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[Neonivek]

ACTRAISER 1 and 2 SPOILERS!

So I have been thinking of Actraiser 1 and 2 and the ending as it applied to me and everything I think about it I start to feel sad.

You are a benevolent diety who had risked its life to protect everyone and the world and destroyed the ultimate evil, you helped people individually making their dreams a reality, growing towns and cities and making people strong and prosperous entirely out of your own good will. You even got gifts and presents from thankful people.

Yet as soon as you are done, as soon as the ultimate evil is destroyed, and people are at peace.

You are forgotten. Your one shrine, your body, isn't looked after and people move on forgetting all the great deeds you have done all the effort you have put into making the world a better place for everyone. All the battles against impossible odds. It isn't that it they are ungrateful but that it almost had to happen, that a world you contructed would be a world that ultimately doesn't need you.

It is even sadder in the second game because this time you sacrifice everything to stop evil and are still forgotten.

It was a sad ending that only gone to show the true benevolence of that diety. He never wanted to be thanked he only wanted people to live in peace and happyness.

The way a game ends always puts emphasis on the way the game went on. It is the final curtain call on the themes, characters, and the story. Yet when these shifts of tone arn't a bad thing, they instead emphasise something else in the plot. Afterall what is more heroic then a sacrifice that is paid for, going for a love that cannot be won, or just comming to grips with reality? They can often be our favorite endings and can even make everything that came before it better or worse.

So it makes me wonder.

What are some of the saddest most depressing endings from otherwise non-depressing games in your eyes?

[EuchreJack]

Crono Trigger's canon ending is quite depressing: In fact, no ending allows Magus to be reunited with his sister, and the main character's mom goes missing in the normal ending.

And in the alternate normal ending, Crono is missing.

The only reason this might not apply is because Crono Trigger is sort of a depressing game, especially when you see the "future".  Thankfully, it's all better if you get to most endings.

[hachnslay]

shadow of the colossus...

The demon that the colossi were sealing possesses you.

[Kansa]

Haven: Call of the King Spoilers

You spend the entire game trying to fulfil a prophecy to call back the true king and defeat the evil overlord that has taken his place. But when you finally succeed in this triumph, it doesn't work. The evil overlord kills the king and leaves the protagonist chained to a rock to slowly starve to death,with no hope of escape and that is where the game ends.

[olemars]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ACTRAISER 1 and 2 SPOILERS!

So I have been thinking of Actraiser 1 and 2 and the ending as it applied to me and everything I think about it I start to feel sad.

You are a benevolent diety who had risked its life to protect everyone and the world and destroyed the ultimate evil, you helped people individually making their dreams a reality, growing towns and cities and making people strong and prosperous entirely out of your own good will. You even got gifts and presents from thankful people.

Yet as soon as you are done, as soon as the ultimate evil is destroyed, and people are at peace.

You are forgotten. Your one shrine, your body, isn't looked after and people move on forgetting all the great deeds you have done all the effort you have put into making the world a better place for everyone. All the battles against impossible odds. It isn't that it they are ungrateful but that it almost had to happen, that a world you contructed would be a world that ultimately doesn't need you.

It is even sadder in the second game because this time you sacrifice everything to stop evil and are still forgotten.

It was a sad ending that only gone to show the true benevolence of that diety. He never wanted to be thanked he only wanted people to live in peace and happyness.

The way a game ends always puts emphasis on the way the game went on. It is the final curtain call on the themes, characters, and the story. Yet when these shifts of tone arn't a bad thing, they instead emphasise something else in the plot. Afterall what is more heroic then a sacrifice that is paid for, going for a love that cannot be won, or just comming to grips with reality? They can often be our favorite endings and can even make everything that came before it better or worse.

So it makes me wonder.

What are some of the saddest most depressing endings from otherwise non-depressing games in your eyes?

The game in the same family as Actraiser that got to me was Terranigma. I can't even remember how it ended, only that it made me terribly sad.

[Simmura McCrea]

Any of the bad endings in Katawa Shoujo.

[RedKing]

Well, obviously the original Diablo is kind of a downer. Especially given the epilogues in Diablo II for all three character types from the first game.

[lordcooper]

Mass Effect 3

[Cecilff2]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

ACTRAISER 1 and 2 SPOILERS!

So I have been thinking of Actraiser 1 and 2 and the ending as it applied to me and everything I think about it I start to feel sad.

You are a benevolent diety who had risked its life to protect everyone and the world and destroyed the ultimate evil, you helped people individually making their dreams a reality, growing towns and cities and making people strong and prosperous entirely out of your own good will. You even got gifts and presents from thankful people.

Yet as soon as you are done, as soon as the ultimate evil is destroyed, and people are at peace.

