Top 5 Saddest Encounters in Cyberpunk 2077

CDProjektRed doesn't pull it's punches when it comes to hard-hitting stuff. That's why Night City is teeming with sad encounters, 5 of which we learn about in this video!
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:50 Vault 101
02:49 Seaside Cafe
04:47 Brokeback Mountain
06:22 House on a Hill
08:40 Dirty Biz
11:38 Conclusion

[@Awonya]

the river questline was so incredibly dark to me.

[@SamBram]

Yeah tbf, that whole farm thing is probs on par with Dirty Biz levels of awful

[@1TieDye1]

I think you missed a big one, one that hit me nearly as hard as dirty biz. You get the gig from either Regina or Rogue. You’re asked to go retrieve cyberpsychosis meds that were stolen from a ripperdoc, which you learn were taken by a veteran with PTSD. You head to his apartment and he confronts you once you find the medication. The medicine doesn’t help him, so you coax him to give them to you; it’s your job to get them back after all and it’s better than taking them by force. Then you talk him down from a plan to assassinate a politician, telling him he won’t accomplish anything by it. He finally gives you the medication and tells you to get out. You feel grateful that you didn’t have to kill him but it’s a hollow victory because you know you haven’t helped anybody. That’s Night City though. You go to leave the apartment and before you can get down the stairs you hear a gunshot. Racing back, knowing in your gut what happened, you pray. You round the corner to see him slumped over in the chair you left him in with a splatter of blood on the wall behind his head. That’s Night City.

[@glennboyce7753]

The mission is from Regina. The first time I did it, I talked him down and actually had to exit the game. I got back to playing CP2077 about 2 and a half weeks later.

[@ernestoperez8240]

Yes!!! Is a Regina mission Omg I feel so bad when the guy kill himself His gun was amazing but...

[@drizzt1984]

It's not that impactful. More impactful and sad is Barry loosing his best friend. And if you don't take the right option, he kills himself.

[@quannguyenle9775]

regina's gig, i talked the guy away from violent, but he killed himself before i left the building, well, at least he go out by his own term

[@kevindowney129]

Legit saved a clip right after the shot as I ran back, this game should have been what it could have been.

[@philipsalama8083]

One of them that struck me as really dark was the honor killing one in Pacifica. You find a man and a woman dead near some corpo agents, and learn that the woman was the daughter of a rich father, while the guy was a nomad. The father tried to bribe the nomad to stop seeing his daughter, but when both rejected him, he sent his men to kill them both. It's really dark, since so called honor killings are something that happen a lot in real life. So many women have been murdered or disfigured by their families for dating the wrong person.

[@kevinzhu6417]

Saw that one as well, the agent who kills them even calls the father a piece of trash or something along those lines

[@OSGamer70]

I don't bother to read 80% of the shards I've collected. The fact that you've not only read them all but can coherently narrate the story back to us, is very impressive. Kudos to you Sam Bram. The very reason I love your videos!

[@agitatedzone]

"Family Matters" gig is for me the deepest and most heart-wrenching of all. Shares its name with the Bloody Baron quest from Witcher 3, which potentially also ends tragically.

[@SamBram]

Damn, that's a good one I missed! Thanks for mentioning it though, as I've noted it down for a part 2 if I ever do one

[@r1pbuck]

Gottfried and Frederick... It's obvious that 'the game' wants you to kill them. I tried _not_ killing them and it worked out exactly the same in the denoument/payoff from Regina. I expected that the story would fork in some way, rather like a few others that changed when you did or didn't kill a target. But yeah...putting those two down was 100% justice, however unofficial.

[@philipsalama8083]

I killed the son and let the father live - making the father experience what the parents of the victims experienced is a true punishment.

