History TearJerker / Videogames

* ''LiveALive'' ,[[spoiler: Orsted.]]

**** One quote of Shiki's; "When you see the real me...Will we still be friends?" caused a semi-breakdown for this troper, who is overly critical of his appearance, and has never met several of his best friends in person. Similar thoughts had run through his head many times, seeing them put into the open was...well, uh, tear-inducing.

**** Try [[spoiler: taking the HeroicSacrifice]] after romancing Zevran, for that matter. [[spoiler: [[BrokenBird If his epilogue doesn't do it for you,]] [[CartwrightCurse factor in his background as well]]... YouBastard.]]

->"[[EliteBeatAgents Fail 'You're The Inspiration']]? Are you insane, or just evil? I've [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential done many questionable acts in games]], but let that poor little girl down? I draw the line there. Cut off my hands, and I'll beat the level with my stumps. [[{{Determinator}} I. Will. Not. Fail. Her.]]"

*** Let's not forget that in their encounter immediately prior to that, Larson ''saved her life''. And Lara killed him never even knowing that Larson had "accidentally" knocked the Kid aside before he could shoot Lara in the back and then ''deliberately'' missed with his own shot.

** [[http://threepanelsoul.com/view.php?date=2007-02-16 Particularly crushing]] is the EBA stage's third segment, seen in its entirety [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybjMrK7vT6o&feature=channel_page here]]. A little girl whose father has died tries to see him in her dreams. In the dream, she chases after his silhouette, and at the end of the segment leaps at him, falling short. She screams "DADDY!" If you're doing badly, he just keeps walking... but if you do well, he stops and then turns to her just before she wakes up. No one will think less of you for pausing the game to collect yourself at that point.

**** If you want to feel even WORSE, fail the stage itself. If you don't feel like [[MyGreatestFailure a horrible human being for letting her down afterwards]], then you truly have no soul left in you.
***** Fail You're The Inspiration? Are you insane, or just evil? I've [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential done many questionable acts in games]], but let that poor little girl down? I draw the line there. Cut off my hands, and I'll beat the level with my stumps. [[{{Determinator}} I. Will. Not. Fail. Her.]]
**** This game ruined that song for this troper. Forever. Because now she bawls like a baby just from listening to it.

*** The ''Ouendan'' sad levels are similarly rough (the first a dead man trying to help his girlfriend move past his death, the second a teenage skater trying to take her late sister's place), but this troper still sat through them stone faced. ''You're My Inspiration'' makes her cry every damn time and she still tears up over the song.

*** Also a crowning moment of heartwarming afterwards. "E... B... A... * clap* "

* Plus the constant "oh by the way you're a monster" that is Ace Combat 04. The game frequently informs you that you're killing an orphan's best friends (the hardest enemies in the game as well, which means they'll make you start getting more desperate, then you realize you're getting desperate for a chance to kill said orphan's friends). However, the biggest PlayerPunch is when [[spoiler: you shoot down Yellow 13, who manages to chuck the late Yellow 4's handkerchief out his window before he dies]]. Then, [[spoiler: the kid writes you a letter asking about him.]]
** Also, earlier in the same game :[[spoiler: "Yellow 13 here. Did anyone see 4 get out?"]]

** This troper was playing the game for the first time co-op, and we reached [[spoiler:the death of Commander Keyes.]] Not only did I see my linebacker of a hulking huge brother get teary-eyed, I saw him get angry with a video game. His exact words were [[UnstoppableRage "I'm going to slaughter your entire fucking species", said in an very dangerous low growl.]]

*** For those of us who were right on top of the game's release, that spoilered scene in Chapter 1 possibly hit worse. In order to promote the game, Nintendo and Itoi released some bits promotionally ahead of time - one of which was a free mp3 download of "Theme of Love." This troper, as well as many others, thought it was beautiful and wondered when it would first play in the game. Then, right as [[spoiler: Flint finds out about Hinawa's death and has one of the most realistic emotional breakdowns seen in a game]], that song finally wells up. PlayerPunch doesn't even begin to describe it - it wasn't a soft and gentle ode to love, it was [[spoiler: an elegy over someone losing their most important person in the world]]... damn it, why does it still hurt so much to remember something from a game?

** For ThisTroper , the absolute most depressing moment of the game was washing up on shore after pulling Mixolydia's needle to find [[spoiler: [[DoomedHometown Tazmily Village]], the central hub of the game has been abandoned due to everyone moving (or rather being moved) to New Pork City. All the NPCs you've grown closer to through the story are gone, almost all of the houses are empty, and the music is just sooo depressing. Hell, ThisTroper even felt sad finding that the batteries to the pigmask's boombox had died.]]

*** Oh god, seconded so much. That scene had me bawling for minutes straight.

*** This troper had an identical experience. First game to ever make her cry.

*** This troper, moved to tears by that scene, was always miffed at the AdaptationDecay in the Nintendo Power comic, which had a side-character created exclusively for the comic (and the freaking ''comic relief'' no less!) accidentally kill it and completely gut the entire emotional response. Samus ''still'' used its death as motivation, but she wasn't in any trouble and it's not like it was even personal. If anything, this troper always wished she'd have taken a Hyper Beam to the idiot that really did it.

--->'''Samus:''' The X must not escape this station. I must send them all to oblivion. Them, the station... [[HeroicSacrifice and myself...]] [[TakingYouWithMe if I have to.]]

---->[[spoiler:'''Adam:''' Did this "Adam" care for you? Would he sit in a safe command room somewhere and order you to die?]]
---->[[spoiler:'''Samus:''' He would understand that some must live and some must die... He knew what it meant. He made that sacrifice, once.]]
---->[[spoiler:'''Adam:''' So he chose life for you? Our fair warrior? Your Adam gave his life so that you might keep yours... for the sake of the universe...]]

---->[[spoiler:'''Adam:''' Samus, this is your last mission. Go to the Operations Room and alter the station's orbit path to intercept [=SR388=]. Set the self-destruct, return to your ship and escape. Move quickly, and stay alive... ''[[AsYouWish Any objections, Lady?]]'']]

