Darkest moment in gaming you've played.

[ThaVirus]

The ones that immediately come to mind:

-Sephiroth killing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII

-There’s this ship captain in the very first God of War who ends up being swallowed by a Hydra along with Kratos. At some point, the ship captain has clawed his way to the top and is nearly able to escape the Hydra’s mouth, if only Kratos would lend him a hand. Kratos lifts him up and dude’s all “thank the gods you came back to save me!”. Then Lratos steals the key from around his neck and just throws him back down the Hydra’s throat for no reason lol

That one definitely leaned a bit more to the comedic side just because it was so cartoonishly over the top. Still dark though.

-Killing Paarthunax. If you’ve never played Skyrim, there’s this dragon who’s a total bro. He helps you build up your dragon shouting skills and gives you guidance throughout the story. There’s this faction who wants all dragons dead and they task you with the mission to kill this dude. If you do, you end up killing an innocent bro and absorbing his soul. Pretty ****ed up.

-The Kendo Gun Shop owner’s zombie daughter. In the Resident Evil 2 Remake you run into a gun shop owner whose young daughter is clearly infected and about to turn. The little girl asks for her mommy and the dad says “I told you mommy’s asleep.. let’s go inside and I’ll put you to sleep too”.

-Finding out how the fayth sacrifice themselves to become the final aeon to defeat Sin

-Joel’s daughter’s death and waking up to the little boy having turned in the middle of the night in The Last of Us

-Anything to do with uncovering the truth about Ted Faro in Horizon: Zero Dawn. If you haven’t played this one, it’s a long ass story. To try to sum it up as quickly as possible, the world is ending after this guy Ted Faro created some machines that were corrupted and began feeding on any and all biological organisms. They were out of control and couldn’t be stopped so they crested the Zero Dawn protocol to basically restart civilization hundreds of years after everything was wiped out on the Earth’s surface. They had the greatest minds get together to preserve humanity’s science, art, etc. Ted Faro ends up sabotaging the process which leads to humanity basically having to restart civilization with zero knowledge of the previous world. He’s a huge a-hole.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by Katipan

The airport in COD.
You could hear the blood in your footsteps.

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

The ones that immediately come to mind:

-Sephiroth killing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII

These come to mind immediately, but surprised no one has mentioned John Marston getting shot at the end of RDR1. I think these 3 stand out above the rest.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

These come to mind immediately, but surprised no one has mentioned John Marston getting shot at the end of RDR1. I think these 3 stand out above the rest.

I didn't find that dark. It was expected, and much to the chagrin of all the drama club reject reactors out there, crying over these scenes for views on twitch and youtube, deserved.

John Marston and Arthur Morgan were first ballot hall of fame pieces of shit people. They kidnapped, murdered people. They were thieves and outlaws.

Now because he's decided he's bored of ventilating people for their hard earned money and wants to be a farmer, I'm supposed to be sad when Ross shows up with the army and on behalf of everyone John has killed or wronged, delivers a **** you via firing squad? Nah. Dude had every bit of that shit coming.

The only thing I didn't like about John Marston dying was having to play as his son with the terrible voice actor, so I just play on a save where I don't do the boring Beechers hope faming missions. Unlimited bounties in rdr1 is sorely missed in 2.

Same deal with Arthur. This career scumbag is trying to save a few other career scumbags in his gang from answering for what they've done, so now all of a sudden it's sad when he dies? I've seen all the endings, and the high honor one where he essentially drowns in his own bodily fluids as the sun rises was him getting off easy.

I much prefer the low honor ends where he's either shot in the head or stabbed to death by Micah.

Like, just because you went out and picked flowers and helped some stranded ladies get home after their horses died while you were controlling them for a bit, it doesn't change the fact that these guys are thieves and murderers that had every ounce of horrific violence that ended them coming.

Especially the John Marston and Arthur Morgan I was playing as. Jesus that train robbery shotgun decapitation spree, I mean if someone had really done that, there's really nothing you could do to that person and feel bad about it.

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Wallcrawler

I didn't find that dark. It was expected, and much to the chagrin of all the drama club reject reactors out there, crying over these scenes for views on twitch and youtube, deserved.

John Marston and Arthur Morgan were first ballot hall of fame pieces of shit people. They kidnapped, murdered people. They were thieves and outlaws.
+1
Now because he's decided he's bored of ventilating people for their hard earned money and wants to be a farmer, I'm supposed to be sad when Ross shows up with the army and on behalf of everyone John has killed or wronged, delivers a **** you via firing squad? Nah. Dude had every bit of that shit coming.