[@Jay-ho9io]

That was the mission, that on my first playthrough very much solidified how I was going to interact with that character for the rest of the playthrough. And it solidified for me the worst in Night City. I finished the mission pretty much on autopilot, more or less staggered my V out to the dock side. It was night time in the moon was up and I remember just staring at that moon through the screen. "You'll have to be more specific" The sheer number of children involved. Somebody once told me that you begin to understand rock bottom the minute you realize it doesn't have a bottom. There's an awful lot of beauty in the game stories. But Night City? Not the people that live in it so much as the system it represents. The ecosystem of consuming human beings in every way possible. More so than rivers quest more so than anything else, dirty biz really got me as the most realistic, most banal, and most horrifying story there was in the game. I'm on my third playthrough now and it's not the same. But it's still impacts me. And nothing I've ever done in any kind of role-playing has ever hit me the same way as those long minutes in my office staring at that computer screen hearing a child tell me that I needed to be more specific and describing the dead kid I was looking for. I shot him in the face and then beat his father to death.

[@lokotroko1]

Yup,

[@undergoluckyboy4085]

I really need to stop and read the gig and calls to actually understand because without context I did left them alive and now I regret it.

[@pedropierre9594]

If you can edit and sell and produce child BD's and be part of the circuit that keeps them on the market, then you have forfeit your life

[@agitatedzone]

Another one: Rocky Ridge. in the yard of a house a dead man by a grave. he has a datashard on him.

[@usagipaige5377]

I know it's a quest line story but the whole Jackson Peralez story was creepy, sad and left me feeling powerless despite running through Night City. For side quests I tend to stay away from Highwayman even though it has a nice reward and Sinnerman. All the awful people involved in BD's make me love Judy even more for being the only good person involved in the industry.

[@First-Person]

Well the dirty biz mission really got to me when I played it. Woke them up, had the conversation, got angry and, after grabbing the bd, shot the kid in the foot. Well I got a crit and separated his entire leg and he died. I was a bit surprised but when I got the father's reaction it hit me like a bus. Didn't think I would feel anything other than anger with these two but the guy voicing the father really made me feel his pain. After a couple of seconds I killed him as well and set the game aside for 30mins. First time a game actually got me like this and it wasn't even a main quest or a forcefully triggered interaction or anything.

[@TheThelonelygnome]

There’s a dead guy near biotechnica? Where he has a message indicating he was going to get some food for his family.

[@patrickrauh996]

This one house in the badlands with many mines and shit and 2 corpses in the basement behind a locked door is also pretty sad .. dude kidnapped them and i think bc he died somehow they starved to death

[@chemical260190]

Man, the Gottfried mission got me really bad. Couldn't help myself and killed his son. Also, it is worth mentioning the River's nephew side quest. It was really dark that mission... For me it was the darkest of them all somehow...

[@ghimsg]

Btw, there will be 2 ladies talking at The Fourth Wall, the entrance to the studio when doing the Sinnerman. Conversation is about one of them stole the BD gears, which the other one found out that it was used to record chopping up kid, not sure if it's connected as players can only listen to their conversation only.

[@KingTalion]

This was quite an interesting video. I especially like that it highlighted the details in a comprehensive but not drawn out way and avoided spoiling the main game. Nice work!

[@SamBram]

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I personally find stuff like this very interesting in games so I'm glad there's others who do as well!

[@Slushiebop]

I'll be honest, I didn't kill either at the end...kinda a softie here. But I like to imagine that a near death experience made them change

[@Comicsluvr]

Great intro! For the record, I killed both Gottfrid and his son. It didn't matter to me who was worse between them...they were both culpable. Also, there is another gig (sorry but I don't remember the name) where a couple is planning to run away together before one of the parents hires a hit team to kill them both on top of an apartment building. Real Romeo and Juliet stuff.

[@Error-5478]

When the Cyberpunk writing hits. It hits like a train. But there are also bits where you wonder if they knew what they were doing.

[@chrono2959]

I really hope your channel blows up , you have excellent ,excellent content and you're only getting better. Thank you for the entertaining well done content that makes the work day go better

[@SamBram]

Thank you man, very kind of you! I'm glad that you're enjoying the content and look forward to making more

[@tlotpwist3417]

Number #1 is that iguana egg you retrieve and that never hatches, because devs chose to put a ridiculously long timer for it

[@mikecoshan3752]

I wish I could have saved Jackie & he went off with misty for an extended period but came back (but still left me his awesome bike) also the vending machine AI there should be a way to save his personality. Cyberpunks voice actors really do go above & beyond in this superb game.

