Saddest ending to a videogame/character?

MOC88

Reading the thread in After hours about the saddest ending to a flm/series I thought that videogames were just as emotional and a lot of the characters were just as developed. So whats your saddest ending to a videogame/character?

Mine would have to be FF9 and Vivi... he was definitely my favourite character in the seres and then for him to end just as every one else seemed to have their own stories resolved just made it worse...

Local-womanizer

The Walking Dead......

heebusjeebus

Red Dead Redemption

enda1

Ariel in FF7

Stone Deaf 4evr

Silent Hill 2

richymcdermott

Silent hill 2

Guyanachronism

MOC88 wrote: »

Reading the thread in After hours about the saddest ending to a flm/series I thought that videogames were just as emotional and a lot of the characters were just as developed. So whats your saddest ending to a videogame/character?

Mine would have to be FF9 and Vivi... he was definitely my favourite character in the seres and then for him to end just as every one else seemed to have their own stories resolved just made it worse...

What? I though Vivi got closure, he comes to terms with his mortality and learns to live for his friends etc.

Soap in MW3.

Schwiiing

Ezio in that short film after AC Revelations.

Banjo

Dizzy.
There was one jump about 25 minutes in to Fantasy World Dizzy up in the clouds that I kept missing and he'd just fall and fall and fall... it was like the end of Angel Heart mixed with Hans Gruber from Die Hard. Time would slow down, if you squinted the smile on his face would falter a little as he twirled...
Technically that wasn't his end, but I only made that jump once so as far as I was concerned that was the end.

Taylor365

enda1 wrote: »

Ariel in FF7

Who?

Zulf from bastion. Betrayed by his own followers and left for dead. Makes your decision that bit tougher.

C14N

The Last of Us was probably the most depressing ending I've ever played imo.

Also, in Shadown of the Colossus, the

death of Argo

was my saddest video game moment of all time, even more so than the ending of the Walking Dead.

degrassinoel

This thread needs spoilers.

Mordin Solus

- Mass Effect 3

Shepard

- Mass Effect 3 *destroy the reapers ending

Zero-Cool

The Walking Dead for Sadness.

Silent Hill 2 for devastation.

Elmidena

To The Moon, really squeezes at the heart
BioShock Infinite, will say no more.


Btw think they mean Aerith, not Ariel.

SimmerDean

Aeris/Aerith Gainsborough in FFVII and Zack Fair in Crisis Core

Penn

The Walking Dead

As much as the ending is incredibly sad, the bit that really tugged on my heartstrings was when you were rubbing the zombie guts on Clem after killing The Stranger. Her wincing and trying not to cry... the feels.... THE FEELS!

enda1

Taylor365 wrote: »

Who?

Zulf from bastion. Betrayed by his own followers and left for dead. Makes your decision that bit tougher.

SimmerDean wrote: »

Aeris/Aerith Gainsborough in FFVII and Zack Fair in Crisis Core

Damn it, that's who I meant.

SweepTheLeg

Penn wrote: »

The Walking Dead

As much as the ending is incredibly sad, the bit that really tugged on my heartstrings was when you were rubbing the zombie guts on Clem after killing The Stranger. Her wincing and trying not to cry... the feels.... THE FEELS!

Leeeeee

SeantheMan

Mordin - Mass Effect 3
Joe - Mafia 2
The Walking Dead
Bioshock 1 - good ending

Shocking and emotional ....but probably not sad, I'd definitely say

Spec Ops : The Line
Arkham City

CiDeRmAn

Limbo's ending is messed up.
The whole game didn't inspire rainbows and unicorns tbh, and I really wound up sympathising for the poor spider.

I second Silent Hill 2, heavy stuff.

It's all just trotting after other media in terms of the willingness of the creators to sucker punch the audience/participant.

ShadowHearth

Spec ops the line - The whole game makes you sadder and emotionally broken. In the end its even worse.

Heavenly Sword - game never got popular and was slated for being God of war clone, but I really loved it. Was a very sad ending.

Burning Eclipse

Surprised nobody mentioned this before now.

