Tragic characters or characters you feel sorry for in video games

[Diablo2000]

Artorias from Dark Souls.

Knight Solaire from Dark Souls.

Queelag's Sister from Dark Souls.

Rhea of Thorolund from Dark Souls.

Dark Sun Gwyndolin from Dark Souls...


I think you see what I'm getting at here. Tragic, miserable game. Seems like every NPC has a sad tale to tell.

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Why did the call the game prepare to die? Prepare to cry more like.

Siegmeyer, died trying to prove he wasn't worthless.

Oscar, died before his adventure even began.

The Crestfallen Warrior, died the second he started to live again.

Christ, even PINWHEEL has a sad story behind them. Those masks he wears? Those of the members of his family he tried to bring back to life! UNSUCCESSFULLY! It's what turned him into whatever the hell he is now!

Goddamn, Dark Souls make me feel like a true asshole for have me killing all these folks, I don't want to kill Quelaag, I don't want to utterly destroy Ceaseless Discharger, I don't like have to kill Sif. WHY THE FUCK YOU GUYS DIDN'T PUT A OPTION NOT TO KILL SIF?

I only truly enjoy killing Petrus (That two face asshole), Gwyndolin (Fuck you and your schemes), Lautrec (You fucked with the firekeeper you fucked with me, ************) and Seath (Did you see what he did the handmaidens, DID YOU?).

Dark Souls and all then feels...

EDIT: Forgot Lord Blade Ciaren, give up her life of backstabbing people and prayed to Artorias until the day she died, and her ring taken by some jackass roaming the forest.

I also feel sorry for Bowser and Peach, all they want is to live their forbidden love, so she gets "kidnap" and there goes the always clueless Mario "rescue" her...
Saddest love story ever.

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

Spoiler: Mordin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1OmqvcUtQ

Almost cried when he said "had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong

Elizabeth from Bioshock

Spoiler: Dupre in Ultima Serpent Isle

Dupre's death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVeoEjab9oc

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Spoiler: Mordin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs1OmqvcUtQ

Almost cried when he said "had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong

Elizabeth from Bioshock

Spoiler: Dupre in Ultima Serpent Isle

Dupre's death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVeoEjab9oc

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Spoiler: Dupre in Ultima Serpent Isle

Dupre's death

Teyrn Loghain

Spoiler

His stories of what he went through under the Olresian occpuation if you recuit him really helped me understand him. In the end he didn't take the throne because he wanted power unlike most antagonists, he was misguided and wanted to protect his people from a known (and in his mind) the much more pressing threat. It was a pity he was wrong on many accounts.

 

[Asita]

Don't know who Zack Fair is (I abandoned the FF series after 10, I take it he was in one of the ones after that)

Zack was from VII. You know, the SOLDIER (First Class) with the spiky black hair who saved Cloud's life before the events of the game, seen via flashback. The former owner of Cloud's Buster Sword. Aerith's old boyfriend.

Oh god, so many! Well, number would probably be Ryoji from Persona 3.
That poor guy. He's just your average funny and charming dude, who wants nothing more than to hang out with his friends and enjoy his newfound life. But no, not gonna happen. Ryoji is destined to become Nyx Avatar and bring about the end of the world as we know it. And he knows that literally can't do anything about it! He tries his best to ease his friends' pain, but alas. And once he becomes Nyx Avatar, holy shit did I feel bad fighting him. Here's a creature whose sole purpose is to kill you. And yet, he doesn't mock you, he doesn't taunt you... he inspires you. The final boss inspires you in the heat of a battle! How amazing is that?!

Oh, that's a good one. And twisting the knife even further is that the protagonist's team seems to blame Ryoji personally after that reveal despite the guy being very forthcoming and obviously distraught over the fact. So yeah, seconding that one.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Officer Chunk is Vampire:The Masquerade:Bloodlines.

He seems like a reasonable guy, not very successful, but he's trying to do his job as best he can, has no idea whatsoever about what is going on...and you go and muck things up for him. Even the nicest way of dealing with him is a bit rough.

 

[Lieju]

Everyone in Eternal Darkness.
Also

Spoiler: Ghost Trick

Yomiel. Also punch of other people in the game, maybe the most I feel sorry for the Original-timeline Missile, who SPOILERS ended up witnessing the death of his mistresses over and over again, trying to stop it but unable to do so. Eventually he gave up to find another way, but how long must he have tried to do something? This is Missile we're talking about, how many times did he try to save Kamila and Lynne before he gave up?

 

[Schmeiser]

The Boss in MGS3, first time i ever cried over a video game character. Just thinking about it tears me up

 

[Evonisia]

Every character's story arc got to me in Silent Hill 2, though James and Angela deserve special mention.

Darn, you took my one /shakes fist

Erm, ok, let's see. The main character from Spec Ops: The Line? Must suck to be him in that situation. And Murphy from Silent Hill: Downpour but that, too, has been taken.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I would feel sorry for Otacon in the Metal Gear Solid games if he wasn't so... Otacon.

