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what video game moments that you had that gave you feels.

This is my biggest feel moment.
Gears of war 3 Domenic Santiago's death.

Gears of war was one of my favourite gaming series because of the story it had and the characters in them, and needless to say they made me love Dom as a character for everything that he was. He had been fighting to find his wife and kids throughout the whole series, only to have been all killed. His wife by his own hand after finding her in a locust concentration camp completely lobotomized and forced as a slave. Over time he became more miserable and grief stricken to the point that he wanted to find a cause worth dying for so he can be reunited with them and be at peace.

So what video game moments gave you feels?

Hearing this song

There's an unmarked location in Fallout 3 called the Hilltop Farm Ruins and sitting among the rubble is a lone terminal still working.
It tells the story of a group of survivors right after the Great War who set up a small farm to keep themselves alive in the wasteland. The last log talks about them seeing a group of wanderers who were probably raiders who slaughtered their little community.
It just felt so organic to me, they survived the nuclear holocaust and made a small livable civilization of their own, only to be killed by other humans.

The Keller Family Refuge unmarked quest also had me feeling something, so much that I started making a mod to turn it into a full fledged quest and add some backstory, maybe I'll continue it someday.

Holy shit I cried at this, and this is from someone who didn't cry at the ending of MGS3 which is the saddest moment in gaming in the eyes of many. To be honest, I had feels during MGS3's final boss, but no where near the amount this made me feel. Every time I replay the game it gets stronger as well. It's amazing how he says like 4 sentences max to you throughout the entire game and he was only really in it for the exposition section at the beginning which isn't even a quarter of the game. The fact that he saved your life twice and then you have to kill him yourself probably makes it that much sadder. I know the MGS3 ending had you kill a friend yourself as well, but this one was worse for me and I'm not sure why.

^ Probably his music.

KEEP THAT HAIR SHORT

How about put the stuff under a spoiler tag with a spoiler title "Spoilers for X". It would make it viewable to people, like me, who want to avoid spoilers for games they haven't played at all costs.

Mass Effect as a whole ;_;

Feel in 6:30

I was once in a game of Dota where everyone is so friendly, it made me feel.

The last few chapters of this game were feels-inducing, but this one stands out above all.

Wolfenstein: The New Order, especially BJ's monologues and this scene where J chews out the fallen US government really hit hard, not to mention the ending.

Warning: mild sexual content in the first link; the video title I think sort of does wrong by the scene, which in echoing earlier monologues and occurring right after your first encounter with Nazi Bitch, really adds to the narrative and has a real reason to be there considering its thematic context.

(Sorry, I couldn't find a better video…)

Drawn to life 2 made me feel so much harder than I thought I could. The first game was a popular gem on the DS, and it had a much lighter tone. But, it's lesser known sequel was much different than the first. The story was no longer about recreating a destroyed village, rather, it was to stop the destruction of the world. Many of the characters from the first game appeared in this game, but fell to grave fates as the game went on, and the game pulled the biggest blow to the nuts any game could with its ending. Basically, you find out that everyone and everything in the game was merely a part of a boy's coma that was caused by a car accident, and you are playing as… well, god, who is trying to wake the boy. In the end, the boy finally wakes up in a hospital, and you also find out that his sister was praying for him to wake up… It's also implied that his parents are dead. Just think… this game was rated E for Everyone.

The ending to Okami.

I don't exactly want to spoil it, but it basically made me cry both tears of sadness and tears of joy within the same 5 minutes. It was THAT strong to me.

And immediately after that you got to kick the final bosses ass to THIS gem;

I think that's when it cemented itself in my head as my absolute favorite game of ALL Time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsQWRXvINCc#t=69

No mission… no objectives… nothing you can do.

The last Brofist.

While playing the Jotunheim mod of Skyrim, during the final battle i fought alongside my companion bro all the way to the end. When we finally had to separate as he must face the great beast alone, the feels hit me pretty hard. I'll miss him. Atleast he'll be happy being on Meridia's side from now on.

I can't even watch it anymore because I become such a wreck every time.

From a video: Mother 3.

From a game I actually played: Looker's "Questline" (From Pokemon Y)

For such a cartoonish art style, this game gave me more emotions in the last half hour than any game before or since. It also takes a look into WWI, a sadly underexplored topic in games, especially from the individual aspect.

The scenes that come before and after this puzzle are already captivating, but as for the puzzle itself (one of the most intense sudoku games of all time) and the music that accompanies it, it just lifts the emotive factor and it succeeds.