** The final log of the GFS ''Tyr'' always gets this troper. They're damaged but manage a landing, everything's going fine, and then... "''INCOMING!!'' They're closing in fast... I need backup... ''I need backup!!''" Followed by fifteen seconds of horror as an army of Dark Splinters proceed to rip the Marines limb from limb. The true Tear Jerker comes at the end, though; as the log ends, Samus looks out at the crash site, shaking her head at the futility of their deaths, and then kneels next to Captain Exeter's body and [[DiesWideShut closes his eyes]] through his broken visor.

** There's one optional moment that tears [[ManCalledTrue this troper]] apart. One of the Trouble Center missions has you acting as a runner between Eve, a woman in Twilight Town, and Podley, her former lover. He's changed a lot since then, and pretends not to know her. But just as you leave the bar, you hear him whisper, "Oh, my Eve..." When you tell Eve that he's forgotten her, she acts like she understands and gives you your reward. And then you leave, and through the door you hear one of her children ask, "Mommy, why are you crying?" Cue the tears on the player's end.

** This troper gets all emotional during the final battle against [[spoiler: Doopliss]] at the end of Chapter 4. Partly because of the despairing music that plays in Creepy Steeple, party because you're forced to fight against both the guy who completely stole your identity ''and'' your friends, who think he's really you, but mostly because [[spoiler: it coincides with Vivian's very touching HeelFaceTurn.]]

*** Their [[spoiler: final reunion at the end]] made this troper cry buckets of ''happy'' tears. I still can't hear this music that plays during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZtUiwQHRx4&feature=related this scene]] without the waterworks turning on. Gawd, who would've thought that oneof the most romantic and touching ends to a game would come from the ''[[SuperMarioBros Mario series?]]''

**** It might have been designed as that, or if it was accidental, a very serendipitous event: in most games, we either win and see the effect of our victory, or we lose, and get a dark tone from the game and a game over. In [[spoiler: the blank version of chapter 6, we see ''completely'' what happens when we fail against a villain who wants to ''wipe EVERYTHING out of existence, including himself.'']]

* This troper got a little choked up at the end of ''Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time.'' Hint: it involves a TimeParadox.

** That's a good bit of FridgeLogic you found. [[MaverickHunter40245 I]] never thought of it that way.

* Anyone else find the whole section at Hollijolli Village really depressing? I mean, the music is eerie enough, but it's a town get destroyed by aliens at Christmas. And they're pretty much using the souls of the towns people for UFO fuel.

** The Exile's brushes with [[spoiler: Revan's]] love interests are truly depressing. What compounds this is the story so far from the MMO: '''both player characters apparently disappear from the known-galaxy to die seemingly-pointless deaths, never again seeing anyone they love.''' This may not prove to be the full story, but it's pretty [[GoshDangItToHeck gorram]] depressing. No K3 was bad enough, but seriously, what the hell?

*** Making this Troper's eyes roll ''hard'' is the comic book they were giving away with the MMO's demo. There's this hotheaded young Jedi named "Shan," and the Council is worried about "her heritage." Does that mean [[spoiler: that they're going with the idea that M!Revan knocked Bastila up, skipped town without telling anyone, died alone, saddling her with a SomeoneToRememberHimBy and the consequences?]] Excuse me while I hurl.

*** Hell, Raphel Sbarge managed to pull off LOTS of these. In the cut-content, female-only ending, Carth makes this LastSecondChance/[[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight You don't want this life for yourself]] plea. Hear him out, and boy can he sell it. It's enough to make many an aspiring Dark Lady relinquish power for an EverybodyDies ending. Another bit of cut (and easily restored) content comes after [[spoiler: the female PC finds out what she used to be]]. "Was everything you said a lie?" There's this hitch there, and I still feel a little stab in the gut when it's delivered.

* ''[[BaldursGate Baldur's Gate II]]''. [[spoiler: Yoshimo's death. The fact that he's the only proper thief in the game is also sad.]]

*** This troper has played quite a few mod romances to that stage, and Kelsey's makes her tear up every time. Not helped by the almost sobbing of the voice actor.

** The darkspawn attack at camp + Dalish Elf (especially a female one) = Augh. Just ''augh''. It hits so suddenly (for those who can stay away from spoilers, anyhow) and hard - and it doesn't help that ghouls in appearance and [[AFateWorseThanDeath details]] are HighOctaneNightmareFuel, and that's [[spoiler: the Warden's old [[HeterosexualLifePartners Heterosexual Life Partner]] going through it]] - that this troper excused herself for ten minutes afterwards. [[BlatantLies So much for the Gauntlet spirit]], and [[LivingEmotionalCrutch too bad the party don't seem all that interested in reversing roles whenever the Warden's past comes up]].

--->'''[[spoiler: Loghain]]:''' "It was six months before we saw her again. The Orlesian returned her--and when I say "returned," I mean "pushed her out of his wagon." She was skin and bone, and still carried the scars from where their pronged collars bit into her neck. She never quite recovered. She passed away after a week. It was as though she held on long enough to come home to us. I held her head in my lap, and I believe she died happy."

*** Bonus missions from the N64 version are canon by Main/WordOfGod, and thus [[spoiler: Stukov Lives! After being infested, then de-infested, and left a broken half-shell of a man. But he lives!]]

*** This is made even worse via a cinematic in ''StarCraft II'', where we see [[spoiler:Kerrigan, the last person left at New Gettysburg, calling for backup. She's implied to have watched ''her entire force'' be devoured by the Zerg, and she's darting from place to place, fighting off zerglings and hydralisks erupting from every shadow, as her cloaking device runs out of energy and her ammunition runs out. Down to just her sidearm, she sees a mass of zerglings coming towards her, and knows from the lack of radio contact and the mutalisks wheeling overhead that her rescue is not coming. Instead of fighting to the last, she drops her gun, completely broken, and just ''stands there'' as the Zerg wave rushes her.]] If this wasn't Arcturus's MoralEventHorizon moment before, it certainly is now.

