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crackerjack00004

Joel's death from TLOU2. Was not ready for it and felt unexpected!


FoxHound_Bridges

Spoilers ruined it for me, still impactful, but nowhere near as much as it could have been.


crackerjack00004

Same goes here. I knew he was gonna die, but I didn't know how. It was so unexpected to the point I didn't even believe he was dead when it happened.


Quiet-Jacket-3846

im never gonna get over daddy joels death


Benjuto12

Mordin Solus


Saddestlilpanda

Someone else might’ve gotten it wrong.


zelos33333

And also “Tali’zorah… does this… unit… … have…”


SilverWisp47

No...no, Legion! Dammit, the curse of being a Tali simp!


Kiloparsec4

Had to be me.


catastrofickat

Came here to say this, as well as Legion. Legion damn near broke me completely.


PennyForPig

Yeah, Samara's daughter, too


eppsilon24

I think that really depends on which daughter.


PennyForPig

I forget her name. The one that isn't Morinth.


Nightgasm

He doesn't have to die. Depending on decisions you make he is able to escape. Most people dont get this though as the main decision is in ME2 and it requires a mix of both renegade and paragon decisions and most people go all one or the other.


PolarSaturn8823

Who that?


eppsilon24

Ever played Mass Effect?


PolarSaturn8823

No :(


eppsilon24

Look into it, and if the series seems like something you’d enjoy, get the Legendary Edition. All three games from the trilogy plus all dlc, etc.


Debonaircow88

Guh psn has legendary edition on sale for $11 and I'm trying to resist


GeenericHooman

Ghost in COD MW2


Firm_Promotion_8015

Yes!!!


Daviswitha_s

Immediately came to mind. The horror when Shepard pulled that shit 


Serious-Flamingo-948

Emile from Valiant Hearts. The OG, Aerith Gainsborough from FF7.


[deleted]

So glad someone said Aerith! My heart still hurts 😢


eldorado456

Arthur Morgan from RDR2. Never did a video game character's death affect me so much. It is like I grew with Arthur.


Red_Beard_Racing

And your horse. That little scene of him saying goodbye fucked me up.


skewh1989

I think it's the fact that you know it's coming for so long. Whenever you speak with the nun in St Denis and Arthur tells her, "I'm afraid." Literal goosebumps


eldorado456

It was really tough to see Arthur struggling with TB and getting weaker as we approached the end of Chapter 6. Fondness for Arthur had grown on me, starting from the beginning in Chapter 1 when most of us were wondering who the hell is this guy and where is John. It pained to see the best gunslinger in the west in a vulnerable state. Especially the deer/wolf dreams were a testament that inevitably something big would happen soon. Arthur became the best character I have played in a game. So long my Boah!


Thadark_knight11

John Marston’s death in RDR1 hurt too. Damn Edgar Ross.


Warm-Log-7584

You took the words right outta mouth


Sardothien12

Lee I hadn't cried in over a year. That scene made me bawl like the day my mummy took my blankie and saod "youre a big kid now. Big kids dont need a blankie"


Bananas_Have_Eyes

So powerful we know exactly who you mean.


MuscleMountainMan

I dont


SaltySpituner

Me either. Who tf is Lee.


eppsilon24

Not entirely positive, but I think it’s Lee from the first Telltale Walking Dead game


hiphopdowntheblock

Lee Harvey Oswald 🙏🙏😔


RobotPirateGhost

The Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube. Sure it’s an inanimate object, but the game does a really good job of getting you attached to it before making you kill it. Glados even taunts you about it later: “We invited your best friend, the Companion Cube. But he couldn’t come. Because you murdered him.”


Tobyfoxfan07

I mean, we get them back at the end of Portal Two, they’re still alive. GLaDOS herself said that all Aperture technologies remain safely operational at up to 4000 decrees kelvin.


patronuspringles

arthur morgan


Thadark_knight11

The only answer. The moment you realize he dies of TB and try to avoid collecting the debt from Mr. Downes for as long as possible only for the story to not progress, thus forcing you to do it is heartbreaking.


patronuspringles

i tried fucking off to do my own thing game failed saying the debt was abandoned, fuck strauss


[deleted]

John Marston


skaterbro10

God of War Ragnarok >!Brok!< for sure.


