Tragic characters or characters you feel sorry for in video games
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Lots of mentions from Dark Souls, but mine is from Demon's Souls. Maiden Astrea has some sad story.
I really felt like the bad guy after that boss fight, it affected me to the rest of the whole game.
From what I remember, she gives up on her humanity to help ease the pain of the creatures who were once humans. She's just down there with her guardian (Who's probably in love with her), and asks only to be left alone. But you have to go there and kill one of them, and the other just dies because can't go on.
I really felt like the bad guy after that boss fight, it affected me to the rest of the whole game.
Sure he's insane and borderline evil (especially considering that MOMO scene in Episode I. But Albedo is/was an amazing character. I went from absolutely hating him to being genuinely upset when he 'died' in Ep.2 (and 3). His back story and character development were phenomenal.
There are a lot of obvious ones I could pull from, but I'm going to go to one that nobody will probably mention- Saren Arterius from the first Mass Effect. Sure, he's an Antagonist, granted, he was a violent ends-justify-means psychopath prior to the tragedy I'll be bringing up, but... Indoctrination. In just about every conversation and every fact I find out about him post the intro questing on the Citadel, I feel more and more sorry for him, similar to how I feel for Matriarch Benezia (and just about anyone else that ends up indoctrinated because they thought they were doing the right thing).
Especially pronounced in the conversations on Virmire and the finale if you take the right line of dialog. He knows it's bad, and thought he was doing the right thing, but he's being influenced, and starts to know it, it's just... I felt bad for him. Props to the voice actor and animations team for conveying that emotion.
Especially pronounced in the conversations on Virmire and the finale if you take the right line of dialog. He knows it's bad, and thought he was doing the right thing, but he's being influenced, and starts to know it, it's just... I felt bad for him. Props to the voice actor and animations team for conveying that emotion.
Sheriff McBain and his wife in Fallout New Vegas.
I always felt like there should have been an opportunity to save them, or at least one of them. The interesting part is that if you resurrect Mrs. McBain via console commands, you can enter dialogue with her. Granted, the only option is to say goodbye, but that's more than what you can do with the sheriff, who you can't even enter dialogue with in the first place. This may indicate that she was supposed to play a role in one of Primm's quests, but was scrapped for whatever reason.
That said, there are a lot of "tragic" characters in New Vegas and the Fallout franchise as a whole and most of them actually have relevance to the story other than "oh, they died a while ago".
It's always the small things that get to me though.
I always felt like there should have been an opportunity to save them, or at least one of them. The interesting part is that if you resurrect Mrs. McBain via console commands, you can enter dialogue with her. Granted, the only option is to say goodbye, but that's more than what you can do with the sheriff, who you can't even enter dialogue with in the first place. This may indicate that she was supposed to play a role in one of Primm's quests, but was scrapped for whatever reason.
That said, there are a lot of "tragic" characters in New Vegas and the Fallout franchise as a whole and most of them actually have relevance to the story other than "oh, they died a while ago".
It's always the small things that get to me though.
Asura from Asura's Wrath. The guy may seem like Kratos and the Hulks love child on the surface, he has shown to love others. He was betrayed by his allies, his wife murdered, his daughter Mithra turned into a living battery to power their weapons and he was cast down to Earth vowing vengeance. He tore through the armies of soldiers who used to look up to him, dies 3 times and comes back, fought his teacher and father figure Augus to the death on the Moon, watch as a little girl he befriended get crushed by rocks and missiles while the bad guy shows no care for what she has done, fought a planet sized gohma named Vlitra and even went up against the God of Creation Chakravartin all to save his daughter and make sure she's happy.
While I feel like I'm probably the only person who thinks this. I felt pretty damn sorry for Gabriel Belmont by the time I finished Lords of Shadow and Mirror of Fate.
While I'm looking forward to Lords of Shadow 2, I'm also a bit worried about just how much more Gabriel is going to be jerked around.
He loses his wife.
Is betrayed by his faith.
Is tormented by nightmares and visions that leave him filled with doubt.
Is fed false hope,
Is manipulated by those around him,
Is forced into a confrontation with Satan himself,
Is refused his hope of getting his wife back along side being betrayed by her,
Is forced to become a vampire in order to fight a monster unwittingly unleashed by his own actions,
Unknowingly fights and kills his own son that he did not know he had and only discovers is his son moments before he dies despite desperately trying to save him,
And if that wasn't enough, he then has to fight his now vampiric son AND his grandson.
Can you blame him for being pissed off at God, or suicidal?
Is betrayed by his faith.
Is tormented by nightmares and visions that leave him filled with doubt.
Is fed false hope,
Is manipulated by those around him,
Is forced into a confrontation with Satan himself,
Is refused his hope of getting his wife back along side being betrayed by her,
Is forced to become a vampire in order to fight a monster unwittingly unleashed by his own actions,
Unknowingly fights and kills his own son that he did not know he had and only discovers is his son moments before he dies despite desperately trying to save him,
And if that wasn't enough, he then has to fight his now vampiric son AND his grandson.
Can you blame him for being pissed off at God, or suicidal?
While I'm looking forward to Lords of Shadow 2, I'm also a bit worried about just how much more Gabriel is going to be jerked around.
Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid. The amount of crap that this guy has seen is unbelievable. And for all of the great things he's done, he still doesn't believe he's a hero.
"I'm no hero... I'm just an old killer... hired to do some wetwork."
Another character that hits a soft spot for me is The King of Sorrow from Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil. Poor guy just wanted people to recognize his kingdom.
"I'm no hero... I'm just an old killer... hired to do some wetwork."
Another character that hits a soft spot for me is The King of Sorrow from Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil. Poor guy just wanted people to recognize his kingdom.
Now this character is really minor, but I'm going to have to say...
Your brother in Fable 3. He has to store up and save up all this fucking (easy as hell to get after getting involved in a little something I like to call BUYING ALL THE FUCKING HOUSESSSS but never mind.) money to fight against a threat, be seen as a tyrant all to save a bunch of people that are incredibly ungrateful - just imagine the sheer amount of threats, curses and insults thrown at him, assassination attempts and hatred right alongside with them.
'But he killlllls someone!'
Kill one to save a hundred....(of the most obnoxious npcs to ever live)
'But he killlllls someone!'
Kill one to save a hundred....(of the most obnoxious npcs to ever live)