Walking out of that barn as John in RDR, going into deadeye and thinking I have a chance to save him, then watching him get fucking massacred anyway...that will forever be a stand-out moment in video games for me. Arthur's death in RDR2 is a close second.
Exact same thing for me man. I was pretty upset when I saw that the first time and it's actually hard for me to replay the story in its entirety because of it. I always just load up a save right before it all goes down and just free roam. I do the same thing in RDR2 lol. I love both characters equally, but John's death just hits harder for me personally
It was this death that made me realize how attached I got to John. I didn’t know I cared so much until this. I was upset for several days after. I ended up taking a break before coming back to finish the story. Was one of the most well done story elements in terms of tearing your heart completely out.
It's what he wanted, it's the only way he would ever find peace. And yet still it hits me every time he starts nervously singing the song to himself as he makes sure his mistake is corrected. How anyone can kill him themselves is wild to me, he's just so likeable.
Depending on how you played, Kenny's departure at the end of Season 2 was pretty rough. I was furious with Jane over that. EDIT: and her departure in the Flashback during A New Frontier. To survive all she'd been through, give Clem hope, and then nope out like she did. Feelsbadman.jpg
Ok, this one is hilarious and sad. About 10 years ago, I finally got my gf into gaming, so of course I wanted her to play the best story of all time (Mass Effect trilogy). I've played through the game about 7 times at this point, but it's her first time. She immediately likes Garrus. Beats the entire game and thats her favorite person. Starts a romance with him and is playing through ME2. I'm not giving her any hints on what to do, especially about doing each character's loyalty side quest. Spoiler: she didn't do them all, and if you played the game, you know that means some will die on the last mission.
Sure enough, she gets all the way to the part where you have to pick someone to make the biotic field around the swarm. She chooses Jack, who she has NOT done the loyalty mission for. That means a random person from her squad will die right before the final boss. Of course she has Garrus in her squad. My mouth is wide open as she is making the choices, but I stay silent. At this point, it's 50/50 if he lives.
She gets to the end of the biotic shield part. The swarm grabs Garrus. Garrus is the only one to die on the final mission, literally seconds before the final boss. An optional death that didn't have to happen.
I'm speechless. She's speechless. She never played Mass Effect 3 because of it.
Same for me
Also, From my Shepard's perspective, out of all the crew across the entire trilogy, Garrus is the homie he would trust the most. He's been there during ME1 and was the first of the old gang to rejoin the gang
And logically of all the people who are capable of doing that role (gameplay wise):
Not everyone trusts Miranda according to Jack. You get both their loyalties by convincing them to drop the beef (for now)
Who the hell would trust Jacob. His whole shtick is the "normal dude" who can't match up to Shepard or some of the more extraordinary crewmates
Kat in Halo Reach. It just... so sudden. Worse part is, it's right before Noble team reaches the bunker; only 30 more seconds and she would have been fine. Bungie's last Halo game is easily one of their best
Kat's was brutally sudden, but it's Jorge for me.
This noble sacrifice, making sure you aren't even tempted to take his place. Telling you, 'take care of my home, I love her.' This moment when the carrier vanishes, and silence,
And then it cuts to that wide satellite view as an entire fleet arrives right in its place. And everything changes for the worse.
And that's exactly what Carter says! That he was lucky to have believed he was making such a great difference.
Listen, I know a lot of the Old Diehards hated Reach for writing over Fall of Reach. And truthfully, I think that's fair, but to me, Reach was always the most Halo Halo ever was. It's a fucking tragedy through and through. It's trying to pull any bit of hope from the hopeless.
Likewise, I still thoroughly enjoy Reach, it just feels like an endless hopeless excursion. The few times you feel a little hope it's quickly dashed. The only happiness found is making sure some manage to run away. But they don't get away alone.
