I've played through three of those, and I totally agree. The Howard side mission from Spider-Man 2 had me curious about his phrasing, but if I recall correctly at some point during the mission Spider-Man tries to call him and gets no response, thinking nothing of it. By the time you find the new home for the pigeons there's been enough context clues to make me go "oh...oh no" about returning. And for God of War, it's very fitting to have a clear lesson that actions have consequences and sometimes there is no making it right again. A lesson Kratos had learned and taken to heart at that point.
In the Fog From Horizon Forbidden West, That side mission that has broken and stayed with me. Basically, you're sent into the woods to find this old man named Garokkan by his daughter. When you find Garokkan, he mentions that there will be an attack and asks for help to stop it. After following him around, you start to notice that things Garokkan is saying aren't adding up; finally, after some fights, you end up at the Memorial site. Turns out Garokkan is suffering from what is mostly likely Dementia and has been reliving an ambush that happened years ago that left him the only survivor of his squad.
My favorite side quest in the entire game. Reminds me of the Brom side quest from Zero Dawn. The one where the guy tries to make people think he's dead because the voices in his head might tell him to hurt his sister Olara, like how they told him to smash the asshole who was bullying him in the face with a rock. Side note: It's not Garokkan. It's GarokkaH. With an H.
Between the Yuriko quest, the emotional end of Act 2, losing your horse soon after, then the "A Father's Choice" quest, Ghost of Tsushima just *wrecked* me emotionally.
Honourable mention: in Mass Effect, if you choose Colony Kid as your origin, there's a sidequest with a woman suffering severe PTSD from years of brutal slavery. You have to try to talk her down from killing herself (she grieves her "beloved master", she's been so traumatised by years of abuse), and it's all just awful and heartbreaking, especially when you consider that that could have been your character
I about died laughing at the Red Dead entry with you and Psy 😂. And I saw it in the intro with the mission in Final Fantasy XVI with the girl who treats her slaves as replaceable playthings and makes them use their powers until they die of exhaustion. I think that one brought a tear to my eye but I did the mission right after the one about the boy and the wolf. You're told by a boy's father that his son is in danger of being eaten by some wolves, but the father oddly doesn't sound too distressed. You get to the location and slay the wolves, all for the little boy to scream that you weren't supposed to kill them, they were supposed to kill YOU. You then see the bodies of the other Branded who have also listened to the father...and were killed by the wolves. The little boy, no older than ten, gets sick enjoyment out of watching the wolves murder people and the father encourages it. The mission ends with Clive being absolutely disgusted but doesn't hurt them. Instead, they get a new shipmemt of wolves, brought in by a Bearer who...fails to mention to the father and son that these ones are by no means tamable. You hear what happens rather than see it, but if you go to the location of the screams, you see the blood left behind. I think this one hit me hard as a black person, knowing the idea of this mission didn't just come from nowhere. It was done to slaves, has been done to others as well and is abhorrent. The ones killed in the mission were nameless NPC's, but I still got teary-eyed. The game warns that the closer to the capitol you get, the worse the classism and bigotry gets and they weren't lying. It almost makes me wonder how the heck Dion didn't become like that, but maybe as a gay man who could turn into a dragon, he was already well aware of how different from others he was and could empathize. Him not being a pompous asshole when he had every right to be is what made him one of my favorite characters.
Yeah I was sure the crucifixtion sidequest would be on here… or the end of act one… or the suicidal neighbor… yeah there are a lot of cyberpunk quests that made me stop and step away to collect myself 😢
I feel like Borderlands did look into the more real aspects of life throughout it, though almost always in a joking way. Loneliness, insanity, living on a post apocalyptic planet, grief etc. I always think about Claptrap's birthday in Borderlands 2. For all his faults, that was heart-wrenching
Yeah, I think a lot of people can relate to Claptrap. I know someone who had a birthday party where about 6 people said they'd come, and no one showed up. None of them called or texted. Nothing. Just no-showed. Horrible. She was a really good friend. I was working that day, unfortunately, otherwise I'd have been there. I can't imagine how she felt. I was pissed. She wasn't even an outsider or outcast, and I know it's worse for them (folk like me). I think that's why so many people love Claptrap even though he's (intentionally) annoying- he's relatable.
