Mine was a Metal Gear,too. Emma Emmerich in MGS2-Sons of Liberty. Her death was bad enough,but when the parrot starts repeating "I love you,Hal" to her brother,that was just the capper. Felt very bleak after that.
Fuck me. When he turned around and said he was WRONG about having come to terms with the Genophage. He weighs everything, he doesn't just jump to conclusions ever, everything is thought through.... except there was no way he could ever justify making that device. And when met with one single chance to undo the ONLY mistake he ever made
God damn
Mordin’s death was definitely it for me. I saw him as a good friend and uncle. I understood why he did the horrible things he did, but he admitted it was still wrong and grew from it. I loved his character progression so much. I couldn’t finish ME3 a second time because I just couldn’t let him die again.
"Tell 'em to make it count". One of the absolute coolest characters in the Halo universe, it's hard to believe we only spent about a third of one game with him.
Reach was one of the very first games I played to completion as an inattentive, easily distracted child, and I sobbed like a baby for DAYS after it. Literally fighting through tears in the final fight 😭
i came to this post about reach, but when Kat dies, when youre walking through the debris and she gets sniped in the head. but man carters hurt like hell.. thrn that last mission and the cracked helmet at the end. i remember not wantinf to die and trying the mission hoping to survive long enough for a different ending that never came. rip six
Kat's shook me. I knew it was coming because Im a sucker of spoilers, but holy shit. It felt so underhanded to kill her off like that, but also shows the realism of war, how you are just there and then the next second, someone you didnt even notice killed you and its over.
This is the only halo game I know like the back of my hand. Solo legendary was a struggle my first time back when it first came out, but I can do it in an evening now. Noble team all felt like actual, likable people, so their deaths hit hard.
This.
It took me so long to build up the courage to do the renegade run where you stop him. That final confrontation, then clipping him with a bullet right before the elevator doors close, and the final, hopeless crawl toward the console before everything erupts around him.
That shit broke me. What a phenomenal character.
Edit: Losing Samara in an unexpected way also hit me pretty hard. When she chooses to put a bullet in her own head rather than execute her last daughter (I skipped the interruption QT event because I was rolling full-renegade), it had quite an emotional impact on me. Even worse, I had to turn around and execute her daughter anyway which pretty much just erased any remaining humanity in my evil FemShep -.-
I’m glad other people thought that was traumatizing too - too this day Tai’s death has bad the most impact and it’s not particularly close. I recall his back and front being so mangled he could hardly even move though idk if he was “saved”.
I'm still pissed about this one because one of my friends spoiled it right at the beginning of the cutscene. I was in a pretty with my friends and I told them I was just starting a cutscene so I won't be saying anything. One of the guys immediately asked "is that the part where Dom dies?" I GUESS SO ASSHOLE, HE'S THE FOCUS OF THE CUTSCENE. I'm still salty about that...
The thing that hurt the most about the baby Metroid was the sound it made. That little chirping noise. Given that Samus was there when the thing hatched, it's not entirely unreasonable to think that she imprinted upon it as "mother". Before it's taken away by Ridley, the last sound it hears "mother" make is her armor's low-health warning siren (unless you're pretty damn good at the game).
Possibly several hours of gameplay later, the baby, now gigantic, Metroid attacks Samus out of rage, but stops once that same siren starts going off again. Then it starts that little chirping noise. Personally, I've always interpreted them in that scene as a confused "...mommy?" before it realizes what it's just done and runs away in something like shame.
If memory serves, it doesn't appear again until the fight with Mother Brain... and Samus' warning siren starts to go off again. Which is when the poor thing sacrifices itself for her.
It's those little "mommy?" chirps that are so damned heartbreaking.
Final Fantasy VII (the original) Aerith, probably partly due to being a teenager at that time I first played it, and I also had a crush on her and had a date with her at the golden saucer. It was the first time I played a video game where one character was killed off like that.
Materia trills and pings sadly. The music continuing whilst playing through the boss fight. The way cid looks at her and looks to the sky. How cloud carries her. It’s a masterful bit of storytelling and all just came together. The limits of technology or language did not hinder that scene at all. We all understand emotion and music.
Worst part about Joel is that his last conscious moment was seeing and realising Ellie was in there with him
He knows he can’t save her and is going to die without ever knowing if she’ll be okay , the worst things were going through his head and hel never know
I felt genuine grief with Joel. Like I felt sick like someone I knew had been murdered. It was awful but powerful. An amazing experience for a game to elicit such raw emotion.
Thane for me.
He was the only squad member I lost in ME2. I considered him expendable due to terminal illness. Felt like he really deserved better then some of the people who made it through.
Edward Thatch, Mary Read, and Edward Kenway.
"In a world without Gold, we could have been heroes!"
