10 Emotionally-Draining Video Games You Only Finished Once

3. Red Dead Redemption

This isn't one for sadness, instead it's the purest sky-punch "F-YEAH!" feeling you'll ever have in any game. Ever. Partly due to the base-motivation of putting a corrupt cop in the ground, the final levels of RDR play out with your original protagonist John Marston going out in a blaze of bullets and broken promises, as aforementioned FBI agent Edgar Ross takes the cavalry to his homestead, gunning him down as his family flee in terror. The game then essentially ends, although you do resume control as son Jack, watching over his now-deceased mother's grave accompanying where John was put to rest. With nothing left to lose and both him and you as a player thirsting for vengeance, you can optionally head back over to Blackwater, the city where a now older Ross must surely be hiding out. Except he's not, and in a brilliant turn of events you end up having to connect some dots to find him, visiting his family members along the way and - again optionally - wreaking vengeance upon them for robbing you of your own kin. When you finally do track down Ross he's fishing peacefully by a riverside, although that doesn't stop him from issuing a few threats - leading to you finally unloading a full clip into the man who killed your father in cold blood, before watching his body float off down the river as the game's title card slams home with enough impact to bring down Superman.