** The quest line for ''Rewriting The Battle of Darrowshire.'' It starts when you encounter the ghost of a little girl, Pamela Redpath, who asks you to find her dolly for her. As the quest progresses, she starts to ask about her daddy, she misses him so much. You start to find living relatives throughout the world who fill you in on her story, and that of her father, Joseph. [[spoiler: Joseph Redpath was one of the last defenders of Darrowshire against the Scourge. He succumbed and was corrupted by the Scourge, then proceeded to murder the other defenders, leaving him forever known as the traitor of the Battle of Darrowshire. After a number of other quests, and the help of the Bronze Dragonflight, you are able to relive the Battle for Darrowshire and have the opportunity to defend the town with Joseph and the other defenders. Joseph is still defeated and corrupted, but because of your presence, you are able to redeem him; you are told that, while you could not save him, history has been changed to remember him as the fallen hero of Darrowshire. At the end of the quest, the ghosts of Joseph and Pamela are reunited, and embrace, and Pamela tells you that she is so happy to see her daddy again.]]
*** Even without having played through the quest, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LcJXckn0Lo this fan-made video]] will make you tear up. If you have played through the quest you will bawl like a baby.

** The following line hits hard when you take the rest of the scene into account: [[spoiler: King Varian Wrynn: Stand down, Muradin. Let a grieving father pass.]]

*** Blood of Slyvanas. Slyvanas is relieved that the Lich King is finally dead. Yet she wonders how many people are freed of his grasp, [[AndImustscream but still unable to control their body.]] She shoos the player away to brood.
*** Badge of the Silver Hand. Uther talks about the many, many, burdens his soul carried from his failure to keep Arthas in check. Yet, there is one memory that he will choose to keep about him. The dedication and hope to defend his kingdom when he was young, no matter what the cost. HE thanks the player and leaves
*** Arthas' Training Sword. [[spoiler: Muradin]] recalls the many days Arthas trained with this dull sword, to become a capable warrior. He then laments how things could have been different and avoided if he had never chose to look for Frostmourne. Sadly, he says goodbye to Arthas.
*** Jaina's Locket. Jaina is shocked to learn that after all these years, after all the horrible things he had done, Arthas had kept the locket Jaina gave to him. She believes that there was still some light in Arthas, despite all he did, and hopes that he finds peace in the next life.
*** Alexandros' Soulshard. Alexandros appears before Mograine one last time. Mograine is understandably happy that his father's soul is alright, yet wonders how he kept his sanity. How did his dear father keep it? He held onto one memory, one special moment. The day Mograine sacrificed himself to save his father from a possibly even longer period of torment.

** Do NOT get this troper started about the Dark Brotherhood quest "Next of Kin." That note... with the shopping list... easily the worst thing this troper has ever done in a video game.

* The whole moment happens quite suddenly, but this troper was rather moved by Pvt. Chernov's death in ''CallOfDuty: World At War''. To put things in perspective, throughout the game, Chernov was the only member of the Russian squad to show any kind of restraint in battle, loudly chastising his comrades for their brutality; his cries always fell on deaf ears. Right at the beginning of his last level, Reznov loudly scolds him for his "lack of stomach" and makes fun of him for keeping a diary. At the end, the poor guy gets deep-fried by an SS trooper with a flamethrower, and as he lies in agony, gasping for breath, Reznov seems to have a change of heart and comforts him in his last moments. He then takes his diary and remarks, "Someone should read this..."

** This troper was HORRIFIED by the second time she encountered Magus, [[spoiler:and she killed him her first go around. When he immediately used his last words to tell the characters how to revive Crono and died]] she was so upset that she immediately reset the game just to go back and change her mind on how to deal with him.

** ''Chrono Cross'' has its own share of these, including Harle's storyline. And the whole meeting with Miguel in the Dead Sea. The music itself should probably be in the music section here ...
** Have people forgotten the sheer and utter hopelessness projected by Belthasar's theme, and the final (for the rest of time) "shutdown" of the Nu he uploaded his brain to? Though you feel so sorry for not doing it for him...
** I thought Chrono Trigger as a whole was depressing, but what really got me was the future and why it was how it was. The bad ending doesn't really help, either. It's just so hopeless... if I were more emotional I'd cry. And the thing with the plant? Probably a ray of hope that's short lived, as I view it, which would probably make the entire future even sadder for me.

* [[spoiler: Andrew Ryan: "A man chooses! A slave obeys!" and it's the fact that you really couldn't stop hitting him that made me cry.]]

* Sure, Tenenbaum might have had a dodgy past, but even before she mentions being involved in experiments [[ThoseWackyNazis in a prison camp]], you have to realize something: if she was a 'Kraut' of Jewish descent, she probably was separated from her own family before being sent there. It somehow makes everything happening with the Little Sisters worse, especially since she grows such a pure devotion to them. Even then, listening to her narrate her maternal revelations is so moving. And then, if you didn't save ENOUGH Little Sisters for the good ending, but didn't kill enough for the bad, the fact that she sounds so sad while explaining your [[spoiler: descent into spliced-up maddness]] makes this troper sort of feel like she thought she could've saved Jack, given that [[spoiler: she was Fontaine's agent for buying the embryo off of his birth mother]].

** On the topic of female characters in Bioshock with sad stories, Diane McClintock. Her fiancee, Ryan, slowly goes crazy and [[spoiler: probably spends more intimate moments with Jasmine Jolene, anyway]]. She's eventually left alone after the New Year's attack ruins her face (and from what the audio diaries imply, Steinman [[MadArtist didn't help]]. Then she goes on to work for Atlas (and it sort of sounded like she was forming affections, or at least a strong sense of loyalty, to him too) but [[spoiler: she walks in on his longest con and he kills her before she can blab his true identity]]. It's sad because she seemed so normal; there was no hint of going insane. She was just a sad woman caught up in a nightmare. She might be the closest to TheWoobie asides from the Little Sisters.

*** [[spoiler: The worst part, for this troper, was the look Eleanor got after Delta pushed the needle away. How it dawned on her that after all that happened, he would rather die than stay with her. And that everyone else she even knew is dead.]] If you need me, I'll be in the bathroom with an industrial box of tissues.

