Saddest Moments in Video Games

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What do you feel are the most emotional moments in video games. Ranging from 2600 to Current Gen. By saddest moments I mean the death of a loved character, sudden change in the story or just the ending of a great game...

For me, ofcourse, Tom The Hot Dog guy from Shenmue. That man was the sunshine of the docks and his music that played in Yokosuka cheered everyone up. When he left to America it was sad because you are where his stand is normally and instead of seeing it the camera pans towards his plane taking off in the air....I want him back, now.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Shit, sorry, this contains a spoiler for Beyond Good and Evil. Black text away!

The only time I ever really felt.... bad in a videogame was during Beyond Good and Evil, when Jade found out that the lighthouse was destroyed, and her dog was the only thing really left.

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Also when pac-man dies...the treaturous cries of pain whowhowhowho bo bo LOL

[o2william]

whowhowhowho bo bo

I don't know why, but seeing Pac-Man's death cry in print is completely cracking me up. LOL LOL

The ending of Snake's Revenge on the NES was a bit sad. Some of your fellow soldiers don't make it. Would've been sadder if you'd really interacted with them during the game, but still fairly heavy stuff for the 8-bit era.

Oh, also the time I played my first Mythicon game. That was a sad day.

[Quintracker]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24137&highlight=saddest+moment

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17677&highlight=saddest+moment


Here's a couple threads to look through that are along the same lines :)

[Sniderman]

The only time I ever really felt.... bad in a videogame was during Beyond Good and Evil, when <blah der blah>.ARRRRGH! I'm playing this for the first time right now and I hadn't reached that point. Dammit. Reading this spoiler was the saddest videogame event I've encountered recently. :(

I'm not angry, just flustered that I stumbled across this spoiler right in the middle of the same game I'm playing now. What're the odds, eh? x_x

[fahrvergnugen]

Well, at least you've still got a good portion of one of the best games of '03 (or any year) left to play.

So it's not all bad.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

ARRRRGH! I'm playing this for the first time right now and I hadn't reached that point. Dammit. Reading this spoiler was the saddest videogame event I've encountered recently. :(

I'm not angry, just flustered that I stumbled across this spoiler right in the middle of the same game I'm playing now. What're the odds, eh? x_x
Crap, I'm sorry, I didn't even think of that. I fixed it all up incase anyone else has yet to play it or whatever.
Sorry

[MegaDrive20XX]

Also when pac-man dies...the treaturous cries of pain whowhowhowho bo bo LOL

Please, tend to the widow, Ms. Pac-Man...*She's crying* waaaa whacka whacka whacka!!

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When mario dies in SMB,how does he die and manage to fly in the air and look like a freak of nature after a turtle touches him? @_@

[FantasiaWHT]

Nei's death in Phantasy Star 2

[Cauterize]

Aeris's Death in FF7 was a total shock to me as didnt know much about the game.... moved me emotionally! LOL O_O

[Jasoco]

ARRRRGH! I'm playing this for the first time right now and I hadn't reached that point. Dammit. Reading this spoiler was the saddest videogame event I've encountered recently. :(

I'm not angry, just flustered that I stumbled across this spoiler right in the middle of the same game I'm playing now. What're the odds, eh? x_xWell, it's changed now. Can you please edit YOURS too? Because you just did the same thing!

Anyway, I already beat the game and I also found that the saddest moment in recent history that I can think of. I really felt her pain because I hadn't played it until then and I purposely stayed away from spoilers. Man.. that game touched me. Here's hoping it really does become a trilogy someday.

