First Truely Violent Game you ever played?

[Psypherus]

Original Mortal Kombat count when I was 5?

Probably this around the same age aswell

 

[Freestyle270]

Doom (the original), back when I was first getting into PC gaming around age 12-13

 

[setsunafseiei]

Carmageddon, still brings a smile to my face

 

[kellenheller]

Timekillers at the arcade. I just remember seeing limbs flying off and I was in awe. Even though the Genesis version was complete crap, nothing will ruing playing that at the arcade.

 

[BonsaiK]

Nemesis The Warlock for the C64. A platform shooter where you stack up piles of dead bodies to use as platforms! Great morbid fun.

 

[trippinhobbit]

When I was four I played quite a lot of Goldeneye on the N64. I wish I was born younger so I could be more proud to say something like doom. But meh, pride is pride, so I digress.

 

[Strong Intelligent]

Quake one.

Back then it seemed over the top, now it just seems...normal.

 

[Vern]

I think I was as shocked by anyone at Mortal Kombat, but Turok on the N64 was a whole new level; you shot people, and instead of them falling over right away, they clutch their wound and collapse after a brief struggle. It was guilt-inducing.

Oddly enough, that's what I found so great about Turok. As opposed to doom, the guys just didn't go "oowah" and fall down. If you shot them in the neck they would grab their throat, gargle, and stagger around. The well designed levels, and completely over the top weapons helped quite a bit. Sad that the first Turok game is still the best one.

And Trippinhobbit: The truly hardcore won't count Doom as the first violent game they played. They count Wolfenstein 3D, Catacombs 3D, and Mortal Kombat. All before Doom. Although I find Doom to be the best game ever made.

 

[Redlac]

Barbarian, for the Commodore 64. The graphics were amazing, and the attack where you'd spin around and decapitate your opponent made me love computer games with a fervor only an 8 year old on a sugar rush can muster.
The small green goblin shuffling into view from the wings and dragging the decapitated head across the screen was the icing on an already too delicious cake.

Heh, my first Gorefest was this one too. Push away from your opponent and hit fire. Swoosh! Other notable mention- Creatures 1 and 2 on the C=64. The torture Screens were goreiffic!

 

[iggyus]

My vote goes for F.E.A.R. I played some nasty games before but that one is over all of them

 

[fedpayne]

Duke Nukem 3D probably. I cannae have been older than 8.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Truly violent gives a lot of room for maneuver I'd think. Doom is the logical candidate, but I had played plenty of games before doom that had me killing things. Alien 3 on the SNES maybe? Earlier than that there was Operation Wolf - a standup arcade game (also an NES game) that was an early precursor to the rail shooter (the screen pans side to side and you were given an Uzi to blast people with. You not only had limited health per usual, you also had limited ammunition and could lose if you ran out of bullets)

There were games even eariler than that that involved me shooting people (CABAL for example) but the violence was so . . . cartoonish (or videogameish?) that I don't know if I can call it "truly violent". The first video game I played that involved killing something was Castle - a "graphic" adventure game that presented the entire world using the ASCII character set (including system characters). That I killed an ogre with a sword may seem violent, but considering that the graphical depiction of the occurance was ☺ɸ makes it fairly tame.

Doom was the first undeniably violent game that I played, but it was not until I played AVP (PC) that I realized just how magically violent a game could be. Soldier of Fortune took that bloodshed to a whole new level of fidelity, which was furthered by SoF 2. I have yet to play a game since SOF 2 that has actually tried so hard to be ultra-violent. In fact, most games these days simply spray a bit of blood, the body drops and soon disappears. Fear is the only notable recent example where one can still decapitate common foes with a shotgun.

 

[Nostalgia]

Was either Mortal Combat or Vice City.

 

[sms_117b]

Rise of the Robots

Mum banned violent games in the house hold, until then anyway, said I was old enough or something

 

[Green Tentacle]

Probably be Doom or Wolfenstein.

 

[Pimppeter2]

Mortal Combat with my godbro

And then Gta 3 with him

5-8

 

[Captain_Caveman]

BARBARIAN: DEATH SWORD for the Atari ST 1987
http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-st/death-sword

Decapitation video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Ii_YfJNvw

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Barbarian_%28Commodore_64%29.png

 

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Mortal Kombat Trilogy.