The most sad and depressing moments in gaming

It's a bit long, but it's mostly the first section of this that was really emotional if you played through the game. Also HL2: EP2 ending goes without saying.

@FluxWaveZ said:

Persona 4 spoilers

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The part where Nanako is presumed dead.

That's the only moment in a video game that's ever made me close to shedding a tear. It was painful.

Literally just hit that part tonight with my room mate. We were silent for something like twenty-five minutes. Then we hit the choice.

It's unfortunate that there's a "wrong" choice.

The constant delays of Half Life 2: Episode Three.

Second playthrough of Nier is one of the most aggressively depressing times with a game you can have. And the first playthrough isn't exactly a dance on roses either.

If you're up for even more punishment, there's an even more depressing third and fourth ending waiting for you.

Fable 2 when they killed the fucking dog. Ya... it made me cry. Want to fight about it?

I then proceeded to get pissed when I couldn't even have a boss fight at the end. That game is shit because it pissed me off in the wrong kind of way.

MGS: Snake Eater had a pretty amazing ending.

Dead Island has some touching stuff in it. Not quite enough to make ya cry, but its pretty messed up.

I'm sure there's more but I can't really think of many. You already said SH2, which was also a good tear jerker, but I cant think of many games that make me cry. Other then tears of frustration haha

Edit: Oh ya, Deadly Premonition's ending was sad too. It actually made me cry as well. There are others but im tired and forgetting them... bleh

The saddest gaming related event I've ever seen was a gaming releated real life incident.

Back when FFVII was still a thing, there was a kid in one of my HS classes that wore a FFVII shirt every few days all semester. One day, someone in my class went up to him and said something along the lines of "Wasn't it awful when Sephiroth killed Aeries!?" and the look on the kids face was just sheer, verge of tears, you just totally spoiled the game for me type of anguish. Apparently, while he had the game for months, he only got to play a few minutes a day because he had to share the TV with the rest of the family and hadn't gotten to that point in the game yet.

It was truly sad cuz the kid really seemed heartbroken about it. You know, cuz we were back in HS, and this kid was sorta a proto geek and prolly way into Aeries. Can't blame the spoiler guy tho cuz seriously, he wore that shirt all the freaking time.

Minerva's Den ending. Great!

The constant delays of Half Life 2: Episode Three.

@Akeldama said:

Metal Gear Solid 3's ending. Cliched answer, but it was a hell of an ending...

Goddamn what an ending.

@Little_Socrates: Do you know which Endurance Run vid this takes place in? I'd love to see the GB crew reaction but I haven't played thru the game or watched the P4 endurance run in its entirety so I have no idea where to find this scene -_-;;

@crusader8463 said:

@Marz: Sorry, I forget that some people enjoy being the douche bag that spoil stories for others. Carry on.

In his defense, he's referring to games that are SNES era old -_-;; The best thing I got from yous guys conversation was the spoiler tag within a spoiler tag. That was fun =D

Gears 2 when you find maria. i mean wasnt the saddest but it was pretty messed up

There has probably been plenty over the years, MGS franchise having a ton of moments like that. I think recently though the biggest surprise (at my own feelings, I suppose) was the death of Roach and Ghost in MW2.

I was going to quote the OP's choice, but yeah. THAT scene.

@FluxWaveZ said:

Persona 4 spoilers

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The part where Nanako is presumed dead.

That's the only moment in a video game that's ever made me close to shedding a tear. It was painful.

This one. I felt super bad when this happened.

The end of Virtua Cop 2.

My choices have pretty much been covered already, but here:

• FFVII - Aerith scene
• FFX - The scene with Tidus and Yuna at the end
• P4 - Nanako
• Max Payne 2 - Mona (non-'Dead on Arrival' difficulty level)

When you get to the vault in Borderlands and there's no pile of LOOT!

being serious I can't recall a really sad event at the moment, I keep thinking of Alan Wake scenes but nothing really sad.

Wading through a fetus-infested swamp in Demon's Souls and hacking them to pieces was pretty bad. More morbid than depressing. In their defense, they were the hardest enemy in the game, and I probably only made it out of that place one time.

