Has a game ever really shocked you?

[Zhukov]

Depends what you mean by "shocked".

I mean deeply upset.

Ah, okay, fair enough.

OT:

Spoiler: F.E.A.R. 2. (No, really.)

F.E.A.R 2:
Throughout the game the player is periodically hit with weird hallucinations and visions originating from the mind of Alma Wade, the game's antagonist. Many of these hallucinations involve glimpses of her childhood "happy place" which takes the form of a swing hanging on an old tree, surrounded by pleasant green hills.
Toward the end of the game, the player comes across the actual location. It's a swing hanging from a dead tree in a tiny yard surrounded by high concrete walls. The walls have a faded mural of green hills painted on them.

The game itself was strictly average, but that one moment hit me unexpectedly hard.

Spoiler: Oni.

Oni:
(Old game. I doubt many people know of it.)
The game gives you an annoying support character. She has a horrible high-pitched voice and tries way too hard to be cute and cheerful. I didn't like her much.
Then, towards the end of the game, she is forced to attack the player character. You have to kill her. And the whole time she is apologizing and begging for you to stop her. Ouch.

Spoiler: Bioshock

Bioshock:
My first fight with a Big Daddy bouncer. Partly because they don't attack you until you provoke them. Partly because when I fired on him the very first thing he did was scoop up the little sister and place her behind him. And partly because when those fellows get pissed off, they really mean it.

Spoiler: Bioshock 2

Bioshock 2:
The ambiguous ending, the one where you teach Eleanor to be evil, then sacrifice yourself at the end. That was utterly miserable and depressing. Seeing it made me glad that I got the happy one.

Spoiler: Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

Amnesia: The Dark Descent:
Jesus H. Christ. Scary shit. That game should carry a warning label or something.

 

[SixWingedAsura]

From Persona 3 FES

Spoiler

The news that the Main Character died shortly after Persona 3's The Journey told during the beginning of The Answer. Oh and Yukari's decision to fight everyone to bring him back.

Seriously, fighting her and Mitsuru was impossible for me simply because Yukari is my all time favorite video game girl...couldn't finish the fight for ages because I felt so bad for her...*sniff*

 

[Ignatz_Zwakh]

When I first played Myth: The Fallen Lords at age 8, the violence really rattled me. It was my first time playing a strategy game and I had no idea of the consequences involved in sending men to fight undead monsters. Seeing bright blood splashing out of open wounds and hearing the warriors desperate cries of hatred was rather intense for me, age 8. ><

 

[D Moness]

Does freaked me out count as well. If so Fallout 3

Spoiler

After entering the Vault next to Little Lamplight and reading the log on the pc. Reading some people in the vault thought they went insane (in the end killing themselves) because the heard children's voice outside. They thought they were hallucinating while in reality some kids did manage to survive the blast and were in the same cave

 

[Thepostaldude1]

Hmm... let's see...

The only one that really pops into my head is the scene from The Darkness

Spoiler

When he dies, i was like.... Ugh... Let me guess, cliffhan... FFFFFUU.. But it was touching in a way. I get way too attached to characters i play as, Like, really badly.

 

[Chamzaboogie]

Call of Duty: World at War.

Spoiler

Russian campaign, as you storm Berlin your unit finds a group of German soldiers who want to surrender. Your comrades ask you to kill them. I did not. They ended up being thrown molotov cocktails at by soldiers from my unit, and they burn alive.

That was quite a meh moment, more disturbing than shocking actually.

 

[hypern]

Finding out about Revan's true indenity in KOTOR. That was a shock to me.

 

[Frapple]

My heart nearly stopped when I got to the mannequins in Condemned if that counts.

 

[Joshroom]

Fallout 3, little town of Andale. Seeing them all happy and kinda scary; then picking the lock of the shed and seeing what they had hanging from the ceiling and in the fridge. Although, that moment wasn't half as shocking as coming out of the shed and seeing them all standing outside holding guns and looking meaningfully in my direction.

 

[Burning Desire]

manhunt did it for me as i hadnt heard anything about it and was shocked at how graphic the first kill was, after that was all good though

 

[Kyrian007]

It's only happened one time to me. Wing Commander 3, the reveal of the traitor. He was the only one I didn't suspect. Otherwise, videogame writing is fairly predictable. Shock value? Painkiller. When the lady in the cutscene before the "Orphanage" level said, "Try not to think of them as children." I didn't think they would carry out that one. Yup, seconds later I'm shotgunning creepy little kids.

 

[jackpipsam]

Grand Theft Auto

 

[SonicWaffle]

Well, I was shocked the first time I combined a fire axe with a sledgehammer in Dead Rising 2. Then I laughed for about five minutes, and fucked up a lot of zombies.

Other than that, I don't get shocked in the way you seem to mean it - there have been times I get surprised, for example by enemies in BioShock (one of the spider women leaping up through a broken floor in front of me shit me right up) - but rarely do I become genuinely upset. Playing eveil in Mass Effect made me feel awful for killing the Rachni queen, if that counts?

There's been a lot of games that surprised me, KOTOR being an obvious example

I borrowed KOTOR from a friend at work, played it for an evening, came in the next morning and told him precisely what the "big twist" was going to be. It was just so obvious. Maybe I just play too many games, but when they start foreshadowing that early on (within the first hour or so, IIRC) it tends to ruin the surprise for me.

 

[Athol]

The end of Red Dead Redemtion

Yeah, that one was abit of a kick in the nuts.

 

[TheComedown]

Is that game any good. I thought it look'd decent but some people have said it's dire.

I liked it, but it's not worth the full price they ask for it, and the ending was pretty crap as well. Just give it a rent.

Edit: Oh you mean Kayne and Lynch 2? I really liked it the story ending was a bit lacking and unfortunately the online matchmaking is a broken mess (I cannot play with Europeans i don't care how much the game thinks i would love to play with them the internet cannot handle it.) But I also had fun with the arcade mode.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

My heart nearly stopped when I got to the mannequins in Condemned if that counts.

That scared the living daylights out of me, hehe. The locker room photo scene was even worse though.

manhunt did it for me as i hadnt heard anything about it and was shocked at how graphic the first kill was, after that was all good though

I was pretty terrified of Pigsy. Scary, scary level.

 

[Lyx]

Some people definatelly need to play System Shock 2.

 

[Beryl77]

The ending of Half-Life 2 Episode 2 shocked my quite a lot.