It is believed that harsh bearded men do not cry. Well, perhaps over the end of the second "Terminator". But in the world of video games there are enough finals that will squeeze a tear even from the cobblestone. In the end, we are all people: when you lived with your hero dozens, or even hundreds of hours of adventure, it is simply impossible not to get attached to him. So, the sad end of his story wounds into the very heart.
Today we have collected the top ten most heartbreaking endings in video games. And yes, there will be spoilers. Many. We warned you.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
Developers from Machine Games made the incredible: they humanized a typical hero of the militants. Their BJ Blaskovitz is already tired of the war-he does not want to kill, does not want to climb into a fingering, he just dreams that all this ends. To have a house, wife, dog and barbecue in the backyard. But the only way to achieve this is to get rid of the Nazis once and for all. And Blaskovitz is taken with hatred for weapons … only to fall into a coma for twenty years. And then wake up in a completely unfamiliar world where the Nazis won, and his dream became even more impossible. That he remains? Blasko picks the gun again.
But we already know that it will not end in anything good. At the very end The New Order The half-dead Bija, from which the organs fall on the go, from the last forces causes the fire of a nuclear installation to blow up the entire Casper Spins Casino Nazi headquarters. Then we still did not know that he would survive – and were very worried that Blasko would never see a peaceful sky above his head.
The Last of Us
Joel, the main character Last of us, In the first half hour of the game, the daughter loses, and with her faith in humanity. And his future companion Ellie, although she was only fourteen, also survived a lot of troubles. In a word, it is very difficult for them to trust each other – and when they finally cope with this, it is time to say goodbye.
The main plot of the game is that Ellie has an immunity to a zombie virus, which means that a girl is the only hope of salvation of all mankind. Joel must deliver her to the "Cicadas" – an organization that can get a vaccine from Ellie's blood. True, he still does not know what price will have to be paid: only at the very end it turns out that the “cicadas” are going to kill the child for the sake of creating the drug. And it’s not the fact that they will succeed. Knowing this, Joel decides not to save humanity – instead, he saves one bold, honest and in no means a guilty girl.
In the finale, he rolls out all cicades and takes Ellie in his arms right from a hospital bed. And then he was lying that he took her, because she still did not come in handy to doctors. And although Ellie guesses that she had to die, she decides to believe his oath. Their last dialogue will squeeze a tear from anyone, because by this moment we already understand Joel perfectly: sometimes the life of one person can become more important than the fate of the whole world.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
The main character Ghost Trick comes to his own corpse. Now he is a ghost that does not remember anything about how he died; So, it will have to be accepted by grains to restore the circumstances of his death.
For this, he instilles in objects and manipulates them. And most importantly-penetrates into other corpses, where he sees the last minutes of their life and can change something so that the tragedy does not happen. And only his own corpse is inaccessible to him: he will have to find out about himself through many other people's stories.
By the middle of the game, the hero understands that he is not the one for whom he took himself. A man in the red suit that he woke up is a complete villain – and even with superpowers. He died a long time ago, but can control his own body, pretending to be alive in order to create atrocities.
But who is then the main character? Only in the final itself it turns out that we played for the spirit … cat. An ordinary black cat, whom the villain carried with him everywhere. He accidentally hurt him, and the cat died, but woke up in the form of a ghost. And then spent the whole night in the human world, returning to the past and correcting everything that the former owner did. At the end of the story, the fluffy hero returns to the world of the living and remains in the family that saved. Now he just eats again, sleeps and plays with a bow – but he knows for sure that he really deserved this simple cat's happiness.
Red Dead Redemption
In his youth, John Marston was an ordinary bandit from the Wild West. Robbed, killed – in general, lived outlawed. But in the end, he decided to tie and settle down: he started a family, a child, dreamed of his own farm. True, it was not so easy to end the criminal past. John found government agents and demanded from him to atone for his guilt – to kill the old accomplices. There is nothing to do: John picked up a weapon again and naturally interrupted everyone who connected him with a past life. And at the same time he made new friends, participated in the revolution in Mexico, earned money, earned some kind of atonement, and finally returned to the family.
