Hanbei the undying in Sekiro man. The guy was literally your sparring bro and offered himself as a punching bag to "kill" him over and over because he would rise again. At the end it's relief for him because he can finally rest as soon as you get hold of the mortal blade to kill him terminally on behalf of his own wish . But I missed him dearly once he was gone.
When it comes to the zombie in the attic from The Walking Dead: Season One, I like to play it a certain way for the most impactful story arc. When Kenny's son Duck turns, I spare Kenny the trauma of having to put down his own son and do that service for my friend. But later when we come across the boy in the attic, I support Kenny and encourage him to mercy kill that boy as a way to work through losing Duck. Then I wipe away the tears as I get ready to bury a kid in his dog's grave... (Video games are fun!)
The first time I played through TWD I was antagonistic towards Kenny because I didn't like his personality and felt like he was going to get everyone killed (though I still spared him the heartbreak of finishing off Duck). When revisiting the games after playing the whole series, I protect Kenny at all costs.
The main reason why I loved Telltale's The Walking Dead is how it doesn't pull punches at all like many other modern games under the excuse of "It's not nearly as bad as you may think" You come across many tragic situations where the right choice is always the most difficult part to do, especially whenever it comes to the infected or already turned. In many cases its easier to just leave, but the right choice is to get your hands dirty no matter how much it mentality hurts to do.
Not gonna lie, I never should have played the game while going through Post partum depression. Once I got to the kid... I stopped. I killed him with the wrench and was like "I'm Done. Next checkpoint, I'm done for good." I could go back now and finish it, but... at the time, I was just all sorts of fucked to do it.
I'd actually argue any zombie from Dying Light and Dying Light 2 as the virus is only a form of rabies so the person is still inside the zombie, we even see when Crane is about to turn that zombies see the humans as the threat due to hallucinating and paranoia, although it's even worse for Screamers as they're turned children
I've always felt bad for the first DOOM 3 zombie you kill. The guy tried so hard to stop them from ripping a hole open to hell but by then the administrator was already contacted by the forces of hell and he was all on board for sending the entire mars base to hell with him. RIP Chen, you tried man... I'm sorry for having to shoot you.
@@Ahrpigi You knew the game was going to be good right from that moment. Not really a good Doom game, granted, since it was a huge wrench in the formula, but nonetheless a great game taken by itself.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 it's a much slower, spookier game than Doom 1 & 2, but I liked that. Playing alone in the dark with headphones was a great time. Plus, in 2016 when the Slayer starts taking them apart with his bare hands, it feels that much cooler after experiencing a regular guy alone in the dark against the demons.
Honestly I felt having to kill Jade in Dying Light hit much harder than the scene with her brother. After everything she went through, even just since you showed up on the scene. Not to mention her character was infinitely more likable.
Rahim only had himself to blame. He was an idiot who didn't listen and got himself killed. So of course even if you like him, it's not so depressing to kill his zombie self. His sister on the other hand, did things to the best of her abilities, and only turned into a zombie so she can save you to begin with. 100% more tragic
I didn't feel bad for either of them. Rahim ran recklessly to his death and gave us a armed bomb. And Jade is the one who got the bombs with us(granted to keep it out of the hands of Kadir) along with running off instead of staying around to talk about this knowing fully that it was everyone's fault in keeping the bombs around an secured from Rahim. With top priority to get the doctor back from Kadir that literally happened just seconds later when she ran from the conversation about her brother being dead. In which she just avoids us all the way to when we find her, nearly about to turn.
Lisa actually survived that fall. later in The Umbrella Chronicles you have to fight her several times as Wesker. She finally died when the Mansion explodes while she was buried under a chandelier after your last battle with her
Myla messed me up dude. I would ALWAYS stop by her after every big event cause she said she loved hanging out. In my first playthrough I hate that I had to kill her. I know it's for the best though I wouldn't want her living that way. She deserved better.
10:15 I remember getting to this section after meeting with her a few times. When the enemy came close, I just assumed they replaced the regular NPC... But when I landed the final blow and heard that death shout... I froze. I froze and couldn't move for 2 straight minutes. I then saved, turned my game off and tried not to think about the virtual bug friend I had to put down and proceeded to sob
I think every Hollow Knight fan, upon seeing it in the spoiler list, knew where it was going, and was not happy about it. Honestly Broken Vessel is the one that gets me. It's literally your sibling, after all. It reaching out always hurts a little.
What about Leandra, Hawke's mom in Dragon Age 2? You're investigating the murder and mutilation of a number of women, only for your mother to fall victim too. The next time you see her, she's a shambling thing pieced together by a blood mage and only truly dies after you reunite with her. Very sad.
Leandra's death always hurt me so much. She wasn't the perfect mother, but you can tell that she honestly tried her best to do what she could for her surviving child(ren) depending on your choices. I've replayed DA2 way too many times and her death will always be one of most horrific ones. It just shows how strong Hawke is to continue living after that. I'm honestly not sure if I could ever sleep after that. The nightmares alone would be horrible.
@@Philliwolf5 That's basically the story of DA2. It just proves that you can try your hardest to do good, you can make the best decisions, help as many people as possible, and things can still go to hell in minutes. DA2 may not be a fan favorite when it comes to gameplay, but it's one that keeps me coming back for it's storyline and characters.
9:47 It’s not coming back a few times- it’s based on progression. She gets partly infected when you get desolate dive and fully when you get crystal heart. I don’t know when she remembers the words- mothwing cloak?
Actually Umbrella Chronicles shows us that Lisa survived the fall in to the pit and attacks a resurrected Wesker as he escapes the mansion. Wesker ends up trapping Lisa under a chandelier whilst he escapes and she presumably dies when the mansion explodes
If you beat the game without getting Crystal Heart, Myla never turns... So you can sorta save her. Or if you kill The Radiance without killing her infected form, she should revert to normal after as well, we just don't get to see that happen. I tried to do a run that saves as many people as possible... Like, if you kill the Traitor Lord before saving Cloth, she goes back to Dirtmouth instead. If you never talk to Tiso, he never leaves Dirtmouth. I managed to get the Monarch Wings without Crystal Heart, but needed Isma's Tear to get to Monomon, and I didn't manage to do that. It's possible to do... It's super hard though.
@@vault29a Ah yes the "... how much longer... KILL IT... how much longer... DANGEROUS... how much longer... KILL IT... how much longer... KILL THE EMPTY ONE... ...how much longer... must I dig...?"
