- This one's fresher.
This is too soon, too soon.
Today, we are going to watch some of the saddest scenes
from video games.
And we're gonna attempt not to cry.
- This is gonna be real tough for me
because I am a real big crier.
- Game on.
(solemn music)
- Okay, I don't think I know this game.
It sounds like the Titanic theme song though
in the background a little bit.
- I already know it's being deceptive.
It's too happy too early.
That's how they get you.
- Alright, this is dangerous.
Kids' stuff.
Kids' stuff is rough for me.
Got a daughter.
Changed my life.
- Okay, we're fine.
Everything's fine.
- Oh I don't like that clown.
Alright, I'm back out. (laughs)
- Can you watch Jason for a minute?
- Oh, I wouldn't.
Don't, don't, don't break up, don't separate.
- We're not goin' anywhere, are we, Jason?
- Come on, honey.
- Y'all not goin' anywhere, huh?
- We're not going anywhere.
That's how you know.
- I'm not gonna cry over your face.
We're fine.
Oh gosh, Jason's missing, isn't he?
Why is the clown near where Jason is?
- Oh no, where's the kid?
- Jason?
He couldn't have gone far.
He was here a second ago.
- Here's the clown. Jason, we're fine.
Nothing is wrong.
What about the other two?
- Aw, he wants a balloon.
- Okay, let's go buy a balloon.
- Great.
- Hey champ. - Oh no.
- What's your name? - Don't tell him.
Jason, don't tell him.
- Which balloon would you like, Jason?
- The red one.
- Here you go.
- When is it coming?
I'm so stressed.
- That'll be $2, sir.
- Jason, wait for me.
Wait for your dad, son.
- Wait for your dad, Jason.
- It's really crowded in here.
- He's not listening.
- Oh, he's gonna get lost.
- This is chill.
- He was here a second ago.
I bought him a balloon
and I turned around and he just disappeared.
- Well you left the other part
where you lost him the first time.
- That's like a beacon that says I'm here.
- Stay here, I'll go get him.
- Where'd he go?
- Oh no, it's getting real.
- Just go find somebody.
They have those intercom things
that your mom's always embarrassing you with.
- Jason!
- Jason, please report.
- Oh he's so worried.
- Hey, he's fine.
- Go, go, run, run, stop walking.
- He's just by... he's out there with the balloon.
We're fine everybody, we're fine.
- Move off the escalator.
- Jason!
- Balloon.
- Oh my gosh, there are a lot of people at this mall.
I've never seen this many people at a mall before.
Oh my gosh, there's balloons everywhere.
Oh God, are we hallucinating?
What's happening?
- No.
He's near the street.
- We gotta cross.
We're fine.
No, no, no, do not call for him.
He will cross back over the street.
Oh no.
No.
- No!
(car hits boy)
- Jason!
Jason!
- I'm a really easy crier.
I forgot to mention.
- No Jason, oh my God, no. (cries)
No.
- Oh God, the balloon, of course.
- No. (cries)
- We can power through this, we can power through this.
This is fine, we're fine.
- This might be my cold heart
but I never feel sad when kids die
from not paying attention to their parents.
You gotta listen to your parents.
This is why.
Don't be jumpin' on the couch, Naomi.
Stuff like this can happen.
See.
- There wasn't a tear that rolled down my face
so I'm not even claiming that one.
But I am for serious, honestly, had tears in my eyes
because genuinely, we're starting with the death of a child.
Yeah, I'm gonna cry.
I'm a human.
I don't know. (laughs)
- We coulda gotten Jason.
Now that was making me more angry than anything else.
So I managed to make that one through
just because I was mad.
- He told him... how many times he told him?
Like hey, don't go anywhere.
Don't go anywhere.
He bought you a balloon and you still didn't listen.
How you not gonna listen when he bought you the balloon?
- Okay.
First one, super sad.
Can't wait for the next one.
Sure it's gonna be just so chipper.
- Just set the scene a little.
We've been with this horse through thick and thin.
He's like our best pal.
- He's such a good boy.
(horse neighs)
- Oh no.
- Pedro!
(solemn music)
- It's like I know he's okay at the end.
That's legit the only reason that I'm okay.
Shoot.
- Oh, it's fine, he's fine.
- I don't wanna mention what I know about the horse.
I hate whenever you bond with an animal
in a video game
and they do it on purpose and I know it.
That's the best horse in video games too.
- But he was such a good boy. (cries)
Okay, we're fine.
- Yeah, that one was a doozy.
Took me back to Atreyu.
You know, he couldn't get happy.
I mean what makes a horse happy?
- Your horse that you love dies.