** [[spoiler: With Eleanor, you mean. Delta doesn't make it out alive either.]]

*** In fairness, [[NarmCharm most RE fans have a high tolerance for this.]] Of course, the ''novelization'' of that scene hits a lot harder, mostly because we as readers get to hear a lot of [[spoiler:Ada's]] thoughts.

*** For ThisTroper, it was the final battle with Pious that made the tears flow. One by one you watch these otherwise fairly normal, decent people destroyed by the machinations of foul things from beyond the veil, and eventually you realize that Pious' plans never specifically targeted these people. To Pious, they were little more than collateral damage, incidental, meaningless deaths that he barely even notices until Alex gets the Tome. I was grinning with tears pouring down my face when [[spoiler:Ellia's ghost rose up out of her statue during the final boss fight, and I realized that every single one of them was going to get a chance at Pious' bony necrotic ass. It was especially so with Maximillian.]]

** For that matter, the story behind the monster, [[spoiler: Lisa,]] herself, [[spoiler: she was once a little girl whose father designed the mansion and unfortunately knew its secrets. She and her mother were kidnapped when Umbrella muredered her father. The two were experimented upon with what would become the T-virus until her mother died. Lisa wasn't as fortunate; she mutated into a grotesque form and her mental faculties degenerated. Lonely, and obsessed with her mother, Lisa went insane. It gets really depressing when you read her diary and the messages from her parents dotting the game.]]

** When Zero makes his [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice]] in ''MegaManZero 4'', we see [[spoiler:Ciel break down and sob for him]] all the way through the closing credits. [[spoiler:At last she tells him, wherever he is, that she'll follow his example and make the world a better place. "Just come back someday... I... I believe in you!" Cut to Zero's shattered helmet amid the wreckage of the Ragnarok satellite -- he's not coming back, folks.]] Absolutely brutal.

** The ''BattleNetwork'' series has several of these. The most poignant is the ending of [=BN3=], where everyone thinks [=MegaMan=] is gone for good. We see Lan four months later, still heartbroken but moving on with his life. Only after the credits does Lan's dad find a way to save [=MegaMan=].

*** This troper couldn't find a way to get past the screen either, so she did the next best thing: she put her [[MagikarpPower Gyrados]] at the front of her party and [[UnstoppableRage proceeded to kick some Galactic ass]] in the name of [[AndThisIsFor Gyrados' brethren]].
* While [[ItWasHisSled it's common knowledge now]], fighting through [[PokemonGoldAndSilver a game]] that can take 120+ hours to beat and finding [[spoiler: The first game's protagonist isolated and alone]] at the very end was a kick in the face.

** This troper [[DisContinuity refuses to believe the very, very, very end actually happens]]. You know, the part where it's revealed [[spoiler: Pey'j is still infected]]. There's a time and place for that kind of ending, game, and that is ''not'' it.

*** Speaking of the credits and the end of Glacia, the credits are notable as they tell the fates of all the members of Vyse's crew after the journey. Drachma's ending doubles as a TearJerker and CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

** This troper views the Haseo vs. Kuhn fight in the Demon Palace a little bit differently: [[spoiler: it seemed obvious to this troper that Skeith's been overriding Haseo's control since the match with Alkaid. By the end of the fight, Haseo's reduced to being the terrified, screaming audience while Skeith tears Kuhn to shreds and EATS HIM.]] Then there's the scene near the end of .hack//G.U. Redemption where [[spoiler: Haseo confronts Ovan after they defeat Cubia. All Haseo can do is run towards Ovan, screaming and crying...but Ovan still dissolves before Haseo can reach him.]]

** The last two hours or so of ''God of War III.'' Oh, where to begin?
*** The entire Daedalus subplot is just.... depressing. He's been chained up inside the Labrynth, hanging from the ceiling because Zeus is a dick, and is willing himself alive on the hope that his son Icarus will come and save him. His dream comes true when he sees someone with Icarus' wings flying around and solving the puzzle... and then he learns it's Kratos, who brutally killed his son in the previous game. His reason for living gone, he kills himself once Kratos leaves.
*** Pandora's HeroicSacrifice. It's the one time in the series Kratos actively tries to ''prevent'' someone's horrible death. Not only does he fail, but the promised weapon, the one thing that can destroy Zeus, [[SenselessSacrifice is not inside Pandora's Box.]]
*** Seeing Kratos' wife and child die in III. The scene implies that they KNEW that it was Kratos who killed them. Calliope's screams made this troper tear up.
*** The ending. Kratos finally kills Zeus, but has destroyed the world in the process. Athena pulls a FaceHeelTurn and demands Kratos surrenders the power of Hope. The spartan moves to finish her off, raises the Blade of Olympus... and then flips it around and runs himself through. Hope rushes across the world while Kratos bleeds to death. The last shot is a blood trail leading over the edge of a cliff, while the sun shines through for the first time since Helios' death.

** The ending felt like CharacterDerailment for the protagonist. What really felt like a punch to the gut was playing 2071 and 2081 in one sitting for the first time. And, like ''Planetfall'', this was all text.

** This troper, after several unlucky attempts at finding a boyfriend, finally found a charming young man who she planned on marrying. On the last date before she was going to propose, he ended up leaving me for another woman. I didn't want to accept it at first- I just thought he walked out to get his thoughts together, so it wasn't until clicking on the marriage button a few times and being told I had no options did it sink in. Needless to say, my character died alone and I haven't played since.

** This troper did her best to avoid it by mixing her monsters into new creations the moment they started showing signs of old age, but to unlock the Ghost, you ''have'' to let at least one monster die. Harsh stuff. Monster Rancher 3 is both better and worse in this area--better because when your monster dies, you get their "Monster Heart", full of their spirit (and stats) which you can give to your new monster to help them live on, worse because ''you have to watch the death scene every damned time to get it''. Guilt abounding. And speaking of guilt, she'll never forgive herself for not researching what the Stimulants do to the monsters in Monster Rancher 2--specifically, up your monster's stats, but dramatically reduce their lifespan. The moment of shock when she realized she essentially drove one monster to her ludicrously premature grave for the sake of the fight was a very, very unhappy moment.