It’s also possible to save her during the series, basically kill the minimum amount of bosses then kill the hollow knight boss, and she won’t get infected.
As Lara stands there waiting for the giant-kin zombie to rise up and roar at her, poised to shoot it in the face, I wonder to myself "What exactly is she waiting for?" Does she think things are going to get better on their own?
Well it's chained. It looks to me, someone who hasn't played the game so bare with me, like she was hoping the giant wouldn't be a problem and she wouldn't need to waste ammo.
If you play the Dalish elf origin in Dragon Age: Origins, the friend you spent the first part of the game with comes back as a thrall when you’re ambushed at camp after completing the Temple of Sacred Ashes (I think). He says he’s tormented, he doesn’t want to hurt you, but he can’t stop himself and then attacks you forcing you to kill him.
Darkest Dungeon 2 Gaunts (aka zombies) are common people who got so sad with the coming of the apocalypse they turned into zombies. The worst is the lumberjack, who keeps using abilities like Carve the Toy and Protect the Child, implying he turned zombie by losing his child during the apocalypse.
In the first few minutes of the original Dark Souls the player meets Oscar of Astora who helps your character the chosen undead escape their cell in the undead asylum. Later he's found seriously wounded, but before he succumbs to his wounds he gives you your estus flasks and tasks you with finding both bells of awakening. Later in the game when the chosen undead returns to the undead asylum Oscar has turned hollow and tries to kill the chosen undead.
Not sure if Darkspawn ghouls from Dragon Age count, but the shriek encounter in Origins hits so much different when you're a Dalish elf and you have to mercy kill your childhood bestie slash potential love interest Tamlen because he's gone ghoul. Gets me every time.
Not quite as sad, but still terrifying is the Broodmother encounter, built up by finding out that a Dwarven expedition basically 'sold' most of its people to Darkspawn to distract them and one woman was selected and essentially tortured and fed the remains of her friends and family until the Taint transformed her.
Myla's is even worse when you hit her with the Dream Nail, begging with the infection, the voice in her head to stop digging, only for it to respond with *⁕KILL... KILL IT... KILL THE PALE ONE!!!⁕*
@@Gentleman_Orangethe player character is an offspring of a character known as the Pale King, sworn nemesis to the thing controlling the zombie bugs. So that’s why.
honestly the "zombified stalkers" from the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. series are the saddest.. yes they shoot at you on sight with surpring accuracy, but when you translate their slavic mumblings, they're actually saying really tragic things. "i just want to go home" "my sweet child, daddy will be home soon". really breaks your heart with every bullet you put into them. they didnt ask to have their brains fried and be left as empty husks. tragic.
Two more examples, this time from the Borderlands series: First it's Hank Reiss, Wereskag, from the first Borderlands's Dr. Ned DLC. At the beginning of the DLC you collect five audio logs where it details how Hank became a wereskag: he worked on the Jakobs Cove lumber camp, until one day the titular big bad began giving him and his coworkers a "vitamin". Then the dead rose from their tombs and Hank volunteered to be test subject of an antidote. Far from healing him, the antidote turned him into a wereskag. The Vault Hunters find him halfway through the DLC. As a boss. The other is Cassius Leclemaine in Borderlands 2's DLC "Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary". In the DLC, Commander Hector and his army began spreading spores throughout all of Pandora, turning people into zombie-like mutants. Unfortunately, it was Cassius himself who developed the original spores and got betrayed by Hector. You find audio logs detailing how things came as they did in one of the final levels, and when you finally reach Cassius... He mutates into one of these plant-like beings. He's the last boss to fight before Hector. For the record, Cassius originated from a spinoff, Tales from the Borderlands, which was also developed by Telltale Games, who did the The Walking Dead adventure game.
I think there's... one... tragic zombie kill in Telltale's Walking Dead that I'd rate as much worse than the starved little boy. Because at least the little boy was a stranger and he was put down by an adult who was emotionally prepared to do so.
FFXIV: Tam Tara deepcroft hard. You end up fighting the reanimated severed head of a tank who died after his healer couldn't save him. That healer went mad and tried to bring him back to life by sacrificing the party members who blamed her. It's a tragic story that you watched unfold as you played the main story - that party was outside the first dungeon you went into, and you can find them later on after the tank died.
Additionally, the healer was in love with the tank and he only ever treated her like garbage. So now she can marry his zombified head and he will never talk back at her 😊😊😊😢
Ah yes, Edda. And she's then put to work in the Palace of the Dead. The Palace of the Dead is rough in general, actually. A lot of the later levels feature dead NPCs from both 1.0 and ARR, including those Livia's team slaughtered in the Waking Sands.
Honorable mentions: Edward Dewey in Resident Evil 0, Forest Speyer in Resident Evil 1(Director's Cut Advanced Mode and the remake), Brad Vickers and Marvin Branagh in Resident Evil 2, and Steve's father in Resident Evil: Code - Veronica. Ori and the Will of the Wisps has two: Shriek, a mutant owl orphaned since birth due to the Decay and shunned by the rest of her kind, leaving her to embrace the darkness, and Kwolok when he gets possessed by the Foul Presence/Stink Spirit and you are forced to fight him, resulting in his death. Silent Hill has Cybil meet this fate if you don't figure out how to save her with the Aglaophotis, as well as Cheryl/Alessa herself in the bad ending, which you get if you didn't find the second Aglaophotis vial in the motel.
Brad Vickers, aka Chicken Heart, is the reason Marvin is infected in the first place. And he also REGULARLY abandons Alpha team, which lead to his nickname.
I think one underrated one for "tragic zombies" is Black Mesa. Black Mesa being a remake of Half Life, improved a lot of things, including the story and characters. The second chapter Anomalous Materials is a great example of that. quoting one of the scientists, the lab is abuzz with excitement! It feels so lively, and the guards and scientists are so charming. There are many interesting witty scenes to see play out or be a part of, and interesting people to listen to. But, for anyone who's played Half Life and/or Black Mesa, you know what happens. The experiment goes wrong, and you have to traverse back through the lab, encountering the majority of your former colleagues who you just talked to and passed by dead or dying, a large portion of them that were turned into headcrab zombies, you even witness a headcrab latching onto someone, unable to help them. Imo it feels pretty sad to go back through it especially in black mesa, instead of them all just being rando security guards and scientists they all have character, and Black Mesa set's up their NPC's so that they can be memorable and recognizable on your trip back.