[@onidarkmoon2381]

For dirty biz, that’s the only time I’ll use a grenade. Just toss in and shut the door.

[@SamBram]

Sounds like a good way to handle it. Which type of grenade out of interest?

[@onidarkmoon2381]

@@SamBram I just toss a frag, but now I’m gonna do it with a bio and anti-personnel laser one the next few times. They definitely deserve it

[@SamBram]

@@onidarkmoon2381 yeah that's what I wondered, whether you went for a more creative grenade choice 😂

[@nicktrains2234]

Dirty biz is the heaviest mission in the game for me. First time round I tried to do it peacefully as a pacifist V before I got the full story. Since then on my subsequent playthroughs I show no mercy, going in with a sword to dismember everyone on the property

[@Paldasan]

Another one is the shard with the legendary netrunner suit. Just a fragment of a story but a sad one for the many victims.

[@glennboyce7753]

There is one gig you can get from Regina in which you have to retrieve stolen medication (do not recall the name of the mission). The first time I did the mission I managed to talk the guy into handing over the meds and what happened after that (will not mention it here, do not want to spoil it) forced me to save and exit the game. I returned to CP2077 about 2 and a half weeks later.

[@milascenta4398]

Been watching you for a bit now dude and now I have to comment, you're really becoming one of my favourites. Congrats on 1k and to many more subscribers. A heart-wrenching encounter that comes to mind is the one with the two Monks (can't remember the specific name soz) monks are kidnapped by maelstrom and forced cyber implants onto them, just for fun, just to destroy their spiritual connection, one is let go and you have to save the other before he is dealt the same fate as his brother. Through it all they don't want maelstrom to die even during the saving of one of the brothers. Gets me every-time. Great video man!

[@SamBram]

Wow, thank you so much. That really means a lot to me and glad you're enjoying the content. I've noted this down for if I ever do a sequel to this video. Thank you for sharing!

[@Maestro-de-nada]

There's one small secret to find who wrenched my guts as a recent father. In a body near Las Palapas motel is a dead man killed by a drone patrolling around, way off the main road next to the highway tunnel from Pacifica. Inside you find a record of a short conversation between this dead man and his little daughter... all I have to say is I spent a lot of time looking for the girl around there to no avail, and still can't think about that scene without feel myself very sad.

[@leetifier]

Honestly loving all these vids you've been putting out, absolutely amazing quality editing and performance! I found your channel from the best Sandevistan video you did, and I've been hooked ever since. Best Cyberpunk 2077 channel on KZbin right now, can't wait to see you eventually blow up.

[@leetifier]

Also for a part 2, I think the hidden side job where you find that secret Tyger Claw bike is a really sad story. The absolute betrayal Josie would have felt, especially while you're tracking her, when you realise that it wasn't a quick death... Imagine bleeding out in a dingy alleyway, with your last thoughts of being betrayed by your lover.

[@SamBram]

Thank you, thank you! I'm really glad you've been enjoying. Wow really the best channel? Haha. I've noted down the encounter and I'll maybe make a part 2 someday so thanks!

[@jaojmnhzhzm]

Another great vid, as usual. That Gottfrid scenario is like a kick in the gut and I agree it's probably the one that evokes the most pathos in me. Having said that, *SPOILER ALERT* when you walk into Judy's bathroom and realize that Evelyn did, in fact, off herself, that threw me for a loop for a while too. A runner-up, for different reasons this time, is the moment I've got Sandra Dorsett's naked body in my arms. *END SPOILER* Something about that activated my inner caveman "protect-mode" instinct and it is why, to this day - in EVERY playthrough - I go out of my way to destroy every Scav I encounter in the game. And when I say "destroy" I mean carry an incapacitated but still living Scav and place him just so on the hood of his car so he resembles a crucified man then blow his car and him to smithereens with rockets/grenades. A message to other would-be Scavs, if you will. No car handy? I pump their noggins full of double-barreled 12-gauge buck so no ripper dock could even have the chance to recover them. Seriously. I carry a legendary/iconic Sovereign around in my inventory for just such an occasion.

