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What are the most saddest moments in games you played? *spoilers obviously*

The Chairman

The Chairman

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So what games caught you off guard and made you shed a tear or filled you with sadness? for me it's really rare but these games got me.

-Yakuza 0

What a great game and a great story, if you didn't play it then stop reading immediately and go play it. the story have a lot of sad moments but the saddest for me was Tachibana's Death just moments before meeting his sister Makoto.
Makoto suffered from slavery, rape, blindness and the only thing that kept her strong was the hope of meeting her brother but she met him a few moments after his death:messenger_loudly_crying:




-Gears of War 2

What got me here is not Maria's Death but when Dom released her and saw her as his beautiful healthy wife but then the reality came crashing on his head and he finally saw the truth.




-Dragon Quest XI

This one is kinda my fault but i just hate eating stews lol

 
Raven117

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The bitter sweetness of To the Moon is something special. That silly game hits harder when you are older. Thinking back on times with people you have loved and loved you. It all is just a little bit more mysterious.

Also, in Neir Automata when Pascal
comes running into the room and the children had all committed suicide because she taught them Fear." The voice acting just breaks....saying No....and then asks you to kill her
It just caught me so off guard.

The Sarah thing was supposed to tug at your heart strings. You are wired to be sad about that.

Pascal though.....there was just so much going on from a philosophical level, plus the great voice acting. Best moment in the game for me.
 
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Matt_Fox

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That time Lydia randomly disappeared. You looked for her back at your house. You looked for her back in Whiterun. She was gone. And so were all the Dragon Scales she was carrying. Sob.

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Holammer

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Y's the Vanished Omens on the Master System with Sara murdered was my first moment, it was very minor and described in text only, but it somehow still got me.
Years later it was Nei's death in Phantasy Star 2 which played up the drama a little bit. I even reset the console, once I figured out I couldn't res her and did some serious power leveling and tried again, but it turns out it was plot was railroaded.

By the time I played FF7 my heart was hardened.
 
Red-Town

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This was mostly a decision lol but in KotOR when it came time to make a decision to choose the dark side or light side of the force, I teared up knowing I was going to kill my allies :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
SinDelta

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The ending of Odin Sphere.

Ragnarok lives up to its promised horror unfortunately.

Mercedes being killed.
 
AJUMP23

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Sephiroth killing Aerith, I spent all that time raising her levels just to have her get murdered. I thought she would come back at some point too. She never did.
 
NeoIkaruGAF

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Klonoa, when a certain house is destroyed. Also, dat ending. I cri everytiem.

FF7. You gotta admit Cloud’s dialogue and the music are perfect in Aeris’s scene.
 
Sander Cohen

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Knucklepux said:
When Sarah dies in The Last of Us. The first and only time a game really got some serious emotion out of me. So violent and raw. Well acted.
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It didn’t hit me at all since I’ve barely got to know her, right at the start. You have to develop a character throughout the game for that stuff to have real impact. Like FF X ending for example.

EDIT: or John Marston and Arthur Morgan....damn, gonna cry now again 😥
 
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kunonabi

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-The baby's death in Super Metroid
-Harry's death in Silent Hill 3
-The ending in Klonoa especially the PS version.
-When the Personal Frame's battery dies out in Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon. I have no idea why it hit me so hard but I was bawling my eyes out.

While there isn't just one moment Metalica's backstory in The Witch and the Hundred Knight is depressing as hell. I swear the last half of that game is just a series of gut punches.
 
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fart town usa

fart town usa

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Knowing that some people leave Shadow to die in Final Fantasy 6. :(

I was really bummed when the blonde guy died in my playthrough of Until Dawn, towards the end of the game when you're running back to the cabin. I forget his name but I thought he was a great character. Man that game is awesome though, should probably do another run and have him survive this time.

Ocarina of Time definitely tugs at the heartstrings when you meet up with Sheikah at various points and she speaks about the changes we go through as time progresses. When OOT released my father was dying of cancer and that game was a great outlet to get lost in. Doesn't make me sad to play it, nothing but joy, but man that game really has a soft spot in my heart.

Albert Odyssey for the Sega Saturn. Took me 2+ decades to finish it. That's another game my older brother and I were playing when our Dad was sick. My brother beat it back then but I never did. I never really wanted to finish it as an adult because it just means so much to me. I actually went back to it last year and played through the whole thing. It was like closing a chapter in my life but was fantastic. I frigging love that game, transports me back to such a fantastic time in my life but also a really sad period. I'm sure plenty of people have games like that.

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BootsLoader

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Nintendo 64 - Zelda Ocarina of time - When link leaves Navi and Master Sword, I cried like a little bitch. Still gets me to this day.

