Evil Actions in games you regret

[Ryallen]

I've never been an evil character in a game because I could never bring myself to be intentionally unkind to people, even fake ones. Even when I had to

Spoiler: DA:O spoiler

had to kill Loghain

I still hesitated because I had never before killed someone in that fashion before in a video game.

 

[Drathnoxis]

I played an evil character in Fable 2 and man do I regret that game. What a waste of $70.

 

[fallte]

There was this quest in fallout 2 where I was asked to find this guy's son. One of the dialogue options went something along the line of: "I accept, but cut off your left pinkie finger to seal the deal" I didn't read into the dialogue text all that carefully and clicked it. The guy totally did it. I felt so bad because it was such an act of random unnecessary evil on my part. It wasn't like the usual stupid guilt trip of "I'll do it for free because I'm an angel/I'll do it for money because I'm Lucifer himself" that's in every bioware game but more being a dick just because. had to reload and still remember it to this day for more than 15 years.

 

[Fractral]

In Nocturne, agreeing to help any of the reasons pretty much requires you to be evil.

Spoiler

Yosuga requires you to kill Futomimi, who is at that point the only sane character who doesn't want you dead, while Chiaki murders all of his followers. Shijima requires you to stand by and watch as Hikawa sacrifices your teacher to summon his god.

Going True Demon is even worse. I justified it by saying I wanted to experience all the content, as the ultimate final boss is TDE exclusive, but even then I felt bad about what I was doing.

 

[FakeSympathy]

In TTG Walking Dead EP2, when I held Lily back as Kenny dropped the salt block on Lenny....

I mean, Lenny was an asshole, but I did not want to risk having walker trapped in there with rest of them

 

[Halla Burrica]

When I got Bioshock 2, I'd heard it was possible to get a neutral ending if I killed some Little Sisters then spared others, plus some other shit. I thought Bioshock's good ending was kinda sappy, so I thought I would try getting that one instead. Boy did I make a bad choice. I ended up turning the once innocent Elanor into a sociopathic monster through my not very justifiable actions. I felt legitimately bad afterwards, since that happening was completely on me. Luckily, I was given the option of redemption by the end, with an ending that managed to be bittersweet, as well as cathartic and a very fitting ending for the story that was spun.

Also there was this time I shot a guard in MGS3 for lulz, first time I played it (others died too, but it was self-defense). He did not seem happy about that in the Sorrow boss battle, and he sure had me feeling guilty for a good while afterwards.

EDIT: Can't think of many other games where I did something "evil" that I later would regret (In fact, I think I have done more "good" things that ended up having negative consequences). I've done a lot of really morally questionable things in games like The Walking Dead, Mass Effect, Fallout 3, The Witcher and Shin Megami Tensei, but none of them were undisputed evil, they could always be argued to be both right and wrong choices.

 

[FruitBird]

Far, far, far too many times in red dead redemption I've gone to save the stagecoach under attack by bandits or the woman being attacked by wolves or the man who'd had his horse stolen, and wide up either shooting or running down the people I was trying to help by accident.