Played through Before Your Eyes and it absolutely broke me. I'd 1000% recommend using a camera and going in blind. Very emotional experience.
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No, but Persona 3 came close.
BEWARE, CONTEXTUAL SPOILERS AFTER THIS
I mean, it's a very Jesus-inspired story (I wasn't religious at the time but having a self-sacrificial nature is always touching), starring a dude who is less 'social butterfly everyone knows and loves' and more 'asocial newcomer who feels somewhat annoyed with life/slightly suicidal' and then there's friendship and he finds the value of life. Bretty gud, 10/10, would definitely recommend the remake that came out recently.
The ending of Crisis Core thoroughly wrecked me.
Hey, would you say... I became a hero?
The end of God of War (2018).
Not quite the same thing, but the song Corridors of Time have gotten me misty eyed from the nostalgia alone.
I've teared up for some. In Sound Mind made me think of my cat who was recently deceased and was more special to me than any of the other pets I had. And then there was the ending for Outer Wilds, and the... fuckin' everything in Ori and the Blind Forest.
Oh, and the second one.
spoiler
"...When my name was Ori."
Maybe an outside one here, but when Dragon Age: Origins was still new, I was much younger and hadn't had a serious girlfriend yet. And in general, I got quite a bit more attached to characters in games, including the romantic interests especially.
Spoilers ahead if you haven't beaten the game
spoiler
At the end of the game, my character died and I had romanced the character Leliana. The end screen shows a somber note about Leliana being heartbroken and wandering the world missing the character.
Something about that really struck something in me and made me extremely sad. I think it's probably the only time I've ever really cried because of a video game.
I can't actually find a reference to this ending online. The wiki isn't 100% complete. Otherwise, I would have linked the blurb here.
Now a days I struggle to connect with characters in games. They will never be as real as my friends or my partner, so it's hard to form such an emotional connection as I did when I was a teenager.
Yes. Every dark souls game
"Jade Shadows" quest in Warframe.
Actual cry? No
Really felt something when Tali died in Mass Effect 3. Made a bad choice and she was the penalty of that choice.
“Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong”
Shit, it was even hard to simply copy-paste this.
Cyberpunk, but only because that fucking song came on the radio.
Wuthering waves had me tear up a few times actually. They have some really good stories around their characters, tie that in with some of the best music I've heard in a game and it just plays with your emotions.
I'm sure anyone who has played it knows the encore story lol
I'm almost 40 years old and have been playing games my entire life, like way too much, and I can't believe I'd actually be saying wuthering waves, a freaking predatory gacha game, is probably in my top 5 best games I've ever played when considering overall quality along with how fun it is. I only found it like 2-3 months ago and I've already put over 200 hours in it... There's a joke that Kuro games is a music/anime company that attaches a game to their art.
When I was a child I was very moved by the sequence in Homeworld where they returned to Kharak. Everything was burning and Adagio for Strings playing.
I think most recently I cried while playing Wandersong; such a great game!
Final Fantasy IX and X, Detroit: Become Human
RDR2, in my defense I was very drunk
Death Stranding 2. And I’m not even finished yet.