7 Darkest Game Overs You Will Never Recover From

Fail at any of these games and be prepared to be scarred for life. 😱😭
Sorry, Batman.
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[@outsidextra]

If at first you don't succeed, these games will give you some incredibly bleak game overs to punish you. Lovely.

[@Slash11512]

Lovely indeed

[@TehHolySpudBoi]

henlo

[@LJay_1985]

Just like real life!

[@dogishappy0]

What about the "7 Darkest Victory Screens"? The win screens for the evil side of the Command and Conquer series come to mind.

[@A.Z.296]

How about top seven most Frustrating random encounters in games? I'll start the list:Skyrim, Fallout, add more.

[@team_people]

The darkest game over is the one where you foolishly forgot to save before hand, and now you've lost hours of progress.

[@outsidextra]

💔

[@jamma.77]

*Traumatic flashbacks intensify*

[@shashwatsharma2596]

Even worse, you saved once in last few hours, even made incredible progress, But saved just seconds before getting killed, now you have a save, but you are caught in an endless death loop

[@team_people]

@@shashwatsharma2596 the ever dreaded death loop... nightmare fuel

[@2112-h2y]

@@shashwatsharma2596 sounds like GER to me

[@CelticVictory]

The mother's horrified reaction in Elite Beat Agents upon seeing her ghost husband was hilarious.

[@NathanWeeks]

The worst part about the Elite Beat Agency clip was the mom saying "Your father is dead, forget him!" There is no amount of therapy that will help that child.

[@wilfchapman-gandy8120]

I love how horrified the mother is in the best ending.

[@k96man]

Question: does the inspirational dancing of suited men count as therapy?

[@runzumarun4925]

@@wilfchapman-gandy8120 there is an actual theory she is trying to murder him

[@vanguardRailgun924]

What kind of person tells a kid to forget they’re dead parent. That’s really F’d up.

[@HYDEinallcaps]

@@runzumarun4925 I'm more surprised that there are theories for EBA in the first place!

[@TrafficJamByCam]

I laughed way to hard when Luke said, “They fixed the typo?!?”

[@WhirlyBeepBoops]

It seems the miracle finally happen

[@moonlightingjam]

If I ever die in the desert, I want Ron Perlman to narrate how much of a failure I am.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Noted.

[@someonerandom8552]

Same tho

[@revolver265]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Add me to the list of people that want to be made aware of how much of a failure they are by Ron Perlman should their untimely demise be in a desert.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@revolver265 Alright then.

[@beesforbreakfast]

Fallout is so bleak that even if you WIN, Ron Perlman will reward you by telling you how well your ex is doing since you left

[@signalzero77]

That Elite Beat Agents level makes my cry every time especially the good ending. My dad died when I was very young. So yeah that level is undoubtedly a tough one for me.

[@fshoaps]

Go tell it to the therapist, mate.

[@aiodensghost8645]

​​@@fshoapshe probably has... no reason to be an absolute dick about i Edit: try losing someone you grew extremely close to. If it doesn't tear you up, you arent human, and I'll wonder wtf you are for life.

[@fshoaps]

@@aiodensghost8645 Of course it 'tears me up'. But at the same time, I think it's fundamentally woman-ish to take it to the KZbin comments.

[@alittlechese2567]

@fshoaps so you’re also sexist? great…

[@LoriasGS]

3:18 That little girl is thrilled her daddy's returned but it seems the mother fears the dark magics that brought him here.

[@omega1397]

Maybe TheMellowFilmmaker is right. She cut the break lines.

[@insaincaldo]

Rightfully so, necrodancy is a powerful dark art indeed and don't get me started on the horrors of a necrodancer using the forbidden moves... *shutters

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

@@insaincaldo let me guess, twerking and Fortnite dances?

[@insaincaldo]

@@cooltrainervaultboy-39 I was thinking more suggestive dance, because that's real fucked up with a corpse... But sure that works.

[@corywilson532]

The girl sees a ghost. The mom see's a corpse. Plot twist, the family resides in Silent Hill.

[@DirgeTV]

I feel like the Pheonix Wright game over hits super hard purely due do to the final part where he says " Maybe it wasn't meant to, Because Miracles do not exist", which is such a 180 on the usual never give up optimism he projects and without showing the character's face absolutely hits home how defeated he is. One particular dark game over I remember is from Rise of The Robots. Seeing cyborg on his back with his helmet broken and him turning to you with his one eye looking straight at you followed by harrowing closeups as a kid, absolutely scarred me for the longest time.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

"Eventually Phoenix gets a break in the case, through a whole web of intrigue too complex to get into here" is a sentence that can be used in any Ace Attorney plot summary.

[@bsharpmajorscale]

Cross-examine parrot. EZ PZ.

[@Lorraine202]

When you’re the defense attorney but your client is guilty but if you don’t do your job your only friend dies so you have to pretend to do your job while also incriminating your client to save an innocent life but also prove to the kidnapper that they shouldn’t kill your friend while not telling anyone and still trying to carry on a normal court proceeding to little success.

[@KatNapsArt]

The part about Elite Beat Agents had me laughing so hard I cried. "You're the Inspiration" was my parents' "song" when they were dating, and seeing it in this weird rhythm action game was too much. 😂

[@TrickyTalon23]

Ironic how the darkest game over scenes are usually the ones where are the hero is still alive but something else went wrong

[@brandonthekalamari]

Yep, ironic indeed.

[@hedgehogsonic11]

Persona 5's really good with this if you fail to meet each dungeon's deadlines You don't die in any of them, but a good amount are really horrific when you think about it

[@WildfireMagni]

Emotional guilt is the worst guilt.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Trust me, you're better off breaking heroes than killing them outright and making them martyrs.

