Games That Depress You.

[Crowghast]

I have always felt a bizarre closeness to my soldiers. I'm talking about RTS's of course, I employ turtle tactics in nearly every match in almost any game, opting to build defense and use my troops in ambush and guerilla attacks.

I cannot bear to watch my men die, for some reason or another. In most FPS and RPG games i'm fine with it, I even kill them sometimes for getting in my way.

Not so in Company of Heroes, not so in Command & Conquer, [i\]not so[/i] in Dawn of War and Battlefield 40k and EndWar. Especially in Company of Heroes, the panicked shouts of "We're pinned down!" sometimes scare me. I do everything in my power to save them... but sometimes... they just die. Even it's a nebelwerfer barrage from nowhere, even it's a fully loaded halftrack busting through a wall: I always think [i\]"I COULD'VE STOPPED THEM FROM DIEING!"[/i] My depression then fuels my rage and I end up tank busting the enemy back to Hell for eliminating my scout squad.

[i\]"They were brave men, died in enemy territory so that they might reinforce a high fuel point, died so that this battle might be won. It is unfortunate that a certain HALF-TRACK wasn't FAST ENOUGH."[/i]

 

[nekolux]

Well world of warcraft was depressing for me in the sense that the world was endless and i was listening to radiohead.... I got an existential epiphany lol. ( ok so it was mostly radiohead )

 

[SneakyBawls]

Star Wars Galaxies. 'Star Wars' + 'MMO' should = Awesomeness. How brain damaged does a company have to be to screw that formula up? It's all up to you now BioWare...

 

[Zeldadudes]

Definitely The World Ends with you. (Minor spoilers with no names)

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When you find out that X is in the Nether because of you... I just felt so bad because even though i didn't shape it i just felt as if X was relying on me and i didn't do my roll.

Another is, this is quite recent, i was playing WoW on my mates account and i saw a baby mammoth...
I killed it without remorse and then realized what i had done... A few seconds later i saw the mother and another baby run up to it
I felt like such a heartless bastard

 

[hattifnatt]

Mafia endind always make me sad,
The endings of STALKER:SOC are kinda depressing not sad just hopeless.

 

[Arleer157]

GTA 4.
Every time I play the campaign, I just think, "I have done this seventeen times already, and I feel like I've been this game three times before..."

 

[asam92]

GTA 4 depressed me. All of the silliness of the previous games was replaced by a game that took itself way too seriously. It felt very restrictive being such a defined character even in an open world. I did 100% twice on GTA 3, I quit GTA 4 after a few hours and went back to Crackdown, give me silly, over the top mass destruction over serious scripted drama any day.

thats the same reason i liked GTA:SA better than GTA 4, the fact that you could walk around and do anything and some crazy $h1+ could happen, who wants to play a game in which you can only do things you can do in real life, not within the law though, GTA 4 was very "go here kill this guy" feeling, thats what GTA:SA was looking at getting away from the previous 2 games, things like go steal this Fighter Jet on the Aircraft carrier across the river and then use it to shoot some boats to splinters, and stealing a jet pack from a government facility protecting alien activities, or braking into a casino stealing all the money and parachuting off the roof ot finish it.
NOW THATS COOL

 

[latenightapplepie]

Mass Effect was a teeny bit depressing

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when considering the cycle of the Reapers' destruction of the galaxy every now and again and that Saren and Benezia really were actually being brain-washed by Sovreign

And Fable 1 too

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because of the jail part and all the prisoners who died to get you out, as well as the final destruction of the Heroes Guild at the end of the game

In some ways, Assassin's Creed because

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Desmond couldn't get out of the lab and his assassin friends couldn't save him

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

Half Life, haven't seen anybody mentioning it.

Most of the time you either felt bad for the destroyed environment, the guys that got mauled by headcrabs, the fact that the Combine controls earth or a combination of the above.

 

[freebiewitz]

A game that depresses me would have to be call of duty 4 why?
I like it and all and it is fun but the kill cam is like saying you got shot, this is how you got shot, you were shot here, shot this way basically rubbing in the fact that you were killied. Me and my friends ussually play realistic with no kill cam. It funner that way.