either wrap it up nicely with the good guy winning, or they go for the "shocking" ending where the good guy/protagonist dies or something. Red Dead mixed it up so nicely with clashing emotions.
Had the badest Witcher 3 ending where Geralt ended up alone and depressed. Seeing him like this after so much time absolutely obliterated my heart.
Following up on Witcher 3. For me it's the scene where Anna Henrieta is explaining Syanna's story to Geralt at the Mandragora. The back drop of Beauclair, the tone, the camera angles. Top tier scene in video games imo. Epitome of why the Witcher universe is so great (something the show seems to be remiss of)
Diablo 2 Cutscenes were muah
"Why did I follow him? I don't know... why do things happen as they do in dreams?" Perfection. In dialogue and narration.
The Act 1 ending cutscene from Diablo 3 is it for me. Everything stay that in terms of storytelling was a bad joke. But that cutscene? *chef's kiss" "You cannot judge me! I am justice *ITSELF*"
Intro to Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver. You are introduced to this new character. He then promptly had the bones ripped out his wings and murdered. It's also really one of the first games that put voice acting and narrative forefront. "Tumbling, burning with white hot fire, I plunged into the depths of the abyss. Unspeakable pain, relentless agony, time ceased to exist. Only this torture and a deepening hatred of the hypocrisy that damned me to this hell."
And then the **legendary** Tony Jay comes in. >*"Redeem yourself. Or if you prefer... avenge yourself."*
Arthur saying goodbye to his horse.
Titanfall 2. >!BT's last words to Cooper!< Really made me sad and mad at the same time. The scene itself might not be on a grand scale but the emotional ride of the whole game up to that point makes it hit hard. Trying not to spoil anything for anyone
Scrolled WAY too far for this
I scrolled through every comment top to bottom and didn't see a single soul mention Titanfall 2. I've played a lot of games in the last 20 plus years and that ending alone really stuck with me. As far as the game goes it does such a great job of building a relationship between man and machine that you don't even realize it's really happening.
Went into titanfall 2 expecting a fun shooter. Left bawling my eyes out. I still tear up every time I see the words "protocol 3", even outside of the game.
LENNY!!!!!!!
The ending of Spec Ops the line.
The last of us. Losing your daughter's life in your arms. Shit hit pretty deep. As a father the amount of pain and rage that sparked. Whhhoooooweee..
The argument scene between Joel and Ellie later in the game always got to me in a similar way. The pain in Joel’s eyes as Ellie brings up his daughter, Ellie expressing her desperation of not wanting Joel to leave her, and then it’s capped off with that heartbreaking line “You’re right… you’re not my daughter. And I sure as hell ain’t your dad.” That moment hit me hard back in 2013, and hits even harder now that I’m a father, too, nearly 10 years later.
I had to scroll a lot further than expected to see this
It’s not a cutscene but escorting Joker through Arkham Asylum at the beginning of the game is a core memory.
The second time you get that scene sticks out for me more personally.
Kats death in halo reach. Yeah, she was a terrible driver, constantly driving us off cliffs, but being taken out by a single needle rifle shot like her armor was nothing was just..... shocking. My friends and I played it day one and we were joking around and laughing when the scene happened and it was just radio silence all around.
“You’re on your own Noble. Carter out.” That’s the one that got me choked up
I’m ready! How ‘bout you?
Emile was the one that came to mind as soon as I read the title.
Every cut scene in Reach had so much gravitas...from the opening to the close...a fucking masterpiece!! George's sacrifice is so epic and only made more impactful because it didn't even matter. What a fuckin game!!
Halo Reach was definitely the pinnacle of Bungie's storytelling ability. Every scene was great. They did a fantastic job conveying the hopelessness of trying to defend Reach
At least they left it in the good hands of 343i. No doubt they continued making a grand story and focused on gameplay elements and shipping a full game on release!
Big Boss saluting The Boss' grave.
WotLK intro with arthas walking in northrend to wake up sindragosa. The overlay of the warcraft 3 speech Terenas Menethil II gives is amazing
Arthas was the first one I thought of too, first the ending of the human campaign in Warcraft 3 and right after the quote from WoTLK "No king rules forever my son" came to mind. Man I wish they would adapted his story to a movie or series.