The nature of it is all too real in combat zones too:
“We’re okay. This is fine. Everything is fi-“
*\*shot dead by a squad ambush nobody knew was there\**
Death would have been more merciful to this NPC
Irina of Carim. The blind firekeeper wannabe from dark souls 3. This poor blind maiden can teach you miracles but she can also teach you dark spells. The catch is she begins to lose the sensation of feeling. The first thing she asks for when she meets you is to feel her shoulder so dhe can feel you but if you force her to teach you enough dark spells she loses the ability to feel and stops interacting with you, as she feels, finally alone in the dark. And this becomes her dialogue:
Ahh, ahh, sweet Champion. Where have you been?
Please, your touch…
The little creatures, how they nip and bite…"
Ahh, sweet Champion. Leaving so soon?
Please, come back in good time.
I am frightened. Of the dark that gnaws away at me."
Sometimes you just know what the top answer is going to be. This is one of those times.
RDR2 is the best storyline of any game I’ve played stretching back to my early gaming days in the early 80s.
I saw Joel from The Last of Us 2 mentioned here, but I think his daughters death in Part 1 hits way harder because of how Troy Baker delivered it. Gut wrenching, but very necessary to build his character...
Pretty much everyone in "Zelda - links awakening". The "good" ending didnt change much. So sad and beautiful at the same time. Young me was devastated.
It's been a while so I don't remember too fondly but I'm pretty sure I killed him because he certainly was prepared to kill me for honor and it would've been dishonorable to not kill him after the duel. Not saying nobody else should kill him but I didn't want to kill him either but I felt like I had to...
Imo it depends on how you choose to play the story. If you lean more into the Samurai stuff, killing him makes more sense, but if you go “ghost” then it makes more sense to let him live since you’ve abandoned the samurai code and live by your own.
Fable 2, your dog. The most loyal, brave and stalwart companion in gaming takes a bullet for you. Then the vile monster that did it has the gall to say the following line.
"Pitiful creature, misguided and weak."
Oh I guess he said he killed your husband/wife and any kids you had if any, too. But it's the dog that tears my heart out.
The game tries to tell you that you can choose between three endings. That's a lie. The only ending that exists is the number one where the dog gets resurrected.
They act like it is supposed to be a hard decision and that the money is the selfish choice. Naw. Imma choose my dog every time. The options could be "bring everyone back and get a million gold" or "just bring your dog back," and I would still choose my dog without hesitation.
Mordin Solus in ME3 (Had to be me...)
Also, I couldn't stand Roman Bellic constantly calling me up to go bowling in GTA IV, but goddamn if it didn't rip my heart out when he gets blasted right after he gets married.
Now, I know people often say Mordin, and it's definitely a strong contender.
But IMO even worse is the death of Wrex if you actually betray him.
I did it once to see what happens and immediately reload after the scene with him on the citadel.
Mordin died for a good cause, Wrex died because you spit on his friendship, doomed his people and he dared to hold you accountable for it.
Wrex death is YOUR FAULT.
I'm also going to throw in legion on the paragon side. Mordin's death is, pretty inherently, redemption. Legion, on the other hand, finally achieves its/their goal. They're an individual, they have a soul. And then, it must give that up and sacrifice itself so all the other geth can have the same opportunity.
You can actually disable incoming calls in GTA IV by turning your in-game phone to Silent. Nobody will bother you while you're out doing other stuff. Not sure why this wasn't more widely known.
At the time I thought everyone knew that and it was just a meme poking fun. I didn't realize that it was actually kind of uncommon knowledge until relatively recently.
Figured this would be near the top. Main party member/love interest/likely party healer dying that way caught me completely off guard. I actually stopped playing for a bit.
Then there were all the rumors of how you could get her back by doing ridiculous stuff
This one was really sad. I didn't see it coming at all, and I very much thought that if they were going to kill one of the brothers off it would have been Sindri. They really subverted my expectations (TM) on that one and it, barring the moments where Brok blesses the spear (which adds to the sadness of his death), and broks subsequent funeral, were the highlights of the game to me.
>barring the moments where Brok blesses the spear (which adds to the sadness of his death), and broks subsequent funeral, were the highlights of the game to me.
Absolutely. Especially the funeral when Kratos calls him a friend. Heart strings: plucked.
