Depressing Games

[Anonymous No.2387942]

Ever play any games that depress you?

[Anonymous No.2387945]

>>2387942

[Anonymous No.2387949]

>>2387942
Planescape: Torment can be depressing as fuck if you ask me... amazing in many aspects though.

[Anonymous No.2387984]

ffvii

[Anonymous No.2387996]

>>2387942
Phantasy Star II

>Pic Related
>General Dystopian themes, sense of being helpless.
>Literally call the machine that takes care of them "Mother Brain".

It's depressing in more of an abstract sense, but depressing regardless.

[Anonymous No.2388342]

>>2387942
> Digimon World
Wait, did my Digimon died just now? And now I have to raise a new one? And he died too?

[Anonymous No.2388621]

>>2388342
FFT when u lose a good party member .

[Anonymous No.2388627]

>>2388621
Also Tactics when everyone you like turns out to be a shitlord.

[Joseph Joestar No.2388629]

>>2387996
I liked the "Allah hu akbar"-ness of the ending though.

[Anonymous No.2388630]

>Kids game

[Anonymous No.2388650]

>>2387942
I think there is a general argument to be made about story-based JRPG's here.
They are directed to an audience of children but really their themes and content are quite heavy, gruesome even. That you go around killing hundreds of sentient beings is often just taken for granted, but what is more taxing is the way emotionally developed characters are killed off for the sake of drama. The threat posed by the evil to be defeated is more often than not quite existential and great care is taken to present it as such, the later stages of the plot involving some kind of abomination overtaking the entire world as they know it, turning familiar things into abberations. Think about all the dire misery represented in Chrono Trigger and all the freakish mutants you are supposed to fight. It's all a bit much for the age group that the game would attract at a first glance of the first stages of the game.

[Anonymous No.2388659]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8JnbVJY8jY
this intro
played at PAL speed on famiclone

[Anonymous No.2388661]

>>2387942
Maybe not straight up depressed me, but my body was not ready for all the feels "To the Moon" gave me, so many sad parts

[Anonymous No.2388664]

>Was I helpful to you? I am deeply grateful to you.

[Anonymous No.2388668]

>>2387942
Quite a lot
>Terranigma
>Tactics Ogre
>Any SaGa game, especially Frontier 2 and Romancing SaGa 2
>Vandal Hearts 2
>Vagrant Story
>Koudelka
>King's Field
>FFII
>Tenchu
>Legend of Mana
>Metal Max
And so many more...But really, it all comes down to what you personally feel.
SaGa Frontier 2 is really intense in its simplicity but most people don't like that kind of narrative that works heavily on inferences rather than showing things or dumping walls of melodrama like most RPGs.

[Anonymous No.2388669]

>>2388630
Fuck man
i didn't need these feelings

Funny thing though, I remember replaying this as an adult at a friend's house, and after the ultra emotional ending and credits, we both wept until the book closed its covers and showed the name FAG ASS

[Anonymous No.2388680]

>>2387945

[Anonymous No.2388693]

[Anonymous No.2388710]

Fire emblem Geneology of the Holy War

Chapter five Is really grim. You start by recovering the tyfring from Sigurds dead father, Then Sigurds best friend and sister are tricked into being attacked and killed, and you can try and save them but it's impossible THEN you get tricked and captured and Alvis taunts you with your brainwashed wife, who doesn't remember you, then you are killed by hellfire and meteors

[Anonymous No.2388770]

my favorites in no particular order:
orsted
cube
old martial arts guy

whenever I replay this I always wonder what the fuck happened to squaresoft

[Anonymous No.2388787]

>>2388770

>Live a live

Orsted did nothing wrong. Damn Straybow.
Live a live has its moments.

[Anonymous No.2388798]

>>2388627
At least zalbag comes back around

[Anonymous No.2388805]

>>2388798
Just to get killed and turned into a semi mindless meatshield

[Anonymous No.2388808]

>>2387942
Any Mario Party. It's the Devil's board game.

[Anonymous No.2388839]

>>2387942
Soul Blazer
Terranigma
Tales of Phantasia
Secret of Mana
Zelda: Link's Awakening (sorta)

Not /vr/ but Mega Man Zero 4 and Sword of Mana.

