"What's wrong with me?" Moments in Gaming

[Amax29]

I was playing Dwarf Fortress Adventure Mode the other day and after luring my seventh Peasant out into the woods with the promise of Adventure; then swiftly crippling him and proceeded to start pulling out his teeth and breaking his arms to level up my wrestling, that I looked over at the chunks of nose, teeth and ears I had removed for the XP and thought to myself, "what the hell is wrong with me"?
So tell me Escapists, what is one of your "what the hell is wrong with me"? moments in gaming?
Did you betray your lovable companion for a bag o' loot?
Steal a powerful weapon from a poor street urchin?
Ignore the cries for help from a civilian in order to sell your old equipment before the shops closed?
Feel free to share below.

Ps. Seeing as it is Dwarf Fortress it goes without saying that I was ambushed and killed by a pack of Wolves but a few minutes later, punishment for my crimes? Probably not...

 

[Catchy Slogan]

I had a few moments like this when I was younger playing The Sims. Thinking up new and sadistic ways to kill them.


I think this sums it up just about perfectly.

 

[silver wolf009]

In PROTOTYPE, you can't put down a human once you've picked them up, so you have to kill them. However, you can grab onto them again after you smash them into the ground and do a ground pound while they're in the air. Timed right, you can keep it going forever. Halfway through my journey up the shoreline with the mushy remains of an innocent woman, I just stopped and said, "The hell is wrong with me?"

 

[Furioso]

I discovered that children were unkillable in Fallout 3, so I decided to test that further with the MIRV, somewhere around the 5th mini nuke hitting the horrified but immortal child I said "What the hell is wrong with me"

 

[Panzervaughn]

In fable3 theres a quest to seduce a guys wife, so she'll agree to a divorce without taking half of his fortune. She then finds out, and youre given the choice of letting him go get his divorce and walking away(Good) or killing him and stealing the fortune, and his wife (evil)

I sat there for several minutes, considering my course of action, my gun raised to the mans head. Did I really want to do this? Could i live with myself?..

Then the "What the hell is wrong with me" kicked in, and i shot him in the face. Then i had tons of babies with my new wife.

 

[Drummie666]

In PROTOTYPE, you can't put down a human once you've picked them up, so you have to kill them. However, you can grab onto them again after you smash them into the ground and do a ground pound while they're in the air. Timed right, you can keep it going forever. Halfway through my journey up the shoreline with the mushy remains of an innocent woman, I just stopped and said, "The hell is wrong with me?"

Yeah, I remember doing that too. That was fun.

For me, a common tactic I use against my brother in Super Smash Bros. When he has an explosive I tend to run straight at him in order to kill him via suicide. Sometimes I just think to myself, "Why do I do that?"

In AC:B, one side mission had me chasing these guys on horses who were clearly scared shitless of me, just wanted to get away and were helpless against me. Granted, maybe not much "What's wrong with me" more like "What's wrong with you Ezio!? Why did you do this!?" Sorry, but Dragon Ball Z's morals really rubbed off on me as a kid.

Ok, I just realised, did any of these actually match the question? Here's one that does, just in case:
I kill waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many guards sometimes in the AC games.
Like when I'm just walking down a street in AC:B and suddenly I just whip out a sword and fight a group of soldiers in the hopes of getting a large number of guys to surround to get a challenging fight. Seriously, they need to turn up the difficulty for ACR.

 

[hittite]

Something like that. Playing Dead Island, I lured some zombies into electrified water and yelled "dance, meat puppets, dance!" while laughing manically (in my head. I have roommates). Of course, they were zombies, so I'm not sure they count. Also, looking back beating a zombie to death with my bare hands purely for the extra XP and payback for all the times it happened to me was kind of mean.

 

[AngelArms]

After playing both Mass Effect games, I still feel shit about killing the Rachni Queen and the Council, I'm not as Renegade as I thought.

Oh and blowing up Megaton.

 

[6_Qubed]

Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 2. There's a level where you have to break into a mansion via the basement, fighting your way through the mansion's security. Mostly, this means guard dogs. Ive grown up around dogs, and been around them for so long, that every dying yelp was almost physically painful.

 

[Gladion]

I don't ask myself that question at all. Most of the time, you're doing stuff like that just to test the mechanics of a game, check the boundaries and rules. If not, it's probably a sandbox-style game like Fallout or GTA/Saint's Row. Rarely does a video game manage to make me ask a question like that about myself. The closest thing may be the confession-scene from Silent Hill 3, and that was hardly interactive.

 

[kuyo]

In fable3 theres a quest to seduce a guys wife, so she'll agree to a divorce without taking half of his fortune. She then finds out, and youre given the choice of letting him go get his divorce and walking away(Good) or killing him and stealing the fortune, and his wife (evil)

I sat there for several minutes, considering my course of action, my gun raised to the mans head. Did I really want to do this? Could i live with myself?..

