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

[Kricketz]

Eh, I never really give a second thought to going evil in games. It just always eventually happens. Actually, I end up having to work really hard at being the good guy. It's so much easier being bad.

I always enjoy the Dark Brotherhood. I always loved the Blade of Woe. I remember first seeing the animation for sneaking up and slicing someones throat. Soon became my favorite method of killing. I would put on my nightingale armor from the theives guild, I would just creep around the towns with the blade of woe slicing throats, draining that life energy. Dat red glow. This is also how I do most of my assassinations in between the actual quests. Now, that I think about it, it's how I killed most people even when I'm just out exploring or tomb raiding.

Get up close and personal. Whisper in their ear "Hey, there..." then slice.

Good times.

 

[spartandude]

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.

I love Crusader Kings II, sadly im not very good and barely understand the systems.

 

[ScrabbitRabbit]

Mine is... quite dark. I decided to do just to see if something so inhumanely cruel was possible and it was. I reloaded immediately after, despite being on an evil playthrough. There are no story spoilers here; I'm just spoilering because it's a bit sick and not for the squeamish.

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Outside the Legion camp in Fallout: New Vegas there is a small family of slaves waiting to be sold.

I spoke to the slaves briefly through the cage and promised to liberate them. To this end, I spoke to the current slave owner and offered him some caps to transfer ownership to myself; he agreed. So I went over to the cage and unlocked the door. The slaves inside were still bound, still powerless... and I hadn't eaten in days.

I unsheathed my machete and my dark work began.

First I decapitated the mother. Two quick strikes was enough to separate her head from her body. I leaned over her and devoured her flesh in front of her two children.

Then I walked over to the boy. I pulled out my pistol and shot him so many times in the head that it burst like a watermelon. I leaned over him as well, and consumed him.

Then I went to the girl... and freed her. She was not pleased or grateful. She saw my actions as cruel and despicable. Understandable. Especially considering what was to happen.

As she run from the cage, I decided to make sport of her. I pulled out my sniper rifle, took aim and blew one of her legs off. I approached the corpse and had my last meal of the day.

So yeah, New Vegas is FUCKED UP.

 

[Pseudonym]

Encouraging Jack to be a worse person in her questline in ME2. I remember a shepard saying things along the line of 'yes, Jack, you are a killer. That's who you are.' That was pretty messed up.

In civ 5 and 4 I've nuked other countries into the ground and burned down entire cities specifically to prevent their culture from flourishing or to prevent them from launching a spacecraft to alpha centauri. (those are victory conditions) Just imagine if the USA were to nuke Russia into oblivion and when asked about it would explain 'well, they wanted to advance scientific progress further. We wanted to do that first so we genocided them.' It actually makes sense in the context of the game (you don't want them to get to the victory condition first) but it's pure evil nonetheless.

However probably the worst game I know of is CKII. I played it again today and it is just awful. I've played strategy games before and I've stopped flinching at fictionally breaking the geneva conventions a long time ago. But in CKII you are encouraged to instrumentalize every last member of your own family specifically so you can have a famous dynasty. Do you want your son to be cruel? Sure, it'll increase his martial ability so why not? Why not encourage my own child to torture the prisoners in my dungeon? Hmm, my olderst son is an imbecile but if I just kill him, my oldest dauhgter will inherit who is a genius. Well, lad, come along to the archery range, I need to show you something. In fact you can do all kinds of evil things in paradox games. You can force a female prisoner to become your concubine as an Indian lord in CKII, you can extermenate the Native Americans in EUIV, you can play as Stalin and have great purges in HoI III.

I also haven't played the campaign of advance wars: dual strike but I've heard the last level consists of two of the good guys who have already won the war testing their command abilities by marching their allied armies against one another. Again, just imagine of two generals in the American Army had their armies kill eachother until one won just to figure out who was the better general. It would be nothing short of an appaling war crime. And all that to find out who was the better commander?

I generally don't do particularly evil things when roleplaying. In fallout or on my first ME playthrough I actually tried to do whatever seemed right to me but on my second ME playthrough I wanted to max my renegade score, and in Civ V and CKII I was just trying to win the game and do well for my dynasty respectively. I'm ussually not evil for evil's sake, just for victories sake.

 

[DementedSheep]

Not the "worst", I nuked a town in fallout after all and had he cannibalism perk but the one that always sticks out in my mine is they guys whose entire family died to plague, so he burnt his house down and was crying over the remains. He has nothing left. You can threaten him and steal the shirt off his back. That's just cruel. I think it was NWN.

Edit: Oh speaking of NWN, have you ever been playing a game with skills that you just use because they are effective and then had it dawn on you how horrific they would actually be in real life?
I was playing a bard in NWN 2. Sounds like the least intimidating class in the game right? well I was fighting Lorne in the arena. I cast the Hideous Laughter spell on him which leaves him prone and unable to do anything. It lasted the entire fight (this is what happens when you use will as a dump stat) while I used songs to buff myself and lower his defences and then auto attacked him to death. It lasted quite while even with him incapacitated since he has a skill that means he takes no damage until it runs out when he gets on low heath. He never landed a single hit on me. Wooow flawless victory for the hero! The crowd goes wild! By right of combat (which is stupid but whatever) my character is cleared of the charges slaughtering a village.
I thought nothing of it. The the next day out of the blue it suddenly clicked how god damn creepy that whole thing would be. Imagine...you've got this big mountain of man who advances on a small 18 year old girl. The girl says a few words and he collapses into fits of hysterical laughter. He can't move or defend himself at all. All he can do is laugh, tears running down his face.