Bricks puppy still irks me. And Roland's death in the main story didn't hit hard until 1) having to tell others and 2 the end of tiny Tina's dlc when she broke down that had me and the guy I played through it with both broke at tiny Tina's break
I know it was briefly shown in the intro but the "Chloe" sidequest from FFXVI filled me with so many emotions especially as my 7 year old chose that moments decided to wake up and come into the room I was playing in. Lets just say there were a few difficult conversations and we both had a little cry at the end at how unfair humanity can be sometimes.
There's a long, non-voiced world quest in Genshin Impact that follows a girl and her father through the deserts of Sumeru. The quest is called The Golden Slumber. At first it seems like a very short quest to find out what's going on with a commission. Eventually, you learn that Jebrael (the father) abandoned his old tribe because of learning that their tribe's leader, Babel, was planning on committing genocide in order to attain supposedly divine power. There's a lot of twists and turns the story takes. I won't post what happened to you just in case, but it is the best side story so far in the entirety of Genshin.
I would add Project Overlord from Mass Effect 2. That one wrecks me every time. Even if you pick the paragon option, it still hurts in the moment to see what was happening to that poor man
What? No Jackie Well’s funeral from Cyberpunk? I was pouring tears during the whole thing. I was able to eulogize for him in lieu of the people I couldn’t do that for in real life.
When she's losing her faculties and tells you the story of her affair with Jin's dad, then starts mistaking Jin for his dad (who she was in love with), I start the waterworks and don't stop until she's passed. It reminded me of my grandmother in her last years suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's, and how she seemed to regress and once mistook me for her long-dead husband. Hell, I'm crying right now just thinking about it.
Another good Spider-Man 2 side mission is the one where you help a granddaughter find her grandpa who went wandering around...i wont spoil more just in case but i do recommend playing it
Honorable mention for me is Charlotte in RDR2. First playthrough I didn’t go back to her after the first encounter (I just got caught up in the main story). Went to visit her as John in the epilogue to see that she had died. Started the whole damn game over and played EVERY side mission lol
I agree, RDR2 has some S tier side missions. My favorites revolved around the Downes family. It was probably the first time I've had a game really make me think about the consequences of the MC's actions, and on replays had me wishing I didn't have to beat up Thomas, but that's a part of the story that had to happen.
Alot of these quests and a few ones from some games i really love bring to mind the sad tone of a childhood hero of mine as he sang these worlds " Sure I'm glad it's raining a wounded warrior needs a place to hide. Yeah im glad it's raining no notices the pain you hold inside and everyone thinks the sound of your heart breaking is just the thunder outside."
The Red Dead Sasquatch was sad when I first played it on the Xbox 360... Upon my second playthrough on the Switch, I chased him with a torch. He apparently didn't seem to appreciate my choice of weapon to end him with :P
Man I will never forget how much the Yuriko side quests made me ugly cry. The moment you realize she is literally sundowning in her final moments and she's not seeing Jin anymore but his father... God I was a mess.
I always remember the Suna Silentstrike quest chain from World of Warcraft, Mists of Pandaria as really sad. One of the few quest chains from that expansion that stuck with me.
Wow Jules thanks for picking my suggestion and great pronunciation on my tag and a great list to accompany my own suggestion of Howards quest honestly that quest should have been post game and i see alot of call for the Grandfather mission in Central park as well and yes i loved that quest as well but that was more wholesome and true spidey moment then anything.
I also have to say... for Borderlands 3, Baby Dancer mission was extremely sweet. The reveal of Baby being in a wheelchair, and that Claptrap dancing with her while also being encouraging to her was something I wasn't expecting.
Games that squandered amazing concepts in their execution. Looking at you, Lichdom: Battlemage! Dual wielding spells, being an awesome Battlemage? How could it be wrong?... Oh, like that.
Not really a side quest as more of a side game, but the ending and story behind life is strange "The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit" is absolutely heartwrenching.
Great list! I would like to respectfully add "Substory 24: Let it Snow" from Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth for consideration in the future. In a series full of heartbreaking moments, just...damn
When I started this video, I was hoping to see Tales of Syphonia. The side quest where you find out that the siblings' mother did not abandon them because she didn't love them, but because she did not want them to grow up as slaves. She was so heartbroken that she went round the bend and now thinks the dolls she has are her children. The worst part is you don't get any closure because after you find out why she abandoned them you go back, and she's gone.
