re: What video game death hit you the hardest?

RDR2, Arthur's death was really a sad one. I'm not going to lie, I got choked up quite a bit.

I'm an idiot...I thought we were talking about cancelled games.

Correct answer is Aeris death in FF 7

This one was another that really stuck with me. Not necessarily that it was sad, but just how well it was done and how well everything came together at the end.

The heart at the end of Contra---because it was over.

John Marston because it came out of nowhere for me.

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Man I had to go for a walk after beating Bioshock Infinite.

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I really need to play through this again. Such a great game but I didn't fully grasp all of it's implications.


We need Levine back.

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Such a great game but I didn't fully grasp all of it's implications.

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this isn't your fault, and it's the game's biggest failure. too many important plot elements were revealed in the recordings and shite. im the kind of person that likes to collect them all with a guide on a second playthrough, to then listen to them all in an extended session. if you did that with Infinite, you missed half of the critical backstory. the multiverse shite came out of left field for me because I hadn't been paying attention to the audio logs as I played.

important plot information should not be hidden away in collectible items. lazy, lazy narrative choice. probably a product of the crazy development cycle


ETA: I never really looked to see if others had the same complaint bc I moved on from the game pretty quickly, but just found this. he nailed it

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We may be in the golden age of storytelling in video games, but that doesn't mean very many games get the storytelling aspect of their productions right. I've previously discussed one instance of a very rampant lack of character setup in games today, but another issue I've seen pop up a few times already this year is a reliance on text and audio logs. BioShock Infinite, with its 80 (!) audio logs hidden throughout the game, is perhaps the most egregious offender I've seen in this area in a long time.

Now, audio logs aren't always bad. They are, in fact, quite useful in some settings, such as where you're traveling through an area after some major shite went down. Examples: BioShock 1 and Dead Space. In both of those games you are encountering the remainders of horrible fiascos that left most people dead and societies in ribbons. We learn about what happened through these logs, but it's not necessary to keep up with them to understand our present circumstances. Too, those games didn't not go to any great lengths to hide the logs, leaving most of them in plain sight, as if, you know, they wanted you to listen to them.

BioShock Infinite is not like that.

This game's logs are not about history. The purpose they serve in this game is to provide context for your current action and to fill you in on the things you are viewing now. Instead of providing an active storytelling method to do that, Irrational employed this awful passive method. In a world filled with living, breathing characters, none of them ever tell you anything. It's all in the logs. Were you confused when Daisy Fitzroy and her band of rebels show up and Booker acts like he knows who they are even though you don't? Well, you should have spent more time looking for hidden rooms to find audio logs that introduce the Vox Populi and set up their conflict with The Racist Prophet.

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Dominic from Gears of War

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All around me are familiar faces...

I'd say that the death of [spoilers] at the end of Nier. There's something sobering about the consecutive that lead to you being wiped from existence and memory.