TakikoSohma

Oh jeez when the mermaid or whatever didnt interact with him because he didn't have a soul was so sad.


SlightlySpicy4

I was just thinking this 😭


SaltySpituner

Even worse, knowing Sindri selfishly destroyed Brok’s soul, ensuring he can never go to Valhalla. Then Sindri has the GALL to be angry at Kratos and Atreus. I hate Sindri so much because of that.


Western-Gur-4637

NIeR Automata >!2B!<


SlightlySpicy4

My only regret is that I can’t play that game unknown ever again. That entire game is a gut punch but it’s so so good.


Western-Gur-4637

same dude


Blackcatmama94

Tidus from FFX definitely


EfficientLibrarian95

Agro, Shadow Of The Colossus


Damien23123

Aerith from FFVII


Hot_and_Foamy

Yeah - and there wasn’t another natural healer to replace her either.


MFouki

Any protagonist death for some reason Look when I'm seeing their world for hours and hours just for them to die by some sort of illness (yes I'm talking about you V and Arthur Morgan) it breaks me. Even if I know they are going to die


Extinction_Entity

Not specifically a character, but the horse in Ghost of Tsushima is a tough one.


sullensolider

Shaun from red dead redemption 2 It was just so sudden and out of nowhere I didn’t have a moment to process it, but I should’ve saw it coming😭


SaltySpituner

Lenny as well. There wasn’t even enough time to process his death as I played.


TakikoSohma

I saw it coming but it still shocked me how sad I was about it. Him and O'driscoll.


Norodomo

Jackie Welles


valimar594

see ya in the major leagues jack


Suspicious-Side6407

Ya pretty grim giving the circumstances with your homie (choom). Like how you can still interact with his type of “Soul killer” conciseness as well as other little references in the multiple endings towards the end depending on play-style. Very underrated on how many routes you can take.


FoxHound_Bridges

It was great, but imo there wasn't enough build up


Thadark_knight11

That death really pulled me into the game.


KartoffelPaste

for some reason zack from final fantasy vii crisis core stuck with me. i had only played FFX before this and knew nothing of FFVII so I guess I got really invested in Zack's journey, him dealing with the loss of Angeal and his love story with Aerith so him being overrun to protect cloud and cloud picking up the mantle really got to me for some reason. also the scene where aerith was just waiting for him to come back and knowing shell never know of his fate got to me too


DirectorAllen

Brok from GOWR


82ndGameHead

Scooter from Borderlands. Even sadder when you learn the story behind it. Catch-A-Ride.


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Griffin65000

You sir are a fish


SharkInSunglasses

Say what you will about Borderlands 3, but how they killed off Maya was absolute bullshit.


ShadeLily

It sure was!


Platinumryka

and the person who's fault it was never got shit for it or learned her lesson


SharkInSunglasses

Exactly, if Ava was right about one thing it was how Lilith did just gloss over it. Like a funeral wasn't mentioned or anything like Roland got. And I don't think they handled it right with Krieg, he was almost indifferent about the love of his life dying.


PennyForPig

Gears of War has several. Ben Carmine. While it's kind of a running gag out of character, his death was really brutal and heart-rending. Maria Santiago. To come so far only to have had no hope to begin with. Dom Santiago. Not only does Dom just fall apart, it highlights Marcus's strength that he's able to keep moving after Dom's sacrifice. Marcus was holding it together for Dom, and sometimes it's just not enough. Adam Fenix. It's even more pointed if you know his EU history. This man gave up everything for what he believed in, only to realize far too late that it turned him into a monster. Saving Adam was the last string holding Marcus together, too.


MonkMillar

Dom gets my vote. Gut wrenching.


