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The cake is a lie

FFX The sending (amongst the reveal moment of the summoner's fate)

The ending…

..in Outer Wilds. And if you haven’t played it, don’t tap the spoiler before you have.

Lives, all mortal lives, expire Souls go to their doom in flame Forevermore

There are great examples in this thread of great games from years past. But from more recent games, everyone who has played BG3 to its close (or near it) will likely agree with me. It was an amazing buildup and amazing scene when it happened.

That time I was playing Quake and I said 'I'm cocked, locked and ready to rock' and someone else said "You shouldn't lock your cock. Cocks should be free!"

It technically happened in a video game and I will never forget it.

But also getting Strogified in Quake 4.

Ghost Trick's entire second half is filled with them, but you cannot describe them spoiler-free... "When he looks at you" is the best I can come up with.

Return of the Obra Dinn, when you first look up in Abigail's death scene.

* ^But^ ^nobody^ ^came.^

(Undertale genocide run)

* It's you! (mirror at the first region of the game)

* Despite everything, it's still you. (mirror at the end of the game)

(Undertale non-genocide runs)

That moment in Final Fantasy 7 when Sephiroth, um, drops in.

Gotta be up there.

Or in Deus Ex when, if you haven’t been paying attention (or just running through killing) the twist hits. I saw it coming but still. “That’s right JC. I’m [redacted].”

The part where you launch white phosphorus in Spec Ops the Line

Half Life when you reach the surface for the first time.

When Joel has to choose to save Ellie from having the brain surgery or not in The Last of Us. When Monika in Doki Doki Literature club removes other characters in the game from the player's file + when she breaks the 4th wall. "It's just a prank, Han!" from Until Dawn.

When Majora’s mask grew legs. Freaked me the hell out as a kid lol.

Rise and shine Mr Freeman. Rise and shine

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!

How to be me. Someone else might have got it wrong.

That scene still hurts .

The games that broke the 4th wall, specifically Psycho Mantis in Metal Gear Solid or all of Eternal Darkness.

A fair warning, that mine is “political” in some respects.

The 3 final enemies in Another Crab’s Treasure. I say “enemies” not bosses because two of them wish you no harm, and the last one isn’t capable of fighting back. But beating them feels so damn right and deserved.

The game definitely read as “Haha funny Spongebob Dark Souls parody” and at many times it is silly; but that often disarms you for the moments of pure character writing and active worldly commentary. I’d even say with the level of ethereal, unreadable high fantasy many Souls games use, it’s probably the best written Soulslike. I described the savage bits but there’s some heartfelt moments too.

Every time I played Dead Rails on Roblox. I even recorded it all.

pwning and getting pwned by friends playing counterstrike dust 2 in the local cafe

LAN party 2012ish. Playing Farcry 2 team Deathmatch multiplayer on the Clear Cut map. First team to 100 kills win. I got 60 of the 100 kills to win and from that point forward I was no longer permitted to use the 50cal sniper rifle.

Glados's anger in Portal

The ending of Dragons Keep in Borderlands

Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe Skip Button. It filled me with so much dread.

Getting hugged in VR chat during the pandemic.

Arriving at the astral plane with the Amulet of Yendor.

A certain sythe sweep near the end of Grim Fandango.

The dip in the river near the end of Bioshock Infinite.

Jumping into the thing near the end of Outer Wilds, and coming down where you come down going through what you go through.

The fight with The Boss in Rokovoj Bereg in Metal Gear Snake Eater.

Before, she opens up about herself like never before, and after... well, shit.

Not going to look the same to everyone, but being scammed in runescape for the first time. I remember trusting someone taking me to their training spot in the wilderness to level up prayer, and got back stabbed 😆

The moment in Phantasy Star III on Sega where it is revealed that the entire world was actually just one node in a vast interstellar ship

EDIT: Originally posted the wrong one (PS IV). Please forgive me; it was like 30 years ago and I was drunk AF when it happened. I may have wept a little at the time. It was a special moment. I almost called my parents.