This isn't exactly in the vein of what most have posted, but the moment I first saw a cow's head getting blown away in Fallout 3... and then seeing the mangled neck stump with the open windpipe and all I was definitely a little shaken.
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From what I gathered, all the babies are not Astraea, but rather children that have been abandoned or aborted by other people and throw down there, to get rid of. Not that that's not terrible, because it most certainly is, but I don't think she birthed any of them. She "merely" came to the Valley in order to redeem and save the lost people down there. I didn't take the "giving herself" to the demons literally, but more because of a realization, that her god wouldn't answer her prayers and so there was no point serving him/her. Of course, it's always open to intrepretation, which is one of the wonderful things about that awesome game. I thought ENB had some thoughts up on it, but I couldn't find it, so I looked here instead.Ikasury said:i saw mention of Dark Souls... nothing in it can compare to Maiden Astraea... o.o ye gods... Maiden Astraea...
uh... yea... those 'demon babies'... not only are they creepy as all f-ck but just the thought of where they came from... the Maiden sits up on a rock in the back edge of the pool of 'blood' those horrid things spawn from... and her used to be clean white dress is bloody... only not just the tips dunked in the bloody water mind you... no... no if you look hard enough you can see it it goes 'all the way up'... then you remember the line 'after learning the truth, the Sixth Saint Astraea gave herself over to the deamon'... there's honestly only one way my brain can interpret that... and being female... it makes it extra squicky for me;; demon-rape, demon-babies... and by the gods Sir Garlan has to sit there with her and watch it all... *twitching*
... now i remember why i love Demon's Souls over Dark Souls... despite all the 'unsaid' its really disturbing when you think about it...
As for my adding my own to the thread, I'll say in Half-Life 2, where the headcrabs keep their victims alive up to several minutes, before their turned into actual zombies. Imagining what it must be like before you finally turn is pretty gruesome.
Oh, I wish I hadn't lost my screenshots in the Great Accidental Hard Drive Delete of early 2013!Lieju said:
If I recall correctly, the box belonging to the first pregnancy test didn't mention that it could be wrong, but the second one did. That could be explained away by the first package maybe lying face up and the second face down. But yes, REAL pregnancy tests say that, but probably not on every side of the box I'd imagine. (Having never seen one up close, I couldn't say sure.)
I hope that they make Harley the main antagonist in the next Arkham game; I just think that she's more interesting than the Joker [flameshield] because, think about it, she must have been sane at one point. It's implied that she's had an interest in villians for a while, but I'd like to know more about her.katsabas said:
My one is OFF. The entire game. To elaborate, after you finish a zone (read: level) after beating the gaurdian {read: caretaker and runner of said zone, functions as the game's bosses) and if you return from the Nothingness (read: The ethereal hyperdimension in which the batter {read: the ethereal Jesus Christ of Oz {read: the game's setting, sort of}}} then... well... it's monochrome, and you get attacked by demon. Babies.
GAH! GO AWAY, YOU AND YOUR STATUS-INFLICTING SPELLS, YOU LITTLE CREEPY...
captcha: industrial revolution. How odd, OFF is basically a game about industrial revolution gone wrong. Thanks, France, you made me scared of children.
I think the skeleton with a baby is a crude joke about a mother/daughter suicide I'd heard about, way back in the 90s. I can't remember the names, but it was on the FBI Files, if you really want to track it down. The mother had shot her baby daughter and then herself with a 8 inch magnum. That just makes it more disturbing.TizzytheTormentor said:
Pretty interesting, though, how they got away with that in a game that was really heavilly censored in a lot of places.
She first appeared in Batman The Animated Series in the 90s, and there's an episode called Mad Love where they give her a backstory. Basically she used to be a criminal psychologist in Arkham, she was fascinated by the criminal mind, but she fell in love with the Joker, who persuaded her to break him out. As Batman says "She's just another one of his victims".dylanmc12 said:
I don't recognize that moment and I have all the achievements for the game. Where in the game is it from?Ikasury said:i saw mention of Dark Souls... nothing in it can compare to Maiden Astraea... o.o ye gods... Maiden Astraea...
uh... yea... those 'demon babies'... not only are they creepy as all f-ck but just the thought of where they came from... the Maiden sits up on a rock in the back edge of the pool of 'blood' those horrid things spawn from... and her used to be clean white dress is bloody... only not just the tips dunked in the bloody water mind you... no... no if you look hard enough you can see it it goes 'all the way up'... then you remember the line 'after learning the truth, the Sixth Saint Astraea gave herself over to the deamon'... there's honestly only one way my brain can interpret that... and being female... it makes it extra squicky for me
... now i remember why i love Demon's Souls over Dark Souls... despite all the 'unsaid' its really disturbing when you think about it...
