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[Moonchild]

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[FanDeNintendo]

 

[IamDodongo]

Sif and Sniper Wolf were the two biggest for me.

 

[ignata]

Thought I was still in Off Topic and this thread title frightened me.

 

[Danjin44]

Nier Automata -

Spoiler

210, it especially becomes much more painful if u done her quests.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

When you stop and think. Most of the creatures in BB which are not human are often the ones being attacked.

Wetnurse Mergo is literally guarding a newborn, The witches are wandering around, the guardian is sleeping until you come, Ebrieteas is am encaged being, the brain is unable to move and attack you he is being controlled and cant fight back.

You are a hunter, it's your job to be the one attacking first and I love this and also hate it.

What guardian?

 

[Bakercat]

 

[Raven117]

Since you mentioned Sif, Maiden Astraea and her protector Garl Vinland. She accepted a Demon soul to assist those abandoned babies and help the defiled inhabitants. And then I killed her...

She accepted a demon soul. As such, justice was brought. Good intentions pave the way to hell.

Man, I loved that fight. Best in all of Souls and in the top tier of gaming.

 

[CrazyHal]

Your best friend in Shin megami tensei 4.

 

[Iced]

Splatterhouse - Jennifer

In the arcade version you can hear her whimpering when she transforms back to her normal self. I think she says things like "help, I'm dying".

Edit: Here's a vid: https://youtu.be/urxxj3CrkTU?t=240

 

[Sad Affleck]

Not a single one.

LOL, well done. I actually laughed out loud.

 

[MrS]

I would spare this dude's life for Morgana's

 

[nguyen704]

Miguel from Chrono Cross. Even the theme played so well with the fight.

 

[KnightimeX_Legacy]

Pretty much any good guy in mortal kombat.
They're trying to save the world as much as you.

Sometimes I'll refrain from "ending" them.

 

[McMoneyman]

Spoiler

Zeke

in Infamous 2 I thought was pretty tough to

Spoiler

pull the trigger on.

 

[Sword Of Doom]

My answer was also going to be sif from dark souls.

 

[Aurongel]

Not a single one.

This just made me laugh out loud during a meeting.

 

[FanDeNintendo]

Obvious spoilers... but anyways:

Spoiler

Frederic Chopin.

from Trusty Bell/Eternal Sonata.

"Despair" is the word that defines that battle.

 

[Nekster]

Fuhrer was a lot nicer than Hitler, indeed. And cooler, flashy glasses.

 

[djtiesto]

Beepey in Nier.

 

[MetroidPrimeRib]

Maiden Astraea and Garl Vinland in Demon's Souls. They are helping the absolute lowest of the low and you just kill them.

Nearly every boss in NieR.

Genocide run in Undertale didn't make me feel that bad because its the point of the run but when I accidentally killed Toriel on my first playthrough I felt like shit.

 

[Parallax]

Just about everything in Monster Hunter honestly. That and Shadow of the Colossus. Just a bunch of Monsters/Giants doing their own thing when random assholes come and brutally stab/slash them to death.

except the random asshole monsters in the cutscenes in 4u, i agree. they really made me want to wipe out yian garugas.

 

[Struct09]

I remember when playing Far Cry 4, I was so fed up with those damn rebels that I didn't want to kill Pagan Min. They were worse than him. They were using you. In some bizarre kind of way, Pagan Min was the only character that cared for you in that game. So when the ending arrived and I was able to spare Pagan Min, I was both surprised and impressed. I didn't expect it at all. It improved the ending a lot for me. I even remember thinking more games should let you spare the "villain".

This is quite the opposite of how I handled the ending of FC4. I didn't even let Min get a full word in before I put a bullet in his head and I found that to be an extremely satisfying way to end the game. FC4 definitely did endings right.

 

[RPG_Fanatic]

None of the bosses mentioned so far made me feel bad, especially maiden Astraea. If you want to talk Daemon's Souls then I felt bad for killing Garl Vinland, who was stuck protecting Astraea, aka the most corrupt enemy in the entire game.



The only ones who didn't really deserve to get killed in NieR were Devola and Popola who were brainwashed and brutally manipulated, the others got their due punishment and some, like Roc, got off VERY easy.

Are you not going to even include the final final boss from Ending C?

 

[Arcteryx]

Boudica. She was straight ballin IRL.

 

[Last Prime]

Maybe Paul Serene.

 

[Apathy]

People have already said Rom and sniper wolf. Aside from them, I would say some of the colossi in SotC.

 

[SoulUnison]

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days -

Spoiler

Xion

"So the final boss of this game is a

Spoiler

little girl

basically committing suicide-by-cop. Y'know. For kids!"

