What is the weirdest thing a game has suggested you do?

[kilenem]

There was a mission in Borderlands 2 where Handsome Jack calls you and just asks you to kill yourself. And then you're given that objective. He even pays you for doing it.

Same game, a guy screams for you to shoot him in the face. And then you get a mission prompt to shoot him in the face.

One of the DLC has you mopping up Skag piss from rocks.

I think those are about tied.

I would say when they ask you to shoot up a wake is weirder. I live in Detroit and sadly this happened about a week ago. There was a drive by at a wake but the someone in the crowd shot back causing the driver to crash. She died and I think one of the shooters also died. The driver lived on my block and there was fear that they would shot up her wake. Gladly they didn't.

Its scary when life imitates art. Not saying they played Borderlands or that the game would to be blame for even if they did. Poor people kill each other way to easily.

 

[jamail77]

Having Phantom Hourglass tell me to close my DS probably was the dumbest thing I've been told to do by a game.

Huh, I played that game and I don't remember that. You don't need to link me a clip though as I just looked it up and now I remember. I find it kind of funny actually. Yeah, it's a little silly you have to close your DS to "press the sacred crest against the sea chart", but hey, gotta make use of a handheld's gimmicks somehow...or something. Nintendo has always had interesting reasoning.

The game then reprimands you, asking "Do you always do everything people tell you?" Then it helpfully highlights the "undo action " button.

Hey, it was a nice lesson on non-conformity, now wasn't it? XD Obviously, it's just a way to highlight you can undo things. It's a tutorial, so I'd rather they do something interesting than go through the typical routine that makes tutorials so boring and unnecessary. Still, yeah that's kind of bizarre thing to suggest. Can you finish the tutorial without following that instruction?

 

[ExiledCreature]

If you do that though won't the game stop working? That tends to happen when you open the CD drive unless you're putting in a second disk related to the game. It sounds like an older game too, so how would it prevent that?

Well, the tray automatically closes itself right afterwards. Most games need the CD to play music or cutscenes or for DRM checks, the executable is installed to your hard drive and by that time is all in RAM anyway.

 

[Aesir23]

I think the weirdest thing was when I was playing MGS4 and Otacon told me to switch to the second disk. This was sort of my "initiation" into the MGS series so I honestly freaked out for a moment since I had no second disc and I'd bought a used version. So you can probably see where my mind went until Otacon pulled the whole "Oh wait, this is Blu-Ray" shtick.

Aside from that, one of the villains in the same game telling me to put down my controller so he could make it vibrate then despairing because the controller I had at the time didn't have a vibrate function. Followed by more despairing because the PS3 didn't have a memory card or because MGS4 was the first game I'd played on the PS3, I'm not sure which one it is.

 

[jamail77]

Well, the tray automatically closes itself right afterwards. Most games need the CD to play music or cutscenes or for DRM checks, the executable is installed to your hard drive and by that time is all in RAM anyway.

*Reads your post*
*Memories come flying back about learning the basics of this*
*Memories come flying back about when I created a virtual CD drive for game I lost but with files installed on my computer from when I had the CD*
*Bangs head on table, feels stupid*

 

[Delerien]

"Hey your sister should totally get married to your cousin."
Yeah thanks Crusader Kings 2, I don't think that's a good Idea.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect - "Have you curled a monkey yet?". I'm not sure what that means to this day.

Happy 10,000,000th post, me.

 

[Dornedas]

There was this one crazy game that told me to search for dangerous monsters and trap them for all eternity in strange interdimensional spheres.
Man Pokemon is weird.

But seriously. I don't really play crazy games so I guess the weirdest thing woul be when Baldurs Gate 2 suggests you take Yoshimos heart to the priest.
Think about it: You walk into a temple. Press a human heart into the priests hand and say: "My friend tried to kill me. I killed him. Give him eternal rest."
Then you wave and walk out again.

 

[SonCamKu]

While playing Oblivion, I was told by this guy to go buy him "skooma" which is practically drugs. Little did I know, right outside the city stood a man named "Shady Sam" who conveniently was a skooma dealer, and when you look at it, Shady Sam runs a drug ring, in a fantasy rpg. That smart bastard

 

[Nosirrah]

MGS4 tells you to stop playing and take a break between acts and occasionally in chats with support Characters. Like I'd ever do that.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

The "Offices" map in Killing Floor has a hilariously bad GPS/Pathfinder, and will commonly advise you to jump out the building because it'd get you to the ground floor quicker than the stairs.

My friend who plays Beserker and Medic jumps all the time. I think you can live off of a three-story jump with 5HP under certain cases. And if you die, hey, you immediately respawn since it's between waves, and the spawn point is in the parking lot, not even five seconds away from where your humiliated, crumpled body will be.