[@IY4N218]

It took me a hot second to recognize the music you used in the beginning 😂

[@Atticus258.]

Man while I do try to uphold a sort of code of conduct when it came down to it in this particular scenario (as a parent) I shot them both in rapid succession and didn't even realize that these where a thing.

[@SamBram]

I don't blame you! This is one of the only scenes I've come across in any game that genuinely makes me angry, and it's testament to how well CDPR get across this Cyberpunk world that scenarios like this fit in realistically and feel a little too real

[@mspotato138]

The first one with the larpers, the word "Wraiths" is spray painted onto the vault door. Perhaps that indicates that it was them who killed them, and then immortalized themselves onto their vault.

[@Andy_Shepard]

You´re right, Sam. I got sad when the vending machine got his personality shut down. But the quest with our neighbor Barry is sad, too.

[@troybannister1669]

I always hate doing "The woman of/from la mancha" if I'm not a Nomad. Because according to the strategy guide and many walkthroughs, unless you're a Nomad, she eventually ends up dead even if you warn her.

[@Lyle-qc8ld]

you should do top horrific and/or amusing list

[@ghengisbobber]

Heroes for sure. as for your #1, I didn't spare either of them, on a few play throughs i didn't even wake them up.

[@Rycon0]

Nice Video.

[@SamBram]

Many many thanks

[@ilf12345]

the story on the ghost town pub owner is also sad

[@SamBram]

I've noted it down as one to look into. Thanks!

[@edgar541]

The father son one really did mess with me a lil.

[@spaggtrait1608]

This is the kind of thing that was missing in Phantom Liberty. It was a great addon, but stuff like wasa big part of the base games atmosphere, which was sadly missing from the expansion. BTW, you should look up the files on the computer of Freddy and son, it's some real sick shit in there, after you read that you will kill them both for sure.

[@skeltonslay8er781]

There was only one point in this game when I was genuinely sad. In the quest to reunite samurai, if you choose Denny instead of Henry you find him sitting on the curb crying. If you try to apologize he just waves you off. I felt so bad that I reloaded a save and chose him.

[@CrashOzzy1223]

0:59 vault, mutant?! FALLOUT REFERENCE?!

[@user-wy2tp9ff5s]

I think someone had been evaporated from moon somewhere in badland. You can found his shoes and a shred recording how he was trying to reach the moon base.

[@adrianpiedramendez5744]

Duude the vending machine arc is so sad

[@smikespurowny108]

Jack and Denis are an Easter egg reference for the movie Brokeback Mountain. a 2005 film starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Jack Twist, and Heath Ledger as Ennis Del Mar.

[@blibblab222]

you might have found this out now considering the video is 5 months old but there is some extra dialogue in dirty biz for if you shoot either of them before waking them up, like if you shoot the fred then gottfrid starts getting angry which he doesn't do if you kill fred after you talk to them

[@Supersteam09]

Surprised the SCSM isn’t in here. The story goes that a female is going through problems and she find this one SCSM that’s not only emotionally supportive but is likely the only thing in Night City that cares but the AI gets reprogrammed and thus effectively kills it.

[@SamBram]

Agree, it's very sad! I have since covered it in my disturbing quests video

[@ADMNtek]

Brandon his name was Brandon. Sniff 😥😥

[@FreyAgni]

One of my favorites encounters is on a high way you find a car just parked at the side. Inside is some conversations between corpos about usual corpos backstabbing and ending with the idea one will send to kill the other, then off themselves. Then if you jump to the water bellow the highway you actually find the corpo corpse.

[@Jay-ho9io]

Funny thing? That's the guy that set up corpo V in her backstory.

[@FreyAgni]

@@Jay-ho9io that's even cooler!! So many details in the lore

[@TheNukedNacho]

The XBD we grab in Dirty Biz is BD_9430. If each BD is it’s own recording, then that means they’ve edited almost TEN THOUSAND snuff BDs. And judging by how many boxes they have around the place, I don’t think that’s hard to believe. The one thing I don’t like about the Gig is that, aside from just how terrible they are, we don’t get much of a way to make them pay. I personally role-played going full Negan on Freddy using a bat that I conveniently found in the other room. But it still doesn’t feel like enough punishment for all the pain they’ve helped cause.