The only thing I didn't like about John Marston dying was having to play as his son with the terrible voice actor, so I just play on a save where I don't do the boring Beechers hope faming missions. Unlimited bounties in rdr1 is sorely missed in 2.

Same deal with Arthur. This career scumbag is trying to save a few other career scumbags in his gang from answering for what they've done, so now all of a sudden it's sad when he dies? I've seen all the endings, and the high honor one where he essentially drowns in his own bodily fluids as the sun rises was him getting off easy.

I much prefer the low honor ends where he's either shot in the head or stabbed to death by Micah.

Like, just because you went out and picked flowers and helped some stranded ladies get home after their horses died while you were controlling them for a bit, it doesn't change the fact that these guys are thieves and murderers that had every ounce of horrific violence that ended them coming.

Especially the John Marston and Arthur Morgan I was playing as. Jesus that train robbery shotgun decapitation spree, I mean if someone had really done that, there's really nothing you could do to that person and feel bad about it.

What's up with you taking this game and character so literally, when you're the one who's making the in-game decisions? This is kinda weird, bud. Arthur didn't stall the train in the dark tunnel, and shoot all those poor folks in the face.

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by Fish

What's up with you taking this game and character so literally, when you're the one who's making the in-game decisions? This is kinda weird, bud. Arthur didn't stall the train in the dark tunnel, and shoot all those poor folks in the face.

Maybe not, but he sure as hell killed half the town of Strawberry busting Micah out of jail, it's quite literally unavoidable as Micah dies pretty quickly if you're slacking off on the slaughter.


Sure, there's some extra salty antics outside of the story I got up to, but story mode Arthur is every bit a first ballot hall of fame murdering piece of shit. No getting around it. The amount of lawmen killed in the trolley station setup, and subsequent revenge kidnap of Bronte is enormous as well.

I just don't get the sadness when either of these guys get what's coming to em.

Aside from John as I said, because the voice actor for Jack is atrocious. John ceasing to be playable ruins the rest of the game.

[Sassy Squatch]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

The ones that immediately come to mind:

-Sephiroth killing Aeris in Final Fantasy VII

-There’s this ship captain in the very first God of War who ends up being swallowed by a Hydra along with Kratos. At some point, the ship captain has clawed his way to the top and is nearly able to escape the Hydra’s mouth, if only Kratos would lend him a hand. Kratos lifts him up and dude’s all “thank the gods you came back to save me!”. Then Lratos steals the key from around his neck and just throws him back down the Hydra’s throat for no reason lol

That one definitely leaned a bit more to the comedic side just because it was so cartoonishly over the top. Still dark though.

-Killing Paarthunax. If you’ve never played Skyrim, there’s this dragon who’s a total bro. He helps you build up your dragon shouting skills and gives you guidance throughout the story. There’s this faction who wants all dragons dead and they task you with the mission to kill this dude. If you do, you end up killing an innocent bro and absorbing his soul. Pretty ****ed up.

-The Kendo Gun Shop owner’s zombie daughter. In the Resident Evil 2 Remake you run into a gun shop owner whose young daughter is clearly infected and about to turn. The little girl asks for her mommy and the dad says “I told you mommy’s asleep.. let’s go inside and I’ll put you to sleep too”.

-Finding out how the fayth sacrifice themselves to become the final aeon to defeat Sin

-Joel’s daughter’s death and waking up to the little boy having turned in the middle of the night in The Last of Us

-Anything to do with uncovering the truth about Ted Faro in Horizon: Zero Dawn. If you haven’t played this one, it’s a long ass story. To try to sum it up as quickly as possible, the world is ending after this guy Ted Faro created some machines that were corrupted and began feeding on any and all biological organisms. They were out of control and couldn’t be stopped so they crested the Zero Dawn protocol to basically restart civilization hundreds of years after everything was wiped out on the Earth’s surface. They had the greatest minds get together to preserve humanity’s science, art, etc. Ted Faro ends up sabotaging the process which leads to humanity basically having to restart civilization with zero knowledge of the previous world. He’s a huge a-hole.

They're leaning REALLY hard into that scene in particular and what's going to happen during Rebirth for Aerith.

That boat captain scene actually gets addressed during the recent Ragnarok Valhalla DLC.

[Gravedigger]

Originally Posted by Sassy Squatch

They're leaning REALLY hard into that scene in particular and what's going to happen during Rebirth for Aerith.

That boat captain scene actually gets addressed during the recent Ragnarok Valhalla DLC.

Yeah the latest trailer for Rebirth with the last shot being Aerith praying and a black feather coming onto the screen I'm like damnit... that's how they're going to end it.