[@jardex2275]

This is what true villains aim for. They don't want to kill their nemesis. They want them to live and watch their failure. Of course, most villains botch this up, which gives the hero a chance to break free, disarm the world ending superweapon, and save the day. Maybe just settle for killing them next time?

[@cantsleepanything]

fun fact: i was taking a break from the stress of playing through the last case in justice for all when i first started watching this video. my blood ran cold at the spoilers section and i paused to begrudgingly (and now even more terrified) resume my playthrough

[@joshuawhite3766]

How could they talk about Fallout 2 and not talk about that horrifying ending in Fallout 1 where you tell the mutants where your home is and watch as everyone is slaughtered. I had nightmares for months after watching that cutscene as a kid.

[@overlordb1989]

Dang

[@swinelias]

If I remember right, that's even worse cause not only you tell the mutants where your home is, they also turn you into one.

[@joshuawhite3766]

@@swinelias You don't survive the process actually, but yeah.

[@swinelias]

@@joshuawhite3766 what? I thought the game said something like that. Guess I've forgotten a bit. Oh well, I see then.

[@YEETUSDAFEETUS]

why would you tell them that lol

[@MrYouwantmoore]

"But the future refused to change" Lavos scream still haunts my nightmares

[@AlcyonEldara]

Old comment but THIS. I had this game over in mind when I saw the title.

[@andymcp4752]

Love the idea that the Elite Beat Agents, based on how well you’re playing, are either magical people making wishes come true with music, or just truly horrible people riding in on totally misplaced confidence, making everyone feel worse, and then checking out immediately

[@pulsefel9210]

im surprised i was able to watch the video before their snips of songs got them sued for infringment

[@alexpage4355]

@@pulsefel9210 It helps that every track in that game is a cover (though some are so close it's hard to tell), but yeah, given how litigious most record labels are, that's still surprising.

[@Goldenkitten1]

@@pulsefel9210 Something about the length of the clips. I can't remember the exact KZbin terms but basically if short enough and used as among other things parody you can get away with it. It also helps the larger your channel is, while this one isn't in the writing I've noticed the trend. Nobody gives a crap if a small channel gets claimed but they seem to be more hesitant to immediately claim a video from a channel with a million or more subs.

[@pulsefel9210]

@@Goldenkitten1 youtube has nothing to do with it. the DMCA is what matters and ANY claim under it requires youtube to remove the video. then its up to the uploader to contest it and open themselves to lawsuits from the filer. youtube cant stop this with any tos wording. even a .1 second clip can be flagged and claimed.

[@Goldenkitten1]

@@pulsefel9210 I was talking about KZbins auto claim system. Usually it will not pick up a song if an extended portion isn't played.

[@K4RN4GE911]

How to send a shiver down anyone's spine who owned an SNES with six words: _But the future refused to change..._

[@idontthinktheysawthatcomin6792]

Or whoever got the rereleases and played blind

[@Gelasans]

don't EVERRR say those 6 words agains

[@Nick-qf7vt]

What game was that?

[@UndertakerU2ber]

@@Nick-qf7vt Chrono Trigger

[@korhol2065]

That fucking noise at the end, it feels like my pc just tried to kill itself with a defibrillator

[@insertclevername4123]

"Your daddy isn't coming home." "Yes he is!" "Forget about him!" Fastest speed run of the five stages ever.

[@revolver265]

That gave me whiplash, the poor kid barely understands death and probably didn't pick up the hint that he can't come back 'cause he's dead and all, and here she is getting yote through the emotional rollercoaster that is DABDA.

[@beesforbreakfast]

Griefhacks! I call shenanigans!

[@mightybeastofbengal]

Any %

[@mar_speedman]

@@mightybeastofbengal She was definitely aiming for the worst ending

[@jolan_tru]

"FORGET ABOUT DADDY!!! Emilio is your new daddy now and we're going to move in with him."

[@rockyraccoon8870]

Ellen's "Jesus you killed R2" made me laugh more than it should have 😂

[@borissaurus]

I'll be honest, the ending from Elite Beat Agents that always broke my heart was the Highway Star level. It was horrifying seeing a poor pug suffer in the desert for the bad ending. And then there was the worst passing ending where poor dog makes it home, only to find out the family moved away. T_T

[@scottylewis8124]

Damn...

[@nickelakon5369]

I was gonna bring that one up. The dog pretty much lays down to likely die in the desert.

[@bananatiergod]

One word: OUCH

[@Jon-ei4st]

Lmao, wtf is wrong with that writing team? Enough emotional tension to rival an Obsidian game.

[@scottylewis8124]

@@Jon-ei4st Nintendo had a bit of a mature phase in the 2000s.

[@iisanulquiorrahara8]

In Persona 4, if you blow off the villain's claim that the normal world and the Midnight Channel's world will collide at the deadline, ultimately leading to ruin, you are treated with hearing best girl desperately calling you to inform that the city's been overrun before she dies in real-time. That scream still gives me chills.

[@shawnfields2369]

Why would you even blow off that claim in the first place?! After ALL the weird; insane things that have happened so far, I just mean; how could you NOT believe both the normal world, and the Midnight Channel(the TV world), will collide? So; does the real villain mean they'll collide like the moon from Majora's Mask, or literally collide, like fuse together? Because Persona 4 is my favorite one that I've played, between Persona 3 and 5(but I haven't finished P5R yet; so we'll see); but by best girl, clearly you mean Yukiko; tells you what happens then gets killed?! Geez; that's seriously dark and disturbing...and especially with a blood curdling scream too? Wow; Persona 4, that's some serious scary horrifying stuff to think about there. Guess that's why I could never really finish the game, because every time I'd get a copy of it, it literally would NEVER work. And the last time, it nearly worked; but because I stupidly cleaned my PS2 with the wrong type of cleaning alcohol, and thus; accidentally destroyed my PS2 forever; never getting to play anymore of Persona 4 ever again, and my friends, are forever either trapped inside the Midnight Channel; or dead. Sorry to have failed you all; guys...especially Nanako and Chie...but not as sorry as I am for letting down Yukiko; too...

