Single most depressing moment in a game

[SoranMBane]

Call of Duty 4

Spoiler

When Sgt. Jackson gets nuked, and the end, where Griggs is shot while trying to pull you to safety and Gaz is executed by Zakhaev while all you can do is lie there helpless and watch.

Half-Life 2: Episode 2

Spoiler

Eli's death, obviously, and a bit in the antlion tunnels where you come across a dead body sitting in a chair with blood on the wall behind his head and a shotgun by his hand, with the obvious implication being that he had been the sole survivor of whatever it was that had happened in the previous room.

Also the ending to Assassin's Creed II, while not an outright tear-jerker, just seemed extremely unfair after all that Ezio had gone through to get there, and that ***** couldn't even be bothered to answer a few questions for him.

 

[Mariakitten]

Spoiler

when...when, when Bill died in L4D2 the passing!

 

[caz105]

snip

Dude spoiler? Seems pretty important to be honest.
Resistance 2 ending.

Spoiler

I really thought he was going to live for a third game does this mean we will be that guy who shot him?

 

[Kraj]

The darkness

Spoiler

When you have to watch Paulie shoot Jenny in the head

Thankyou. The only game that ever remotely tugged a heartstring for me, and by tugged I mean stomped all over it because I identified so much with how Jackie felt, was the Darkness.

Your mentor tries to kill you, you come back cursed.
Try to do right, girlfriend dies.
Try to avenge her, only get several seconds with her and told you won't go to heaven to be with her.
End all be all f*ck my life game. But I couldn't stop replaying it.

 

[Tearopenthelives]

Toward the end of Fable 2, when your dog is shot protecting you.

What is even more depressing though and nearly broke my soul in two, was that for one if you revisit the hill where he was shot there is a tiny grave saying,
"Here lies your faithful companion, he died as he lived, by your side"
And then if you go to the Demon door that requires dog tricks to open a ghost dog appears for the door, though luckily I did not experience that one.

I was a little upset in Fallout 3 when you return to vault 101 and your friend (Amanta) asks for help saying that the password is her name, if you still remember it. I had forgotten

 

[Dango]

If anyone disagrees with me they have no soul

Call of Duty 2: Big Red One- Brooklyn dying is the saddest thing I will ever see in my entire life.

 

[The Madman]

The Longest Journey

Spoiler: How cheerful!

Congrats, you're *not* the chosen one! Your life is in ruins, you can't return home, one of your best friends was just shot and the other blames you for it, it's revealed your father beat you as a child to the point of nearly crippling you, and there's a shadowy organization out for your blood.

Thanks for that whole 'saving the world' thing by the way. Now go away!

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

For THIS reason. Read the article, it's extremely good and not very long.

Planescape: Torment

Erm... the torment continues, and the only way to end it is to essentially sell your soul for all eternity into another form of torment. Joy?

That's not even very big of a spoiler, practically the theme of the game: You're doomed!

 

[MrDead]

When you find out Lisa is dead in Silent Hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm2w4aSpiqs

 

[BearCavalry9496]

Losing so many people in my first Mass Effect 2 playthrough.
At least 6 coffins.

 

[MrDead]

All I can say is, the ending of Fallout 3. I've never been more disappointed in my life.

NO!!! The ending of Fallout 1 is depressing, after pretty much saving your vault and the entire whats left of the world when you go return to the vault, well this happens. (obvious spoiler) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_P086L5LU someone embed this for me please, I don't know how.

Hey yeah duh. Definitely.

 

[vivadelkitty]

Kinda depressing in Zelda: Link's Awakening when you find out that

Spoiler

The entire island is the Wind Fish's dream and you're basically killing everyone on it by completing your quest

Also, the argument with Wrex in Mass Effect where I had to convince him it was in everyone's best interests to destroy the genophage cure made me depressed afterwards. No, I did not kill him, it just made me feel horrible trying to justify destroying an entire race's hope for survival.

 

[vivadelkitty]

Majora's Mask: reuniting Kaifei with Anju.

For those that don't know, the basic story of MM is that the moon will crash into Termina in 3 days, killing everybody. You have the power to go back in time 3 days as much as you want (like Groundhog day). Now, there are a lot of sidequests, but the biggest one is to reunite Kafei with his fiancee Anju. If you do this quest (which takes all three days and requires you to be on time for everything relevant), then they get reunited just a minute before the moon comes to kill you all. After re-trying countless times, I did it and got the reward.

I then had to play the song of time and go back to the past. I still had my reward, but Kafei and Anju were apart once again. Nothing you do to help these people will ever benefit them for more than a few days, at best.

The whole game was filled with emotion; there was the postman that vowed to do his job. His job was to deliver the city's mail, and he did it. The mayor never told him to leave the city when the moon was coming down, so he stayed there, praying for a message to come allowing him to leave.

Or the deku butler that lost his son. Later, you see a gnarled old tree. Upon closer inspection, you can see that it is an old, deformed dead deku (it is rumored that the deku mask you get contains the soul of the son; the skullkid killed him to torment you). After you beat the game, you see the butler crying over the remains of his son.

Also, this. I'm playing through Majora's Mask for the first time, and the entire game has a very depressing air about it.

 

[Aerodynamic]

The bad ending of inFamous I guess.

Spoiler

Your girlfriend curses you with her dieing breath, your best friend betrays you, you find out that the bad guy was you, and you just turned the entire city into a uninhabitable wasteland.

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

Definitely GOW2 When Dom shoots his wife. That was really depressing for me.

 

[randomite88]

-snip-

P.S. Who is that girl in your avatar? I've seen a few avatars of her but I never caught her name.

Hayley Williams from Paramour

 

[Blueruler182]

When they took away the advanced Gravity Gun when in Half-Life 2. So sad... So sad...

 

[darksolgamer]

The darkness

Spoiler

When you have to watch Paulie shoot Jenny in the head

Thankyou. The only game that ever remotely tugged a heartstring for me, and by tugged I mean stomped all over it because I identified so much with how Jackie felt, was the Darkness.

Your mentor tries to kill you, you come back cursed.
Try to do right, girlfriend dies.
Try to avenge her, only get several seconds with her and told you won't go to heaven to be with her.
End all be all f*ck my life game. But I couldn't stop replaying it.

I don't think any other game got me more depressed than playing The Darkness. Great game, though.

 

[JimJamJahar]

Well, some of the choices in Fahrenheit were quite depressing.

Also, when party members die in Mass Effect 2.

 

[motyr]

i wanted to cry when navi left in zelda: oot

 

[Areck]

Left 4 Dead 2

Spoiler

Finding Bill in the new DLC. Its actually wrecked me, which is surprising me. Every 10 minutes or so I find myself thinking "Bills dead...". Might have something to do with the fact that my dads a viet vet currently in the hospital. A respectable man and probably why I'm so caught up in Bill's passing.

It was really hard for me to stay focused right after seeing it though. The phrase was basically printed across my mind the entire finale.