The last time a game made you feel bad

[Esotera]

Title says it all - what's the last game that made you feel bad about a decision you made in order to win, and why? If you can't think of any recent games, its fine to talk about something you played several months ago, and of course you can talk about more than one game if you like.

Spoiler: My game moment

The last game I played that made me feel really bad was Civilization III. I was aiming towards a Space Race victory and it was really close with the Hittites. I investigated their city & it turned out they were going to produce the last part of the spaceship 2 turns before me, so I ended up nuking them to delay production.

I won the game but felt really bad for doing it. A bunch of other civs declared war on me, and a lot of my other cities got nuked (although not my capital which managed to produce the spaceship part).

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

A couple of weeks ago when I played and finished Spec ops. Wont say why because I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone else but GOD that game is deep

 

[Jolly Co-operator]

I just finished Cave Story yesterday. Let's just say there's a certain boss . . . yeah, I felt bad.

 

[Zacharious-khan]

A couple of weeks ago when I played and finished Spec ops. Wont say why because I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone else but GOD that game is deep

same here worst part is i didn?t even know what i was doing that one time, you who played the game know what i'm talking about. I missed the cut scene right before it and felt like shit afterwards. I never wanted to look at your bum spec ops.

 

[spartandude]

Aliens Colonial Marines... i pre ordered it, enough said

I was playing Civ V and i had gotten to essentially a mix of WW1/WW2 military technology and the civilisation i had declared war on had just gotten to Napoleon era tech, i felt bad when my tanks were destroying they're rifles/musket men

 

[Anthony Corrigan]

A couple of weeks ago when I played and finished Spec ops. Wont say why because I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone else but GOD that game is deep

same here worst part is i didn?t even know what i was doing that one time, you who played the game know what i'm talking about. I missed the cut scene right before it and felt like shit afterwards. I never wanted to look at your bum spec ops.

Its supposed to make more sense if you play it again

 

[Zacharious-khan]

Its supposed to make more sense if you play it again

I figured it out after it happened what i didn't understand before hand what was even in the bombs.

 

[MysticSlayer]

The Walking Dead, primarily Episodes 2&3. In Episode 2, when given the option on whether or not to kill the first brother, I decided to kill him, and seeing Clementine's reaction was just horrible. Then, as if I hadn't learned anything, when confronting the second brother, I started pummeling away at him without ever checking to see if it was necessary. When everyone started gathering around and watching me beat him up, I just walked away because I couldn't handle killing another person, especially in front of Clementine. At that point, I pretty much resolved to do the "right" thing, even if it was hard. That was, until Episode 3 when Lilly killed Carley, which made me angry enough at her that I decided to leave her behind. Seeing her freak out and get attacked by the zombies made me regret that decision, though it was also the last decision I made that I regretted. Of course, in Episode 5, they feel the need to throw every immoral decision you ever made back in your face, but it at least gave me a chance to own up to my decisions.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I was playing Civ V and i had gotten to essentially a mix of WW1/WW2 military technology and the civilisation i had declared war on had just gotten to Napoleon era tech, i felt bad when my tanks were destroying they're rifles/musket men

Well, I hope the AI feels bad when it's doing that to me!

 

[Fractral]

I'm not sure if any of the endings to Devil Survivor 2 can be done without feeling bad. I picked the Anguished One's route and when

Spoiler

Ronaldo chose to die rather than give up his beliefs

I felt really bad. And then Joe and Otome basically said they hated me and would rather die than join my team. At least Airi joined me.
On the other hand, that ending scene almost made up for it, except

Spoiler

I didn't save Io

so it was just me, Daichi and Hinako at the end. Awesome game though.
I think there is one ending where you can save everyone, but I'd not got everyone's fates high enough.

 

[Ikasury]

Maiden Astraea... Demon's Souls... nuff said :.(

 

[pyrosaw]

Spec Ops: The Line, that one moment everyone talks about. Made me feel absolutely horrible.

 

[Roxas1359]

Any time I do something bad in a Fallout game I feel like a dick, which is why I usually am always good. That's actually how I am in all the games I play. I don't like being bad.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

If you have Borderlands 2 and downloaded the newest DLC for it, play the sidequest "Fake Geek Guys" and finish it.

That's the most recent one, for me.