** Even more when you realize what happens during that last barrage. [[spoiler:Shinra ''didn't know'' if his final attack worked or not - the Ikaruga was annihilated a mere second before the explosion]].

---> "I couldn't do it. Atrus, I'm not you."

** The [[ParentalAbandonment absence of Madotsuki's parents]] is bad enough, then you get to the [[EpilepticTrees fan theories]] that involve Madotsuki's parents (if any). One theory about the flute effect is that it's derived from a childhood experience in which Madotsuki was taken to the doctor to get a shot and, due to her fear of needles, her mom would play the flute to calm her down. This theory + [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwjOI6riH5s the music in the room where you get the flute effect]] = this 21-year-old troper having to pick himself back up.

** There's another heartwrenching line in that level: You've loaded the remaining cryotrays on board, the ship is powering up to warp away and then you hear this:

* ''HotelDuskRoom215.'' Plenty of them, though in this troper's opinion the worst is [[spoiler:Dunning being unable to even look up as he quotes the last thing Bradley said to him. "You won't see Robert Evans again." To those of you reading this who haven't played the game, this will mean nothing. To those who have, you'll understand the circumstances. The music helps as well.]]

** Previous to that; given what a SugarBowl the series usually is, [[spoiler: Ellen's]] death in HM64 doubles as this and the closest thing the series has to a WhamEpisode. Elli's reaction just drives the trope home.

-->[[spoiler:'''Albus:''' If you want to repay me, you can grant me one final wish... Smile for me. Please... before I fade away.]]\\

* The very first ending you get in the first Drakengard game is truly a tearjerker. [[spoiler:Not only does Angelus show her change in opinion of humans but also Caim finally shows compassion for the first time (we are talking about a guy who killed thousands of people in cold blood and didn't cry when he lost all his soldiers, his sister, and even his best friend). The sequel only pushes it further although it can be actually comforting in that they do not have to suffer anymore]].

** Hell, almost the entirety of ''Fallout 3'' is enough to make me sob. Specifically, the very sad background music that plays when you wander the wasteland; it almost makes you wish something will attack you so the confrontation score kicks in (or you could just use the radio). Even worse than that, though, is [[spoiler:the bit with the player's father. Damn, just damn. You have to do so much just to see him again after you leave the vault, and on top of that, he dies soon afterward.]]

**** And when Beat is you're partner he'll cry out [[spoiler: Rhyme]] when he dies. I just think that if TWEWY didn't have a SlapOnTheWristDeath these would be really effective last words.

*** On that note, Lord Baelheit [[spoiler: shooting Milly - his own ''daughter'' - in the face, just to prove a point]]. ''Damn it.''

*** This troper knows numerous people who cried at that scene...but when Yuri says [[spoiler: I love you too...]] and then starts crying...I felt like an absolute jerk because I actually started laughing as he proceeded to make the ''silliest sad face ever''.

** Her entire backstory is a Tearjerker. She and Kasumi are ChildhoodFriends and sisters...and because of the various ninja politics and the misfortune of her birth, Ayane winds up separated from the only friend she ever had, only to come back when she's assigned to kill Kasumi. And then she has to kill [[spoiler:her adoptive father after he's made into a monster]]? Ayane, [[TheWoobie a Woobie is you]]. And then they set it to ''Dream On''. That opening sold me more on the series' storyline than anything in the actual game.

* Finding out that [[spoiler: Nicole was DeadAllAlong]] in DeadSpace. Despite being a HeroicMime, I felt quite sorry for Isaac at the part.

** Conviction has the second to last level, where [[spoiler: 2 EMPS have just been activated in Washington D.C. (There were three, but Sam only had time to after the one that was closest to his daughter, who was alive and unharmed.) You see them exploding while Vic comments that those things are "Supposed to be clean." When other explosions happen throughout the city. That's already pretty intense, but it only gets worse. After Vic crashes the helicopter into the theater, and everyone is thankfully alright, Sam goes alone to fight his way to the White House. Along the way you see all of the people who have been affected by the EMPs. Paramedics who are desperatley trying to revive a man without any power of course, A couple who are terrified of anything that may have happened to their children who eventually embrace while the man promises that everything will be alright, a car exploding which throws a person onto the ground, and a man who runs over and crouches next to them, finds out that they are dead, and steps back, mortified. I crouched next to the corpse as well and the reason I keep reffering to it as a "them" is because it was such bad shape I couldn't even tell the gender. And one of the last things you see before going back into the fight? Another car exploding next to a group of people, which is, thankfully far enough away as to not have anyone injured. However, two guys have to hold one man back, who is struggling to break free of their grip and is screaming that his wife was in that car and he needs to rescue her. The other guys are telling him that his wife is dead and if he goes in their he'll die too. His response "I DON'T CARE!" He keeps screaming and crying for a while before giving up the struggle and falling to the ground weeping. All of this made the decision to shoot Reed myself all the easier.]]

* The ending to the 2008 PrinceOfPersia broke my heart-- in it [[spoiler: the previously cynical, IneffectualLoner Prince decides to screw over the whole world and release the BigBad in order to bring Elika back from the dead.]] It takes its time to play out, and the Prince, who used to have a smart-assed comment for everything, does not say a single word during it. Plenty of people have called it an AssPull or ShockingSwerve ending because it basically means that [[spoiler:all the work you've done was for nothing]], but if you value your character development as much as I did, it'll tear you up because it is ''the only way'' the game could have ended.

* Get a GameOver in any way during ''{{Primal}}'' and you see Jen in her hospital room dead or dying in her coma. A melancholy tune plays while the camera draws back, showing her room in what seems like an empty void with no one there for her.

* The first ending to {{Drakengard}}. The ''only'' living creature Caim gives a ''shit'' about, [[spoiler:his Pact-Partner, Angelus,]] becomes the new seal, dying painfully in the process. Just to twist the knife a bit further, [[spoiler:she tells Caim her name, as he holds her head, while the magic of the seal is ''branded'' into her skin.]] [[DownerEnding The other four endings are even worse.]]