Lollipop Chainsaw makes it a point to tell you there's no way back and afaik you've no meaningful connection with the zombos, so at least that's one 100% guilt-free game. I think you guys mentioned that in the old video.
"FRIENDS" in big air quotes for that Doom Revanent one, remember you can frequently just come across the Demons openly trying to murder each other without any hesitation. The Demons don't care one iota about each other, they just want to kill.
I loved the Walking Dead as an experience. Some of the best characters I ever interacted with and some really memorable moments. For the people that only played the first season for various reasons; you've missed out! The first season is probably the best one out there, but I would really recommend people to give the second season a try at least for some more moments you won't ever forget about. Don't be afraid to feel sad about a game sometimes; I take it any day over most games that won't make you feel anything.
Speaking purely for myself, those games don't feel like games, they feel like a choose your own adventure book where all the choices lead to basically the same place. It's depressing and feels like a waste of time.
@@levilandes1719 It's not a great game yes. It's generally why Telltale went out of business. But I would still say the quality of the story and characters is very high if you're willing to consider it to be an interactive movie.
@@FCGroningen1987 Hey, I'm happy people can enjoy them, I just couldn't get behind it. I feel like the real problem was feeling like choices were ultimately meaningless, but that's just my perspective, to each his own.
I know it's technically not a zombie but in the game "Half Minute Hero" You meet a girl named Sasha near the end of the game. After going on a sorta of a date, she admitted to being a monster and was only there to distract you and told you how to lift the spell but promises to still be friends. When you had to fight the monsters in the village, all the monster attacks you except one...
How about Oliver Collins from Code Vein? Technically, all characters in Code Vein are already undead (having been brought back to life through a parasite), but there's another stage of the parasite's infection where the parasite spreads throughout the entire body and destroys most cognitive functions. This is known as "Frenzy" and a revenant who completely frenzies becomes one of the Lost. Oliver specifically gets his mask damaged when guiding you through the tutorial section of the game, taking the blow from an unexpected frenzied revenant. Once you finish that section, he becomes the tutorial boss, demonstrating his frenzy status.
The survivor mechanics in State Of Decay 2 means that if the character you're playing as gets got then they're almost certain to turn. And if you want their stuff back, well... you better get hunting.
That was such a sleeper hit for me. I just wish the multi-player had more to it! I wanted to build a base with my friend, not just have them replace an ai companion and not get to do anything
8:37 I personally choose to believe that you can actually save Myla, though you'll never get to see it because it involves sacrificing yourself to defeat The Radiance, since Myla had only JUST fallen to the infection, there's a chance that when the infection goes away she's still sound of mind enough to recover her sanity
Maybe it's just me but I've always felt bad for Calder from dead rising 4 now he's no good guy sure, but when you find out he's in this state of constant pain and anguish after getting stung a million times by zombie bees does make me feel bad for them
Jasper Gunns - House of the Dead: Overkill. The guy just wanted to save his sister. He turned himself into a monster for power and lost control of himself.
The bicycle zombie from the Ep1 of the TWD has a tragic back story too. She sacrificed herself to save her kids. She was eaten in half. Rick going back and killing her was a mercy.
I felt so bad about having to do Jade in, I screenshotted the moment she lunges at you with your hands up. it makes regular appearances in my desktop background carousel
They're not exactly tragic, but I do feel bad when I got the ghoulfriends in the Bloodborne DLC to follow me a la Luke and then ended up killing them when they got in the way of the actually aggressive enemies. I'm still fighting Laurence and every boss run to him I make sure to sprint past them so they don't follow me up the stairs to meet the rolling ball of fiery death.
@@vivekkparashar They're just about the only enemies in the game that you can walk up to and they won't do a thing, but then they follow you around shying away a bit if you turn to see them.
@@SolaScientia though not a zombie but Gascoigne's daughter is pretty pitiful as well , specially if we tell her to wait at Chapel and not the clinic ...
I felt like shit playing through the walking dead game, first you lose duck and then you basicly need to kill another zombie who looks just like him. Truly heartbreaking
This isn't necessarily a zombie, but it's an undead abomination created by someone gone mad over one desire, which is basically the same thing. This is Beast Boris (I'm pretty sure that's his name?) from Bendy and the Ink Machine, repurposed as a frankensteinesque beast after having his VERY ESSENCE EXTRACTED to finally make Alice Angel beautiful. Not only are you most likely heartbroken, but Henry, the character you play as, is too. And the worst part: Alice didn't even succeed in making herself beautiful. But don't worry, you get another one of each. Wait, what?
I feel like the majority of the side missions (if you can call it that) in TLOU and TLOU2 could be made into a whole list. Majority of the ‘infected’ have backstories you can piece together by picking up notes. Pretty sad
In Zombie Army 4 during the the 1st stage of the Venice level, you can find 2 zombies having a romantic spaghetti dinner date with the words zombie love etched into the wall behind them. Never had the heart to shoot them
The one that got me devastated was the Castle Town Maiden, which is a mini-boss in Ender Lilies. She’s technically not a zombie but a mutant of human that merged with her dog because of exposure to the blight (the blight is like a curse that corrupts and give regenerative power to people in contact). I encountered her at late game, and when the fight started, it only took me three hits to beat her. Because of how fast the fight went, I just realized that she did not attack nor dodge my attack at all. So I quickly check the forums and wiki and read that apparently she would not attack you at all and will just sit in front of you if you didn’t do anything. What happened to the maiden was that while she was tending to her dog, they became blighted and merged. I was immediately devastated after reading that, but the only way to save her is to beat (purify) her…
In TWD the one that stuck out to me IN TRUTH was episode 4 at the every end where it's ACTUALLY "RJ" whom if you've played the series a specific way had to shoot his friend to save everyone. Another boy about his own age. An then speaks aloud an alone about it. Almost like RJs deceased friend could still hear him. Before giving you the option of putting him out fully an ending his misery. An I felt kinda guilty about ending Raheim an then NOT being able to save his sister later either. Even IF dude deliberately sent me away so he'd be alone an not a threat to the cause when he died
@@dlord96301 an think your either confused OR talking to someone else cuz I've played THAT scenario an TWD the mobile (mostly) series featuring Lee starting out an then Clementine the other 3/4ths of the time is what I'm talking about.. which IS in that series as I've played both. An there's not even a little kid IN Dying Light one
@@robertagu5533 wait do you mean AJ? because RJ is a character that only exists in the show, AJ is Alvin and Rebeccas kid who clem takes care of after there deaths
@@dlord96301 oh okay, yeah that was it. Typo an slight confusion but yeah, no kids as major characters in "...Light" but honestly it only bout Led in that one only about half of Ep 1 of the game. Which is ALSO available for Xbox 1 an on live too
In the game when Lee heard the name his immediate question was "Dodging or quacking?" Kenny responded with "Quacking!" Then Duck went "Daaaaaaad!" Which Kenny said "See?"
