10 Video Games Where YOU Die At The End

First things first: "SPOILER ALERT".Taking the reins of the main character in a new game for the first time, you're never quite prepared for the emotional, sometimes life-changing journey you are about to embark on.

Taking the reins of the main character in a new game for the first time, you're never quite prepared for the emotional, sometimes life-changing journey you are about to embark on.

As we're with them every step of the way for potentially hundreds of hours, it's hard not to get attached to the likes of Link, Geralt of Rivia, Nathan Drake, and Master Chief, which is why it is sometimes so difficult to take when the game inexplicably kills off the main character at the end of the game.

They kill you, the player, in essence.

It's not just action/adventure games whose protagonists are at risk of an untimely demise either, with characters from all genres of gaming suffering the same unfortunate fate in the unsuspecting and quite literal hands of the player.

Of course, some of the victims are inevitably characters who we, whether by design or mere taste, do not care for and aren't sad to see shuffle off this mortal coil.

Most, however, we love; we collect their merchandise, wear their T-shirts and name our pets after them, which is why their deaths suck so badly.

Here are ten video games where YOU died at the end.

A two-for-one to kick things off...

Rockstar's Red Dead Redemption games are perfect examples of this phenomenon.

Having a unique and nuanced main character to play with in both John Marston and Arthur Morgan, we spend hundreds of hours in their company only for the game to terminate them both at the end of their respective titles.

In the case of the former, Marston is tasked with bringing his former gang mates to justice in return for amnesty and freedom from his old life.

Inevitably betrayed by those whose upon promise he was counting, Marston is confronted at his family barn by an entire squad of assorted gun-toting villainy and, despite his best efforts to keep the masses at bay, eventually goes down in a hail of gunfire.

In the case of the latter, Arthur Morgan's his death is at once less dramatic but arguably more poignant for it.

While there are multiple endings which all result in Morgan's death, the most famous is undoubtedly Arthur slowly succumbing to Tuberculosis.

Sent to collect a debt from the stricken Thomas Downes, Downes intentionally coughs on Arthur to pass on his sickness.

Weakening throughout the game, Morgan eventually lays down and dies alone in the mountains, watching one final sunrise.