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?
“Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.”
@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.
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.
Is this from the scene where Mordin is up in the tower?
That’s the one
“Wake up, Missster Freeman. Wake up and… smell the ashes.”
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…
A lot of FFX. The opening, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, Yuna’s first send off, the whole Home scene and the ending.
Windwaker ending.
If the HA HA HA wasn’t burnt into my mind before, it was after this remix https://youtu.be/LDAR002M8i4
Hopefully it haunts your mind as well.
FFX is a masterpiece from start to finish. I wish a game could capture my heart again the way this one did.
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…
This is the one for me. I have to believe Half Life 3 is coming…
Protocol 3: protect the pilot
Titanfall 2Behold. 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.
When you go to check on Sayori in Doki Doki Literature Club. I went in blind.
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.
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.
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.
The parade assassination in FF8.
“A man chooses. A slave obeys.”
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.”
Quake 4 stroggification.
Final Fantasy X intro with the metal song during Blitzball.
Sora saving Kairi’s heart in Kingdom Hearts.
Also, although it’s not exactly a cutscene, the ending of Bioshock
“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!”