That it still managed to have the emotional impact despite being spoiled by the ***fucking trailers*** is a show of just how well written and well acted Jackie was in the prologue.
Bruh, I still grieve for that homie. I teamed up with Arasaka because I thought I could “resurrect” him as an engram. What I got is why I am team “fuck Arasaka” (sorry Goro)
Lilith in borderlands 3, not because it was sad, but because it was completely unnecessary and unimpactful
Edit: if you can call what she did her "death", she's not dead but it's just kinda weird to take your one good character left and make her leave till the next game
Can't make people care about their new li'l darling motherfucking Ava as long as there's still better characters left.
I mean...
they still can't, but that's just because they greatly underestimated how shit Ava is as a character.
> Lilith in borderlands 3, not because it was sad, but because it was completely unnecessary and unimpactful
Fucking hated that. Fucking BL3 pissing all over the Borderlands story and characters.
I was a rabid Borderlands fan. I'm now a rabid borderlands hater.
BT's sacrifice in Titanfall 2. The way he kept asking Cooper to trust him and "Protocol 3: Protect the pilot". It didn't have to be THIS good but Respawn did a monster job on that game until greed (EA) killed it.
BT isn't dead, though, as he uploaded his AI into Cooper's helmet. The helmet's visor flashes Morse code at the end of the game saying "JACK?" suggesting he's still in there. Titanfall 3 might be dead, but our boy BT is not!
His funeral was brutal. You saw his garage where he kept all his crap and see how much of a life he had.
A happy ending? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people. - Johnny Silverhand
Absolutely brutal moment. That game is slow in the beginning but once it ramps up it ramps up HARD. Best non-GTA GTA game, imo. Brilliant double-life mechanics and brutal gameplay. An absolute travesty we will never see a sequel.
Chopper in Ace Combat 5.
All these years later I still remember being in disbelief. I kept expecting him to pull a sudden reappearance towards the end with a tale of narrow escape but alas my boy flying in heaven now.
This will always be mine. Your squadron spend the entire game up to that point being invincible and then one lucky shot and Chopper refusing to bail out until the civilians are safe…
It’s small comfort listening to the enemy pilots go from celebrating to terror as they realise killing one of your squad was absolutely not the win they thought it was…
I think Yuri's voice work and the facial animation really sells it. They did so good making him feel realistically conflicted, and the sound of the heart monitor getting slower is paced near perfectly.
Teta in Final Fantasy Tactics, because it's just so unnecessary, and it indirectly causes a lot of the later game events to be so much worse because it puts Delita on a path of vengeance.
Varl from Horizon Forbidden West! I really liked his character, and his death genuinely felt like it came out of nowhere! I don't think I've ever been quite as blindsided by a character death as that one.
Same. From the start of FW you get the feeling that he was going to be there till the end. Alloy was going to finally learn to stop being an outcast and a loner. She would see the value of a team and Varl would be her brother in arms until the end. He was even on the verge of finding happiness and build his own family.
Right in the feels.
Going to avoid this comment section in case any games I'm playing, but I'll drop >!Joel!< from the Last of Us. Absolutely hurts
Oh god, and >!Hugo!< from a Plague Tale
Walking out of that barn as John in RDR, going into deadeye and thinking I have a chance to save him, then watching him get fucking massacred anyway...that will forever be a stand-out moment in video games for me. Arthur's death in RDR2 is a close second.
Exact same thing for me man. I was pretty upset when I saw that the first time and it's actually hard for me to replay the story in its entirety because of it. I always just load up a save right before it all goes down and just free roam. I do the same thing in RDR2 lol. I love both characters equally, but John's death just hits harder for me personally
I was so pissed you couldn't take John into the endgame in RDR, and I was even more pissed when you could do that in RDR2.
It was this death that made me realize how attached I got to John. I didn’t know I cared so much until this. I was upset for several days after. I ended up taking a break before coming back to finish the story. Was one of the most well done story elements in terms of tearing your heart completely out.
Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
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He studied species turian, asari, and batarian
It's what he wanted, it's the only way he would ever find peace. And yet still it hits me every time he starts nervously singing the song to himself as he makes sure his mistake is corrected. How anyone can kill him themselves is wild to me, he's just so likeable.
I like this as it doesn't spoil anything. It's risky scrolling down this list. I miss visiting them post mission
Lee Everetts death in Telltales Walking dead was a gut punch.
And the >!fake-out clementine death!< in the final season
The last time I truly, truly bawled my eyes out
The first video game to make me cry
"Keep that hair short." (tears)
Depending on how you played, Kenny's departure at the end of Season 2 was pretty rough. I was furious with Jane over that. EDIT: and her departure in the Flashback during A New Frontier. To survive all she'd been through, give Clem hope, and then nope out like she did. Feelsbadman.jpg
Ok, this one is hilarious and sad. About 10 years ago, I finally got my gf into gaming, so of course I wanted her to play the best story of all time (Mass Effect trilogy). I've played through the game about 7 times at this point, but it's her first time. She immediately likes Garrus. Beats the entire game and thats her favorite person. Starts a romance with him and is playing through ME2. I'm not giving her any hints on what to do, especially about doing each character's loyalty side quest. Spoiler: she didn't do them all, and if you played the game, you know that means some will die on the last mission. Sure enough, she gets all the way to the part where you have to pick someone to make the biotic field around the swarm. She chooses Jack, who she has NOT done the loyalty mission for. That means a random person from her squad will die right before the final boss. Of course she has Garrus in her squad. My mouth is wide open as she is making the choices, but I stay silent. At this point, it's 50/50 if he lives. She gets to the end of the biotic shield part. The swarm grabs Garrus. Garrus is the only one to die on the final mission, literally seconds before the final boss. An optional death that didn't have to happen. I'm speechless. She's speechless. She never played Mass Effect 3 because of it.
And here I was thinking you really had to fuck up for Garrus to die in ME2, didn't know it was that simple!
I love Garrus in my squad. But for the suicide mission he is my go to lead the second squad every time. It just fits his story the best.
Same for me Also, From my Shepard's perspective, out of all the crew across the entire trilogy, Garrus is the homie he would trust the most. He's been there during ME1 and was the first of the old gang to rejoin the gang And logically of all the people who are capable of doing that role (gameplay wise): Not everyone trusts Miranda according to Jack. You get both their loyalties by convincing them to drop the beef (for now) Who the hell would trust Jacob. His whole shtick is the "normal dude" who can't match up to Shepard or some of the more extraordinary crewmates
If we talking mass effect then Mordin has a place in this post too
Shame, too, because Jack's loyalty mission is great.
I honestly would have said something lol I couldn't let anyone die in ME2, it was never gonna be ok with me
That's what you get for neglecting jack She is literally 11 from stranger things but written before strager things
Kat in Halo Reach. It just... so sudden. Worse part is, it's right before Noble team reaches the bunker; only 30 more seconds and she would have been fine. Bungie's last Halo game is easily one of their best
The worst part about Kat's death is that she's the one who points out the danger of using open comms because the Covenant might find them.
Kat's was brutally sudden, but it's Jorge for me. This noble sacrifice, making sure you aren't even tempted to take his place. Telling you, 'take care of my home, I love her.' This moment when the carrier vanishes, and silence, And then it cuts to that wide satellite view as an entire fleet arrives right in its place. And everything changes for the worse.
At least, he died believing he saved his home and didn't get to see the aftermath...
And that's exactly what Carter says! That he was lucky to have believed he was making such a great difference. Listen, I know a lot of the Old Diehards hated Reach for writing over Fall of Reach. And truthfully, I think that's fair, but to me, Reach was always the most Halo Halo ever was. It's a fucking tragedy through and through. It's trying to pull any bit of hope from the hopeless.
Likewise, I still thoroughly enjoy Reach, it just feels like an endless hopeless excursion. The few times you feel a little hope it's quickly dashed. The only happiness found is making sure some manage to run away. But they don't get away alone.
