Game endings that made you sad

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"The Darkness" had a WAY sad ending; who'd have thought a visceral shooter about a mobster possessed by pure, face-biting, chest cavity excavating evil could have such depth of story and truly touching moments??
 

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TheYellowCellPhone said:
Fallout 3 vanilla, since it was so unexpected and kind of touching.

Screw you guys, I thought vanilla Fallout 3's ending was better.
You mean the part where the main character is told to walk into certain radiation death, so he asks his radiation immune friend to do it, and he promptly refuses for no real reason? Then the protagonist says "Fuck you all, then."(at least that's what I imagined him saying) and lets the purifier explode, killing everyone.

Somehow that scene failed to affect me emotionally... I'm not quite sure why.

OT: Red Dead redemption was the clear choice, but that was taken by the OP. Instead I'll go with Mass Effect 2, simply because I was genuinely sad that it was over.
 

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Matthew94 said:
hazabaza1 said:
Matthew94 said:
Metal Gear Solid 3, Eva's monologue and Snake's resulting reaction is heart wrenching.

hazabaza1 said:
Spoiler warning dude. Thanks for ruining MGS3 for me.
The game has been out for 7 years, the world can't hide behind spoilers because you didn't play a game you probably weren't going to play.

Do you think I was angry at the world because I knew the twists in System Shock 2 and Final Fantasy VII before I played them? No.
It takes hardly any effort to make a spoiler tag. Plus, just because a game is old doesn't mean that everyone that wants to play it has. Not spoiling tagging things is a dick move, plain and simple, unless the thread itself says that there'll be no spoilers.
Yeah but age really matters when it comes to media, after a while it's not the persons responsibility to hide spoilers.

DO you think people do spoiler tags when talking about Star Wars VII in case people don't know Darth is Luke's father?
How do I do a spoiler tag? I'm still fairly new.
 

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lunncal said:
TheYellowCellPhone said:
Fallout 3 vanilla, since it was so unexpected and kind of touching.

Screw you guys, I thought vanilla Fallout 3's ending was better.
You mean the part where the main character is told to walk into certain radiation death, so he asks his radiation immune friend to do it, and he promptly refuses for no real reason? Then the protagonist says "Fuck you all, then."(at least that's what I imagined him saying) and lets the purifier explode, killing everyone.

Somehow that scene failed to affect me emotionally... I'm not quite sure why.
Wait..... what? I don't remember that happening.
 

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Sean Hollyman said:
Has a game ending ever made you sad?

Metal Gear Solid 3's ending made me really sad, he finds out that the government's been using him all along, and they made him kill the Boss just so they could cover up something that went wrong and get their hands on a lot of money.

Red Dead Redemption's ending made me REALLY sad for a while.
Agreed on Red Dead Redemption, it made me tear up a bit, though I do wonder why he didn't wait a couple seconds, go around to the back of the barn, climb up, and then pick off the marshals one by one.
 

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Melon Hunter said:
Yeah, I know that, but it doesn't make your partner's reaction to your disappearance any less sad.
Never played time/darkness, but my treeko buddy was balling his little eyes out at the end of the pokemon original mystery dungeon game, too. I was surprised at how dramatic it was.

Chunsoft has the weirdest knack for sad endings involving small fluffy collectible creatures.
 

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I'd say an MGS title, but the endings drag on for so long that I initially feel sad, but by the ACTUAL ending, i'm sort of in the mood for saying 'erm, are we done now? Because I got places to be'.

MGS4 was the worst, that whole segment with big boss and zero. Jesus Christ man... Just die. No disrespect, but he took his damn time, and repeated the same old sentimental garbage over and over....
 

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MysticToast said:
lunncal said:
You mean the part where the main character is told to walk into certain radiation death, so he asks his radiation immune friend to do it, and he promptly refuses for no real reason? Then the protagonist says "Fuck you all, then."(at least that's what I imagined him saying) and lets the purifier explode, killing everyone.

Somehow that scene failed to affect me emotionally... I'm not quite sure why.
Wait..... what? I don't remember that happening.
Really? It's all here on the wiki: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Take_it_Back!#Decision_3:_Do_nothing.

Perhaps your protagonist acted slightly differently, but it's a stupid ending nonetheless.
 

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hazabaza1 said:
Matthew94 said:
Metal Gear Solid 3, Eva's monologue and Snake's resulting reaction is heart wrenching.

hazabaza1 said:
Spoiler warning dude. Thanks for ruining MGS3 for me.
The game has been out for 7 years, the world can't hide behind spoilers because you didn't play a game you probably weren't going to play.

Do you think I was angry at the world because I knew the twists in System Shock 2 and Final Fantasy VII before I played them? No.
It takes hardly any effort to make a spoiler tag. Plus, just because a game is old doesn't mean that everyone that wants to play it has. Not spoiling tagging things is a dick move, plain and simple, unless the thread itself says that there'll be no spoilers.
You came into a thread about game endings >.> At that point in time I assumed that if I wanted to not know the ending of a game which was highly likely to be in this thread (No I have not played it. But I know enough to theorize that it might be in a thread like this)

And at the point of "Metal Gear Solid 3's ending made me really sad" one would look away if he did not wish to know the ending.

It just seems like your clutching at straws and making a deal out of nothing. Not that spoiler tags aren't important.

OT: Half minute hero: Hands down I loved that game. It truly got me on board, and while it was a rather simple ending it was still epic.

But other than that I have some weird thing were I dislike finishing games >.> Especially if there multiple choice :/
And then some endings I can just not remember >.>
 

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Condemned 2: bloodshot

The part where the game was awesome for the first 3/4. Then it turned into a trite piece of shit at the end and made me sad. Also, after the game ended, I felt depressed for paying for it
Seriously, Fuck that game.

But, really, the game that made me sad for real, was Mass Effect 2.
Went into it blind, and ended up triggering the last part before I'd upgraded everyone and got the ship parts. Everyone died besides Joker and Grunt. After spending so much time with the characters, watching them die in cutscenes while I couldn't do anything about it was......it hurt a little.
 

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Dredgers said:
Halo Reach's ending, say what you want about the halo series and Noble 6's bland character but seeing a whole world destroyed all of your comrades killed and then fighting till the end, I think that is pretty sad
This. Everything about that last mission was sad, even the title 'Lone Wolf'. Halo 3's ending too, although not quite as well executed as Reach, was still sad.

and thank you. I will say what I want about the series. *ahem... It's awesome.
 

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SirBryghtside said:
lunncal said:
Um... spoilers? ¬.¬
I suppose so... though what I mainly talked about was my characters choice, therefore it won't happen for everyone. Besides which, this is a thread about "Game endings" so anyone surprised by the presence of spoilers must be brain-dead, and therefore are unlikely to be bothered.
 

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SirBryghtside said:
The Big Robb said:
But, really, the game that made me sad for real, was Mass Effect 2.
Went into it blind, and ended up triggering the last part before I'd upgraded everyone and got the ship parts. Everyone died besides Joker and Grunt. After spending so much time with the characters, watching them die in cutscenes while I couldn't do anything about it was......it hurt a little.
Wow, that's... even worse than mine :(

5 of my guys died, even though I did all the ship improvements and tried to do all the loyalty quests...
I hadn't looked up anything, and I'd been focusing on a main fireteam of myself, and 4 other chars the whole game, not realizing that EVERYONE would be involved in the last fight. And at the time, ship improvements looked like super expensive things that did nothing.