It's unacceptable.
- Yep, we'll chill.
- It's behind, behind.
Oh.
She's the lead character, right?
I'm anxiously waiting to take my headphones off.
- Turn your face to the sun, child.
(screams and struggles)
- Oh, I thought he had... I was so scared.
Oh no.
I know what's gonna happen here.
(fight)
- Burn into your task.
- As you command.
- Unknown killers suck.
Are they gonna explode everything?
Oh girl, run.
Oh, he's still alive.
- Ugh.
- Oh.
- This isn't cheating, right?
We're fine.
- Survive.
- Oh no.
- No.
(cries)
(explosion)
(cries)
- That almost got me.
- Yeah.
That one, as per usual, gets me.
Now how many more of these do we have, Branden?
- I think sacrifice is guaranteed to make me tear up,
no matter what.
- I almost leaked.
But I didn't this time.
I live to see another video.
- It's okay, baby, we're safe, we're safe.
Hey, we need help, please. - Stop!
- This is how they intro the game.
That's how you freakin' know.
- We're not sick.
- Got a couple of civilians in the outer perimeter.
Please advise.
- He's not sick.
- Oh.
Uncle Tommy's fine, you don't know.
- But... yes sir.
- Listen buddy, we've just been through hell, okay.
We just need...
- You're like he's not gonna shoot a kid.
(gunfire)
- Please don't.
(gunshot)
Oh no.
Sarah?
(Sarah cries)
Move your hands babe.
- Oh, shoot.
- Listen to me, I know this hurts,
but you're gonna be okay, baby, stay with me.
Alright, I'm gonna pick you up.
I know, baby, I know it hurts.
Come on, baby, please.
I know, baby, I know.
- Oh Joel.
- Sarah?
Baby.
Don't do this to me, baby.
Don't do this to me.
Come on.
- Alright, we've failed.
I don't know why we're punishing ourselves. (laughs)
(Joel cries)
She's kind of crazy but we love her too. (cries)
- It's crazy how good The Last Of Us looks,
after all these years it still looks so good.
- Ah.
- Ooh.
- That's just so freakin' good.
And the coolest part about that too
is you play the daughter whenever you're starting out.
- That's like one, it's beautifully handled.
I'm trying to talk about it very clinically
because it's hard for me.
- This close.
Almost got me.
- Micha, I effing hate you.
- So let's go ahead and do that.
- Ah.
- Oh no. (cries)
- You lost, my sick friend.
- This one's fresher.
This is too soon, too soon.
- It turns out I've won.
- I love that line.
- God damn you.
- He's not a perfect man but he's a good one. (cries)
- It is over.
- Dad.
- Dutch.
Ugh.
- It's over.
- Ah, Dutch.
He's right.
You know it and I know it.
- He's sick.
- I hate that he... ugh.
- He's dyin'.
- It's your son, you know.
- He's talkin' crazy.
- Ah, shut up Micah, you're crazy. (cries)
Why do I still love Dutch so much?
He broke our family apart.
- Dad?
- Arthur's too loyal and it's too painful. (cries)
- We made it.
We won.
- Screw you, Micah.
Leave.
- Sean made it.
- Sean.
- The rest of us.
I tried.
In the end, I did.
- You did try.
- Come on, let's go.
We can make it.
- Eff off, Dutch. (laughs)
- Come on, Dutch.
Come on! - I love that.
- Argh.
(solemn music)
- Go to the sunrise, Arthur, again.
Argh.
- Arthur, we knew you were gonna go
but I hate it so much.
- Good for him.
God, this music.
♪ Amid, amidst a crashing world ♪
♪ May I stand unshaken ♪
- Sorry, I was so into it,
I wasn't even sayin' what was goin' on.
- The soundtrack to it is so good. (cries)
- Micah's a snitch.
Knew it since I first met him.
Now we look at this thick deer.
So thick, I don't know why they made that...
That's the thickest deer I've ever seen in my life.
- Oh, it's so good.
It's so good.
- That is such a beautifully handled scene.
- The thing is, even though I'm over here...
Oh God, if I talk about it too much. (laughs)
- I feel drained.
- I'm still dying that someone didn't make it past
the horse scene. (laughs)
- Oh man, when you get to feel that in a game,
there's something like nothing else.
I remember really viscerally The Last Of Us
whenever that happened and I had a visceral connection
immediately to the piece,
and I was like this is something really amazing.
- I have cried several times throughout this, number one,
and throughout video games,
and I wouldn't trade a moment of it,
because it's worth it.
I love that feeling of emotion tied into it.
It's great storytelling.
(solemn music)