Saddest videogame moments

[Rosencrantz]

The last time I was legitimately almost crying at a video game was the end of Mother 3. That was a hard scene to handle.

[water dog]

@Dazz & four24ever: Come on, use spoilers >=o
Everyone else is doing it too.

Terranigma

- Beruga destroys Neo-Tokyo
- Before the final fight: Everyone turns into spirits
- Ending: After you defeat the elder (Dark Gaia 1 & 2, or like in Germany: Agarack & Ragnara), you and the rest of the village are doomed. In your last dream, you are a bird which flies over the world

Secret of Mana

- Ending: The spirit uses all of her mana to destroy the final boss and dies, Randi and Purim survive and the Mana Dragon turns into snow

Illusion of Time/Gaia

- Not really sad, but more scary: Hamlet's suicide + Jackal's death through a flame trap in the pyramid

I don't want to click a bunch of fucking spoilers man, this shit is cluttered as it is. If you haven't already played FFIX, I doubt you ever will.

[Mutsukki]

The last time I was legitimately almost crying at a video game was the end of Mother 3. That was a hard scene to handle.

Fuck, how could I ever forget Mother 3 (and Earthbound)

MOTHER 3

The last battle with Claus had me on the extreme, it was really powerful

[Speed-X]

I know this has probably been said before--maybe--but Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2's ending. I've also heard that Mother 3's ending and other parts were incredibly emotional. I know someone told me not to watch a playthrough of it, but I think I might anyways. Maybe. I dunno. I never feel like I have the time to play that game.

[Chaoxys]

It's been a while since I've played it, but I think some parts near the end of Okamiden made me sad.

Spoiler

If I remember correctly, one of the kids that joins you finds out he's basically a puppet of Waka from Okami and he absorbs the main bad guy and has you kill him/the main bad guy. No happy ending at all for him, it's just, he's dead and YOU killed him.

[TomGuycott]

Mega Man Zero 4

The game has a heavy storyline of Humans disrespecting Reploids for dragging them into "their" war (even though Humans are the ones who used Reploids to fight other Reploids in the first place). Just as they are coming together at the end, Zero supposedly sacrifices himself to save the humans, and Ceil takes it pretty hard.

Final Fantasy Tactics

When Algus shot Teta with a crossbow I was light "WHAT THE FUUUUUCK!?"

Dark Souls

Ever overarching story with almost ANY NPC character ends in tragedy, even if you do as much as you can to prevent it. Almost every supporting character who sells you spells ends up going Hollow after you buy everything from them.

The two saddest have to be Solaire, who goes insane if you don't help him and "finds his own sun" in the form of a brain-chewing Sunlight Maggot, and Big-Hat Logan, who literally goes down the same path of insanity as Seath the Scaleless, one of the game's major bosses, and eventually turns on you after his research drives him mad. In retrospect even if you SAVE Solaire, his crestfallen behavior afterwards is STILL really depressing.

Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos

Irene getting stabbed, and then taking several more stages to even end up dying from it. And then the ending as a result (Even though it is ultimately a happy ending).

Super Paper Mario

The game is riddled with bizarrely deep tones about life and death, and Count Bleck sacrifices himself to prevent all the universe from breaking apart. However, it is implied he and that butterfly thing found happiness together in a new world.

Legend of Mana

The endings to the main three storylines:
1. The Dragoons: Larc is forced to endure imprisonment in the underworld because he is the Dragoon of Drakonis, and can't be with his sister (Though eventually it is implied he is freed)
2. The Jumi: After all but one of the Jumi have either had their Cores destroyed or eaten, the main character cries for them and invokes a curse that turns them to stone. However, their tears turn into a Teardrop Crystal that brings the Jumi back to life, and they, in turn, make another Crystal for the hero after being unable to do so for centuries. (Carebears logic ending, but I still found it sad at first).
3. Irwin and Matilda: By far the saddest ending. Irwin's story involves how he stole Matilda's priesthood powers and made her age at a rapid rate. She refused to follow him even though she loved him, and in turn he tried to destroy the world (and ended up being killed by the main character). Matilda dies of old age, and she goes to see Irwin in the underworld to ask to be with him at last now that there was nobody to stand in their way, but he refuses and just fades away, leaving her alone.

Final Fantasy VI

If you have Shadow for the ending of the game, he leaves the party behind without anyone realizing and tells his dog to leave without him as the tower is crumbling around him. Also the Celes on the cliff scene if Cid dies, which was already mentioned, and of course Cyan chasing the Phantom Train as he watches it take away his wife and son.

Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater

The final battle, and then realizing what it was The Boss was really doing.

Lufia and the Fortress of Doom

The opening sequence where Maxim and Selan are left behind in the Fortress as it is falling apart.

There's plenty more I can't think of. These are the ones I have trouble forgetting.

[Chaoxys]

I had forgotten that there are a number of sad moments in Super Paper Mario. Despite what people say, it's a pretty good game with a fairly deep story.

Speaking of sad things in Mario

@7:00

[alexmach1]

klonoa Door to Phantomile

i am suprised nobody mentioned this game. it builds up how the 2 main characters are best friends, only for the ending to be "we created your memories, so you would help us. you didn't actually have a grandfather, and i'm not your best friend." THEN the song starts playing, the portal opens, and klonoa has to go back to his own time, without all of his (fake) memories. then his friend tries to save him, despite the fact that the world would fall apart if he existed there any longer. vid explains it all

[Speed-X]

I had forgotten that there are a number of sad moments in Super Paper Mario. Despite what people say, it's a pretty good game with a fairly deep story.

Speaking of sad things in Mario

Oh, the story in SMG. That was a bit of a tear-jerker for me...

klonoa Door to Phantomile

Funny, I was just about to come back to this thread and mention something Klonoa-related. I agree that's a devastating ending.
Speaking of Klonoa, the ending to Klonoa 2 made me cry a little.

Of course, I can be a real wuss when it comes to sad endings...ha ha.

[TomGuycott]

Kid Icarus Uprising

Pit finding out 3 years has passed without him and that Palutena's seemingly gone insane, and then when he lets his wings burn up trying to save Dark Pit.

[Chaoxys]

Kid Icarus Uprising

Pit finding out 3 years has passed without him and that Palutena's seemingly gone insane, and then when he lets his wings burn up trying to save Dark Pit.

All but the last part would have been sad if they weren't constantly cracking jokes.

[TomGuycott]

I don't think you're thinking about the same part I'm thinking of. There was not one joke in that scene.

[Chaoxys]

I was talking about that section of the game as a whole actually, but yeah, if you meant that moment you find out then yeah, there aren't any jokes.

[TomGuycott]

Well the game is meant to be lighthearted and cheeky at its core, and really the jokes in that particular chapter weren't TOO numerous. Personally, I think the fact they were able to be lighthearted and cheeky at that point makes what happens even more terrible and sad.