It would seem that the long -awaited peace is ahead: it remains only to graze the cattle and equip the ranch. But the government decided that it was still impossible to leave Marston alive. And when a small army came to his soul, he ordered his wife and his son to flee, and he stood up with his chest defense. In the final of the game, he is indicatively shot in two dozen trunks on the threshold of his own barn. To edification to descendants and in the name of great justice.
Ten years later, the grown -up Jack Marston will take revenge on his father. But this is a completely different story ..
Fallout
The very first Fallout was just the history of one nuclear shelter, where the water suddenly ended. The chip for the filter broke, but there was no replacement. But do not die of everyone from thirst! It is necessary to find a new chip somewhere-which means that you have to release a volunteer on a surface scorched nuclear war.
However, it turns out that it is not so scorched. A new one appeared on the ruins of the old civilization. The survivors built farms, arranged cities, formed the government, settled in communities … Yes, some were drunk and became a criminal-but still humanity did not die. And it was in such a cruel world that the hero growing up in greenhouse conditions. He stood up and got the chip, but when he returned home with prey, the shelter of the shelter sent him back – to deal with the problem of super humans. The hero also coped with this task, destroying the mysterious owner and his secret base.
And what I received in return? Only vile betrayal. The caretaker suddenly stated that the main character could no longer return to the shelter. After all, it should live in the old way without any contacts with the surface. And their savior has already seen too much – suddenly after him and others will also want to be free? No, such a risk cannot be allowed.
If the hero has earned negative karma in the course of passage, he will shoot the caretaker right at the door to the shelter and leave. If positive, it will just go nowhere. And the player in any case will remain at the screen with a sense of universal injustice.
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII tells the story of the team of mercenaries-emacrifiers who are fighting with the Shin-Ra Corporation and its former soldier-Sephirot. According to the plot, the company haunts him in order to prevent the villain from harming the planet. But the sweet girl Iris, one of the members of the detachment, decides to catch up with a villain alone – and eventually pays for it with his life. Sephirot kills her right in front of Claud's eyes – the protagonist of the game. This scene is still considered one of the most shocking and tragic in the history of the video game.
Yes, it does not happen in the final, but rightfully deserves a place in this top. And the end of the seventh "finals" itself is no less touching. In it, Claud is beating with Sephirot – perhaps the most recognizable antagonist in the whole history of Final Fantasy. Crazy villain considers himself the chosen owner of the planet. That is why he tried to take possession of the Lifestream – the main life energy of the universe of the Final Fantasy 7. Moreover, Iris partially helps to stop Sephirot Claud – after all, it is the spell that she created shortly before her death that determines the outcome of the last battle.
Goosebumps run from the final of the game. The end is epic, tearful and instructive – such powerful and emotional endings in the industry can be counted on the fingers.
Inversion
Few people heard about Inversion – Project from Russian developers from St. Petersburg. The game press immediately hung a clone label on it GEARS of WAR, And many have not advanced further than the first levels, if at least once it was launched. But in vain: she tells history very interesting and touching.
In Inversion, it all starts with the fact that gravity is suddenly distorted in a small American town: the power of attraction works in different ways. At the same time, some savages who kill adults are attacking the city at the same time, and children are abducted and led somewhere.
Over time, it turns out that the world in which the heroes live is fake. This is a giant dome, like in the Truman show attached to the spaceship. And this dome is far from the only one – their dozens! Some mysterious forces gathered a giant zoo from various civilizations, one of which is people, and the other is just savages. It was in their dome that an accident occurred once, which led to the almost complete extinction of the race. But the surviving savages managed to get out of the dome and hit the mother ship. And there their shaman Kilter came up with a plan: to dig under the human dome and steal children to grow their own subjects from them. Hence the physical abnormalities – the invaders simply damaged the floor from the gravitational platforms.
