Game endings that made you sad

[Jaime_Wolf]

Jesus Fucking Christ RDR.

Also, FFX (bearing in mind I was like 12 when I first played it) - unique in that it wasn't really sad in the conventional sense so much as it was an early instance of existential dread. I'm always reminded of it when I reread the Sandman and the little girl is so terrified of Alice in Wonderland and the idea that they're all just part of someone else's dream.

 

[Comando96]

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.

Thats because you walked in to the room. If you wait too long the purifier explodes.

Equally you can ask Fawkes to walk into the chamber... if... stuff... happens... stuff... I forget stuff...

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For me Fallout 3's ending was sad but Mafia 2's ending was just D;
You bastards...

Spoiler: I did that for you and you do this?

You kill off a whole fucking Mafia family... and then your "friends" take Joe away in a separate car... most likely to be killed.

 

[FPSMadPaul]

Heavy Rain, being reunited with Jason.
Edit: God dammit, I meant Shaun. Jason's name was just engrained from the mall scene.

 

[Bran1470]

Borderlands the ending was so horrible with no reward that it felt like a complete wast of my time and that makes me sad

 

[DarkRyter]

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.

In the pre-Broken Steel version of Fallout 3, you are given the choice to go into the radiation filled water purifier to activate it (presumably dying from the radation in a glorious sacrifice), or send Sarah Lyons in to do it (she would die too).

However, of all the companions you can have, it's possible you have a super mutant, a ghoul, or a robot. Any of which could easily push the buttons for you, with no harm done to them.

Bringing this up to your radiation immune companion, though, will tend to get a "No, it's your destiny", "It's not my job" response. Forcing you to die, sacrifice Sarah, or just let the purifier explode and die.

After Broken Steel, the radiation immune companions will agree to activate the purifier. However, the ending credits still have the balls to call said companion "the true hero of the wastes" instead of you, simply because you weren't "heroicly suicidal".

It's all very frustrating.

 

[Frostbite3789]

Spoiler warning dude. Thanks for ruining MGS3 for me.
Personally, I found Persona 4's ending to be sad, but then I found out that there was a "True ending" and the first time I got the neutral/normal one.

First of all, it came out 7 years ago. Second of all, once you saw the words "Metal Gear Solid 3's ending..." you could've stopped reading. Or is that beyond you?

 

[SSoSFAGTiaCaGwaP]

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

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 V in case people don't know Darth is Luke's father?

Darth Vader is WHO'S father?????

 

[Fidelias]

"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??

This, I almost cried at the end...

Let's cross our fingers that the sequel gives us an equally awesome story.

 

[sumanoskae]

Red Dead: Redemption... nuff said

Persona 4, just the fact that the time me and the protagonist spent with his friends was ending

Mass Effect 2, everybody dies and it sucks

The Darkness, the whole damn game is just depressing as hell

Dragon Age 2 gets pretty sad in the end, despite every other part of the game being so shit compared to other Bioware games

 

[chach_face]

Mass effect 2.

I got so sad when my peeps started droppin off

 

[gabe12301]

it's hard for me to take any game seriously because I'm the guy that drives vehicles off cliffs, teabags every kill, only uses his knife, sometimes doesn't even bother to kill the enemies, and fails to even show up for his cutscenes leaving the characters talking to air.

oh yea and I got my tearducts removed in the wars. All of the wars.

 

[TheSolemnHypnotic]

Crisis Core was the most disgustingly sad game ever.

Edit: Now that I think about it I amy or may not have cried at the end of

Kingdom Hearts D':
Heavenly Sword :'{
Both Uncharteds :'D
inFamous 2 :'(

Yeah, I said Uncharteds. XD

 

[TheSolemnHypnotic]

Spoiler

Kingdom Hearts

Ending cutscene.
"Take care of her..."
Sora goes to Kiari.
Their platforms drift apart.

My response: Head in a pillow sobbing away.

I cried so hard my eyes hurt and I was making sobbing noises. :')

 

[Alphakirby]

Ethan Mars being shot at the end of Heavy Rain.
And to add insult to injury,it's because I failed at the final Madison scene because the Sixaxis betrayed me. Then to add insult to insult the trophy I got was called So Close...
So it was sad,AND a huge kick to the balls.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

The fact that fallout 3 had no definitive ending im happy to still get to play with the DLC but the whole experience would have felt more complete if i could have just destroyed vault 87 and killed all remaining super mutants. Now i'm stuck with an endless stream of super mutant overlords and no way to stop them. Oh yeah and Fawkes should have got his ass in the F****** in the purifier! or Charon...I would have been happy to pay and escort and underworld ghoul to do it.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

YOU DIDN'T DO THE LOYALTY MISSION?!?!??!!?!?!? or UPGRADE THE NORMANDY!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?

 

[6unn3r]

Mass Effect 2, mostly cuz id been working my (female) charecter into trying to get with Thane, only to have him die defending Shep and Mordin from those tiny reaper bug thingy's, i felt a genuine pang of guilt as he, still firing his rifle, was obliterated into ash before my eyes as the door closed.....nailed Garrus later to help with the grief.

 

[Bang25]

The ending of Conker's Bad Fur Day made me sad. Not only that, but it pissed me off. It was the equivilant of Conker lying broken in the pouring rain, cursing everyone around him as he lied stoned in a gutter before cutting to black. THIS WAS A COMEDY, by the way.

Also, a lot of people are saying that the end of Red Dead Redemption made them sad, but I thought it was cool. It was probably the coolest ending to a western that I have ever seen. Just another reason to love Red Dead Redemption.

 

[walrusaurus]

Prince of Persia the Sands of time. The woman he loves doesn't even know who he is anymore. So sad...

To anyone griping about spoilers, thats what you get for reading a thread about GAME ENDINGS. what did you expect a whole thread of *REDACTED* i mean seriously....

 

[xerounlimited]

Mass Effect 2. Miranda survived. So I reuploaded my character and got the job done right

Thank You!

Anyways, pretty much all my answers have been said already, Shadow of the Colossus, Red Dead Redemption, etc.
I am going to say, pretty much every ending for Persona 4 (I guess the super bad ending too) mainly because, no matter what, you leave Inaba and all the people you gained attachment to. This is not technically a spoiler due to the fact, they explicitly state in the beginning this would happen. Still sad though.