Hey Jules, I got to say mate. You’ve been the reason why I’ve decided to be more positive. Even with what I have going on right now. Hearing your positive message after each video has made me want to be a better person each day and, I have to admit I’ve started smiling more often. So cheers and hopefully you’re having a wonderful day as well!
The substory in Yakuza Like A Dragon with Kaede Tono stuck with me - she was ill, grew up watching him from the window where she was bedridden, he alone inspiring hope & joy for her, and without fully saying so we see her spirit spend a final day with him before she departs from this plane of existence; it both fulfils her lifelong wish for him to know of her & thank him, and her getting to spend time with him c’: I found it utterly tragic
There's also "Doctor's Orders" in Borderlands 2, you get a job collecting some audio logs of Handsome Jackass forcing some doctor chick into doing slag experiments on living subjects. Its not until the end when you learn that the doctor is Tiny Tina's mom, the guy she's performing slag experiments om is Flesh-Stick and this is the story of him murdering her.
I play a lot of skyrim but haven't seen that Isobelle story yet. The saddest side quest I've found is that guy in Iverstead whose sister drowned and you bring him her necklace...
Returning Aurela the Spectral Jellyfish to her sister waiting up in the frozen north of Elden Ring. Return her so they can go see the stars together, I do it every time and it gets me every time. First time I found this I was streaming and I needed to stop playing.
The final major expansion for FFXI had you fighting against an encroaching darkness that was obliterating worlds ala Crisis on Infinite Earths. As you get towards the end of the story line you realize that that darkness is actually a euphemism for the inevitable shutting down of the servers for the game.
I did the missing grandpa mission as Miles in SM2, and it was very sad, so I decided to switch to Peter and did the Howard quest. The double-punch combo made me put down the game for a bit.
Xenoblade Chronicles, the named-Telethia-killing missions. So. Telethia. You first see one in the confrontation after the Ether Mine, where it helps you out of a scrape. The next time you see one, a cute girl (who turns out to be an Emperor's daughter) is fighting it. While gathering ether crystals to revive her, you find you have to fight two more, and are given an additional tool to do so. Cut to several chapters later, when you find that Telethia... ...are pure (or close enough to it) High Entia caught in a field of high concentrations of ether. Many are named, but others... depending on how much you hoovered up the sidequests, you may have even helped some of them. And now you have to put them down to complete these sidequests, such as the one with a brother and sister who've had to escape and landed in Frontier Village. The brother wants you to retrieve something from Alcamoth. When you get it, however, you're confronted by a Telethia with the same name as their father, the same father you may have helped find his children. And now, you can't even give the item to his son unless you kill him.
Also borderlands 2 ( I believe) mordechai 's. Bird that was turned into an enemy from handsome Jack and you ended up having to kill it. That was hard😢😭
Games that have special rewards for your birthday. Was mine today. Know Of two games Death stranding and animal crossing. Don't remember what other games give you something on your birthday.
How about "Enemies That Call You Weak While Being Disappointingly Easy To Beat" or something like that. Basically, the cocky wannabe tough guys that you dispatch with unceremonious ease. Kinda like that Indiana Jones scene where the guy shows off sword wielding tricks and then just gets shot immediately.
8 sequals the actual devs really want to see . . . IE i worked on PSI OPS as a design guy (levels n objects mostly) I'd love a sequal to that even if idon't get to work on it. there's gotta be other devs out there like me. . . at least 7 more. possibly maybe?
When I was a teenager, there were a mission on Neverwinter Nights that you try to find the five children of a woman. And you found them dead, used for a sacrifice. If you tell the true, the woman do something reckless and get killed. If you lie, saying that they child are alive and far away, she will live her life with the faith that they will come back one day.
I've played through three of those, and I totally agree. The Howard side mission from Spider-Man 2 had me curious about his phrasing, but if I recall correctly at some point during the mission Spider-Man tries to call him and gets no response, thinking nothing of it. By the time you find the new home for the pigeons there's been enough context clues to make me go "oh...oh no" about returning. And for God of War, it's very fitting to have a clear lesson that actions have consequences and sometimes there is no making it right again. A lesson Kratos had learned and taken to heart at that point.
I played through the Howard mission in Spiderman 2 a week after my dad passed away. It absolutely broke me.
I was 100 percent not expecting that Spider-Man mission and I genuinely cried while playing it
Same.