[@aiodensghost8645]

​@@shawnfields2369get it on Switch (or get a modded PS Vita). If you still have the remains of your PS2, they're super easy to fix now

[@screamingfalcon71]

"I hope the narrator was paid by the hour" Are you kidding? It's Ron Perlman! He was probably paid by the letter!

[@TheKenbuntu]

I came here for this. "A narrator", "the voice actor". Are you for real? That's friggin' Hellboy!

[@aaronsirkman8375]

@@TheKenbuntu I'm...pretty sure they're aware of who Ron Perlman is; they probably acted like that for the lulz.

[@Alisibeth_Talia212]

Knowing him, probably. He has the best voice ever.

[@JackSilver1410]

@@Alisibeth_Talia212 The late Tony Jay would like a word with you.

[@Alisibeth_Talia212]

@@JackSilver1410 I'm... Not sure I know who that is? I'm 20, soooo, I'm probably too young.

[@NinjaKIngAce]

It may not be as dark as these, but one game over screen that haunted me as a kid, was the one from Banjo-Kazooie, where Banjo's sister is turned into a horrifying mutant. And you didn't even need to die to see it, as it would also play every time you pressed "Save & Quit" in the menu.

[@carlnielsen1458]

Not a game over but I always thought the zombified King in banjo tooie was horrifying when I was little

[@carlnielsen1458]

Not a game over but I always thought the zombified King in banjo tooie was horrifying when I was little

[@NinjaKIngAce]

@@carlnielsen1458 Same

[@lissia5014]

YES of course, I HATED IT! Rare just a poor company who was lazy to having save and quit to be a COMPLETE FALIURE!? and just forced to Watch a 1 minute Cutscene with Gruntilda became Sexy and Mumbo Jumbo just Simping her??? And finally Tooty, Banjo’s sister became a HORRIFYING looking Ogre who Rawrs and RAwrs AND RAWRS in front of the Game Over Screen!! Rare!! How could you make a innocent and cute looking character into a Hellish Nightmare Abomination-like mutant!! I HATE RAREWARE!!!!! 😤

[@OtakuJuanma2]

The Forest shows the canibals eating your unconscious (not dead) body, and that's Canon because you then respawn as a different survivor.

[@amberparry3370]

That is sooo. Dark

[@davidvega462]

Fun fact: Ron Perlman has been the narrator for every single fallout game, even the original back in 1997. War never changes, and neither do narrators apparently…

[@joshuamoody7729]

when somethings not broke, you do not fix it.

[@TheMellowFilmmaker]

The mom in Elite Beat Agents doesn't know anything about comforting a grieving child. It's almost like she cut the dad's brake lines.

[@pulsefel9210]

surprising a newly crowned widow might be having something else on her own mind

[@piyam5000]

The "forget" must be a poor translation thing? Then again she is shaking her in the picture so who knows.

[@jaronneutronix3231]

That look of horror on her face when he comes back as a ghost haha

[@Soroboruo]

Lucy is blonde like her mom, but blonde is a recessive hair color, so it's entirely possible she's not actually his kid....

[@pulsefel9210]

@@Soroboruo recessive means both parents must carry the gene for it to activate under normal conditions.

[@RikoJAmado]

Wow. Luke Skywalker vs Biff Tannen vs Gimli. To quote Peter Griffin, 'How are we not funding this?"

[@BlooferLady86]

Wait wait wait, was Dark Tomorrow the Batman game where you could call Alfred at any time? And when you hit the "call Alfred" button, Bats stands bolt upright and the baddies all pause to let him take his phone call. Very polite.

[@someonerandom8552]

Hey, manners cost nothing. Even Batman baddies had parents that taught them respect apparently lol

[@vanguardRailgun924]

@@someonerandom8552 Batman didn’t have his though.

[@someonerandom8552]

@@vanguardRailgun924 Lol

[@gachanovuh3710]

The criminals in Arkham City also politely wait for your to finish you call with Zsasz and THEN attack you. Edit: Fixed a spelling error

[@Avenging_Archer]

@@gachanovuh3710 Yeah this isn't reddit man.

[@songohan3321]

The true saddest day on any game is to arrive to a game-breaking bug that no amount of save files can fix. Losing 50 to 100+ hours having to start from the beginning.

[@1Holbytla]

It’s brutal. Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness broke my heart like that, albeit fewer hours invested: I couldn’t progress at all, I think, restarting or otherwise! ... This was before the interwebs were as big a thing and where nowadays I could maybe get a patch or fix.

[@luske2]

I remember in Trauma Center: Second Opinion if you fail to save someone during surgery the main character quits his job and goes into a heavy depression, basically abandoning life and society. That hit me hard when I was younger xD

[@NEETKitten]

And the game over ends with (paraphrased) "Most of his colleagues agreed that Dr Stiles was never cut out to be a surgeon to begin with." As if everything before that didn't hit hard enough, the game wanted to let you know that your friends thought you were too soft to be a doctor.

[@luske2]

@@NEETKitten yeah the game treated you like such a failure despite everything you had done up to that point lol.

