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The most depressing moment you've experienced in a video game?
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texasairhead101
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Playing through the Last of Us left some very strong lasting impressions weeks after I played it. The bleak hopelessness affected me so much. The music in that game is really unmatched as far as how well it matches everything that game attempts to do.
Green Mamba
Member
Killing
in a Genocide run of Undertale is rough.
Papyrus
He chooses not to fight you, as he still believes you can become a good person. He's one shotted like the rest of the bosses, but his body disappears while his head remains. The last thing his head tells you before dissipating is that he still believes in you and that he thinks you can still change. Jesus.
slavesnyder
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BibiMaghoo
Member
GTAV with the
ending. Fuck that so much.
GOT ending. I mean I knew it wasn't going to be a happy ending. But I didn't expect it to be as far from that as possible.
Trevor
GOT ending. I mean I knew it wasn't going to be a happy ending. But I didn't expect it to be as far from that as possible.
Holygriever
Banned
This moment in the Extended Cut for Mass Effect 3 always gets to me. I believe it's Seth Green's delivery, it's just so god damn on point.
WouldYouKindly
Banned
The moment I realised mgsv wasn't a traditional mgs game and it was Kojima last I'm honestly still bummed out
Losing my first character in This War of Mine.
You're being very careful, constantly in fear of an accident, but they are all starving, so you take a risk, you take them to this occupied house.
And bam, one dead. Your fault. And everybody is still starving.
Never launched the game again after that.
You're being very careful, constantly in fear of an accident, but they are all starving, so you take a risk, you take them to this occupied house.
And bam, one dead. Your fault. And everybody is still starving.
Never launched the game again after that.
Nights Owl
Member
Let me clarify that I got super attached to Fiora right off the friggin' bat. Her and Shulk pulled my dang heart strings.
Holygriever
Banned
You mean Michael's and Franklin's confrontation
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
Mass Effect 3:
The Paragon path was bad enough but I watched a youtube vid of the renegade one and that killed me
EDIT: Trying to explain it in a couple of lines is both difficult and makes it hard to appreciate the impact of the moment but whatever...
The Paragon path was bad enough but I watched a youtube vid of the renegade one and that killed me
EDIT: Trying to explain it in a couple of lines is both difficult and makes it hard to appreciate the impact of the moment but whatever...
Mordin is a scientist who has played a huge role in developing a genetic virus thingy which drastically lowers the birth rates of a rival, violent, alien race to prevent them from expanding and endangering the rest of the galaxy.
He rocks up in Mass Effect 2, singing show tunes, mowing down enemies and basically being a top mate all round. But he starts feeling guilty over what he's done and in Mass Effect 3 develops a cure and, against his own government's wishes, sacrifices his own life in order to distribute a cure for aforementioned virus and ensure the survival of the rival alien race.
In one renegade playthrough you can try and talk him out of it, Mordin refuses because he is too awesome to hear any of that galactic politics bullshit) and the player can shoot him. Cue cutscene of a dying Mordin slowly crawling his way through explosions and falling debris, only to breath his final breath just short of the button he needed to press to release the cure :*(
He rocks up in Mass Effect 2, singing show tunes, mowing down enemies and basically being a top mate all round. But he starts feeling guilty over what he's done and in Mass Effect 3 develops a cure and, against his own government's wishes, sacrifices his own life in order to distribute a cure for aforementioned virus and ensure the survival of the rival alien race.
In one renegade playthrough you can try and talk him out of it, Mordin refuses because he is too awesome to hear any of that galactic politics bullshit) and the player can shoot him. Cue cutscene of a dying Mordin slowly crawling his way through explosions and falling debris, only to breath his final breath just short of the button he needed to press to release the cure :*(
Xenogears had a powerful moment like that. Right after you played a bunch of minigames in some circus tent, a cheerful NPC from your home village approaches you and tells you how he's looking forward to meeting his wife and daughter again. Fei can't bring himself to tell him the village was wiped out and everyone is dead. Felt like a punch in the gut.
Here it is:
https://youtu.be/CaJGMr5rW54?t=1143
Here it is:
https://youtu.be/CaJGMr5rW54?t=1143
Holygriever
Banned
Mass Effect 3:
The Paragon path was bad enough but I watched a youtube vid of the renegade one and that killed me
Dayum.
Doing the scene to see what happens of if roleplaying an Evil Shepard is fine with me. But anyone who rationalizes and considers the Renegade interrupt a viable choice here is someone I would never trust.
BibiMaghoo
Member
Yep, it made me legit depressed, with a side of angry and 'no way am I ending it like this'.
Mayor_McCheeze
Member
-Spoilers thread, obviously-
To me, it has to be this particular moment from Dark Souls:
Spoilers warning:
Sif has been there for hundreds of years, slaying undead after undead that was headed into the Abyss. Artorias protected him from the Abyss and Sif honors his master's memory by protecting everyone that came afterwards, and that's why you see a graveyard of swords beside him.
It doesn't help that the poor creature LIMPS after its badly injured. I loved my precious dog more than anything else in this world and still miss him so dearly. It was truly heartbreaking to kill Sif, it felt like killing a part of myself and I had to stop playing for a while.
