Actions in Games That Made You Physically Uncomfortable.

[Pockydon]

It would be impossible to post on this thread and not mention cutting off your own finger in Heavy Rain. Especially if you try and do it with scissors...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Heavy Rain. Pliers. Pinky finger.

i couldn't even complete this damn game, i remember playing it for nearly 4 hours straight, on a 80 degree sunny as hell day with not a cloud in the sky, and I was depressed all day because of it, so i sold it and never finished the damn thing. Stupid game, I felt like the worst dick in the world where you

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lose sean in the mall and are basically forced to feel like a piece of shit father for doing so since you could see him at some points off in the distance in the crowd. that is one of my biggest fears of becoming a parent is a situation like that.

Lots of morality discussion in here, but I can say with authority that the one thing that makes me feel genuinely PHYSICALLY uncomfortable in games is "heights". I'm acrophobic, so if your game has me clinging to a little ledge or performing acrobatics at some absurd height my palms become instantly sweaty and my testicles try to climb back up inside my body.

I actually had to stop playing Mirror's Edge pretty early on, I just couldn't take it.

Here's a good test to see if you, too, are afraid of heights!

holy crap! that is frickin crazy...all the way up there with NOTHING holding you onto the tower...my palms didn't get sweaty, but my feet were tingling like they'd just fell asleep for the past two decades. granted I took an advanced rock climbing course last year in college, so I've gotten over my fear somewhat of heights/climbing stuff, but damn that's crazy..

OT: most games don't make me feel this way thankfully, so I can't add to much on the "physically uncomfortable" part, if I were to add one though it'd probably be resident evil 2 as a kid, I played it with my uncle and it scared the shit out of me to the point where i flung the controller and ran out of the room, and didn't touch it since.

 

[Quaxar]

Yeah, definitely Heavy Rain - that was horrible.

Another shout out to Condemned 'cos that game had some twisted first-person melee violence.

And as final example Red Dead Redemption - walking outside at the end.... *sobs*

Oh god that too, and then its even worse when

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They bury John and that song is playing in the background, then Jacks mother dies, and the final twist of the knife when Jack grows up to be exactly what his father didnt want

Red Dead Redemption was such a great game :'(

I cried many manly tears about that ending. Actually, I just went to youtube to watch it again and I was near again. Damn this Marshal, I really enjoyed my revenge!

 

[rob_simple]

Spoiler: Gungrave Spoiler

Also, the end of Gungrave where you have to kill your corrupt best friend and the cutscene actually waits for you to pull the trigger before progressing.

I was just thinking "Wow! They are REALLY dragging this out, aren't they?" before I realized what was going on.

I was exactly the same, I'd stayed up all night finishing it and I thought it had crashed at the final damn cutscene only to realise it was a QTE.

 

[Biodeamon]

basically

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Erasing ALL the charecters from Drawn from to life 2 that you grew to like. yes ALL OF THEM. Every single person except for you, who you find out aren't even real and wake up from a coma in the hospital to find out your parents are dead. who the hell thought uo that crap?

the game makes you speciffically touch the screen to kill everybody and won't procede until you do. they don't even tell you what you did until after you do it. i raged and cried for 2 hours straight.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

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Choosing between Tali and Legion, and by extension the Free Geth and the Quarians, when I had insufficent charm points to bring them together. Its even more gutting because now I know both ways, I lose Legion, another friend to add to the list. And not being able to really stick two fingers up at the Reapers in any meaningful way didn't help >.<

I am not ashamed to say, there were a few scenes in ME3 that really brought me to tears, and no other game has ever done that.

yeahh, i genuinely cried when

Spoiler: ME3 spoiler, nothing to do with the ending though

i had to let mordin sacrifice himself. i mean, that's just not cool. that along with thanes sacrifice was pretty saddening, especially the end scene with his son.

the andrew ryan incident in bioshock also did unnerve me a fair bit.

Spoiler: MASSIVE ME3 SPOILERS

Yeah, I really enjoyed Mordin's death, but Thane's was ruined by the retarded way in which it happened. "I think I will just run Towards the guy with the gun." Kai Leng shouldn't have been in that game, he was like instant failure to any scene he was in.

 

[Rumpsteak]

The entirety of Mario Party 1.. but I sense that is not the uncomfortable you are going for. Second playthrough of shadow of the colossus knowing exactly what was about to happen to me four legged companion. Heart-breaking

 

[rob_simple]

The Molag Bal quest in Skyrim.

Anyone who enjoyed doing that quest is a sick fuck.

I found the majority of the Daedra quests to be extremely unpleasant. I found it even more annoying that doing the evil option in one of the quests doesn't get you the artifact which meant that I both screwed up my Oblivion Walker trophy and

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had killed a dog for no reason, which you can call me hypocritical for, but it made me more uncomfortable than any of the countless people I murdered in the game.