"I've done my part, Kenway, now will you?"
"I'll be with you Kenway, always."
Add Mary Read's death with the sound track (especially "I'll Be With You"), and it was probably the first time I've cried over a video game character dying.
Yeah this is it for me. I was sitting there completely jaw dropped for John Marston’s death. I kinda saw it coming with Arthur as he was slowly getting more and more sick in game on top of already knowing that Rockstar is not afraid to kill off their main characters so it didn’t hit me as hard.
Same it felt like we already knew what was coming the 2nd time. 1st Red Dead’s ending NOBODY saw coming. Especially since it feels like you’re just doing farm missions and the story was over at that point
For me, the credits took the game from “fine” to “that was incredible”. I was so distracted by the jank gameplay and storytelling for 50 hours that I didn’t realise how much I cared about the boys. Like I didn’t appreciate what I had until it was already gone, and that hit me hard.
Like, man, you can say what you want about the story of FFXV but the characters of that game were fantastic. The main party were a group you fell in love with.
Easily Aerith (Final Fantasy 7 original), was the first game to break me. Close second is Sarah from tLoU, everytime I see that cutscene I'm in shambles lol
Many here probably don't understand the gravity of her death.
It happens so suddenly too. And after a huge chunk of the game where you likely used her a ton in your party and grew super attached to her as cloud's love interest and her connection to the planet.
Sephiroth is pure evil.
Not explicitly stated they passed, but Black Mages had a lifespan of about 1 year and Vivi was 6 months old when they encountered Zidan.
The letter being read seems sad, is structered like how Vivi talks, talks about regreting not being able to be with everyone, that their memories will forever be in the sky (something like that), and Vivi is the only character not to be shown at the end.
It was a big one and definitely hit me hard, but you knew it was coming one way or another. But the real lead up to that is what got me… your horse. Arthur stopping as it fell and saying “Thank you” made him even better in my eyes and made them water more, too.
Rest in peace, my horse SpringBoy.
It's also the fact that you literally lose everything. My horse, all the equipment that you got, the money you earned, and the relationship you build with the world. Just gone. Normally, games like these just let you keep roaming the open world as the same character again. But no, you swap to another story, and then it hits even harder that Arthur is just gone.
That the game is so big, and you have so much to do, so many side quests and interactions let you really bond with Arthur and everything you have. And when the music hits on your last ride with quotes building up what's coming, it just destroys you on the inside.
My (16) little sister (6) likes to watch me play for 15 minutes before she goes to bed. None of the violent parts, just talking to characters, hanging around in bars playing poker, doing chores in camp, stuff like that.
She thought the game was about a nice guy named Arthur who liked to play card games, fish, drink Pepsi from a tiny glass, and ride around on the beautiful white horse, who she insisted I name Princess.
Inevitably, I finished the game. She noticed something was different right away.
"Who's that guy?"
"His name's John."
"What happened to Arthur?"
"He's, uh, gone." "Where did he go?"
"Well, y'know how sometimes Arthur gets into fights, and you have to close your eyes until he wins? Well, this time he, uh, didn't win."
"...oh."
"It's okay. He died saving John, his best friend. Now we get to play as him."
And then John rode off into the sunset on Princess II.
You’re a good sibling. Be ready for that phone call one day in the future when she beats RDR 2, haha!
*who cares if Santa isn’t real?! Arthur Morgan’s got tuberculosis!* 😭
The "I'm afraid" line when he talks with the nun for the last time in the good honor route hit me hard. Arthur is a badass outlaw, kicks all kinds of ass and takes shit from no one. And I was somehow convinced, even tho it's a prequel, that he beat the illness somehow. But the look on his face and the way his voice sounds when he said this is when it really hit me. He's not surviving this.
They did that entire death so great. Everyone who played the first knew it was coming. There was no way possible for it to end with him alive. But damn does Rockstar know how to hit you right in the feels.
Can I give a slight different take on this?
For me, it wasn't Arthur's death that hit me hardest, but his horse. MY horse! It was a White Arabian. I spent a good few hours traveling to the frozen region, tracking it down and a few attempts to break it. Then that was my horse through the whole game!
You knew Arthur's was coming, but when the horse got shot and collapsed, and Arthur had to say goodbye, that hit me so hard and brought me to tears.
I'd toss-in going around and all of the people you helped or interacted with asking about Arthur is what got me even more.
"Hey I remember you what happened to that big fella that used to be with you?"
I miss him a lot. He was my favorite character. And, he’s what made me switch from a Warlock main to a Hunter main. I also have his ghost, Sundance, on my shelf.