[@NEETKitten]

@@luske2 Though, I think the game wasn't saying "Derek (and by extension) you suck at his job and shouldn't have started to begin with" with that line, but more "Derek should never have become a surgeon because he went into a probably suicidal slump after losing a single patient." Less mocking the player, and instead stating that the character is too hard on themselves for not being a legit miracle worker. Still hurts tho.

[@aiodensghost8645]

​@@NEETKittenit's even worse if the person has a sense of Imposter Syndrome before something like that happens... but it's still something that can happen to anyone

[@CuckooKukri]

You mentioned the moon falling in Majora's Mask, but the most tragic failure (not technically a game over) in that game is when you fail to defeat the aliens and Romani gets abducted. I literally try to save her in every possible timeline just because it upsets me so much XD

[@tooclosetokyle]

There’s a game called Sudeki where if you don’t protect your wife in one particular section your character named Elco says a line and then all you hear is a gunshot. Straight up offs himself.

[@JohnZ117]

I remember that mission. Fortunately, she's got a ton of hp, so, unless maybe if you're playing at harder difficulties, it's better than typical escort missions. They did the Final Boss Battle badly, though.

[@deeemm411]

Sudeki is one of my favourite games ever, I have played it for many years and beaten it close to 20 times now. ...I never knew it would resolve that way if you failed to save Tily. I was always so focused on keeping her alive. Thank god she at least has one heal in her when she drops below half for the first time. Jesus...I knew Elco was critical of himself, but not enough to end it. Then again, he was facing a crisis of character so I guess he was close to being driven to anything.

[@Six3rdy]

Forreal?!??? I played that game and I was determined to not fail that mission. I had no idea that the gunshot was a thing!

[@blu_j_1977]

Getting dunked on by Sans is something I’ll never recover from. Not physically, but rather in a humiliating sense.

[@moyaienjoyer3037]

Honestly the chara encounter might have got on there if it was darkest endings

[@jasegaming6616]

Once I jumped to my death in Minecraft lol

[@shadowrider6578]

geeeeeeeeet

[@thisisodsmith]

Basically every nonstandard game over in Persona 4 is darker than a very dark thing, where at best you receive a phone call telling you that the person thrown into the TV world - often one of your friends - has been found dead, at worst you have a trauma conga line that begins with Nanako dying after her stint in the TV world and ends with the entire world shrouded in an eerie fog that will slowly weaken those within it until they die

[@RanMouri82]

So the entire world becomes Silent Hill?!

[@thisisodsmith]

@@RanMouri82 Basically, yeah

[@joshuagoforth1658]

I love persona 4 so much although since I’ve played it to 100% multiple times I always feel so bad siding with adachi just for the persona

[@elvingearmasterirma7241]

"Trauma conga line" Painfully apt

[@NeoFlyingDragonX]

The one where Naoto screams from getting attacked by the shadow on the phone is the worse to me.

[@GazJones1987]

I don’t know if I’m a bad person but, “whaaaaaoh! Boom! Jesus! You did killed R2!” had me in stitches! 😂

[@Nytemare2all]

Dying against Lavos in Chrono Trigger. The message telling you the future refused to change and Lavos's scream ensures that everyone who sees it will remember it.

[@acuerden]

I know! It's perhaps the most iconic dark game over in RPGs, at least of its era

[@NerdKing2nd]

That screech can still send chills up my spine to this day

[@Artificer1911]

I had come here to suggest this one

[@ThatIckyGuy]

@@Artificer1911 Yeah, me, too. Such an awesome game and I'm not even that big of a JRPG fan.

[@KittyKatt_Luna80s]

I was about to say this too. Thank you.

[@SJupiter526]

Odin Sphere. If you didn’t pick the right people for the final fights, Miris has to watch the world end. Her tearful speech still haunts me.

[@justicetaylor3050]

I remember that. It was awful seeing her fall to her knees as the screen fades to black and the last pieces of land sink into the sea.

[@iveyyewitt1621]

Luckily, it's easy to figure out who goes where.

[@spencerbuchanan95]

Her comment on Wing Commander. “God, everyone’s in this.” 🤣

[@Raguleader]

They really were.

[@DirgeTV]

Looking back at some similar games from that time, that response is repeatidly applicable.

[@popcanman2]

The fact it sounded like it wasn't scripted too made it all the funnier 😂

[@theJuLYheat]

AND MYYYY AXE!!!🤣🤣🤣💯

[@SorenPenrose]

even Pavarotti

[@TheRedJacks]

That Elite Beat Agents mission was both the most wholesome and most heartbreaking mission in that game, depending on how you did. Same goes for both Ouendan games

[@NocturnalDecay]

I think Dual Destinies' bad ending where Simon is wrongfully executed, Trucy is never seen again, Athena quits her job and goes missing, and Apollo stops smiling forever is also worthy of being on this list. Edited because I'd misremembered the details.

[@ellehopelle]

Honestly, the one in Dual Destinies is way worse imo. JFA has a wrongful sentencing and Phoenix quitting, but at least Maya is presumably alive and well.

[@MintyCoolness]

I also think the bad ending in Apollo Justice deserves mention as well; a girl dies, and she still goes down for her father's murder. And proving the villain was right...

[@melskunk]

I've save scummed so much I never knew how bad the bad endings for these games are.

[@mar_speedman]

@@melskunk I know, right? Sometimes I even check a walkthrough when I'm stuck. Had no idea I missed so much lol

[@ultimapower6950]

Me who remembers a video about that ending hey I remember this one

[@dracoerrarus4834]

As a little kid, I played a DOS point-and-click game where you’re...evading aliens, I guess? I never got far, as after only a minute or two into the game, an alien would walk on screen and find me. The game over screen showed a closeup of the alien’s face, and the eyes start glowing red. Those eyes gave me nightmares and I never played it again.

