Lilani said:
Gotta say it: Aeris in FFVII. Come on, use a freaking phoenix down. You should have like 10 of them in your inventory, and you've probably used more than one on her by that point. It shouldn't have been a big deal.
Also, I was pretty mad about Wrex's death in ME1, but not for the fact that it happened. I appreciate that it was an option, but I do not appreciate that if you started a game in ME2 without uploading info from a previous ME1 save, it would start with him dead by default. That seems like the stupidest thing to me--punishing people for not having played ME1 or for some reason not being able to load the previous save by making them lose a character for the rest of the series. If they had to make the decision for the player (because it seems to me it shouldn't be hard to just let the player choose what had happened via some sort of questionnaire), they should have gone with the option that gave them more content, not less.
Mass Effect does a good job of punishing people for not playing the previous games, it's even worse in ME3. It's impossible to resolve the Quarian Geth war peacefully without playing ME2 first.
Ironic considering they wanted ME3 to be the most accessible game in the series, all the while shouting fuck you at the people who didn't start playing at the beginning.
As for stupid deaths, Dante Garza's death in Killzone 2. For fucks sake Rico, we could have killed Radec, saved Garza and Natko. That would have also saved Templar and the scientist from being executed. But no, you have to go in guns blazing, get a man killed and then your best friend as an extra insult. And you keep getting pushed as a good guy in these games. You're worse than the Helghast, Rico.