I've just been playing Bully: Scholarship Edition on PC and I was thoroughly enjoying the game and its penchant for childish mayhem-causing missions. But, I got to the second chapter where I've encountered a mission that I just could not face myself to complete, not because of a glitch or because the gameplay and its mechanic was too weird or hard, but because of what the mission entailed me to accomplish or achieve.
I'll describe the mission in spoiler.
I was laughing like hell when I first encountered this... person in this... place. It was funny in that rather mindless and childish way that the game celebrated, but it turned into a dark corner real soon. If the title didn't clue those of you in who haven't played the game, it takes place in a boarding school. The mission asks me to... do this thing that would be downright immoral and a severe felony at the least.
And I'm a completionist, have I mentioned that? For every game I play, I try to finish everything I can up to the point of possibility, whether it's Easter eggs, achievements, secret collectibles, etc, not to mention all the given quests. But this? I just couldn't go through with it. I tried to convince myself that it's all fiction, these aren't real people, neither the would-be victims and the fucked-up-bastard giving me the mission, but I just couldn't go through with it.
So, discussion: have you ever come across a similar situation in a game and refused to complete a mission because you just couldn't handle it with your conscience? I will say that you shouldn't include things like limited choice options to a quest, like a lot of morality choice systems where you either are a turn-the-other-cheek, second-coming-of-Christ saint or a baby-cannibalizing-man-performing-abortions-to-prepare-for-next-day's-breakfast twat.
(Boy, that evil option went to a seriously disturbing place, didn't it?)
I'll describe the mission in spoiler.
You meet the gym teacher in front of the porn shop and he asks you to "retrieve" some "dirty laundry" he left in the girl's dormitory.
I was laughing like hell when I first encountered this... person in this... place. It was funny in that rather mindless and childish way that the game celebrated, but it turned into a dark corner real soon. If the title didn't clue those of you in who haven't played the game, it takes place in a boarding school. The mission asks me to... do this thing that would be downright immoral and a severe felony at the least.
And I'm a completionist, have I mentioned that? For every game I play, I try to finish everything I can up to the point of possibility, whether it's Easter eggs, achievements, secret collectibles, etc, not to mention all the given quests. But this? I just couldn't go through with it. I tried to convince myself that it's all fiction, these aren't real people, neither the would-be victims and the fucked-up-bastard giving me the mission, but I just couldn't go through with it.
So, discussion: have you ever come across a similar situation in a game and refused to complete a mission because you just couldn't handle it with your conscience? I will say that you shouldn't include things like limited choice options to a quest, like a lot of morality choice systems where you either are a turn-the-other-cheek, second-coming-of-Christ saint or a baby-cannibalizing-man-performing-abortions-to-prepare-for-next-day's-breakfast twat.
(Boy, that evil option went to a seriously disturbing place, didn't it?)