[@mariogirl8100]

Do you know the name of the game?

[@dracoerrarus4834]

@@mariogirl8100 No, I don't, and I'm having trouble finding it online. We only had it because it was packed in with a bunch of other shareware. I think I played it around 1994, give or take a couple years. I'm also thinking those eyes might've glowed green, not red. Memory's a little hazy.

[@aiodensghost8645]

Hmm... might have to browse GOG and myabandonware to see if I can find what you are referring to

[@Ravenite456]

Intro screen: Lucy Stevens, 7 Luke: "Twelve-year-old Lucy..."

[@cyanimation1605]

yeah idk any 12 year olds who believe in teddy bears and santa wait no I did know two 13 year olds who believed in santa actually

[@retrogamernes3121]

He most likely said that she is twelve just in case watchmojo is..um.. watching.. so on the off chance they say the same thing, luke will know they plagiarized

[@bdf1006]

This isn't a mistake. She was 7 before her Dad died and when Luke picks up it's been 5 years and she still refuses to believe he won't come back.

[@owenjames8575]

@@bdf1006 that makes the whole level way shittier

[@comsky4251]

"what's that thing?" "It's the Death Star" "what's it do?" "IT DOES DEATH!"

[@notoriousbmc1]

In Lara Croft's mansion when you swan dive from up stairs and...*shivers*...crack her neck on the ground floor...*winces*...if you listen carefully, you can hear a faint laugh coming from the freezer.

[@DetectiveLance]

Hehe, we all locked up the old butler in the freezer Fuck,we're all monsters

[@Hopalongtom]

If only you didn't lock him in the freezer, the family butler could have called an Ambulance!

[@JohnZ117]

I've only played Legends - the 2nd most recent, and didn't even know Lara could die in her home.

[@corrinbielawski8035]

Cue flashbacks of the sound of that rattling tea tray.

[@MrDalisclock]

Unfortunately, nobody else knew he was in the freezer, so he's probably never getting out of there.

[@millsy6195]

I'll be honest... Luke Skywalker being coerced by Biff...? A fan fiction nobody ever bothered to write, yet sounds so perfect in retrospect.

[@2011multisam]

Ellen saying "And my Axe" made me so happy 😂

[@just1it1moko]

made me laugh out loud!

[@deathbykonami5487]

A true nerd would recognize that before he was Gimli in LoTR, he was Sallah in Indiana Jones! (come on, that game had two Lucasfilm legends in it: Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and Sallah (Jonathan Rhys-Davies). It's Nerd 101, man!)

[@Heartshapedbox81]

I was drinking juice and I'm lucky that I refrained from spitting out 😂

[@bernardoheusi6146]

Miracle never happen

[@Omahdon]

how dare you fail THAT elite beat agents stage. HOW DARE

[@scottylewis8124]

Shame on them!

[@Gelasans]

@@scottylewis8124 SHAME

[@willowweedsYT]

You know it’s going to be a hard video to get through when you’re crying two and a half minutes in about a fifteen year old game you never heard about before... thanks guys!

[@Tickerbee]

What immediately sprang to my mind was "But...the future refused to change" from Chrono Trigger if you die at the hands of Lavos.

[@idontthinktheysawthatcomin6792]

Same. It also happens if you lose to the Dream Devourer too.

[@Gelasans]

And that shriek ugh never again

[@stormtrooperelite1453]

I love it how you said "god, everyone's in here" while completely forgetting to mention Malcolm McDowell, only the biggest name on that cast

[@Alsebra]

My thought exactly upon realizing exactly who all was in that clip...not taking anything away from Richard Riehle, though. The game also included bit roles for Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers' Johnny Rico) and Chip Esten (semi-regular performer on Whose Line?).

[@TimCools_WithALongO]

Castlevania: Circle of the Moon's game over screen terrified me as a kid! The gargoyle's look of agony on its face combined with the blood hanging from the "Game Over" letters just really made the younger me imagine that somehow, after some very painful blood-draining process, the player character was fashioned into that gargoyle and then left somewhere on the outer wall of the castle as some insignificant piece of decoration.

[@insaincaldo]

Decoration? More likely an enthralled guardian gargoyle.

[@sophiabrown5608]

That's dark! I can see it now

[@holysauce4982]

Never thought that I would witness musical necromancy over a teddy bear in my lifetime

[@noddler217]

'The Death Star is allowed to fire and, well...' Everybody's dead, Dave.

[@23Scadu]

What, captain Hollister?

[@noddler217]

@@23Scadu Everybody's dead, Dave.

[@toma6394]

What, Todd Hunter?

[@invenblocker]

Man, I remember how absolutely heartbroken I was after getting the Farewell My Turnabout bad ending.

[@scottylewis8124]

Did you eventually get the good ending?

[@invenblocker]

@@scottylewis8124 Of course.

[@mariogirl8100]

The miracle never happen.

[@RickachuCXVI]

"Aww, they fixed the typo! D:" I feel that way everytime a rerelease fixes poor translation and fun bugs

[@Ravenite456]

The re-release of Castlevania Symphony of the Night removed one of the most iconic lines in gaming. Which I'm pretty sure qualifies as a crime against humanity.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

And this is why an option to either turn on and off the original translation is a must for rereleases these days.

[@Autokendo17]

I guess the miracle never happen.

[@R4553R]

"JESUS, YOU KILLED R2!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@catoninetales]

"And poor Batman has to watch it happen with his little shocked Pikachu face." This was so funny and spot on, too!!!