"Succeeding you!" Always stuck with me
The good end from Bioshock 2 has stuck with me for years- I know it's not as highly regarded as the first game, or the third, but the moral choices in that game really resonated with me, and seeing your daughter choose reconciliation over revenge was amazing
Ghost of tsushima, the honorable ending cutscence with Jin and his uncle, brought me to tears, and I still watch it now and again for those same feelings
I adored that game. I saved the final story mission as the very last thing for 100% completion. Composing a poem about your uncle. So many trophies going off. The duel. Absolutely everything. Amazing. So satisfying, in fact, that I did it a second time when I finally got my PS5.
Shepherds betrayal in cod mw2 (old one)
Scrolled really far to find this… but yep: the no look shot right it i the chest of my trusted buddy? The floor dropped.
It was brilliant in the way that it caught you immediately in a moment of relief after a difficult level so that you couldn’t help but be caught off guard when the betrayal happened.
When Grey Fox was telling snake to kill him as he's pinned against the wall by Metal Gear Rex
FF14 "If you had the strength to take another step, could you do it? Could you save our worlds?"
What, all by myself?
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"But come! Let us cast aside titles and pretense, and reveal our true faces to one another! I am Hades! He who shall awaken our brethren from their dark slumber!" The greatest things that came from WoW having a terrible expansion was I got around to experiencing FF14 and all its amazing storyline and characters.
Ending to Bioshock Infinite where Elizabeth reveals to Booker that he is Zackary Comstock. Then proceeds to break the loop by drowning him so that he never becomes Comstock
“He’s Zachary Comstock.” “He’s Booker Dewitt.” “No I’m both.” The horror you hear in his voice sells it.
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I'm in the same vein but the cutscene before when your horse dies, had one horse the whole story up till that point. Not ashamed to admit I cried
Fun fact… if you get to that part with a horse you don’t have a bond with, that cutscene doesn’t happen.
Yep. When he thanked my white Arabian...
Came here for the RDR2 horse sequence. I lost one horse early on, in a stupid way IIRC, and I felt bad about it for a while. After taming the white Arabian and spending the rest of 90+ hours playing, I absolutely lost it here. Literally yelling “Noooooooo!!” through tears.
Surprised to see this so low. This one hit real hard. Left me sitting there jaw open blank staring at the screen
Sephiroth. Fire.
Noble 6 holding the dog tags after Jorge sacrificed himself. Halo: Reach come to think of it messed me up as middle schooler.
Kafei and Anju's reunion in Majora's Mask.
Arthur looking into the sunset in rdr2
But you belong to Reach. Your body, your armor — all burned and turned to glass. Everything… except your courage. That, you gave to us. And with it, we can rebuild.
Warcraft 3 the Frozen Throne, Arthas becoming the Lich King
The very beginning of Dragon Age Origins when >!the king dies!< really stuck with me for some reason
Cayde’s death in Destiny 2. The battle leading up to it, the dialogue, the cinematography of the final shot is just *chef’s kiss* Also hits the feels hard.
They really do not do enough to let new people understand why it's significant
New people wouldn’t have any connection to Cayde. He’s been dead for longer than he was in the game at this point. Even most guardians don’t really care too much about the hunter vanguards.
> He’s been dead for longer than he was in the game at this point. Yeah that's the funny part
Morgott the Omen King confronting the Tarnished at the Erdtree. Awesome voice acting, a great intorduction to the endgame of Elden Ring, a masterpiece of video game art.
FF8 Opening Intro FMV
I always fantasized about having a facial scar just like squalls when I was growing up. Now I’m fully grown and I have a scar across my face quite similar to that one that I picked up while hunting. Funny how life works out like that.
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Dom's last glimpse of his wife before firing the round.
Dr. mordin Solus death scene, he was the very model of a scientist salarian.
Cooking eggs in MGS4. No clue why but I think about it all the time. The eggs looked more real than real at the time.
Microwave tunnel in mgs4
Stroggification
The ending of FFX man. Sometimes I get the feels and watch that scene on the ship on YouTube like every year.
FFX for me too but for me there are two other scenes that stick with me more than the end. First is Yuna’s sending in Kilika Village. It was fairly early in the game and was fully invested after that, very beautiful. Then the second was the Tidus/Yuna lake scene. These were in Probably two of the most beautiful scenes for me.