[Kroogah]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24137&highlight=saddest+moment

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17677&highlight=saddest+moment


Here's a couple threads to look through that are along the same lines :)

[towerofsong]

Aeris dying in Final Fantasy VII...good God...I mean...why?
*sniff*

Oh and playing Dangerous Streets on the CD32...that's the saddest moment in my gaming history

[The_EniGma]

NOOOO U JSUT SPOILED FF7 FOR ME I WAS PLAYING THAT THRU FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!!

oops.....



and err i'd say otacons sister dying in MGS2 is a bit sad <Bit>

[musical]

What do you think are the sadest moments in video games ranging from atari to xbox.(

Atari - Pac-Man's slow, painful death.
Box - watching fake polygonal women run around in bikinis and pondering how pathetic your life is

;)

[Sotenga]

What about Splatterhouse 3? The worst ending possible you can get in that game happens if both Rick's wife and child die. That bites. :(

[EnemyZero]

Playing thru shinning force 3 on saturn...getting to the end ...and finding out...there are 2 more installments which never made it to usa.... :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

[FantasiaWHT]

Playing thru shinning force 3 on saturn...getting to the end ...and finding out...there are 2 more installments which never made it to usa.... :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling:

Very very good call...

[Pantechnicon]

Nei's death in Phantasy Star 2

That's my vote, too. I just got through playing this on GBA. The funny thing is that I was laughing at how the game sets up Rolf's relationship with Nei; I can't tell whether it's a like a normal brother/sister relationship or some sort of quasi-bestiality. Either way Nei's death actually bummed me more than I thought it would.

[WiseSalesman]

I didn't find Aeris' death sad at all. The girl had no personality.

There are spoilers from old FF games in this post.

As far as Final Fantasy games go: Palom and Porom's death in FF4 was sad, I thought. Setzer's backstory (with his dead lover) in FF6 and/or the Locke and Rachel story from the same game. Laguna looking over Raine's grave in the ending of FF8.

[fahrvergnugen]

When Spirit dives her fighter into the space station on a kamikazi run in Wing Commander II. She's one of only four characters to survive from the first game, so losing her halfway through the second was a huge shocker.

[Push Upstairs]

The release of Shaq Fu.

[evildead2099]

I have several issues of EGM from the time of its infancy. Let's keep this thread on topic though, shall we?

[Jasoco]

I have several issues of EGM from the time of its infancy. Let's keep this thread on topic though, shall we?Huh? I don't even see where it is even OFF topic until you replied. :hmm:

[Mitch_Naz]

When Rare was sold to Mircosoft :bad-words:

[bluberry]

Black text = MGS2 spoilers. <font color="black">

For me, Solidus' death in Metal Gear Solid 2. Just as you begin to realize that all along, Solidus was hardly the villain, but more the good guy, Raiden chops him in half and effectively, the Patriots have won, since they were still "controlling" Raiden. Then when he does that death pose and stuff, you really feel bad for the guy.

[RetroYoungen]

I didn't find Aeris' death sad at all. The girl had no personality.

There are spoilers from old FF games in this post.

As far as Final Fantasy games go: Palom and Porom's death in FF4 was sad, I thought. Setzer's backstory (with his dead lover) in FF6 and/or the Locke and Rachel story from the same game. Laguna looking over Raine's grave in the ending of FF8.

Good, I wasn't the only one that was moved by Palom and Porom's sacrifice... sorry... :(

OK... OK I'm better... yeah.

Another sad moment to me was in Lunar 2 when the story goes over Jean's backstory with that one old dude. The horror of her childhood, and the fact that she was a character you could actually care something about... sad indeed.

[Jasoco]

Another sad moment. When Earthbound 64 was a no-show. Nintendo has a great series on their hands, and they won't keep going with it. Plus, the Japanese get the GBA versions. I can't read Japanese or else I'd have imported it by now.

[swlovinist]

Rare's sad and shamefull first game for the Xbox...Grabbed by the Ghoulies...makes me weep...for the once great company is now all but gone...

Trying to play Capcom vs Snk on that sorry ass Gamecube controller...uhhhh

EGM mag for the last year and a half...the mag has gone to the pooper

and most of all...thinking of all the video game companies that will loose their ass this Christmas

[MarioAllStar2600]

The day people started calling Gamecube a kiddie system. Casual gamers think video agmes are all about sex, killing, and drugs.

