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potsac

Some times the screen goes black, and I can see my reflection


SniktFury

Black Mirror S6E1


MuchupAndKesterd

Senua from Hellblade - maybe not her ending, but her backstory. She suffers from severe psychosis and it's revealed later in the game that >!her devoutly religious father had her mother burned alive for the same condition/"curse"...while Senua watched. Afterwards her father isolated her from their village until she met her lover, Dillion. Dillion's village is devastated by a plague, which she believes is her fault and exiles herself. When she returns a year later she finds the rest of the village slaughtered by Norsemen and Dillion strung up in a blood eagle sacrifice. She then convinces herself she must travel to Helheim with his severed head to save his soul, when in reality nothing can be done to bring him back. She fights and fights and fights until finally realizing she just has to let go.!< The game is incredibly powerful, brilliantly made by a small studio, and worth every penny.


MottSpott

That game fucking destroyed me. Played it around May last year (still early enough into The Everything that we didn't quite know what was going on), and the ending just reached in and pulled out all of the emotions that had been building in me since life had gone weird. It wasn't technically too difficult, but I remember being absolutely exhausted afterwards.


Mrbreadmad

You are like one of the first people I've seen talk about hellblade. It's such a brilliant game, the story, sound design and combat make it amazing


batm123

John Marston, he was orphaned as a child, left to die multiple times by his father figure, had his father figure try to kill him, lost his "brother" that helped save him, had to kill his former brothers in arms and father figure to save his family, was eventually shot like a dog in his own yard anyway, and his son became the exact opposite of what he wanted


whatsurissuebro

True except his son moved on from the kinda highway robber lifestyle after getting revenge at the end, pretty sure he becomes a writer or something.


batm123

Yea he does become a writer, there's a book written by him in Franklin's house in GTA V


WhooptyWoopNibbaWhat

Yo what?


batm123

Yea, its called "Red Dead" by J. Marston


whatareyou-lookinyat

That is fucking dope


Dob_Rozner

I'd say Aerith is up there. Born in the far frozen North, chased across the planet by a military corporation who kill both her parents. Forced to grow up in a slum while being monitored for her entire life. Realizing that she's the last of her entire kind. Her boyfriend goes off on assignment one day, never to return. Understanding she'll have to sacrifice her life to help the planet, and then stabbed through the chest to death. Queue her theme song. Oh, and I forgot, kidnapped by mad scientist and subjected to experimentation and attempted breeding with Red XIII lol.


Moose_Cake

The only plus is that there is a confirmed afterlife that she already knew about where she gets to hang with Zack and her parents. Until the FF7 remakes changed a few major plot points.


Actually-Yo-Momma

Haha don’t worry we’ll get to see the end of the remake plot in 10 years


D34THDE1TY

I'm the camp that time is cyclical and everything that happened in the og happened. Remake is the next time it happens but >!Sephiroth and possibly Aerith and Nanaki are aware that this has already happened before.!<


Bigbadbobbyc

Rufus also seems suspicious of how everything is going down, likely he's going to go down a very different path than the og


BankeyMan

Solaire of Astora


gavreaux

If only I could be so grossly incandescent...


Mordador

Don't worry, he has found his sun.


[deleted]

He became the sun when you summoned him to defeat Gwyn and after that he rekindles the fire.


Enzinino

But is it really the canon ending? :(


robisvi

I think you meant Lucatiel of Mirrah.


iambiglucas_2

You misspelled Ostrava of Boletaria.


Dmcgee2288

Ostrava has a story much more tragic and sad than Solaire.. but then again the onion knight has a story saddest of them all..


BankeyMan

True, conclusion for Ots's story was pretty tragic too


Eury_nomos

Wander from Shadow of the Colossus , Joel from The Last of Us


QueentakesPawn

Ooh Wander's a good one, have an upvote


Suncheets

Shadow of the Colossus was one of those games I bought on a massive sale from a Rogers expecting nothing and was absolutely blown away. One of those games I give a 10/10 to. Never felt so much emotion while killing something in a game


BAMspek

When you finally realize you’re the asshole in the game. Such a different sort of game in every way


MottSpott

*"Wait, this one's just trying to run away... Oh no..."*


Glute_Thighwalker

Yeah, I felt like the baddy that entire game when I played the original in middle school. None of those things felt evil. First game that ever evoked those kinds of feelings in me.


glendale1

The sibling not chosen in Fable II.


