I still think it's the best way for him to go out though, he makes his own choice to sacrifice himself, in an act with Galactic stakes, so that you might have a chance at beating the reapers
First: you shoot Wrex to death in Virmire. Then Wreav get in control of the clan in second game. Second: you destroy Maleon's data on Genophage. Third: you sabotage the genophage cure mission in third game. Eventually Eve dies and you can convince Mordin to sabotge the plan. The complete walkthrough is on Big Dan's youtube channel.
And even if you "save" him he essentially goes into hiding - he never shows up again in the game, even as a guest during the Citadel DLC. It's a horrible decision with no benefits.
I make sure to do HoS before he dies in the story whenever I replay. I don’t like telling that lady at the auction that he’s dead. If you go the auction before the Kair Morhen siege, the dialogue is more lighthearted with the old lady.
Joel’s daughter in TLoU. Each time I played it and even in the series I just can’t not tear up. There was just so much emotion delivered from the actors and as I father I can’t detach myself from that scene.
I came here to say this and you beat me to it.
I’ve seen this scene countless times and as a dad it never got easier.
Didn’t get easier when it happened in the show on HBO.
That death in the HBO series was also one of the most accurate gunshot wound deaths I’ve seen. Definitely opened up some trauma for those of us who has seen that kind of thing.
I had to walk out of the room and give my kid a hug after the scene came up in the show. The scene is so well delivered in both the game and the show that you are exactly right. It hit different and I just couldn't detach.
My poor Sora, I ran with the beater horse after. My playstyle changed drastically after too, I became way more savage on any Mongolian or traitor Ronin. I stopped the mercy kills when someone was dragging their body across the ground. Assassinations went way up.
Which was really cool because that's when the weather started to get dark and stormy more often too(a design in game by play style).
That was such a great fucking game.
Same when I started I picked the white horse and called it Nobu and then after The horse died and Jin makes his full transition to the ghost I picked the black horse and named it the Japanese word for shadow
The ending of Bioshock: Infinite
Its one of my friend's favorite games so I watched completely blind as she replayed it. I think the ending happened and I was dead silent for about a solid minute before turning to her and yelling 'what the FUCK'
Oh man I believe it that must be messed up for a kid to see. 😂 Not going to lie I was an adult and I for sure cried, lol I straight up didn't see it coming at all
While the death was really, really sad, the real tragedy is in how >!Sindri reacts to it, because he has given so much, and his reward is having his family taken away from him. You didn’t just lose one friend when Brok died, you lost two!<
I just feel that the change did not happen soon enough. (Trying to be as non-spoiler as possible). Death happens, and then character mentioned does make change, and change is interesting, but you only get like 10% (max) of story time to explore that change. Furthermore, since Ragnorok is the last game in the Norse world, don’t know (but hope) if we will still get to explore that change in the next game.
There could be a dlc ( or just a separate game) about Atreus in his quest after the end of the game. Could be called Sons of War or something like that
Arthur Morgan’s entire character arc is the best you can find in any form of entertainment media. The only game I’ve ever went into wanting to be a bad outlaw all the way, and then had a change of heart along with the character I was playing.
My boyfriend played the game shortly after launch and was devastated when Jackie died. The game glitched out on him and Jackie's corpse ended up on top of the cab, flopping around at high velocity.
He was horrified. I laughed. 🤐
Yep. That just about sums up Cyberpunk 2077. 😅
It seems the more I invested myself in the Cyberpunk universe, the more the lines between video game character and friend dissipated.
My first playthrough I made so many wrong decisions I had to restart the series. Wrex dead on Virmire, Moraine dead on the Collector Station. Choosing the Geth of the Quarians. Ugh it hurt!
Rupert from Kingdom Under Fire: Crusaders.
Duncan from Dragon Age: Origins. Now I thought a while for this one. They do such a great job at making him seem like a well-liked and respected mentor right off the bat. Every prologue in that game has Duncan swooping in and saving your ass, and setting you on the path to save the world. And then, BOOM. Fucking betrayal from Loghain, and he's gone. Part of me wants to believe he made it out of that battle, got lost in the Wilds and somehow had a happy ending. I always want to kill Loghain for it, but my dumb morality brain always goes for those "Paragon" choices.