[Anonymous No.2388923]

>>2388661
Not /vr/ and also wildly overrated.

[Anonymous No.2388963]

>>2388630
Grandpa scene was an unexpected turn in tone.

[Anonymous No.2388969]

>>2388630
>kids should never hear stories about death until they're 18 even though kids have relatives that die

You are so fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.2388971]

>>2388630
>kids should only be told stories that say the world is perfect and nothing bad ever happens.
I bet your kids are going to turn out as retarded as you are.

[Anonymous No.2389001]

>>2388770
I sometimes wonder if Evangelion got the "human soup" idea from the mecha scenario of this game.

[Anonymous No.2389014]

>>2389001
STOP PARROTING E-CELEBS I BET YOU NEVER EVEN PLAYED LIVE A LIVE

[Anonymous No.2389053]

>>2388630
reminds of a quote from "The Crow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CacJjvbT-UA

[Anonymous No.2389057]

>>2388969
reminds of a quote from "The Crow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CacJjvbT-UA

[Anonymous No.2389060]

Ending screens where you have to reset the game in general.

Also, any ending that is not the true ending of Demon's Crest.

[Anonymous No.2390906]

why is no1 mentioned ICO ???

[Anonymous No.2391017]

Harvest moon games have always made me sad.

[Anonymous No.2391079]

>>2388770
Cube was designed by the Jap equivalent of a holocaust denier.

[Anonymous No.2391082]

>>2391079
wat

[Anonymous No.2391112]

>>2390906
>ps2
>retro
go home kid

[Anonymous No.2391119]

>>2391079
It was Pogo, actually

[Anonymous No.2391220]

>>2388693
Pic related
Dragon Quest V 2 When?
They can told the adventures of Papas and Sancho or Sancho and your kids.

[Anonymous No.2391383]

>>2388963
This. That was totally unexpected.

[Anonymous No.2391437]

>>2390906
Not retro.
But the watermelon ending is pretty happy

[Anonymous No.2391442]

>>2387996
The end didn't help much.

[Anonymous No.2391515]

>>2387945
This fucking shit, I found out how to get out after a month and felt so fucking dumb

[Anonymous No.2391941]

god damn this mission

[Anonymous No.2393438]

Valkyrie Profile, the entire game is centered around death and the music is heart wrenching.

[Anonymous No.2393442]

>>2391941
what mission?

[Anonymous No.2393480]

>>2393438

[Anonymous No.2393489]

all old games are depressing because they remind me of a time when I had no cares in the world

[Anonymous No.2394952]

>>2393489
your post reeks of depression. enjoy life you worthless beta cuck faggot

[Anonymous No.2394965]

>>2394952
You bring a whole new meaning to the phrase 'shit for brains'.

[Anonymous No.2394969]

>>2394952
>>>/v/

[Anonymous No.2396503]

>>2393489
shiiiit man

[Anonymous No.2396861]

>>2393489
fuck

[Anonymous No.2396872]

Honestly, the majority of this game is stunningly dark and depressing and lonely (it's mostly the fault of the utterly heart wrenching music), but mainly it's because it reminds me of when she was still alive

[Anonymous No.2396881]

>>2396872
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6n1t2nMyds
you seriously have no idea how badly this is triggering my btsd right now

[Anonymous No.2396892]

>My father used to play Resident Evil 2 once in a while and I would watch him play. I eventually finished it by myself and never found it scary at all.
>One day he came back home with a new game. The cover was so mysterious and foreign to me in a very appealing way. I was pretty much into horror by that point thanks to my father showing me all kinds of horror films and books so I was very excited to see what that was all about. I must have been 8 years old.
>Whenever my father would leave to attend a phonecall or take a shit or whatever he would ask me to keep playing while he was gone. I always froze, couldn't even touch the controller. I did love watching it, listening to the soundtrack, the story, the atmosphere together were a very oppressive experience and it kind of did away with Resi's campiness.
>I tried to beat it with my friends but even at daytime we were scared shitless. I was intrigued by the game learning about the influences behind it, the stories about the development, I read walkthroughs, characters bios, enemy databases and knew it inside and out without even finishing it.
>I eventually decided I was going to be brave and finish it in one sitting in the dark. My TV had a headphone jack so it allowed sneak gaming at night.
>I made it through the game with all the endings by using separate savefiles and having memorized the guides and shit.
>I felt like the bravest kid in the world by facing my biggest fear head on.