[@chazztreat8317]

So did I when I saw this. Turns out you have to disable the system, but the game never says you have to.

[@LeahLovesNature]

One honorable mention I would like to shout out is the Bad Endings of Persona 4. When you and your friends go into to confront the person they all believe is the big bad, you have to choose six correct dialogue options in a row in order to proceed to the good ending. If you make any mistakes, you get one of three bad endings, and one of them kills off your 7-year old cousin. I feel so bad for anyone who got that ending on their first play-through. The Bad Endings of Persona 5 are also really sad to think about, but at least they don't involve any little kids dying. (Just teenagers)

[@SanmiAtleti96]

How can you forget King K Rool blowing up DK Island on Donkey Kong 64? That ending made me literally cry as a kid.

[@homerman76]

What's worse is that the game uses this scene to guilt trip you whenever you just to want to exit to the main menu to say, change files or play the multiplayer mode.

[@spooky_electric]

On the other hand, sexy Grunty in Banjo-Kazooie... not so bad. 👀

[@vegimite5671]

@@spooky_electric true

[@lissia5014]

Well when you grow up, prepare for your Childhood SHATTERED! Just see Super Smash Bros. Ultimate King K. Rool was in this game, and his Final Smash move, he uses his Blast-O-Matic and Blows Up DK Isle when an Opponet was hit by him. And it was ACTUALLY shows the Island got blasted!

[@lissia5014]

@@spooky_electricbruh is just weird and ugly when she’s like Bayonetta

[@randomtheorist251]

You mentioned the Moon from Majora's Mask, but there's arguably an even darker game over elsewhere in the series. In Minish Cap, there is a section in the final dungeon where you must fight through 3 rooms of enemies before three bells toll, signalling that the antagonist, Vaati, has completed his ritual to absorb the Light Force from Princess Zelda. After you complete the first room, the first bell tolls. After you complete the second, the second bell tolls. If you take too long in the final room, the third bell tolls, and the scene shifts to show the balcony outside, where you see Vaati complete his ritual and rip the soul from Princess Zelda, killing her and turning her to stone.

[@LJay_1985]

I can't help but think of how absolutely brutal the Final Fight series' continue screens were. The player characters left in peril, desperately trying to extinguish a bomb/avoid drowning/not get literally spiked, all the while you struggle, rummaging through your pockets, trying to claw at another 50p amongst the assorted coinage to save them (and your hard-earned progress) before it's too late. And if you fail? Ooh, nasty.

[@kurokasumi8714]

Kind of a dark game over in Star Fox Adventures when you're captured at one point. When you try to stealth around and find your gear, if you get caught you get slowly cornered off screen by a group of grunts and just get to listen to Fox be beat to death with spiky clubs!

[@Smoldar]

At the start, I was all "If there is no X-Com on this list, I'm gonna get mad" but alas, you guys delivered. That UFO Defense game over haunted me for years.

[@sambridgett]

"He said the thing!" with the little DiCaprio pic made me proper snort-laugh

[@00SLE7EN]

I think the harshest game over I've had was in Persona 4 when I tossed Nanako's kidnapper into the TV world. Nanako dies and the game over lasts so long that I was sure it was the real ending, I only found out later that I was supposed to restrain my thirst for revenge and find the true culprit to save everyone.

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

it's even worse in the golden version if you decide you desperately want to complete Adachi's social link and don't want to out him to the group, because it requires you actually knowing the truth beforehand and betraying everyone in the process in order to unlock magatsu-izanagi

[@glenmoody-elias1040]

@@lazyperfectionist3978 I mean, there's two ways to max out his social link. It's just that one of those is a bad ending.

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

@@glenmoody-elias1040 - which makes it even worse after you realise you didn't have to betray your friends to get what you wanted

[@glenmoody-elias1040]

@@lazyperfectionist3978 Either way, it caps out after the gameplay ends, doesn't it? It'd be for NG+ regardless.

[@NeoFlyingDragonX]

I was a bit shaking when I was siding with Adachi and saw his sl get maxed out without even been at rank 9 cuz I was rank 8. I did load again cuz I wanted to the true ending which I still need to get at

[@bbninc287]

"Darth Vader et. al." is a reference I was looking for

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

Batman Arkham City: in Catwoman's campaign you can choose either to help Batman or leave the prison, choose the latter and you'll listen to a radio broadcast from Oracle about how a recovered Joker staged a successful prison break and started laying siege to Gotham City.

[@checkertwentyfour9349]

But you reverse back, making sure you will save Batman

[@scottylewis8124]

I kinda shut the game off before that happened

[@william-alexmarcil4299]

For some reason, King K. Rool blowing up DK Island in Donkey Kong 64 stuck with me. Something about that evil laugh and those bloodshot eyes.

[@hafezali860]

"With four arms you can throw twice as many assault rifles" well, he's not wrong!

[@insaincaldo]

Me just sitting there, oh so that is what's up with the lost in modern Xcom 2. That game is just the bad every consequence of all it's prequels from the get go ain't it..

[@civilwildman]

Or you could actually throw more of something meant to be thrown, like grenades.

[@alexpage4355]

@@civilwildman Now, you're just being silly!

[@travisbishop782]

Why is that even an option?

[@alexpage4355]

@@travisbishop782 Because the game allows you to throw literally _anything_ you can pick up. Presumably, it was a nod toward realism (or as close as you were getting in the mid-90's), but it also led to some interesting strategies, such as "grenade hot-potato" and having a soldier pick up a gun from a fallen alien and tossing it to a nearby ally. While I love the Firaxis reboots, there's a reason some of they rub some old-school fans the wrong way with their (sometimes overly) streamlined gameplay, and even Jake Solomon freely admits that, in the process of filling in some of classic X-Com's valleys (if you think the hunts for the last, surviving alien are bad now.....), they also ended up shaving off some of its peaks.

