Games that make you feel uncomfortable

[Ammadessi]

There are parts in Silent Hill that really set me on edge. Not scared me so much as left me with an overwhelming sense of "What the hell happened here?" The "nowhere" levels of Silent Hill really drive that home.

Bioshock, in the beginning when you listen to the splicer talking to a baby carriage with a gun in it really set the tone of the game for me. I doubt I'll ever see the "bad" ending of that game either, because of how the Little Sister's squirm and yell at you when you pick them up.

The school in Fallout 3 bothered me too, but not as much as seeing the starving dogs in the wasteland (I volunteer at shelters for homeless animals).

There's also some portions of Fatal Frame and Fatal Frame 2 that just feel off. The blinded ghost roaming the halls crying "My eyes, my eyes! Is anybody there?!" was enough to make my skin crawl.

 

[jthm]

final fantasy X-2. its not that bad a game, but i'll never play it with my mum waching over my shoulder again :S

No, it is a bad game AND you shouldn't play it with your mum.

Dead Space for me. Played it with a buddy, late at night, lights off. That ending man.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Oh, just some rape games I found.
All other sex games are just fine, though.

 

[NIHILHATE]

The suffering: Ties that bind. Especially that sick pimp dude... "Blood is the best lubricant...". Makes my brain hurt.

 

[Murlin]

Prototype, it's fun for sometime, but after a few minutes morality catches up with you when you're cutting people in bite sized bits.

I know, same with the GTA games and Saint's Row, that kinda stuff.

I never really understood the desire to murder innocent people just for the hell of it.

I mean, I'm not a morally-upright person myself, but I find it unpleasent: virtual or otherwise.

Also with the Biker gang you annihilate in Saint's Row 2. I have family who are bikers, but at the heart of things I just found the main character so much more reproachable and dispicable then the villains. I mean, the leaders of the gang I had to kill were morally reproachable people in many ways, some even deserved to die for their actions, but the way the main character goes about it, his/her actions seem much more horrible and villianesque then the people I'm supposed to hate.

I can cope with GTA but mainly when killing policeman not just every1 randomly around, sometimes it's a way to blow of some steam or unleash some primal fury, but prototype was a bit too hardcore for me...

 

[SonicWaffle]

Somewhere in the missions against the "tribal" gang in Saints Row 2, I began to say, "You know, I'm _really_ not the good guy, am I?" I mean, yeah, every character in games of the genre is kind of a sociopath, no question. But the protaganist of SR2 takes it way past the "random/jovial" level of violence into the pre-meditated, vindictive, sadistic, and personal.

I totally agree. I've been playing the game recently, and I've grown to hate the main character. Usually in this sort of game the character is trying to survive, to get rich, whatever, but I get the feeling that the protagonist from Saints Row is just a stone-cold psychopath. His only motivation is blowing shit up and hurting people.

I think the worst of it was when you hook up with Julius. He tells you exactly why he left the Saints, and why the idea of cleaning up a town by doing more crime is flawed. Your response is pretty much "Fuck you, I'm in this to hurt people".

Strangely, I rather liked Johnny Gat. Yeah, he's at least as sociopathic as the main character, and he gets over his beloved girlfriend's death with worrying ease, but he comes off like more of a comedy character than a murderous scumbag. This may be because he's voiced by Daniel Dae Kim, though, and how can you stay angry with Jin?

 

[Shift23]

Viva Pinyata. That made me very uncomfortable first time I saw it.

Ya know... I have to agree with that. Once you realize you're raising the little guys to be shipped off to a party and what they do with them AT a party you just feel dirty.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

One such game is Silent Hill 3, and my reasons for it should be obvious to anyone who's heard of Silent Hill.

Shadow of the Colossus also made me feel uncomfortable, though not quite like Silent Hill. It's just so... desolate. Know what I mean?

 

[panagram]

GTA IV, when you crash into someones car and it catches on fire and then they catch fire, get out of their car and just writhe and scream. *shudders*

Also Gears of War 2, when you're inside the giant worm and you have to cut the arteries to all 3 hearts and you have to do it fast enough that you don't drown in blood..cool idea but utterly disgusting at the same time.

 

[OpiateChicken]

In Fable 2, it made me a little uncomfortable to kill the guy who runs the church of benevolent yokels or whatever, in Bloodstone. I played as a good, popular character and so everyone followed me around and increasingly hated me as I tried to scare the guy away with my expressions, but he liked me too much to be scared away so I had to kill him, which I thought the people wouldn't be okay with. They didn't really mind, though.

 

[Tzatziki3301]

Riddick: Dark Athena, when you reach the prison block and talk to the pirate his own people locked away. His speech just made me feel... uneasy... in a cringing kind of way. I mean, there's just no need to think like that mate.

 

[Ultress]

Quiter a few games have left me with uncomfort, Every so often In Devil Survivor, that soul crushing fear of a lockdown.

Others would be Rumble Roses for the obvious reason, Condemmened 1 The apple orchird and, The ant queen's lair from Fallout 3, the giant ants were almost to much. Actually all the mutant animals from Fallout 3.

 

[ae86gamer]

Fatal Frame. I was in a hallway, in the dark, with nothing more than a flashlight. I was just waiting for something to pop out of nowhere and scare me.

It made me feel very uncomfortable and uneasy. It was just too quiet.

 

[Skooterz]

Not really. I'm pretty difficult to shake up. The closest a game has come recently is probably some of the moral choices in Fallout 3.

 

[Jameshizzle]

Games with conversation segments where the NPCs can become emotionally hurt by your decisions.

 

[bcponpcp27]

MGS4. I hated the controls to shoot, they felt so stiff. Yahtzee's comment on it was pretty much accurate.

 

[Tzatziki3301]

gotta go with the recent mw2 video. killing all those civilians in the airport? just wrong dude. innapropriate, infinity ward. it made me really uncomfrotable just watching it. i cant imagine what id feel like playing it.

seconded

Umm... those were the 'bad' guys doing that, in a scene-setting piece. Still, 'Soap' proves himself a dab hand at torture later down the line, so even the good guys aren't whiter than white.

 

[Jonci]

The game hasn't released yet, but the E3 trailer for Dante's Inferno. That video is disturbing and leaves a sick feeling in my soul.

 

[Chancie]

There really aren't any games that make me feel too uncomfortable if I'm playing alone (except for say, Fatal Frame and Silent Hill).

But if someone is in the room or within earshot, Obscure: The Aftermath is a bad one. xD So many innuendos that are just shockingly blunt and out of nowhere. Bad for your dad to hear...