"S**t just got real" moments

[Toranilor]

In Mass Effect;

Spoiler

When you have to sacrifice one of your squad on virmire. Even worse if the person you sacrifice is guarding the bomb, then the closing cinematic has them watching the ship fly away... Made me quite sad.

In Dragon Age;

Spoiler

When Duncan and Cailan are killed due to Logain's treachery. Then at the final scene at the landsmeet, where Logain accepts his fate. I really didn't want to kill him then, most morally straining choice I had to make. Killing connnor would have been in there, if it werent for Eamon's wife... annoying little Orlesian.

 

[Baralak]

Fable 2

Spoiler: Do I even need to say it?

Your dog dies.

Oh, you ain't kiddin'! I saw that happen and I just went " Oh NO you did NOT just kill him! Oh, you're dead! I don't care how good I am, you're going to DIE!"


I said the same thing when that bandit in the beginning kicked him.

 

[TyrantGanado]

The ending of Killzone 2.

Spoiler

The Helghast president is dead due to your angry squadmate. You walk outside, oh look, here's every fucking ship on Helghan full of soldiers to come and kill your asses

Shit. Just. Got. Real.

 

[PPB]

Dragon Age: Origins

Spoiler

When Duncan kills the bloke who doesn't want to drink the blood at the start. That really set the tone for the game, though in my opinion the game's corny storyline in-between the prologue and ending dimished its value a bit.

Mass Effect 2

Spoiler

The suicide mission as a whole. I'm really pleased at how they handled the build up toward that point and how your choices of which teammate did what had an impact (though it wasn't hard to pick the right ones using common sense). The last battle with the epic music and all really got me, mostly because BioWare said multiple times that Shep can die. In comparison to Dragon Age, I thought ME2 felt much darker and serious.

TIE Fighter

Spoiler

I was reminded of this when I read scnj's post on the first page. The part when you are betrayed by Harkov was extremely awesome, even more so considering that the guy had (if I remember) a bloody star destroyer while you were in a basic TIE Fighter that could get shot down in 2 hits. TIE Fighter is a good example of a game with terrific gameplay and storyline set in the Star Wars setting, something we unfortunately don't see often these days.

 

[Marine Mike]

A slaver killed Dogmeat...

I proceeded to slaughter everyone in Paradise Falls.

 

[Ze_Reaper_Of_Zeath]

Modern Warfare 2 - Ghost dying. S*** just got REAL Shephards

 

[IronGuy410]

GTA: San Andreas, in the mission at the end of the first city, Los Santos.
Mass Effect 1, attack on the Citadel at the end.
Mass Effect 2, suicide mission + ending.
CoD: MW2, Sheperd killing Roach and Ghost.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

Ganon coming out of the wreckage in Ocarina of Time.
Majora's Mask casting off the 'puppet'.
Bioshock's 'Would you kindly?'
The first time playing a mission of Goldeneye on 00Agent.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Spoiler: kotor

when malak goes "wipe this pathetic planet from the face of the galaxy!" and literally destroys taris

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

The Battle Of A Thousand Heartless in KH2 ... that is until you realize you can make it easy by using QTE, and gets boring over how little of a threat they actually represent.

Final Fantasy X When you

Spoiler

invade Yuna's wedding

Project Zero II & III (Fatal Frame):

Spoiler

when the kusabi first appears

 

[Ponch]

In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 in D.C. when I fought Titanium Man.
I died and thought, "S**t just got real." I then proceeded to die about a half dozen more times.

 

[Gerrawn]

X-Wing Alliance when you Hyperspace to the second Death Star.

 

[Above]

TES: Oblivion when

Spoiler: Look at me

When in one of the last Dark Brotherhood missions you find out that you've killed the entire black hand, which leads to your "boss" being killed, skinned, and hung up as an example...I went oh shit...

No!!! NOT LUCIEN LACHANCE!!!! :'(

 

[OptimalPrime]

Spoiler

Modern Warfare nuke, shit gets very real very fast.

BioShock one, no explanation necessary. "A man chooses, a slave obeys"

 

[darth jacen]

TES: Oblivion when

Spoiler: Look at me

When in one of the last Dark Brotherhood missions you find out that you've killed the entire black hand, which leads to your "boss" being killed, skinned, and hung up as an example...I went oh shit...

No!!! NOT LUCIEN LACHANCE!!!! :'(

I loved him and I hated when I had to do the

Spoiler

Purification

and when he got killed. That guild really had such a great story.

 

[Hawkeye16]

When ghost nappa showed up in ygotas. Shit just got real up in that *****...

 

[XT inc]

Had the quote existed in the late 90's I would have to say When Aeris Died in FF7. As a kid, a main character in your game dies so hardcore you don't get to play them again.

 

[Norik]

In Portal when you're just hanging out on that floating platform near the end of Chamber 19 and then BOOM pit of fire.

 

[Ckeesy]

Spoiler: Fallout 3

Nuking Megaton. Something about obliterating one of the last bastions of humanity left in the wasteland really drove home the feeling of desolateness.

Off topic: does this really need spoiler tags these days? I mean, who hasn't played this game yet?

Spoiler: Mass Effect

Seeing Sovereign, the reaper "ship," right before it takes off from the planet where Nihlus is killed (the name escapes me)

Spoiler: Borderlands

Start of Playthrough 2