Then the "What the hell is wrong with me" kicked in, and i shot him in the face. Then i had tons of babies with my new wife.

I've done a lot of terrible things in Fable. In the first, I beat an man in the Bowerstone quay for a full in-game day for making me look foolish for a cool tattoo. I chose my family over everyone else when my family consisted of one mangy mongrel. In the scenario you mentioned, I killed the man for the money and then turned right around to kill the wife since I didn't want to marry such a *****. I don't feel bad about any of them, but I do question my devotion to trying to kill a clearly immortal man.

 

[putowtin]

In fable3 theres a quest to seduce a guys wife, so she'll agree to a divorce without taking half of his fortune. She then finds out, and youre given the choice of letting him go get his divorce and walking away(Good) or killing him and stealing the fortune, and his wife (evil)

I sat there for several minutes, considering my course of action, my gun raised to the mans head. Did I really want to do this? Could i live with myself?..

Then the "What the hell is wrong with me" kicked in, and i shot him in the face. Then i had tons of babies with my new wife.

Oh I just killed them both!
There's nawt wrong with me, the NPC's in fable III were annoying and deserved to be killed!

 

[darksuccubus]

I don't ask myself that question at all. Most of the time, you're doing stuff like that just to test the mechanics of a game, check the boundaries and rules. If not, it's probably a sandbox-style game like Fallout or GTA/Saint's Row. Rarely does a video game manage to make me ask a question like that about myself. The closest thing may be the confession-scene from Silent Hill 3, and that was hardly interactive.

Confession? you mean that cutscene with Vincent when he asked about the monsters?
EDIT: I remembered, it was that scene in the church. Yeah, I decided to forgive her, because I couldn't be that cruel even though she did horrible things, she sounded so devastated...

 

[hittite]

Confession? you mean that cutscene with Vincent when he asked about the monsters?
EDIT: I remembered, it was that scene in the church. Yeah, I decided to forgive her, because I couldn't be that cruel even though she did horrible things, she sounded so devastated...

Believe it or not, that actually makes you more likely to get the bad ending. Apparently, it's not a test to see whether you would forgive someone, but rather to see whether you saw yourself as having the authority to forgive sins. (ie, a god.)

 

[retyopy]

I was playing InFamous, and there was a hostage mission. I specifically aimed my ground pound so that I would land on the hostages and kill them all. Then I said, "what the hell is wong with me," and beat the wounded reapers to death to.

Another time, asl in InFamous, I repeatedly healed and beat then healed then beat one random survivor of a huge car/shockwave/electro-pound explosion. Then I said "What the hell is wrong with me," and sucked out his soul.

 

[darksuccubus]

Confession? you mean that cutscene with Vincent when he asked about the monsters?
EDIT: I remembered, it was that scene in the church. Yeah, I decided to forgive her, because I couldn't be that cruel even though she did horrible things, she sounded so devastated...

Believe it or not, that actually makes you more likely to get the bad ending. Apparently, it's not a test to see whether you would forgive someone, but rather to see whether you saw yourself as having the authority to forgive sins. (ie, a god.)

I wondered actually why saying nothing gives you less points and leads towards the bad ending. thanks for the explanation, never knew about it.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Every time I impale someone in The Darkness II, or eat their heart, I giggle with mad glee. Every. Single. Time. I just love it...I do sort of worry about that sometimes.

 

[the.gill123]

In any online match in any game where it's possible, I always get bored and intentionally shoot my own team, or blow them up, for some reason people always ask "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?" and then I get kicked. Funnily enough, I have never been banned from and game.

If a game has kids in it I always try and kill them, unfortunately it never works, that Mayor MacCready needs a thoroughly good dose of MINI NUKE! In Saints Row 2, I try and find the oldest looking person possible, and then chainsaw them in the back, and declare myself the new incarnation of Leather Face, that's when I really think "What the hell is wrong with me?"

 

[Summerstorm]

Hm... i never have such feelings. Well, my other hobby is roleplaying, so that goes over into gaming too, i guess. I stay consistent in character... even when i am playing evil i never play "insane-killer-clown-evil" or something. Hell, even in Saints row i only killed a few dozenish civilians with various explosions, chase-and-accident-related incidents and in crossfires... and to assert my dominance *g*

Wait... once i played Fable II, roommate comes in and asks: Hey can you kill children?
I looked at him, and after a second: "I don't know... why would i try?" Then i walked up to a little girl pestering with me a quest {i didn't want to take} and pressed the button. {My Character punched her in the stomach and she said "ow" and held her tummy} - "Roomate: You MONSTER" ME: "WHAT???? YOU asked for it"

 

[retyopy]

Every time I impale someone in The Darkness II, or eat their heart, I giggle with mad glee. Every. Single. Time. I just love it...I do sort of worry about that sometimes.

Wow, impaling and heart eating?

I should pick this game up. Oh, and don't worry at all. It's perfectly normal for a developing satanic worshipper to feel joy from consumption of other humans.