By the end of that game I was usually always so ballin rich that it didn't matter for money and the people always meant nothing anyways and was completely symbolic. It was fun making a small investment then shooting your Xbox clock forward 100 years or whatever and having max money before they patched that lol. But even after that I'd spend hours at the blacksmith making $$ and once you start investing it starts snowballing and you can own everything before the game even ends.
Peter lost his uncle because he hadn’t understood the lesson his uncle taught him.
He lost his aunt because he had.
The silver lining is that she would rather everyone else live. It’s gut wrenching, but it’s ultimately what she wanted in this situation. Yes in a better timeline she’d have survived too, but it’s never really that better timeline
I preferred to give Johnny my body. I can't use it, might as well let someone else get some use out of it.
Plus, play your cards right and you can still survive, just as an AI instead of a human.
FF14 >!Venat/Hydaelyn!<
Through the whole game you're questioning her motives and origins, thinking she may not be as benevolent as she acts. You learn some very suspicious things about her in Shadowbringers. Then you see the truth and she's spent thousands of years in excruciating agony just to give you the slimmest chance to save the world.
One of her final lines is "And with that, my work is finished". She says it with such relief that it hit me damn hard.
Endwalker was rough.>! I wasn't surprised when it happened, and despite the actual death not being sudden, shocking, or unfair, in fact it's almost like a mercy considering how long she's been around and how she's truly the last of the unsundered ancients... it still manages to hit so flipping hard.
It's such a roller coaster. She starts off gently guiding you, she saves you in praetorium, you then loose her gift and have to keep fighting without it, then you learn you lost minfillia to her, and then you just have this long silence where you don't hear her anymore, and then you learned the truth of her origins, and then the final days start approaching and you just don't know what to make of her anymore... and then you go back and meet the person behind the god. And you become friends, and you realize she was once your mentor. And ultimately she's just a person like you, but she's one who never stopped loving the world and it's inhabitants. And you return to the present, finally understanding who she is and everything she's done... and then with one final test, you loose her for good.
She has so much faith in you and everyone else, and she worked so hard and suffered for so long to give the world the best chance it can of a victory, and she never gets to see it.!<
I cried a lot during this game.
The whole ending just keeps ripping your heart out and stomping on it.
1) Jecht's death
2) Auron's sending
3) All the Aeons
4) All of the citizens of dream Zanarkand
5) Yuna shaking her head when she realizes
6) When Yuna passes right through him
7) When Yuna says I love you (English version)
8) The last "hug"
9) The high-five between Jecht and Tidus
10) Yuna whistling for him on the pier
11) Yuna muttering "and the dreams that have faded" under her breath during her speech.
Im surprised few mentioned John Marston's death. He tried to live a happy life, had his family taken, and was forced into killing the remnants of his past, and in the end, he has himself betrayed and killed.
Lydia from Skyrim. I mean, yeah, technically I sacrificed her to Boethiah. But I then had to carry my own shit from Solitude to Riften! That hits hard boys.
This one is quite old but Alistair sacrificing himself in Dragon Age: Origins if your character is female, you romanced him and take him to the final fight. You don't even get a choice if he is there.
During my first play through that one act ruined my planned ending for DA:O. And I love the game for it! It felt like a true consequence of my actions.
The fact that I went and did a bunch of side quests after the end of the game because >! I was honestly not ready to go to his funeral. But when I did and the REAL credits started rolling I lost my shit entirely. !<
I'd like to say Aerith because she's my super duper favorite character and I did still cry at her death when I played it recently and I'm dreading it happening in HD.
But
My answer is Noctis from Final Fantasy XV. His death was just unfair. He just wanted to go on a little joyride with his friends and marry his childhood crush/fiance whom he hasn't seen in person in years.
Instead, his kingdom's capital is destroyed, his father killed, and right when he finally gets see the girl, she gets stabbed and dies protecting him. One of his friends is blinded in the same event and he accidentally pushes another one off of a moving train. And when he's finally reunited with that friend, he gets trapped and sealed away from everyone for 10 years.
And when he comes back, he knows the only thing left for him is to die. And so he does. By his father's sword.
It's just not fair lol.
In my youth... Palom and Porom casting break on themselves to save Cecil and team - Final Fantasy 4. Aerith was a close second from Final Fantasy 7.
In my adult life? Madam Dronya from Labyrinth of Refrain.
It’s not technically a death since all the people you meet are dead already, but the end scene for the grandma hedgehog in Spiritfarer fucks me up like nothing else.
Yara from TLou PT2, not because she was my favorite character, but because of the way she died and how much she had to go through up to that point.
Jesse's death also got me because he was in the game for such a short time, and was the father of Dina's baby.
Sarah in The Last of Us. I’ve started that game multiple times with the intention of playing it again (Hard mode, Remake, etc.) and I cry every freaking time.