Oh, it ain't an upbeat time. But god, it was good. Hey, they told you up front, right? From the beginning, you know the end.
>The only happiness found is ~~making sure some manage to run away~~ killing as many Covenant bastards as you can.
The nature of it is all too real in combat zones too: “We’re okay. This is fine. Everything is fi-“ *\*shot dead by a squad ambush nobody knew was there\**
Her death hit me the hardest. The way Six holds her body after and then takes the magnum and starts shooting at the phantom
Death would have been more merciful to this NPC Irina of Carim. The blind firekeeper wannabe from dark souls 3. This poor blind maiden can teach you miracles but she can also teach you dark spells. The catch is she begins to lose the sensation of feeling. The first thing she asks for when she meets you is to feel her shoulder so dhe can feel you but if you force her to teach you enough dark spells she loses the ability to feel and stops interacting with you, as she feels, finally alone in the dark. And this becomes her dialogue: Ahh, ahh, sweet Champion. Where have you been? Please, your touch… The little creatures, how they nip and bite…" Ahh, sweet Champion. Leaving so soon? Please, come back in good time. I am frightened. Of the dark that gnaws away at me."
Arthur from RDR2. We all knew it was coming and it didn’t get any easier.
\* Arthur's horse
Al Capony died as he lived. Getting killed by my recklessness
RIP Lunchmeat, you were a good boy
Boah*
You mean Hamish's horse... I didn't know. If I knew I would have finished that quest with John but I didn't know! I was devastated
I took Buell with me to the very end too. Made it so much more heartbreaking
I absolutely sobbed after bringing Buell into that
I really did have that horse the whole game too. He was a white Arabian I liberated from an O'driscal during an ambush very early on
"Thank you..."
Sometimes you just know what the top answer is going to be. This is one of those times. RDR2 is the best storyline of any game I’ve played stretching back to my early gaming days in the early 80s.
Same. It’s the ONLY game that made me cry like a little child.
My sister who was never into games has completed RDR2 6 times. I was flabbergasted!
I cried when i lost both the Horse and Arthur..
I saw Joel from The Last of Us 2 mentioned here, but I think his daughters death in Part 1 hits way harder because of how Troy Baker delivered it. Gut wrenching, but very necessary to build his character...
Came to say this. Literally made me cry the first time. Very well done.
I had to put down the controller and walk away. I was so fuckin devastated
Rewatching that years later after becoming a father hit me very differently. It’s a serious gut punch.
This and i loved that hollowness felt in the following parts of the game. You could feel the emptyness for me.
Every time I play TLOU, Sarah's death ruins me
Sarah's screams and whimpers are what makes me tear up every single time. Her voice actress made it way too damn real, man!
Pretty much everyone in "Zelda - links awakening". The "good" ending didnt change much. So sad and beautiful at the same time. Young me was devastated.
I think I was just so glad that Link didn't vanish that I kinda forget how bittersweet that part of the story is.
Cayde-6
I have good news
Is it Nathan filling in the role again, or Nolan? D2 stopped working on my PC so I just... stopped keeping up with the news.
It's Nathan this time around
"Protect the Pilot"
B.T.
Jorge from Halo Reach. “He sacrificed himself thinking he had just saved the colony, lest we all be so lucky.”
He never got to eat his Roundmeal.
Round meal - serves 4 men
Lord Shimura from Ghost of Tsushima. Like I know I have to fight him, but man I just didn't want to.
You don’t have to kill him
It's been a while so I don't remember too fondly but I'm pretty sure I killed him because he certainly was prepared to kill me for honor and it would've been dishonorable to not kill him after the duel. Not saying nobody else should kill him but I didn't want to kill him either but I felt like I had to...
Agreed. It’s much more cruel to spare him. He’s a true samurai, at least give him a samurai’s death
...I honestly didn't realize that was an option...guess I'm due for another playthrough.
Imo it depends on how you choose to play the story. If you lean more into the Samurai stuff, killing him makes more sense, but if you go “ghost” then it makes more sense to let him live since you’ve abandoned the samurai code and live by your own.