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Your not alone in that. That mission hits right in the feels
In the Fog From Horizon Forbidden West, That side mission that has broken and stayed with me. Basically, you're sent into the woods to find this old man named Garokkan by his daughter. When you find Garokkan, he mentions that there will be an attack and asks for help to stop it. After following him around, you start to notice that things Garokkan is saying aren't adding up; finally, after some fights, you end up at the Memorial site. Turns out Garokkan is suffering from what is mostly likely Dementia and has been reliving an ambush that happened years ago that left him the only survivor of his squad.
That one got me right in the feels, too.
My favorite side quest in the entire game. Reminds me of the Brom side quest from Zero Dawn. The one where the guy tries to make people think he's dead because the voices in his head might tell him to hurt his sister Olara, like how they told him to smash the asshole who was bullying him in the face with a rock.
Side note: It's not Garokkan. It's GarokkaH. With an H.
I fully expected Jackie’s ofrenda in cyberpunk to be on this list. Played that mission in every playthrough and cry every single time
Between the Yuriko quest, the emotional end of Act 2, losing your horse soon after, then the "A Father's Choice" quest, Ghost of Tsushima just *wrecked* me emotionally.
Just because you’re broken, it doesn’t mean you can’t be fixed.
Honourable mention: in Mass Effect, if you choose Colony Kid as your origin, there's a sidequest with a woman suffering severe PTSD from years of brutal slavery. You have to try to talk her down from killing herself (she grieves her "beloved master", she's been so traumatised by years of abuse), and it's all just awful and heartbreaking, especially when you consider that that could have been your character
Oh yeah that one
Yep that killed me when I found that out
'Nobody expected Borderlands to get real'...unless they've played Assault on Dragon Keep.
That end cinematic + tiny tina breaking STILL gets me years later
I about died laughing at the Red Dead entry with you and Psy 😂. And I saw it in the intro with the mission in Final Fantasy XVI with the girl who treats her slaves as replaceable playthings and makes them use their powers until they die of exhaustion. I think that one brought a tear to my eye but I did the mission right after the one about the boy and the wolf.
You're told by a boy's father that his son is in danger of being eaten by some wolves, but the father oddly doesn't sound too distressed. You get to the location and slay the wolves, all for the little boy to scream that you weren't supposed to kill them, they were supposed to kill YOU. You then see the bodies of the other Branded who have also listened to the father...and were killed by the wolves. The little boy, no older than ten, gets sick enjoyment out of watching the wolves murder people and the father encourages it.
The mission ends with Clive being absolutely disgusted but doesn't hurt them. Instead, they get a new shipmemt of wolves, brought in by a Bearer who...fails to mention to the father and son that these ones are by no means tamable. You hear what happens rather than see it, but if you go to the location of the screams, you see the blood left behind.
I think this one hit me hard as a black person, knowing the idea of this mission didn't just come from nowhere. It was done to slaves, has been done to others as well and is abhorrent. The ones killed in the mission were nameless NPC's, but I still got teary-eyed. The game warns that the closer to the capitol you get, the worse the classism and bigotry gets and they weren't lying. It almost makes me wonder how the heck Dion didn't become like that, but maybe as a gay man who could turn into a dragon, he was already well aware of how different from others he was and could empathize. Him not being a pompous asshole when he had every right to be is what made him one of my favorite characters.
I played both of those missions in FF XVI. The wolf one made me both very angry, and very happy. Those 2 monsters got exactly what they deserved.
Cyberpunk 2077 "Hey wana play heartbreaking/traumatising mission? Wanna do it again?
Yeah I was sure the crucifixtion sidequest would be on here… or the end of act one… or the suicidal neighbor… yeah there are a lot of cyberpunk quests that made me stop and step away to collect myself 😢
@@AnalizaTheSnark Judy quests...nuff said
I feel like Borderlands did look into the more real aspects of life throughout it, though almost always in a joking way. Loneliness, insanity, living on a post apocalyptic planet, grief etc. I always think about Claptrap's birthday in Borderlands 2. For all his faults, that was heart-wrenching
Yeah, I think a lot of people can relate to Claptrap. I know someone who had a birthday party where about 6 people said they'd come, and no one showed up. None of them called or texted. Nothing. Just no-showed. Horrible. She was a really good friend. I was working that day, unfortunately, otherwise I'd have been there. I can't imagine how she felt. I was pissed. She wasn't even an outsider or outcast, and I know it's worse for them (folk like me).