Side note: I like Torgue's full name.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

My current game of Civ V. I was trying to go for a science victory with the Mayans. Then I had to go to war with the Dutch because they where trying to expand into the areas I wanted to expand into, then Russia declared war on me also because I was expanding into their territory. By the time I had beaten them down I had over half the map in my control, more gold than I knew what to do with, my religion had pretty much wiped every other religion out and I had clear tech lead so I decided screw the science let's grind the other civs into dust.

So I betrayed all my allies and began steam rolling across the map, which I do feel kind of bad for (well for Attila, he'd do the same I my position I'm sure). Currently only Arabia and China are left but their combined armies are still vastly out numbered by my own forces. Plus I have tons of artillery, bombers, cavalry, infantry and every city state on the map as an ally. While they are mostly using riflemen, lancers and cannons. They don't even get a chance to get close, it's a massacre. Though what makes me feel worse is that I'm actually waiting to get nukes just for the sake of using them to seal victory... I think I may be a bad person.

 

[Smeggs]

Spec Ops: The Line, that one moment everyone talks about. Made me feel absolutely horrible.

Gonna have to go with Spec Ops as well, can't really remember too much.

I mean, actually feeling bad. If you mean feeling sort of sad for a character, the ending of Dark Arisen, I suppose. Games don't usually effect me in a negatively emotional way, save for unbridled rage.

 

[Kaltazraza]

A couple of weeks ago when I played and finished Spec ops. Wont say why because I don't want to spoil the experience for anyone else but GOD that game is deep

A great game, but it sure makes you feel like hell quite often.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Last of Us. The horse that you get that gets shot in the head. That was pretty depressing.

 

[tilmoph]

The walking dead. Most of the more ruthless decisions I made didn't bother me; either I personally agreed with them or they fit the interpretation of Lee I was going with. Two however stand out. Maybe spoilers (not really sure what counts as a spoiler), nothing major though

The first was when I point blank told Clementine we weren't going to look for her parents. It was too dangerous, and I didn't want the poor girl to get her hopes up. We're going to get a boat and get the hell away from the flesh hungry corpses, that's it. I'm not risking her to go on a wild goose chase. The look of total sadness she gives made me feel like a monster. Murdering the two brothers didn't make me feel anything but victory. Swiping the crap from the car was smart; humanity can't let morons survive in the new world, plus we're hungry and it's getting cold, Clem needs that hoodie dammit.

The second one was offing Ben. Now Ben is an absolute dumbass. Every damn thing this kid does makes things worse. He has no talents, no skills, and he's way too stupid to learn jack. He makes me regret saving his ass from the zombies with every passing second of his existence.

So he screws the pooch again, and everyone has to scramble to deal with his latest dumbassery. However, fates be praised, his screw up puts him in a position of imminent death, and hands me a shotgun. Told ya *****, don't put Clem in danger or you die. Go to pull the trigger. Game won't let me off him myself. Bullshit! Well fine, just sit back while the timer runs out and let moron become zombie chow.

He falls. Fall doesn't kill him, does break both his legs though. He screams from the pain. Zombies smell blood, don't go for the head, start at the guts. Kid dies in horrible pain. Now, I'm not sad he's dead. he had to die. He was going to get everyone else killed if we let him live. What shook me was how awful his death was. Dammit all, why didn't you let me just blast him! Now I can't enjoy his being dead. Now I kinda feel like a dick.

 

[NeutralDrow]

Spec Ops: The Line...is what I would say if that were true. The thing that was supposed to make me feel bad did make a little sick, but since it came out of nowhere and was a complete accident, and because I still had a job to do, I chose not to dwell on it.

Oh, how I wish the game itself made the same choice, the story might have been tolerable.

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No, the last time a game made me feel bad for something I did was probably Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I decided to explore my office building, and chose to sneak into other peoples' offices as well, helping myself to some of the items here and there, avoiding stealing money as a personal cop-out moral indemnification. But if you do that, later in the game you get emails from your coworkers, sometimes as mass emails expressing anger and disappointment that someone would stoop to stealing from their coworkers while taking advantage of their trust, sometimes as personal emails to me, begging me to look into the matter while giving me their office passcodes.

And then I realize...I'm the head of security for this building. Everyone likes and trusts me, even Pritchard. Everything they say to me post-prologue is how much they're happy that I'm well and back with them, and how much safer they feel that I'm around, even midway through the game when the riots start. These are the people I nearly died defending in the prologue. Hell, if you go to Adam's apartment, you realize that these are the people who sent you "get well" cards.

And I stole from them.

I felt like scum for a long time afterward.