[@martine-e-dee]

10:41 I leave em be. Their story makes sense. Removing them slows the machinery a bit, but sooner rather than later their replacements will grow out somewhere else.

[@theEdgeCrusher12]

I left them too. In my headspace, I felt that a visit from V would make them rethink their actions and somehow turn away from their gruesome business.

[@SgtIronbeak]

Every playthrough, everyone dies in Dirty Biz. Never a regret about it.

[@ClaraDunn-rf4pf]

Who is Gottfred’s VA? He did absolutely AMAZING and I hope it gets him bigger roles in the future

[@roxanneb2890]

There's another Easter egg type on in the biotechnica flats. As yiu aproach you see a tanker on the side of the road with bodies scattered. It turns out that it was a rescue gobe bad. It seems like biotechnica was doing some shady shit with these two pregnant wonen but tge guy who was suposed to get them both out was told to end one of the womens lives because they only need one alive. (none of them made it). Close by is also another accident but these two fools played a gqme of chicken with the barrier and they both lost. And then the one with the corpo who ran ocer a child(hit and run) but the corpo has no remorse for what shes done even here colueges have issues with her attitude

[@SamBram]

The biotechnica one is actually a reference to Mad Max Fury road I believe. Was an awesome find to come across in that pretty obscure area of the map. Haven't found the one of the two playing chicken though. Will have to seek it out. Thanks!

[@northernvault5297]

Using Gary in the fallout Easter egg is also another reference to the fallout universe. Where a guy name Gary is locked up in a vault with a cloning machine the result is the more he gets cloned the more psychopathic the cloned become. Maybe Gary is the killer 😉

[@ernestoperez8240]

I haven't check this myself but apparently If you betrayed Meredith or make her fail her mission You can later find her corpse throw in the water somewhere in the map With concrete shoes Even V makes a comment about how unforgiving is the corpo life Also there is this Regina mission about retreat some stolen medicine from someone When you confront the guy you can talk your way out of the situation and just take the medicine But if you do this, on your way out you hear a gun shot Turns out the guy took his life

[@zephyr1249]

I know whenever I pull the trigger on Gottfried and Fredrik, I’m justified in doing so. But hearing the utter distress in their voices when their father or son is killed is an awful feeling. But like, I can’t let them live. It’s actually a really tough choice for me. But I always do what I feel is right; killing them both and then also the rest of the maelstromers that are there. And then, even tho I know I can’t blow up buildings, I still toss a few grenades in the building. For the sake of role play, yknow?

[@geftsu]

Shame V couldn't tell Gottfried "Time to meet God" before shooting his son in front of him. If you know, you know.

[@CrashOzzy1223]

2:19 and by raiders you’re either still referring to fallout or mistaking gangs.

[@majinwarwulf]

Gary? Gary!

[@yngreezidachamp]

Nope.. I shot freddy in the face and watch dear ol dad suffer a bit.. and when he thinks its over.. blunt object to the head.. for all the fathers he robbed of their sons..

[@ongogablogian4396]

Wasn't a reality show, it was a soap opera.

[@Flameville]

Wish you could truly be anything you want in night city lol

[@zombymando6210]

At 2:04 The word wraiths is written on the door. Perhaps the game killed the guys and tagged it.

[@SamBram]

I think the most likely scenario is that the wraiths did indeed kill them

[@Lobossumi]

Over 570 hours in the game and not once during Dirty Biz have i tried to kill the father. I always killed the son, just to make father feel it.

[@AndroidPLUR]

While Gottfried is right, it would be someone else if it wasn’t them… I still zeroed both of them. Hopefully to send a message to others in the XBD industry that this is what this life will result in.

[@ryanmorrow5393]

It's not really an encounter per say, but Lizzies story is pretty sad.

[@2kflashgod]

Brokeback mountain one doesn’t pop up for me anything i have to do first i 100% the game but have no clue why its not popping up

[@codyconnor6981]

I always shoot Freddy as all of my V’s have an extremely hardline sense of justice.