Not really a zombie, but kinda zombified, Mark Meltzer in Bioshock 2. I didn't play the browser game thing, only knew him in the audiologs. When I see his name on the big daddy I just killed I was like: "omg, what I've just done?" Good thing I was doing a good guy playthrough and saved his little girl.
Lisa doesn't die from the fall. She runs into Wesker after he wakes up after getting mauled by the Tyrant as seen in the Umbrella Chronicles game. I would expect Andy to know that being the resident, uh, Resident Evil fan of OX.
Currently playing allot of Pathos. Some good runs you end up really liking your characters and how they turned out. Trouble is it's a roguelike, so inevitably you die. Trouble 2 you roll a new character venture down once more and there you sometimes happen upon revenant versions of your old characters and have to put them down again... Or you know, they were higher level then you are currently and utterly crush you.
The first zombie we kill in Zombi. He’s just another survivor that got unlucky and not even able to “defend” itself. It’s stuck in a shutter, you have to grab his bag, where you bash in its head with its own cricket bat…multiple times.
My list would just be a play by play of every Zombomb in Battle for Neighborville, mostly because they die at the hands of their own zombie friends. Just watching Gossimp Gill, Cookies, or the specops team at Preserve Pastures banter makes me feel bad for escorting them to their own undeaths.
The most tragic must be an equine zombie.
At that point you're just beating a dead horse.
Or riding one, if you're playing RDR Undead Nightmare
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That Myla one got me. The first time you pop in to see her, and you don't hear the rhythmic tapping of her pick axe had me shook.
Yeah, I couldn't bring myself to kill her, and thought that if I beat the game, then she would be okay and return to normal
It was even worse for me. I didn’t realize she had turned evil but my minions did. They brutally slaughtered her as I stared on in confused horror
I killed myla, I felt awful.
Hanbei the undying in Sekiro man. The guy was literally your sparring bro and offered himself as a punching bag to "kill" him over and over because he would rise again. At the end it's relief for him because he can finally rest as soon as you get hold of the mortal blade to kill him terminally on behalf of his own wish . But I missed him dearly once he was gone.
He was so useful, really wish there was a similar character in Elden Ring.
When it comes to the zombie in the attic from The Walking Dead: Season One, I like to play it a certain way for the most impactful story arc. When Kenny's son Duck turns, I spare Kenny the trauma of having to put down his own son and do that service for my friend. But later when we come across the boy in the attic, I support Kenny and encourage him to mercy kill that boy as a way to work through losing Duck.
Then I wipe away the tears as I get ready to bury a kid in his dog's grave...
(Video games are fun!)
The first time I played through TWD I was antagonistic towards Kenny because I didn't like his personality and felt like he was going to get everyone killed (though I still spared him the heartbreak of finishing off Duck). When revisiting the games after playing the whole series, I protect Kenny at all costs.
Wow. That last sentence was a real gut punch.
The main reason why I loved Telltale's The Walking Dead is how it doesn't pull punches at all like many other modern games under the excuse of "It's not nearly as bad as you may think"
You come across many tragic situations where the right choice is always the most difficult part to do, especially whenever it comes to the infected or already turned. In many cases its easier to just leave, but the right choice is to get your hands dirty no matter how much it mentality hurts to do.
So... You're either a masochist or psychotic.
Not gonna lie, I never should have played the game while going through Post partum depression. Once I got to the kid... I stopped. I killed him with the wrench and was like "I'm Done. Next checkpoint, I'm done for good." I could go back now and finish it, but... at the time, I was just all sorts of fucked to do it.
@@BeckyNosferatuI feel for you there.
Basically the same as both the last of us games
@@KingJohnMichael Never played those, so i can't really confirm from my own experience.
I'd actually argue any zombie from Dying Light and Dying Light 2 as the virus is only a form of rabies so the person is still inside the zombie, we even see when Crane is about to turn that zombies see the humans as the threat due to hallucinating and paranoia, although it's even worse for Screamers as they're turned children
To be fair, humans are a threat to the infected 😅
@@faffy2632 yeah but the zombies see the humans as zombies is what i mean
@@BatQuinn Yeah Dying light zombies are potentially curable... maybe?
I enjoyed putting Rahim down. dude was annoying AF
Technically, rabies is also the infection in he Left 4 Dead series. Same deal.
I've always felt bad for the first DOOM 3 zombie you kill. The guy tried so hard to stop them from ripping a hole open to hell but by then the administrator was already contacted by the forces of hell and he was all on board for sending the entire mars base to hell with him. RIP Chen, you tried man... I'm sorry for having to shoot you.
"The devil is *real*... I should know. I built his cage." Best line in the game.
@@Ahrpigi You knew the game was going to be good right from that moment. Not really a good Doom game, granted, since it was a huge wrench in the formula, but nonetheless a great game taken by itself.
@@ledumpsterfire6474 it's a much slower, spookier game than Doom 1 & 2, but I liked that. Playing alone in the dark with headphones was a great time. Plus, in 2016 when the Slayer starts taking them apart with his bare hands, it feels that much cooler after experiencing a regular guy alone in the dark against the demons.
I'm not sorry. Death is liberation in the Doom games.
They kill the rabbit all most be punish
Honestly I felt having to kill Jade in Dying Light hit much harder than the scene with her brother. After everything she went through, even just since you showed up on the scene. Not to mention her character was infinitely more likable.