>Never been that brave ever since.

[Anonymous No.2397508]

I'm really surprised this hasn't been posted yet...

[Anonymous No.2397521]

>>2388693
not depressing until near the end but yeah

one of the greatest jrpgs though

[Anonymous No.2397534]

>>2388627
The real tragedy -and mystery- of FFT is defeating dycedarg's older brother.

[Anonymous No.2397543]

>>2387942
Breath of fire IV has so many depressing moments, but for some reason the one that got me good was the first time i went fishing.

You are on the run, trying to find Elina, with people dying left and right. And then you find one of these spots...
It's the music that makes you think you don't need to keep going; you can stay there without a worry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGmmUqylbqU
Not even all those "Fuck you, Yuna" moments got me as hard as the contrast i had in there after fishing again and again until i ran out of lures.

[Anonymous No.2397557]

>>2388798
>>2388805
FFT is a tragedy. I'm honestly surprised Ramza and Alma are even shown in the ending. It would almost be objectively better if they simply died at the Graveyard of Airships.

[Anonymous No.2400414]

>>2387984
lies

[Anonymous No.2400443]

>>2387942
Silent Hill 2

The other games are depressing as well. It's why even though I think they are amazing, I don't like to play them all the time. Resident Evil is much easier to go back and play numerous times since it doesn't have that sad atmosphere going on.

[Anonymous No.2400675]

>>2397543

hm, weird, I have no negative feelings at all from this game. Must've been the bright colors and stuff and the character design that made me not take it seriously.

[Anonymous No.2400701]

>>2387942
....

[Anonymous No.2400751]

>>2388664
>beat one of the most difficult games ever created
>the stone-like doesn't blow up right away making your heart fucking stop for a second
>the final text and credits screen

[Anonymous No.2400790]

>>2388839
Oh yeaaah Link's Awakening made me feel sad at the end.

[Manly Man No.2400835]

Dragon Quest IV; the end of Chapter II, pretty much the entirety of Chapter IV, the Aktemto mines especially, the hero(ine)'s town being burned to the ground (and their dead elven girlfriend), and Esturk's palace after you kill him. I think you can watch Rosa die at one point, if you head to Rosaville immediately after Esturk, but it's been awhile.

[Manly Man No.2400841]

>>2400835
Indeed, here's even Aktemto's theme song, at 0:35:26.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEGL51mxbok

[Anonymous No.2400865]

>>2389060
>Ending screens where you have to reset the game in general.
Yeah, when an ending screen loops back to the title screen there's at least that feeling of well, that's all there is to it.' Having to reset it makes you think, 'wait, could there possibly be more?'

[Anonymous No.2400974]

>>2397521
Fuck that, DQV is pretty much a trauma cavalcad from the very first time skip. You watch your father get slowly murdered in front of you for god's sake.

[Manly Man No.2401017]

>>2400974
Honestly, all Dragon Quest stuff can get dark as Hell, which is really dissonant with how silly Toriyama's art looks. For VIII alone, you get to see an old man get impaled on a stick, some kid get mauled to death by a dog, and an entire castle of people in one of those 'And I must scream' situations, turned into bunches of rose thorns, and that's not even half of it.

[Anonymous No.2401173]

>>2401017
And half of the bosses' behavior indicates that they're actually mentally ill instead of evil. You still wail on them all the same.

[Princess Sevenleaf !AnVbXjgZco No.2401190]

That ending screen in Megaman 2 always makes me think of Germany. Doesn't that look like a German countryside?

[Anonymous No.2401194]

>>2387945
retarded kid detected

[Anonymous No.2401229]

>>2401190
N.... no?

[Anonymous No.2401247]

>Ctrl+F Crus-
>Ctrl+F Sole-
Really, vr? It's an emotionally manipulative bitch if I ever played one.

>>2388664
It's the fucking music that does it.