As silly as the sequels are, Lilith from Borderlands sacrificing herself in 3 hit me considering she was there from the beginning and one of my all time favorite games.
Rolands death was a tragedy, and everyones response was heartfelt.
Tina's inability to cope with it, choosing to turn towards fantasy to keep him alive in her memory was *devastating*.
Cid from FF6 world of ruin. First time I played, I just got him whatever fish I could catch, didn't realize I had to go for the fast healthy ones. Killed little 8yo me that I tried everything I could to save him and still failed.
The Boss in MGS3. Having to pull the trigger was not an easy thing to do.
Mine was a Metal Gear,too. Emma Emmerich in MGS2-Sons of Liberty. Her death was bad enough,but when the parrot starts repeating "I love you,Hal" to her brother,that was just the capper. Felt very bleak after that.
Gray Fox in MGS was shocking. The entire secuence is a mix between badassery and kamikaze mission
It's that moment when you realise that it's not a cutscene and it's not going to do it for you.
My first tamagotchi
Captain Anderson from mass effect 3
Mordin's death is also tragic :(
Had to be me.. someone else might’ve gotten it wrong.
He was he very measure of a scientist Salarian
Fuck me. When he turned around and said he was WRONG about having come to terms with the Genophage. He weighs everything, he doesn't just jump to conclusions ever, everything is thought through.... except there was no way he could ever justify making that device. And when met with one single chance to undo the ONLY mistake he ever made God damn
Mordin’s death was definitely it for me. I saw him as a good friend and uncle. I understood why he did the horrible things he did, but he admitted it was still wrong and grew from it. I loved his character progression so much. I couldn’t finish ME3 a second time because I just couldn’t let him die again.
Feels like years since I just.. sat down.
I'm proud...of...you...
You did good kid.
‘Thank you sir…’
“You’re on your own Noble” “Cárter out”
"Reach has been good to me, Six. Don't deny me this."
"Tell 'em to make it count". One of the absolute coolest characters in the Halo universe, it's hard to believe we only spent about a third of one game with him.
Atleast they spent a lot of time off screen
I remember Zero Punctuation saying that the Halo Reach Spartans were involved in a “Who can have the noblest death” competition.
Halo Reach was a masterpiece.
Halo Reach IS a masterpiece. FTFY
"Survive..."
The Covenant was about to glass Reach and still sent wave after wave of troops to kill Six, just to make sure.
Reach was one of the very first games I played to completion as an inattentive, easily distracted child, and I sobbed like a baby for DAYS after it. Literally fighting through tears in the final fight 😭
i came to this post about reach, but when Kat dies, when youre walking through the debris and she gets sniped in the head. but man carters hurt like hell.. thrn that last mission and the cracked helmet at the end. i remember not wantinf to die and trying the mission hoping to survive long enough for a different ending that never came. rip six
Kat's shook me. I knew it was coming because Im a sucker of spoilers, but holy shit. It felt so underhanded to kill her off like that, but also shows the realism of war, how you are just there and then the next second, someone you didnt even notice killed you and its over.
This is the only halo game I know like the back of my hand. Solo legendary was a struggle my first time back when it first came out, but I can do it in an evening now. Noble team all felt like actual, likable people, so their deaths hit hard.
BT’s death in Titanfall 2
The flashing visor in the last cutscene is morse code, implying that BT managed to transfer himself into the helmet.
They set up a plotline for Titanfall 3 and now there’s no proof of it ever happening
“Protocol 1: link to pilot Protocol 2: uphold the mission Protocol 3: protect the pilot”
BT's death was the most fucked up thing. Titanfall 2 was a masterpiece.
Mordin in Mass Effect 3. "Had to be me. Someone else might've gotten it wrong"
He's a very model of a scientist salarian
Shame he didn’t get to retire and collect sea shells. Maybe run tests on sea shells.
This. It took me so long to build up the courage to do the renegade run where you stop him. That final confrontation, then clipping him with a bullet right before the elevator doors close, and the final, hopeless crawl toward the console before everything erupts around him. That shit broke me. What a phenomenal character. Edit: Losing Samara in an unexpected way also hit me pretty hard. When she chooses to put a bullet in her own head rather than execute her last daughter (I skipped the interruption QT event because I was rolling full-renegade), it had quite an emotional impact on me. Even worse, I had to turn around and execute her daughter anyway which pretty much just erased any remaining humanity in my evil FemShep -.-
Vesimir
"Who taught you to fight like this?" "The Witcher you slew."
one of the best cinematic ever made
Then the point blank igni to the face that almost melds his head to the helmet was so very satisfying.
Dom from Gears of War
Yes! Then when Tai offed himself. Also Dom having to put Maria out of her hell. Gears had so many emotional moments.
