Has a game ever really shocked you?

[MiracleOfSound]

Playing Mafia 2 this week, I had my first experience of a game's narrative utterly shocking me to the core.

The scene in question was, of course

Spoiler: Major Mafia 2 spoiler

finding Henry being hacked to death by the Chinese with meat cleavers

It was harrowing, emotional and impactful storytelling. I was deeply upset for a half hour after it and had to stop playing the game until the black cloud had lifted.

The bloodiest and sickest of horror titles have never come close to replicating that feeling, which is a testament to the storytelling in Mafia 2.

Our favorite medium is evolving and becoming better and better at moving us, which in turn means that scenes of this shocking nature will start to affect us much more.

Tell about a time that a game left you reeling, and please, use spoiler tags.

 

[Judgement101]

Playing Mafia 2 this week, I had my first experience of a game's narrative utterly shocking me to the core.

The scene in question was, of course

Spoiler: Major Mafia 2 spoiler

finding Henry being hacked to death by the Chinese with meat cleavers

It was harrowing, emotional and impactful storytelling. I was deeply upset for a half hour after it and had to stop playing the game until the black cloud had lifted.

The bloodiest and sickest of horror titles have never come close to replicating that feeling, which is a testament to the storytelling in Mafia 2.

Our favorite medium is evolving and becoming better and better at moving us, which in turn means that scenes of this shocking nature will start to affect us much more.

Tell about a time that a game left you reeling, and please, use spoiler tags.

They were hitting him with bats, not meat cleavers.

 

[HassEsser]

"No Russian" in Modern Warfare 2 was by far the most shocking moment in gaming history. . . just kidding, that game was balls including that mission that was only added for "shock" value and publicity.

I remember one time I was playing Fallout 3 and I was essentially walking death with everything maxed and unlocked; I pressed my Quick Save (mouse4) button and the game crashed, I relaunched and the save had corrupted. . . I was shocked.

tl;dr it takes a lot to shock me, "A Serbian Film" didn't even shock me.

 

[lacktheknack]

"No Russian" in Modern Warfare 2 was by far the most shocking moment in gaming history. . . just kidding, that game was balls including that mission that was only added for "shock" value and publicity.

I remember one time I was playing Fallout 3 and I was essentially walking death with everything maxed and unlocked; I pressed my Quick Save (mouse4) button and the game crashed, I relaunched and the save had corrupted. . . I was shocked.

tl;dr it takes a lot to shock me, "A Serbian Film" didn't even shock me.

OOH! I know how to fix that!

If you can load the game but can't save it, blow yourself up with a nuke. It actually works.

And that shocked me.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

They were hitting him with SNIP not SNIP

1. Use spoiler tags

2. Watch the scene again, you're wrong.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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tl;dr it takes a lot to shock me, "A Serbian Film" didn't even shock me.

Lol, just reading the Wiki shocked me.

 

[Ldude893]

Fallout 3. Small skeletons scattered inside an empty school building with dismembered bodies hooked onto a ceiling can really tell you what to expect in a game.

 

[Benmonkey7]

Playing Mafia 2 this week, I had my first experience of a game's narrative utterly shocking me to the core.

The scene in question was, of course

Spoiler: Major Mafia 2 spoiler

finding Henry being hacked to death by the Chinese with meat cleavers

It was harrowing, emotional and impactful storytelling. I was deeply upset for a half hour after it and had to stop playing the game until the black cloud had lifted.

The bloodiest and sickest of horror titles have never come close to replicating that feeling, which is a testament to the storytelling in Mafia 2.

Our favorite medium is evolving and becoming better and better at moving us, which in turn means that scenes of this shocking nature will start to affect us much more.

Tell about a time that a game left you reeling, and please, use spoiler tags.

Spoiler

They were hitting him with bats, not meat cleavers.

Spoiler

Actually, I'm pretty certain it was meat cleavers.

OT: For me it was in Fallout 3 when

Spoiler

James, the father, sacrifices himself.

Edit: Put in spoiler tags for the first comment.

 

[Miles Tormani]

The ending to Halo: Reach was pretty emotional.

Spoiler

Specifically, the part at the very end, after the credits, where you have to fight off the Covenant for as long as you can, seeing cracks in your visor as you start to take too many hits. Then, in your final moments, the helmet falls off and from its perspective, you see yourself being brutally stabbed and mauled by Sanghelli.

 

[Judgement101]

They were hitting him with SNIP not SNIP

1. Use spoiler tags

2. Watch the scene again, you're wrong.

Sorry, I thought that since I was quoting it was okay, also

Spoiler: I learned this time!

If they were cleavers why was his body still in a whole form, shouldn't he have been, you know, sliced up a bit more. (P.S. My TV's resolution sucks so it may have been different)

 

[Kermi]

Playing Mafia 2 this week, I had my first experience of a game's narrative utterly shocking me to the core.

The scene in question was, of course

Spoiler: Major Mafia 2 spoiler

finding Henry being hacked to death by the Chinese with meat cleavers

It was harrowing, emotional and impactful storytelling. I was deeply upset for a half hour after it and had to stop playing the game until the black cloud had lifted.

The bloodiest and sickest of horror titles have never come close to replicating that feeling, which is a testament to the storytelling in Mafia 2.

Our favorite medium is evolving and becoming better and better at moving us, which in turn means that scenes of this shocking nature will start to affect us much more.

Tell about a time that a game left you reeling, and please, use spoiler tags.

They were hitting him with bats, not meat cleavers.