... its Maiden Astraea, the final boss of the Valley of Defilement, if you kill Sir Garlen first, you can literally walk right up to Astraea, she won't do anything except basically tell you to kill her, you can get a good look at her, the dress, and depending which way you went to get to her have to walk through the Demon-Plague baby pool...cojo965 said:I don't recognize that moment and I have all the achievements for the game. Where in the game is it from?Ikasury said:i saw mention of Dark Souls... nothing in it can compare to Maiden Astraea... o.o ye gods... Maiden Astraea...
uh... yea... those 'demon babies'... not only are they creepy as all f-ck but just the thought of where they came from... the Maiden sits up on a rock in the back edge of the pool of 'blood' those horrid things spawn from... and her used to be clean white dress is bloody... only not just the tips dunked in the bloody water mind you... no... no if you look hard enough you can see it it goes 'all the way up'... then you remember the line 'after learning the truth, the Sixth Saint Astraea gave herself over to the deamon'... there's honestly only one way my brain can interpret that... and being female... it makes it extra squicky for me
... now i remember why i love Demon's Souls over Dark Souls... despite all the 'unsaid' its really disturbing when you think about it...
as for the quote, its part of her backstory thing, and i believe one of the NPCs in the Nexus or in VoD says it as well, i know Garlen's sister makes this big deal about all that cause she's angry at her brother for following Astraea still...
you can get all the 'trohpies' for Demon's Souls easy, they're only dealing with crafting and beating the demons, not on all the dialogue or small details... i believe the Pure Blood Sword has mention of all this too... it requires looking deep into... and like i said, DEMON'S SOUL not Dark Soul
Easy to miss given that you only mention which one you're talking about right at the end of the post, 'cause you confused the crap out of me.Ikasury said:... its Maiden Astraea, the final boss of the Valley of Defilement, if you kill Sir Garlen first, you can literally walk right up to Astraea, she won't do anything except basically tell you to kill her, you can get a good look at her, the dress, and depending which way you went to get to her have to walk through the Demon-Plague baby pool...cojo965 said:I don't recognize that moment and I have all the achievements for the game. Where in the game is it from?Ikasury said:i saw mention of Dark Souls... nothing in it can compare to Maiden Astraea... o.o ye gods... Maiden Astraea...
uh... yea... those 'demon babies'... not only are they creepy as all f-ck but just the thought of where they came from... the Maiden sits up on a rock in the back edge of the pool of 'blood' those horrid things spawn from... and her used to be clean white dress is bloody... only not just the tips dunked in the bloody water mind you... no... no if you look hard enough you can see it it goes 'all the way up'... then you remember the line 'after learning the truth, the Sixth Saint Astraea gave herself over to the deamon'... there's honestly only one way my brain can interpret that... and being female... it makes it extra squicky for me
... now i remember why i love Demon's Souls over Dark Souls... despite all the 'unsaid' its really disturbing when you think about it...
as for the quote, its part of her backstory thing, and i believe one of the NPCs in the Nexus or in VoD says it as well, i know Garlen's sister makes this big deal about all that cause she's angry at her brother for following Astraea still...
you can get all the 'trohpies' for Demon's Souls easy, they're only dealing with crafting and beating the demons, not on all the dialogue or small details... i believe the Pure Blood Sword has mention of all this too... it requires looking deep into... and like i said, DEMON'S SOUL not Dark Soul
In one of the story paths in The Witcher 2 there is a scene were a king has a sorceresses' eyes scooped out with spoons. It happens off camera but there is audio and you have a conversation with the now eyeless person right afterwards. My day could have done without that.
The Hawaii sub plot in Hitman Absolution, from when you go to the strip club and kill Don Osmond. Its interesting how they set up the level so that you're constantly getting hints as to how fucked up the entire scenario is. I mean I was honestly horrified when I finally found the chair, and kinda glad I got to garrote the guy responsible.
Anor Londo was the capital city of a race of demi-gods known as the Lords, who ruled the land of Lordran. The leader of their pantheon, Gwyn had three children, Gwynevere, a goddess of fertility, Gwyndolin, his youngest son and a master of moon magic, and the unnamed elder brother who was banished. Eventually the first flame (a mcuffin which essentially empowered the Lords to rule) began to fade and Gwyn left on a pilgrimage to kindle it. He reached the kiln of the first flame and threw himself into the center of the inferno, kindling it with his powerful soul. This stretched the time of the Lords a little further. Eventually it began to fade again, and with no god to sacrifice himself, the world began to grow dark. Gradually the other Lords left Anor Londo, perhaps for another plane of existence. Eventually the frail Gwyndolin was the only Lord left, keeping vigil at the symbolic grave of his father. In order to fool the humans of Lordran into believing that the Lords still ruled, he created the illusion of Gwynevere to publicly rule Anor Londo, as well as an illusion of the sun to light the darkened city.Tom_green_day said:
Goddamn I love Dark Souls Lore.