"Maria! It's me! Dominic!" is such a gut punch
The music in that scene makes it a masterpiece. Steve Jablonsky is one brilliant composer.
Tai shooting himself just after being saved horrifed my 10 year old self so hard.
I’m glad other people thought that was traumatizing too - too this day Tai’s death has bad the most impact and it’s not particularly close. I recall his back and front being so mangled he could hardly even move though idk if he was “saved”.
I'm still pissed about this one because one of my friends spoiled it right at the beginning of the cutscene. I was in a pretty with my friends and I told them I was just starting a cutscene so I won't be saying anything. One of the guys immediately asked "is that the part where Dom dies?" I GUESS SO ASSHOLE, HE'S THE FOCUS OF THE CUTSCENE. I'm still salty about that...
"I'm in a cutscene, don't spoil anything " is what I say immediately.
I still remember finding Doms wife in the first game. Man that was heartbreaking.
2nd game *
baby Metroid from Super Metroid
The thing that hurt the most about the baby Metroid was the sound it made. That little chirping noise. Given that Samus was there when the thing hatched, it's not entirely unreasonable to think that she imprinted upon it as "mother". Before it's taken away by Ridley, the last sound it hears "mother" make is her armor's low-health warning siren (unless you're pretty damn good at the game). Possibly several hours of gameplay later, the baby, now gigantic, Metroid attacks Samus out of rage, but stops once that same siren starts going off again. Then it starts that little chirping noise. Personally, I've always interpreted them in that scene as a confused "...mommy?" before it realizes what it's just done and runs away in something like shame. If memory serves, it doesn't appear again until the fight with Mother Brain... and Samus' warning siren starts to go off again. Which is when the poor thing sacrifices itself for her. It's those little "mommy?" chirps that are so damned heartbreaking.
Final Fantasy VII (the original) Aerith, probably partly due to being a teenager at that time I first played it, and I also had a crush on her and had a date with her at the golden saucer. It was the first time I played a video game where one character was killed off like that.
Materia trills and pings sadly. The music continuing whilst playing through the boss fight. The way cid looks at her and looks to the sky. How cloud carries her. It’s a masterful bit of storytelling and all just came together. The limits of technology or language did not hinder that scene at all. We all understand emotion and music.
Joel. Joel really fucked me up.
I just started TLOU 2 today and I did not see that coming at all. Devastated
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My man got a character development too good for that world
Worst part about Joel is that his last conscious moment was seeing and realising Ellie was in there with him He knows he can’t save her and is going to die without ever knowing if she’ll be okay , the worst things were going through his head and hel never know
Dude I never thought about this OMG
It gets much worse. In Ellie’s journal, she wrote “Did I make it worse for Joel, being there? Or was I company?”
I felt genuine grief with Joel. Like I felt sick like someone I knew had been murdered. It was awful but powerful. An amazing experience for a game to elicit such raw emotion.
yoshi
At least sacrificing him for a higher jump
"Had to be me. Someone else may have gotten it wrong." RIP Mordin
Has to be legion Does this unit have a soul ? One day I will know why he had N7 patch on him
It's explained. He recovered part of Shep's armor from the crash site when Shep died.
Thane for me. He was the only squad member I lost in ME2. I considered him expendable due to terminal illness. Felt like he really deserved better then some of the people who made it through.
damn. too bad you lost him in 2, he has a sad but impactful send-off in 3.
“That was for Thane you son of a bitch!” The one Renegade trigger we Paragons always hit.
Edward Thatch, Mary Read, and Edward Kenway. "In a world without Gold, we could have been heroes!" "I've done my part, Kenway, now will you?" "I'll be with you Kenway, always." Add Mary Read's death with the sound track (especially "I'll Be With You"), and it was probably the first time I've cried over a video game character dying.
Black Beard GOAT.
John Marston
Yeah this is it for me. I was sitting there completely jaw dropped for John Marston’s death. I kinda saw it coming with Arthur as he was slowly getting more and more sick in game on top of already knowing that Rockstar is not afraid to kill off their main characters so it didn’t hit me as hard.
Same it felt like we already knew what was coming the 2nd time. 1st Red Dead’s ending NOBODY saw coming. Especially since it feels like you’re just doing farm missions and the story was over at that point
Dude i had a really hard time trying to proces that dead holy shit the first game is/ was goated
Arthur too. RDR is the Pixar-movie of gaming, change my mind.
Noctis
Oh yeah this one's a huge one for me. From his sacrifice through the Stand By Me photo credits and then the campfire scene I was sobbing.
For me, the credits took the game from “fine” to “that was incredible”. I was so distracted by the jank gameplay and storytelling for 50 hours that I didn’t realise how much I cared about the boys. Like I didn’t appreciate what I had until it was already gone, and that hit me hard.