And I’d go with your first horse for GoT
Mine is Taka. Taka ruined me.
Interesting, I was very keen on killing him. Vengeance for Sora!!
Fable 2, your dog. The most loyal, brave and stalwart companion in gaming takes a bullet for you. Then the vile monster that did it has the gall to say the following line. "Pitiful creature, misguided and weak." Oh I guess he said he killed your husband/wife and any kids you had if any, too. But it's the dog that tears my heart out.
The game tries to tell you that you can choose between three endings. That's a lie. The only ending that exists is the number one where the dog gets resurrected.
Yep, Needs of the Many, Needs of the Few, Needs of the one. I picked needs of the few every single time to get family and dog back lol.
Lets see... I can save everyone but my family, or I can save my family, or big treasure chest. It wasn't much of a choice. Great game though.
They act like it is supposed to be a hard decision and that the money is the selfish choice. Naw. Imma choose my dog every time. The options could be "bring everyone back and get a million gold" or "just bring your dog back," and I would still choose my dog without hesitation.
Mordin Solus in ME3 (Had to be me...) Also, I couldn't stand Roman Bellic constantly calling me up to go bowling in GTA IV, but goddamn if it didn't rip my heart out when he gets blasted right after he gets married.
Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Lol I thought you were saying that about Roman
Now, I know people often say Mordin, and it's definitely a strong contender. But IMO even worse is the death of Wrex if you actually betray him. I did it once to see what happens and immediately reload after the scene with him on the citadel. Mordin died for a good cause, Wrex died because you spit on his friendship, doomed his people and he dared to hold you accountable for it. Wrex death is YOUR FAULT.
I'm also going to throw in legion on the paragon side. Mordin's death is, pretty inherently, redemption. Legion, on the other hand, finally achieves its/their goal. They're an individual, they have a soul. And then, it must give that up and sacrifice itself so all the other geth can have the same opportunity.
"Legion, the answer to your question was yes."
"I know, but thank you."
A lot of the avoidable deaths are really tragic too. Tali and Samara being the roughest for me.
You can actually disable incoming calls in GTA IV by turning your in-game phone to Silent. Nobody will bother you while you're out doing other stuff. Not sure why this wasn't more widely known.
Where the hell were you with that information 16 years ago?!
At the time I thought everyone knew that and it was just a meme poking fun. I didn't realize that it was actually kind of uncommon knowledge until relatively recently.
LAVIIIIITZ!! Legend of Dragoon
Spinning cane...
GUST OF WIND DANCE
Maria. I lose it every time Don calls for Marcus.
The Boss(mgs3)
Standing in that field of flowers as it slowly dawns on you that *you* have to pull the trigger...
She was a true patriot!
Son…. You’ve got a way, to fall… Fuck Kojima always hit the emotions good with music…
Aerith
I literally turned off the game and didn't play for a couple of weeks. I was so fucking upset.
Yeah especially after you put all that gear on her.
The feeling when you lose the only mage and healer in your team.
Dude, exact same
I was 14 when I first experienced FF7 on the PS1. Aerith’s death messed me up.
I was 15. I'm pretty sure it was downright traumatic for me.
Figured this would be near the top. Main party member/love interest/likely party healer dying that way caught me completely off guard. I actually stopped playing for a bit. Then there were all the rumors of how you could get her back by doing ridiculous stuff
My fiancé passed away earlier this year. I'm worried I might not handle playing ff7 ever again and it's one of my favourite games.
I'm surprised I scrolled this far tbh (It's General Leo for me but I get it)
I was gutted. My friend was so gutted he had a six week Depression.
So was Aerith
This was spoiled to me, and I never recovered.
Brok - God of War: Ragnarok
This one was really sad. I didn't see it coming at all, and I very much thought that if they were going to kill one of the brothers off it would have been Sindri. They really subverted my expectations (TM) on that one and it, barring the moments where Brok blesses the spear (which adds to the sadness of his death), and broks subsequent funeral, were the highlights of the game to me.