* A horrible one in {{Dwarf Fortress}}: A wood cutter in one of my fortresses is caught outside during a goblin ambush, with inevitable results. However, she is holding an infant, which stops a bolt with its head and saves her life and allows her to run back inside. At first I was just happy my woodcutter was alive, but after the siege, when I saw her standing outside doing nothing at the spot where she was ambushed, I was furious. I looked in the unit screen, and her current task was 'Seek Infant'. I can laugh at the deaths of an entire fortress of dwarves, but that one gets me every time. (She eventually starved to death due to never canceling the Seek Infant job.)
* In ''RomancingSaGa: Minstrel Song'', there's an Assassin's Guild that specializes in BrainwashedAndCrazy agents, and they eventually [[InnSecurity send one after you while you're sleeping]]. The victim only comes out of it ''after'' you've struck the final blow and dies begging for help. To make matters worse, in Jamil's scenario, [[spoiler: the assassin turns out to be his ''best friend Dowd''. Who was only alone because you didn't take him along with you (by his request, but ''still!'') Oh, and you ''have'' to see this scene to [[GuideDangIt unlock Dowd for]] [[NewGamePlus later playthroughs]].]]

* ''Conker's Bad Fur Day'' is basically the "Mrs. Doubtfire" of games. Sure, it's tasteless, but it was so silly, comical and innocent all the way through, and then, [[spoiler: the downer ending hits the player unexpectedly in the face. The protagonist has the opportunity to save a life, but instead performs a macho act that gets him crowned king, only to regret is immensely.]]

* TheDarkness video game is essentially a FirstPersonShooter version of ItGetsWorse.
** [[spoiler: Jackie's girlfriend and best friend since they were kids, Jenny, is shot in the head by one of the Big Bads of the game while The Darkness holds him helpless, making him watch. Then makes fun of him when he breaks down.]]
** Most of the interactions with the dead WWI soldiers in the "Hell" levels. Some of them understand that they are dead, that they are in Hell, and are sadly resigned to their fate of reliving an even more nightmarish version of the war forever as far as they know.
** The DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Jackie finally gets the BigBad, who is responsible for the death of Jenny. In the process he gives up his soul to The Darkness. At game end, there is a brief, dreamlike cutscene showing Jenny sitting on a park bench holding Jackie's head in her lap. Jenny has to tell him that he can't stay with her there, and Jackie tells her that he misses her so much. The final words of the game are Jenny whispering "Jackie, you have to wake up now."]]

* I'm very surprised [[{{Resistance}} Resistance 2]]. As if the utterly empty towns and cities that you romp through should be unnerving and depressing enough, you have to contend with Henry Stillman's radio broadcasts. The first broadcast seems innocuous enough, it's a professional radio man reporting [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564fGPoZR5I&feature=PlayList&p=FC6752FF8635DE2A&index=0 a disaster]]. A day after you hear the first one, Henry's radio news man shell falls and he is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF9cDUubIB4&feature=PlayList&p=FC6752FF8635DE2A&index=1 audibly shaken]] by the slaughter and the loss of his wife. And then how he gets his hopes up over what he sees on the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0IMcFoxPyI&feature=PlayList&p=FC6752FF8635DE2A&index=3 street]] is the worst. To hear this man's hopes get up over the first sings of human contact he's seen in days only to have it robbed from him. And then his brief sojourn [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMu2x2BAqIg&feature=PlayList&p=FC6752FF8635DE2A&index=5 outside]] you can hear how much he's come apart. And then his [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NudONjweFlM&feature=PlayList&p=FC6752FF8635DE2A&index=6 last broadcast]] ends with his declaration of defeat and his decision to throw himself to the grims. Listening to the spiritual destruction of a man over the course of the game is likely todrive anyone to tears.

* Okay, so it's fairly {{Narm}}y in retrospect, but [[FoominBlue This Troper]] just ''broke down'' the first time she played ''[[SuikodenI Suikoden]]'' all those years ago and got to [[spoiler: Odessa's]] HeroicSacrifice. The later {{Player Punch}}es were just as bad, especially when it was finally made clear that [[spoiler: it's the fault of ''your'' True Rune that everyone you care about is dying. It's known as the ''Soul Eater'' for a good reason.]]

** Then there's the sequence in ''SuikodenIII'' where you finally catch up with the Flame Champion... [[spoiler: Or, rather, with his long-widowed wife, Sana, who explains how he sealed away the True Fire Rune and traded immortality for the chance to grow old and die with her. It's heavily implied that the strain of sealing away the Rune sapped so much of his strength that they didn't get to enjoy much of their new life together, to boot.]]

** The Faultline arcs. They open in an area where hope is being reclaimed; an area of the city that had been devastated by a city-shattering earthquake by the crazed earth-controlling villain Faultline is slowly being rebuilt after the horrors of the Rikti Wars. You gain a cheerful, ditzy sidekick, Fusionette, for a while, and her more sombre, but still decidedly KidHero-ish boyfriend... Faultline? As you explore deeper into the past of the villain, the zone, and the hero named Faultline, cracks appear, and the mystery deepens. [[spoiler:Eventually, you discover that the first Faultline had been a ''hero'', one of the city's best and brightest. But one of his enemies, PsiCurse, had created the [[RetGone Psychochronometron]], altering the timeline and making him into a villain to try and turn his foe into an ally. Unfortunately, PsiCurse' knowledge of Faultline was incomplete, and the resultant temporal stresses drove Faultline mad, making him lose control of his powers and killing both PsiCurse and Faultline's closest friend, and setting Faultline down the path that would orphan his young son, Jim Temblor, and leave him torn for much of his life, with two sets of memories in his head.]] Thankfully, you can get to the bottom of the mystery, and have it end [[spoiler:with Jim Temblor [[LegacyCharacter taking up his father's mantle]] to make Faultline [[BitterSweetEnding a hero's name again]]...]]