[Manly Man No.2401274]

>>2401173
Mhmm. I've heard people try to make a case for Marcello as well, but honestly, getting kicked out of a nobleman's house for being a bastard and then living in a monastery absolutely does not justify being that big of a dickhead to everyone.

Another wonderfully depressing game is Breath of Fire IV. There are things like an entire village of gifted children being slaughtered like lambs, using a god's first true love's soul to make a black magic nuke and drop it right on his head, which fails to kill him anyway, or turning a princess who only wants to take advantage of the armistice to try and stop the war entirely by being kind into an immortal blob of flesh, eyeballs, and other writhing bodyparts, just to basically make infinite ammo for the black magic cannon, since the more they're loved, the more damage their soul will do to those who love the sacrifice, and just about everybody in the whole damn world liked Elina.

Man, and we thought Professor Hojo was fucked up in the head. Lord Yuna may have been made as a parallel for him, but he went and shot right past him on the "Must Die in a Manner Most Painful and Messy" list. The ending says that the fucker plans to do it all over again.

Fuuuck, that game.

[Anonymous No.2401363]

>>2401247
Fuck. I'm sure that game shaped a lot of my perspective towards other people. The Euro version has a much better translation though.

[Anonymous No.2401456]

After finally beating dracula, the music slowly dims down until all that's left is the beating sound of the last orb.
Once you decide to take it the somber end game music starts, and its all over.
The game itself isn't sad, but that moment kills me.

[Anonymous No.2401467]

>>2401363
I had no idea. I played, well bought, Soleil bc Euro. Any place that documents the differences, just out of curiosity?

[Anonymous No.2401504]

>>2400865
Radiant Silvergun has an interesting take on this.

The Stone-like teleports it and the players back in time and kill everyone, save for a robot who goes on to clone the players and populate the world with humanity, contemplating how history is doomed to repeat forever in a loop as it dies

It's actually really fucking heavy. Ikaruga ain't got nothin on RS in comparisoon.

[Anonymous No.2401525]

>>2401504
I should add that's after the cast of 4 were forced to engage an unknown enemy due to dwindling supplies after spending a year in orbit as the last of their kind after the world was utterly destroyed by the Stone-like, the Earth god, who deemed humanity unfit to continue and in need of a 'reset'. *whew*

[Anonymous No.2401553]

>>2401247
Came here to post this.

>>2401363
>Fuck. I'm sure that game shaped a lot of my perspective towards other people
Are you me? Children need more games like Crusader of Centy, it really left a mark on me.

[Anonymous No.2401585]

>>2396872
>bland non-descriptive writing
>depressing and lonely
>he says

[Anonymous No.2401673]

terranigma bummed me out the entire time not just the goat scene everyone goes on about good lord

[Anonymous No.2401706]

Play this game during sober for mega-depression

[Anonymous No.2402494]

>>2401706
yes


I played this when I was like 12 and the part in space was the first time i had ever felt depressed while playing a videogame. so bleak and dat music. put me off story-heavy rpgs for a long time

[Anonymous No.2402535]

>>2401553
Indeed they do. Fucking hell it was quite a dark game hidden behind colourful sprites & talking animals. I replay it once or twice a year.

>>2401467
https://tcrf.net/Crusader_of_Centy

[Anonymous No.2405398]

Well the closest thing to me was the whole majority of links awakening

[Anonymous No.2405472]

>>2387942
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet.

[Anonymous No.2405475]

>>2405472
Nobody wanted to bring everyone down that much.

[Anonymous No.2405487]

>>2393438
>>2393480
Right... I had forgotten about how depressing that game is; it has a constant sad aura around it, the stories of the Einherjar are almost all tragic, in a way.

[Anonymous No.2405504]

>>2405487
>>2405487
I really wanted to finish that game but I never could. I never found the strength to kill my characters because I was getting attached to them. Fuck.

[Anonymous No.2405530]

>>2396892
Man, this.

I remember having to play for shorts periods of time because I just couldn't stand it anymore, I had to take breaks to regain my composture, even when I wanted to keep playing tho.

Shit was so scary/fun, no other game made me feel that way.

