Has a game ever made you sad?

[Isalan]

Ok, so in games sometimes we're asked to do bad things. Sometimes its so you can advance your little red badass/renegade/evil bastard bar a little further and sometimes its part of the story and you have too. Sometimes its the choice between 2 evils.

Last night I was playing Oblivion (essentially first time through the game, I'm late to this particular party) and I came to the Arena questline. Spoilers below:

Spoiler

So I'd made my way through the various ranks having a little chat with people as I went, including the Gray Prince (the Grand Champion half-orc fella) and shortly before I was too fight him, I went off on a quest he gave me to discover his birthright. Suffice to say what I found out left him mega depressed and I thought "Oh well, I'm probably gonna kick your ass anyway".

The fight then happens, and it starts off much as usual, I let fly an arrow and get my sword out and go to beat on him when I notice he's not fighting back or blocking. Quietly he's muttering to himself about me "putting him out of his misery" and how he's "the spawn of evil". He just stands there telling me to kill him.

So I wandered round the arena a bit trying to find some other way to get out of it, but I have to kill him to proceed. I take his stuff, head back downstairs where everyone gives me a pat on the back (cept his best mate who's not happy with me) and get my reward and congratulations.

And the whole time I feel like I don't deserve it, and that I've just killed a very noble being.

So have you ever had a moment like this in a game where you've succeeded at doing what the game wanted you to do, but felt like a total asshole for it?

Thoughts much appreciated

 

[spikeyjoey]

well not as you said, but the famous death in ff7 did make me sad..

 

[Shakomaru]

Same not as you said, but has anyone else played Where the Wild things are? It's actually a pretty good game. and the ending made me kinda sad.

 

[TheSolemnHypnotic]

Dude, I got sad at the end of the Uncharteds. XD But really Heavenly Sword made me cry. And inFamous 2 made me get a little teary-eyed.

 

[Truniron]

Indeed.
When I first tried the Death Knight class in Wrath of the Lich King, I came across a quest telling me to go and execute a captured Night Elf (I was playing a Night Elf Death Knight and therefore had to kill the Nigh Elf). WhenI got into the little house with all the prisoners, I walked up and out of nowhere the night elf told this story about the characters childhood and ho I used to be, which honestly made me cry. I seriously whished I could walk away, or let someone else do the job.
I actually had to take a 15 min break just to cry. I never cmpleeted the quest and shortly after I deleted the Death Knight, just because I looked at her as a heartless monster.

 

[Arkvoodle]

Maria. Gears of War 2.

 

[mandaforever]

Indeed.
When I first tried the Death Knight class in Wrath of the Lich King, I came across a quest telling me to go and execute a captured Night Elf (I was playing a Night Elf Death Knight and therefore had to kill the Nigh Elf). WhenI got into the little house with all the prisoners, I walked up and out of nowhere the night elf told this story about the characters childhood and ho I used to be, which honestly made me cry. I seriously whished I could walk away, or let someone else do the job.
I actually had to take a 15 min break just to cry. I never cmpleeted the quest and shortly after I deleted the Death Knight, just because I looked at her as a heartless monster.

I know this is off-topic to the thread, but your avatar is Lufia!! I didn't actually know that anyone else in the world had played that game. The Game Boy Color version of Lufia actually made me sad at the end, I thought it was a really great RPG with a great soundtrack.

Thanks for the nostalgia!

 

[madwarper]

Cry? Yes. Feel like a tool? Yes. But, not simultaneuously.

Spoiler: Lost Odyssey (spoilers)

When Kaim's daughter dies, it was a bit of a tearjerker, and I'll admit I welled up a bit.
Then, as soon as the cut scene ended, I have to go do 2 fetch quests and a mini game to properly mourn her death? Not cool.

 

[Truniron]

Indeed.
When I first tried the Death Knight class in Wrath of the Lich King, I came across a quest telling me to go and execute a captured Night Elf (I was playing a Night Elf Death Knight and therefore had to kill the Nigh Elf). WhenI got into the little house with all the prisoners, I walked up and out of nowhere the night elf told this story about the characters childhood and ho I used to be, which honestly made me cry. I seriously whished I could walk away, or let someone else do the job.
I actually had to take a 15 min break just to cry. I never cmpleeted the quest and shortly after I deleted the Death Knight, just because I looked at her as a heartless monster.