You are forgotten. Your one shrine, your body, isn't looked after and people move on forgetting all the great deeds you have done all the effort you have put into making the world a better place for everyone. All the battles against impossible odds. It isn't that it they are ungrateful but that it almost had to happen, that a world you contructed would be a world that ultimately doesn't need you.

It is even sadder in the second game because this time you sacrifice everything to stop evil and are still forgotten.

It was a sad ending that only gone to show the true benevolence of that diety. He never wanted to be thanked he only wanted people to live in peace and happyness.

The way a game ends always puts emphasis on the way the game went on. It is the final curtain call on the themes, characters, and the story. Yet when these shifts of tone arn't a bad thing, they instead emphasise something else in the plot. Afterall what is more heroic then a sacrifice that is paid for, going for a love that cannot be won, or just comming to grips with reality? They can often be our favorite endings and can even make everything that came before it better or worse.

So it makes me wonder.

What are some of the saddest most depressing endings from otherwise non-depressing games in your eyes?

The game in the same family as Actraiser that got to me was Terranigma. I can't even remember how it ended, only that it made me terribly sad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPxaqM2Aejc

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After reviving all life on earth, stopping the maniac beruga from killing most of it, you defeat Dark Gaia.  You learn from Light Gaia that since Dark Gaia made the village Crysta and you along with it, they too will fade into nothingness.  Light Gaia is able to sustain you and your village for one more day as though Dark Gaia had never been there.  You can talk to everyone in your village and most don't know what happened.  Eventually you go to bed and your girlfriend shows up to tell you she's sorry for trying to kill you when the elder ordered it.  Eventually you have your last dream(About flying over the world you created and nurtured as a seagull) and fade into nothingness along with Crysta.

Don't forget Lufia II.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE4WoHl1KJE

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Your gallant party of four defeats the big bads.  Main character's wife dies from the battle.  Main character stays behind while doom island starts falling out of the sky, the two other party members teleport to safety.  Just to be a dick Daos, the sinistral of Terror, decides that changing the course of the island so it falls on the city where main character and his wife's child is, is a good idea.  Main character uses the last of his energy to alter the course of the island so it falls in the ocean.

Normally this is just a heroic sacrifice sort of ending.  But the game doesn't stop stabbing you in the heart.  No it needs to twist the blade and flay pieces off it too.

The entire rest of the ending is the rest of the people you know in the game continuing on like both characters are gonna stop by again any day now.  Even the two party members that witnessed the wife's death delude themselves into thinking it.  And then of course they focus on the baby they had crying for his parents as his grandmother hushes him and says they'll be back soon.  Main character's childhood friend(Who also had a crush on him before he got married to his wife) suddenly starts crying and doesn't understand why.

[amjh]

Deus Ex: Invisible war.
It's been a long time since I played it so I can't remember the details. During the game, you're working with these different people with the promise they would help rebuild the world. In the end, it's revealed that all of them want complete control over everything, leading to a world where everyone else is denied free will. And if you fight all of them, everything just falls apart for no good reason.

[Facekillz058]

Rage.

The game doesnt even have a goddamn ending.
It depressed me.

"You've won the game!"

[Criptfeind]

I dunno. I played a vengeful and evil god in Actraiser, at least that is how I liked to think of myself what with the earthquakes and stuff. Forgetting me forever is probably for the best.

[BallC420]

I dunno. I played a vengeful and evil god in Actraiser, at least that is how I liked to think of myself what with the earthquakes and stuff. Forgetting me forever is probably for the best.

I liked to think of my "destroy everything" earthquakes in ActRaiser as urban renewal. 

"Oh, you just invented earthquake-proof houses? Alright, guess you won't be needing those old shacks anymore." *rumble* *rumble* *CRASH*

[Urist McManiac]

In my opinion, the character endings of some of the NPC's in the Baldur's Gate Trilogy were quite sad. Especially the endings of the evil characters.

[Neonivek]

While not in the same vein, since it isn't at the ending but at the last final stretches of the game

The Bizarre Adventures of Woodruff and the Amazing Schibble of Azimuth (Holy name batman!)

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It is later revealed that EVERYONE has been using you for their own means, your childhood being stollen from you so they could achieve peace.

It is actually quite depressing since this game unintentionally has no good guys except yourself. They all have been using you and you will do it anyway because you are good. Especially since you spent most of the game trying to save them and they were the only family you are told of (Your character has Amnesia... sort of... It is mostly because he was transformed into an adult but only has the memories of a child. So he is usually unable to collect his thoughts and memories properly)

I fully believe this was unintentional mind you... but it is odd but this reveal actually overshadows everything in the game. It is said in such passing but it is so painfully depressing to think about.

In fact in some ways it does make the ending depressing because there is no happy ending in this situation.

I dunno. I played a vengeful and evil god in Actraiser, at least that is how I liked to think of myself what with the earthquakes and stuff.

I think you were actually incapable of harming someone, just destroying homes.