Games that make you feel like a horrible person

[wolfmanrulz]

Today, nearly all games have a morality metre, or let you approach objectives different ways. However, I've recentley been playing Mass Effect One, and playing the renegade path, and, well, it makes me feel like a horrible person. This is, mind you, coming from a man who quite is always the bad guy in Fallout, murder innocents for their ammo, cannibal and all that and even in Mass Effect Two, I play renegade and don't feel this bad. So I'm wondering are there any games out there that make you feel like a horrible person when you play them?

 

[jvsulliv]

After reading Yhatzee's book Every RPG makes me feel like a horrible person I can't get the idea of the NPC's being alive and thinking out of my head it taunts me.

 

[Drakmeire]

Kingdom Hearts II, killing organization XIII feels like your punishing people who aren't really hurting anyone (sure Xemnas is kinda evil but no one else is) its even worse when Ansem says that he plans to exterminate all nobodies. kinda feels like he wants genocide and I feel like I'm playing along with manifest destiny. Fun game though.

 

[GWarface]

Yesterday when playing WoW...

In one of the new quests in Hillsbrad, as Horde, you have to smash the head of humans burried with only their head sticking out of the ground... With a shovel...

I congratulate Blizzard on their succes with new and inovative guests, but that one left me with a bad taste in my mouth...

 

[Something Amyss]

Final Fantasy X.

I can never forgive myself for letting Tidus live.

 

[Virgilthepagan]

mmm. Say I take a game like Prototype, walk into a crowded intersection and impale forty people and a handful of cars on enormous, fleshy spikes. While that's of course a terrible thing to do it actually makes me laugh like a loon.

I think that the important thing for a game to do is make you question your own values not the values of the character you play in game. When you played Fallout you consciously chose to cannibalize someone, but I feel that's not something you do in real life. Maybe Mass Effect cut a little closer to home with its bad decisions?

However, to answer the question, two games. Fallout 3's the Pitt quest line made me feel like I'd done something horrible by the time I'd finished it. Arriving with every intention of taking down a by-the-numbers slave empire I ended up shooting the very people who I'd come to help and putting down the rebellion in the name of longer term interests. Getting called out for it made me feel terrible.

The second, Bioshock's "twist" made me feel terrible. Not just about being the character, but about how involved and how justified I felt before I found out the truth.

 

[lacktheknack]

"Big Rigs Over the Road Racing" made me feel like a horrible person in the "WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE?!" sort of way.

 

[J-dog42]

Playing that Russian level on MW2. I got half way through and realised that I was actually quite enjoying it. That made me feel like a horrible person.

 

[NeutralDrow]

<url=http://www.addictinggames.com/interactivebuddy.html>Interactive Buddy.

It took me a bit to find out what the little guy likes.

It hit me, after all the random deadly objects I'd thrown at him, all the times I set him on fire, and how often I screwed with the laws of physics are him, that he was suddenly running in terror from anything I did.

It hit me like a brick in the face.

Yesterday when playing WoW...

In one of the new quests in Hillsbrad, as Horde, you have to smash the head of humans burried with only their head sticking out of the ground... With a shovel...

I congratulate Blizzard on their succes with new and inovative guests, but that one left me with a bad taste in my mouth...

...holy crap, that sounds worse than the Death Knight missions.

 

[GWarface]

...holy crap, that sounds worse than the Death Knight missions.

It really is.. And you get to keep the shovel... The Forsaken has got some pretty wicked quests that isnt exactly in term with the Geneva Convention, e.g saving perfectly healthy deers so they wont get corrupted, by killing them...

 

[Mr Thin]

I don't think I've ever played a game that made me feel horrible. Perhaps the Mass Effect series.

But I've played games that made me feel like I ought to feel horrible.

Take Fallout 3 for example. I sometimes go around with a knife... no, you know what, I don't think I'll post what I did. But I was surprised by the fact that I didn't feel bad doing it.

Or Age of Empires 3, where there are all these innocent villagers and I just massacre them because it makes it harder for the enemy to produce resources. Why does no-one ever think of the villagers in games?

 

[wrightguy0]

Spoiler Warning:

GTA IV, where you have the choice to either kill Playboy X or Dwayne, i normally kill Playboy, colossal conceited prick that he is, but one day i decided to try it the other way and take dwayne out, all of a sudden i felt like a monster, the characters of Niko and Dwayne just clicked, they understood each other, had seen the worst the world could throw at them, when i killed dwayne it was like i had killed a part of niko and it made me feel horrible

 

[MrhalfAwake]

Planescape Torment

I made an evil decision once I dont even remember witch one it was but it made me feel so bad I reset my game and started from the beginning just so I could get ack to wear I was and be a nice guy

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Fable 2, I try to be a hero, but once and awhile I'll accidentaly hit the wrong button on the controller and become a "monster" to the people their. .-. I accidentaly broke a window with a spell once, going for my inventory.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

For me it would have to Soul Nomad and the World Eaters and more specifically, the demon path you can access after you complete the normal path at least once. By far it has been the most unpleasant I've felt while playing a game.

 

[Valnakrume]

However, to answer the question, two games. Fallout 3's the Pitt quest line made me feel like I'd done something horrible by the time I'd finished it. Arriving with every intention of taking down a by-the-numbers slave empire I ended up shooting the very people who I'd come to help and putting down the rebellion in the name of longer term interests. Getting called out for it made me feel terrible.

This. I did exactly the same thing, and even though the game made it seem I had taken the morally wrong choice, I couldn't bring myself to side with the rebellion after finding out what was needed.

 

[Wither]

When I shot up megaton.
Not that that in itself is bad, it's a natural impulse for anyone who has played more than 10 hours of FO3. But, I noticed I had shot off someone's head (someone in Moriarty's don't remember who) and I spent 10 minutes throwing the head around, playing baseball with it, and throwing it at other people. That felt bad, all the more so for how hilarious I found it.