What's the most evil thing you've ever done in a video game?

[CrazyCrab]

Hi everyone,
I always play the paladin in shining armor who heals everyone on his way to haven but this time when playing Skyrim I've decided to take a slightly different approach and play a criminal scum.
I've joined the thieves guild, but the things I did there weren't really all that terrible, stealing and taking money from people, ok, whatever.

The Dark Brotherhood on the other hand...
Man, these quests were just messed up. Some of them, one including an old lady and a large container (I don't want to spoil anything) had me shivering all over while those normal 'assassination' missions felt wrong when your victim is crying 'please don't kill me'
Nothing came close to my last target though, where I had to kill the bride during her wedding.
I tried many different ways (the wonders of save and load) but the one where I use my Nightingale Subterfuge power (forces everyone in an area to fight each other for 30 seconds) turning the wedding into a bloodbath while I watch from above was the most memorable...
Honestly, I made the bride assault her husband with a dagger just to watch her getting slaughtered by everyone around her. I guess I'm officially evil by now.

The weirdest thing is that while I never play the bad guy and I'm always the paladin, I enjoy those assassinations... I hope I'm not turning into a psycho.

Anyway, what's the most evil thing you've done in a game recently? (Only voluntary actions though, cutscenes and obligatory story missions don't count)

 

[twistedmic]

In Fallout 3 I blasted Megaton into radioactive rubble and sold several people into slavery, though that wasn't very recent.
For more recent evil deeds, in RPGs I have left teammates to die simply because they were either annoying or proved no further(if any) use to me.
And in Infamous 2, on the evil path, I killed surrendering enemies and slaughtered civilians for such petty reasons as being in my way or yelling at/insulting me.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Well on my high chaos ending in Dishonoured when Sam tells you he's through working with you because you've gone too far and starts to slowly sail away I shot him in the back and carried on. It felt like the right thing to do and to its credit, the game didn't give him invincibility frames on leaving which I half expected.

If only the game had anticipated my elaborate way of making Lady Boyle's assassination look like an accident. Let's just say there's a bath in her room and she's currently unconscious... Anything is better than the non-lethal option in that mission y'know. That shit was fucking chilling.

 

[Casual Shinji]

God of War 3 has that delightful scene where you drag a poor slave girl across enemy filled hallways, and then use her to prop up a heavy gate winch, which proceeds to brutally crush her as you walk through the gate.

Why? Because.

 

[Sack of Cheese]

I named the villagers in Black & White after my friends, then sacrificed them. It was beautiful.

 

[Zhukov]

Well on my high chaos ending in Dishonoured when Sam tells you he's through working with you because you've gone too far and starts to slowly sail away I shot him in the back and carried on. It felt like the right thing to do and to its credit, the game didn't give him invincibility frames on leaving which I half expected.

I had something similar happen to me, except by accident.

He said his little speech, then drew his pistol and went to fire a shot into the air. I realised what he meant to do, whipped out my crossbow and shot him with a nonlethal tranq dart.

Whereupon he fell unconscious into the water and was eaten by some hagfish.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I can't think of anything, I'm always a boring goody two-shoes in games, given the option.

I don't know why I feel guilty for being an asshole to non-sentient NPCs but I do. I'm a total wet blanket.

I've just started Mass Effect for the first time and I'm playing paragon, as usual, maybe I'll switch to renegade to spice things up a bit.

[sub][sub]Nah, I'm too much of a wuss.[/sub][/sub]

 

[CannibalCorpses]

I like to set up corpses in sexual positions on Fallout...is that evil enough?

I also like to sleep in beds that have corpses on them...makes me feel kinky!

 

[Auron225]

If only the game had anticipated my elaborate way of making Lady Boyle's assassination look like an accident. Let's just say there's a bath in her room and she's currently unconscious... Anything is better than the non-lethal option in that mission y'know. That shit was fucking chilling.

Funny enough; I did take the non-lethal approach to that and I didn't realize until it was too late what I had done and how it was worse than death. I usually play the paladin when given the option but I rolled with this one rather than reloading. I'm not sure if it counts for me or against me that I wasn't trying to be evil in doing it; I genuinely thought at the time that it was the kinder thing to do.

Nothing came close to my last target though, where I had to kill the bride during her wedding.
I tried many different ways (the wonders of save and load) but the one where I use my Nightingale Subterfuge power (forces everyone in an area to fight each other for 30 seconds) turning the wedding into a bloodbath while I watch from above was the most memorable...
Honestly, I made the bride assault her husband with a dagger just to watch her getting slaughtered by everyone around her. I guess I'm officially evil by now.

I actually joined every faction and did all of their quest lines in the one playthrough of Skyrim. I enjoyed the assassinations too; particularly the wedding one. Like you, I reloaded and tried it in a variety of ways for the challenge but I never thought (probably cus I didn't have the ability) to use Subterfuge. I laughed out loud at that Very deliciously evil. I think I just put an arrow through her head from a vantage point and used a planned escape route with traps for pursuers and horse waiting.

I think it's more enjoyable to be evil like that when it's not the usual "puppy-kicking evil for the sheer sake of it". It's just business for an assassin and the challenge of escaping the guards adds some thrill to it. It's why when I became a highly wanted criminal in Markarth (can't remember how); I left it that way. Anytime I had to go there, I knew it would be a challenge in itself to find a way to do it undetected, or I'd have to fight my way through.

 

[Madame_Lawliet]

I still feel guilty for killing The Fair Lady (Quelaag's terminally ill sister) in Dark Souls on one of my playthroughs, I mean I felt bad for her plight and she soooooooo didn't deserve it, especially after I killed her sister whom was providing for her and all but... she has that Firekeeper soul... one more Estus upgrade could be the difference between life and death late game y'know...