[Jasoco]

Rare's sad and shamefull first game for the Xbox...Grabbed by the Ghoulies...makes me weep...for the once great company is now all but gone...
Oh, I dunno. Kameo looks pretty nice.. note I said LOOKS. Ghoulies looked nice too, but well.. Let's hope Kameo doesn't suck. I'd prefer Rare had stayed with who they knew best and kept releasing Banjo and Perfect Dark sequels. Maybe a rerelease of the REAL GoldenEye 007.


and most of all...thinking of all the video game companies that will loose their ass this ChristmasAnd even sadder I'll be buying all the games at full price rather than when they drop to $20-30 a few months later.

[skoldpadda]

Mafia spoiler (black text)...

building sympathy for the main guy throughout the story and then getting killed in the end despite being in the witness relocation program

[max 330 mega]

when i heard snk went under i almost cried...

when i heard they recovered and won the lawsuit against those bastards at aruze .... happiest day of my life.

[Fuyukaze]

While old games, anyone playing or planing to play either lufia games on the snes please ignore and read on with what ever posts follow.
The ending of Lufia 1 where she forgets all about the years spent with the main charcter.

Lufia 2 when they both die in the end.

[om3ga]

Locke and Rachel

Cloud and Aeris


:(

[mezrabad]

Infocom. Planetfall. Floyd. *sniff*

I'll leave out the details so as not to spoil it for you young 'uns.

Can a computer make someone cry?

Yes. Yes it can.

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[Jedi805]

The first time I played Street Fighter 3 and made it all the way to Gill and beat him two straight rounds only to have him recharge and beat me. I was so pissed I threw my controller through the glass on my entertainment center. Thats when I got sad. Does that count? LOL

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Glad to see me topic is still alive :)

[stressboy]

Final Fantasy 6, just as your party is getting off the Phantom Train.. Cyan sees his people departing and sees his wife and child. That was a very sad scene.

[DigitalSpace]

*Chrono Trigger spoiler alert*

After Robo first joins your party in 2300 AD, you go to the Factory. He meets the other robots and thinks they're his friends, but other other robots tell him he is defective and beat him up.

[Evfan42]

I just have to say that the sadeist moment is in FF6 when you revisit Locke's girlfriend Rachel and how she dies. :(

[demented-yoshi]

The sadest moment was when i was forced to play halo with my cousin becuase he badgered me all day so finally iIcaved in.

The thing that ticked me off alot is he left it on the front screen with that annoying monk chant crap for about 10 minutes now that drove me mad.

I don't take video games so seriously I actually laughed when Aeris or aerith to all you nerds out there died she sucked as a character in battle. My friend used her alot and when she died in the game he got pissed cause he wasted time leveling up with her.

[DynastyLawyer]

Final day in Seaman.

Hyo dying in Project Justice is likewise nonsense.

[-hellvin-]

The ending of betrayal at krondor I found quite sad, as well as Disgaea and the famous ff7 aeris death and probably the end of final fantasy ii & iii the first times I played through them. Probably mostly because they were over ;D

[Mad Chemist]

Infocom. Planetfall.

Don't worry. Anyone who's played Planetfall knows exactly what you're talking about.

(... still have my hand-drawn map for that game in the dresser drawer...)

[jasonegitto]

I dont know how you can be sad during an Atari game.
I think the first ...and only... story that made me sad was the ending of Final Fantasy IX.

[KJN]

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
I did not expect the game to end like that.

[gamenthusiast]

I do not know about this being the saddest moment in a game, but along with the ending in MGS2, the third game of the trilogy, Snake Eater, has a very sad ending.

[Lord_Magus]

Final Fantasy 3/6 Spoiler Alert:

At the very end of the game, after you have defeated Kefka and during the final escape, when Shadow decides to stay behind... The music at that point combined with Shadow's sad story made it the most touching moment of an already beautiful game...

