User blog comment:AdvancedRookie/Those Tragic Moments/@comment-356904-20100307223319

Any time you have to watch your current protagonist die... Out of the ones I've seen, Roach is probably the worst, if only because the music kicks in to full-on orchestral heartbreak right as Shepherd shoots him, and the fact if he'd been held up in that fire fight for another minute he might have survived.

I think the result is that I practically shouted "Take that, you Bastard!" at the screen after lobbing the knife into his face. Which may or may not have been the whole point of the moment