The protagonist of the project – a policeman named David Russell – is looking for his stolen daughter the whole game. He almost gives up several times – it seems that it is impossible to defeat savages. But, fortunately, he has a partner Leo, who constantly reminds David that all this for his daughter. And the hero, gritting his teeth, takes up weapons, runs out of captivity, breaks into the mother ship and gives battle to the killer himself. In the end, David sacrifices himself to pull the villain into the abyss and save all the inhabitants of the dome.
Only when they both die, Leo finally sighs with relief. Because he always knew that David's daughter was long dead: she was crushed at the very beginning at the very beginning. And he deceived the whole game, forcing him to move forward. Leo just did not know how to admit that in fact David would never reach his goal. But thanks to this, they still managed to stop the enemy.
Metal Gear Solid 3
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater tells the story of the antagonist of the past issues of the series – Big Boss. Forty years before the events of the previous parts of the Big Boss, who was then called Naikid Snake, goes to the territory of the Soviet Union. There he must save the Russian scientist, as well as destroy the secret weapon of the "Reds". But the mission is complicated by the fact that the former mentor of the protagonist works for the enemy – her name is just a boss in the series. This fatal woman is the most important person in the life of Naikid Snaika, but for some reason she sided with the enemy.
In the finale, the drama of an incredible intensity is played out: the battle scene between the former colleagues is so emotional that it is difficult to restrain tears. For Naikid Sneika, devotion to the country and the highest goal is higher than personal interests. And the boss made him know that only one would survive – so in the end the hero sends her to the next world.
Only now, after some time, Naikid Snake learns that the boss was a double agent – she deliberately went over to the enemy and deliberately allowed herself to kill. And the future Big Boss heard about this after the Snake Eater operation. The unfair sacrifice and death of his mentor was the first step towards the formation of the legendary anti -hero.
Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 – One of the most human and emotional stories in the genre of Survival Horror, or maybe in video games in general. The protagonist James Sanderland enters the city, receiving a letter from his dead wife Mary, who asks him to return there. Wandering along the silent hill, James is faced with Mary's two-two girl and remembers his past in pieces. At the very end of the game, it turns out that he didn’t just get into this purgatory: James himself strangled his sick wife with a pillow, because he could no longer see her suffering and wanted to finally get rid of the burden. All this time through the dangerous streets of the city of the hero was a barren hope to return to the past and correct the irreparable. This feeling is probably familiar, probably to everyone who has at least once lost a loved one.
But the final revelation of the murder of his wife is far from the main thing. Much more important what follows him. Behind Mary's scenes, he reads her last letter to her husband. She talks about how much she loves him, how grateful that he did brighter every day of her life. Her voice trembles, she barely restrains tears. And on the other side of the screen the same thing happens with the player. It doesn’t matter, once again you are passing Silent Hill 2 , – From this ending every time a lump in the throat rises.
Mafia
Tommy Angelo was the most ordinary taxi driver who found himself at the wrong time and in the wrong place. By pure chance, he got involved in the disassembly of the mafia, and then began to work on the mafia Don Salieri – the only one who could protect him. He robbed, intimidated, killed at the direction, took other members of the criminal family to the case of the case – and all this time he thought how to escape from the paws of the mafia. Ultimately, he nevertheless handed over Salieri police and went to the bottom under the witness protection program. For twenty years, while Don spent his deadline, Tommy calmly lived with his family on the other end of the country.
In the end of the game, we are shown an elderly Tommy Angelo. He calmly watering the lawn at the house, but then a car drives up to him. Two come out of there, and then … guess for yourself.
As they say, there is only one way out of the mafia – forward with your feet. Poor Tommy only delayed his funeral for twenty years. And even worse, this ending became with the output second part of the "mafia" – From there we learned who exactly executed the order to eliminate Angelo. The murder was entrusted to our new chief hero Vito Skallett and his friend Joe – and this means that the players with their own hands shot Tommy.
And what games have moved you to tears? Be sure to tell in the comments about your favorite endings. If there are enough proposals, we will make another top – already at the request of readers.
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