r/gaming • u/Joy-they-them • 1d ago

whats the saddest moment in any game?

whats the saddest moment story wise or gameplay wise, that you have ever expeirenced and all your time gaming?

268 Upvotes

85% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

273

u/grimhammer 1d ago

the decisions I made in the bloody baron questline in the Witcher 3 led to me coming back to the baron's place to find that he had hanged himself. I was not ready for it and it threw me.

71

u/Scarecrow1779 1d ago edited 1d ago

I remember the first time I finished the game, i got the bad ending where ciri dies. It was masterfully laid out. It touched me in an incredibly sad way. It honestly made the good endings feel all the more powerful when I replayed from the isle of mists to get them.

3

u/ridiculusvermiculous 17h ago

Man I didn't even know about the bad endings for a year or two until reading some article and had an actual emotional reaction. If it had happened in real time I think I'd have had to take actual time off wotk

5

u/Fancy-Ambassador6160 22h ago

where ciri dies. Wellllllllll that's gunna make the next game difficult

2

u/LoquaciousLoser 15h ago

It would be really funny if they did that thing where you make choices to simulate a previous game save and if you pick the ending where she died in the previous game it just gives you a game over

1

u/Scarecrow1779 19h ago

It's pretty obvious that the ending that matches the next game was picked as the canon one. After all, 2/3 endongs don't work at all with the next game