[@OriginaLee747]

Gary is a creepy character in Fallout lore ! Fyi

[@schmoovle7244]

In dirty biz, once I figured out via the laptop the true extent of their horror, I'll be honest, poetic justice didn't occur to me, from what I read it was Gottfrid who was using that, so I shot him in the head, Got to hear the son grieve, so I shot him too. That mission broke one of my biggest moral roadblocks, I normally cannot kill a Parent or child in front of the other. In this case, Gottfrid was out of anger and terror at what he did, his son for his complicity, and so I didn't have to hear him grieve. This whole gig made me feel so much, when I was driving to the next one, It still plagued my mind, I kept telling myself I did the right thing, that they both deserved death, but I felt so dirty, I had just thrown away my own morals to kill 2 demons that are so easily replaced. truth be told, I'd prefer to forget it. It's the only mission to provoke me with the thing I hate the most (Child-killers and those who'd exploit/sexualize children) , and hit me with the thing I most often cannot bear to do (killing a parent and child right infront of eachother)

[@Llanovanya85]

This game actually makes me reload an earlier save everytime I accidentally run over a pedestrian. It forces you to think about every descision and weigh the pros and cons, thus just running over civillians is something I and my V cannot bare nor justify. Actually I only once stole a car and I felt so guilty that I tried to not damage it at all and parked it nice and neatly on the sidewalk at location :-D She can pick it up in the evening again, minimal harm done. That said, I did shot Frederik first and then Gottfrid and like you said, I did not feel great afterwards

[@aaverageweeb5660]

Mean while people like me go on genocide runs in the city center with monowire and ozob grenades beating down maxtac with sir John phallistiff

[@Llanovanya85]

@@aaverageweeb5660 You must be one of those killer game people the media always talks about :-) Joking of course. I guess it's a matter of perspective and what you get out of gaming. I always liked the roleplay aspect in such games most. I play my V like I play my Cyberpunk RED Character. I do get the GTA/Postal escalation though. Nothing wrong with venting a bit.

[@aaverageweeb5660]

@@Llanovanya85 the worst part is i fit stereotypes like also being the quiet kid to and get bulled ah fuck the usa education system

[@Llanovanya85]

@@aaverageweeb5660 don't worry, stereotypes and putting people in boxes is just what simpletons need to do for themselves to get easy anwers to complex questions. I'm an introvert myself and I don't like Mondays. But that doesn't mean I go full Brenda Ann Spencer one day. Theres a little more to ones personality than just the visible :-)

[@aaverageweeb5660]

@@Llanovanya85 ok

[@Flameville]

A lot of the encounters coulda been played or seen as side stories in a brain dance, instead of jus seeing a dead body and reading personal text messages….

[@SamBram]

A casualty of time cuts no doubt 😞. Though watching braindances constantly would probs remove from the action a bit too much. Hopefully in the next game they'll strike a better balance because this one has A LOT of bodies holding archived convos for story

[@Flameville]

@@SamBram so true, there were a lot of unused ingredients in this game from the life paths to these small stories. To sections of the map missing. I hope they nail what they couldn’t get right here in Orion when it comes out in the next decade

[@masterofinfinity479]

for the braindance business, they said if not them then someone else, so i didn't see the point in killing them, and this was after questioning them

[@Zymemaru]

I'm going to play devils advocate and defend the editors of the BD in Dirty Biz. They're right, they themselves didn't kill anyone and had nothing to do with the murder. If your argument then is guilt by association or aiding the people who did it, keep in mind this is Night City. NO ONE has clean hands in this city, not even V. Fixers do business with all sorts of shitty people. Rogue does business with Scavs, Panam (Although she isn't a fixer) does business with 6th Street, and hell, Wakako, who is the most important fixer to V is the one who sold Evelyn to the moth's head. Is she any better than the editors? Scummy as what they do is, V is not any better by any stretch of the imagination

[@FOertel]

Well, the last one is kinda even worse then you make it out to be... they didnt just kindnap and murdered the boy, its very heavily implied that he was raped and tortured for the BD, ough, seeing the messages and stuff in that Gig always gives me shudders :x

[@GeonQuuin]

Brandon!