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Here's my top 5 saddest moments in video gaming history. What are your top 5 saddest moments?

1. Metal Gear Solid 1, where Snake has to leave Meryl to die...
2. Resident Evil : Code Veronica where Steve dies in Claire's arms..
3. Final Fantasy 7, where Aeris dies...
4. Metal Gear Solid 2, where Otacon's sister dies...
5. Undecided XD
 
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when i finished the last level of halo 3, thats the 1st through 5th
 
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Here's my top 5 saddest moments in video gaming history. What are your top 5 saddest moments?

1. Metal Gear Solid 1, where Snake has to leave Meryl to die...
3. Final Fantasy 7, where Aeris dies...

There is an alternate ending to #1 where Meryl does not die. Too bad the same can't be said about #3.
 
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lol dan.

Call of duty 4 gets my vote. At the end, when everyone's dead and you see the air support guy trying to resuscitate captain price...:cry:
 
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i miss the days of games that actually made you feel something for the characters, you just don't see that to much these days
 

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Here's my top 5 saddest moments in video gaming history. What are your top 5 saddest moments?

1. Metal Gear Solid 1, where Snake has to leave Meryl to die...
2. Resident Evil : Code Veronica where Steve dies in Claire's arms..
3. Final Fantasy 7, where Aeris dies...
4. Metal Gear Solid 2, where Otacon's sister dies...
5. Undecided XD

What about when shadow dies in SA2 :cry:
 
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One of mine is when Alex gets stabbed by a hunter in episode 2
 

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Here's my top 5 saddest moments in video gaming history. What are your top 5 saddest moments?

1. Metal Gear Solid 1, where Snake has to leave Meryl to die...
2. Resident Evil : Code Veronica where Steve dies in Claire's arms..
3. Final Fantasy 7, where Aeris dies...
4. Metal Gear Solid 2, where Otacon's sister dies...
5. Undecided XD

Dude, why isn't Superman 64 on there?
That entire game made me cry.
 
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i was just about to say that about alex, also FFX had a few good moments
 
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when i accidently dropped a grenade beside my team...darn, very sad:eek:
 

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lol dan.

Call of duty 4 gets my vote. At the end, when everyone's dead and you see the air support guy trying to resuscitate captain price...:cry:

i second that! :cry::laugh:
 
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my fav moment in cod4 was when the nuke went off and you had to crawl out of the chopper, i thought it was teh end for a bit, they did a great job with that game, it only had one thing i didn't like, its to bad infinity isn't making 5
 

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my fav moment in cod4 was when the nuke went off and you had to crawl out of the chopper, i thought it was teh end for a bit, they did a great job with that game, it only had one thing i didn't like, its to bad infinity isn't making 5

Thats probly the sadist thing ever :shadedshu I hate Tryarch they should just make there own franchise and suck on their own.
 
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1. When Halo 1 singleplayer ended
2. When Splinter Cell 1 singleplayer ended
3. When I sold my first Xbox
4. When America's Army 2.7 got released
5. When Half Life 2 Singleplayer ended
 

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i've played alot of games but I only have one sad moment and that is when Half-Life was released, hear me out. when Gabe Newell licensed the Quake Engine from ID it was the beginning of the end for the Quake Franchise in my time Quake was bigger than Life mods like Team Fortress paved the way for Class Based Shooters without a doubt Valve's success is based on ID innovation and Counter-Strike alot of people think that Counter-Strike is based on a Quake 1 Mod called "Navy Seals" so when you think about it Valve doesn't have much going for them than the Half-Life 1/2 Single Player Campaign, Brilliant Marketing and of course Steam but that comes after the fact. Whether you agree with me or not the outcome is sad.

- Christine
 

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Mona Sax dying in Max Payne II.
Father Gregory's end in HL-2
 
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i've played alot of games but I only have one sad moment and that is when Half-Life was released, hear me out. when Gabe Newell licensed the Quake Engine from ID it was the beginning of the end for the Quake Franchise in my time Quake was bigger than Life mods like Team Fortress paved the way for Class Based Shooters without a doubt Valve's success is based on ID innovation and Counter-Strike alot of people think that Counter-Strike is based on a Quake 1 Mod called "Navy Seals" so when you think about it Valve doesn't have much going for them than the Half-Life 1/2 Single Player Campaign, Brilliant Marketing and of course Steam but that comes after the fact. Whether you agree with me or not the outcome is sad.

- Christine

not quite true, compare HL engine to Quake 1 engine, there is a reason Half Life one is called Gold SRC, they made alot of updates to the quake 1 engine, alot, and some of the stuff that you can do is being found out at the Half Life Improvment Team, or HIT for short.

Perpixel lighting, bumb mamping, shaders ect. Its actully amazing what the Gold SRC engine can do, it based on quake 1 but is more feature rich than Quake 3. If it was Quake1 engine, they would have to show ID's logo, and they never did, because it was so far seperated. Quake is good don't get me wrong, but Valve rewrote the FPS. And besides ID is old hat now a days, Quake 4 is Quake 2 with better graphics and Doom 3 is Doom in 3d. They gotta start thinking about more than a slaughter fest in there SP, less straighforward and more puzzles and then they have a shot at me caring agian. Carmack was good back then, but the Genre moved on, so i say to carmack, do something or leave us in peace.
 

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The death of the Dreamcast and Xbox1 has got to be the saddest in my eyes.
 
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i miss the dreamcast, they had some great games for that little bugger
 
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The death of the Dreamcast and Xbox1 has got to be the saddest in my eyes.

Xbox 1 isn't dead mate. I play more Xbox 1 games then 360 games on my 360.
Don't know if you know this, but Xbox 1 games get 1080i resolution, Anti-aliasing and Anisotropic filtering on the 360. I play all my Xbox 1 games on a 1080p tv and some of them look better then 360 games.
 

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Xbox 1 is dead. The whole modding scene isn't but M$ did away with releasing any new games.
 
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Xbox 1 is dead. The whole modding scene isn't but M$ did away with releasing any new games.

It will be the same when the next Xbox gets released. But I didn't mind in this case because you can still play your old games on the new one, with better graphics...

I only buy Xbox because it has certain games that are not available on PS3. I know that Playstation consoles last longer and that the current console has a blueray player, but I just can't stop loving Halo, Quantum Redshift, Dead Or Alive, Rallisport challenge and all those others...
 
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i miss the dreamcast, they had some great games for that little bugger

if it makes you feel better, I still play sonic adventure and zombie revenge on a regular basis... but my power button broke.
the saddest game day ever was when sega was leik "oh noes, we has no monies. workers, gtfo" and then they stopped making consoles.
 
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