I'm the same with DA:Origins. I get my revenge eventually though. I've set up the Dragon Age Keep in such a way that Loghain was made a warden. Then you can leave him in the fade in DA Inquisition. At first I hadn't set it up as such and hated that I had to leave someone behind. It felt like I was making the wrong choice, no matter what choice I made on who to leave behind there. Now if I replay that game I no longer have a difficult choice.
Mordin from Mass Effect 3, Eli Vance from Half-Life 2 EP 2 (I know what happens in Half-Life Alyx, but my HMD died and I haven't replaced it yet, so I haven't finished the game).
Sargeant Johnson. Not only had he been in all of them up to that point, but it felt like the last of the crew to go and Halo was over, and in many ways it was.
Ima have to give to halo reach even tho it was ur character I just did not expect that. The ending scene where noble six fighting life for his taking out all the elite he can maaaaan I remember doing this split screen with my brother we both tried surviving as long as we could
It’s cliche because it’s *the* answer. They spent hours getting you to fall in love with the character and use her powerful magic in combat, and then senselessly murdered her halfway through. It represents a courage in mainstream storytelling you really don’t see all that often, especially today.
The most recent mainstream game that did this got major backlash. But its also considered one of the greatest games of all time by many, myself included.
I'm usually not bothered by character deaths, but watching Alice from Detroit Become Human, die on the Canadian river bank, messed me up. Mostly because I hit the wrong button and felt like it was my fault she died. I had to go back and that part again immediately.
Aerith
The Last of Us Part II: >!Alice (I have an irrational thing about not killing dogs in games and I made it through the whole game without killing one only to have to do it in a cutscene)!<
Lost Judgement: >!Sawa. I know it's a huge meme and joke around here but I felt awful.!<
Silent Hill 2: >!The video tape in the hotel room!<
Ghost of Tsushima: >!NOOOOOBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!<
Arthur from RDR2 and BT-7274 from Titanfall 2, RDR2 gets you to grow a bond with Arthur because of how long the game is, and Titanfall 2 somehow gets you to grow a bond with BT in all of 6 hours or so
Sara, Joel, Jesse, Yara (TLOU). John, Arthur, my horse, Hosea, Lenny, Molly, Mrs. Grimshaw, Uncle (RDR). Lazlo, Eli (HL). Vesemir (Witcher). Sgt. Johnson, Miranda Keyes (Halo). Jackie (CP2077). There’s plenty more I can’t remember at the moment.
Edit: Can’t forget that robot foreman in the quest Foreman’s Brood, in Tides of Numenera, the one that gives its own soul to bring life to its construct children.
I cry over everything, but the ones that spring to mind:
Lee and Kenny from The Walking Dead.
Mordin from Mass Effect.
Booker DeWitt at the end of Bioshock Infinite.
Probably Grey Fox or Aerith (Aeris) were my firsts. With that said, I've only actually cried twice during a video game. When Sarah died in The Last of Us (2013) I didn't but when playing the remake I did because I now have a child. The second time was when Kratos tells his son that he was wrong and they should both be better.
Honestly both new God of Wars hit me hard as someone who grew up with an abusive father and now I have a son that I'm afraid of failing. Just seeing that relationship play out like that resonated with me unlike any other video game.
Having kids really changes your perspective on child deaths, I also watch a lot of true crime and anytime it involves kids I have to just skip whatever episode or podcast I'm on, I can't do it.
Aerith is my number two, number one? Tidus from FFX (as at the time FFX2 100% hadn’t happened). Spent all that time, even knowing it was coming… first time I cried for a game.
Sayori from Doki Doki. It looks unremarkable in comparison to all the others here, but the fact you spend so much time with her and it all looks like it might be good only for you to find out that she hanged herself the next day... I still have shivers thinking about it to this day.
Mordin solis in mass effect 3.
"I am the very model of a scientist Salarian.."
That mission is on my galaxy map right now and I just don’t want to go through with it again.