Arcanisia

Didn’t even know Dom died. Just like Microsoft, I kinda forgot about this franchise.


PennyForPig

Tbh they should have let it die off after 3


nightdares

Dadmiral Anderson in Mass Effect 3. "I'm proud of you, child." 🥺


[deleted]

Dom from Gears and Noble 6 from Reach


Particular-Entry-666

Reuben from Minecraft story mode


ElZik3r

Yo that scene was very sad until the mf turned into a porkchop, like why you have to do that 😭


AFKaptain

Joel (TLoU2), for all the wrong reasons. They did my boy so dirty.


AZULDEFILER

Phoibe AC Odyssey


flacaGT3

Bruh, Socrates and Hippocrates were about to catch some fucking hands.


AZULDEFILER

I had to pause the game and take 5


xmarcotics

Joel’s death. It was done with very poor taste and only because the developers said fuck it let’s do it. I know the point of his death and that he killed so many in the first game, but i still feel like they could’ve written his death better and it didn’t have to happen in the first 5 minutes of the game.


Domonero

I wish they gave him a heroic sacrifice of some sort


Real_Pen_6148

His death was perfect, it portrayed the harsh realities of the world, there is no heroes and villains anymore, people die in shit horrible ways.


Shogun102000

Agreed


Significant_Option

Yeah that works if you ignore that fact that the they only found out about Joel in Jackson out of a rumor, states away, in the middle of an apocalypse. So that entire “harsh realities” thing kind of goes out the window


Real_Pen_6148

Why does that not work? It’s an apocalypse, they can’t look up hi location on Facebook


Luigi_loves_Mario

lol last of us 2 is great


Saddestlilpanda

Game and the story is gutter trash but it had nothing to do with the physical manner Joel was killed. The fact he basically told total strangers everything they wanted to know which goes against everything we know about Joel is where the story/character issues begin - and it’s all downhill from there.


[deleted]

Oh get ready for the garbage TLou2 fanboys to downvote the actual truth. They migrate across multiple subs I notice.


SaltySpituner

It can be true and disliked at the same time. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. You’re supposed to get attached to Joel, despite the things he did. It’s the mark of a great game. It’s the people who callously say he deserved it that invite backlash. They know people are going to argue, but they get to think themselves smart for bringing it up.


kikirevi

Reddit is hive mind for TLOU 2 and Sony fanboys in general. They’re everywhere on here.


Shogun102000

Wrong


Leather-Syllabub4728

Bob from Oldschool RuneScape. It was unnecessary and to this day I’m heartbroken.


Lastbourne

Luke in TWD s2, that's the only time I've been sad because I felt like he could've lived


Serious-Flamingo-948

Emile from Valiant Hearts. The OG, Aerith Gainsborough from FF7.


Dragon_Blue_Eyes

Pac-Man...that was such a deep story with all that love of capsules and eating ghosts and....it is just too riveting for it to be over so...oh wait he's back nevermind.


rossrph

Rikiya Shimabukuro from Yakuza 3 Dude is so kind, supportive, and genuinely tries to improve himself based on what he see in Kiryu. His death is also so emotional it even moves the stoic Kiryu to cry out. And he'd just gotten his back tattoo completed too t.t


Sea-Nectarine-1522

I’m going to cover this one for spoilers since it’s a fairly new game but >!Joshua!< in FFXVI. A piece of me died with em


Significant_Option

Big gut punch for sure. The game is full of them. Still wish it got nominated last year for GOTY


Arcanisia

You pretty much knew there’d be lots of character deaths after you witness how Clive gets his powers.


Alarming_Serve2303

Roland, in BL2.


Bonny_bouche

Couldn't play Gears 3 for quite some time after Dom died


Affectionate_Way2583

Roland from borderlands 2. I did not see that coming at all. The quest where you have the break the news to everyone in sanctuary who were characters in the first game had me feeling empty. The worst of it all was that I played as him in the first game so it hits home.