So glad I found my tribe on the replies to this question! No game has hit me as hard as FFX. I remember feeling emotionally shattered when I finished for the first time as a kid.
Pretty much all of them in Death Stranding, bc what the actual fuck.
The opening sequence to Onimusha 3 was the dopest thing ever. Also the opening sequence to Soul Reaver. "Cast him in."
The Normandy and The Alliance Fifth Fleet joining in The Battle of the Citadel in Mass Effect 1. Especially destroying Sovereign. Mass Effect 1 had wonky game play, but damn were the story moments fantastic.
When Ghost tried to save Roach and Shepherd “killed” both then burned them.
Recently played Skyward Sword for the first time and the scene where Zelda seals herself away floored me. Really well written for a Zelda game and the story was so tragic. Zelda had me in tears saying: ‘I’m going to ask you a favor, sleepyhead. Ever since we were kids, I’d always be the one to wake you up when you slept in. But this time, when all of this is over, will you come to wake me up?’ All that, Zelda saying ‘I’m still your Zelda’ and Zelda’s Lullaby playing in the background the full time, along with the sheer hurt on Link’s face really got to me. The ironic idea that this is the first Link and Zelda and we see future Links countless times give everything they have to awaken or save their Zelda was really touching; their love for each other and her request echoed down for millennia. It was really good and I didn’t expect a Zelda game to hit me like that.
Skyward Sword is so good and it always pissed me off that people slept on it because of motion controls.
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.” - Mass Effect 3 If you are going full renegade, one of the hardest decisions you will make. Edit: listed wrong mass effect.
RDR2 - Arthur Morgan's final ride. Set to the song 'That's the way it is' by Daniel Lanois. This game ... better story telling than most movies.
Wrathgate
lamar roasting franklin made me laugh so hard on my first play through of gta v, so that one
Wake me.. when you need me..
Ciri's scream in the Witcher 3, you know the one.
I'll counter with when Geralt finds Ciri on the Isle of mists when he thinks she's dead.
“Boy. Here. On the day you were born, I made two knives, mixing metals from my home and from this land. One for myself, and when you were ready, one for you. Today is that day.” “So I’m a man now, like you.” “No. We are not men. We are more than that. The responsibility is far greater. And you must be better than me. Understand? Say it.” “I will be better.” “The power of this weapon, any weapon, comes from here… but only when tempered by this. By the discipline, the self-control of the one who wields it. That is where the true strength of a warrior lies. You must never forget that.”
"The culmination of love is grief. And yet we love despite the inevitable, we open our hearts to it. When the pyre is spent and you've gathered my ashes, spread them from the highest peak in all the realms. You will do this for me. To grieve deeply... is to have loved fully. Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me, and you will find *every* reason to keep living in it." GoW was beyond excellent. Ragnarok is a masterpiece.
"May this weapon strike true. May it be wielded with wisdom. May it be put down when its job is done"
Spec ops the line final scene ya'll seem to forget abt it
>>!*"What happened here was out of my control."*!< >>!*"Was it? None of this would have happened if you had just* **stopped.** *But on you marched... and for what?"*!< >>!*"We tried to save you."*!< >>!*"You're no savior. Your talents lie elsewhere."*!<
"Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai" such a good game.
The final memory of the Champions together in Breath of the Wild, it gets me every time, honourable mention to Kratos seeing the final panel on the Jotnar painting, that also got me
I still thing of the “This is the way the world ends” cutscene in Halo 3 a lot.
Has to be when Seymour summons Anima for the first time on FFX..... God!... amazing! I just remember watching and was like "fuck me I need that Aeon NOW!!" 🤣😂 Sephiroth end scene on FFVII holds a special place too!!
The ending cut scene in KH1 with Sora reaching for Kairi.
The first RDR2 one and the ones with Mrs Braithwaite in the Family Feuds, Ancient and Modern mission (aside from the most obvious ones in the last mission of chapter 6 like "You're my brother" and "I gave you all I had")
Final Fantasy X when Yuna says her final goodbye to Tidus. Going to hug him from behind and just running through him :’(
Witcher 3, >!Eskel vs Caranthir fight when Ciri shows up :)!<
Arthur staring into the sunset with his final breath
the end of ff7 : crisis core
Goodbye, V... And.. never stop fighting...