Rahim only had himself to blame. He was an idiot who didn't listen and got himself killed. So of course even if you like him, it's not so depressing to kill his zombie self. His sister on the other hand, did things to the best of her abilities, and only turned into a zombie so she can save you to begin with. 100% more tragic
I didn't feel bad for either of them. Rahim ran recklessly to his death and gave us a armed bomb. And Jade is the one who got the bombs with us(granted to keep it out of the hands of Kadir) along with running off instead of staying around to talk about this knowing fully that it was everyone's fault in keeping the bombs around an secured from Rahim. With top priority to get the doctor back from Kadir that literally happened just seconds later when she ran from the conversation about her brother being dead. In which she just avoids us all the way to when we find her, nearly about to turn.
That zombie kid in the Attic from Walking Dead, with the environment giving his story with his dog, was beyond tragic that made me tear up.
Back when I had the game on my PS3 (rip old machine, you gave us your best years), and I chose to bury both the pup and boy together. It felt right.
Lisa actually survived that fall. later in The Umbrella Chronicles you have to fight her several times as Wesker. She finally died when the Mansion explodes while she was buried under a chandelier after your last battle with her
Yeah. She's still a zombie we feel bad for killing, just in a later game, haha.
@@wheatunrye And even worst we kill her while playing as the most famous villain in the entire resident evil franchise.
I really felt for Lisa the first time I read her diary. Poor girl. The writing for her was superb.
I wouldnt feel bad for killing her. Whod wanna live like that? If that ever happens to me I hope the first person to see me rockets my ass.
Myla messed me up dude. I would ALWAYS stop by her after every big event cause she said she loved hanging out. In my first playthrough I hate that I had to kill her. I know it's for the best though I wouldn't want her living that way. She deserved better.
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I remember getting to this section after meeting with her a few times.
When the enemy came close, I just assumed they replaced the regular NPC...
But when I landed the final blow and heard that death shout...
I froze.
I froze and couldn't move for 2 straight minutes. I then saved, turned my game off and tried not to think about the virtual bug friend I had to put down and proceeded to sob
The way Luke's eyebrows pop after he says "Graaaainnns" really sold the joke.
I think every Hollow Knight fan, upon seeing it in the spoiler list, knew where it was going, and was not happy about it. Honestly Broken Vessel is the one that gets me. It's literally your sibling, after all. It reaching out always hurts a little.
What about Leandra, Hawke's mom in Dragon Age 2? You're investigating the murder and mutilation of a number of women, only for your mother to fall victim too. The next time you see her, she's a shambling thing pieced together by a blood mage and only truly dies after you reunite with her. Very sad.
Thank you for reminding me, I had repressed that
AHHHHHHHHH I'd repressed this ;AAAAA;
Leandra's death always hurt me so much. She wasn't the perfect mother, but you can tell that she honestly tried her best to do what she could for her surviving child(ren) depending on your choices.
I've replayed DA2 way too many times and her death will always be one of most horrific ones. It just shows how strong Hawke is to continue living after that. I'm honestly not sure if I could ever sleep after that. The nightmares alone would be horrible.
@@MrsLAnderson24 true. It especially hit me hard after my own mother died. Hawke loses so much.
@@Philliwolf5 That's basically the story of DA2. It just proves that you can try your hardest to do good, you can make the best decisions, help as many people as possible, and things can still go to hell in minutes.
DA2 may not be a fan favorite when it comes to gameplay, but it's one that keeps me coming back for it's storyline and characters.
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It’s not coming back a few times- it’s based on progression. She gets partly infected when you get desolate dive and fully when you get crystal heart. I don’t know when she remembers the words- mothwing cloak?
you need to dreamnail her and youll uncover that shes thinking about killing you.
Also won’t she be cured if you kill a certain boss without killing myla
Actually Umbrella Chronicles shows us that Lisa survived the fall in to the pit and attacks a resurrected Wesker as he escapes the mansion. Wesker ends up trapping Lisa under a chandelier whilst he escapes and she presumably dies when the mansion explodes
Granted, that game is broad strokes canon.
Y'alls scripts are always excellent, but the joke at 8:47 in particular had me laughing out loud 😆
I didn’t expect to see you here Dollightful!
Always awesome to see content creators supporting each other though!
@@legendarybubbles4567 Feeling like that "BEYONCÉ???" meme right now.
I never thought I’d see you here! Hello Dollightful! ❤
There's someone I didn't expect to see here! XD Luv ya vids!
Technically we don't kill him since it happens in a cutscene, but Sam's death in TLOU still manages to get me even after all these years
If you beat the game without getting Crystal Heart, Myla never turns... So you can sorta save her. Or if you kill The Radiance without killing her infected form, she should revert to normal after as well, we just don't get to see that happen.
I tried to do a run that saves as many people as possible... Like, if you kill the Traitor Lord before saving Cloth, she goes back to Dirtmouth instead. If you never talk to Tiso, he never leaves Dirtmouth. I managed to get the Monarch Wings without Crystal Heart, but needed Isma's Tear to get to Monomon, and I didn't manage to do that. It's possible to do... It's super hard though.
I have never even played Hollow Knight and Myla made me all teary.
oh there is an item that allow you to read minds and if you do that tpo her before she turns its actually much worse.
@@vault29a Ah yes the "... how much longer... KILL IT... how much longer... DANGEROUS... how much longer... KILL IT... how much longer... KILL THE EMPTY ONE... ...how much longer... must I dig...?"
It’s also possible to save her during the series, basically kill the minimum amount of bosses then kill the hollow knight boss, and she won’t get infected.
@@Sinknight212 thank you for telling me this, you have made my day
As Lara stands there waiting for the giant-kin zombie to rise up and roar at her, poised to shoot it in the face, I wonder to myself "What exactly is she waiting for?" Does she think things are going to get better on their own?
You'd probably hesitate to shoot your own mother too, even if she did turn into a shambling monster that wanted to rip your face off.
Well it's chained. It looks to me, someone who hasn't played the game so bare with me, like she was hoping the giant wouldn't be a problem and she wouldn't need to waste ammo.
If you play the Dalish elf origin in Dragon Age: Origins, the friend you spent the first part of the game with comes back as a thrall when you’re ambushed at camp after completing the Temple of Sacred Ashes (I think). He says he’s tormented, he doesn’t want to hurt you, but he can’t stop himself and then attacks you forcing you to kill him.
Tamlen 😭 And, if you chose the romantic option at the start, his final words are even more heartbreaking.
Darkest Dungeon 2 Gaunts (aka zombies) are common people who got so sad with the coming of the apocalypse they turned into zombies.
The worst is the lumberjack, who keeps using abilities like Carve the Toy and Protect the Child, implying he turned zombie by losing his child during the apocalypse.
