What's a game that made you cry?

[scy@chaos.social]

@catsalad Firewatch.

[thatgalsilver@zoner.work]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange NieR Replicant. There's a lot of paths in the game, but in one specific moment you witness the tragic death of a character that is only briefly around and yet you feel responsible for her death. As soon as the cutscene ended, the game loaded me into a field and somber piano music began playing. I sobbed.

[schrotthaufen@mastodon.social]

@catsalad Both NieR games.

[fraca7@social.linux.pizza]

@catsalad Gris

[autolycos@med-mastodon.com]

@catsalad teenage dating

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@Firesphere No, I preferred that ending over sacrificing Chloe to save the town 😭

[ashedryden@xoxo.zone]

@catsalad Stray got me right in the beginning when they lose all their little family 😭

[tuban_muzuru@ohai.social]

@catsalad

There was a spot near one of the exits in Myst Riven. The music wounds me to tears, every time.

[thomholwerda@exquisite.social]

@catsalad To The Moon.

[heathen_cat@furs.social]

@catsalad
I broke down during Night In The Woods when Mae started describing her depressive episodes.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@heathen_cat Oh yeah, that hit hard for me too

[celestia@tech.lgbt]

@catsalad final fantasy vii crisis core... that songat the ending, I just couldn't hold it

I was a lot edgier and a lot teenagier back then but I still hold that game dear

[shadow53@floss.social]

@schrotthaufen @catsalad I had to put the game down for a while even though I *did* manage to talk her down.

Brought back too many memories of me and my high school friends helping each other through depressive episodes.

[fraca7@social.linux.pizza]

@catsalad And now that I think about it, NieR:Automata. Several times. On each ending actually. And several side quests.

[catzilla@toot.cat]

@emlove @catsalad +1 Spiritfarer

[zakalwe@plasmatrap.com]

@catsalad@infosec.exchange I don't play shallow games, as a rule. (The rule has exceptions. Sometimes I'm just looking for mindless mayhem that I don't have to think about too much.) If it doesn't involve me, it won't interest me.

And that means there are moments in quite a few games that... well, may not actually make me cry, but tug at my heartstrings. Usually people you can't save even though you should be able to. In Fallout 4, when the Brotherhood of Steel assaults the Railroad headquarters, even if you don't let even a single Brotherhood knight within two corridor turns of even having a line of fire for a shot at a Railroad Heavy enforcer named Glory, when you're done dealing with them and return to her position, she will be on the ground bleeding out, and you can't save her. Her death is fixed in the script. Bastards.

In Mass Effect ... 3, I think, there is an Asari companion named Samira. Her loyalty mission involves attempting to rescue her daughters when the Ardat-Yakshi monastery is invaded by Reaper forces. You can only save one. The other will blow herself up to destroy a group of Reaper Banshees (Asari subverted and mutated by the Reapers). You can't save her.

But there's a worse one. In Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, you will during the story meet a Dr. Sigrid Bloom. You will find out that she is brave, determined, resourceful, altogether admirable. You will probably come to like her a lot. If the game featured an in-game romance mechanism, Sigrid would be my romance interest of choice.

And then after not allowing you to offer her sanctuary and protection after she's put herself on the line in front of the ruthless and amoral opposing forces, Ubisoft's bastard writers fridged her, offscreen, to fuck with another NPC.

I will never buy another Ubisoft game. Ubisoft can go fuck themselves.

[fritzadalis@infosec.exchange]

@catsalad
Jarts.

[sev@social.antifa.gmbh]

@catsalad All 3 major endings of Signalis, but one of them was particularly bad.

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@Waitnwallflower That's the game that popped and scared the crap out of you when the timer was up, right?

[moriel@chaosfem.tw]

@catsalad

Life is Strange certainly made me cry, as did 1000xResist, Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle, The Longest Journey, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Enderal, Mass Effect 3, probably more. i cry pretty easily to be honest, but the ones i named here have some really incredibly moving scenes and stories.