[Anonymous No.2405561]

>>2388664
What the fuck How can anyone understand what the ikaruga ship is saying

[Anonymous No.2405567]

>>2405487
I forgot to add "not to mention Lenneth and Lucian's story, which is sad too"
>>2405504
you mean sending them to Valhalla, once recruited?

[Anonymous No.2405574]

>>2405567
Yeah, but it really felt like killing them.

[Manly Man No.2405597]

>>2388650
God, Chrono Trigger. The future in that game was so fucking bleak that, when I first got it (I wasn't quite double-digits), I almost couldn't beat the Factory because of how bad it made me feel to see so many people who were basically just waiting for the end to come back in Trann Dome and Arris Dome. Balthasar pseudo-dying like he did in the Keeper's Dome made me feel like shit after I flipped the switch on the robo-Nu for him, and Geno Dome was absolute horror as I heard the screeches from when people were being put into a meatgrinder.

That whole era was just twenty kinds of fucked up. Still, it's one of my favorite parts of the game now, even if it's so sad, because the Son of the Sun fight is a really fun one, getting Rick Roll'd by Robo is hilarious, and Johnny is the shit. Even with as dark as the background looks when you're racing him, there's something about the little bits of sunlight that you can see cutting through the clouds that makes me feel like I may decide the situation is beyond crappy and nothing short of impossible, but I just have to try anyway.

[Anonymous No.2406240]

>>2405487
what game is that?

[Anonymous No.2406272]

Breath of Fire IV.

Because the music, setting and graphics are so beautiful that it makes me sad.

[Anonymous No.2406275]

Breath of Fire has such a circle jerk on /vr/.

[Anonymous No.2406367]

>>2405561
After someone else posted the quotes, when listened to, it's clear that's what it's saying. Took me 8+ years of owning the game to figure out what the hell it was saying.

[Anonymous No.2406371]

>>2388668

>Tenchu

Specially Tenchu 2 ending.

[Anonymous No.2406487]

End of Link's Awakening.

The bad ending for Revenge of Shinobi.

Grandia II, with all those deaths

Breath of Fire II, really depressing.

FFVI to an extent

Bad ending for Chrono Trigger of course.

[Anonymous No.2406520]

>>2401706
worst final fantasy ever

[Anonymous No.2406559]

>>2393438
>Those goddamn screams when you are scrying for einherjars.

[Anonymous No.2406632]

>>2393489
dammit

[Manly Man No.2406994]

>>2406272
This game on the whole is pretty sad, as soon as you bother looking deeper into it. The blatantly fucked up stuff though, I just... ugh. Rasso is second only to Yuna for the Biggest Douchebag in the Universe Award. Yohm did some pretty fucked up shit, but it's obvious that the whole thing was leaving a bitter taste in his mouth, and apart from kidnapping Fou-lu's girlfriend, he was otherwise very respectful, or at least as respectful as someone who's trying to kill a god can be. It's pretty obvious he knew that this whole fiasco was likely to end in disaster, and when he went and immolated himself in front of Fou-lu, I actually felt pretty damned terrible about it.

[Anonymous No.2408553]

>>2405487
Just started playing this game, it's not sad? it's kind of ridiculous why did the Princess do a 180 on her opinion of Angrim?

Why the fuck did Angrim stab himself?

It would be better if he negotiated the safety and care of his brother for enlistment into the Valkyrie's forces

[Anonymous No.2408556]

>>2406994
forgot spoiler alerts

[Manly Man No.2408702]

>>2408556
Goddammit, I'm usually pretty good about that.

[Anonymous No.2409021]

Stopped playing Phantasy Star 2 because of what happens in the story (not spoiling it). Couldn't bring myself to play the rest.

[Anonymous No.2409229]

>>2396872
I miss my mommy too anon :(

[Anonymous No.2409432]

Quest 64 did. It just had a depressing vibe to it

[Anonymous No.2411339]

Serial Experiments Lain for PSX.

[Anonymous No.2411385]

>>2393489

[Anonymous No.2411414]

Maybe it's too obvious, but FF6. World of Ruins, not just limited to Celes' attempted suicide.