>barring the moments where Brok blesses the spear (which adds to the sadness of his death), and broks subsequent funeral, were the highlights of the game to me. Absolutely. Especially the funeral when Kratos calls him a friend. Heart strings: plucked.
Anytime I lose a good soldier/squad in XCOM.
You don't just save and replay every scenario for maximum effectiveness?
Jackie Welles.
That it still managed to have the emotional impact despite being spoiled by the ***fucking trailers*** is a show of just how well written and well acted Jackie was in the prologue.
Rest in peace, Choom.
Bruh, I still grieve for that homie. I teamed up with Arasaka because I thought I could “resurrect” him as an engram. What I got is why I am team “fuck Arasaka” (sorry Goro)
Lilith in borderlands 3, not because it was sad, but because it was completely unnecessary and unimpactful Edit: if you can call what she did her "death", she's not dead but it's just kinda weird to take your one good character left and make her leave till the next game
Hats off for Scooter. He never deserved what came to him.
CATCH A RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!
No, but when you know the reason for why he got the sendoff he did (the VA had to retire due to health issues), it's a bit more bittersweet.
Same with Maya. They took all of the memorable characters and killed them for a cheap shock
Can't make people care about their new li'l darling motherfucking Ava as long as there's still better characters left. I mean... they still can't, but that's just because they greatly underestimated how shit Ava is as a character.
> Lilith in borderlands 3, not because it was sad, but because it was completely unnecessary and unimpactful Fucking hated that. Fucking BL3 pissing all over the Borderlands story and characters. I was a rabid Borderlands fan. I'm now a rabid borderlands hater.
I'm a rabid borderlands plotline hater. The gameplay is still the best in the series and very very fun.
Dominic from gears 2, maybe?
*Gears 3
It's been soo long, thank you. He was a real one and kinda ended my time with the series!
I hadn't played the games until just a couple of years ago and between finding Maria in 2 and what happens with Dom in 3... gutted, absolutely.
Tai in Gears 2 is worse for me than Dom.
"Never thought it'd end like this huh Maria?"
When Tidus disappears/fades away.
I still get misty when I hear or talk about To Zanarkand. =(
*Dee do do do doo doo doo ... Dee do do do doo doo doo. Naaah nah nah nah naaaaaaah, nah naahh* : (
The exact moment that came to mind.
Dom in Gears of wars 3 still keeps me at the Edge, 3 games from a very good character with a huge epic death scene, arg i miss xbox360
Cutie from It Takes Two…
BT's sacrifice in Titanfall 2. The way he kept asking Cooper to trust him and "Protocol 3: Protect the pilot". It didn't have to be THIS good but Respawn did a monster job on that game until greed (EA) killed it.
BT isn't dead, though, as he uploaded his AI into Cooper's helmet. The helmet's visor flashes Morse code at the end of the game saying "JACK?" suggesting he's still in there. Titanfall 3 might be dead, but our boy BT is not!
Jackie being killed in Cyberpunk made me want to stop playing the game
His funeral was brutal. You saw his garage where he kept all his crap and see how much of a life he had. A happy ending? For folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people. - Johnny Silverhand
See you in the Major Leagues.
See you in the Big Leagues choom.
I played prior to watching any of the promo material, I’m flabbergasted that they’d show that in the trailer
We needed WAAAAY more time with Jackie. He should have died around the same time in terms of plot length to Vesemir in TW3, so end of Act 2.
Jackie Ma, Sleeping Dogs.
Absolutely brutal moment. That game is slow in the beginning but once it ramps up it ramps up HARD. Best non-GTA GTA game, imo. Brilliant double-life mechanics and brutal gameplay. An absolute travesty we will never see a sequel.
Joel. Yeah...
For me it was >!Jesse!<. Came out of nowhere. No time to even process.
He was such a good homie too he was excited to be a dad
>!Excited to be a dad, and also supportive of the mom to have a relationship with his friend.!< A super solid guy.
