Saddest Cutscenes (HUGE spoilers!)

[The Wykydtron]

The Bad Ending to Persona 4, simply because unlike most bad endings it's not like "HA! You and your friends are dead!"

It's more like "you've got to leave all your friends with a big fuck off mystery that you should have solved"

Considering the entire game is about solving that one big fuck off mystery it's a lot sadder than it sounds

That's not the really bad ending. That's the one where...

Spoiler

You throw Namatame into the TV, Teddie vanishes for good and your cute little cousin dies. Although I'd still count the fake-out where she nearly dies as well. Manly tears were shed when that happened.

PERSONA 4 SPOILERS GOOOOOOOO

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Yeah i was thinking of that ending too, the thing is I was more concerned about the mystery rather than my crippled surrogate sister... I may be a terrible person

And my Manly Tears were replaced by stunned silence with the occasional "what?!" or "fuck you Yosuke..." thrown in

Oh and I think the "Good" Ending of Persona 4 is probably worse than the Bad Ending imo. The fact that you think you've won but in reality you've just proved Shadow Teddie (remember his speech on the nature of Truth) and all the antagonists right is what makes it sad i think

 

[Kopikatsu]

Either inFamous 2's Evil ending, or...

Not strictly a cutscene, because it's still semi-playable, but...
You kind of have to play the game to know why it's sad, though.

 

[JeanLuc761]

So apparently a lot of people are in a knot over Gears 3's sad twist. I've never even played a GoW game. The gameplay seemed average, the story uninteresting and the characters unlikeable. All a matter of what tickles your fancy, i suppose.

In defense of the game, it might make more sense if you had played it. You will never hear me say that Gears of War has depth anywhere near on par with a good RPG or anything similar, but it's a very well designed franchise. The gameplay is best-in-class for third person shooters, the story is arguably quite interesting and fairly unique, and the characters are almost all likable in a bit of an odd, brotherly way.

Gears of War 2 was successfully able to tug at my heartstrings during the Dom/Maria scene, but that only worked because I gave a rats ass about Marcus, Dom, and the rest of humanity's plight. Is it as involving and emotion-tearing as Mass Effect? Not a chance. But it does its job well regardless.

 

[Aeshi]

Killer7 had a pretty depressing ending and the epilogue wasn't much better.

 

[imnot]

The end of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future. It is the only game that made me tear up.

The actual cinema starts at 3:28

Yeah this was pretty dam sad, I found Halo Reaches ending sad too, because I'm wierd.

 

[namewon'tfitin]

That wasn't sad at all.
It was obvious he would die or suicide one way or another.

Before the cutscene started it wasn't obvious what was going to happen.

It was pretty obvious.
Dom was a broken man after Maria's death.
He actually tried to suicide before in the books.

 

[JackandTom]

That wasn't sad at all.
It was obvious he would die or suicide one way or another.

Before the cutscene started it wasn't obvious what was going to happen.

It was pretty obvious.
Dom was a broken man after Maria's death.
He actually tried to suicide before in the books.

I've never read the books, and in a game with 5 acts I din't think they'd kill him off at the end of act 3. It wasn't a shock that he died, the shock was when it happened.

 

[TrevHead]

Homeworld 1 where they return to their planet Karak is moving.
I wont post the cutscene as you have to play the entire stage to experience it.

Showing my age here, but Phantasy star 2 and Nei was very sad at the time

 

[Panzervaughn]

In Mass Effect2, if you dont chase after kidnapped crewmembers immediately, Terrible things happen. It didn't have me so much sad as it did "Wait.. what? NO! NO THIS ISNT RIGHT!" Futily banging on a glass tank.

Mostly cause i was still trying to get my space-groove on with Kelly, and figured she'd hop right out and be super grateful... not.. melt. That complicated things.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Just.... go, tell him to go.

There's a reason that Garrus is my favorite loyalty mission.

 

[lobo_ace777]

I have only ever cried twice while playing a game. Seeing the trunk were Saria sat outside of the Forest Temple as an adult in OOT and the death of Big Boss in MGS4. The second one is obvious; the first one was sad with the music, Sheik's speech, and the fact that the fate of a character I had grown to like was left unknown until after I defeated Bongo-Bongo.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Return to Kharak from Homeworld. Anyone who has played it will know what I'm taking about. Anyone who hasn't, you may as well watch it anyway, since the game was released in 1999.

 

[BristolBerserker]

Both inFamous 2 endings. Takes a while to get to the actual ending parts but I believe in you guys finding them!

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbAKQHx-6TI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2fXW1GWKiE

Counting the Zeke thing as a cut scene. Seriously only done good karma runs because after seeing Zeke's development in this game I legitimately can't bring myself to kill him.

I never thought that you would do what you did in the infamous ending. That game actually made me care about the characters. I came so close to crying, and the credits music didn't help either.

 

[DarkRyter]

Those who haven't played Kingdom Hearts 365/2 look away.

Spoiler

Xion's "Death".

And no one will even remember her...

*bawls in the corner like a baby forsaken by the heavens.*

 

[Xenos Eriadin]

From Skies of Arcadia:

Spoiler

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeeFF6WcZE[/youtube]
Everything is depressing in this cutscene... Rhaknam was basically the product of an experiment by an ancient civilisation. Drachma has wasted the last 20 years of his life hunting this creature, and has spent the last few weeks sitting a few kilometers underground completly alone, waiting for it to die. And Rhaknam fucking cries before dropping the purple crystal.

It's one of the few cutscenes that can bring a tear to my eye...

 

[DJDarque]

Those who haven't played Kingdom Hearts 365/2 look away.

Spoiler

Xion's "Death".

And no one will even remember her...

*bawls in the corner like a baby forsaken by the heavens.*

That was so sad! The ending of the first Bleach movie was so sad for the exact same reason.

 

[S-Unleashed]

Those who haven't played Kingdom Hearts 365/2 look away.

Spoiler

Xion's "Death".

And no one will even remember her...

*bawls in the corner like a baby forsaken by the heavens.*

I'm still getting over that you bastard!

Also The Boss's Death from MGS3.

 

[Thamian]

Not really saddening, but more emotionally charged.

Spoiler

Mass Effect 2, when you find Tali's father on the Alarei. I couldn't hit the paragon interrupt fast enough, all the while hoping to hell it did what I really wanted to do (i.e. hug her). So glad that it did do that.

I'll be honest, I can't think of all that many genuinely saddening cutscenes or sequences or story points in gaming... I guess because so many of the 'sad' moments always seem to be motivators towards anger or justifiers for what comes next, rather than emotional triggers for their own sake, or maybe that's just the sort of games I play.

For example, in StarLancer (I know, ancient history to most, but I still have good memories of it, and it means that atleast I can talk about this without putting it in spoilers, albeit without naming names), two characters kill themselves by ramming their ships into enemies, either in an effort to take the bastards with them, or to stop them from escaping the Alliance fleet.

In the case of the former, whilst yes, there is a genuine feeling of sadness, the main feeling is one of failure. In the latter, any shred of sadness is overriden immediately by the near frantic need to make the character's sacrifice worth something and so kill the bastards, and then further overridden by the massive victory that it represents (that being the climax of the final mission).

 

[Riff Moonraker]

To those hollaring about spoilers, there is a huge SPOILER alert in the threads title!

Anyways, yeah... Dom takes the cake, easily. To be honest, that scene broke my heart. I have been playing with a buddy of mine since the first gears and I was always Marcus, and he was always Dom. I had to pause the game and step away just to compose myself, and I am not ashamed to admit that.

 

[Olikunmissile]

MGS:4 Debriefing. Tears. I had them.