[Manly Man No.2411417]

Secret of Evermore was surprisingly depressing, or at least melancholic in a lot of places (I blame Jeremy Soule for that, "Cecil's Town/Dark Castle Town" is my absolute favorite from that game, and it sounds like an autumn sunset). A lot of it you ahve to think about a little bit, but then there are places with just the darkest damn atmosphere for a game with a cast of quirky smartasses everywhere.

[Anonymous No.2412665]

In Xenogears, Hammer pulling his shit was depressing.

[Anonymous No.2412874]

>>2412665
The opening movie never fails to leave me with this tremendous melancholy.

Also pic related. She was a good girl :-(

[Anonymous No.2412890]

>>2387996

>you find out that fucking HUMANS created Mother Brain for the purpose of subduing Parms, Dezos, and Motas, giving them all that they could ever want or need in an attempt to make them docile and easy to conquer
>your party starts to fight the humans just as the game ends
>the incident is never, ever mentioned again

The Humans were all killed. The natural disasters and monster outbreaks that happened in IV were a direct result of Mother Brain being destroyed, without it nothing can keep Mota from turning back into a harsh desert.

>Parms can't live o desert Mota
>they begin looking for other planets to colonize
>they find Ragol

and that's why there's no Motavians or Dezorians in PSO, the desert suited the former just fine and the ice cold temps suited the latter so they saw no reason to leave

[Anonymous No.2412893]

>>2408553
>it's kind of ridiculous why did the Princess do a 180 on her opinion of Angrim?
Because she realized Arngrim isn't just a mindless idiot like she thought and is actually a very nice guy deep down.
>Why the fuck did Angrim stab himself?
Because he would have been executed anyway for killing the minister.
>It would be better if he negotiated the safety and care of his brother for enlistment into the Valkyrie's forces
His brother isn't and never will be an Einherjar, he can't negotiate anything, especially with Lenneth.

[Anonymous No.2412907]

>>2388770
>What happened to Squaresoft
It's not hard to figure out. All the original developers got old and/or moved on with their lives. The current Square may as well be a different company from the old one.

[Anonymous No.2412916]

>>2411417
Seeing what happened to all the people you met on your journey after/during the credits is really bittersweet and depressed the hell out of me. Seeing them go on with their lives was beautiful, and it broke my heart to see the game end.

[Anonymous No.2412947]

>>2388668
>Legend of Mana

Are you sure ? I've been playing for 2-3 hours and I'm either stupid or there's no plot whatsoever, I feel like I'm just aimlessly pressing forward to the next area. Where exactly is it depressing ? On the verge of dropping it tbh.

[Manly Man No.2412991]

>>2412916
Definitely. The other significant part to consider is when you realize that folks like Elizabeth, Camellia, and Horace are coming back to a world that has aged thirty years without them. The professor himself is going to have a lot of catching up to do, considering that scientific advancements had come a long way between the 60's and the 90's.

I especially feel bad for Elizabeth, considering that she's going to have to deal with going to school with an adult mindset. Shit was already bad enough as a kid, being put in an environment like that with the disillusionment of adulthood would be terrible.

[Anonymous No.2413902]

>>2412947
>2-3 Hours and no plot.
It's like you haven't paid attention what so ever.
>>2412991
I feel like this would actually be really exciting for the professor, being able to see how far science had advanced. It won't be so bad for Elizabeth, she's at the perfect age to really enjoy the 90s, but I guess effectively being an adult, could change her experience.

[Manly Man No.2414549]

>>2413902
For the professor, yeah. It's still bound to be a nasty cultural shock for everyone else, or at least it will at first. Horace would have to deal with the huge amount of history that's been proven inaccurate at the time (which is a pretty huge load to bear, I've met historians whose greatest fear is being proven wrong, and then having to unlearn so much because of it), and Camellia would likely have nothing left, and it's pretty obvious that she's a material woman.

I can see Elizabeth having an easier time than the others, I suppose, because as a child you're still pretty adaptable, but she's also got the mindset (or at least mental experience) of a forty year-old woman. On the upside of things, that's just about perfect for her to become an author. Write a bunch of stories about her experiences in Prehistoria, and sell them as pulp fiction novels. Writing them at such a young age would likely garner her a lot of popularity as some kind of genius prodigy.

[Anonymous No.2414846]

[Anonymous No.2415991]