Saddest deaths in videogames

[TheRussian]

Star Wars: Republic Commando

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Sev. What gets me is the way the team, especially Scorch, react. They're at each other's throats the entire way through the game and yet at the end you realise just how inseparable a team they are.

This. Oh God, this.
As for me:

Spec Ops: The Line.

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"I- I never meant to hurt anyone."
"No one ever does, Walker."

And it gets even worse if you let Martin Walker live.

 

[Occams_Razor]

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Mordin in ME3.

Fucking seashells, man...

 

[Zantos]

Special mention to Gears of War 3

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Dom's death just hit me like a truck, it took me so long to accept that he wasn't around any more

And Modern Warfare 2

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The deaths of Ghost and Roach... I swear, I have never felt so betrayed before in my whole life....Just the way that whole scene worked out was perfect..It was grim, emotional and it left me completely distraught

Good call on both counts, though I would instead say special mention to Gears 2

Spoiler: Gears 2 Sadness :(

Starts 2:42

2:01

Top comment on another upload of the second one is "Dom didn't die in Gears 3...This is when he died..."

EDIT: Tried to be clever with the vids but didn't work. Times to watch from posted.

 

[Fredrikorex]

I'd have to say a certain death in The walking dead, this made me cry like a baby ;(

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I couldn't get the whole part but this is good enough.

Also that other part that other people have already said.

EDIT: This guy below is right, learn how to put spoiler tags on spoilers.

 

[anthony87]

Oh look at that....two people spoil the ending of the Walking Dead. Guess that saves me having to play the other four episodes.

 

[Hawkeye 131]

Spoiler: Mass Effect 3 spoiler

Had to be me, someone else might have gotten it wrong

Edited: thanks for the heads up

THIS!!!

Just thinking about it damn near brings me to tears... Such an awesome character with an amazing story arc! Followed closely by Cortana in Halo 4.

 

[The Almighty Aardvark]

SotC

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Not the one you're probably thinking of. Wander's death hit me the hardest. The way he reaches powerlessly towards Mono always gets me.

 

[Artina89]

I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but these scenes in Deadly premonition always brings a tear to my eye

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and

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...I love this game so much.

 

[Ieyke]

I'm almost sure that I'm going to be the only one to list this, but Christina's death in Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

Christina single-handedly switched my view of Ezio from
"Holy shit this dude is awesome! DANANANANANANA RENAISSANCE BATMAN!!!!"
to
"Dude....I'm soooo sorry. Everyone in your life that matters most ends up dying... Everything you love is taken away from you. Your life is nothing but soul-crushing misery and revenge..."

 

[Fisher321]

Red Dead Redemption...

That is all

 

[Proverbial Jon]

Silent Hill 3

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Harry Mason at the beginning of the game, especially when you don't realise just who Heather's dad is. It came as quite a shock to me. I spent so much time with the man in Silent Hill, we went through hell together and all he gets is a lousy murder off screen. I couldn't even do anything to prevent it...

Honourable mentions for the games already covered:

Half Life 2: Episode 2

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Eli Vance

The Walking Dead

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Carly, Duck and Lee

Metal Gear Solid 3

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The Boss

Silent Hill

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Lisa Garland

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

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April Ryan..?

Bioshock 2

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Augustus Sinclair.

Don't look at me like that! I know the game was awful but I grew quite attached to the man and what Sofia Lamb did to him was quite horrible.

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

The ending to Crisis Core. I already knew what was going to happen, and I still teared up.

 

[recruit00]

This one is old enough so no spoiler tags.

Magus and Crono in Chrono Trigger.

Crono is your big man who is Luminaring stuff like a boss then you get up to Lavos in a tense scene and... there he goes. And the way he goes. The giant Lavos laser. FMV from the PS1 version is key for this. Also, Janus warning of the death is even sadder.

Then, there is Magus in the non-canon ending. When you meet him at the Northern Cove after the Blackbird, you can either have Frog decide not to fight because it is not worth it or you can fight him with just Frog. Even when you beat him, he is willing to help you save Crono.

 

[Scarecrow1001]

Well... Red Dead Redemption had a horribly sad ending... T'was the only death that brought me close to tears...

 

[Justyn Stahll]

This might be an odd one but Fallout 3
And this is common knowledge to a lot of people but

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Your Dad dies and Liberty Prime

The thing that makes this sad, for me anyway, is just the utter helplessness of it. You go around attempting to save him and in the end, NOTHING, NOTHING can save him, you just have to watch.

And the other one because he's such badass and he just dies in a "WTF just happened" moment where you are left dumbfounded.

 

[otakon17]

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Duck's death in The Walking Dead.

It made me cry my eyes out.

 

[Judgment90]

I would have to say Lavitz from Legend of Dragoon.

He showed what a true knight is by bravely sacrificing himself to protect his king and friend. Also, he seemed like an older brother to Dart. Not only that, he was a pretty likeable character and eerily relatable to real-life death.

 

[Gatx]

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Rings of Fate. Not 100% why it affected me so much when I got to it but man, when

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Chelinka

died I couldn't help but cry. Maybe it's because it was just a different sort of tone than I was used to because even after I saved the world, everything was happy for everybody except the main character, and then that happens on top of that.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Spec Ops: The Line.

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Lugo's lynching by the refugees. It was just so sudden and brutal, and the entire atmosphere while Walker and Adams tried to save him while a group of refugees tried to attack them. And nobody in that game ever dies cleanly, they have to die by rotting or being beaten apart.

 

[Kilroy17]

Spoiler spoiler etc. For Borderlands 2.

I'd definitely say Roland's death in Borderlands 2 was the saddest for me. I really liked him in the first game(I played as him) and in the second game as they made him a really cool character.