I think that's why so many people love Claptrap even though he's (intentionally) annoying- he's relatable.
Bricks puppy still irks me. And Roland's death in the main story didn't hit hard until 1) having to tell others and 2 the end of tiny Tina's dlc when she broke down that had me and the guy I played through it with both broke at tiny Tina's break
Yuriko was the character I just kinda sat there after the cut scene and didn't know how to progress afterwards. That one hit hard.
I know it was briefly shown in the intro but the "Chloe" sidequest from FFXVI filled me with so many emotions especially as my 7 year old chose that moments decided to wake up and come into the room I was playing in.
Lets just say there were a few difficult conversations and we both had a little cry at the end at how unfair humanity can be sometimes.
I knew as soon as it started where it was going, and yet it _still_ hit me hard. Yikes. 😢
There's a long, non-voiced world quest in Genshin Impact that follows a girl and her father through the deserts of Sumeru. The quest is called The Golden Slumber. At first it seems like a very short quest to find out what's going on with a commission. Eventually, you learn that Jebrael (the father) abandoned his old tribe because of learning that their tribe's leader, Babel, was planning on committing genocide in order to attain supposedly divine power. There's a lot of twists and turns the story takes. I won't post what happened to you just in case, but it is the best side story so far in the entirety of Genshin.
I would add Project Overlord from Mass Effect 2. That one wrecks me every time. Even if you pick the paragon option, it still hurts in the moment to see what was happening to that poor man
What? No Jackie Well’s funeral from Cyberpunk? I was pouring tears during the whole thing. I was able to eulogize for him in lieu of the people I couldn’t do that for in real life.
Thats pther quest in spiderman 2 about that girls grandpa was also pretty sad if not wholesome
Every time I replay Yurikos quest line it always breaks me
Sad as it is, I can't help but think-a beautiful vista as one's last view and in the company of one she cared for-not a bad way to go from life.
When she's losing her faculties and tells you the story of her affair with Jin's dad, then starts mistaking Jin for his dad (who she was in love with), I start the waterworks and don't stop until she's passed. It reminded me of my grandmother in her last years suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's, and how she seemed to regress and once mistook me for her long-dead husband. Hell, I'm crying right now just thinking about it.
List Idea: Game Characters You Didn’t Trust, But Were Supposed To.
Another good Spider-Man 2 side mission is the one where you help a granddaughter find her grandpa who went wandering around...i wont spoil more just in case but i do recommend playing it
It is a good mission but i felt that was a more wholesome Spider-man moment then...well Howards
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8 Most Iconic Video Game Theme Songs
Skyrim would have to be on this list.
Green hill zone nuff said
Final fantasys intro music, battle music or end fight music one of these would have to be on the list
Honorable mention for me is Charlotte in RDR2. First playthrough I didn’t go back to her after the first encounter (I just got caught up in the main story). Went to visit her as John in the epilogue to see that she had died. Started the whole damn game over and played EVERY side mission lol
I agree, RDR2 has some S tier side missions. My favorites revolved around the Downes family. It was probably the first time I've had a game really make me think about the consequences of the MC's actions, and on replays had me wishing I didn't have to beat up Thomas, but that's a part of the story that had to happen.
Alot of these quests and a few ones from some games i really love bring to mind the sad tone of a childhood hero of mine as he sang these worlds " Sure I'm glad it's raining a wounded warrior needs a place to hide. Yeah im glad it's raining no notices the pain you hold inside and everyone thinks the sound of your heart breaking is just the thunder outside."
The Red Dead Sasquatch was sad when I first played it on the Xbox 360...
Upon my second playthrough on the Switch, I chased him with a torch.
He apparently didn't seem to appreciate my choice of weapon to end him with :P
I always got emotional from the mass effect Normandy crash site side quest
Man I will never forget how much the Yuriko side quests made me ugly cry. The moment you realize she is literally sundowning in her final moments and she's not seeing Jin anymore but his father... God I was a mess.
I always remember the Suna Silentstrike quest chain from World of Warcraft, Mists of Pandaria as really sad. One of the few quest chains from that expansion that stuck with me.
Wow Jules thanks for picking my suggestion and great pronunciation on my tag and a great list to accompany my own suggestion of Howards quest honestly that quest should have been post game and i see alot of call for the Grandfather mission in Central park as well and yes i loved that quest as well but that was more wholesome and true spidey moment then anything.
