Cutscenes can be memorable for many reasons, such as their emotional impact, their humor, their shock value, or their artistic quality. Some cutscenes are so iconic that they have become part of gaming culture and history.

Which one is burned into your memory?

  • CosmicApe
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    171 year ago

    “Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.”

    • thingsiplay
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      51 year ago

      @CosmicApe Offtopic: I have no idea what game this is, but this is (not literally) what Light Yagami said in Death Note, when he got the book and transformed into Kira.

      • hetscop
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        101 year ago

        It’s from Mass Effect, this is the character Mordin Solus catchphrase. CosmicApe is almost certainly refering to a (very good) cutsceen from one of the possible endings to the Tuchanka chain of missions in ME3.

  • fuzz
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    71 year ago

    Aeris’ death in FFVII. I’m sure there are more artistic cutscenes in others games I’ve played, but that one was the first one I remember punching me in the gut. And the soundtrack…

  • @_pete_@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    The end of Half Life 2: Episode 2. An incredible ending to one of the best video game series of all time, I could.not.wait to see what they were going to do in Episode 3…

    • Andyzoot
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      11 year ago

      This is the one for me. I have to believe Half Life 3 is coming…

  • Madison_rogue
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    31 year ago

    The end credits of Ending E of Nier: Automata

    I don’t know if you can exactly count it as a cut scene, but if you do, it is an emotionally overwhelming experience.

    • AWildMimicAppears
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      11 year ago

      Ending A already hit me hard, but in retrospect it made the other endings hit me even harder, when you finally understand what really happened.

  • @SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net
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    31 year ago

    Behold. Everything’s at the bottom of the sea. Gone is the magical kingdom of Zeal, and all the dreams and ambitions of its people. I once lived there…But I was another person then.

    And everything else in the damn game.

    • Big_Boss_77
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      21 year ago

      Holy shit… I’ve never had so visceral a reaction to any cutscene as this one.

      I got up, hard killed my pc and sat in the shower for 45 minutes. To this day, I still get chills recalling this scene.

  • EinarOP
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    1 year ago

    I’ll open with Homeworld’s destruction of Kharak.

    I felt so many emotions simultaneously when I first saw this. It motivated me right down to the final mission. Up to today this is one of my pivotal gaming moments.

    “The subject did not survive the interrogation.”

  • @Olon97@beehaw.org
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    21 year ago

    “Shut up. The cycle of nature and your stupid plan don’t mean a thing. ##### is gone. ##### will no longer talk, no longer laugh, cry… or get angry… What about us…what are WE supposed to do? What is this pain? My fingers are tingling. My mouth is dry. My eyes are burning!”

  • Hextic
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    21 year ago

    Quake 4 stroggification.

    Final Fantasy X intro with the metal song during Blitzball.