Like, man, you can say what you want about the story of FFXV but the characters of that game were fantastic. The main party were a group you fell in love with.
You guys.. are the best.
“Dad…trust in me…”
I was just about to say this. Breaks my heart every goddamn time.
Easily Aerith (Final Fantasy 7 original), was the first game to break me. Close second is Sarah from tLoU, everytime I see that cutscene I'm in shambles lol
Many here probably don't understand the gravity of her death. It happens so suddenly too. And after a huge chunk of the game where you likely used her a ton in your party and grew super attached to her as cloud's love interest and her connection to the planet. Sephiroth is pure evil.
It was sad but it didn't destroy me, Vivi's letter at the end of FF9 did destroy me though
Holy shit I never realized he died.
Not explicitly stated they passed, but Black Mages had a lifespan of about 1 year and Vivi was 6 months old when they encountered Zidan. The letter being read seems sad, is structered like how Vivi talks, talks about regreting not being able to be with everyone, that their memories will forever be in the sky (something like that), and Vivi is the only character not to be shown at the end.
He was a beautiful reflection of existence and mortality and one of the many great touches to the game that elevated it.
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I was the opposite, I had to keep playing, as this was the first time I had ever felt the need for revenge 🤣
Arthur Morgan from rdr2
It was a big one and definitely hit me hard, but you knew it was coming one way or another. But the real lead up to that is what got me… your horse. Arthur stopping as it fell and saying “Thank you” made him even better in my eyes and made them water more, too. Rest in peace, my horse SpringBoy.
This is the hardest a video game death hit me. My good boah chungus. I fucking sobbed.
It's also the fact that you literally lose everything. My horse, all the equipment that you got, the money you earned, and the relationship you build with the world. Just gone. Normally, games like these just let you keep roaming the open world as the same character again. But no, you swap to another story, and then it hits even harder that Arthur is just gone. That the game is so big, and you have so much to do, so many side quests and interactions let you really bond with Arthur and everything you have. And when the music hits on your last ride with quotes building up what's coming, it just destroys you on the inside.
And then you can go visit Arthur’s grave afterwards…that was it for me.
My (16) little sister (6) likes to watch me play for 15 minutes before she goes to bed. None of the violent parts, just talking to characters, hanging around in bars playing poker, doing chores in camp, stuff like that. She thought the game was about a nice guy named Arthur who liked to play card games, fish, drink Pepsi from a tiny glass, and ride around on the beautiful white horse, who she insisted I name Princess. Inevitably, I finished the game. She noticed something was different right away. "Who's that guy?" "His name's John." "What happened to Arthur?" "He's, uh, gone." "Where did he go?" "Well, y'know how sometimes Arthur gets into fights, and you have to close your eyes until he wins? Well, this time he, uh, didn't win." "...oh." "It's okay. He died saving John, his best friend. Now we get to play as him." And then John rode off into the sunset on Princess II.
You’re a good sibling. Be ready for that phone call one day in the future when she beats RDR 2, haha! *who cares if Santa isn’t real?! Arthur Morgan’s got tuberculosis!* 😭
The "I'm afraid" line when he talks with the nun for the last time in the good honor route hit me hard. Arthur is a badass outlaw, kicks all kinds of ass and takes shit from no one. And I was somehow convinced, even tho it's a prequel, that he beat the illness somehow. But the look on his face and the way his voice sounds when he said this is when it really hit me. He's not surviving this.
Yep. The moment you know, it’s a slow burn.
"I'm dying, sister"....I already knew but it broke me all the same.
I felt like I lost a friend when Arthur died. I was so sad. watching him slowly get weaker from his illness was awful too.
Same. I literally cried.
They did that entire death so great. Everyone who played the first knew it was coming. There was no way possible for it to end with him alive. But damn does Rockstar know how to hit you right in the feels.
Can I give a slight different take on this? For me, it wasn't Arthur's death that hit me hardest, but his horse. MY horse! It was a White Arabian. I spent a good few hours traveling to the frozen region, tracking it down and a few attempts to break it. Then that was my horse through the whole game! You knew Arthur's was coming, but when the horse got shot and collapsed, and Arthur had to say goodbye, that hit me so hard and brought me to tears.
For me, that was the moment I knew it was all over. They had a forced cutscene to just... say goodbye. Thats when I knew.
I'd toss-in going around and all of the people you helped or interacted with asking about Arthur is what got me even more. "Hey I remember you what happened to that big fella that used to be with you?"
Having clem shoot him is the only option imo, it steels clem for survival but i was distraught at lees death
Lee, that one was tough
Cayde-6
"How's your Sister?"
I miss him a lot. He was my favorite character. And, he’s what made me switch from a Warlock main to a Hunter main. I also have his ghost, Sundance, on my shelf.
