For me this is the crucial moment when Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2, finds out he has TB… What about you?
Jorge’s sacrifice in Halo Reach as you drift down into orbit
Reach has a few of these. My favorite is “Objective: Survive”
I haven’t played it in a while so my memory might be hazy.
Near the beginning of Haunting Ground, Fiona comes across a statue or effigy of a pregnant woman. A voice over the intercom says “That will be you”.
Not many horror games will be straight-up go “You will be forced to have my child”. Very visceral and it made me shudder.
In MGSV TPP when it turned out you were just a random dude and not “big boss”.
Godfrey cutscenes from elden ring
That sentence when BT requests to retain you as pilot instead of being assigned a professional pilot.
The intro to the first ATV: Offroad Fury. As soon as that first note from Atlanta starts playing, I know I’m bout to be stuck in place for hours
The end of shadow of the Colossus or Ico. It feel like a great dream you had but you cant remember already.
Far Cry 5’s moment when you’re captured by Jacob and Joseph tells you about his life before the cult
that was spoken in such a tone to the point where hairs stood up on my body as he explained in his way how fucked up and psychotic he was
Varian’s death in WoW. Or the end cinematic in Icecrown Citadel.
Halo reach, at the end of “Long night of Solace,” Jorge sacrifices himself to secure a major step in defending Reach from the Covenant.
Then, all of the sudden, as you’re falling from space, your comms hears “Slipspace Rupture Detected,” then it repeats, and keeps repeating faster and faster until thr voice is overlapping itself, as an enormous Covenant fleet warps in and begins glassing Reach in retaliation.
The sudden swing from “Glimmer of hope” to “Total despair” is executed so well.
The first time you ride to Mexico in RDR
You’re so far, so far away
World of Warcraft. Tarren Mill vs. Southshore. Southshore was all lined up in a perfect battle line, all mounted up. There were probably 150 folks in Southshore alone. One guy starts pacing up and down the front line on his horse, delivering King Theoden’s pre battle speech from LoTR. The call to charge was sounded, everyone was in sync. This all happened 100% organically.
I first played Until Dawn over 4 nights with headphones and the lights off. I’d not seen the monster but I knew it was like a scary Heavy Rain so I knew I’d like it. Holy fuck, the design of those fuckers haunted me for weeks and even now years later I’ll see a picture of one and get nervous walking in the dark.
Seeing Hannah’s handwriting devolve as she talks about digging up her own sister’s corpse to eat… Watching Josh’s breakdown.
What a game.
As a side note without a guide I kept everyone alive until the end when I had to keep the controller still and flat for Sam. I typically hold it angled sooo…
The reapers invading Earth at the start of Mass Effect 3.
I was all up in my feels. That was home. For every human. And we left while 70% of the planet was farmed like cattle.
Pulling the sword out for the first time at the Temple of Time