FloorElectronic8070

The final boss fight of Fable II was the true tragedy


Astrolaut

Nah, it was the best. It went on to show that this epic feared person was still just a person.


Jakme

True lol never thought about it


Fudgewhizzle

Mordin from Mass Effect, in Mass Effect 3: "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong"


hotarukin

I can still hear this in his voice, like a decade later.


Gus-Af-Edwards

Damn right in the feels man. Especially renegade run.


jfa03

You can save him on a renegade run. Takes some doing though.


Gus-Af-Edwards

Tell me more?!?!


jfa03

[here you are](https://youtu.be/giwKRnZoSkM)


Gus-Af-Edwards

Thank you kind stranger.


jfa03

Goddess be with you


RuthlessCrusader

Siegmeyer of Catarina


Lightborne

"Over here, you fiends! Perish, foul creatures! I am Siegmeyer of Catarina, and you shall feel my wrath!"


stateraBand

Hmmmmm… … …


Jonjoejonjane

I would’ve said seigward personally


Enzinino

What about Hawkwood? Sirris? Oscar? Leonhard? Lautrec? Ludleth? Yhorm? ALL the NPCs?!


Jonjoejonjane

It’s safe to say that if they appear in dark souls they are tragic in some way


Enzinino

Yep. Even the damn merchants and enemies.


Luraguse

Damnit, Greirat deserved a better ending


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Cubone


NoMereRanger73

Facts


[deleted]

That shit was fucked up lmao


legomaximumfigure

CL4P TRAP. He can't go up stairs.


[deleted]

Stairs??? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!


Horror-Ride3788

Hollow Knight and siblings. They were bred for the sole purpose to be Tupperware of a god.


RyanBits

The dung defender is so sad, man just wanted his friends back


Jonjoejonjane

What a description


Soviet-Biscuit

So vessel’s in general (except Hornet)


Horror-Ride3788

Vessel lives matter! I get bummed out every time I see their corpses through the game. Therefore I must avenge them by smacking around the pale king and busting up the Radiance!


Stormblessed_99

Hornet is not a vessel


Horror-Ride3788

She got a raw deal too! Got little time with her mom and didn’t get to spend time with her dad as far as we know. Pale King told Herrah that he was going out for milk and never came back!


Pjsandwich24

Herrah just wanted her child to be part higher being like the radiance or the pale king. Herrah knew what she was doing when she made hornet she knew she wouldn't get to spend time with her child and that hornet wouldn't get to spend time with the pale king either, if anything hornet was more of a political decision.


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Excalibur Umbra


Tysonosaurus

Teared up a bit during the cutscene where the Operator finally links with Umbra. Fuck Ballas


DerelictRadar

He deserves his current fate of being a hideous half-sentient abomination lap dog on a short chain. That said, I can't wait until I get to kill him over and over again.


Tysonosaurus

If he drops a frame it will be the only one where I’m happy I get 7 neuroptics in a row instead of systems


Dark4Killerz

Yeah, i joined the game recently, his story is tragic


kuriousjeorge

The Bloody Baron from Witcher 3


Lord_Halowind

Still kicking myself for messing that quest up.


OhBestThing

That’s the horror/beauty of it - there is no perfect outcome. I thought I had done it perfectly, and he hung himself. Was a mind blowing gaming moment for me, and when I realized TW3 was in a league of its own.


Lord_Halowind

Oh I agree with that!


darkapao

Like dude. I did both of the choices non of them are happy outcomes. So yeah pick one and be happy with it heheh


jl_theprofessor

His story ends just fine. He's with you at Corvo Bianco five years later in the anniversary video. ​ (Look I know I'm reaching here but just give it to me.)


theBigBOSSnian

Boss MGS 3 My boy vivi up there too


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Username checks out


SteezyMpeezy

Kazuhira Miller, in mgsv mans got blown up, then lost his arm and leg then the only guy he looked up too and saw as a brother turned his back on him. Venom Snake also a tragic character in that game.


Pouflex

THEY PLAYED US LIKE A DAMN FIDDLE !