[briguy578]

I dont know how you can be sad during an Atari game.


Maybe if you are playing E.T.? LOL
I can imagine that would make anyone sad the first time they play it if thier expectations are anything above 0.

[XxMe2NiKxX]

AHH! ET!

Probably Sonic Adventure 2's Shadow dieing... until I found out in Sonic Heroes that it was all a sham.

[Zing]

Final Fantasy II (or IV for all you anal folks)... when the twins give their lives for the party and turn to stone.

[yoursisterspretty]

KJN beat me to it...but...

Klonoa: Door to Phantomile has the saddest ending. EVAR. I guess everyone can relate to it in some way, and it is so unexpected. But then again, props for doing something different.

And the saddest non-in-game event: the day the Dreamcast died. (I also was sad when Dave Halverson "left" GameFan)

[TheRedEye]

Another vote for Emma's death in MGS2. Just something about her parrot...god damn.

Alys' death in Phantasy Star IV was pretty tough at the time, the song that plays (I think it's called "Her Last Breath") is just so sad it's crazy. Honorable mentions go to thinking Glottis is dead in Grim Fandango, and the end of Ico...just because it was over.

[Solar77]

The old guy (can't remember his name off the top of my head) using the last of his strength to cast Ultima and save your ass in FF2/4.

[forgotten fans]

I agree with Alys' death in PS4 being very sad. I think the whole game gets away with more emotional tugging than it should because it brings in feelings from all of the earlier ones. Another heroine dead, the name they game Alys, another Wren, Lutz/Noah, etc.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

The one ending of Disgaea i thought was a lil sad

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I thought it was kinda sad when you beat Mantis in Metal Gear Solid, the first time he helps somebody with his power and it makes him fell actually good from doing so...then he dies knowing that he could have prevented pain instead of causing it.

[Ed Oscuro]

Another vote for Emma's death in MGS2. Just something about her parrot...god damn.
Now that was pretty unexpected. I wasn't even playing the game but had to think "what the heck is going on here? O_o"


Alys' death in Phantasy Star IV was pretty tough at the time, the song that plays (I think it's called "Her Last Breath") is just so sad it's crazy.
Without a doubt, right up there with Nei's death (which, heh heh, you can actually avoid, but hell if I knew that when first playing through the game). Dang, what's with all the PS series girls getting killed off? At least Rika was fine... O:

[Ed Oscuro]

http://home.comcast.net/~edoscuro/hl2_priest_warning.jpg

One other thing.

Last night I played from the beginning all the way through Ravenholm in Half-Life 2, and a bit further. All at once.

All I can say is, I went from being rather amused by this guy to touched, and his apparent death made me very sad. :(

[Ed Oscuro]

Oh...somebody says they saw him run into a tunnel (using noclip). Yay!

[link1110]

How about the ending of Lunar before you find out that Alex and Luna survived the crashing of the Goddess Tower? That was pretty sad.

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Doesn't anyone feel the pain for those poor little ducks in Duck Hunt???

[Jasoco]

No. But I always liked the dog.

[Evfan42]

No. But I always liked the dog.

That dog Always made me mad because it would laugh at me if I missed a duck.

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That was annoying...

http://img32.exs.cx/img32/4533/duckhuntdoggiggle9oi.gif

[VG_Maniac]

When the Metroid gives its life to save Samus at the end of Super Metroid.

I also thought it was kinda sad when Zero died towards the end of Mega Man X...although he does get rebuilt in MMX 2, then destroyed again, then rebuilt, then destroyed. x_x

[ahamilton0953]

for me it was when Gremio died in Suikoden 1. I was not a happy camper.

[dr101z]

When you have to leave your dino-buddies behind at the end of Saturn Bomberman.

[SEGA-SAMMY]

I would say in Suikoden.... MAJOR SPOILER



























When Gremio sacrifices and dies. :(