I know this is off-topic to the thread, but your avatar is Lufia!! I didn't actually know that anyone else in the world had played that game. The Game Boy Color version of Lufia actually made me sad at the end, I thought it was a really great RPG with a great soundtrack.

Thanks for the nostalgia!

!Of Topic!

Yes, I LOVE the Lufia games! The two first on the SNES was the best part of my childhood and the game boy game made me carry the awesomess everywhere. Sadly, the SNES broke and I had to sell the games. The GB game I cannot find

 

[Azure Knight-Zeo]

Two come to mind. First was Silent Hill 2's "elevator scene" that put me in a down mood. And then there's Sonic Unleashed, and it wasn't the good kind of sad like above.

 

[Gralian]

Not sad for being an arsehole, but sad because it's genuinely affecting me emotionally. I've recently picked up Dragon Age Origins again and am playing through it. I'm about to go to the Landsmeet, and although i've never finished the game before, i know what's going to ultimately happen in the end (roughly, anyway). It wouldn't be so bad if i went for the ending that makes you king or you go live with Leliana and it's all sunshine and roses, but i instead got far too attached to Morrigan. I want my character to have a 'happy ever after' with her, but i know what's coming in the end...

Spoiler: Dragon Age Origins and Witch Hunt spoilers ahoy

I know that regardless of what happens or what we share, Morrigan will leave at the end, never to be seen until the last few moments of Witch Hunt. What makes it worse is that the child you both should have is ultimately doomed from the Dark Ritual. And to cap it all off, when you do finally see her again in Witch Hunt, she is to walk through the Eluvian - with, or without you - to what will most likely be her death, considering that is where the Blight supposedly originates from. While i am certainly going to go with her through the Eluvian, it is still a bittersweet thing to know that whether you die in battle with the Arch-demon or die in the realm beyond the Fade, neither of you will make it to a happily ever after.

What makes it even worse is how she constantly bangs on about it being better for everybody if you just leave each other be, and when you finally get her to soften up and allow herself to be vulnerable, it turns out in the end that she was right to put up those walls of hers. I do not know if we'll see the Warden in Dragon Age 3, or how it can possibly follow on from the effects of Witch Hunt, but i can at least hope that this is not the last we hear of him / her.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Maria. Gears of War 2.

This and Tai.

Another contender is Nier. Damn, so many teary-eyed moments.

 

[Cabal_Therapist]

Mother 3.

Yeah, pretty much that's all you need to say, anyone who's played the game will know what scenes are really hard hitting (and if you haven't go play it like right now)

Also- go to Romani Ranch on the night of the Third Day in Majora's Mask (You'll need to have saved Romani from the aliens on the first night though) and talk to Cremia and Romani. All of my sads.

 

[Markgraf]

The last hour or so of Crisis Core. There is no bigger tearjerker in gaming for me.

 

[Foxblade618]

The ending of Red Dead Redemption pulled at my heartstrings a bit

 

[Tonythion]

Do I really need to put the spoiler warning?
and not much makes me sad in video games except this...

Spoiler: Portal 2 (spoiler)

Honestly when Wheatley is left to wander space for the rest of his life...don't care much for Space Core because he likes it

Don't laugh at me, I loved Wheatley

 

[Gamble1221]

Red Dead Redemption in the end...

 

[Jfswift]

I felt bad the other day while playing the starter mission in Phantasy Star Zero on Gameboy DS. You initially wander into (intrude upon) the hunter's headquarters and sign up for a job without first even being hired there. It's a rescue mission, and you arrive too late to save this person, hearing them scream right before they perish. I felt kind of awful tbh. I know it's just a game but the decision I made was a bit irresponsible. It's unusual I see games with a mature storyline where there aren't always happy endings.

 

[00slash00]

so many games. i get far more emotionally invested in games than i do in movies or books.

second playthrough of nier, when i had to fight the wolf boss...im not ashamed to say i was tearing up

the ending of final fantasy 10

the ending of snake eater