I saw Hollow Knight. I already know that Myla is on this list.
The most emotional damage
too bad they didnt dreamnail her lol
The Hollow Knight itself also qualifies, once you learn the backstory of its upbringing by the Pale King.
And i just ...fucking... met her.
I just let her live her undead life mining away to the end of time
In the first few minutes of the original Dark Souls the player meets Oscar of Astora who helps your character the chosen undead escape their cell in the undead asylum. Later he's found seriously wounded, but before he succumbs to his wounds he gives you your estus flasks and tasks you with finding both bells of awakening. Later in the game when the chosen undead returns to the undead asylum Oscar has turned hollow and tries to kill the chosen undead.
Especially sad when knowing about the greatness he was capable of achieving, via the cut content
Then again you spend more time getting to know every other NPC in Souls and they mostly all have a hollowing end to their stories.
That "kid in the attic" from Telltale's TWD was named Fivel. It's not mentioned in the game, but his game files are named Fivel.
Not sure if Darkspawn ghouls from Dragon Age count, but the shriek encounter in Origins hits so much different when you're a Dalish elf and you have to mercy kill your childhood bestie slash potential love interest Tamlen because he's gone ghoul. Gets me every time.
Not quite as sad, but still terrifying is the Broodmother encounter, built up by finding out that a Dwarven expedition basically 'sold' most of its people to Darkspawn to distract them and one woman was selected and essentially tortured and fed the remains of her friends and family until the Taint transformed her.
Myla's is even worse when you hit her with the Dream Nail, begging with the infection, the voice in her head to stop digging, only for it to respond with *⁕KILL... KILL IT... KILL THE PALE ONE!!!⁕*
So she's racist? 😂
@@Gentleman_Orangethe player character is an offspring of a character known as the Pale King, sworn nemesis to the thing controlling the zombie bugs. So that’s why.
honestly the "zombified stalkers" from the s.t.a.l.k.e.r. series are the saddest.. yes they shoot at you on sight with surpring accuracy, but when you translate their slavic mumblings, they're actually saying really tragic things. "i just want to go home" "my sweet child, daddy will be home soon". really breaks your heart with every bullet you put into them. they didnt ask to have their brains fried and be left as empty husks. tragic.
Like the mumbling facehuggers in half life that say in reverse "help me" iirc
the whole delivery of "Graaains" and the eyebrows.. brilliant and thank you.. you made me laugh..😅
Two more examples, this time from the Borderlands series:
First it's Hank Reiss, Wereskag, from the first Borderlands's Dr. Ned DLC. At the beginning of the DLC you collect five audio logs where it details how Hank became a wereskag: he worked on the Jakobs Cove lumber camp, until one day the titular big bad began giving him and his coworkers a "vitamin". Then the dead rose from their tombs and Hank volunteered to be test subject of an antidote. Far from healing him, the antidote turned him into a wereskag. The Vault Hunters find him halfway through the DLC. As a boss.
The other is Cassius Leclemaine in Borderlands 2's DLC "Commander Lilith and the Fight for Sanctuary". In the DLC, Commander Hector and his army began spreading spores throughout all of Pandora, turning people into zombie-like mutants. Unfortunately, it was Cassius himself who developed the original spores and got betrayed by Hector. You find audio logs detailing how things came as they did in one of the final levels, and when you finally reach Cassius... He mutates into one of these plant-like beings. He's the last boss to fight before Hector. For the record, Cassius originated from a spinoff, Tales from the Borderlands, which was also developed by Telltale Games, who did the The Walking Dead adventure game.
Fighting Cassius broke my heart.
I bet the characters made jokes for every death.
i’ve been watching your videos for YEARS and you guys never fail to make my day. Love y’all
List idea, times you noped out of a game because they forced you to do something terrible. I never got past the torture scene in GTA 5.
I stopped playing Shadow of The Collosus because I didn't want to kill anymore of them.
I struggled when you had to kill Jade it sucked so much, fuck rias or however you spell his name
I think there's... one... tragic zombie kill in Telltale's Walking Dead that I'd rate as much worse than the starved little boy. Because at least the little boy was a stranger and he was put down by an adult who was emotionally prepared to do so.
I completely agree with this.
FFXIV: Tam Tara deepcroft hard. You end up fighting the reanimated severed head of a tank who died after his healer couldn't save him. That healer went mad and tried to bring him back to life by sacrificing the party members who blamed her. It's a tragic story that you watched unfold as you played the main story - that party was outside the first dungeon you went into, and you can find them later on after the tank died.
Additionally, the healer was in love with the tank and he only ever treated her like garbage. So now she can marry his zombified head and he will never talk back at her 😊😊😊😢
Its sad thats how most people treat those who play healers in any mmo.
Ah yes, Edda. And she's then put to work in the Palace of the Dead.
The Palace of the Dead is rough in general, actually. A lot of the later levels feature dead NPCs from both 1.0 and ARR, including those Livia's team slaughtered in the Waking Sands.
The vegetarian zombie joke was classic! 😂😂
Honorable mentions:
Edward Dewey in Resident Evil 0, Forest Speyer in Resident Evil 1(Director's Cut Advanced Mode and the remake), Brad Vickers and Marvin Branagh in Resident Evil 2, and Steve's father in Resident Evil: Code - Veronica.
Ori and the Will of the Wisps has two: Shriek, a mutant owl orphaned since birth due to the Decay and shunned by the rest of her kind, leaving her to embrace the darkness, and Kwolok when he gets possessed by the Foul Presence/Stink Spirit and you are forced to fight him, resulting in his death.
Silent Hill has Cybil meet this fate if you don't figure out how to save her with the Aglaophotis, as well as Cheryl/Alessa herself in the bad ending, which you get if you didn't find the second Aglaophotis vial in the motel.
Brad Vickers, aka Chicken Heart, is the reason Marvin is infected in the first place. And he also REGULARLY abandons Alpha team, which lead to his nickname.
@@azuredragoon2054 Id shoot Vickers so damned many times if not for limited ammo.
