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huaxiong90 on 10 December 2009
Reasonable said:
coolbeans said:
Khuutra said:
coolbeans said:
PhoenixKing said:
Reasonable said:
Hmm. Probably some of the endings in Silent Hill 2 - clue, the not very happy ones.

I also found Ico to be wonderfully sad, although it depends what you take as its ending point.

SOTC also had a brilliant ending, very moving.

Also, just today I had a sad ending in Left 4 Dead, playing offline for a while due to a borked connection my NPC buddies sadly failed to bother helping me out and let me die, the silly sods. It was a very sad ending indeed.


Shadow of Colossus? There is no development for the relationship, I had to read the manual to even know that was his sister.

Even though I've only killed around 6-8 Colossi, I was under the impression that woman was his lover.  I guess manuals are good for something

The manual never says it's his sister. It's left almost entirely ambiguous.

Oh.........so is it his sister or not? You now have me confused

You don't know who she is.  Sister seems unlikely though.  As Trollian says what matters is what you are willing to do to get her back - which is anything.  The game does imply (whether she is a lover or not) that you were instrumental in her death, and are moved by guilt and an overwhelming desire to 'wind back the clock'.

What I liked in SOTC is that at the end, rather than one big cutscene, you play as your character, desperately hanging on, desperate to reach the woman he has risked all for, and its hopeless.  You can never reach her, and you can never hang on no matter how hard you try.  It was a sublimly clever use of interactive gameplay tied to a real character moment.

LOL!

 

But yeah, I definitely agree with what you said.



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Yoshi-1up on 10 December 2009

Yoshi Story 64 had the saddest ending. I beat the game in like... 20 min. Such a good game and it just ended so quickly :( saddest ending ever. Full price game for such a short game. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO T_T



Majin-Tenshinhan on 10 December 2009

MGS3, definitely.



Kantor on 10 December 2009

MGS4 had a sad ending?

The last few hours were sad, yes, but it ended on quite a positive note, Snake not commiting suicide and all.



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SuperiorX99 on 10 December 2009

How is MGS4 a sad game? They all live for crying out loud, hell there's even a wedding.



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Kantor on 10 December 2009
SuperiorX99 said:
How is MGS4 a sad game? They all live for crying out loud, hell there's even a wedding.

Naomi dies, but then nobody actually liked her.

I was referring to the whole "you're going to die in a year six months three months, Snake" thing. And then he's about to shoot himself, but he doesn't, and his dad shows up, and they hug, and he dies three months later

Come to think of it, the majority of that game was happy. All the evil patriots died (and the good patriots) and Liquid died, and Raiden was reunited with his family, and Meryl and Akiba got married, and Sunny made a friend.



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TT Makaveli on 10 December 2009

MGS3 was sooooooooo sad!



Alterego-X on 10 December 2009

The latest Prince of Persia, as he saved her by destroying everything what she died for, was a very twisted thing to do.



zzyoshiman on 10 December 2009

splatterrhouse 3 depending on how you played it



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GhaleonUnlimited on 10 December 2009

MGS4 made me want to cry, but for completely different reasons.

It's too bad barely anyone played Saturn games -- Dark Savior is a really sad, and it's not even explicit. Basically there are 3 main endings depending on what happens at the beginning of the game.

Long story short, what I'm pretty sure is really happening the whole game regardless of your "ending" (because the game always starts over after each), is that you accidentally killed a kid on this prison island you were delivering a convict to after you got drunk there. So you're encased in carbonite and having endless nightmares -- so each story is your character making all these people and events up in his head (a ninja lover he meets on the island, crazy furries mounting a rebellion against the prison warden, his dead best friend being resurrected).

Every game he starts to back before they reach the prison island, and he finds a blue rose that only grows on the island -- an item that stops him from killing this kid in the game itself. In one of the story paths you can see yourself encased in the carbonite jail even.

It took me years to realize this was probably the whole, true story of his universe. That's pretty much the worst thing ever.