Saddest Video Game Moment Ever?

[flameslayer93]

Does seeing that I've invested over 120 hours into Dragon Quest IX count?

[jschild]

Mass Effect 3 has several great scenes. Obviously, spoilers.

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Mordin giving his life to cure the Genephage. Especially his final line.... "It has to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong" and seeing him hum his favorite song happily as everything goes to hell around him. Smiling right before the end.

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Thane dying, joking about how the assassin must be ashamed letting a nearly dead person prevent him from killing his target. Then asking for you to pray with him before the end. And the end of the prayer is odd, so you ask his son what it meant. And being told the final prayer was not for Thane, but for you.

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Right before the end gets wonky, you and Anderson lying, both morally wounded, getting ready to activate the catalyst, looking down on Earth, saying you've got the best seats in the house. Anderson telling you softly that "You did good, child. You did good" before closing his eyes one final time, finally getting the rest he so deserves

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Not as sad as the rest, but Legion asking, before sacrificing himself, if the Geth have a soul. Then as he says goodbye, referring to itself as "I" for the first time.

The game is just filled with emotional and fantastic moments - easily the most emotional video game I've ever played. Someone new to the series can't appreciate it as much, but anyone who's played through all of them will be hit hard by the last game.

[boromir96]

#1 When Free Radical scrapped Battlefront 3

#2 When Sparkunlimited announced they were not making Battlefront 3.

Oh......You mean in a Game? I've never played any with sad parts

[Scaper Nerd]

Each of the Noble Team members dying in Halo: Reach and when Soap dies in MW3. Halo was worse because I liked the characters more, although when Emile kicked alien butt after he was stabbed made feel like a kickbutt spuperhero.

[Lord Pyre]

Ending of Mother 3. Only a few times a game made me cry, and that was it.

[Zarovichx]

Lost Odyssey has some sad moments in it with the memory stories of Kaim. They are worth reading through and they do a good job of providing insight into his character more as an immortal.

[Hive Lord 1233]

Sad, as in pathetic?

Kat's death in Reach. Hands down.

[Bothi]

Almost all of Kingdom Hearts 1, 2, and CoM.

I enjoyed the psp one, but not as dramatic.

All the ds ones have sucked.

[Son of Arathorn]

That terrible, crushing moment when you hear the words:

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Simply heartbreaking.

[Deroche]

Nuthin' but a bunch of young whipper-snappers! In my day, we had to walk to school, uphill in the snow, both ways!

And we played text-only "video" games! And we loved it!!

The saddest moment was definitely Floyd's death in Planetfall:

Floyd staggers to the ground, dropping the mini card. He is badly torn
apart, with loose wires and broken circuits everywhere. Oil flows from his
lubrication system. He obviously has only moments to live.

You drop to your knees and cradle Floyd's head in your lap. Floyd looks up
at his friend with half-open eyes. "Floyd did it...got card. Floyd a good
friend, huh?"

[DrAwsm]

Radiant Historia was a rather moving game, although not necessarily sad. There definitely were sad parts, but the whole game was a very emotional experience. The saddest part I can think of off the top of my head would probably be when Rosch is reminiscing about his Gauntlet and why he has it. It was a very touching moment, even though I couldn't relate directly to his predicament. Just goes to show how excellent storytelling can really move someone, eh?

[Bothi]

Deroche just envoked a whole wave of memories with me.

Saddest thing?

Having the MuD that you and all your friends got together and played back in the day get shut down.