Heart breaking moments in gaming

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Okay, so I'll be honest, my entire life revolves around video games. I often get so engrossed in them that if something horrible happens (an important character dies, for example) I'll probably come closer to crying than if, say, one of my grandparents suddenly croaked from a heart attack.

I made this thread in an attempt to find other people like myself, who use the virtual world to get what little disconnection from the harsh reality that they can. The idea is to share the most emotionally shattering thing that has ever happened in your video gaming history, anything from an evil plot twist to losing an online friend.

The most horrible thing that's ever happened to me in a game, without question, was just last night. I was kicked from my Warhammer Online guild because the guild leader said I wasn't fitting in. The guys in that guild were the closest thing I had to friends in a long, long time. Needless to say, I died a little inside.

I've had those moments. The worst for me was the end of HL2 Ep2, since I had a death in the family.

Agreed there, I took the ending of HL2 Ep2 pretty hard, especially since it offered no indication whatsoever as to what happened next. My horrified shock was downplayed a bit in retrospect however, when I thought "That looked very much like a bastardization of Starship Troopers."

The ending of Mafia is a little sad.

Another one which got to me was FEAR Extraction Point, even though I kinda expected the NPC's to die. But it mostly just pissed me off. I was made to feel like a failure at everything.

I've never played fear since I don't have the money to buy every single survival horror game on the market, but I understand what you mean. Games where you have teammates, but they die by some terrible twist of fate that you were unable to prevent, then the game makes you feel like it was entirely your fault.

FFVII. You know what character I'm talking about QQ
Someone had to mention it.

Baldur's Gate 2: Throne Of Bhaal The ending. Was v. much into the story and characters.

The biggest moment of heartbreak in gaming for me was when my AD&D group broke up due to the divorces of two of its members. I've never since encountered such a good group as they.

I am clean from WoW for about a month now... but yes I had heartbreaking moments in the game.

One was at a low level, but about the time I had finally gotten pretty good at the game (I had never played a VG before). There was a quest to get to the back of a cave and kill the boss. I was SO close but my life bar was way down. It was just a matter of 1 second but I died right before the boss would have been killed. This was a quest I had tried again and again and finally got so close to finishing it. I sat there staring at myself in the graveyard and realized I had tears in my eyes.

I had a lot of heartbreaking moments where other players were just jerks, taking something from under me just as I was about to, times I was friendly but got rudely gestured at. Once I finally found someone in the game I enjoyed playing with, they disappeared. That sort of thing.

Games like wow and D&D seem to have many more of the sad moments than other games, even if only because so many people (aspies or otherwise) use RPGs as their primary form of socialization. The grief is almost unbearable when I meet someone online that I have oh so much in common with, then one day they don't log in, and they're never heard from again. In some ways it's worse than a real person you know dying, because you really have no way of knowing what happened to them, and as has been demonstrated time and time again, fear of the unknown is the most powerful fear of all.

I used to play Halo 3 online with a few people and they always told me I needed to get a mic. So I got one and realized that I don't know what to say to them. They ended up getting kind of mad because they thought I wasen't talking because I just didn't want to talk to them. So I became terrified of playing Halo 3 and always set my status to invisible, so that I could avoid them.

The ending of Halo 3 was kind of sad too because I *thought that Master Chief died.

I've never had a heartbreaking moment in WoW (exception being people stuff... and most of that was just people pissing me off) however many, MANY times on games I am reduced to tears. Lots of times I will play a game up to a certain point, just so that certain people will live. This has happened on too many games to name off... and if I name one or two I will feel like a sap. This happens more on story orientated games where the character is main and has their own backstory, not just going through killing random stuff "because someone will pay them" or something.

Towards the end of Shadow of Colossus, when the horse died saving the hero. Cried in real life. I had to complete the game after that point and happily enough at the end the horse had survived

The ending of BioShock if you save the Little Sisters.
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I cried over one scene of Breath of Fire 2, where Mina Windia sacrifices herself instead of her sister Nina (my avatar) in order that a Great Bird be summoned.

The end of Link's Awakening got me all emotional. But I was a kid, and since then my heart has been replaced with stale muffin crumbs and the souls of little babies.

Although Shadow of the Colossus' last sequence (from the cutscene before Malus) tugged a few of my heart's strings.