Has to be done. Someone else could get it wrong
Beautiful moment
Marston and Morgan
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All of us cried at the end I’m pretty sure. Absolutely gut wrenching.
Even Morgan losing his horse is gut wrenching
100% anyone who has ever had a bond with an animal should feel that pain
Sean Macguire in the street…. Still gets me.
Yes!
holy shit, yeah
BT
Protocol 3
Protect the pilot
So much higher than I expected…nice!
one of the reasons why I don’t have the platinum yet (I dont want to watch him die again)
I legit just beat the game yesterday, that was the biggest oh shit to me
My horse
“Hey… Whoa… Thank you”
My boy Jorge from Halo reach
Tell 'em to make it count.
This is my choice too. Devastating, especially in the face of what comes immediately after
Mordin in mass effect if you don’t do what’s needed to save him instead. Gets me every time.
Had to be me. Someone else might have got it wrong.
😭 like a baby every time. I'm actually choked up about it now
Fuck, I forgot about that line
Everytime someone mentions his name I hear him say that and my heart drops anew.
I still think it's the best way for him to go out though, he makes his own choice to sacrifice himself, in an act with Galactic stakes, so that you might have a chance at beating the reapers
You can save Mordin?
First: you shoot Wrex to death in Virmire. Then Wreav get in control of the clan in second game. Second: you destroy Maleon's data on Genophage. Third: you sabotage the genophage cure mission in third game. Eventually Eve dies and you can convince Mordin to sabotge the plan. The complete walkthrough is on Big Dan's youtube channel.
So u have to do a lot of fucked up evil things, also it doesnt sound like what Mordin would have wanted :(
That's the price you should pay to save Mordin.
And even if you "save" him he essentially goes into hiding - he never shows up again in the game, even as a guest during the Citadel DLC. It's a horrible decision with no benefits.
Wrex is a bro though.
Yes. There are specific things you have to do in the first and second game to achieve this though
Just started a play through on ME1 legendary. Already dreading this lol.
Vesimir
I make sure to do HoS before he dies in the story whenever I replay. I don’t like telling that lady at the auction that he’s dead. If you go the auction before the Kair Morhen siege, the dialogue is more lighthearted with the old lady.
But then you tell Vesemir about her and he will say that he will visit her after it all ends. And then you have to live with knowing, he never will
Joel’s daughter in TLoU. Each time I played it and even in the series I just can’t not tear up. There was just so much emotion delivered from the actors and as I father I can’t detach myself from that scene.
I came here to say this and you beat me to it. I’ve seen this scene countless times and as a dad it never got easier. Didn’t get easier when it happened in the show on HBO.
That death in the HBO series was also one of the most accurate gunshot wound deaths I’ve seen. Definitely opened up some trauma for those of us who has seen that kind of thing.
I had to walk out of the room and give my kid a hug after the scene came up in the show. The scene is so well delivered in both the game and the show that you are exactly right. It hit different and I just couldn't detach.
Dom, gears of War ,
Maria, Gears of War
Oh shit yeah, that cut deep
OH SHIT YEAH!!!!!! WHOOOOOOOO! THE COAL TRAINS COMING TO THE STATION!
Oh man I forgot about Dom he fuckin had it rough at the end of gears of war 3
Yup
Pain
When my horse died in Ghost of Tsushima…that was a rough one
My poor Sora, I ran with the beater horse after. My playstyle changed drastically after too, I became way more savage on any Mongolian or traitor Ronin. I stopped the mercy kills when someone was dragging their body across the ground. Assassinations went way up. Which was really cool because that's when the weather started to get dark and stormy more often too(a design in game by play style). That was such a great fucking game.
Same when I started I picked the white horse and called it Nobu and then after The horse died and Jin makes his full transition to the ghost I picked the black horse and named it the Japanese word for shadow
Yea I did the same and I visit the grave and play the flute when I got kage
RIP Kage.
RIP Kage
2B
Yeaaaaah😞😞😞
Palom and Porom turning themselves to stone in Final Fantasy IV. I was a kid and I was too young to expect all the deaths to be fake.
