okay.. I've been drinking a little bit.. so, per custom, I must post that foremost as a disclaimer...
Anyway, there have been times in videogames (as well as films, songs, etc., albeit these moments are not so rare) that I felt like crying my eyes out. I can only think of a one.
Metal Gear Solid 4 -- Visiting Shadow Moses. As soon as I heard the opening lyrics to 'The Best is Yet to Come', I just teared up. I played the first MGS constantly for at least a year when it first was released... I must have been about 9. All of the things that have happened since then and all that has changed in my life.. everything came rushing to me when MGS4's contrast and allusion to MGS was made so blatant by this lyrics.. 10 years really is a long, trying time. Watching Old Snake, broken down and way past his prime, revisit a setting not seen in 10 years, and given a 10-year facelift, made me feel as though I'd stepped into
my own past with a view much clearer than blurry old memories. I
could explain the remorse I feel for all that I've done since I was 9 years old, but that would be senseless.. Anyway, for once, I felt as though I could connect with a piece of software.
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also that scene.. and really, MGS isn't my favorite series by any means, but the story is unbeatable imo.