You're either blind or the game was censored in your region. They were most assuredly using meat cleavers.

I think one of the most shocking things I've seen (aside from the Mafia 2 example, which is at the top of my list) was the scene at the beginning of GTAIV: Lost and Damned, where they interrogate the guy by holding his face to the back sheel of the motorcycle.

Also, pretty much all of the Brothhood related cutscenes in Saint's Row 2...

Spoiler

Carlos being dragged behind the truck then euthanised by the Boss, the radioactive waste in the tattoo ink, Jessica being locked in the boot of her car and put at the end of a row of cars to be crushed by a monster truck, and Matt having his hand pinned to the stage and fireworks set off under it.

All of them were pretty gruesome.

 

[SilverUchiha]

I was playing Pokemon and was Thundershocked by a Pikachu. jk.

Okay... seriously. um... I guess the announcement of DNF by Gearbox shocked me. Of course, if Valve announces Half-Life 3 or Episode 3 within the next year, we can all just assume these are mere signs of the apocalypse.

 

[Icarion (aka Stockholm)]

The end of Red Dead Redemtion
I honest to god just sat there for 10 min and rocked back and forth muttering "no, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOOOOOOOO"

 

[Judgement101]

Playing Mafia 2 this week, I had my first experience of a game's narrative utterly shocking me to the core.

The scene in question was, of course

Spoiler: Major Mafia 2 spoiler

finding Henry being hacked to death by the Chinese with meat cleavers

It was harrowing, emotional and impactful storytelling. I was deeply upset for a half hour after it and had to stop playing the game until the black cloud had lifted.

The bloodiest and sickest of horror titles have never come close to replicating that feeling, which is a testament to the storytelling in Mafia 2.

Our favorite medium is evolving and becoming better and better at moving us, which in turn means that scenes of this shocking nature will start to affect us much more.

Tell about a time that a game left you reeling, and please, use spoiler tags.

They were hitting him with bats, not meat cleavers.

You're either blind or the game was censored in your region. They were most assuredly using meat cleavers.

I think one of the most shocking things I've seen (aside from the Mafia 2 example, which is at the top of my list) was the scene at the beginning of GTAIV: Lost and Damned, where they interrogate the guy by holding his face to the back sheel of the motorcycle.

Also, pretty much all of the Brothhood related cutscenes in Saint's Row 2...

Spoiler

Carlos being dragged behind the truck then euthanised by the Boss, the radioactive waste in the tattoo ink, Jessica being locked in the boot of her car and put at the end of a row of cars to be crushed by a monster truck, and Matt having his hand pinned to the stage and fireworks set off under it.

All of them were pretty gruesome.

I was sitting rather far from by crappy resolution TV so it may have been meat cleavers, or I've mentally blocked it to keep from shock, either one works.

 

[Omikron009]

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tl;dr it takes a lot to shock me, "A Serbian Film" didn't even shock me.

Lol, just reading the Wiki shocked me.

Reading the wiki made me laugh, because the movie seemed so ridiculous. Based on the scene that upset you so much and the statement that I quoted, it's clear to me that you're easily shocked.

 

[DustyDrB]

I just finished Red Dead Redemption today.

Spoiler: Red Dead Redemption spoiler

I really saw it coming, as this game didn't seem destined for a happy ending thematically. But they had those missions at the end where you're just being a dad and a husband. And I was so happy for John. Then that snake Edgar Ross sent his army to the Marston ranch. Despite me almost being certain it would happen, I was still shocked and saddened by the death of John Marston. I have never hated a video game character the way I hate Edgar Ross. I was all too happy to have Jack take vengeance (even though it puts him along same path as his father). For the first time in a video game, I cried some manly tears.

One more time: Fuck you, Edgar Ross.

 

[TheComedown]

They were hitting him with SNIP not SNIP

1. Use spoiler tags

2. Watch the scene again, you're wrong.

Sorry, I thought that since I was quoting it was okay, also

Spoiler: I learned this time!

If they were cleavers why was his body still in a whole form, shouldn't he have been, you know, sliced up a bit more. (P.S. My TV's resolution sucks so it may have been different)

It was definitely as Miracle said,

Spoiler

He was hacked and slashed to death, not but into pieces, you can still easily hack somebody to death with a meat cleaver without removing limbs, play it on a hi-def tv, the body is clearly covered it deep cuts

OT: I didn't really find that scene that shocking.

That scene in Kane and Lynch 2: Dog days however did

Spoiler

The one when they are captured, cut up, girl is killed, run through the streets naked bleeding everywhere... that shit was fucked up.

 

[Dango]

Spoiler: Call of Duty: Big Red One

Brooklyn's death on the last mission honestly made me cry a little.

 

[jamradar]

I just finished Red Dead Redemption today.

Spoiler: Red Dead Redemption spoiler

I really saw it coming, as this game didn't seem destined for a happy ending thematically. But they had those missions at the end where you're just being a dad and a husband. And I was so happy for John. Then that snake Edgar Ross sent his army to the Marston ranch. Despite me almost being certain it would happen, I was still shocked and saddened by the death of John Marston. I have never hated a video game character the way I hate Edgar Ross. I was all too happy to have Jack take vengeance (even though it puts him along same path as his father). For the first time in a video game, I cried some manly tears.

One more time: Fuck you, Edgar Ross.

Have you got the real ending yet, or is that as far as you got?

EDIT: Derp maybe I should have read the full post before commenting.So just ignore this.

 

[Zhukov]

Depends what you mean by "shocked".