Half Life 2, Episode 2.

duffyman

I am surprised only one person has mentioned the tragic death of Zack Fair from FF VII crisis core. Without doubt the saddest and most prolific death I have ever seen. I have watched that clip about 50 times and it still hurts to watch it. I will always remember that.

Witcher

MGS3- The Boss
The Walking Dead

Lee

MW3-Sandman and Soap..especially how Price left the pistol that Soap had kept and given back to him years before.

The entire of Walking Dead. One of the most heart breaking games I've played in a long time. As I've said before, what I loved most is that at the end of each chapter, it gives you a breakdown of percentages of people that made the same decisions as you did - it always made me feel good that I wasn't the only evil-hearted bastard out there!

Gears of War 3 -

Dom's death. It was such a tragic turn of events, especially since you get to see his hope in GoW1, his heartbreak in GoW2 after discovering Maria, and then pretty much his downfall into depression in GoW3. His death, with the piano version of Mad World, was extremely sombre

Bioshock Infinite -

When you discover who Elizabeth really is and what Booker DeWitt did to her as a baby. So so heartbreaking

Mass Effect 3 -

Alas Mordin died at the end of ME2 for me, so I didn't have the moment that others had in ME3 with his death, but just so many moments in that game were extremely touching - the Asari recounting her story at the hospital, entire civilizations being wiped out, soldiers listening to the radio broadcasts telling the death count

MOC88

Guyanachronism wrote: »

What? I though Vivi got closure, he comes to terms with his mortality and learns to live for his friends etc.

Soap in MW3.

Yeah but he got closure but what about mine??? Himself and Eiko were meant to get together way down the line. The fact he's saying farewell makes me like him more and makes it worse!!!

Burning Eclipse

Burning Eclipse wrote: »

Surprised nobody mentioned this before now.

Half Life 2, Episode 2.

+1

Buzz Kill it was

Taylor365

enda1 wrote: »

Damn it, that's who I meant.

I know, jst screwin with ya

Tweej

Mario Bros -

When his princess was in another castle... That tearjerker

Klair88

Big Boss saluting the Boss's grave in MGS3.

Being such a huge fan and knowing the background of big boss and snake; For them to go back and show why he turned rogue against governments, was outstanding, For me anyway!

Timmyctc

Soap in MW3 was a hard one to take. The End of FFX always gets me right in the old tearducts. The start of TLOU

when Joel's daughter gets killed

is heartbreaking too.

Spec Ops: The Line was depressing enough alright.

TWD final scene; in our house reduced 3 men in their twenties to the verge of tears.

tonydude

Nathan Hale of Resistance, couldn't believe what happened at the end of R2

folan

Dom in GOW3

only character in that whole series i even slightly cared about.

And i remember Mona Sax leaving me a bit upset too, now that i think about it.

Scavenger XIII

C14N wrote: »

Also, in Shadown of the Colossus, the

death of Argo

was my saddest video game moment of all time

It was really sad,

but if you finished the game it turned out he/she was fine, just a wee limp for the trouble.

Moneymaker

The Boss - MGS3 and that whole ending in general would break your heart.
Leo - FF6, senseless death for the one good man in the Empire. Damn you Kefka
Tassadar - Starcraft, what a way to go but damn it was sad to see such a badass meet his end.
Trish -inFamous, no matter what you can never save her. Poor Cole.
FFXIII-2s ending is very grim.
System Shock 2 - "Don't you like my new look?" *shudder*

C14N

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

It was really sad,

but if you finished the game it turned out he/she was fine, just a wee limp for the trouble.

I know, but at the time it was devastating.

Whatsisname

LA Noire was a bit depressing

Scavenger XIII

C14N wrote: »

I know, but at the time it was devastating.

True, I hardly sympathised with the main character at all but I cared loads about the horse.

Felt really bad for many of the early Colossi aswell since they hardly fought back and you had to pretty much bully them to death, especially the second or third one with the sad look in it's eyes that seemed more like it was attempting to befriend your horse than fight you (sure most of them after that clearly wanted you dead but by that point it was perfectly reasonable).

Depressing game in general really.

For an addition to the list I'd have to pick

baby metroid in Super Metroid, little screentime, no dialogue, not remotely humanoid and I sure as hell cared more when it died than for most characters we're supposed to give a damn about in plot-heavy games.