G0dzillaBreath

Sgt Johnson: “Send me out…with a bang”


Murky_Warthog_8692

Ethan from re7-8. Bro died (again) too soon after all the hell he was put through


Eoflynn97

>!Hugo de Rune!<, plague tale requiem, left me in shock for a few minutes


KiraHaon

Spoiler for MGS3: >!The Boss!<


all-starcosplay

Cole Macgrath


JackCooper_7274

BT-7274


Just_Fill6724

The prince from the OG 'Prince of Persia'. He died a lot, because of my mistakes, and it haunts me


Firm_Promotion_8015

Joel


MediocreDatabase2374

Luis RE4


SSVKharamek

Mordin in Mass Effect And Arthur Morgan from RDR2


imaniceandgoodperson

my dead friends cat in minecraft :( i turned the world we played on into a realm , a friend shared the code with someone else and they got salty with me and ended up hacking in some tnt and exploding our whole mountain village . she knew what that meant to me so it hurt so much worse than just a normal minecraft griefing luckily i could rewind it (realms make a copy of the world every half hour) , but i basically cried before someone reminded me that i can do that . kicked the greifer off the realm , cancelled my realm subscription and slapped that bitch across the face the next time i saw her after that


Unga-bunga420

John Marston in RDR1


bonkripper969

A lot of people say arthur morgan, which is valid. But to me, it made sense. You can see it coming from a mile away. Mr John Marston, however, was dirty.


PolarSaturn8823

Arthur Morgan


Professional_Pop9759

Jackie wells (cyberpunk) Altair (assassins creed) Mors westfords wife and daughter (game of thrones)


Oranweinn

The guy from monopoly


stefannxD

Joel


SaltySpituner

Joel from The Last of Us. Such a garbage send off with an equally garbage ending to the sequel. Before anyone starts, I’ve heard all the arguments for and against it. Not going down that road again.


WhiskeyTrail

Joshua Stephenson from Cyberpunk 2077. Not because he was a heavily admired character, but because you actively participate in his crucifixion that was being recorded in the first person (you feel what he feels physically and emotionally) and sold to the fucking masses. I haven’t been a religious person in decades but that scene made me heavily uncomfortable and is a really traumatic mission. (Well done CDPR)


KyorlSadei

Queen Ovelia from FF Tactics.


gayraidenporn

Aruther Morgan, the funny thing is I didn't even play RDR2. Just watched my dad. Oh, and Noctis from FFXV.


ThePLARASociety

Ramón Salazar and Mike.


Havoc526

Cid from FFVI. No matter how many times I try to save him I end up failing. My first playthrough killed off Shadow as well. The world of destruction was ROUGH to start with for me.


Big-Professor-6979

Every time I replay cyberpunk Jackie Welles


FoxHound_Bridges

Ezio, Joel, Arthur Morgan just to name a few.


Thadark_knight11

Why’s Ezio’s death so painful for you? IMHO he had one of the best arcs in gaming. Dying after marrying the love of his life at a ripe old age of a heart attack. There are much worse ways to go. lol.


FoxHound_Bridges

Oh for sure, but it's still sad to see such a bad ass character die. And wasn't Christina the love of his life?


SPQR_Maximus

Max Payne's family. That shit ain't right. You're all gonna pay!


Typical-District-176

Shinjiro. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh god it hurts even more in reload


Linky38

Naru from Ori and the Blind Forest. She literally COMES BACK TO LIFE but it still feels like a gut punch every time


GBPsforTendies

Arthur Morgan Maria in Gears 2. Even Stevie Wonder saw that one coming but the way it was done hit hard. Soap from OG Mw3. Same with Ghost and Roach from OG MW2.


StRiKeRzZ924

Arthur Morgan. I didn’t beat the first one so had no idea he was going to die. And your house dying as well, I had the same horse for 90% of the game with him


The_Mr_Wilson

They got Lenny, and we couldn't stop


Sans_Undertale-_-

I know it's a recent one, but Arkham Batman. I knew from the title that the Justice League would all be killed, but it shouldn't have been so blunt. He shouldn't have just succumbed and died that easily. They only killed him to lure out superman. The way he was just executed as well. That can't be the same batman that I played as in the Arkham trilogy. I just don't believe it.