The girl then walks up to him and casually begins to hack him apart all while singing a merry tune. The man takes a lot to kill with a seemingly unnatural level of endurance so this continues for several long minutes until he's reduced to a gurgling bloody mass and finally, mercifully dies.

Yeah...my character is a super villain or horror movie monster. Even if they won the trial in court and the stupid trail by combat I would questioning whether those accusation are true after all. I imagine the clapping was actually for fear of offending her.
Also my imagination is a bit morbid?

 

[Evil Moo]

Possibly not the most evil in terms of pure depravity, but during my high chaos run of Dishonored, I killed everyone. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone. Every level, completely empty of enemies and friendlies alike. My actual target, guards, oppressed townsfolk, helpless prisoners still behind bars, entire gangs, and my accomplices, loyal or not; not a single character survived. Even poor Emily fell to her death in the lifeless hands of her captor after I shot them both with an explosive bolt. The only exception was in the last level, where guards kept respawning over and over. I had to consider them dead after a few iterations lest I still be there today.

 

[Chester Rabbit]

In Hitman Blood Money in the level You Better Watch Out I killed all the security and gathered every party guest and shoved them into the hot tub (with a glass bottom that is built into the ground of the balcony.) of course I did this in a way that they would get up after my shove. Then after I gathered them all I made it seem like I was simply leaving causing them to question the events that just took place, maybe some thinking they were going to make it. When I got to the bottom floor I shot out the bottom and watched the bodies fall.


Ooooh yeah and this one.

Mass Effect 2 - It was my first and only male Shep and I was trying to play as well a hard ass bastard (but I still wasn't going full renegade) any way through my playthrough I put the moves on both Tali and Jack. Went the full way with Jack, then intentionally got her killed so that I could then go all the way with Tali. After I pretty much immediately "cheated" on her via lap dance and snuggling with Kelly.

 

[Saulkar]

In Turok 4 I would grab the the enemies using the gravity gun under the suspended city and would hold them under the running sewage. There were many shits and giggles that day. - Pun Intended.

 

[FrozenCones]

I did feel like an asshole after I got "The Dastardly" achievement in Red Dead Redemption.

For those who dont know, its essentially tying up a tavern lady, putting her on the back of your horse, riding out to the train track and planting her body on the rails until a train rolls over her.

Best achievement icon though!

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[Vern5]

Meh, I killed that kid in Dragon Age Origins. I think his name was Connor? The one in Redcliff who was possessed by a demon. I even had to batter the poor kid's mom in order to get to him. I suppose it was pretty evil, especially given her reaction, but I was a Grey Warden with a lot of team-building ahead of me; I took the quickest option.

 

[DementedSheep]

Meh, I killed that kid in Dragon Age Origins. I think his name was Connor? The one in Redcliff who was possessed by a demon. I even had to batter the poor kid's mom in order to get to him. I suppose it was pretty evil, especially given her reaction, but I was a Grey Warden with a lot of team-building ahead of me; I took the quickest option.

To be fair that's not a very nice options but alternatives are trusting a blood mage who tried to assassinate the arl (who also lied to you and got you in massive shit with the templars if your a mage, although he was your friend if you were) and letting him sacrifice someone or leaving him there for days while you run off to the tower hoping nothing happens in that time for a chance at rescuing the kid.

 

[Callate]

Umm, I've played Defcon... 'Nuff said?

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"Strange game. The only winning move is... not to play..."

 

[ResonanceSD]

Got an entire team to ragequit in dota 2 and then reported them all, prompting them to be placed in the low priority queue.

Your actions affected software, mine affected actual people =D

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

This is a part of of story in the game and not necessarily my input but the character is the same one that I use in every game with character creation so I can't not feel responsible in some way:

Spoiler: Saints Row 2 Spoilers Ahead

So at one point, the boss gets really cross about one of the enemy gang leaders torturing and killing one of his friends.

The boss then kidnaps this guys girlfriend, puts her in the trunk of a car and drives the car to a monstertruck rally where the guy is currently performing. So after the poor sod unwittingly squishes his girlfriend into a gory pancake, the boss slowly walks out of a shadowy corner, clapping. Then hands the guy the keys to the car.
the boss in this video is fuck ugly. just imagine a guy in a well-tailored pinstripded suit with a bowler hat.

deliciously malevolent.

 

[Shamanic Rhythm]

It wasn't me, but a friend of mine used the custom house design tools in the original Sims to make a 'death camp' where the Sims just wandered around a floor covered in pee until they died of hunger.

 

[Mikejames]

Way back in Knights of the Old Republic, you're presented with a scenario in which two feuding farm families are at each other's throats. The son of one family has gone missing so the father believes that the father of the other family killed him. As it turns out, it was a Romeo and Juliet scenario, the son had run off to be with the daughter of the other family. Long story short, during the final confrontation of both families, you can either work things out to a peaceful resolution, side with one family or the other, or tell a lie that ultimately causes both families to slaughter each other.

Dark side runs always had wacky moments. The story has its moral ambiguities, but you can't help but laugh at how caroonishly evil the protagonist could go out of their way to be. Heck, it's a wonder that anyone besides HK travels with you after some of the crap you can pull.

 

[FPLOON]

Jak 2... "Unlimited Ammo"... "Invulnerability"... Scatter gun and/or Vulcan gun... Anywhere in Haven City filled with people and/or traffic...

A perfect way to "kill" some time, am I right? (Bonus points if "Unlimited Dark Jak" is active and you feel like going "Hulk" in Haven City "sometimes"...)