The Saddest Moment In A Game

[lordsandro]

Spoiler

Did you stop the evil guys? No, not at all really. How about save the world? kinda, except no one knows you did, again. But at least you've still got a home right, better than April got! Except that this time rather than wandering off into the distance, the protagonist is wasting away in a hospital room, trapped in a coma after being betrayed. Oh and April from the first game? She's been stabbed and possibly killed, all her friends are dead (again) and her (new) home is destroyed (again).

Oh, and April was beaten as a child by an abusive alcoholic father, so she doesn't even have any happy childhood memories. Seriously.

Such a cheerful series!

Umm no she isn't dead at all cuz if you remmember in The Longest Jorney the old crone that was telling the story was actualy April. Plus no author has the bass to just kill such rich and interesting character.

The saddest thing...when the Indigo child dies in Fahrenheit/Indigo prophesy.
And when a really good and rich game is over. You feel such void knowing it is over and that even if you start playing again it won't be the same (The Longest Jorney series, Gothic 2, Fahrenheit, Fallout 2, Planescape: Torment, Grim Fandango and e.t.).

The most sad part is that how many people don't try something different and original and miss such mastepieses.
Serriosly if only one more guy start typing how Halo 3 left him emotionaly torn I am going on a killing spree.

 

[lordsandro]

For the Warcraft fans.

Spoiler: Lord of the Clans

Blackmoore stood up to his full height. Thrall now saw that he held something in his right hand. It was a sack.

“Here’s my answer, Thrall!” He reached into the sack and pulled something out. Thrall couldn’t see what it was, but he saw Sergeantand Langston recoil. Then the object came hurtling toward him and struck the ground, rolling to a stop at Thrall’s feet. Taretha’s blue eyes stared sightlessly up at him from her severed head.

“That’s what I do with traitors!” screamed Blackmoore, dancing madly on the walkway. “That’s whatwe do with people we love who betray us . . . who take everything and give nothing . . . who sympathizewith double-damned
orcs!”

Thrall didn’t hear him. Thunder was rolling in his ears. His knees went weak and he fell to the earth. Gorge rose in his throat and his vision swam. It couldn’t be. Not Tari. Surely not even Blackmoore could do such an abominable thing to an innocent. But blessed unconsciousness would not come. He remained stubbornly awake, staring at long blond hair, blue eyes, and a bloody severed neck. Then the horrible image blurred. Wetness poured down his face. His chest heaving with agony, Thrall recalled Tari’s words to him, so long ago:
These are called tears. They come when we are so sad, so soul sick, it’s as if our hearts are so full of pain there’s no place else for it to go.

But there was a place for the pain to go. Into action, into revenge. Red flooded Thrall’s vision now, andhe threw back his head and screamed with rage such as he had never before experienced. The cry burned his throat with its raw fury. The sky boiled. Dozens of lightning strikes split the clouds, dazzling the eye for a moment. The furiouspeals of crashing thunder that followed nearly deafened the men at the fortress. Many of them dropped their weapons and fell to their knees, gibbering terror at the celestial display of fury that so clearly echoed the wrenching pain of the orc leader.

Its not a video game, but a book based on a video game, made me sadder then any actual video game moment.

Same here.

 

[gregman_pl]

COD4 - dying after being nuked was sad
HL2 Episode 2 ending too ...

But for me the saddest was Homeworld - when you return to Karrak and see it's burning. Music and Karen voice greatly improved the effect

 

[The Madman]

Umm no she isn't dead at all cuz if you remmember in The Longest Jorney the old crone that was telling the story was actualy April. Plus no author has the bass to just kill such rich and interesting character.

*Spoilerific*

Didn't say she was, I said she 'supposedly' was. And regardless of her life/death status, her life right up to and preceding her supposed death was crappy as hell. And that's the second time this sort of apocalyptic 'everyone dies' scenario has happened to her too! Damn.

 

[lordsandro]

Umm no she isn't dead at all cuz if you remmember in The Longest Jorney the old crone that was telling the story was actualy April. Plus no author has the bass to just kill such rich and interesting character.

*Spoilerific*

Didn't say she was, I said she 'supposedly' was. And regardless of her life/death status, her life right up to and preceding her supposed death was crappy as hell. And that's the second time this sort of apocalyptic 'everyone dies' scenario has happened to her too! Damn.

Yeah...suck to be her. Plus the fate of the new White Dragon is unclear and that was one of the characters that in future could've had the most possitive effect on her live. (Spoiler: The White Dragon called her "sister" and had the potential to change her look of live - being new in the world and still innosent. That is personal oppinion.)

 

[Anachronism]

Baldur's Gate II

Spoiler

When you find Khalid's body. Why did he have to die? He was one of my favourite characters from the first game! More to the point, Jaheira's desperation after finding his body was just heartbreaking.

Shadow of the Colossus

Spoiler

When the bridge collapses and Agro plummets into the gorge. I actually had to stop myself from shouting "NO!" at that point. But then it's balanced out by unbridled joy when you hear the noise of his hooves back at the temple.

 

[DNA]

I have to say Duke Nukem forever.

If you were saddened that DNF wasn't going to be made, then I hope you dont have pets or family members because when they die its going to destroy you.


Incidentally some of my favorite sad scene's are as follows.

In Final Fantasy VIII, when Rinoa is taken, and put into Sorceress Stasis on the space station. The scene when you rescue her, and then escape onto the Ragnarok is pretty damn emotional... brings tears to my eyes.

Resident Evil 2: Aya died. I was sad.

Much more I cant think of this early in the morning.

 

[WhyteBoy]

I'd have to say in GoW2 when Dom found maria, it was pretty sad.

Also, when grom hellscream died freeing the the blood curse from the orcs in WC3, was pretty sad.

Or in portal when i found out the cake was a lie. it was sad, i was fooled.

 

[Necrith]

Klonoa 1 or 2
(wear he gets stucked up into the wirlwind)

 

[fudgebo]

when snake wets himself in mgs3

 

[fix-the-spade]

'Dad'...'
'Close your eyes, honey.'
'I love you dad'
'Don't look...'

My thoughts exactly, can't think of a more gut wrenchingly horrible moment in a game.

 

[Rigs83]

Finishing Gun and discovering that you have nothing else to do.

 

[Wounded Melody]

The ending of Final Fantasy Adventure and most of Valkyrie Profile.

 

[Lordmarkus]

I would have to say Call of Duty 4 and Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

CoD 4: Who could not like Gaz, Griggs and especially Cpt. Price?

Episode 2: Most likeable gaming characters + a sudden ending (for me at least) = Oh the epic sadness.

 

[rosac]

Spoiler

Angeals death in FF7 CC

thats about it for me.

 

[Oneirius]

I don't usually play very sad games(Why should I? Is it fun to be sad?), so I think my saddest moment would be at the end of Shadow of The Colossus, after you free Dormin. So... fucking... pointless. This or the point in Mass Effect where you need to choose who dies.

 

[Kif]

Portal's ending... poor GLADOS

 

[JackCayman]

Spoiler

Gears of War 2, Dominic killing his own wife

i cried

 

[Saluce]

CoD4 that brought a tear

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Gears of War 2, Dominic killing his own wife

i cried

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