* [[spoiler:Sophia's letter to Anton]] during the ending of ''{{Professor Layton}} and the Diabolical Box''. I've got [[SandinMyEyes something in my eye]]. * sniff*
* He handled most of ''Fable'' without tearing up, but there was one moment that did it for This Troper. One of the Demon Doors in the game will only allow his three friends to enter it: a gallant knight, an evil mage, and a bandit. [[spoiler: Naturally, this means you need to wear a bright plate outfit, a dark Will user outfit, and a bandit outfit in that order.]] Once his requirement is met, he allows you entry. When you get in, you discover [[spoiler: that the reason he hasn't seen them in so long is because once they were inside, they fought amongst themselves for the treasure and ended up killing each other.]] It's bad enough on its own, but the Demon Door just sounds so ''happy'' at finally seeing his friends again.

** Speaking of Continuum Shift, the story mode for Lambda-11 is one that was particularly unexpected. [[spoiler: It starts during the events of the Calamity Trigger prologue, from Lambda's point of view, with the varied tests being run on her. She is clearly in pain from the testing, and is screaming in her mind, but she is unable to do anything to stop the procedures. Going through her recovery by Tager from the Ikaruga ruin, to the eventual wipe of her memories and original personality by Kokonoe, and it becomes readily apparent how much of a {{Woobie}} she is; just about every waking hour she had was ruled by pain and helplessness, and she was trapped in that until she functionally died in Kokonoe's lab. Listening to her cries through the whole process, and the accompanying music, was too much for this troper.]]
* The first part of PhantomBrave is depressing enough with its absolutely ''brutal'' AllOfTheOtherReindeer moments, but the new scenario in the remake makes it even worse by introducing [[spoiler:"Carona", who is a Marona from a world without Ash. Also, everyone in the world dies in the opening cut scene.]] It's like NIS looked at the original and asked "How could we possibly make this more depressing?"

** The first chapter is a slow, plodding piece about a birthday party. Ethan plays with his kids, designs a house, all that stuff. Then the second chapter starts with [[MemeticMutation JAYSOOOOON!]] dissapearing in a mall, [[spoiler: only to be run over by a car right after Ethan finds him.]] The next chapter is two years later, with Ethan a dispondant wreck, Shaun almost totally unresponsive, and the entire world going from bright and happy to grim and crumbling. A very effective use of MoodWhiplash.
** The BadEnding. [[CaptainObvious (Duh.)]] [[spoiler: If you get the worst possible ending, then all the protagonists are dead, Shaun dies, anyone that could tell the killer's identity dies, and the Origami Killer is free to strike again. [[ShootTheShaggyDog Even worse if Ethan survived everything; not only does his son die in front of him, but he gets gunned down in a police ambush immediately after.]]]]

* The ''[[{{Crysis}} Crysis 2]]'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34QMA2ykfCc&fmt=22&annotation_id=annotation_376226&feature=iv 'Wall' trailer]] always gets ThisTroper. The singer sounds like she's broken already, combined with the wall of people looking for lost loved ones, and the look on the soldier's face as he pulls the pin on his grenade...and doesn't throw it...excuse me...

** The deaths of his wife and infant daughter in the first game also count. Even worse, it becomes apparent that Max's last conversation with his wife; which he totally blew off, is not only the reason she's killed, but it was the very thing Max is trying to destroy in his downward spiral.

* This troper was surprised by ''Kane & Lynch: Dead Men.'' Although it seems like just a cinematic shoot 'em up, the story hits ''hard'' sometimes. [[spoiler:Throughout the first few levels of the game, Kane is sent on a job to steal something for a gang of mercenaries that have his wife and daughter. After botching it, they are brought before him as he's lying in a ditch, helpless. They shoot his wife in the head, and are about to kill his daughter before he becomes enraged, grabbing a shovel and beating the shooter to death, screaming "YOU SHOULD HAVE LET ME TALK TO THEM!"]] Oh, and let's not get into the ending...

* ''Odin Sphere'' hits you twice with the deaths of [[spoiler: Ingway]] and [[spoiler: Mercedes]]. If you go for the [[MultipleEndings bad ending]] by pitting [[spoiler:: Mercedes against Darkova]], they just ''twist'' that knife.

**** Wanna know what's worse? [[spoiler: The {{Good Ending}} presumably has the ''exact same thing happen to Myris.'' The only difference is there were four survivors of the apocalypse instead of zero.]]

*** This troper can never use the word again without feeling a pang from this scene. ''Longing... The desire for that which you cannot change or possess.''

** There's a woman who works in the Smoldering Corpse just so he can be near Ignus- which, yes, is already a sad thing, since he seems much more in love with flames than with everything else. [[spoiler: Then, after freeing him, you talk with her. Ignus first reaction? He hugs her. And she's just so happy that she lets herself burn.]] Maybe flames weren't really ''everything'' for him.

** [[ShmuckBait God ''damn'' it]]. It's worse when you fail and [[spoiler:The family dies too]]

*** Actually, since the game can't save mail in queue that long, it is the ingame mother that is sending letters in the comic. Doesn't stop it from being touching, though.

* Somehow, even StreetFighter manages to get in on the heartstring tugging action. In Super Street Fighter 4, a couple of the endings are genuinely sad, namely Guile and T Hawk's endings. Guile's is more bittersweet, as he [[spoiler: visits Charlie's grave and has a toast on it, vowing to finish his takedown of Shadaloo so that Charlie can have closure.]] T Hawk's is genuinely depressing, as he [[spoiler: finds Julia with Rose's help, but her experience with Shadaloo has totally traumatized her, and she is unable to remember who Hawk even is.]] Guile's put a bit of a glow in this editor's heart knowing that [[spoiler: he succeeded, since Shadaloo is gone by Street Fighter 3's events, so Charlie can rest in peace,]] but Hawk's ending is probably one of the most depressing things you would ever see in a fighting game.
* Somehow, even ''TwistedMetal'' manages to pull this off, with Grasshopper's ''Head-On'' ending. The entire reason Krista's ghost is in the tournament? [[CompleteMonster Calypso]] [[MagnificentBastard wants her to win]] so she can wish herself back to life. Then when she actually ''does'' win, [[spoiler: she fails to realize what he was after, and simply accuses him of using her to kill more people. And just to make things worse, she wishes that the accident that killed her and gave Calypso his powers never happened.]] Calypso is forced to grant her wish, and we see her happily playing with a younger, friendlier father. [[spoiler: Then we see her comatose in a hospital, with Calypso watching. He can't give her what she wants (since trying to RetGone anything in ''Twisted Metal'' never works), and she can't actually come back because [[LiteralGenie that wasn't her wish.]] The best he can do is leave her in a happy dream state until she recovers.]] Just...damn.