Banjo

I completely forgot

Paul Denton

from Deus Ex, my cowardice weighed very heavily on me. I eventually had to junk my progress and go back to that moment in the apartment, and this time leave by the door rather than scurry out the window.

Also,

Anna Navarre

- she deserved better than the killswitch phrase. Or the cheap sniper-rifle-plus-air-ducts death from my alternate timeline.

That game really valued it's NPCs and made you do the same. Such a shame the sequel was pants. Must get around to playing #3...

C14N

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

True, I hardly sympathised with the main character at all but I cared loads about the horse.

Felt really bad for many of the early Colossi aswell since they hardly fought back and you had to pretty much bully them to death, especially the second or third one with the sad look in it's eyes that seemed more like it was attempting to befriend your horse than fight you (sure most of them after that clearly wanted you dead but by that point it was perfectly reasonable).

Depressing game in general really.

For an addition to the list I'd have to pick

baby metroid in Super Metroid, little screentime, no dialogue, not remotely humanoid and I sure as hell cared more when it died than for most characters we're supposed to give a damn about in plot-heavy games.

I kind of felt like that was the point of the game, and it worked well. The main character was selfish and willing to do terrible things because he couldn't deal with the death of the girl, Agro was just there because of her loyalty.

.ak

Silent Hill 2 for me...

Finding out your dead and stuck in limbo is still one of the best twists I've ever witnessed in any game. That game truly messes with your perception and understanding of the mind.

.ak

Also regarding the Last of Us I would say

the intro was the saddest part really. Although there's plenty of tear jerkers in the game, the acting and finality of his daughters death is superb, had a lump in my throat and wasn't sure how the game would be approached afterwards. Great bit of story telling.

Schwiiing

Banjo wrote: »

I completely forgot

Paul Denton

from Deus Ex, my cowardice weighed very heavily on me. I eventually had to junk my progress and go back to that moment in the apartment, and this time leave by the door rather than scurry out the window.

Also,

Anna Navarre

- she deserved better than the killswitch phrase. Or the cheap sniper-rifle-plus-air-ducts death from my alternate timeline.

That game really valued it's NPCs and made you do the same. Such a shame the sequel was pants. Must get around to playing #3...

3 is not much better.

Kiith

Schwiiing wrote: »

3 is not much better.

Human Revolution is fantastic, bar the boss fights.

chopperbyrne

The dog in Call of Duty: Ghosts.

You know it's going to bite the bullet.

Richard Dower

chopperbyrne wrote: »

The dog in Call of Duty: Ghosts.

You know it's going to bite the bullet.

Burning Eclipse

Kiith wrote: »

Human Revolution is fantastic, bar the boss fights.

And the "flick a switch" ending Still really enjoyed it however.

Retr0gamer

.ak wrote: »

Silent Hill 2 for me...

Finding out your dead and stuck in limbo is still one of the best twists I've ever witnessed in any game. That game truly messes with your perception and understanding of the mind.

Eh? But that never happens and it's not what the game is about at all.

The game was a journey through James guilty conscience. He's constantly torturing himself over killing his wife. He thought he was doing the right thing by euthanising her until he got that letter from her and he started to beat himself up about it because he realised the real reasons he had were selfish. He was sick of looking after her, she had become a burden on her life and he had not sexual attraction to her anymore. It's all about him trying to come to terms with that and depending on the ending you get he comes to terms with it in his own way. The ending you got wasn't him stuck in Limbo it was probably the ending where James continues with his guilt trip unable to let go. In others James moves on while in the one I got James committed suicide as he thought it was the only way to deal with it. Hard to commit suicide when you are already dead :P

PlanIT Computing

Zack in crisis core

Retr0gamer

PlanIT Computing wrote: »

Zack in crisis core

Thought they ruined that. They took a cutscene in the original FFVII that was quite simple but heartfelt and turned it into an over the top ridiculous mess.

platinums

MGS - Sniper Wolf

The battle was pretty Epic, a test of two master snipers, one of them had give..

I'll always remember this being quite sad even as a teenager rushin to get to the end of this game.