Most Surprising or Saddest Death in a Game [spoilers]

[The Heik]

Which character's death had a great story impact or freaked you out? At the top of my head, I have two death. Modern Warfare when Gaz got shot and MW2 when Roach and Ghost died.

That was exactly what I was gonna say, but in case of Ghost & Roach it was mainly surprising because no one has still given me a sensible answer for why the hell Shephard shot them.

Any IW staff in da house?

 

[Xeros]

Xion's death at the end of 358/2 days hit pretty close to home for me.

 

[Colonel Rick]

All the good folks that might die in Dues Ex: Invisible War. Such as Billie, Leo, or Clara.

 

[Helimocopter]

Sev in Republic Commando.

yes

 

[Calatar]

Spoiler: Baldur's Gate II

Curse Yoshimo's sudden but inevitable betrayal! It was quite unexpected, and I didn't know what to do. By that point in the game, I'd gotten to know him fairly well, and I kind of forgot the mysterious circumstances of our first meeting. Then, just before we take on Irenicus, he up and betrays me! After fighting alongside me the entire game just for the opportunity to take him on! Well, he didn't die until I killed him, but attacking me in that game amounts to the same thing. Cursed Geasses.

 

[rangerchandller]

Spoiler: GTA IV

Manny Escuela.

Granted, when I was doing his missions, I kept thinking "I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you, I HATE YOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUkillyouwithfire..."

Then Elizabeta shot him in the face while being high, prompting me to say "Whoa! I didn't actually want him to die. Not like that, anyway."

It actually was pretty sad when I had to deliver his body to a street surgeon. I felt sorry for him.

Then I hung out with my cousin and all was forgotten.

No at the wedding when kate gets killed that was unexpected, and pretty sad too.

 

[coldshadow]

Hl2 episode 2. thats all I will say.

 

[crow114]

Lars in Brutal Legend, because he was probably the only character in the game that I felt a pang of sympathy for when he bit it, he was the only character that wasn't boring. Romeo in ODST, even though he doesn't die but because that was the moment that made me want to finish that game and put a hurting on them. Then there was the Crimson Lance lady, because after all the trouble she caused me I wanted to give her a taste of my lead, then she gets owned by the boss monster. A match in Left 4 Dead 2 match where my friend got hit by a tank at the top of the hill near the safe room in the first level of Dark Carnival and he flew down the hill, hit a tree, and died even though he had full health.

 

[The Coop]

The only sad one that really comes to mind is the story of Caim and Angelus in the two Drakengard games. After what they went through together in the first game (with the "happy" ending still being a somewhat depressing one), and what happened with them in the second game, the cinema about half-way through Drakengard 2 that brought their story to an end got to me. It was bittersweet, and touching.

I won't give the whole story away, but for those curious, here's the cinema...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F7xGSwgKSE

 

[Dooblet]

Well...

Borderlands

Spoiler

T.K Boha(not the worst, but that's when I knew the game was going to go downhill after killing a important character, without any particular reason.)

-snip-

that one messed me up. i was playing co-op with a friend when we saw that. We never finished the game together after that. (i did alone)

 

[RogueDarkJedi]

Which character's death had a great story impact or freaked you out? At the top of my head, I have two death. Modern Warfare when Gaz got shot and MW2 when Roach and Ghost died.

That was exactly what I was gonna say, but in case of Ghost & Roach it was mainly surprising because no one has still given me a sensible answer for why the hell Shephard shot them.

Any IW staff in da house?

A) Shepard is evil.
B) Shepard is evil.
C) ????
D) Ghost and Roach saw evidence in the house that could potentially tie Shepard to Makarov, thus if Shepard was under inspection, they could easily testify against him.
E) Shepard is cleaning house. This means he's trying to hide all ties between him and Makarov.
F) The intel which Ghost hands Shepard contains evidence that Ghost states that ties Makarov with the Airport incident. If you think hard about it, there is a possibility for a twisted conspiracy that sounds very outlandish with the end result being that Shepard declares himself a worldwide hero.
G) He wants to write history. This is a stupid reason. Somehow, IW thinks it's a great reason.
H) MW2 has a story that wasn't well written.
I) He wants to be known as the man who stopped a world evil (which he'll probably use the intel from the house to prove that Makarov was really the bad guy).