I also have to say... for Borderlands 3, Baby Dancer mission was extremely sweet. The reveal of Baby being in a wheelchair, and that Claptrap dancing with her while also being encouraging to her was something I wasn't expecting.
Games that squandered amazing concepts in their execution.
Looking at you, Lichdom: Battlemage! Dual wielding spells, being an awesome Battlemage? How could it be wrong?... Oh, like that.
Not really a side quest as more of a side game, but the ending and story behind life is strange "The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit" is absolutely heartwrenching.
Best video game adaptations of on-screen scenes. Any game that tries to recreate an actual scene from a movie or tv show in-game
Great list! I would like to respectfully add "Substory 24: Let it Snow" from Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth for consideration in the future. In a series full of heartbreaking moments, just...damn
Fallout 4 you get a distress radio call to save a lady in the mall. Cut to end you find a skeleton. She had been in there pre war. It was sad
Another surprisingly emotional side mission in Borderlands 3 is "Heart of Gold" in the Handsome Jackpot DLC. I just sat there like 🥺 at the end.
When I started this video, I was hoping to see Tales of Syphonia. The side quest where you find out that the siblings' mother did not abandon them because she didn't love them, but because she did not want them to grow up as slaves. She was so heartbroken that she went round the bend and now thinks the dolls she has are her children. The worst part is you don't get any closure because after you find out why she abandoned them you go back, and she's gone.
Always tuning into these videos for my pep-talk from Jules!!
Hey Jules, I got to say mate. You’ve been the reason why I’ve decided to be more positive. Even with what I have going on right now. Hearing your positive message after each video has made me want to be a better person each day and, I have to admit I’ve started smiling more often. So cheers and hopefully you’re having a wonderful day as well!
The Dream On side quest in Cyberpunk 2077 got me. Nothing you do, really fixes anything in the end. It was just sad to experience
The substory in Yakuza Like A Dragon with Kaede Tono stuck with me - she was ill, grew up watching him from the window where she was bedridden, he alone inspiring hope & joy for her, and without fully saying so we see her spirit spend a final day with him before she departs from this plane of existence; it both fulfils her lifelong wish for him to know of her & thank him, and her getting to spend time with him c’: I found it utterly tragic
There's also "Doctor's Orders" in Borderlands 2, you get a job collecting some audio logs of Handsome Jackass forcing some doctor chick into doing slag experiments on living subjects. Its not until the end when you learn that the doctor is Tiny Tina's mom, the guy she's performing slag experiments om is Flesh-Stick and this is the story of him murdering her.
I play a lot of skyrim but haven't seen that Isobelle story yet. The saddest side quest I've found is that guy in Iverstead whose sister drowned and you bring him her necklace...
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I was expecting the Yuriko side quest and you delivered. I had a lump in my throat for that one
Returning Aurela the Spectral Jellyfish to her sister waiting up in the frozen north of Elden Ring. Return her so they can go see the stars together, I do it every time and it gets me every time.
First time I found this I was streaming and I needed to stop playing.
The final major expansion for FFXI had you fighting against an encroaching darkness that was obliterating worlds ala Crisis on Infinite Earths. As you get towards the end of the story line you realize that that darkness is actually a euphemism for the inevitable shutting down of the servers for the game.
Another kinda but kinda not... Borderlands 2 Tiny Tina DLC where she talks about waiting for Roland.
My nigga Jules you are an absolute legend✊🏾. I hope all the positivity you wish for people you get back 10 fold. You deserve it.
The heart of gold mission and the cold case missions, was not expecting that from borderlands
New suggestion for next Tuesday! 10 Unforgettable Areas in the Soulsborn series! 😮
Idea I had for a list. Games which abandoned their regular mechanics entirely for a boss "battle" e.g. Stubbs the Zombie's dance off boss encounter
10 funniest death animations in gaming history.
I did the missing grandpa mission as Miles in SM2, and it was very sad, so I decided to switch to Peter and did the Howard quest. The double-punch combo made me put down the game for a bit.
Borderlands knows sadness. Look at the Assault on Dragon Keep DLC.
That one still gets me.
Did you ever play the end of the dragon keep dlc for borderlands 2 Jules? Has Tiny Tina dealing with processing and accepting loss
The death of Thane Krios causes me to cry every time I see it in Mass Effect 3.
Xenoblade Chronicles, the named-Telethia-killing missions.