6:38 jades death was worse as you have a vile of antazin from the start of the game in your shirt pocket
I think one underrated one for "tragic zombies" is Black Mesa. Black Mesa being a remake of Half Life, improved a lot of things, including the story and characters. The second chapter Anomalous Materials is a great example of that. quoting one of the scientists, the lab is abuzz with excitement! It feels so lively, and the guards and scientists are so charming. There are many interesting witty scenes to see play out or be a part of, and interesting people to listen to. But, for anyone who's played Half Life and/or Black Mesa, you know what happens. The experiment goes wrong, and you have to traverse back through the lab, encountering the majority of your former colleagues who you just talked to and passed by dead or dying, a large portion of them that were turned into headcrab zombies, you even witness a headcrab latching onto someone, unable to help them. Imo it feels pretty sad to go back through it especially in black mesa, instead of them all just being rando security guards and scientists they all have character, and Black Mesa set's up their NPC's so that they can be memorable and recognizable on your trip back.
Lollipop Chainsaw makes it a point to tell you there's no way back and afaik you've no meaningful connection with the zombos, so at least that's one 100% guilt-free game. I think you guys mentioned that in the old video.
"FRIENDS" in big air quotes for that Doom Revanent one, remember you can frequently just come across the Demons openly trying to murder each other without any hesitation.
The Demons don't care one iota about each other, they just want to kill.
I loved the Walking Dead as an experience. Some of the best characters I ever interacted with and some really memorable moments. For the people that only played the first season for various reasons; you've missed out! The first season is probably the best one out there, but I would really recommend people to give the second season a try at least for some more moments you won't ever forget about. Don't be afraid to feel sad about a game sometimes; I take it any day over most games that won't make you feel anything.
Speaking purely for myself, those games don't feel like games, they feel like a choose your own adventure book where all the choices lead to basically the same place. It's depressing and feels like a waste of time.
@@levilandes1719 It's not a great game yes. It's generally why Telltale went out of business. But I would still say the quality of the story and characters is very high if you're willing to consider it to be an interactive movie.
@@FCGroningen1987 Hey, I'm happy people can enjoy them, I just couldn't get behind it. I feel like the real problem was feeling like choices were ultimately meaningless, but that's just my perspective, to each his own.
"Wouldn't you know it? She came back all wrong." To quote Pet Sematery: "Sometimes dead is better."
I know it's technically not a zombie but in the game "Half Minute Hero"
You meet a girl named Sasha near the end of the game. After going on a sorta of a date, she admitted to being a monster and was only there to distract you and told you how to lift the spell but promises to still be friends. When you had to fight the monsters in the village, all the monster attacks you except one...
How about Oliver Collins from Code Vein?
Technically, all characters in Code Vein are already undead (having been brought back to life through a parasite), but there's another stage of the parasite's infection where the parasite spreads throughout the entire body and destroys most cognitive functions. This is known as "Frenzy" and a revenant who completely frenzies becomes one of the Lost.
Oliver specifically gets his mask damaged when guiding you through the tutorial section of the game, taking the blow from an unexpected frenzied revenant. Once you finish that section, he becomes the tutorial boss, demonstrating his frenzy status.
To be honest I personally never liked the guy.
@@jaredcrabb Yeah, but he didn't exactly deserve to be a Red Shirt character.
The survivor mechanics in State Of Decay 2 means that if the character you're playing as gets got then they're almost certain to turn. And if you want their stuff back, well... you better get hunting.
That was such a sleeper hit for me. I just wish the multi-player had more to it! I wanted to build a base with my friend, not just have them replace an ai companion and not get to do anything
5:42 MIRAGE IS THAT YOU!!!!!
Rest in peace Revenant Steve. You are gone but not forgotten. 😢
To make Myla's fate worse, I had Weaversong equipped when I went to see her...
All of the “zombies” in games where there is a way to reverse the zombification make me feel bad for killing them
Witch one is that?
yup........but i'm too lazy to find another route.
8:37 I personally choose to believe that you can actually save Myla, though you'll never get to see it because it involves sacrificing yourself to defeat The Radiance, since Myla had only JUST fallen to the infection, there's a chance that when the infection goes away she's still sound of mind enough to recover her sanity
Man, just seeing the first walking dead game again, with all my friends still alive. It hurts.
I saw Hollow Knight in the Spoilers alert credits and I immediately knew this was coming.
Maybe it's just me but I've always felt bad for Calder from dead rising 4 now he's no good guy sure, but when you find out he's in this state of constant pain and anguish after getting stung a million times by zombie bees does make me feel bad for them
"You can really say you've got the short stick in live when you have to bash in the head of stick thin, short boy."
Kinda works, that joke. Kinda.
Thanks for reminding me how absolutely soul crushing that first Walking Dead game was 😭😭😭
I always felt bad for the comms guy in RE: Revelations.. repeating his last haunting words requesting for help..
"Don't shoot... I'm human...!"
"mayday mayday this is the Queen Zenobia"
I felt for Dom when he had to blast his wife’s head off in Gears 2. I know she wasn’t a zombie, but she was ran down enough to be considered one.
An OX list always brightens my day.
That goes for most their videos, actually!
Jasper Gunns - House of the Dead: Overkill. The guy just wanted to save his sister. He turned himself into a monster for power and lost control of himself.
Yes I love camping, but yes it does always inevitably end in horrific combat against hordes and hordes of mutant abominations
The bicycle zombie from the Ep1 of the TWD has a tragic back story too. She sacrificed herself to save her kids. She was eaten in half. Rick going back and killing her was a mercy.
I felt so bad about having to do Jade in, I screenshotted the moment she lunges at you with your hands up. it makes regular appearances in my desktop background carousel
That starved boy in the attic hit hard. Right after you had to dig up his dog too.
"and we were right" is the attitude I like about this channel
The Myla turn really hit me when I first played it. Had to take a little break.
They're not exactly tragic, but I do feel bad when I got the ghoulfriends in the Bloodborne DLC to follow me a la Luke and then ended up killing them when they got in the way of the actually aggressive enemies. I'm still fighting Laurence and every boss run to him I make sure to sprint past them so they don't follow me up the stairs to meet the rolling ball of fiery death.
I'm in love with you
@@donkeyhobo34 creep.
That's kinda sweet
@@vivekkparashar They're just about the only enemies in the game that you can walk up to and they won't do a thing, but then they follow you around shying away a bit if you turn to see them.
@@SolaScientia though not a zombie but Gascoigne's daughter is pretty pitiful as well , specially if we tell her to wait at Chapel and not the clinic ...
13:05 A zombie isn't a state of being, but a state of mind...
Goddamnit, actually started crying just when Myla's name came up at the start of her segment...