Lots of morality discussion in here, but I can say with authority that the one thing that makes me feel genuinely PHYSICALLY uncomfortable in games is "heights". I'm acrophobic, so if your game has me clinging to a little ledge or performing acrobatics at some absurd height my palms become instantly sweaty and my testicles try to climb back up inside my body.

I actually had to stop playing Mirror's Edge pretty early on, I just couldn't take it.

Here's a good test to see if you, too, are afraid of heights!

I can't watch that video, it makes me feel sick. I've never been put off a game entirely because of heights, but every time I do a ridiculously high jump in games like Crackdown or the cliff dives in Zelda/Assassin's Creed it does make my stomach turn.

 

[applesandoranges]

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[elvor0]

Well you might want to say spoilers in the title. But the game I want to say it about a year old so if you haven't played it yet you are not going to. Killing Zeke at the end of Infamous 2 evil ending was Uncomfortable to say the least.

Reported for spoiling. Regardless of age you don't fucking spoil a game like that, it just makes you look like a prick.

OT: Strogg conversion in Quake 4.

I should hope I don't need to point out the metallic substance your post is drenched in.

 

[thiosk]

Spoiler: Heavy Mass Effect 3 Spoiler

When you kill Wrex as a Renegade Shepard, Ive never done this and I never will, but I watched a Youtube video of it, man It was the absolute most painful thing to watch

how could someone do that

im glad i never played me 2 or 3

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

I agree with the Bioshock spoiler.

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At that part, you kind of pieced together that Ryan had long since lost and was only trying to keep Rapture together. Plus, you were starting to get suspicious with Atlus.

 

[xplosive59]

The most brutal part of mass effect 3 is where...

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If you take the full renegade option when curing the genophage and shoot mordin, he crawls to the controls coughing up blood but dies reaching for it.

also in Fable 2 where...

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The quest for reaver where you can choose to sacrifice the girl who is pleading for her life or sacrifice your youth to the shadow judges

 

[Lt._nefarious]

Heavy Rain... The bit where you make Ethan Undress Madison.....

 

[Terminate421]

The Molag Bal quest in Skyrim.

Anyone who enjoyed doing that quest is a sick fuck.

I found the majority of the Daedra quests to be extremely unpleasant. I found it even more annoying that doing the evil option in one of the quests doesn't get you the artifact which meant that I both screwed up my Oblivion Walker trophy and

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had killed a dog for no reason, which you can call me hypocritical for, but it made me more uncomfortable than any of the countless people I murdered in the game.

Lots of morality discussion in here, but I can say with authority that the one thing that makes me feel genuinely PHYSICALLY uncomfortable in games is "heights". I'm acrophobic, so if your game has me clinging to a little ledge or performing acrobatics at some absurd height my palms become instantly sweaty and my testicles try to climb back up inside my body.

I actually had to stop playing Mirror's Edge pretty early on, I just couldn't take it.

Here's a good test to see if you, too, are afraid of heights!

I can't watch that video, it makes me feel sick. I've never been put off a game entirely because of heights, but every time I do a ridiculously high jump in games like Crackdown or the cliff dives in Zelda/Assassin's Creed it does make my stomach turn.

Spoilered

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Ironically I felt justified about killing that werewolf fellow, it didn't seem evil as much as it did merciful. He promised to go out of civilization but all he has been was trouble everywhere he went.

I don't care if he was werewolf, or if I was helping a deadra, it felt much better/safer to kill him due his inability to control it, unlike the companions.

He was a danger to the future of Skyrim. (That looks complex for my own decision....)

 

[Woodsey]

Putting up spoiler tags is great. Putting up spoiler tags without saying what you're spoiling? Less so.

Replaying The Witcher 2 for the third time...

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... I wanted to see what would happen if I left Henselt go, which wasn't particularly enjoyable considering he's a massive ****.

 

[rob_simple]

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Ironically I felt justified about killing that werewolf fellow, it didn't seem evil as much as it did merciful. He promised to go out of civilization but all he has been was trouble everywhere he went.

I don't care if he was werewolf, or if I was helping a deadra, it felt much better/safer to kill him due his inability to control it, unlike the companions.

He was a danger to the future of Skyrim. (That looks complex for my own decision....)

Yeah, that was about the only one that fell on the side of morally justifiable, in my opinion.

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The haunted house, killing and eating the bloke, killing a dog, killing the giants you are specifically told are peaceful creatures...these all left a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[FreeCookies]

Not being able to get the crucified people down/mercy killing in Fallout New Vegas. That really bothered me.

I killed Vulpes first time I met him because of that...

There wasn't an option in conversation, but you could shoot the people on the crucifix to get the same effect.
I dropped a frag grenade in Vulpes pocket and walked away. :3

Mass Effect 3 spoilers below:

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I inadvertently commited genocide in Mass effect 3. I skipped a side-mission on Rannoch which resulted in the quarians getting owned by the geth fleet.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Fallout 3. Harold. Burning him.

THE SCREAM!!!!