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Norsuchamp

Member
Feb 6, 2020
896
I started to go through this wonderful thread and started to post my preferences... until I realized that they aren't actually endings. They are the credits and not the actual ending of the game. After I tried to summarize if it's a bit weird to get teary eyed on a list of random names scrolling through the screen, I decided to post my pick here and see if there's anyone else that have had some sort of longer sighs and feels during the ending credits of any game?


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0fXfpLrjz4

Back in the day this ending credits sequence was already amazing. Just to see all the familiar tracks that you had spent hours and hours on grinding yourself to the 1st place of all the cups and engine classes... simply amazing when you combine it with an amazing uplifting, yet somehow emotional tune on the background. Nowadays when I look and listen to those credits they bring back so many memories from the golden age of gaming (my opinion) and my childhood where me and my friends spent hundreds of hours with this gem of a game.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S6z1LsGM8

Greatest ending credits theme to one of the greatest game this world has ever seen. Chrono Trigger is an amazing adventure and this beautiful track is a wonderful bookend to an epic quest. If I just run through the game to see one of the many endings, or take my time with it and complete it (as I do almost once a year) within a span of few months, this song always takes me back to the wonderful characters and locales of this game, even when I know it by heart and has completed it so many times I can't even remember.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atm0HpnLfSc

You can argue if the dialogue counts to the actual ending credits but hey... they are included in the video which is titled "Final Fantasy IX - Credits" so I'll take it. Song itself is a real tear jerker but damn those lines that Zidane and Garnet are saying to each other before the staff credits start rolling in.
 

NotLiquid

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
34,769
Mario Ka- dammit OP that's my selection

Hitting those credits for the first time was the first time I ever "beat" a game. I felt like I was on top of the world back then and was so elated. Looking back at it, it was an extremely formative experience.
 
Oct 26, 2017
7,333
Final Fantasy VIII and IX, because of the (at that point) unique epic orchestral arrangements of the Final Fantasy main theme. The handicam footage of VIII also helps.

For some reason Soul Calibur V also has a really amazing ending theme.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_S6z1LsGM8

Greatest ending credits theme to one of the greatest game this world has ever seen. Chrono Trigger is an amazing adventure and this beautiful track is a wonderful bookend to an epic quest. If I just run through the game to see one of the many endings, or take my time with it and complete it (as I do almost once a year) within a span of few months, this song always takes me back to the wonderful characters and locales of this game, even when I know it by heart and has completed it so many times I can't even remember.



View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJJJAKA7dzw

I hope you've heard this version of the song because it's pretty awesome.
 

Marmoka

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,028
Bayonetta 3

That song, "We are as one", is amazing. I felt really emotional with it and I love listening to it every now and then.
 

Kamek

Member
Oct 27, 2017
3,977
The world ends with you DS

Yoshi's Story

Yoshi's Island

FFXV

Kingdom Hearts 1+2+3 and remind dlc for 3
 

chalkitdown

Member
Oct 26, 2017
3,222

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0fXfpLrjz4

Back in the day this ending credits sequence was already amazing. Just to see all the familiar tracks that you had spent hours and hours on grinding yourself to the 1st place of all the cups and engine classes... simply amazing when you combine it with an amazing uplifting, yet somehow emotional tune on the background. Nowadays when I look and listen to those credits they bring back so many memories from the golden age of gaming (my opinion) and my childhood where me and my friends spent hundreds of hours with this gem of a game.


This one brings the tears every fucking time. I'm almost 40 years old and crying to the end credits of Mario Kart. lol Damn you Kenta Nagata!!!

The bit at 1:18 when the electric guitar kicks in. GOOD LORD. No racing game has any right to end on such an emotional note!
 

Solitude

Member
Nov 11, 2020
797
The Last Guardian - while the ending itself wasn't particularly sad, I had just lost a pet when playing it. Finishing that story just released some emotions I had held back.
 

Art_3

Banned
Aug 30, 2022
5,089
Gran Turismo endings are usually pretty emotional for some reason.
GT5 had Smashing Punpkins 1979 in the credits but i think GT6 is perfect.
The creator of the game racing around the Nurburgring while We Are One plays.

View: https://youtu.be/0x39IUTX9Ag
 

behOemoth

Member
Oct 27, 2017
5,623
ICO trilogy and Journey are the most most emotional ones for me.
TLOU part 1 and 2 would be beneath that.