I felt like shit playing through the walking dead game, first you lose duck and then you basicly need to kill another zombie who looks just like him. Truly heartbreaking
I cried about Jade and I had already been spoiled so imagine that.
Same I recently started playing dying light and was still really sad after Rahim's death even though I knew it was coming and I know jade's is coming
I felt like another one was the soldier that you first talk to in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners.
This isn't necessarily a zombie, but it's an undead abomination created by someone gone mad over one desire, which is basically the same thing. This is Beast Boris (I'm pretty sure that's his name?) from Bendy and the Ink Machine, repurposed as a frankensteinesque beast after having his VERY ESSENCE EXTRACTED to finally make Alice Angel beautiful. Not only are you most likely heartbroken, but Henry, the character you play as, is too. And the worst part: Alice didn't even succeed in making herself beautiful. But don't worry, you get another one of each. Wait, what?
I feel like the majority of the side missions (if you can call it that) in TLOU and TLOU2 could be made into a whole list. Majority of the ‘infected’ have backstories you can piece together by picking up notes. Pretty sad
In Zombie Army 4 during the the 1st stage of the Venice level, you can find 2 zombies having a romantic spaghetti dinner date with the words zombie love etched into the wall behind them. Never had the heart to shoot them
The one that got me devastated was the Castle Town Maiden, which is a mini-boss in Ender Lilies. She’s technically not a zombie but a mutant of human that merged with her dog because of exposure to the blight (the blight is like a curse that corrupts and give regenerative power to people in contact). I encountered her at late game, and when the fight started, it only took me three hits to beat her. Because of how fast the fight went, I just realized that she did not attack nor dodge my attack at all. So I quickly check the forums and wiki and read that apparently she would not attack you at all and will just sit in front of you if you didn’t do anything. What happened to the maiden was that while she was tending to her dog, they became blighted and merged. I was immediately devastated after reading that, but the only way to save her is to beat (purify) her…
5:21 Nice save, Luke. 👍🏻
In TWD the one that stuck out to me IN TRUTH was episode 4 at the every end where it's ACTUALLY "RJ" whom if you've played the series a specific way had to shoot his friend to save everyone. Another boy about his own age. An then speaks aloud an alone about it. Almost like RJs deceased friend could still hear him. Before giving you the option of putting him out fully an ending his misery. An I felt kinda guilty about ending Raheim an then NOT being able to save his sister later either. Even IF dude deliberately sent me away so he'd be alone an not a threat to the cause when he died
i think you got games mixed up there, TWD usually means The Walking Dead not Dying Light
@@dlord96301 an think your either confused OR talking to someone else cuz I've played THAT scenario an TWD the mobile (mostly) series featuring Lee starting out an then Clementine the other 3/4ths of the time is what I'm talking about.. which IS in that series as I've played both. An there's not even a little kid IN Dying Light one
@@robertagu5533 wait do you mean AJ? because RJ is a character that only exists in the show, AJ is Alvin and Rebeccas kid who clem takes care of after there deaths
@@dlord96301 oh okay, yeah that was it. Typo an slight confusion but yeah, no kids as major characters in "...Light" but honestly it only bout Led in that one only about half of Ep 1 of the game. Which is ALSO available for Xbox 1 an on live too
The creepy part about Myla is that there's a point where you get an early hint regarding the true nature of the infection by dream nailing her.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the description of Duck as improbably named? 🤣
In the game when Lee heard the name his immediate question was "Dodging or quacking?" Kenny responded with "Quacking!" Then Duck went "Daaaaaaad!" Which Kenny said "See?"
Oh the timing of this being uploaded on the day I attended my grandads funeral 😅
Condolences 🙏
@@comradekitty3759 Thank you very much ❤
Ooof. I'm sorry.
My condolences, may he rest in peace.
@@stephinwilliams4384 Thank you! ❤
Yes Luke, that is EXACTLY what camping is like. Highly recommended.
It's always good to see Revenant Steve again! :D
We had to test the Doom shot gun first. Make sure someone didn't mess it up or leave it empty.
Not even Civvie 11 likes the Doom 3 Shotgun.
'Course, the Super Shotgun in the Resurrection of Evil expansion easily makes up for it.
Not really a zombie, but kinda zombified, Mark Meltzer in Bioshock 2. I didn't play the browser game thing, only knew him in the audiologs. When I see his name on the big daddy I just killed I was like: "omg, what I've just done?" Good thing I was doing a good guy playthrough and saved his little girl.
Am I the only one who misses the Doom/Animal Crossing crossover memes and jokes?
Poor myla… she didn’t deserve her fate! And she still had some humanity in her shown by her scream… she could have been saved
Lisa doesn't die from the fall. She runs into Wesker after he wakes up after getting mauled by the Tyrant as seen in the Umbrella Chronicles game. I would expect Andy to know that being the resident, uh, Resident Evil fan of OX.
#2 was indeed tragic, but when you think about how this 1st season had ended........... yeah, that was an even brutal stab to the heart. :(
Man I Miss The Older Tomb Raider Models
"Grains" 😉👍
Brad from Dead Rising hurt too, he was one of the few likable support characters in the game and he got one of the most brutal turns in the game.
Currently playing allot of Pathos. Some good runs you end up really liking your characters and how they turned out. Trouble is it's a roguelike, so inevitably you die. Trouble 2 you roll a new character venture down once more and there you sometimes happen upon revenant versions of your old characters and have to put them down again... Or you know, they were higher level then you are currently and utterly crush you.
The first zombie we kill in Zombi. He’s just another survivor that got unlucky and not even able to “defend” itself. It’s stuck in a shutter, you have to grab his bag, where you bash in its head with its own cricket bat…multiple times.
Ohh.
Marvin from Resident Evil 2. That guy is a hero and seeing him turned in the Main hall is always a bummer putting him down.
My list would just be a play by play of every Zombomb in Battle for Neighborville, mostly because they die at the hands of their own zombie friends. Just watching Gossimp Gill, Cookies, or the specops team at Preserve Pastures banter makes me feel bad for escorting them to their own undeaths.
Now I'm just curious what would happen if Laura met Kratos...🤔
Wasn’t expecting to see Rahim on this list. Considering he had more personality as a zombie for 10seconds than the entire time he was alive.
As a person that played dying light, Rahim's death was a sad one. He was a good character, and sadly one you had to kill.