Sad deaths of slightly significant characters.

[loremazd]

post screwup, ignore me

 

[Saltyk]

Even though she's more than slightly significant I have to go with Aerith from FF7. Thats my answer because as far as I know its the only time that a game has made me full on cry.

The only non-significant one is General Leo from FF3/6 (whatever you call it) because even though he fought for the bad guys he had morals and looked to be switching sides to fight for the good team until...

Spoiler: FF 3/6 plot

Kefka backstabs the emperor and kills Leo

Before I even started playing the game, my uncle warned me that she died. So I wasn't surprised at all. I was more like "about time" than "NOOOOOOOOOO!" Not sure how I would have felt otherwise.

OT: In Suikoden 2, General Kiba dies in a major battle near the end of the game. It's so sudden and unexpected that it just kind of shocked me.

On top of that, if you didn't recruit all 108 Stars (characters) before the next to last major event, the main character's sister, Nanami, dies protecting him, and his traitorous best friend, from arrows. If you have all the characters, she still gets hit and allegedly dies, but you will learn afterwards that she lived. The insult to injury is that they happen back to back.

Also, I think one or two of the endings has his best friend die as well.

 

[Sargey]

Depends how you played the game, but certain people at the end of Mass Effect 2. First time through I lost Thane Was quite sad. Also lost Jack, but that didn't bother me toooooo much

 

[Kermi]

The Marines in Halo 2. Every time one died I'd revert to last save, thus making the levels 2 hours longer.

In Halo: Reach (I have no idea if you've played it) they actually put the names of the marines following you on screen next to your motion tracker, and a little red X flashes up next to their names when they die.

This usually happens within the first ten seconds of a confrontation when you're playing on legendary.

 

[Chancie]

Well, I have to agree about RE4's Luis.

I was also sad when Daveth from Dragon Age: Origins died. He was so minor but I really liked his character for the little bit of time he was with us.

I also felt really sad when

Spoiler: Spoilers for Nier

the King and Fyra died.

I've never been as attached to minor characters as I was with those two.

 

[Snarky Username]

Wow, modern warfare 2 multiplayer ruined the whole reputation of the game. Even the epic Campaign. When Ghost and Roach died, I was sad and pissed off and shocked.

I was slightly less shocked because that was the third time that happened...

OT:

Spoiler: Apparently I'm the only one here who knows how to use spoiler boxes... HL2 spoilers, by the way.

Dr. Vance

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Luisa in Red Dead Redemption. She really believed that what she was doing would make Mexico a better place, that Abraham Reyes loved her, and that things would be OK after this revolution. Then she got shot, and Reyes didn't give 2 shits. I was annoyed, upset, and a little angry when that happened.

This one. I actually felt for her the entire time and when she died I turned Rambo and killed every mother fucker I could find for about an hour. It was really the first time I had felt any kind of connection to a character in a game and it (no pun intended) killed me when she was shot.

 

[Tattaglia]

ALSO:

When Jenny kicks it in The Darkness. Sure she was a major plot point kinda character, but for the brief time I saw her, I got a good vibe from her. You could just tell that she was the one thing holding back the monster in the man for Jackie. I can relate.

Yeah, definitely this one. It also really defined the Darkness as being completely evil rather than an awesome power with evil tendencies.

Wow, modern warfare 2 multiplayer ruined the whole reputation of the game. Even the epic Campaign. When Ghost and Roach died, I was sad and pissed off and shocked.

I was slightly less shocked because that was the third time that happened...

OT:

Spoiler: Apparently I'm the only one here who knows how to use spoiler boxes... HL2 spoilers, by the way.

Dr. Vance

The thread title is "Sad deaths of slightly significant characters". Why would anyone expect anything other than spoilers?

 

[Sephychu]

Luis Sera from Resident Evil 4 springs to mind. He's done some things wrong, he's trying to help;

Ooops.

I get the feeling I was meant to be a lot more surprised by that scene than I actually was.
Nevertheless, a great character who I wish had turned up more often. Particularly as he was voiced by a former Batman (Rino Romano).
Farewell, sweet Luis. Next time I play through that damn section with the house and the zombies coming through the windows I'll think of you.