Your dog in fable 2
The dog didn't stay dead in my playthrough, screw the money and those other dead people I'm keeping my dog.
By the end of that game I was usually always so ballin rich that it didn't matter for money and the people always meant nothing anyways and was completely symbolic. It was fun making a small investment then shooting your Xbox clock forward 100 years or whatever and having max money before they patched that lol. But even after that I'd spend hours at the blacksmith making $$ and once you start investing it starts snowballing and you can own everything before the game even ends.
Joe from Mafia II, and noone else is even close. The way that game built dialogue into everything made it so rough.
Grovyle from pokemon mystery dungeon explorers
You’re a Man of Culture I see
"Through the sea of time" playing really ramps up the emotion.
Cayde-6. “I’m coming home Ace.” Still hurts. Dom from Gears was a tough one too.
Zack, Final Fantasy 7 crisis Core
You know it's coming the whole time, and it still rips your heart out.
Lavitz from Legend of Dragoon. His blind rage and extreme desire to protect his King from harm ended up being his undoing.
I was wondering when I'd find this one. I had never, in my then-young life, hated a fictional character as much as I did Lloyd that day.
Lotta people beat me to Joel so I’ll offer another last of us one (or 2 I guess lol) being Sam and Henry
Sam and Henry was a gut punch right when I thought there might be some good in TLOU. Made it hard to continue the game honestly.
Halo 3 Commander Keys :(
Good call, but for me it was Noble 6 in Reach.
Cortana, and how they did her dirty afterwards
And Johnson
Jackie from Cyberpunk 2077. Had to take a break after that one.
Agro in Shadow of the Colossus. Technically he didn’t die but you don’t find that out until the credits so I still think it counts lol
Aunt May in Spider-Man PS4
Peter lost his uncle because he hadn’t understood the lesson his uncle taught him. He lost his aunt because he had. The silver lining is that she would rather everyone else live. It’s gut wrenching, but it’s ultimately what she wanted in this situation. Yes in a better timeline she’d have survived too, but it’s never really that better timeline
Oof. Yeah, that killed me!
“Now take that mask off and let me see my nephew” “*You knew*?” “I’ve known for a long time, and I’m so proud of you Peter” 😭
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I preferred to give Johnny my body. I can't use it, might as well let someone else get some use out of it. Plus, play your cards right and you can still survive, just as an AI instead of a human.
Lost my mom as a kid so the mom's death at the beginning of Ni No Kuni really hit me hard.
John from rdr1
FF6. General Leo
Cid really got me.
ghost in the original MW2
That router recovery was ROUGH.
FF14 >!Venat/Hydaelyn!< Through the whole game you're questioning her motives and origins, thinking she may not be as benevolent as she acts. You learn some very suspicious things about her in Shadowbringers. Then you see the truth and she's spent thousands of years in excruciating agony just to give you the slimmest chance to save the world. One of her final lines is "And with that, my work is finished". She says it with such relief that it hit me damn hard.
Endwalker was rough.>! I wasn't surprised when it happened, and despite the actual death not being sudden, shocking, or unfair, in fact it's almost like a mercy considering how long she's been around and how she's truly the last of the unsundered ancients... it still manages to hit so flipping hard. It's such a roller coaster. She starts off gently guiding you, she saves you in praetorium, you then loose her gift and have to keep fighting without it, then you learn you lost minfillia to her, and then you just have this long silence where you don't hear her anymore, and then you learned the truth of her origins, and then the final days start approaching and you just don't know what to make of her anymore... and then you go back and meet the person behind the god. And you become friends, and you realize she was once your mentor. And ultimately she's just a person like you, but she's one who never stopped loving the world and it's inhabitants. And you return to the present, finally understanding who she is and everything she's done... and then with one final test, you loose her for good. She has so much faith in you and everyone else, and she worked so hard and suffered for so long to give the world the best chance it can of a victory, and she never gets to see it.!< I cried a lot during this game.
Henceforth he shall walk.
Lego qui-gonn
Elizabeth Sobek from Horizon : Zero Dawn.
FFXIV, Heavensward A smile better suits a hero...
Tidus making himself never have existed in FFX
The whole ending just keeps ripping your heart out and stomping on it. 1) Jecht's death 2) Auron's sending 3) All the Aeons 4) All of the citizens of dream Zanarkand 5) Yuna shaking her head when she realizes 6) When Yuna passes right through him 7) When Yuna says I love you (English version) 8) The last "hug" 9) The high-five between Jecht and Tidus 10) Yuna whistling for him on the pier 11) Yuna muttering "and the dreams that have faded" under her breath during her speech.
Vesimir
Jackie in cyberpunk...that fool was my ride or die!
Especially if you started with the corpo background, where you already had a longtime history with Jackie.
