I never thought that you would do what you did in the infamous ending. That game actually made me care about the characters. I came so close to crying, and the credits music didn't help either.Sexy Devil said:
Saddest Cutscenes (HUGE spoilers!)
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It's one of the few cutscenes that can bring a tear to my eye...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeeFF6WcZE[/youtube]
Everything is depressing in this cutscene... Rhaknam was basically the product of an experiment by an ancient civilisation. Drachma has wasted the last 20 years of his life hunting this creature, and has spent the last few weeks sitting a few kilometers underground completly alone, waiting for it to die. And Rhaknam fucking cries before dropping the purple crystal.
Everything is depressing in this cutscene... Rhaknam was basically the product of an experiment by an ancient civilisation. Drachma has wasted the last 20 years of his life hunting this creature, and has spent the last few weeks sitting a few kilometers underground completly alone, waiting for it to die. And Rhaknam fucking cries before dropping the purple crystal.
It's one of the few cutscenes that can bring a tear to my eye...
Not really saddening, but more emotionally charged.
I'll be honest, I can't think of all that many genuinely saddening cutscenes or sequences or story points in gaming... I guess because so many of the 'sad' moments always seem to be motivators towards anger or justifiers for what comes next, rather than emotional triggers for their own sake, or maybe that's just the sort of games I play.
For example, in StarLancer (I know, ancient history to most, but I still have good memories of it, and it means that atleast I can talk about this without putting it in spoilers, albeit without naming names), two characters kill themselves by ramming their ships into enemies, either in an effort to take the bastards with them, or to stop them from escaping the Alliance fleet.
In the case of the former, whilst yes, there is a genuine feeling of sadness, the main feeling is one of failure. In the latter, any shred of sadness is overriden immediately by the near frantic need to make the character's sacrifice worth something and so kill the bastards, and then further overridden by the massive victory that it represents (that being the climax of the final mission).
Mass Effect 2, when you find Tali's father on the Alarei. I couldn't hit the paragon interrupt fast enough, all the while hoping to hell it did what I really wanted to do (i.e. hug her). So glad that it did do that.
I'll be honest, I can't think of all that many genuinely saddening cutscenes or sequences or story points in gaming... I guess because so many of the 'sad' moments always seem to be motivators towards anger or justifiers for what comes next, rather than emotional triggers for their own sake, or maybe that's just the sort of games I play.
For example, in StarLancer (I know, ancient history to most, but I still have good memories of it, and it means that atleast I can talk about this without putting it in spoilers, albeit without naming names), two characters kill themselves by ramming their ships into enemies, either in an effort to take the bastards with them, or to stop them from escaping the Alliance fleet.
In the case of the former, whilst yes, there is a genuine feeling of sadness, the main feeling is one of failure. In the latter, any shred of sadness is overriden immediately by the near frantic need to make the character's sacrifice worth something and so kill the bastards, and then further overridden by the massive victory that it represents (that being the climax of the final mission).
To those hollaring about spoilers, there is a huge SPOILER alert in the threads title!
Anyways, yeah... Dom takes the cake, easily. To be honest, that scene broke my heart. I have been playing with a buddy of mine since the first gears and I was always Marcus, and he was always Dom. I had to pause the game and step away just to compose myself, and I am not ashamed to admit that.
Anyways, yeah... Dom takes the cake, easily. To be honest, that scene broke my heart. I have been playing with a buddy of mine since the first gears and I was always Marcus, and he was always Dom. I had to pause the game and step away just to compose myself, and I am not ashamed to admit that.
This. A thousand times this.JackandTom said:
It actually had me cursing myself for buying a Save Carmine avatar shirt
Most of mine have already been posted, so time for a quote-a-thon!
I will say first that I agree about the poster's scene from Gears of War 3. Such great use of music there. Good stuff. That series pulled a few good ones starting with the second one; I was rather impressed.
One of the greatest endings in gaming, in my opinion. The use of inevitability there, where you have control of the character but are ultimately powerless, is freaking brilliant. Such an incredible game.
But in the end, only those who have played Clannad (or watched the anime based on it) can possibly know the true meaning of a sad video game. Clannad rips your heart out, rips it into pieces and stomps each of them into the ground, then slowly stitches it back together completely without painkillers. It's so incredible, so tragic, yet fulfilling and happy... it's astounding.
I won't post any videos because I don't want to contribute to spoiling anything, but I will mention one thing for those who have or will play it: Ushio in the flower field. Never has there been, nor will there be, a single scene so bittersweet and tragically touching in the history of everything.
I will say first that I agree about the poster's scene from Gears of War 3. Such great use of music there. Good stuff. That series pulled a few good ones starting with the second one; I was rather impressed.
Casual Shinji said:
One of the greatest endings in gaming, in my opinion. The use of inevitability there, where you have control of the character but are ultimately powerless, is freaking brilliant. Such an incredible game.
Professor Layton has always been awesome, but this was the first one to really bring on the tears for me. Holy crap, it was so good. The only other Professor Layton thing to make me come close to crying was the movie, which was good, but this scene still takes it all.natster43 said:
But in the end, only those who have played Clannad (or watched the anime based on it) can possibly know the true meaning of a sad video game. Clannad rips your heart out, rips it into pieces and stomps each of them into the ground, then slowly stitches it back together completely without painkillers. It's so incredible, so tragic, yet fulfilling and happy... it's astounding.
I won't post any videos because I don't want to contribute to spoiling anything, but I will mention one thing for those who have or will play it: Ushio in the flower field. Never has there been, nor will there be, a single scene so bittersweet and tragically touching in the history of everything.
Mass Effect 2 when your on that one quarians ship when you play the recording of the Mother telling her son that she love him. That tear me up a little bit.
Lost Odyssey. Kaim and Lirum. I couldn't see the screen for tears after that entire cutscene. Also most of the 1000 Years of Dreams entries make me choke up a bit.