What game in the last 5 years resonated with you the most emotionally?

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Whether it's a small moment in a game, a character, or an entire storyline, what game struck an emotional chord in you the most?

For me, it has to be The Last of Us. The characters, acting, story, and the power behind the storytelling has left an impression in me that has outlasted any other game.
 
Borderlands. Clap Trap just fills my heart with glee!
 
The Last of Us

Notable mentions:

Beyond: Two Souls
The Walking Dead
Heavy Rain
 
nothing comes to mind right now except for the last of us. emotional draw in video games is a rare thing
 
I have to vote the Last of Us as well. It gives me Halflife 2 "feels" for some reason. My favorite game ever.

Not that HL2 or TLoU are emotionally gripping. They just have believable and well executed worlds and characters I guess.
 
Definitely The Last of Us, can't think of a game in the last 5 years that came even close emotionally.
 
Well, it looks like The Last of Us has been covered. So I'll try another one.

Mass Effect 3. Love the ending or hate it, everything from the fall of Earth up to that scene with Anderson at the end really did an incredibly amazing job making you actually feel the grand scale of what was happening and the hopelessness and desperation of the galactic community.
 
Soldier Gryphon said:
Well, it looks like The Last of Us has been covered. So I'll try another one.

Mass Effect 3. Love the ending or hate it, everything from the fall of Earth up to that scene with Anderson at the end really did an incredibly amazing job making you actually feel the grand scale of what was happening and the hopelessness and desperation of the galactic community.
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F that game's ending haha.
 
Wow....I'm going to have to play the Walking Dead. I have the first one, haven't installed it yet.
 
Yeah the Walking Dead had some seriously resonating scenes. Some of the scenes over the course of the Mass Effect trilogy also struck a cord with me.
 
It isn't within 5 years, but the Pegasus Bridge mission in the first Call of Duty. At the end of the mission I barely had any ammo left and had to pick up whatever I could find, all while more Germans kept pouring into the area. Then one of the most beautiful pieces of music started playing and the atmosphere of that mission at that time really put into perspective what soldiers went through in WW2... I had tears in my eyes finishing the mission.

 
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In the order of impression: Grand Theft Auto V, Batman: Arkham City, Dragon Age II, Max Payne 3, Mass Effect 2.

GTA5 is most surprisingly underrated. It is just so good in terms of its script, and there are quite a few high points, but everybody talks about TLoU instead of GTA5, so somebody needs to say it. Especially so with DA2. The gameplay stagnates but the script goes way farther. The way it runs towards its catastrophic conclusion is I guess what many fans hated, but also some loved a lot, including myself.
 
I would have to say many do. Many games make me happy while playing, from FIFA to Fallout. Most games have those joyous moments that just leave a smile on your face. Just a few examples..

Gears of war ( any of the first 3)- gave a feeling on anxiety and satisfaction that culminates in a state of happiness at the end of a match.
Demon/Dark Souls - cultivates an abundance of anger and frustration as well as satisfaction and joy.
FIFA - coming back from 2-0 in the final minutes in an online one on one match just fills me with happiness.

I never really find the stories or characters emotional. It is the experiences you accomplish with a game that give the emotional responses, IMO.
 
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