 

[epicdwarf]

I once created a fucking awesome trap is Space Station 13. Using goon station's mechanic system, I created a room(accessed via teleporter) that threw you into a wall(which does massive amounts of brute damage) every time you spoke/moved. There was no escape and no way to call for help. Everyone that entered the room fucking died horribly.

 

[Liquidprid3]

I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to do this in one of of files. Dark Souls, NG++, KILL EVERYONE! It shall be joyous.

 

[Whispering Cynic]

Resolving an argument in Skyrim concerning someone's guilt/innocence by killing everyone involved. It was obvious that *someone* was lying, but with no way to tell who this was the most efficient way to resolve it.

Also a few war crimes, a genocide or two come to mind, but most of those were commited in cutscenes (even though through voluntary action and could have been averted) so I'm not sure they count in this context.

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

that time when i was playing medic in TF2, this heavy asked me to heal him... and i DIDNT!

 

[NuclearKangaroo]

Well on my high chaos ending in Dishonoured when Sam tells you he's through working with you because you've gone too far and starts to slowly sail away I shot him in the back and carried on. It felt like the right thing to do and to its credit, the game didn't give him invincibility frames on leaving which I half expected.

If only the game had anticipated my elaborate way of making Lady Boyle's assassination look like an accident. Let's just say there's a bath in her room and she's currently unconscious... Anything is better than the non-lethal option in that mission y'know. That shit was fucking chilling.

whats the problem with the non-lethal option?

 

[Vrach]

Anyway, what's the most evil thing you've done in a game recently? (Only voluntary actions though, cutscenes and obligatory story missions don't count)

By far one of my Civilization III plays. In fact, I've done two utterly terrible, awful, horrific things in the same game. The first was basically playing Hitler. Since foreign citizens cause trouble in cities, every city I'd capture, I'd build Workers until the city remained at the population of 1, thus letting it grow into my own people and easily assimilating the one foreign citizen left. The rest toiled as a slave worker army, their job mostly being to clear pollution caused by my factories.

The other? Well, let me set the scene for you. Earth map, Huge. My civilization, originally based in North America, now holds both American continents and small patches of territory in North Africa, mostly for tactical purposes. Netherlands, the second largest civilization, holds Europe and a small part of west Asia. England and France split most of the rest of Asia in half, with Brits on the west and the Frenchies in the East. Small civilizations are around Russia and I can't remember who holds Africa. Finally, the Iroquois have Australia, small, but rich in resources, most importantly, Uranium and my eyes are set on it for the next conquest.

I have a ton of ICBMs that I haven't been using up to that point. I'm concerned with global warming (green Hitleresque nation, just imagine!), but suddenly realise that, since the game burns down forests first (that I always cut down anyway) and I can seed the uninhabited Canadian tundras with my armies of Workers at leisure, it is no longer an issue. The only problem remains - a single ICBM brings down the wrath of all the nations upon me. So I decide to start World War III.

The execution is quite simple actually. As the most powerful and aggressive nation, there aren't many who would refuse my "protection" - I forge a Mutual Defense Pact - a diplomatic agreement that, if anyone declares war on me, the allied nation stands with me against them - with geographically appealing nations. I ally with the English, a small civilization around Russia and the civilization that holds Africa, meaning that if and when Netherlands, France and the other small nations in Russia declare war with me, they have a threat that's right there near their borders. The Brits won't defeat them of course - they will be torn apart from every side, but the threat at home is time enough for me to take over Australia and move north to take what's left of France, them holding a few appealing Wonders and all.

As my navy gets in position near Australia, I fire off a single ICBM on the Iroquois' ships.

What little they had as their navy is now nearly demolished and the whole world is thrown at war. The plan goes off without a hitch, everyone who declares war on me gets declared war on themselves by my allies that share borders with them. Their armies are mostly decimated in the infighting while my army takes over Australia (small divisions take over a few key points in south Asia, allowing me to base my bombers there as an additional distraction and aerial support), then moves north and quickly captures several key French cities. By the time the pacts expire and my allies come back to their senses and turn on me, they have nothing to fight with and my armies are there in full strength, with a strong aerial superiority. The only serious threat during the war, the Netherlands, has had every single productive city hit by nuclear warheads, nullifying their production and any hope they had at building an army to stand against me.

The punchline is that I could've easily taken over Australia with just my armies. I've thrown the entire world into a chaotic war and turned Europe into a nuclear wasteland on a whim because I was bored of not using my nuclear arsenal.

How's that for evil?

 

[KINGBeerZ]

Pretty much anything I did in fallout 3, being evil is just more convenient, probably the highlight of this was when I blew up megaton because I wanted to have a base with a bed that wasn't dirty.

 

[SanguiniusMagnificum]

Well, I once murdered an entire Venetian noble house because they made a fool out of my character at a masked ball which made me lose 50 prestige.

I also found out that castration solves a lot of problems. For example, a character of mine, the Byzantine emperor, had two sons. One of them was a dim witted fool while the other one was a strong, skilled warrior. So I implicated my first son in a plot against me after which I imprisoned and castrated him. Since castrated males don't inherit or get claims this meant that my second son would become emperor.

Yeah, Crusader Kings II will make you really think about your moral values after a while.

 

[Steve Waltz]

I think almost everything I did in Spec Ops: The Line. Maybe it wasn't the WORST thing I had ever done in a video game, but out of everything, it certainly made me feel the most guilty.

 

[laggyteabag]

Probably in Fable 2. Killing everyone in Bowerstone, both civilian and guard because "fuck it". It seemed like it was a good idea at the time... or something. Also marrying someone and then bringing them to the Wheel of Misfortune just to get an achievement. I was a bad person.