* The opening of the last chapter of ''[[CallOfJuarez Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood]].'' [[spoiler: Ray and William corner Thomas and Marisa in the vault, with the elder brothers eager to kill each other. Willaim finally steps between them, threatening to kill Ray if he doesn't stop. He reaches into his coat...and Ray guns him down. Turns out he was reaching for his bible.]]'' The game then seems to have a hopeful ending...until you remember this is a {{Prequel}}, [[spoiler: Thomas will become an abusive parent to Billy, he and Marisa will be murdered twenty years later, and Ray's FaithHeelTurn will only make him an even bigger monster [[RedemptionEqualsDeath before he dies.]] ]]

* EternalSonata . As the game is set on the night Chopin died (Yes, the real-life composer), you know it's not going to end well. But it's done so surprisingly beautiful that despite all of the [[NarmCharm Narm]] in the game up to that point, you'll still be crying.

* The ''QuestForGlory'' series features plenty of such moments ([[GagSeries when]] [[CrowningMomentOfFunny it]] [[AffectionateParody wants]] [[YetAnotherStupidDeath to]]), especially the DarkerAndEdgier fourth game. Just a few highlights:
** Erana's story stretches all five games, and is just saddening to hear. [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-human, half-fairie]], she wandered the world, making peaceful gardens for travellers to safely rest, and all the while fighting off evil. Then she went to Mordavia to stop a cult from summoning an EldritchAbomination. The Dark One started coming through, so Erana sacrificed herself to stop it. As a result, her soul was trapped in constant battle against the Dark One for two generations, and was ''losing'' the whole time. When the hero finally releases her spirit, she has enough time to thank him before passing on. It's up to the player to give her a happy ending in the last game.

* The final battle of ''Mother 1'' (''Earthbound Zero'') still makes this troper tear up. [[spoiler: Especially given what it causes Gyiyg to go on to do in ''{{Earthbound}}''. Not to mention the song itself.]] See the entry on "Eight Melodies" in TearJerkerMusic.

*** Sadie's goodbye to Virgil as the subway train makes its way out of New Mombasa.
-->'''Sadie''': Vergil! You're all I have left of this place!
-->'''Superintendent''': (as Dr. Endesha) 'Sadie -- Sadie -- Sadie -- Sadie!'
-->'''Superintendent''': (as Dr. Endesha) 'Sadie, sweetheart... You make me so very, very proud.'
-->'''Sadie''': You're all I have left of him...

*** See also : Narm due to cheesy voice acting.

** Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics 2 then comes along and adds to this all with a return of the Prime Invader as he [[spoiler: travels through time in search of some very special blocks called "Tetrads". Of course, you go through the numerous trials the different times give you and eventually stop Zoda from acquiring all of the Tetrads [[WhereItAllStarted on the same island the first game began.]] You then hand them over to the Chief of Coralcola who then puts them all together (because he is a master at Tetris, [[SoYeah go figure]]), and just like the first time around, they are graced with yet another Argonian figure, the King of the entire planet and the father of the seven kids who was once thought to be dead with the rest of the planet. Upon finding his kids in good hands, he then thanks everyone who made it possible and just as suddenly as he arrived he departs with his children off to create a new world with them, but not before Mike chases them off towards the sunset and Mica, who at this point was Mike's established crush, promises that they'd meet again. Cue credits theme.]] I wish if they would make a third game every time I reach that part... I loved those characters.

** Or the part where [[spoiler: Arcturus abandons Kerrigan to the Zerg]]. Especially in the novelization, after [[spoiler: Raynor decides to evacuate a group of survivors and civilians rather than keep looking for her.]]
**Or, just this:

* The entirety of the Refugee mission chain in Wings Of Liberty, involving the Koprulu Sector's [[{{Woobie}} unluckiest bunch of colonists]] and your efforts to save them from the Zerg - up to and including picking a fight with ''a Protoss purification fleet'' if you choose to do so. At the end, [[spoiler:if you chose to protect them, their leader leaves the ship, thanking Raynor profusely for giving the colony a second chance. If you chose to help clease the infestation instead, she winds up infested as well, and Raynor is forced to kill her]].
* The semi-secret Starcraft II mission "In Utter Darkness", which is a playable peek into a BadFuture [[spoiler:that will result if Kerrigan is killed]]. Basically, [[spoiler:without Kerrigan to guide them, the Void Daemons took control of the Zerg. Humanity is extinct, and you get to play as the last Protoss force in existence, holding Zerg off until the Templars can seal away a record of the conflict, and then the mission continues with the objective "Fight until the last Protoss is killed". Guiding the Protoss in a final, glorious, doomed LastStand, you get to watch as the last vestiges of the species, including Artanis and Zeratul, are killed, all while they lament the fact that they killed Kerrigan and thus allowed this horror to happen]].

* TheNeverhood: Maybe it's just me, but when I collected all the disks and watched the final video I felt rather sad inside. [[spoiler: The way Willie says, "If you watching this, then you do good! Willie happy!" almost ''right after he and Robot Bil are killed by Klogg's Clockwork Beast'' is just depressing.]] That will ''make'' you want to kill [[spoiler: Klogg]].

* TheNeverhood: Maybe it's just me, but when I collected all the disks and watched the final video I felt rather sad inside. [[spoiler: The way Willie says, "If you watching this, then you do good! Willie happy!" almost ''right after he and Robot Bil are killed by Klogg's Clockwork Beast'' is just depressing.]] That will ''make'' you want to kill Klogg.

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