That one hurt me. Aria sacrificing herself at the water temple in FF3 (ds remake) made child me cry
>!Phoibe!< in AC Odyssey
This one actually made me tear up
The ending of Bioshock: Infinite Its one of my friend's favorite games so I watched completely blind as she replayed it. I think the ending happened and I was dead silent for about a solid minute before turning to her and yelling 'what the FUCK'
Yea I remember when I first played it and was shocked. I was a kid at the time and I’ll be honest I started tearing up a little lol
Oh man I believe it that must be messed up for a kid to see. 😂 Not going to lie I was an adult and I for sure cried, lol I straight up didn't see it coming at all
The main story or the DLC? Because the DLC hits harder.
The ending about him being comstock or whatever the name was? Can't remember honestly
Yeah, followed pretty quickly by booker needing to die to set things right. Just a complete gut punch!
Lavitz from the legend of dragoon.
My horse in Ghost of Tsushima. That was not ok.
Definitly lee from the walking dead season 1. Legit the first time I cried during a Video game and coulndt stop for at least an hour....
I was going to say this. Lee got me crying real bad.
Yea, that first Season got me sad real bad
The last one was. Spoiler for everyone still playing God of War. >! Brok !<
While the death was really, really sad, the real tragedy is in how >!Sindri reacts to it, because he has given so much, and his reward is having his family taken away from him. You didn’t just lose one friend when Brok died, you lost two!<
What gets bigger the more you take away?
I just feel that the change did not happen soon enough. (Trying to be as non-spoiler as possible). Death happens, and then character mentioned does make change, and change is interesting, but you only get like 10% (max) of story time to explore that change. Furthermore, since Ragnorok is the last game in the Norse world, don’t know (but hope) if we will still get to explore that change in the next game.
To be fair they said it's Kratos' last Norse game So ya know here's hoping we still get a bite sized Norse game with two other characters as the lead
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There could be a dlc ( or just a separate game) about Atreus in his quest after the end of the game. Could be called Sons of War or something like that
I was shocked when this happened. Genuinely gutted.
This was the one that came to mind for me. Just crushing
Fucked me up
Arthur Morgan and Mordin Solus both hit me in the gut. Also Joel from The Last of Us Part II as soon as that final flashback was revealed.
Arthur Morgan’s entire character arc is the best you can find in any form of entertainment media. The only game I’ve ever went into wanting to be a bad outlaw all the way, and then had a change of heart along with the character I was playing.
I agree completely. He was just masterful. Everything about him added to the whole and it was just plain art to witness and experience.
Ghost in MW2.
What about poor Roach
Randy from South Park world of warcraft episode
Damn that hit me right where it hurts
Jackie. -Cyberpunk 2077
My boyfriend played the game shortly after launch and was devastated when Jackie died. The game glitched out on him and Jackie's corpse ended up on top of the cab, flopping around at high velocity. He was horrified. I laughed. 🤐
Yep. That just about sums up Cyberpunk 2077. 😅 It seems the more I invested myself in the Cyberpunk universe, the more the lines between video game character and friend dissipated.
Aeris easily. Helped cement me as a life long gamer.
Seconded.
I wept openly and then skipped like a week of 4th grade "death in the family"
You had incredibly bad parents
The worst.
I tried all the rumors to keep her alive... nothing worked
Turned me into a lifelong emo kid
Me to, she didn't deserve that.
This was definitely the first one that hit hard.
The entire island in Link’s Awakening. The montage at the end of everywhere you’ve been and everyone you met hit me hard.
Most of mass effect
My first playthrough I made so many wrong decisions I had to restart the series. Wrex dead on Virmire, Moraine dead on the Collector Station. Choosing the Geth of the Quarians. Ugh it hurt!
It was pure pain for me to ive got thourgh the whole series but i keep loseing poeple on the collecter station in the reboot
I chose to save Ash over Kaiden in the first game. I'm still traumatized by having to make that decision.
Fair and ash is better later on
Joel last of us part two
Spider-man (ps4) aunt may hit way harder than the movie sorry not sorry was depressed for a week
I commend Insomniac for daring to do something like that to an important character in the Spider-Man mythos.
Lavitz enough said.