I thought it came completely out of nowhere. Crazy evil guy popped up, killed him, then fucked off again. Doesn't really fit with the whole; "Everything is trying to kill you" theme.

 

[YouBecame]

Mordin from Mass Effect 2, I was genuinely in shock and more than a bit gutted =(

I've just completed mass effect 2, and had no one die.
I want to go back and kill off Jack, Tali and Mordin. I have a plan for all 3 =D

 

[JuryNelson]

Saints Row 2: Carlos Mendoza it sucks I couldn't save him.

A strangely somber moment, in a game otherwise hilarious with cartoonish violence.

Makes the second playthrough strangely poignant. Specifically the train ride, where you tell him "I'll make a banger outta you if it kills me."

But then, I'm one of those people who literally overthinks things for a living.

 

[TheCrayonKeeper]

Deputy Weld from Fallout 3

(The robot outside of Megaton)

 

[SpaceGhostPoncherello]

I still recall that scene.

It may seem silly, but one scene like this that I found moving was the death of T.K. in Borderlands.

He was a character you met towards the beginning of the game, but once you got into New Haven, his brother asks you to check on him. When you find him, T.K. is hanging from his fan like a puppet on display.

I liked the guy, and I'm not looking forward to killing him myself in Zombie Island, but if that's what it takes.

Man that was depressing. T.K made me laugh in the beginning.


In Brothers In Arms, a member of the player's squad gets sniped in the head and falls off a building. He never said a word in the game, and I wouldn't be able to tell him appart from the others if I didn't see his name hovering around, but it bummed me out, poor guy.
Fucking nazi bastards.

 

[Talon_Skywarp]

Boba Fett, noooooooooooooo!!!

he never died!

but he was gone for the rest of the movie, so, did he really live?

Crawled out of that bad motherf******. Coz he is that awesome. If only there was a way to get him and batman in a fight...

Anyway, I get annoyed whenever I kill henchman of the main boss. None come to mind but sometimes you sit there thinking

Why do you have to die when I'm surrounded by prats!

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

...That person in Half-Life 2: Episode 2.

Man, what a great scene, but I hated the Strider part before it.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

If anyone reads the Culture novels by Iaian M. Banks...

Spoiler

Nearly ALL of the Special Circumstances or Contact people that are main characters DIE in the end

 

[auronvi]

Even though she's more than slightly significant I have to go with Aerith from FF7. Thats my answer because as far as I know its the only time that a game has made me full on cry.

The only non-significant one is General Leo from FF3/6 (whatever you call it) because even though he fought for the bad guys he had morals and looked to be switching sides to fight for the good team until...

Spoiler: FF 3/6 plot

Kefka backstabs the emperor and kills Leo

I don't understand why people gave a shit that she died. I personally thought she was a bit retarded the way she acted and when she died my reaction was "oh great now I have to use Cait Sith, F***"

Aerith... annoying? She was easily one of the most complicated characters in the game that had a very hard life but was able to live it and keep her optimistic attitude. Lost her parents to ShinRa when she was a baby, lived with a foster mother with no father figure, constantly hounded by strange men who tried to abduct her, lived in poverty, lost her boyfriend who she never heard from again and helps Cloud and his friends for no reason other than the fact she has a huge heart.

She did NOTHING but try and help other people selflessly and her life was ended short for no reason other than a crazy maniacs idea of a perfect world. This is what I would call a tragedy.

On that subject, I think ZACK dying in Final Fantasy: Crisis Core (very significant character I know) got me just as much Aerith dying. I have to play that game again... it was SOOO GOOD!

Forget Aeris, everyone close to Barret Wallace dies. Biggs, Wedge, and Jesse were killed when Shinra took out the entire Sector 7 Plate, and Dyne died twice.

Ya, the first play through that didn't really get to me, but after I played it through a few more times, I understood it better and really felt bad for Barrett. God I love FF7!~

 

[Ultress]

Takeharu Kirijo in I feel bad because he just wanted to atone for the mistakes of his father, also that eye-patch was bad ass. He really loved Mitsuru and just wanted to burden her less.


It's been said already but General Leo,he was so damn awesome and really got screwed over by Kefka.