Ever feel sorry for the enemies you've killed in a game?

[KelsieKatt]

I was rather sad when Mass Effect 2 forced me to kill Morinth (because my paragon/renegade meters weren't quite high enough) so I couldn't get her mind control powers....

Oh... Oh! You meant actually pitying the characters themselves? Nope, none of that.

In all seriousness though, I rarely ever feel sorry for characters in games. Only time I feel bad is if I kill someone and have nothing to gain from it and didn't have anything against them. So, basically circumstances where there was absolutely no point in me killing someone at all. In which cases I usually reload. (Note that draining the life out of random civilians doesn't count. I gain health from that and feel no remorse. I only mean killing some random person purely because I can.)

If anything, I seem to feel worse when attempting to try Good playthroughs, as I have to restrain myself too much and start getting really uncomfortable after a while, then restart on an evil playthrough instead. Or at least neutral.

I can't do good, it makes me feel guilty for not killing certain people, or not taking various rewards, etc.

 

[The Funslinger]

Strangely feel sorry for some of the guys I kill in Alpha protocol as well, maybe it has to do with the ORPHAN COUNTER they so nicely put in the game to remind you of all the fatherless children you've now created.

Same here I feel so bad looking at that counter.

Think you chewed up the quote there, friend. I didn't say that.

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Strangely feel sorry for some of the guys I kill in Alpha protocol as well, maybe it has to do with the ORPHAN COUNTER they so nicely put in the game to remind you of all the fatherless children you've now created.

Same here I feel so bad looking at that counter.

Think you chewed up the quote there, friend. I didn't say that.

How did I feck that up so badly?
Sorry about that.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Yeah. My own loyal little minions too. What a fucking waste.
But the feeling never lasts for long.

 

[TheDarkKing]

The original Dues Ex when you

Spoiler

join the people who you where just murdering, proceeding to murder the people who you were just working with. Although i didnt mind slaughtering the Majestic 12 dudes and the "men in black" especially after they killed my brother.

Oh and this

Yeah, Gunter Hermann in the original Deus Ex.

Poor bastard, I murdered the woman he loved(?) and now I just switched him off like a machine...his worst nightmare.

I'M THE GOOD GUY HERE RIGHT?

 

[Shadow Geo]

Whacka from Paper Mario... I.... I DIDN'T KNOW... sob sob sob...

 

[Omnific One]

The Collectors to a point in ME2. I mean, they really didn't decide to become all evil; not really their choice.

 

[Ickorus]

Great Wolf Sif in Dark Souls, I really really didn't want to kill him, it was heartbreaking to see him limping towards you and still trying to fight even though both you and him knew the battle was lost; I just sat there for about ten minutes when he started limping hoping he would give in and let me spare his life.

 

[Crazycat690]

yeah, remember that AC-130 mission in Call of Duty 4? That's when I found out I was a jerk... killing dozens of soldiers who were just fighting for their respective country from five miles in the air with a 120mm Howitzer.

This...

And, well when good characters are the enemy, anyone here who played Dark Messiah? Well anyway, you have this demon inside you, and she was with you all the way, when other human characters lost me or vice versa, naturally I bonded with this voice in my head. So, there's basically a interest conflict between the female demon and a good human female, late in the game the good girl says she knows about the dark presence inside you, and that you should stop by a church to get rid of it. Since I liked both characters, I thought about it, but finally I skipped it, keeping my inner demon. So what happened then is the good girl decided she couldn't let me go around with it and attacked me, being an otherwhise good person siding with her would come naturally, so killing her then really made me feel bad.

Ahh... Dark Messiah was actually pretty brilliant, I hope that the studios upcoming game "Dishonored" is equally good or better.

 

[WashingMachineofDoom]

I feel bad for beating up certain foes in games.
Mostly Animals, like the mole rats in fallout 3.

 

[Icyheart]

(don't laugh. I have a strong natural paternal instinct. I said don't laugh! It's not funny!)

I understand completely. I have no idea what possessed me when a splicer grabbed the Little Sister and I heard her scream...I laid waste to everything around us, including an innocent Big Daddy who just wandered in to see what was happening...even worse, he had a Sister of his own...and she started crying and begging him to get up..that one pulled me out of my anger. I couldn't just leave her there, either...it was heartbreaking.

Thanks for the sympathy. Incidentally, ever accidentally kill the little sister? I remember in the first one I reloaded too close to her and the game thought I meant "kill her". Then in Bioshock 2 I tried to jump over something too close to her and the game came to the same conclusion. All I remember thinking was "What... NOOO!.... Can... can I get a do-over here?"

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

There was one in Infamous 2. I won't spoil it, you either know what I mean or you don't.

Yeah, I didn't want to do that and I remember sitting there stunned for quite a while before I did anything, and I damn near cried when it was over.

OT: Great Grey Wolf Sif, I didn't want to kill him!

His limping made it worse, damn you From Soft, he was awesome! Why couldn't he be a companion or something?!

 

[Dbaker05]

i feel sorry for the soldiers i killed in prototype (not the blackwatch they were assholes but the normal soldiers) those poor sods didnt have a clue what they were up against

 

[Smertnik]

Only for the colossi, I think.

 

[Uncle_Brainhorn]

I remember in Soldier of Fortune, when fighting the female enemies, I would throw knives into their legs to hear them cry and scream, and to draw it out as long as I could.

Or in Grand Theft Auto 4, I would shoot them in the legs until they stopped getting up, then shoot them in the head.





No, I've never really felt bad.

 

[tmande2nd]

When playing Fallout New Vegas I was always being careful who I was taking pot shots at.
For all of around 10 minutes.

By the time I was 2 hours in I was the "grim reaper" of the Powder Gangers, and already was leaving legion corpses at the altar of Boone.

But damn if I did not wonder sometimes if the Legion had families and friends....right before blowing them into assorted bits and pieces.

 

[Falseprophet]

Yeah, the guards in Assassin's Creed 2. In the first game, I figured Altair would see the Crusader knights as foreign invaders unjustly occupying the Holy Land, and they didn't hesitate to try and kill him for walking funny. So murdering them felt like a public service.

In the second game, killing the guards felt like murdering some guy just for earning a paycheque. Especially if you got in a street brawl with a group of them, and they'd yell strategies and recall their old war stories ("Together, guys, like that time in Perugia!"). As I easily cut down half a dozen of them (because combat is much easier in AC2 and ACB compared to AC1), I thought "another barkeep is going to wonder why happy hour is so sparsely populated today."

In Dragon Age 2 I almost felt sorry for the Arishok. He didn't want to be there, surrounded by a city full of immoral heathens as far as he was concerned. He just wanted to find his people's holy relic and go home. But sending his men into the streets and burning half of Kirkwall was a disproportionate response.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

In Call of Duty: World at War...I kinda feel bad for the Wehrmacht. You know, using a gun and blowing off their body parts and watching them cry in agony and their last seconds alive are just pure pain. So I felt bad for them...darn ruskies.

 

[Torrasque]

Hmmmmmmmmm...
I feel sorry for the Protoss I have to kill in the first Protoss campaign; misguided fools that are just following the orders of the Conclave, who are super ignorant and retarded. I also feel sorry for the Protoss I kill when Aldaris leaves my faction because I allied myself with Kerrigan. It also physically hurts every time I have to kill Fenix...
I feel bad for a lot of enemies I have to defeat in Ogre Battle 64 and Fire Emblem; simple soldiers following the orders of commanders that think only about themselves and power. It gets especially bad in Ogre Battle, when the enemies you are fighting, are legitimately nice people... Nice people you have to kill =(