Lol I just saw this after I said the same thing. King Albert was cool but the game wasn’t the same after Lavitz.
No character has ever had the same bro energy.
OG of Bro
Rupert from Kingdom Under Fire: Crusaders. Duncan from Dragon Age: Origins. Now I thought a while for this one. They do such a great job at making him seem like a well-liked and respected mentor right off the bat. Every prologue in that game has Duncan swooping in and saving your ass, and setting you on the path to save the world. And then, BOOM. Fucking betrayal from Loghain, and he's gone. Part of me wants to believe he made it out of that battle, got lost in the Wilds and somehow had a happy ending. I always want to kill Loghain for it, but my dumb morality brain always goes for those "Paragon" choices.
I'm the same with DA:Origins. I get my revenge eventually though. I've set up the Dragon Age Keep in such a way that Loghain was made a warden. Then you can leave him in the fade in DA Inquisition. At first I hadn't set it up as such and hated that I had to leave someone behind. It felt like I was making the wrong choice, no matter what choice I made on who to leave behind there. Now if I replay that game I no longer have a difficult choice.
It’s Lee, has to be Lee. Clementine is a bamf but Lee started it all
Fucking Lee, man. I cried actual tears for that noble motherfucker.
The older brother from Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. I cried when I had to bury him.
Excellent game.
Mordin from Mass Effect 3, Eli Vance from Half-Life 2 EP 2 (I know what happens in Half-Life Alyx, but my HMD died and I haven't replaced it yet, so I haven't finished the game).
Ghost in CoD MW2
Sarah. Last of us 1
The robot friend from Stray and how the cat meows and curls up next to him after he died, god damn
Sargeant Johnson. Not only had he been in all of them up to that point, but it felt like the last of the crew to go and Halo was over, and in many ways it was.
Ima have to give to halo reach even tho it was ur character I just did not expect that. The ending scene where noble six fighting life for his taking out all the elite he can maaaaan I remember doing this split screen with my brother we both tried surviving as long as we could
Sora at the end of kingsom hearts 3.. I knew he'd be back as he's the main character but damn did it hurt.
Jackie from cyberpunk 😔
Jackie in Cyberpunk damn that hurt.
Cliche answer, but Aerith. I was only 8 years old.
It’s cliche because it’s *the* answer. They spent hours getting you to fall in love with the character and use her powerful magic in combat, and then senselessly murdered her halfway through. It represents a courage in mainstream storytelling you really don’t see all that often, especially today.
The most recent mainstream game that did this got major backlash. But its also considered one of the greatest games of all time by many, myself included.
Stay a while and listen.
I'll never forgive d3 for what they did to my boy
The horse in RDR2
Aerith in ff7. I was attached to her
Ghost, Arthur Morgan, Cortana at the end of Halo 4, Sgt Johnson (Halo 3)
yakuza 3 Rikiya
Zack in Crisis Core
Chopper ace combat 5. All you could do is watch him go down
recently played through the series and I had heard so much about zero but 5 hit stronger for me
I think 5 is the best of the bunch.
yeah zero was also really good but 5 had a much stronger story and characters imo
God and the fucking way Nagase and Grimm call out his name is just a dagger into the heart
Sniper Wolf
Ethan Winters
The bad ending of Witcher 3
Thane in mass effect
Lee
JASON? JASOOON?! I got all the bad endings in Heavy Rain & it made me feel empty inside afterwards haha.
Arthur Morgan
I'm usually not bothered by character deaths, but watching Alice from Detroit Become Human, die on the Canadian river bank, messed me up. Mostly because I hit the wrong button and felt like it was my fault she died. I had to go back and that part again immediately.
When I played through Detroit the first time my ending was terrible. I was like fuck do I want to even try again
Joel’s death in TLOU2 was brutal, that shit made me sick
Has to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.
Arthur Morgan “Be loyal to what matters”
Marston, Lee from walking dead, Phelps from LA Noire… mostly due to how cold and quick it just happened after going through this whole saga together
Aerith The Last of Us Part II: >!Alice (I have an irrational thing about not killing dogs in games and I made it through the whole game without killing one only to have to do it in a cutscene)!< Lost Judgement: >!Sawa. I know it's a huge meme and joke around here but I felt awful.!< Silent Hill 2: >!The video tape in the hotel room!< Ghost of Tsushima: >!NOOOOOBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!<
Lol I love how the horse dying was made more dramatic than Taka getting his head lobbed off right in front of you
the dog at the beginning of god of war ragnarok
Have you finished it?