PlayStation 2 - Final Fantasy X - After Tidus death, when Yuna talked about the people or the dreams that have faded....little bitch crying version 2

PlayStation 4 - Death Stranding - The last delivery, delivering BB for cremation, by far the most heavy shit I ever felt in a video game. I literally didn’t want to deliver the kid. I was so attached to Lu. I really was crying the whole mission until I arrived to the destination...the story continues obliviously.
 
Aion002

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FF7 Aeris beat up and death - I was a happy kid that for the first time was understanding and caring about a game story and characters.... Then Cloud goes mad and beat up Aeris... Later Sephiroth kills her...


I am still trying to recover from that.
 
The Chairman

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Aion002 said:
FF7 Aeris beat up and death - I was a happy kid that for the first time was understanding and caring about a game story and characters.... Then Cloud goes mad and beat up Aeris... Later Sephiroth kills her...


I am still trying to recover from that.
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This will be really sad in the remake with modern graphics, i just hope Nomura decide to change the story, it will make a lot of people angry but Aeris deserves better dammitt!!
 
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Ori and the blind forest
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This has such great visual story telling had me crying with in the first 5 minutes without a single line of dialogue.

To the Moon
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I have played this game twice and both times I cried. With River being deleted from John's memory combined with the beautiful music I couldn't help but start bawling my eyes out.

The 2 above had me actually crying but the 2 scenes for yakuza 0 and gears of war 2 from the op was close to having me cry.
 
Aion002

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Rurouni Kenshin said:
This will be really sad in the remake with modern graphics, i just hope Nomura decide to change the story, it will make a lot of people angry but Aeris deserves better dammitt!!
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Me too.

I would be extremely happy if Aeris ended up alive.... The first part already added and changed many things, they should go all in this path.
 
A.Romero

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Raven117 said:
The bitter sweetness of To the Moon is something special. That silly game hits harder when you are older. Thinking back on times with people you have loved and loved you. It all is just a little bit more mysterious.

Also, in Neir Automata when Pascal
comes running into the room and the children had all committed suicide because she taught them Fear." The voice acting just breaks....saying No....and then asks you to kill her
It just caught me so off guard.

The Sarah thing was supposed to tug at your heart strings. You are wired to be sad about that.

Pascal though.....there was just so much going on from a philosophical level, plus the great voice acting. Best moment in the game for me.
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I recently finished Nier (like last weekend) and came to post this. Totally unexpected. It took me a moment to understand what was happening. At first I thought it was a poorly done scene to justify that. Later on it also made me a bit sad when you find Pascal again.

To be honest I wasn't really hooked during the first half of the game but now I keep going back to it's concepts again and again. I'm a big Kojima fan and now I think Yoko is at the same level in my mind (Although I think Kojima is a better story teller).

Heartman's monologue at the end of Death Stranding was moving too.
 
HellforLeather

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A lot of the good ones have already been said but I would also like to add the Spiderman conclusion with Doc Ock. They really built up the attachment between Peter and Otto as a father and son and with how things play out with some of the other major characters (that I wont spoil) it really comes together in the final conclusion.

Peter's motivation to help his father figure who has a degenerative disease and then uses all of their work to wreak havoc on the city and put Peter's loved ones in danger. It just fucking works as a monumental physical, mental, and emotional obstacle for him to overcome by the end. Its also surprised to me how well it works since everybody knows who Otto Octavius is and how things end up between the two from the outset.

Maybe not the saddest (sorry but this does belong to Sara's death in TLOU) but it hit perfectly for me and caught me right in the feels.
 
Raven117

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A.Romero said:
I recently finished Nier (like last weekend) and came to post this. Totally unexpected. It took me a moment to understand what was happening. At first I thought it was a poorly done scene to justify that. Later on it also made me a bit sad when you find Pascal again.

To be honest I wasn't really hooked during the first half of the game but now I keep going back to it's concepts again and again. I'm a big Kojima fan and now I think Yoko is at the same level in my mind (Although I think Kojima is a better story teller).

Heartman's monologue at the end of Death Stranding was moving too.
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Same here. I liked it enough (I think the original is a bit better), but have thought about it more as time goes on. The hallmark of a truly great game. (Or any piece of media).

I think Taro is better as he doesn’t need 30 minute cutscenes to say what he wants to say. Kojima can be mind-numbingly blunt and long winded.
 
A.Romero

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Raven117 said:
Same here. I liked it enough (I think the original is a bit better), but have thought about it more as time goes on. The hallmark of a truly great game. (Or any piece of media).

I think Taro is better as he doesn’t need 30 minute cutscenes to say what he wants to say. Kojima can be mind-numbingly blunt and long winded.
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That's true, Kojima goes totally the opposite way.

The problem I have with Yoko is that he goes too short. You need to infer a lot and sometimes the message is not clear.

I never needed to watch a YT video to fully understand a Kojima game (even MGS2!) but I did with Nier.
 
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