For the sake of information, it would be nice to mention the game when posting a solitary image or quote.
It's even worse if you play the dlc first and
find little Sif as a pup. He'll help you with a boss fight, then later in the main game Sif fight, he'll appear to recognize you before attacking.
sineclamor
Member
Don't think it would spoil anything to say: The "In Water" ending of Silent Hill 2. That ending coming right after Mary's letter.. it's pretty soul crushing. I find it difficult to watch even now. If you've ever dealt with serious depression, a lot of the phrasing will probably seem familiar. I go out of my way to avoid it at all costs. Luckily it's not too hard to avoid.
I haven't thought about it in a while, but a lot of people claim it's the canon ending.
I haven't thought about it in a while, but a lot of people claim it's the canon ending.
One and done.
Or "I'll miss you"
mcz117chief
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Besides the facts already mentioned (Valiant Hearts), I would have to say with the last third of NieR, everything there was absolutely devastating
Even though the game has a happy ending (D) it still makes me sad about all the poor people who didn't make it
Death of Fyra, the King, Devola and Popola
Even though the game has a happy ending (D) it still makes me sad about all the poor people who didn't make it
ShadowSoldier89
Member
Witcher 3:
FF7, no not that part,
Life is strange:
Letting triss get tortured
tifa and cloud in the lifestream where she is telling him his whole life is a lie
repeatedly watching chloe die. Couldnt take that in the end, everyone else had to die instead
This War Of Mine can be terribly depressing. For those who never heard of it, it's an indie game about managing a small group of civilians trapped inside a city under siege during a war. It's obviously inspired by the war in Jugoslavia. During the night you can go out of your base and search for food, medicines, ammo, items etc. Usually, anything useful is guarded by other survivors so you need to fight them or use stealth, but one night I found the house of an old couple and while they could see me, they couldn't stop me in any way. The woman couldn't even move from her armchair, and the man was just following me in every room, begging me to... not take everything. Please, don't take all our medicines, my wife needs them. Leave some food for us or we'll die. Please.
I really needed that stuff for my group, so I took it but it felt horrible. Stealing from raiders that shoot you as soon as they see you it's one thing, but stealing from these people was the most awful thing I ever did in a game. I felt depressed, my character became depressed (their mood is affected by your actions), and after a few days she hanged herself.
What a fun little game.
I really needed that stuff for my group, so I took it but it felt horrible. Stealing from raiders that shoot you as soon as they see you it's one thing, but stealing from these people was the most awful thing I ever did in a game. I felt depressed, my character became depressed (their mood is affected by your actions), and after a few days she hanged herself.
What a fun little game.
Isn't that end of mgs4
The Lamonster
Member
what happens
This moment in the Extended Cut for Mass Effect 3 always gets to me. I believe it's Seth Green's delivery, it's just so god damn on point.
WHAT HAPPENSMass Effect 3:
The Paragon path was bad enough but I watched a youtube vid of the renegade one and that killed me
guess I don't remember this game lol
Triggerhappytel
Member
The final episode of The Walking Dead Season 1 was absolute gut-punch. Well, really from the
onwards. That bit when
really hit me hard. And then after
. It was so upsetting, and tears were shed.
end of episode 4 onwards when Lee gets bitten
Ben fell to the street below, and Kenny went down and gave his own life to save him
rescuing Clem, Lee ordered her to chain him up and gave her the final talk and advice before he turned
Oh yes that's after playing the DLC, if not I wouldn't know why he was there in the first place
Yep, this is the one.
GeordieMark
Member
The Witcher 3:
The Witcher 3 has a few kinda depressing quests. The Bloody Baron is quite sad too.
When Dandelion's love interest Priscilla is attacked and left fighting for her life. I thought it was kinda sad that the attacker deliberately set out to ruin her ability to sing, which was her love
The Witcher 3 has a few kinda depressing quests. The Bloody Baron is quite sad too.
Greg_le_Casual
Member
Steins;Gate
When you get in the "time-loop" where you have to see one character die again and again and again.
SuperBanana
Banned
Mass Effect 3:
When Anderson lays beside Shepard and tells him he's proud of him then quietly passes away. Shepard looks over and said "Anderson...?" and realizes he's gone.
MrFrankFontaine
Banned
Depressed that it ended
Just about to post this. I was never as sad to see a game end as I was when I completed the ending.
mrmickfran
Member
I'LL KILL YOOOOOOUUUULet me clarify that I got super attached to Fiora right off the friggin' bat. Her and Shulk pulled my dang heart strings.
I wanted to post about Life is Strange's (other) ending as well. Watching
Max cry in a corner doing nothing while Chloe dies for good, followed by the burial scene while Spanish Sahara is playing
Now I think about it half this game was depressing anyway...
chicagocubsfan
Member
MGSV Mission 43
texasairhead101
Member
Had to look this up due to it not occurring in my playthrough. I was completely oblivious that was even an outcome.
This, what a great man he was, one of the best characters during the saga, it hurted so bad.
Also:
To the moon (
the reveal of the old man trauma, and removing river
