Saddest Gaming Moment

[HalfTangible]

Since games started making plots, there have been little moments which made us laugh like we wanted to blow out our guts, scream like we were in a horror film, and mystified us to no end.

I was watching a personal saddest moment of mine, and i wanted to ask the escapist: What moment in a game tugged at your heartstrings the most?

In my case: it was Avitus' betrayal in Chaos Rising. He had watched everything he had ever believed in be torn down around him, all faith and truth in his world shattered from the Kronus campaign... until finally he just wanted to die himself.


(Honorable mention goes to the bad ending of Tales of Symphonia 2 - i consider that ending a really fancy way of saying 'game over' )

 

[NeutralDrow]

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Probably Final Fantasy VI, immediately after the fight against the Ghost Train. You know what I'm talking about.

Spoiler

Watching Cyan's dead wife and son board the train, hearing their last words to him, knowing there's nothing you can do to save them...

I'm serious. I described that scene to someone who hadn't played the game, and I very nearly couldn't finish, because my throat started to seize up.

(Honorable mention goes to the bad ending of Tales of Symphonia 2 - i consider that ending a really fancy way of saying 'game over' )

Oh god, I'm so glad I only saw that on youtube, and didn't actually get it in the game. I don't think I could have taken it. I was teary-eyed enough that I managed to get the Best Ending and the Perfect Partners titles...

 

[MiracleOfSound]

'Close your eyes honey'
'I love you dad'
'Don't look'

 

[AvsJoe]

Aeris, FFVII.

What can I say? I know it's a cliche answer but that scene tugs at my heartstrings every time I get to it. It is the only video game scene to ever make me shed a tear.

 

[frozen_scarecrow]

For me, there are two. In Saints Row 2 when oyu put Carlos out of his misery. After that, I went on a killing spree of all those brotherhood jerks. The second was the ending of Link's Awakening for the gameboy. Everyone I knew, all my friends, vanished in a dreams end *sniff*.

 

[foolish snails]

i remember playing call of duty: big red one on my original xbox. there's a part near the end when one of your guys is running around the corner and he gets sniped, or blown up or something. I can't even remember the details. but that was the first game that i really got invested in. the absolute despair i felt is still memorable, even if the game wasn't.

 

[adragonofgold]

Aeris, FFVII.

What can I say? I know it's a cliche answer but that scene tugs at my heartstrings every time I get to it. It is the only video game scene to ever make me shed a tear.

Second choice then.....
That part in Xenogears. Not even gonna put a link... but if you've played it you know what i'm talking about.

 

[BinkyStalls]

the rabbit in doom

 

[AvsJoe]

Aeris, FFVII.

What can I say? I know it's a cliche answer but that scene tugs at my heartstrings every time I get to it. It is the only video game scene to ever make me shed a tear.

Second choice then.....
That part in Xenogears. Not even gonna put a link... but if you've played it you know what i'm talking about.

Nuts. I keep getting to the castle in the sand in that game before circumstances cause me to stop playing (lost memory card, lost game, broken PS2 in my current case). Now I regret not getting further even more...

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

Tales of Symphonia is the only game to have made me cry, so that is easily the saddest moment.

Spoiler: Specifically

Towards the end when all of your friends give themselves up for you. Your party slowly dwindles down to you and Genis and then, your best friend gives himself up for you. I cried a bit, and then I cried again when it turned out that they were all alive.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Since games started making plots, there have been little moments which made us laugh like we wanted to blow out our guts, scream like we were in a horror film, and mystified us to no end.

I was watching a personal saddest moment of mine, and i wanted to ask the escapist: What moment in a game tugged at your heartstrings the most?

In my case: it was Avitus' betrayal in Chaos Rising. He had watched everything he had ever believed in be torn down around him, all faith and truth in his world shattered from the Kronus campaign... until finally he just wanted to die himself.


(Honorable mention goes to the bad ending of Tales of Symphonia 2 - i consider that ending a really fancy way of saying 'game over' )

I thought Cyrus' and Tarkus' were worse. Tarkus was doing it to save his friends, and Cyrus had been shell shocked since Boreale's disasterous Kaurava campaign.

 

[Jay Cool]

When the horse dies in Shadow of the Colossus for you, also the ending.

No game before or after. Hell I never used Aeris, nor did I blink an eye when it happened, I just thought it was unexpected.

 

[Jay Cool]

How'd I double post? Argh.

 

[Logic 0]

When Goofy "died" in KH2 it was especially troublesome since he was a main character.

 

[wolas3214]

Hrm... mass effect 2, I honeslty liked kelly adn watchign her get liquified was disturbing.. That and while i took the time to get to know and love the people aboard my ship i only went with grunt and garrus on missions so many didnt have their skills and that... made some disaster.. i felt like crying walking past their coffins.

 

[Drexlor]

The ending of Red Dead Redemption. I was left in shock.

 

[Nydestroyer]

I know this is a stupid one and probly not going to hit anyone on the emotiontunal level it did me ..but when i played alundra for the first time when i was like 6 or 7 (somewhere around there) i was so emotionaly attached to Jess no clue why but when (idk how to put the spoiler thing so sorry its an old game so im betting you all have hopefully played it) died i cryed and at the funaral nightmare later in game i was balling i have no clue why but it was weird

 

[GartarkMusik]

In Kingdom Hearts II, at the end of the prologue where Sora wakes up and Roxas says "It looks like my summer vacation is........over." That and the music backing it set up one of the saddest moments I have ever seen in gaming.