That deep, sinking feeling...

[lacktheknack]

Have you ever encountered a moment in games that just made your heart sink?

For me, it's the moment in "Uplink" where you get caught and stare at a black screen for ten seconds before being told exactly how you failed. When you get caught in that game, it's perma-death, nicely making you cry when you lose.

The runner-up would be the moments in "Penumbra: Black Plague" where you do an action that releases a Tuurngait (or however it's spelled) into the area, meaning that you've got to run away and hide before they see you and beat you to death.

 

[SimuLord]

Spoiler: Final Fantasy VI

Celes's suicide attempt after failing the fish minigame in the World of Ruin.

I just wondered what would happen...I got the most heart-wrenching scene in the history of video games.

 

[NoriYuki Sato]

i would say in Farenheit aka Indigo Prophecy..when you kill you character somehow, and he simply goes "and thats the end of my story" before saying exactly how you screwed up..also, in Lost Odessy, the first Memory thingy you get with the little girl waiting and waiting to find out the person she's waiting for is dead and wil never be coming home ((i think it's her dad)) and it just makes you cry..it's that depressing

 

[Kuchinawa212]

When I met Raine's Mother in Tales of Symphonia. My oh my. Not what I expected.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Fai Dan's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Pr5imIG2Y] suicide in Mass Effect.

 

[NoriYuki Sato]

Fai Dan's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Pr5imIG2Y] suicide in Mass Effect.

or when you have to hear the death of the guy or girl, depending on who you save when you detonate the bomb

 

[AkJay]

i always get this feeling in my stomach when i fall off the highest building in Prototype, i don't know why. I don't really get emotions when playing video-games much, except for Fallout 3, because that might as well be a documentary of the future.

 

[Unreliable]

Makes you realize, that there havent been too many videogames out there where the antagonist wins...

 

[Avatar Roku]

Fai Dan's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Pr5imIG2Y] suicide in Mass Effect.

or when you have to hear the death of the guy or girl, depending on who you save when you detonate the bomb

Yeah, but it's hard to find a Youtube video of that that captures the emotion of the moment, so I just simplified it. It is really depressing though.

Spoiler

"I'm sorry Kaiden. I had to make a choice."

"I understand commander. I don't regret a thing."