[@writtenradio]

“And my axe!” Ellen’s tone of voice was perfect.

[@VoidWanderer92]

Trauma Center 2's game over made me feel pretty crappy after I failed to save a paitent. Poor Dr. Stiles...

[@deanrohe5346]

An even worse version comes in Chapter 6-6. Triggering the alarm heavily implies Derek and Angie are turned into Sinners for the new Delphi.

[@Nyxy-Noo]

I was surprised there was no mention of Corpse Party, but then I realized we live in a dystopia where problematic subjects or themes often get your video punshed on the platform you upload them to.

[@Drace90]

The Telltale Jurassic Park game. It has all kinds of gruesome game overs. Like a young girl getting chewed by a T-Rex. No, not just swallowed whole. Chewed.

[@jonahfalcon1970]

I can do worse: the worst ending in which Jess is the sole survivor, because of Nima getting killed and her father being devoured in front of her.

[@michealmccann9428]

I always think about the game over screen from Haunting Ground: a static red screen and you can hear the awful things being done to your body in death! Nightmare-inducing!!!

[@gel_oh]

Every Persona 5 game over had very depressing undertones involving very "trigger-heavy" things happening to the characters. It would've fit perfectly with this list, but I'm kinda glad it wasn't featured cuz I wouldn't wanna re-live some of them again myself lmao

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

now that you've said that, expect a commenter sequel

[@NeoFlyingDragonX]

4 has some good bad endings too.

[@jokhard8137]

I can't believe you guys didn't point out that in the Ace Attourney ending, that was the unique case where you were supposed to get a Guilty verdict for your client. Phoenix's undefeated 100% Non Guilty Verdict rate was riding on that case, you know

[@shawnfields2369]

Yeah sure, but who cares about a 100% Non-Guilty Verdict rate, when your client is both truly Guilty, and when you're trying to save Maya from an actual professional assassin, and either side with justice itself, and let Enguarde's manager, Adrian Andrews, get framed for something she didn't do, and lose, getting a Guilty Verdict, or save Maya's life, and lose the case, but save her and get a Non Guilty Verdict? I know I don't care about some stupid, 100% undefeated streak, over saving both Adrian and Maya from getting killed, while taking down Enguarde at the same time. Also, a few weeks ago, I went through Ace Attorney: Justice For All again(but on my 3DS XL), and remembered how great the entire Ace Attorney series is, because I own every AA game; and they're all amazing, and not one of them should be considered a mediocre or bad entry, not even the Edgeworth spinoffs, or the Apollo Justice game. But in that case, in which you're supposed to lose, you can't let either Shelley De Killer, or the Judge; figure out that both the Defense(Phoenix Wright), and the Prosecution(Franziska Von Karma/Miles Edgeworth), are working together to take down Matt Enguarde and get De Killer to release Maya. It's definitely the most tense Ace Attorney case in such a short game. I didn't know they'd re-released the series. And I definitely don't get how Maya can go back to watching the Steel Samurai after this case, or how Nick can either, in the Apollo Justice game. But honestly, let me say; I was GLAD to get a "Guilty" Verdict, in this case. This is the ONE time, in Ace Attorney; where you HAVE to lose, in order to win, to make sure that in order to stop the real criminal, (who's not even the assassin, de Killer, in this case, but the egotistic superstar; both literally and metaphorically), but technically, Phoenix does lose the case, but saves both Maya and Adrian from Enguarde, and Franziska asks how Nick can be happy about what just happened; it's because he saved someone's life and got the real criminal a Guilty, that's why. It's not about winning the case(well, yes it is, but not always). But at least, they fixed the typo!

[@callmehanson9466]

Damn COVID. I could imagine this video ending in a You Are Dead Dance Party Outro to cheer up Ellen.

[@eric_moore-6126]

Thought you were hot? Guess what: you're not.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Ah, memories...

[@Zezlemetkun]

Hopefully soon we will once again see the chair

[@Pyro7693]

Mass Effect 2's Arrival DLC. Let the clock run out, get a horror show courtesy of the Reapers.

[@sicklendhammerstudio]

is it really a surprise that a character is a Villain if he's played by Malcolm McDowell

[@loonbob3778]

You obviously never saw the movie Star Trek: Generations.

[@cyanimation1605]

Lego Hero Factory is the only thing I can think of where he's a good guy. Which also had Mark Hamill as the first season's main villain. Man, these guys take any role huh?

[@loonbob3778]

Oops. Sorry. I misread your comment.

[@loonbob3778]

However he is a good guy in the previous game... sort of.

[@glengreer9614]

Greetings America! This is your President, John Henry Eden... As your President, it's my responsibility to preside over our great democracy. So, as your President, I am the voice, I am the heart and soul of the Enclave. That is to say, I am the voice, heart, and soul... of America. But only together, TOGETHER, can we hope to reach our full potential. The way we were before the war. Whole. Beautiful. Powerful. One Enclave. One America. Now... and forever.

[@b0k46]

y'know, one game over that scared me the most is the one in Undertale after losing to Photoshop Flowey, where you get told you're having a bad dream and will NEVER wake up. Proceeding to get laughed at a bunch then the game crashes... nice.

[@angeliquecushman9953]

As tragic as some of these are, I think the most scarring game over would be persona 4's bad ending when you don't pick the right dialogue when confronting your suspected murderer. (I know theres technically like three bad endings to the game, but there is one worse than the rest)

[@adrianruiz1139]

You mean the one in the hospital?