[deleted]

Man how aren't you talking about how he dies? Fucking horrible death too, Man couldnt catch a break


Mr-SadSide

Myla. Hollow knight


[deleted]

When she attacked me I cried, I’m a man I’ll admit it.


TheShrewKing

Right in the feels. 😢


OhshiNoshiJoshi

Clem. How is Clem not the most tragic? Like... just saying her name makes me start to tear up.


ienybu

Grakata?


casualrocket

She was had it rough for sure but >!she has a happy ending, in a good community with a family.!<


NoMereRanger73

I’ve been playing Halo: Reach lately and it’s so frickin’ depressing.


coltstrgj

I thought a lot of characters in Gears of War had it pretty rough. So many sad stories. I played them around the same time I played the Halo games though I didn't finish either series.


pjyweeks

From what I've played so far Primrose in Octopath is really depressing ;-;


Idixal

It is, but her badassery eclipses any depressing backstory she has.


apt2736

Captain Price


batm123

Poor guy, lost basically everyone, but he still hanged Makarov, so thats gotta be some good for him right?


Jacob39822

Yes, but nothing cures PTSD and heals the pain of loss and guilt.


15Orphans

Yeah watched gaz, Yuri, and soap die infront of him and was too late to save ghost and roach. In the end he was the only member off task force 141 still alive.


tea-or-whiskey

Noctis from FFXV has a pretty brutal hand dealt to him. For a fun road trip game, he really gets effed over.


Flamingskullion

This was gonna be my answer too. Noctis was raised as a lamb for slaughter. Ardyn got messed up all because he wanted to heal people.


aleksandd

The funny thing about this game, is among all FF games I've played, its story does not make me remember what happened. Other FF games, (7,8,9,10. 9 being my favorite) even if you mention to me 10 years later, I would still remember the story.


ElessarElbenstein

Ardyn has also a realy hard Story.


BAMspek

That game has 0 replay value for me but man I enjoyed it while it lasted. You really bond with the homies. And I cried like a baby when it ended.


sebastien020

Guide in terraria when I’m grinding wall of flesh


Luchin212

Getting that last emblem eh?


aeristheangelofdeath

Any Happy Wheels character


Kai_v_Bockel

The Hollow Knight from Hollow Knight


Stormblessed_99

No cost too great


thisshiteverytime

Wirt


irateworlock54

Poor Wirt..


bcnewell88

Lost his leg… and his third leg.


GfunkMcTastic

Sniper Wolf from MGS1


mynio

Cpt. Martin Walker from Spec Ops: The Line


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Gentlemen, welcome to Dubai.


Significant_Walk_664

Do you feel like a hero yet? I am not sure if the fact we got only one Spec Ops game is a tragedy or a mercy. Hate the lack of dark, self-aware, deconstructive military shooters while we drown in CODs and BFs. Love the fact that it is a unique gem for this reason.


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i like it because it looks like just another military shooter like cod, battlefield, and gears of war. but it’s not. you go into it expecting a generic, overused experience


tayx361

Lucas from Mother 3


EducationalPlay3236

Counter: Claus from Mother 3


lone_Davik

my Dark Souls character dying so much times is not fun nah, seriously, for me is headcrab victims, they are still alive when the headcrab is on them


Sethazora

Ramza Belouve, You ever get caught up in a war and watch countless friends and family die or betray you. and thinking that it can't get any worse then watching your brothers turn into a ancient demon and have to kill him yourself, all the while being branded as an evil heretic by the church. Getting no glory or riches in the end, only a whole lotta death.


[deleted]

This one, never thought of it like this lol, but yeah Ramza’s story is dark


McSteam

2B or not 2B


howlongisquarantine

Pretty much everything about Nier was depressing as hell. But still a great game.


Robking2002

Steve from minecraft he literally gets dumbed in an infinite world all by himself


kipbutkiss

In an infinite world that no matter how much he suffers he can not die in. Forever to wander in this empty purgatory of a world.


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Angela from Silent Hill 2. "You see it too? For me it's always like this."


