Single most depressing moment in a game

[StormShaun]

Well I got a few but probably the most popular opinions right now.

Infamous 2: Good ending. You guys should play it, great game. Sad if you get the good ending.
Mass Effect 3: Yeah...nothing could help that ending.

Others.

Fable 2: The end. We all know this one.
Fallout 3 without Broken Steel.

Those ones are the saddest I have ever played.

 

[DugMachine]

Hmm not a moment per say but Majora's Mask had such a depressing atmosphere and to this day it makes me sad.

 

[Gone Rampant]

Losing Tali at the end of my first ME2 playthrough.

 

[Sethlad]

Spec Ops: The Line... if you've played it you know what "moment" I'm talking about. If not... there be spoilers.

Spoiler

The aftermath of the white phosphorous attack. Watching all the destruction and that image with the burnt mother holding her burnt child after happily bombarding little white dots in a computer screen... felt like turning off the computer and go cry in a corner

 

[Rumpsteak]

Shadow of the Colossus

Spoiler

When Agro falls into the canyon. I cried.

Spoiler

Agro lived.

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

It's hard to pick one moment, so I'll just list four moments from different games.

Mass Effect: Virmire. "It's all right, Commander. I don't regret a thing."

Mass Effect 2: Tali's loyalty mission. If you say you did not give her a hug, you are a liar, my friend.

Mass Effect 3: Thessia. That is definitely the low point of the series, to me, in terms of making you feel like you are helpless against the threat of the Reapers.

L.A. Noire: That ending...jeez, talk about a pounding to my emotions.

 

[Mysten]

Fable III:

Spoiler

Walter Beck being tortured by the Darkness in Darkness Incarnate and then being forced to abandon him in the scorching desert as the Darkness taunts you over your decision to leave him behind. Then being forced to kill him in Do The Ends Justify The Means? to free him from the Darkness once and for all.

Mass Effect 3:

Spoiler

Mordin. Just... Mordin. Also, Thessia. Fucking Thessia.

Metal Gear Solid:

Spoiler

The Meryl dies ending. The depressing quality of this game has since been completely negated by my inability to not think of Voidburger's Liquid Snake impression from Chip Cheezum's Let's Play of the game during these scenes though. "My inferior genes!"

Fallout: New Vegas:

Spoiler

Selling Arcade into slavery as Caesar's personal doctor. The epilogue reveals that he eventually disembowels himself with a scalpel rather than serve him any longer.

 

[EviladeBlazingDemon]

Gamma's ending in Sonic Adventure when he self-destructs (or he dies from damage in the final battle, I never really figured it out).

Yeah I'm not really a serious or hardcore gamer.

 

[spartandude]

In world of warcraft, that quest line in the eastern plaguelands where that little girl just wants her father....

 

[MBurdock]

Any time a game shows the time you've clocked in it is depressing.

More to the point, a lot of games try so hard to tug at the heartstrings (I'm looking at you JRPGs and Bioware), but I found some of the games that don't try all that hard at it to be the most effective. Surprisingly, inFamous got me.

Spoiler

Zeke's betrayal to get ray sphere powers and his failure were depressing.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

The Darkness
And

That and the processing scene from ME2
Jeez after watching that scene I put the controller down. It was just so gut wrenchingly disturbing to me and bone crushingly depressing.
I reloaded and put the game down looking for a way to save Edith. Sadly, I was unsuccessful...
I still can?t watch the scene now. But I am glad to say I have never nor will I ever have that happen or so much as witness it happen to Kelly.

Of course there have been other saddening moments that have affected me in games(Fable 3, Bioshock 2 ending, Apology message in ME2 and Kaidan in ME1) but these are the ones that have had the deepest affect on me.

 

[sonofliber]

the ending of persona 3
when my great leader, whom i have been playing since he was 10 (and after bloddy struggles against rebelious vassals, infidels, assasiantions attemps and foreing power) die at the age of 85. he wasbeloved by all, worship by many as a saint, a skillfull commander, great diplomat, and overall nice and tolerant person who brought untold riches to the people, die, only for his real to be carved appart by his ambituos (and assholes, also 1 retarded)sons(everything he worked for destroy), before his body was cold, i felt sad there (also this was a ck2 game)