Poll: Have you ever experienced guilt in a game?

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Zing

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Yes, often, most BioWare games, Dante's Inferno did, GTA..most things with choice and freedom/
 

rezboyjoey

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Sebenko said:
rezboyjoey said:
Agreed. along with that mission to kill the old woman
and her entire family using the gift list she gives you after mistaking you for a delivery boy.
That one really didn't bother me at all. That was more just being an evil bastard which was the entire point of playing the Dark Brotherhood story. Hell the context of that mission actually made it a lot more entertaining which probably reflects poorly on me as a person...

The reason my example made me feel guilty was because I was emotionally attached to those characters. Its like at the end of Old Yeller when
The boy has to shoot Old Yeller because he got rabees from fighting with the wolf. We all loved Old Yeller and we didn't want the boy to shoot him but it had to be done. If instead the boy had to go kill a random bunny that got rabees nobody would care because we didn't develop an attachment to the bunny.
I'm actually very proud of that analogy, I wasn't expecting it to turn out so well.
 

Lono Shrugged

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Probably Deus Ex 2 when I opened the door to the classroom and tossed a grenade in an watched my computer stutter as it calculated the physics of a half dozen flying kids bodies.

I did feel kinda bad when Wrex got it in the back of the face but I was also all "touche Bioware"
 

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SebZero said:
Tales of Symphonia, killing
Zelos.

I did it simply to get an alternate party member, and I damn near cried.

I genuinely like that character, and I killed him.

If this situation happened in another game, I'd likely try to save them, and wait on killing them in a later playthrough.
This^ Krato's can go screw himself If he thinks I would do that just to get him back. I mean I did it once just to see it it but I immediately loaded my file back up so I wouldn't have to kill him.

Also quite a few of the Closed Fist decisions in Jade Empire, they wouldn't be as bad if Dawn Star wasn't there to make you feel guilty though the whole closing the damn business makes me feel bad no mater what. I only did it to get the Closed Fist Magic and some quests closed off to the Open Palm.
 

Srdjan

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I once felt guilty because I didn't explore one area in game, but that is not what you mean so I answered no. When I want to be bad I be bad, when I want to be good I be good, sometimes I mix it all up.
 

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PayJ567 said:
STALKER:

I walked into a group of STALKER's getting attacked by mutants and I waited till they all died so I could take all their stuff. I failed Duty that day...

Yes, I would do it again.
Before I read this I would have said no I haven't felt guilty. But after reading, you reminded me that I have done that so many times it's not funny. (although the first time it was more hilarity then guilt)
 

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MiracleOfSound said:
And then going out to the remote building and finding what they had done to
Lucien LaChance
... that was a genuinely disturbing moment.
I don't know why but I didn't feel sorry when I purified the place but I was mad when I found out they killed him.

In Mass Effect 2 I did Mordin's side quest twise
just to save Maelon [http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Maelon]
 

skeliton112

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I dont know why but yes i do.

Specifically when i do sumthing really bad (Kill a kid or nuke a town ect.)
 

delta46

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The only time I've EVER felt guilty in a game was in Fable 1:the lost chapters

Had to either kill my sister or destroy the Super-Awesome-Flamming-Sword-Of -Death

Guess witch one i choose.
 

Hollock

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I never feel guilty in sandbox games because you know, that's the point, but other than that, yes
 

Muffinthraka

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When I shoot npcs on my own team by accident I say sorry (particularly in Halo). (Spoiler) I felt guilty for killing Whisper in Fable. I get very emotionally involved in games (both feeling compassion at npcs and getting really pissed off when things go wrong).
 

Xeros

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Pretty much any time I make a morally wrong choice for the material rewards, like killing Whisper for the gold (Fable), or blowing up Megaton for the hotel room (Fallout 3). Howver, no matter how guilty I feel, I do it again each playthrough.
 

everfreeDragon

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Many times, my first being in Fallout 3 letting Butch's mother die, I couldn't find her, then I killed the Overseer and Amata hated me T_T then on another file I blew up Megaton, I felt so bad I had my character jump off the balcony.

Oblivion, Purification was bad but I made a horrible mistake, I took the time to talk to every memeber of the Draconis family and read the gift list, they were all so friendly, the last one felt the worst, I choose the worst dialog options by telling her she looks like her mother, her reply had me almost in tears knowing what was next.
 

centauri2002

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I've felt guilty in most games that give you a 'moral choice'. Particularly games like KotOR and Mass Effect. I usually play the 'good' avenue the first time through and then go the 'bad' the second time. But for some reason I can't block the guilty feeling when I'm mean to someone in-game. D:

Oh and I've felt guilty for killing comrades in games by accident. Oblivion was pretty bad for that, they kept running in front of my sword!
 

Eliam_Dar

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each time I killed a colossi in shadow of the colossus... it is a great game but most of the colossi were not doing anything bad until I attacked them.
 

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D Bones said:
yea, mass effect 1, i let kaiden die. mass effect 2, i killed a lot of people and had a pretty scarred up face. i'd do it again.
Likewise. A plot necessary death isn't usually a guilt inducing thing, but when something is your fault, you can't help but feel guilty.
 

Seneschal

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Eliam_Dar said:
each time I killed a colossi in shadow of the colossus... it is a great game but most of the colossi were not doing anything bad until I attacked them.
The first thing that comes to mind, of course. The protagonist obviously has the best intentions, but it seems very wrong when he takes down some of the colossi, especially the ones that don't even attack him.

Except the small ones, the boar and the tiger. Those are vicious little bastards.