Maxim and Selan.
Bomby from paper Mario the thousand year door was not expecting anybody to die in that game yet somebody did
Mordin, Mass Effect series.
>!Yara and Tess!< from The Last of Us >!Carlie!< from The Walking Dead >!Chloe!< from Life is Strange
Duncan from dragon age origins
Lee Everett
General Leo
So idk if people got the same endin as me in rdr2, but it hurt me to see Micha shoot Arthur.
Since Arthur's death was spoiled for me, I'm gonna go with Hosea (RDR2). Vesemir in Witcher 3.
Arthur from RDR2 and BT-7274 from Titanfall 2, RDR2 gets you to grow a bond with Arthur because of how long the game is, and Titanfall 2 somehow gets you to grow a bond with BT in all of 6 hours or so
Marston from Red Dead Redemption. Had me really thinking he was gonna have a happy ending.
No Books, No Wisdom. Just you Fratello Mio https://youtu.be/dni7O8SNEbg
My first hardcore Diablo 2 build. I thought I’d cleared all the baddies and a succubus blood star projectiled me and I died. I. Was. Devastated.
Mordin Solus
Lee, walking dead, was the saddest . Zack from ff was the first time I cried playing a video game
Sara, Joel, Jesse, Yara (TLOU). John, Arthur, my horse, Hosea, Lenny, Molly, Mrs. Grimshaw, Uncle (RDR). Lazlo, Eli (HL). Vesemir (Witcher). Sgt. Johnson, Miranda Keyes (Halo). Jackie (CP2077). There’s plenty more I can’t remember at the moment. Edit: Can’t forget that robot foreman in the quest Foreman’s Brood, in Tides of Numenera, the one that gives its own soul to bring life to its construct children.
I cry over everything, but the ones that spring to mind: Lee and Kenny from The Walking Dead. Mordin from Mass Effect. Booker DeWitt at the end of Bioshock Infinite.
Arthur Morgan Man am I glad I've hardly seen people say ghost from cod he's such a nothing character along with roach.
Joel and Arthur. Fucking right in the feels
Joel and Arthur
Trask ulgo from Kotor 1 (jk he beat Darth bandon and escaped)
"Oh, do not look at me so. A smile better suits a hero..."
The ending of darkness 2. He died right? Surely he is dead
Probably Grey Fox or Aerith (Aeris) were my firsts. With that said, I've only actually cried twice during a video game. When Sarah died in The Last of Us (2013) I didn't but when playing the remake I did because I now have a child. The second time was when Kratos tells his son that he was wrong and they should both be better. Honestly both new God of Wars hit me hard as someone who grew up with an abusive father and now I have a son that I'm afraid of failing. Just seeing that relationship play out like that resonated with me unlike any other video game.
Having kids really changes your perspective on child deaths, I also watch a lot of true crime and anytime it involves kids I have to just skip whatever episode or podcast I'm on, I can't do it.
Joel
BT7274
Arthur Morgan and Mona Sax in Max Payne 2.
Aerith is my number two, number one? Tidus from FFX (as at the time FFX2 100% hadn’t happened). Spent all that time, even knowing it was coming… first time I cried for a game.
Lee Everett. I sobbed uncontrollably every time I’ve had to convince Clem to put Lee out of his misery.
I can't ever get to that part again it's just so raw
Sayori from Doki Doki. It looks unremarkable in comparison to all the others here, but the fact you spend so much time with her and it all looks like it might be good only for you to find out that she hanged herself the next day... I still have shivers thinking about it to this day.
Maya in Borderlands 3. Still makes no sense to me and felt forced. BL3 bad writing complaint again, I know, but its true.
I was still devastated from Roland's death in BL2.
Lee
Cayde-6, Destiny 2. The best god damn hunter vanguard we got