Actions in Games That Made You Physically Uncomfortable.

[Denamic]

When I killed crossbreed Priscilla in Dark Souls.
She's not hostile and she'll even help you get out.
But I didn't know that and chucked a lightning spear at her.
"But why...? What seeketh thee?" she said.
I felt guilty.

Oh, and great wolf Sif from the same game.
It just wanted to protect its master's grave.
It even limps when it's wounded.
I call it "it" because I don't know whether it's male or female.
People refer to it as male, but Sif is a woman's name, so I dunno.

 

[Terminate421]

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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.

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Ah yes...eating the dude was a bad one. When it reached that point, on my Argonian who makes decisions I would naturally make, I turned right around and killed them all, I blindly followed the quest hoping I could get the deadric thing without eating anyone. (Whats even funnier is that when I "broke the indoctrination", the lady who starts the quests shouted, "NO! This isn't possible!")
That ended without getting the daedric artifact but you can get the achievment on another guy so I realized that aspect.

On my evil Kahjiit, I ate the dude, THEN killed them all.

 

[Chunga the Great]

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 shit, that was more terrifying than anything I've ever seen. Who is crazy enough to do that? All it would take is one strong gust of wind and suddenly you're falling to your death!

OT: The Dark Brotherhood's torture chamber in Skyrim. 'nuff said

 

[Batou667]

The original Prince of Persia: Sands of Time had a few "scared of heights" moments that were very effective.

 

[teebeeohh]

I can never be mean to my dog in the fable games, either I mean hes my dog how could anyone be mean to him.

Mass Effect 3 had lots of emotionally charged moments with the characters for me probably far too invested in the whole game but the one below left me feeling really bad.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 3

The fall of thessia in mass effect 3 was horrible, pretty much knowing you failed and did it badly and lost the asari home world and got beaten by Cerberus all at once. Just the whole brutal failure every single time.

Renegade playthroughs on mass effect have a lot of just being a dick and then a bit of seriously fucking people over for your own ends... will need to be in the right mood to get through 3 with all my being an asshole finally coming back to bite me in the butt, but I was determined to see both sides.

Spoiler: ME3

And my problem with that part was that i didn't fail,cutscene shepard did.i did everything right and cutscene shepard with his brain tumor forgets that she is biotic and could have pulled the damn VI from kai langs hand or something. the scene could have had so much more meaning if they put you at one end of the room, kai lang with the VI at the other end and you have to fight through so many enemies in between that it's impossible to reach him in time. This way it was just one more time where shepard was an idiot in a cutscene.

however what really got to me in that game was the interaction with all you companions during the final assault. Sure the ending sucked and just calling everyone up was kinda cheesy but saying goodbye to joker felt really weird (since he is the first character in ME 1 so say something) and i really liked how harbinger just kills off EVERYONE in a matter of seconds, that for me was a much more effective way of showing just how outclassed I was compared to the reapers than anything else.

 

[thespyisdead]

as i played paragon throughout the ME series, the worst thing i have experienced there would have to be choosing between Kaidan and Ash...

i think i had to sit there in front of the screen for at least 5 minutes, before i chose Ash.

also thinking about killing Wrex makes me cringe... i just can't do it(both in 1 and 3)

 

[RustlessPotato]

As someone else mentioned, the final boss fight from Condemned is very brutal and makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable.

Also in Aliens Vs. Predator, the most recent one, the Xenomorphs have a finisher attack in which they grab someone from ehind and shove their tail upwards through them until it comes out of their mouth. That one always makes me feel unpleasant.
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I'll grab someone from behind and shove my tail upwa... xD I'm childish, I know

EDIT: I think i have the wrong command for Spoiler tags, please help

Massive GEARS 3 spoiler beneath

{spoiler= Gears of War 3} Call me cheezy, but somehow the death of Dom had a little impact on me, even though i expected it, because people always sacrifise themselves at the end of a trilogy {/spoiler}

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Mine's probably a little meh in comparison to most of these, but did anyone ever feel a little guilty about killing the security guards in Splinter Cell Conviction's Deniable Ops?

Because it made you kill at least ten of them to move on. 10 guys who probably had no idea what they were guarding, and had kids.

 

[Razoack]

while not necessarily in video games, one thing that makes me uncomfortable watching is self harm. In a non video game instance, this would be Toot in Drawn Together.

Dom's suicide was uncomfortable in Gears of War 3. Mainly because they built it up as such as heroic act and that we were meant to feel pity for Marcus. My experience was "Good, that soppy bellend has gone."