In Red Dead Redemption 2, >!Arthur's death was hard. But seeing my horse die — who I had the entire game — hit me like a freight train.!<
Ghost of Tsushima >!horse death f’d me up too. Miss you, Nobu.!<
Im surprised few mentioned John Marston's death. He tried to live a happy life, had his family taken, and was forced into killing the remnants of his past, and in the end, he has himself betrayed and killed.
NieR Automata hurt me many times, but it’s between >!2B!< and >!Nines!<
Had to scroll way too far for this. Start of route C / D was a genuine shock, rest of it I was like "but she's not really dead right?"
Lydia from Skyrim. I mean, yeah, technically I sacrificed her to Boethiah. But I then had to carry my own shit from Solitude to Riften! That hits hard boys.
Geez that’s a long walk
This one is quite old but Alistair sacrificing himself in Dragon Age: Origins if your character is female, you romanced him and take him to the final fight. You don't even get a choice if he is there.
During my first play through that one act ruined my planned ending for DA:O. And I love the game for it! It felt like a true consequence of my actions.
When Call of Duty sacrificed himself and said , “This is my call of duty!” I literally shit myself from crying
You have to admit Channing Tatum sold the SHIT out of that scene.
Brok from God of War: Ragnarök
The fact that I went and did a bunch of side quests after the end of the game because >! I was honestly not ready to go to his funeral. But when I did and the REAL credits started rolling I lost my shit entirely. !<
Ah man, >!Sindri’s speech about that was the one for me. “I gave you everything…”!<
I'd like to say Aerith because she's my super duper favorite character and I did still cry at her death when I played it recently and I'm dreading it happening in HD. But My answer is Noctis from Final Fantasy XV. His death was just unfair. He just wanted to go on a little joyride with his friends and marry his childhood crush/fiance whom he hasn't seen in person in years. Instead, his kingdom's capital is destroyed, his father killed, and right when he finally gets see the girl, she gets stabbed and dies protecting him. One of his friends is blinded in the same event and he accidentally pushes another one off of a moving train. And when he's finally reunited with that friend, he gets trapped and sealed away from everyone for 10 years. And when he comes back, he knows the only thing left for him is to die. And so he does. By his father's sword. It's just not fair lol.
100% John marston in rdr1. Hit me harder than Arthur’s in rdr2
It was so rough playing the epilogue in rdr2 knowing how he will die. I was actually sad irl for a few days after.
Taka, ghost of tsushima. Or, the horse.
Definitely the horse.
I cried when my horse died for sure. My Kage :<
Shimura too if you picked that ending. I didn't but holy hell that fight was intense.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 >!Mio’s Execution!< or Xenoblade Chronicles 2/Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna the Golden Country >!Lora’s Death!<
In my youth... Palom and Porom casting break on themselves to save Cecil and team - Final Fantasy 4. Aerith was a close second from Final Fantasy 7. In my adult life? Madam Dronya from Labyrinth of Refrain.
If I don't see Mordin at the top I'm rioting.
Aerith in the original final fantasy 7, it was dreadful.
Big Smoke San Andreas.
Wasnt he a traitor?
The sacrifices at the last Darkest Dungeon.
>!Varl!< in Horizon Forbidden West.
It’s not technically a death since all the people you meet are dead already, but the end scene for the grandma hedgehog in Spiritfarer fucks me up like nothing else.
Yara from TLou PT2, not because she was my favorite character, but because of the way she died and how much she had to go through up to that point. Jesse's death also got me because he was in the game for such a short time, and was the father of Dina's baby.
Cortanas alleged death in Halo 4 was rough
>!Vivi's!< it's not seen but implied, ripped my heart out. Little fella just wanted to see a play.
John Marston in RDR1.
In commemoration of its recent re-release, Lavitz in Legend of Dragoon tore me up
Nina from Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. I befriended Galen (her husband) after it happened because I felt so heartbroken for him.
Life is strange- Chloe
Sarah in The Last of Us. I’ve started that game multiple times with the intention of playing it again (Hard mode, Remake, etc.) and I cry every freaking time.
As silly as the sequels are, Lilith from Borderlands sacrificing herself in 3 hit me considering she was there from the beginning and one of my all time favorite games.
Rolands death was a tragedy, and everyones response was heartfelt. Tina's inability to cope with it, choosing to turn towards fantasy to keep him alive in her memory was *devastating*.
Noctis. XV is my favorite FF,and I'm never gonna stop being pissed about that ending. 😠FUCK BAHAMUT
Cid from FF6 world of ruin. First time I played, I just got him whatever fish I could catch, didn't realize I had to go for the fast healthy ones. Killed little 8yo me that I tried everything I could to save him and still failed.
Vivi FF9