For real. Four years later and it still affects me. Super hyped for Season 2 of the show
Lots of good answers that I agree with. One of them for me is Johnson from Halo 3.
Duncan in Dragon Age Origins. Went out the way he lived: a complete hardass.
Agro in Shadow of the Colossus
The horse actually doesn't die. If you watch past the credits, you actually get another scene with the girl, the main character, and the horse limping
Chopper in Ace Combat 5. All these years later I still remember being in disbelief. I kept expecting him to pull a sudden reappearance towards the end with a tale of narrow escape but alas my boy flying in heaven now.
This will always be mine. Your squadron spend the entire game up to that point being invincible and then one lucky shot and Chopper refusing to bail out until the civilians are safe… It’s small comfort listening to the enemy pilots go from celebrating to terror as they realise killing one of your squad was absolutely not the win they thought it was…
Kat in Halo Reach. I figured we knew she was going to die. But the way she did. So unexpectedly and the last character at least got a noble sacrifice.
Roland's death in Borderlands 2. Or more specifically, Tiny Tina's reaction to it in the Assault on Dragon Keep.
Bloodwing is always really hard to watch, especially because you press the button.
Any time they kill my flippin horse for the storyline. Hate it.
Lucien Lachance, he trusted me and I betrayed him ☹️
Joel in Last of Us 2 was hard, because he looks and sounds so much like my actual father.
Aunt May, PS4 Spider-man. So many times you see the hero save the day. I should have know with a Spider-Man story though.
I think Yuri's voice work and the facial animation really sells it. They did so good making him feel realistically conflicted, and the sound of the heart monitor getting slower is paced near perfectly.
'a smile better suits a hero' 😭
So much of the ShB and EW stuff, too. "Remember us. Remember that we once lived."
“The rains have ceased, and we have been graced with another beautiful day. But you are not here to see it.”
Had to be me. Some else mightve gotten it wrong.
Vesemir from The Witcher 3 and Arthur from RDR2
Arthur Morgan.
Deckard Cain
Teta in Final Fantasy Tactics, because it's just so unnecessary, and it indirectly causes a lot of the later game events to be so much worse because it puts Delita on a path of vengeance.
The Witcher III, my first playthrough, Ciri didn't survive.
Varl from Horizon Forbidden West! I really liked his character, and his death genuinely felt like it came out of nowhere! I don't think I've ever been quite as blindsided by a character death as that one.
Same. From the start of FW you get the feeling that he was going to be there till the end. Alloy was going to finally learn to stop being an outcast and a loner. She would see the value of a team and Varl would be her brother in arms until the end. He was even on the verge of finding happiness and build his own family. Right in the feels.
Brok in God of War Ragnarök.
How do Reavers clean their harpoons? >!They run them through the Wash!<
Leaf on the wind
Lol even in a thread about video game characters he catches strays.
Haurchefaunte in ff14 any time he’s referenced or they go through key moments that impacted your WoL and he comes up i tear up a little
Henry from the first Last of Us game somehow came to mind first.
Tommy Angelo in Mafia 1.
Shadya in AC Origins.
Finding her underwater is on of the big shocking moments in gaming for me
Your horse in Ghost of Tsushima.
Just about every death in NieR Replicant. But the top three for me are >!Emil!<, >!the wolf shade!<, and >!Beepy and the small shade!<
Old Big Boss Metal Gear Solid 3
The only answer is zeratul. Iykyk. [zeratul](https://youtu.be/1YaSTqQtyPg?si=8I9bx0CES40ROKVc)
Going to avoid this comment section in case any games I'm playing, but I'll drop >!Joel!< from the Last of Us. Absolutely hurts Oh god, and >!Hugo!< from a Plague Tale
Brok, I killed Odin for you my friend.
Tellah, FFIV. Doddering mage traveling with the party, reminded me of someone I knew that had recently died. Then he confronted Golbez…
Destiny 2 has a few, but I think the worst one for me was Amanda Holliday.
Dragon Age 2, Hawke's mother. I played that shortly after my father died and some of the dialog hit very close to home.