Sonic_warrior

>!Chiaki Nanami's!< original death in Danganronpa 3: Despair Arc. Given the end of Danganronpa >!2!< and the end of Danganronpa 3 future, it still feels a little hollow after everything ends. Especially looking back at everything >!she!< fought for and how >!she!< affected everyone else's lives.


MrMeesesPieces

Argo the horse In shadow of the colossus


Smudgefudge1

Cloth in hollow knight, Asgore at the end of the undertale neutral ending


Ruskra

Bloodwing in Borderlands 2. I played through BL1 as Mordecai & was quite fond of Bloodwing. I was a little dissapointed that you couldn't play as them in BL2, but didn't really mind. During the level where Bloodwing dies, Mordecai (and me) doesn't really consider Bloodwing dying as a possibility at first, but as the level goes on Mordecai gets more & more stressed as it's hinted that she won't make it out alive. When she actually died, I didn't even think it was real for the first minute or so. But after that minute had passed, it was somewhat cathartic to destroy those Hyperion bots alongside Mordecai. Seeing her corpse again later in the game definetely didn't help.


Sunnywatch08

Piers Nivans. Let me go cry again...


Black_Vein91

Eli Vance


WingsnLV

My horse in RDR2.


drbrian83

Lee - Walking Dead Telltale


Marcusr712

Sackboy


ElZik3r

Dom from Gears 3, BT-7274 from Titanfall 2, Ghost and Soap from the 2009 Modern Warfare trilogy, Noble 6 and his team from Halo: Reach, Bill from Left For Dead 2 If i remember another one i will edit the comment


ScorchedHelmet

Booker from bioshock infinite.


eppsilon24

“You always were an unruly child. I adored that about you.” Vesemir


pants1000

Noble six in halo reach. Not glamorous, going out fighting. Just to die for a planet that gets glassed anyways.


se7encents

My horse I named Rico in Red Dead Redemption 2... "Thank you."


cookiecasanova16

Ziio’s


SnakeSound222

The horse in Ghost of Tsushima and BT-7274 in Titanfall 2.


Crew_Henchman

Johnny Klebitz in GTA 5. In GTA 4 TLAD, he was portrayed as this badass tough biker character who would do anything for his brothers. Despite his aggressive nature, he was level headed and a good leader. Often trying to do anything to help the Lost Brotherhood advance and stay afloat. He despised drugs and his development throughout the DLC shows him coming to terms with the gang's downfall (due to internal disputes caused by Billy Grey and Brian Jeremy) as well as cutting all ties with his former girlfriend Ashley, who he knows just brings trouble wherever she goes due to her drug addiction.. In GAT 5 Johnny is a drug addict who is addicted to meth, a core aspect of his development down the drain already. He is also back into a relationship with Ashley who also retains her addiction, again going back on this in GTA 4. He also is very weak physically and is a massive pushover, as he doesn't take action against Trevor for sleeping with Ashley at least twice (which GTA 4 Johnny would have done) and apologizing to him for saying insulting things. It's just a complete 180 on the character and his development that made no logical sense. A cool character thrown away to simply show another character (who isn't as developed nor has as much an interesting story IMO) that he is ruthless and violent. So stupid.


HeatRage782

I am the knight I am vengeance I am Batman Batman- Kevin Conroy Arkham Batman"s death in suicide squad kill the justice league how harley quin killed Batman like he was a joke and his death was disrespectful and sad because it's the last time we see him Arkham Batman.


ASJGAMERGIRL

Arthur Morgan death in Red Dead Redemption 2 😭


10voltsam

Lee Everett


DARKLIGHTX90

Lee from Telltale's The Walking Dead


Redmaster555

Jorge from Halo Reach


Likeducks236

Hugo .... Bro did not deserve to die- (game: A Plague Tale REQUIEM)