 

[wiibomb]

Bloodborne -

Spoiler

Gherman, The First Hunter.

it makes me sad for all the shit he has gone through, he wishes so much for his death, yet fought as much as he could in the end. I know he did some horrible shit too, but it is still sad to see.

Also the soundtrack just kills me.

 

[AtomicShroom]

It seemed to be in so much pain!

 

[Melkezadek]

If she counts, Sortiara. Cursed by insatiable bloodlust. Just needed a friend

 

[Danjin44]

None of the bosses mentioned so far made me feel bad, especially maiden Astraea. If you want to talk Daemon's Souls then I felt bad for killing Garl Vinland, who was stuck protecting Astraea, aka the most corrupt enemy in the entire game.



The only ones who didn't really deserve to get killed in NieR were Devola and Popola who were brainwashed and brutally manipulated, the others got their due punishment and some, like Roc, got off VERY easy.

Maybe I'm remembering this wrong but

Spoiler

I don't think Devola and Popola were brainwashed. they just doing what they were programmed to do.

 

[Afrocious]

Astrea thread

 

[fatherKratos]

Everything in Shadow of the colossus & boss from MGS3...obvious choices.
Then, those girls in MGS 4 & somehow I feel for Hercules in GOW3...just someone tired of being compared with his much more successful sibling and then getting his face turned into Jam...lol.

& Big daddies in Bioshock.

 

[jayvo]

Not a single one.

LOL, yep!

 

[luulubuu]

What guardian?

Martyr Logarius

 

[PSqueak]

You don't kill him.

He Kills himself after the game quite literally doesn't allow you to attack him further.

 

[Vital Tundra]

The limping for Sif made it soooo hard to kill him, more than any other boss ever. Then the DLC came out, I completed it and found new love for Sif, and then did the boss fight and the cutscenes slightly changed and I lost my mind.

 

[Darth Smurf X]

The final "boss" in The Last of Us.

 

[Prevolition]

 

[Koobion]

Maiden Astraea from Demon's Souls, and Sif from Dark Souls.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

The No More Heroes series has this to various degrees.

I never felt that bad for killing any of them as much as somber for quite a few.

But the final four Ranked bosses before the final rank one in No More Heroes 2 are designed to make you feel regret. This is reflected in the actual story. I don't want to go into more detail.

 

[Neptonic]

Bosses? Make it singular.

The Boss - MGS3

Only game that can make me cry consistently

 

[C.Olimar788]

I came in expecting Sif and I haven't even played Dark Souls haha

UNDERTALE though for sure. The first time I played I didn't figure out how to not kill

Spoiler

Toriel

and just kept going, and felt like complete shit when, later,

Spoiler

Sans gives you his little speech about how, if Toriel hadn't explicitly asked him to keep you safe, he would have killed you without a second thought.

And, of course, in the Genocide run, it's hard to keep going after

Spoiler

Undyne the Undying, the moment where it becomes completely and utterly evident that YOU are the evil one in this story, killing all the heroes one by one.

 

[cordy]

Nier: Automata. Game made me feel like shit.

 

[Shadow_Lord]

"Half as long, twice as bright"

Spoiler

Zeke

from inFamous 2.

Spoiler

His best friend became one of the most powerful conduits to ever exist and accepted the Beast's plan to annihilate humans and awaken conduits throughout the globe, and he just killed Nix in cold blood, one of their friends. Armed with just a gun, him and Cole share a moment and then he starts firing at Cole, even though he knows it's pointless. He can't kill you, and you're forced to kill your best companion from two games, all because you became a monster. It tore me apart

 

[jaaz]

Can't believe no one's mentioned Ludwig from BB's Old Hunters DLC:

What he says to you after you beat him...

 

[Drillary Clinton]

Came here to post Sif and OP nails it

 

[Brhoom]

Silent Hill 1 and 2

 

[devonodev]

I came in expecting Sif and I haven't even played Dark Souls haha

UNDERTALE though for sure. The first time I played I didn't figure out how to not kill

Spoiler

Toriel

and just kept going, and felt like complete shit when, later,

Spoiler

Sans gives you his little speech about how, if Toriel hadn't explicitly asked him to keep you safe, he would have killed you without a second thought.

And, of course, in the Genocide run, it's hard to keep going after

Spoiler

Undyne the Undying, the moment where it becomes completely and utterly evident that YOU are the evil one in this story, killing all the heroes one by one.

Undertale stuff.

Spoiler

I figured there was no way to spare her, so I assumed if I fought, the fight would end before she died. She was going easy on me after all, this wasn't a fight to the death. I was wrong.

Also decided to kill Papyrus on my first play through too just to see what would happen, I regretted it immediately.