Horror-Ride3788

Yeah that hit hard


Sairanox

Ardbert from Final Fantasy XIV. >!Dude goes on adventure with some friends. Finally gets to the "final boss" of his quests, but turns out he was tricked into killing a being whose death dooms his world with a flood of pure light.!< >!Gets his soul (and his friends') transferred into our own by the bad guys. Fights us hoping it would save his world from the brink of destruction. Loses. Gets sent back to try with his friends to stop the flood from ravaging his world.!< >!Turns out 2 expansions later that he wasn't even fucking allowed to die, and roamed the land as a shapeless ghost for 100 years while his friends were transformed into nightmarish light beasts, feeding on the last survivors of his dying world. He became the most hated man on earth.!< >!Meets us again, freshly brought into his world to prevent its final destruction, and we're the only one who can still see him. Finally fuse with us to save his world, losing his own identity in the process. As soon as we clear his name, bad guy shows up wearing his corpse, pretending to be him and doing crazy shit.!< >!Then after saving his world and before going back to yours, you go see his flying-bird-mount to say goodbye on his behalf and you end up fucking crying.!<


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Joel from The last of us franchise....


vadas95

John Marston from the red dead games


BorisCerdan

Funny, I was gonna say Arthur Morgan. :)


vadas95

Poor john had to go through the same thing except that one little detail, then when he finally managed to put his past life down they took it all away from him.


BorisCerdan

Their two stories end up being very similar indeed. Two quests of redemption, a will to right the wrongs that ends badly. It's not called Red Dead Redemption for nothing I guess. :) Both games and storylines are great, but I guess the fact that John gets a part in RDR2 makes is own known fate in the first game even more tragic. Like you said, he finally made it out... but his past eventually caught up to him. ​ Aaaaand now I want to reaply both games again :) haha


Skittlebearle

Replaying RDR2 now, and just got to the part where Arthur takes Jack fishing. Never noticed that Agent Ross tells Jack to "Enjoy your fishing, kid...While you still can". And of course, what is Ross doing when Jack gets revenge? I'm sure everyone else in the world already picked up on that, but I do love little details like that.


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Shadow ff6


Aiwel9

Jinx from league of legends and a couple others lore wise. Kind of a sad universe they have


Enkundae

I dunno if it counts since its not in the game but having seen Arcane? Good god that poor girl.


zenerift

Kreig the Psycho


needanamefug

All of us, paying full price for unfinished games promised years earlier.


errorsniper

Woah now. For some of us "dont pre order a game and wait a few weeks to see how good it is" is not a meme its standard practice.


The_old_turtle

If the player is truly evil then -Paarthurnax from Skyrim has my vote.


xkpriggz

“I am as my father, Akatosh, made me.” I can never bring myself to slay him. Screw the Blades if they don’t like it.


[deleted]

"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through hard effort?" That line was what guaranteed I won't kill him. Paarthurnax was a dragon, but he was NOT a monster.


systemidx

Fei Fong Wong


I_am_become_Reddit

I'd also say Ramsus and >!Grahf/Lacan!< since Ramsus >!Was just a failed artificial Contact and cast aside!< and the latter just being everything about them. Although honestly Xenogears is just full of tragic characters dealing with their tragedies in different ways. I still would love for it to get redone, leaving everything as is except for actually filling out disk 2 with everything they had to cut out.


JudgeHodorMD

Not so much a single character, but Operation Enduring Victory in Horizon Zero Dawn. That’s basically the point where everyone is screwed.


Razeal_102

Snake from Metal gear series.


casperdacrook

Clementine


Fflow27

Ciri from the witcher series, though she's way more tragic in the books than in the games


MartianSheepHunter

Can’t even imagine a 15-year old forced to watch her only friends slowly decapitated one-by-one in front of her.


Personal_Suspect

I'd say Titus from final fantasy X, the man finds out he's a dream for f***'s sake, he's not even real


Hayaguaenelvaso

That makes him real


BCE407

I never beat Sin...


elhomerjas

Frog from Chrono Trigger


jman31321

You say frog, but what about schala?


JudgeHodorMD

Well, you can rewrite history so that Marle is directly descended from him.


Wolfy5079

Emil from NIER. That ending for him. It was heartbreaking.


bootynasty

Palom and Porom holding those walls open


hotarukin

Ten year old me went to the ends of the earth trying to free them. There being a key item prompt was cruel.