Other than that... Bill from The Last of Us. He figures himself some badass, loner, hermit. Thinks he choose to be alone and adandoned the person he cared about for the sake of survival. But then finds out not only did the guy he loved die, but he actually adandoned him. And then Ellie steals his porn mag.

Also, the Prince from Sands of Time. He gives up Farah's love in order to save the world. Poor guy.

 

[Daggedawg]

Pretty much all the characters from NieR.

Spoiler: Especially...

The Shadowlord. Turns out you were the one denying him his happiness instead of the other way around. Even after a thousand years of waiting to be reunited with his sister, you kill him, dooming not only him, but all of humanity in the process.

 

[PlayerDos]

Can't remember the game, but pretty much you spend the whole game being told how awful this mage is for trying to destroy a world tree, or drain a world tree of its magic, can't remember, then you find out at the very end that you've pretty much condemned an entire planet to death because you beat the *badguy*

 

[AntiChri5]

For me, it has to be Garrus Vakarian in Mass Effect 2. His revenge story was unique in that it wasn't about avenging a pair of dead parents or a wife and daughter, but rather a team of specialists akin to Shepard's from the first Mass Effect, who helped him fight crime on Omega and bring peace to its denizens. That team was the closest thing he ever had to a family since Shepard and her Normandy squad, and that one teammate, Sidonis, took that family away from him by betraying them to the three gangs of Omega.

Spoiler: Or Hell, forget Garrus, let's try Commander Shepard!

In the entire trilogy, Shepard would gather nineteen squadmates, six of them from the first Mass Effect, ten more in Mass Effect 2, and EDI, James Vega, and Javik in Mass Effect 3. Out of those nineteen squadmates, four of them die, including Kaidan/Ashley on Virmire, Mordin Solus on Tuchanka, Thane Krios on the Citadel, and Legion on Rannoch. While Shepard would spend most of ME3 moping about that little boy who died on Earth escaping the Reapers, and eventually mope even more when Thessia falls and Cerberus collects the prothean VI, the deaths of those four squadmates remain on my mind more so than the boy's death and Thessia's downfall.

I mean, those four squadmates died to ensure that Shepard rescues the other chosen squadmate on Virmire, cure the genophage for Urdnot Wrex and the krogan, save the salarian councilor from Cerberus assassin Kai Leng, and free the geth from Reaper control, respectively! And, in a way, it almost takes me back to something unrelated: The end of the first season of Sailor Moon, when Usagi's teammates all die while she remains the sole survivor of the team raiding the Dark Kingdom's lair.

Losing a few squaddies isn't that big compared to some of the other stuff Shep goes through.

The backgrounds can get pretty grim, with Earthborn growing up in a slum and joining a gang to survive and Colonist being one of the only people in the colony who weren't murdered or enslaved by one of the worst Batarian slave raids in history at age 16. Then the service history. War Hero is the least traumatic, but is still something that could give someone PTSD. Having to desperately defend a colony almost singlehandedly while civillians are dying. Then there is Ruthless. Order most of your troops to their death. And the worst is, of course, Sole Survivor. Only survivor of your squad of 50 marines who were helpless when they got trapped by massive acid spitting deathworms which are the most dangerous living things in the galaxy, all as part of a brutally insane experiment.

All that before the first game even begins. Then Shep saves the galaxy and tries to warn everyone about Cthulhu, only to die and become a laughingstock. The Shep has to come back to life because these morons still need saving. And then, of course, once Cthulhu shows up to wipe out all life in the galaxy Shepard gets put in charge of dealing with it. Assholes.

 

[MrDumpkins]

Basically every character in dark souls except petrus, seath, and lautrec. Screw those guys. Every other character just makes me feel bad for them. I remember replaying the game and doing the DLC mission before actually going to fight Sif the wolf. That new cutscene brought me to literal tears. The things that game makes you do, how it tricks you, but also gives you the information to enlighten yourself. Too much. Dark Souls is unforgiving in so many ways.

 

[rosac]

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I havent got too far into 6, may want some spoilers there man! Zack is Cloud's mentor, Angeal was Zack's mentor. Their back stories were fleshed out in final fantasy crisis core (which also explains the origins of the buster sword).

I don't get how people have so much hate for Tidus... He's a sports star who's dad treated him like shit, everyone he knows and loves dies in the first 10 minutes of the game and he gets transported to a place where he is unknown and monsters are everywhere, also noone believes him when he says he's from zanarkand. I'm not going to lie, I would probably have reacted in a similar manner. He develops quite a lot over the game as well. The infamous laughing scene, in context, makes sense as well.

As far as FF4 goes, Edge and what happened to his village/parents is pretty grim. And the twin mages.

 

[verdant monkai]

Zack Fair FF7 Crisis Core

He dreamed of becoming a hero all throughout the game, but Shinra branded him a criminal and he died riddled with bullets. Shot by his former comrades. He paved the way for Cloud and his friends, but his end was still damn sad.

 

[Qvar]

F.E.A.R's Alma, even if she... Does what she does. Poor little girl, no wonder it happened all that stuff later. They really deserved what was coming to them.