As for disturbing moments? Dark Souls has you covered. My personal favorite:
The duke's archives, the worlds largest collection of knowledge presides over by an insane Dragon Duke, Seath the Scaless. Seath was an outcast among the dragons, born without the scales of immortality, he betrayed them and aided Gwyn in hunting them down. For his treachery he was awarded dukedom and a tower in which to carry out his research into immortality. He was known for having his servants kidnap maidens to experiment on. While the player is exploring the prison tower you come upon a cage full of hideous monsters who are all hostile except for two huddling in a corner at the back. If you get close you can hear the sound of weeping. if you attack them they won't defend themselves and when they die they both drop miracle scrolls described as having been given to Gwynevere's handmaidens. Seath was often reviled, even among his allies, this is just one reason why.
I love this theory and it IS creepy as fuck, however I kinda think it's debunked by the descriptions from the valley of defilement archstones. It mentions that the swamp is a dumping ground for unwanted babies and the sick and twisted, So i'm pretty sure that the plague babies are just demons that have taken the souls of said babies. Also I'm pretty sure that the whole "gave herself over to demons" just means that she consumed and utilized demon souls, much like how other characters mention that using demon souls makes you a tool of the demons. But hey, I like your theory too, but maybe it's just because the whole demon-sex thing weirds me out or maybe it's just because I totally ship Maiden Astraea and Garl Vinland, but I can't quite get on board with that one.cojo965 said:Easy to miss given that you only mention which one you're talking about right at the end of the post, 'cause you confused the crap out of me.Ikasury said:... its Maiden Astraea, the final boss of the Valley of Defilement, if you kill Sir Garlen first, you can literally walk right up to Astraea, she won't do anything except basically tell you to kill her, you can get a good look at her, the dress, and depending which way you went to get to her have to walk through the Demon-Plague baby pool...cojo965 said:I don't recognize that moment and I have all the achievements for the game. Where in the game is it from?Ikasury said:i saw mention of Dark Souls... nothing in it can compare to Maiden Astraea... o.o ye gods... Maiden Astraea...
uh... yea... those 'demon babies'... not only are they creepy as all f-ck but just the thought of where they came from... the Maiden sits up on a rock in the back edge of the pool of 'blood' those horrid things spawn from... and her used to be clean white dress is bloody... only not just the tips dunked in the bloody water mind you... no... no if you look hard enough you can see it it goes 'all the way up'... then you remember the line 'after learning the truth, the Sixth Saint Astraea gave herself over to the deamon'... there's honestly only one way my brain can interpret that... and being female... it makes it extra squicky for me
... now i remember why i love Demon's Souls over Dark Souls... despite all the 'unsaid' its really disturbing when you think about it...
as for the quote, its part of her backstory thing, and i believe one of the NPCs in the Nexus or in VoD says it as well, i know Garlen's sister makes this big deal about all that cause she's angry at her brother for following Astraea still...
you can get all the 'trohpies' for Demon's Souls easy, they're only dealing with crafting and beating the demons, not on all the dialogue or small details... i believe the Pure Blood Sword has mention of all this too... it requires looking deep into... and like i said, DEMON'S SOUL not Dark Soul
Tons of this sort of thing in Metro 2033, in particular there are a lot of highly detailed corpses, also there's the death cries and animations in Red Orchestra 2.
I have a few of these moments, but there a bit more out there then toaster in the bath tub or suicide pacts. Two really stuck with me in the end
1- Recettear - This is a game where your run an item shop.... Dark, right?... but at one point it makes a God Father reference of waking up to a horse head in your bed. That and the fact that your father abandoned you with massive debt, and if you fail to overcome your debt, your friend repossesses your house and renders you homeless. As someone who has had to deal with poverty, it really hit home in a hard way.
2- Portal 2- DaMaGepy mod maps for steam workshop. In this set of maps, most of the music is left out, as are all the silly voice overs from Cave Johnson, GLaDOS, and Wheatly are also absent. You are left with ambient noise from the game engine; Dripping water, moving platforms, lazer sounds, and the turrets. Without the humor, you are basically in an unknown location, with cameras watching your every move, completely inescapable. In the context of the game, you don't know why they are there, why you are their, what you are doing and where it all leads. It give the game a really creepy atmosphere, making you feel totally isolated, but never alone. At times it feels like theres someone breathing softly on your shoulder.... never thought i could see portal as anything but funny and entertaining.
1- Recettear - This is a game where your run an item shop.... Dark, right?... but at one point it makes a God Father reference of waking up to a horse head in your bed. That and the fact that your father abandoned you with massive debt, and if you fail to overcome your debt, your friend repossesses your house and renders you homeless. As someone who has had to deal with poverty, it really hit home in a hard way.
2- Portal 2- DaMaGepy mod maps for steam workshop. In this set of maps, most of the music is left out, as are all the silly voice overs from Cave Johnson, GLaDOS, and Wheatly are also absent. You are left with ambient noise from the game engine; Dripping water, moving platforms, lazer sounds, and the turrets. Without the humor, you are basically in an unknown location, with cameras watching your every move, completely inescapable. In the context of the game, you don't know why they are there, why you are their, what you are doing and where it all leads. It give the game a really creepy atmosphere, making you feel totally isolated, but never alone. At times it feels like theres someone breathing softly on your shoulder.... never thought i could see portal as anything but funny and entertaining.