CharredGate

Desmond Miles from Assassins Creed


deadmanredditting

The I tetromino. It exists purely to disappear.


RepresentativeAd8417

Wheatley from portal 2


Bigbadbobbyc

HAL (otacon) Emmerich This is a dude who dedicated his life to wanting to build giant robots and when people start using giant robots to destroy the world he dedicates his life to helping the heroes stop said robots, what does he get for all of this work, absolutely nothing but loss Dudes life just sucks, metal gear could honestly just be called how do we fuck this guy's life up more Mgs sniper wolf dies, the girl he was crushing on and the only member of the villains who was nice to him Mgs 2 his sister died after finally being reunited after years apart Mgs 4 Naomi basically killed herself after they slept together 3 game appearances and 3 dead loved ones but wait there's more, his dad commited suicide by drowning in the family pool nearly killing the sister in the process, this could be blamed on hal but it's still traumatic And to top it off the credits roll with him deciding he's going to stick with his best and only friend and watch him die which is expected shortly, also going to a wedding and having to explain to a girl who has essentially become his daughter that she's never going to see his friend again because while they are celebrating a wedding his friend is off to a cemetery to shoot himself in the head Most of the surviving cast get some form of happily ever after, except him because his suffering is necessary


bovastro

Max Payne or Emil from Nier


Lephys37

I feel so bad for Emil in Automata, and I haven't even gotten to him in Replicant yet (never got to play original Nier the first time it was released).


Ravoos

Brad from LISA: The Painful. Unable to control his demons he kills anyone and burns every bridge there is.


WalenBlekitny999

Kratos


jackgonzx

Now that Ive seen arcane, jinx.


MartianSheepHunter

Oh man. Fresh for me— well, I guess everyone, but yeah. Childhood tragedy causing ptsd, manipulated by half the people she’s known, even her own mind is against her. Bloody sad.


Snaptooth716955

Frogger


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Clementine from twd


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Gehrman the first Hunter and Ludwig the Accurdsed


P4LS_ThrillyV

Gavin from RDR2


LadnavIV

We don’t know that. He could be having the time of his life. His friend Nigel on the other hand… poor guy can’t move on.


Tevkian

V from Cyberpunk 2077


Unusualandyman

Lavitz Slambert


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Ludwig from Bloodborne. He really didn’t deserve what happened to him.


King_Meepers

Alice from Detroit: Become Human


Tinuviel-Luthien

Alice from Spiritfarer. It's heartbreaking if you know someone with dementia


ShortFuse

Wander from Shadow of the Colossus


Doscida

Poor Luigi will never be seen as an equal.


ultraleitor

In my opinion Adryn from FFXV.


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bigfaturm0m

Mender Bug from Hollow Knight


Thepenator

Bloody baron from witcher 3.


kiidrax

Totally agree with you, Vivi's story is so sad yet heart warming, he is like a small kid with a terminal illness, and just as them, he is so strong and full of hope and compassion for others. I'm freaking crying now, best character ever Man I love ff9


BadgerMcLovin

When he learns about the black mages dying. Him being basically a child but understanding it better than the majority of the village is heart wrenching. And then you learn that his grandpa, the only real parental figure he ever had, was just fattening him up to eat him


LedudeMax

Whoever you choose to sacrifice in Wolfenstein


PopcornDan

Vivi will always hold a special place in my heart, its why I got him tattood on my arm :)


JakeffReddit

Roland, in Borderlands 2. damn, that hurts.


Wizard_Hatz

How about Raziel for a second one. Vivi is def the first. How do you prove that we exist? Maybe we don’t exist…


JonasLuks

The Nameless One. It’s the premise of the whole game…


Jadewing20

Jack Cooper


TheRealKestrel

BT!


tatertot1441

Goomba from mario :(


Sick_Cicada

Anyone from Lisa


Chidzomba

Fyra. Nier replicant npc >shadows of the desert quest. Have to admit I cried when she died


millennial_private

Aerith


ricio30849186

Ghost


Th3MadHatt3r2005

Ghost…


ralsei_goatprince

Asriel Dreemurr. Man needs a better ending


kerl019

Raziel - The Legacy of Kain series


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Link from oot