Sorry, should I be sad right now?

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Yeah.

Like Midna's Despair in Twilight Princess

Man, that was just boring.

Welcome to the Escapist!
We'll make sure you enjoy your stay.
Just don't go into the basement.
Never go into the basement.

You and that damn basement! One of these days I'm gonna go down there, just to see what's there! Then you'll be sorry, you'll all be sorry!

I'm sorry, I'm getting off message. OT:

In GUN, There's a moment I think you're supposed to feel sorry for a whore getting her throat slashed, but it means literally nothing to anyone.

The end of Project Sylpheed springs to mind as well, as do some of the soul calibur endings.

 

[Gigaguy64]

The only time i can think of(im a emotional guy) was in FF7: Could be a SPOILER, you never know

Spoiler: Click Me For Spoils

Aries Dies, granted i never got that far but, after watching play through's people have done, i dont think that would change if i did play the game all the way through.

why not just do a spoiler?

i honestly dont know.....
Color tag's just came to mind first.

Should have done it like this.

Lol, that's cool.
Ill haft to try that.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

Dragon Age when Duncan and King Cailan got killed..i saw that coming from miles away.

 

[GonzoGamer]

Pretty much every "emotional" moment in any game.

 

[Berserker119]

Mass Effect 1:

Spoiler

Having to make the call on whether Ashley or Kaiden dies wasn't really "sad" but was more a difficult and depressing choice.

that was the easiest video game choice ever.

Spoiler

she killed wrex! die!

 

[lwm3398]

Never go into the basement.

The basement? *...Shudder...*

Never again.

A lot of the time in the Grand Theft Auto games. Seriously, if I wanted a sob story I'd play something else; Let me jack cars, dammit!

 

[end_boss]

I can't think of a good video game example, but I have one from a movie.

SPOILERS regarding THE GODFATHER PART 3

Spoiler

At the end of the movie, Michael Corleone's daughter is accidentally killed after an assassination attempt on Michael goes awry. At this moment, Michael faces the ultimate punishment for the life that he chose as he has to watch his daughter die in his arms. The problem was the fact that the daughter (played by Sofia Coppola, the director's own daughter) was so poorly cast and so untalented that the audience had been waiting the entire three hour movie, hoping that she would somehow die. As a result, the moment that was supposed to be the ultimate tragedy of the series turned out to be a satisfying moment that people end up cheering for.

 

[V TheSystem V]

Most probably when Sullivan gets killed at the start of CoD5. I didnt even know the charater, yet the game practically demandd we show sympathy. Aint happening Treyarch,, aint happening

 

[Aesir23]

Devil May Cry.

When Trish or whatever her name was died.

In fact I don't think I've ever cared about a Capcom character.

Well I don't blame you.

Friggin' Ninja!

 

[The Heik]

My mantra was "don't care, don't care, don't care, just let me shoot things"

Mine is roughly the same mantra "Don't care, don't care, don't care, let me blow things up"

OT: The Dom's wife dying scene in Gears 2. This case made my mantra "don't care, don't care, don't care, let me chainsaw some faces"

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I think you people are just cold hearted. Admitidly there are scenes that are supposed to be emotional that are done poorly, but many of the one's you're mentioning aren't among them.

 

[wildpeaks]

Having to abandon a teammate in the first Mass Effect:

Spoiler

Ô what infinite joy of finally getting rid of Ashley \o/

 

[Katana314]

Everyone has mentioned the Dom's wife scene in GoW 2, I think we all agree. I actually wanted to write this parody:

Dom's wife: Dom! You found me! Oh, thank god! Thank god!
Dom: Honey! You're alive! But you're...my god.
DW: They did horrible things to me, Dom...I was starved, they cut my hair, I felt so much pain...but I'm with you now!
Dom: You're...you're not...hot anymore...
DW: What are you saying...?
Dom: I'm sorry...I can't live with you like this.
DW: Dom, what are you doing? Is...is that a gun?
Marcus: It's okay, Dom.
DW: NO! You two, stop! I'm alive, I'm- *BLAM*
Dom: Dammit...this whole experience is going to make jerking off to her picture a lot harder.

Sorry, enough raunchy jokes.

In any game where death becomes over-prevalent and unpredictable it just becomes hard to sympathize. I'm playing through FEAR 2 and can only guess when each character involved is going to be killed off. And hell, it can come from anywhere; a biotic psycho-tentacle out of the floor, an invisible assassin, whatever.
Then of course, there ARE games that get it right; where just the THREAT of someone being killed gets you really reeled-in. They're not so common though.

 

[mobsterlobster]

Most of the games I play don't have any emotional moments in them. And if they do, they're done right. But I think I have to agree about Final Fantasy X. I just didn't care about the character in that game compared to the other Final Fantasy games. Maybe it's cos they had voices, but I can't quite put my finger on it.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Everything in Dead Space with the whole wife business...
Like Yathzee said, the guy is like a brick and I couldn't even care less if I tried to realllly hard.

 

[Darktau]

Mass effect number one:

Spoiler: Moderate spoiler

Ashley vs. Kaidan, god I hated ashley, easy choice .

 

[KAPTAINmORGANnWo4life]

Well, I can count on one hand the amount of times I have cared about a plot element in a game, but one that always made me laugh was the Death Scene in Final Fantasy 7.

Oh, and whenever someone gets brutally murdered in a game it tends to get more of an "OHHHH!" reaction from me.