 

[RogueDarkJedi]

Not sure how that post became a double post. I suspect a fail in the forum software, considering I only pressed Post once.

 

[Crimsonsniper]

Didn't see it coming in A Crack In Time, who would expect something like that from a game that looks like a child's pixar film. Did see the possible confrontation leading up to everything though.

 

[Katana314]

I certainly don't blame anyone for not being affected by Aeris' death. I still wouldn't consider myself an enormous fan of the game, but having replayed it a bit more recently I have to admit it was much better-done than I remembered. It did get a bit too close to a love affair though (and goes ALLLL the freaking way in the Complication. Stupid woman can't STAY dead...)

HL2: Episode 2's death was pretty surprising. A long time before the episode there were rumors it'd be Alyx, which came pretty close, but it's still something I'd like to see past. I kinda felt just ending the episode right there might have been a bad move; it doesn't tie the feelings of the death TO anything. There's no meaning, no "he died so that we could beat X" or anything. Just a shocker to try to cap off an episode on an emotional high.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Spoiler

Franky falls in love with a young French girl; he doesn't know her name and doesn't know French, but she's his first kiss. Next night, Germans bomb the town. Baker follows Franky, having abandoned the squad to find her, and nearly saves her. She's found by some Germans, and shot in cold blood with a machine gun. Franky's last words:
Franky: Sorry, Sarge...
Baker: Don't be sorry. You did good.
Franky: Did she-NGH......did she get out okay?
Baker: ...Yeah. Yeah, she's...she's fine.
Franky: ...Liar.
What a way to end.

Also from the first game, Road to Hill 30
Kevin Leggett's death is seen at the very beginning, but it only comes into a lot of context at the end. He basically leaps on top of his cover, shoots at a bunch of tanks with a pistol screaming angrily, and says "TAAAKE MEE! FUCKING TAKE ME!!" That on its own sorta stunned me.

 

[hotdogoctopus]

HL2: Episode 2. Damn you Valve!

Yar,

and when FFVII was released and I was too poor to be on the internet or have strategy guides, my mind was blown when Aeris died, I thought she was going to be on to the end, shooting some sort of sweet laser out of her vagina.

Also the whole "Dom blows his wife away in GoW:2" I was surprised that she was even barely alive.

 

[nono195]

star wars episode 3 when the nice clone troopers turn into assholes and shoot all the bad ass jedi in the back. it was mentally scarring although i did throughly enjoy anikins ass beating.

 

[IronicBeet]

Man, Carlos from Saint's Row 2. I liked him a lot better than Pierce or Shaundi, so why was he the one to get shot in the face, and by his ally no less?

 

[BlackAura]

... Aeris was an okay character... but it isn't the incredible classic people make it out to be, and her death in particular didn't affect me the way the writers intended. Mainly because it only happened on account of her stupidity. If she'd told the party where she was going and what she needed to do, they could have gone with her, set people to guard her while she prayed, and the crazy mama's boy could have done his dramatic falling stab thingy straight into Cid's spear and Barret's machine gun arm.

Instead, she runs off by herself knowing that she'll probably be attacked by a guy who'd previously demonstrated his strength by impaling a 150 foot long snake on a tree he'd broken in half for that purpose ... What was she planning to do, wave her stick around and pray she hit his brain stem before he eviscerated her?

Her inevitable death was not tragic, it was just the Planet presenting its last Ancient with her well-deserved Darwin Award.

THANK YOU!!! I can't stand it when characters keep important info a secret, run off alone, etc. They may as well put on a T-shirt with a giant bulls-eye painted on it.

(HL2, Ep. 2 = Waterworks all the way)

 

[jigs160]

when dad in fallout3 i was like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!