@Fobwashed said:

@Little_Socrates: Do you know which Endurance Run vid this takes place in? I'd love to see the GB crew reaction but I haven't played thru the game or watched the P4 endurance run in its entirety so I have no idea where to find this scene -_-;;

It's in episode 130 and starts about 30 minutes in.

Shadow of the Colossus, the sacrifices the main character makes throughout the game.

Some parts of lost Odyssey@uniform said:

Lost Odyssey, and I mean a lot of Lost Odyssey moments.

That, and more recently, the part in Bastion where you walk along, finding people that have turned to stone and the narrator continuosly saying "person xy...he didn't make it"

I would have to say the RDR towards the end. I've never been emotionally compromised by a game but those few last missions in RDR did it for me.

Out of curiosity (and knowing I'd probably never play MGS3 myself) I watched that ending. What the fuck man? I hardly knew what was going on and I felt moved by that ending.

The true ending in 999 was quite moving, if you ask me. It wasn't exactly "sad", but it had its share of emotion. Really, every ending touches you in different ways. I was surprised, completely puzzled, moved to tears and filled with rage with that game :/

PS: Lovely spoilers, guys. Thanks for not using the tags! :D

Metal Gear Solid 3 had a pretty sad ending. And Metal Gear Solid 4 always makes me tear up (Not the graveyard scene, but the actual first ending). Ico?

the neutral ending of bioshock 2 
  

The end of Red Dead Redemption.

All of Nier.

The Nanako scene in Persona 4.

Many parts of Lost Odyssey.

That moment in The Darkness is grim. I played that game without knowing much about it so it was quite the shock.

Lost Odyssey literally made me cry. I ain't gonna lie.

Really, no one has said Persona 3 yet?  

@IBurningStar said:

@Akeldama said:

Metal Gear Solid 3's ending. Cliched answer, but it was a hell of an ending...

It is only cliche because everyone agrees that it is sad as fuck. A lot of what happens at the end of Red Dead Redemption was pretty depressing. Oh, and speaking of Silent Hill, the scene where Lisa comes to terms with what she really is and just wants Harry to hold her is kind of a bummer as well.

And speaking of speaking of Silent Hill...

The moment in Silent Hill 3 when Heather finally returns home to find her Harry brutally murdered...

@PenguinDust: I haven't played FES but mine from Persona 3 is

Mirror's Edge.  The whole thing.  I get bummed out every time I play it yet I keep playing it.

The day I finally got to play Dragon Age 2 and realized that it was a physical manifestation of the developers of said game taking a giant steaming shit on the first Dragon Age game, all the fans of Origins, and all the time and work that went into its creation.

When I played through the arson case in L.A. Noire and realized that this game was going to pull off the same bullshit as it did in homicide. UGH!

About half of Neir, and the entirety of the the second and third playthrough.

Persona 4's Nanako scene was way too much for me. Persona 3's ending also left me in tears.
And c'mon guys, no one mentioned Fatal Frame 2's "Crimson Butterfly" ending? This one left me bad for weeks.

@RiotBananas said:

I was fucking gutted when I missed the Quick Time Event to hug Leo Da Vinci in Assassins' Creed 2.

Dude. That face. That sad puppy face. It killed me.

all of lost odyssey. 

Nier is probably one of the most depressing games I've ever played.
 
And it's even more depressing after you read Grimoire Nier.

Gears 2 when you find maria. i mean wasnt the saddest but it was pretty messed up

@Clonedzero said:

Gears 2 when you find maria. i mean wasnt the saddest but it was pretty messed up

This was the first thing I came up with. I thought it was pretty freakin' sad. I'm pretty sure that was the first time a video game made me cry. My runner-up would be GTA IV if you choose to kill Dwayne. It's not dramatic at all, just depressing. I remember shooting him in the back of the head, and then setting down the controller and just sitting there for a good five minutes. Then reloading so I could kill Playboy X instead.

Metal Gear Solid 3's ending. Cliched answer, but it was a hell of an ending...

@FluxWaveZ said:

Persona 4 spoilers

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

The part where Nanako is presumed dead.

That's the only moment in a video game that's ever made me close to shedding a tear. It was painful.

Have you played Persona 2?

Hmm, probably every major plot twist in the criminally underrated Nier.  Everything else is Disney movie sad to me.

Red Dead Redemption