So. Telethia. You first see one in the confrontation after the Ether Mine, where it helps you out of a scrape. The next time you see one, a cute girl (who turns out to be an Emperor's daughter) is fighting it. While gathering ether crystals to revive her, you find you have to fight two more, and are given an additional tool to do so. Cut to several chapters later, when you find that Telethia...
...are pure (or close enough to it) High Entia caught in a field of high concentrations of ether. Many are named, but others... depending on how much you hoovered up the sidequests, you may have even helped some of them. And now you have to put them down to complete these sidequests, such as the one with a brother and sister who've had to escape and landed in Frontier Village. The brother wants you to retrieve something from Alcamoth. When you get it, however, you're confronted by a Telethia with the same name as their father, the same father you may have helped find his children. And now, you can't even give the item to his son unless you kill him.
Mons the Biff! Love the Biffy Clyro poster
8 critically underrated video games that kept you glued to your seat.
What about the best video game moments that perfectly encapsle human emotions (joy, fear, confusion, elation etc)?
Life is Strange and Life is Strange: Before the Storm. You'll thank me later.
The snow side quest in like a dragon infinite wealth is soul crushing
Yeah the spider man side quest almost killed me didn't expect it at all
Same here
Also borderlands 2 ( I believe) mordechai 's. Bird that was turned into an enemy from handsome Jack and you ended up having to kill it. That was hard😢😭
The death of Varl from Horizon Forbidden West (terribly sorry about the massive spoiler). That one STILL hurts.
Games that have special rewards for your birthday. Was mine today. Know Of two games Death stranding and animal crossing. Don't remember what other games give you something on your birthday.
How about "Enemies That Call You Weak While Being Disappointingly Easy To Beat" or something like that. Basically, the cocky wannabe tough guys that you dispatch with unceremonious ease. Kinda like that Indiana Jones scene where the guy shows off sword wielding tricks and then just gets shot immediately.
After the Spider-Man 2 one, I had to set the controller down and process for awhile
That settles it. After I finish Shadow of the Erdtree the next game I’m getting is Undead Nightmare
🤷It feels like karma that the catalyst for most of RDR: Undead Nightmare's glitchs and bugs is completing the sasquatch side quest.
10 times video games hit you right in the feels
You say Tues Your Own Adventure is medieval themed, but where's the sword and the armour? Come on, Jules, you're breaking my heart.
8 sequals the actual devs really want to see . . . IE i worked on PSI OPS as a design guy (levels n objects mostly) I'd love a sequal to that even if idon't get to work on it. there's gotta be other devs out there like me. . . at least 7 more. possibly maybe?
How is Dom finding Maria or Dom sacrificing himself from Gears of War not on this list?!
Top 10 most nostalgia inducing video game reveals
The spider-man one hit me hard because I thought of my grandfather
When I was a teenager, there were a mission on Neverwinter Nights that you try to find the five children of a woman. And you found them dead, used for a sacrifice. If you tell the true, the woman do something reckless and get killed. If you lie, saying that they child are alive and far away, she will live her life with the faith that they will come back one day.
I think the only game that seriously had me breaking down into tears was the end of FFX 😢
Buffy Clyro FTW. C’mon the Biff…!
when i played the Howard mission i figured out what was going to happen after getting to the first location
The God of War one really made me sad for sure >__
Koko’s quest line is not about her mother. It’s Dorian’s quest line that reveals more about his wife!
8 video game characters you wish there was a game revolved around
10 games that players have a love/hate relationship (returnal for me)
How about 8 childhood games that are now surprisingly expensive to play.
At this point I’m not sure if Jules is running double duty for the bank or if they really had this much backlogged content
Ironically i posted this 2 times like 2 and 3 weeks ago and this was made
Howard's passing was very sad.😢
8 best dance scenes in games.
CLAPTRAP!
Youriko BROKE ME. My mother died just 2mo before I played it! 😭
Bad games with amazing side quests?
Video game missions that made us rage out of anger 💯😂
Taking BB to the incinerator at the end of Death Stranding 😢
We need a top 10 list of bald badasses in video games
Jules, how could you forget the quest for Gascoine's daughters in Bloodborn ?
Spiderman 2 that side mission hurt
I mistook you for Simon Whistler and wondered why the humor was so off.
Hey now Jules! Thanks!
Overlord Mass Effect 2 should 100% be on this list.
Top ten loading screen games!!