[@angeliquecushman9953]

@@adrianruiz1139 Yeah, if you choose to get revenge on the first dialogue choice

[@paulgibbon5991]

Persona 3 is also pretty grim if you choose to wipe everyone's memories (and their bonds and camaraderie up to that point) and your knowledge that the world is going to end so that when it comes, you won't be crippled by fear. Not least because of the implication that Aigis still knows what's going to happen, she's just utterly unable to do anything about it.

[@synthraofficial5366]

The "And they All lived Happily Ever After" ending to Devil May Cry 5 is somehow the darkest thing that could possibly happen if you know the lore well enough. Man, it messed me up lol!

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

Wing Commander IV, where Biff Tannen recruits Luke Skywalker, who later fights against Caligula. And Gimil is there for some reason.

[@KitsuneYojimbo]

The death sequence to The Elder Scrolls: Arena. Particularly the one where you die before collecting even one piece of the Staff of Chaos, where Ria Silmane effectively tells you that with you dead, the villain now can rule the land of Tamriel with no opposition.

[@minakohiashi8882]

A mother and daughter are just sad for 10 years and then they move. I know there's at least two songs where everyone dies. I get that's it sad but they're in a better position than many of the other game over screens.

[@torgranael]

The two song boss fight was absolutely brutal.

[@nycstreetpoet]

Knowing that Malcolm McDowell is the BBEG in Wing Commander IV is not a spoiler, it’s a treat. Also, when is he NOT the BBEG? He isn’t exactly known for playing protagonists.

[@nananderson7259]

There's the ending in Heavy Rain where Ethan's other son dies, Madison and Norman have both died horrifically, the Origami Killer gets away, Ethan ends up in jail and to top it all off, Ethan decides to hang himself. Less of a game over but it does the job; if the job is causing emtional and mental trauma.

[@TheTrueJevil]

Thats a game over that you have to work for. Like literal do EVERYTHING wrong

[@Shadowspawn2315]

Hearing Ellen yell, "and my axe" had me laughing my ass off.

[@pauldavis8242]

Started playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning recently (the original, thank you Ellen!) and fangirled a bit when I saw it in the intro!

[@glimmerhutcherson139]

Ellen converted so many people to the Kingdoms of Amalur fanbase ❤

[@Syoubat]

The remaster is worth it.

[@clericofchaos1]

What the hell is up with that wing commander game? That looks like a damn movie...hell, it looks like a damn *good* movie! How did they manage to convince so many A-list celebrities to work in a videogame?...and why haven't i heard about it before now?

[@1Holbytla]

It does look good to me, too. I’m guessing it came out when Full Motion Video was a new and popular thing. I want to say early to late 90’s?

[@0BucketMask0]

Being in a videogame used to be a big deal! Now most actors can't even be assed to do voice overs for game adaptations of their own movies...

[@StarScapesOG]

Metroid prime 3, where you see Samus get completely corrupted was kind of dark...

[@firstnamesurname1906]

What about the katamari series, where your own father ridicules you and in one instance fires lasers at you while you're trapped running round a planetary sized snooker table?

[@majdramadan8404]

I’ll probably never recover from this thumbnail.

[@outsidextra]

Batman has seen better days...

[@majdramadan8404]

@@outsidextra Has he though? Looks like he’s just been kissed by a Seal....

[@jmgerraughty]

@@majdramadan8404 IIIIIIII’VE BEEEEEEEENNN KISSED BY A SEAL ON THE GRAVE

[@naughtycicero1460]

For some reason, Batman sounded like one of the voice actors from Skyrim.

[@weregamer]

Same

[@OGTalon]

15:27 - not just any narrator, the gravelly tones of Ron Pearlman thank you!

[@maxvel0city906]

Hold on, the Death Star's real purpose was to destroy planet's! I was told by the Empire that it was a state of the art scientific research station. Yavin a laugh.

[@Autokendo17]

Heh. *pulls out absw2 slingshot with a carbonite han solo on it* You're going to the --shadow- *JEDI* Realm, Max.

[@TheTrueJevil]

Honestly I have a theory not all of the storm troopers or officers knew exactly what kinds of things the empire did. I wouldn't be surprised if certain areas of the death star were in the dark about what the death star could do

[@pedromontalvojr4585]

Commander: Ready. Aim. Throw your assault rifles, men!! Soldier: but.... Commander: Did I f#@king stutter?!

[@joshfarmer8408]

Seven bosses that you can't beat without outside assistance

[@samshircel9769]

Chrono Trigger: losing the fight with Lavos and watching Lavos destroy the world, doing the thing you spent the whole game trying to prevent. I'm also reminded of AVGN playing Friday the 13th on NES: "You and you friends are dead. GAME OVER"

[@b4nd1t9]

So you're just going to talk about dark tomorrow without mentioning the terror that is the Rocksteady Arkham games. Seeing things like Killer Croc eating Batman or Bane snapping his spine over his knee are things that molded my child hood, and don't even get me started on Scarecrow.

[@Six3rdy]

Don't forget about when Alfred himself appears on a game over screen.

[@Eshtian]

Considering number two on the list I think Batman Arkham Knight deserves a spot for when you fail during the assault on GCPD you get a cutscene where a Minigunner shoots everyone in the police station. Though it doesn't show anything it's easy to imagine what happened. Add on top of that, Scarecrow has Gordon and knows that Robin is locked up in the movie theaters. Probably doesn't help that you can tell Robin that Barbara is dead, then come back and tell her she's alive, only for her to die.