 

[WindKnight]

In starcraft: brood war, the mission where your forced to kill the human general, and Fenix.

It didn't help that fenix was my favorite character.... I kept hoping the game would give me a way out so I didn't have to do it... but...

and something else that made me uncomfortable in a different manner was an early cutscene from Sin, where your player character is told that yes, the big bad Alexis Sinclair is, indeed, behind the current case your working on. his response?

'That hot piece of ass? no way!' I felt so dirty that I was playing as this meathead.

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Playing as Imphy on 99 nights. She's the starting character and the one you need to use to get the hidden final boss, but she's the sort of arrogant racist halfwit that should be one of the early villains, not the main character.

 

[Eric Morales]

Dead Space 2- Eye poke machine, which is weird because most of the gore in that game doesn't carry much weight.

Spoiler: Dragon Age Origins/Awakening

-Killing Connor, not so much the act of killing a child, but the way his mother begs you not to kill him really got to me.
In Awakening, choosing to burn Amaranthine or leave your friends at the keep to die

Spoiler: Mass Effect1-3

-Leaving Ashley to die on Virmire
-The attack on the Normandy in ME2
-Seeing a woman (in my case Kelly Chambers) getting liquified in the Collector Base
-That teenage girl in the refugee camp who keeps asking if her parents have arrived yet.

 

[Berenzen]

Spoiler: Xenoblade Chronicles

Metal Face killing Fiora at the end of the Colony 9 attack main quest. I had to put the controller down and stop playing for a bit in order to stop my hands from shaking. She was a great character goddamn it!

 

[CleverCover]

ME2

Spoiler

Playing ME2, Zaeed's loyalty mission. Choosing the renegade option and leaving all those people to die, hearing their screams of terror and pain as they're being burned alive by the fire YOUR squadmate caused because he was an asshole and then at a certain point you hear an explosion...and then it just gets quiet...really really quiet.

Bioshock

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Beating Andrew Ryan over the head with a golf club made me scream at the screen to "STOP YOU MORON. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING? HE'S FUCKING UNARMED!" Didn't like that scene much.

Any game with romance...

I have trouble watching the sex scenes in games. I don't know why. I'm okay with regular porn. But I feel guilty watching two in-game characters go at it. I feel like an intruder watching them....

 

[Starik20X6]

I started to feel really bad while playing Shadow of the Colossus, thinking about how wrong it was to be picking fights with these majestic beasts who had no idea I even existed until I showed up one morning to kill them.

 

[Bvenged]

Yeah, I agree with your top spoiler, though not by as much as you've implied. More so of "what am I doing!!!!".

I gotta be honest, it's the sexual scenes in games. They always make me uncomfortable (not in that kind of way!).

Lets be honest, if I wanted to be aroused I'd use some other, more well known, methods such as having a good time with a girl (or in a more foreveralone.jpg method); but seeing sex or intense romance, or things of those calibre, in games is just an uncomfortable thing for me to watch.

Good relatable example here, it's as uncomfortable for me as watching the same kind of thing on TV with parents in the room, though that is not why I get uncomfortable as I game across the house to them and what goes on in the game is as justifiable as seeing it happen in a regular film.

Do I get uncomfortable in life experiences with these things? No. But for some reason in games, I do.

 

[Launcelot111]

As someone else mentioned, the final boss fight from Condemned is very brutal and makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable.

Also in Aliens Vs. Predator, the most recent one, the Xenomorphs have a finisher attack in which they grab someone from ehind and shove their tail upwards through them until it comes out of their mouth. That one always makes me feel unpleasant.
.

I'll grab someone from behind and shove my tail upwa... xD I'm childish, I know

EDIT: I think i have the wrong command for Spoiler tags, please help

Massive GEARS 3 spoiler beneath

{spoiler= Gears of War 3} Call me cheezy, but somehow the death of Dom had a little impact on me, even though i expected it, because people always sacrifise themselves at the end of a trilogy {/spoiler}

You're almost there with the spoilers, just use a [ instead of a {. It was written the other way because it would actually do the spoiler instead of showing the command if you just used the [. If I don't understand how to do something, I just use the quote feature and look at the commands someone else used, then just copy the format to use for my purposes.


OT: Aside from the many Fallout/Skyrim/Mass Effect examples shown which I agree with, I also always felt terrible killing the innocent little bunnies in Final Fantasy XII

 

[Risingblade]

For Dragon Age: Orgins, Killing Logain yourself. I couldn't bring myself to kill him in front of his daughter so I had Allistar do it