Games that make you feel uncomfortable

[thejoshualee]

Recently, every time I load World of Warcraft I get uncomfortable.... I just can't shake the feeling that I could do something, anything, better than that. I have several level 80s, but spent too much time grinding for good gear so that the dorks would let me raid with them... and it feels so.... uncomfortable.

If a game is scary it's not uncomfortable to me... and morality in games seems like a non issue, though I feel sad if a character I like dies due to my actions, but the only uncomfortable feelings came recently with WOW... I'm taking a break now.

It's nice to play games where i can actually... you know... play.

 

[The_Deleted]

GTAIV.
The first time you do the hooker thing is shocking enough. Then killing her after the dirty deed...that made me feel awkward.

 

[Olikunmissile]

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

 

[Admiral Stukov]

The Pitt DLC for Fallout 3 when i sided with the slavers, it felt bad.
And I blow up megaton to then murder everyone in Tennpenny tower for fun.

 

[Woem]

Planescape: Torment. That game went way deeper than I was prepared for.

 

[Mythbhavd]

Definitely the original Wolfenstein. Something about the 3D engine always made me nauseous feeling and gave me a headache after playing for a bit.

 

[Blanks]

Demon Souls by far, i've never been so uncomfortable and afraid of a game i liked so much

Edit: maybe because i'm not sure what to expect and how to react when it happens

 

[Callate]

Rescue on Fractalus scared the heck out of me when I was eleven. Something about having a fairly detailed and well-animated green alien start pounding on your windshield when you've gotten used to fairly non-descript and bordeline-abstract fractal scenery with the occasional purple flying saucer just jangled every nerve. And then it stopped being predictable in any given rescue when it would happen... Of course, by modern high-definition standards, it's incredibly cartoonish.

The first F.E.A.R. didn't exactly make me uncomfortable, but the "spin around on a ladder" scare definitely "got" me. And trying to make the corpse of a fourteen year old girl into a sexy pin-up for FEAR 2 put me off PC Gamer magazine.

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.

 

[Beatrix]

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The milkman conspiracy part of Psychonauts made me really uncomfortable.
...

That bit was totally disturbing, yeah

I have an odd one myself, the game Kingdom Under Fire - Circle of Doom (360 action RPG) has enemies called Flesh Men, which are basically fat naked men that makes this weird gurgling sound and move in ways people can't... It's really hard to describe, but whenever I meat them they fill me with this mix of disgust and pity. That definitely qualifies as uncomfortable for me.

 

[The Rainmaker]

Star Ocean TLH
The thought of teenagers commanding a spaceship just makes me sick

 

[Captain Blackout]

On too many levels, Legend of Dragoon.

 

[DemonicVixen]

At one point during Max Payne there was a weird part where you ran through corridors smeared with blood and the sound of his baby crying somewhere. It really sent shivers down my spine. Besides that, i do not normally have a problem with games.

 

[Captain Blackout]

Final Fantasy X.

The infamous "laughing scene". Imagine watching that with a family member in the room. I don't think any other video game has ever made me that uncomfortable.

Could you both provide a youtube link or something to these things? I've played both games but it's been a long while and I don't remember them.

Sure thing [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Final+Fantasy+X+Laughing+Scene&l=1].

I just watched the aforementioned scene for the first time and I can think of only one family member I wouldn't want to watch that with. And they were starkers, as in stark raving nuts, when it came to media. That whole scene was brilliant! I don't see the problem?

 

[UltimateZero]

The first F.E.A.R. didn't exactly make me uncomfortable, but the "spin around on a ladder" scare definitely "got" me.

When you're sorta down in the sewers and you go to climb down, nearly pee yourself, jump off the ladder, spin, and suddenly need a new change of pants. AUGH. I unloaded my machine gun into thin air and exited the game so fast my computer nearly had a fit. I've never played the game past that point. For some reason that got to me, so horribly.

Also, listening to the tapes early on in Borderlands, the ones with the woman scientist talking about her staff? That's uncomfortable right there. The slow descent into madness.

Much about Bioshock got to me, but not as much as the Andrew Ryan speech nearing the end. That is just SO messed up in so many ways, and then you realize "wait a minute, it's not just the character..."

 

[Syndef]

Back in the day, there was a Martian Chronicles adventure game. The music and visuals creeped me out to no end. I can't really describe it, except maybe that it was TOO surreal.

 

[Ben Legend]

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

I can only imagine what was going through her head. That game is only a few steps down from eroge.

Edit: Also, welcome to the Escapist. Stick to the rules and no one gets hurt. Enjoy your stay! (Cool Vivi icon)

Too true, but still, if people looked at the game while you were changing their jobs clothes they would think you were wierd.

This and sex scenes in games, a.k.a Fahrenheit and Mass effect, I understand why they are in there, but i'm scared that someone will walk in and think i'm watching some animated porn crap. =/

 

[Tonimata]

Kamasutra.
Wait, does that count as a game?
It is uncomfortable as hell though.

 

[smudgey]

At one point during Max Payne there was a weird part where you ran through corridors smeared with blood and the sound of his baby crying somewhere. It really sent shivers down my spine. Besides that, i do not normally have a problem with games.

Yeah, i found that pretty disturbing, as well as the start when he finds his family slaughtered.
I found Portal a little unsettling, cause you'd see the observation rooms and half-expect to see someone in there, and then with all the writing on the walls i was sure i'd run into someone, so i was on the edge of my seat all game waiting for it to happen.

 

[The Fork of Truth]

I'm low on ammo and out of stimpacks. I cling to my hunting rifle for some small comfort. One of my legs is crippled. The subway exit - the way to relative safety - is just a couple of badly-lit corridors away. Over the hum of the lights I hear the snarling of a ghoul. I open a door and move slowly through the doorway. A rapid beeping makes my heart race, and I can't see the mine. It goes off, and now my other leg is crippled. All the remaining food and water I have is not enough to get my health back to the level it was before. A raider comes out of nowhere and riddles me with bullets from an SMG. I reload, give up, and go back the way I came.

Fallout 3 is a cruel game.