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

[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.

How is that even possible, The Darkness II isn't even out yet.

OT: I can't really say that I've ever had any of these moments. Except for that one time when I played Battle Raper 2, but that's something that I don't really want to explain to people.

I played it at E3 and PAX Prime.

 

[StBishop]

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.

My girlfriend won't kill wolves in Oblivion, and she hates the dogs in MW because you can't let them live.

She also found that one of the enemies in a different game which wasn't even supposed to be like a dog (it was like a bugbear or something) made a yelping sound like a dog and made me turn the sound down when we were in areas they inhabited.

She'd never be able to start a human in WoW..... or a dwarf or gnome for that matter. Wow the alliance don't like wolves.

 

[emeraldrafael]

The best example I can think of is I killed a team mate to kill the three guys in front of him for the points. then I bragged about it and felt accomplished.

Of course I learned my lesson the next match when everyone one of my team mates killed me each chance they got. Which sucks when your friend camper snipes and completely tears apart the fields.

 

[FarleShadow]

Dead island:
I found the woman tied up in the hut with the video cameras.
I closed the door. Fapped.
Feels bad, ma...
Cut her head off.
Fapped again.
The internet has fucked me up, son.

 

[StBishop]

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.

How is that even possible, The Darkness II isn't even out yet.

OT: I can't really say that I've ever had any of these moments. Except for that one time when I played Battle Raper 2, but that's something that I don't really want to explain to people.

Review copy?

 

[thelonewolf266]

Probably that time I shot up a hospital in GTA while shouting I must cleanse you all the bad part is I had fun doing it.
What stop looking at me like that I'm not a psychopath.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

Oh, *these* moments, eh? I got plenty.

I remember killing off Sims in the Sims 1 and 2 by the buckets. Don't ask my why. I played a little more seriously for the third opus, but my "Ghost House"-themed lot required that I kill two full sets of Sims on the same lot. Fencing them off inside one-square rooms turned too sadistic for my tastes, so I turned to the testing cheats for help.

Then there's Oblivion, Fallout, Fallout New Vegas and other such games, where I'll invariably hit a sort of threshold where after a high immersion period, my desire to remain invested drops to zero. That translates to me robbing everyone blind in the Imperial City, turning God Mode on and going to work on the Imperial guardsmen. I'll go on a happy killing spree for a short while, then wonder what the Hell is wrong with me for not being able to play the game the way it was meant to be played.

I seriously wish you could do that in Demon's Souls. Just, y'know, turn unbeatable for a while and just enjoy the feeling of "progressing". Punishing difficulty's all well and good, but I still occasionally feel the need to be told I'm an unstoppable force of righteousness and shit.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I can't be the only one who's killed the merchant in Resident Evil 4...

Relax, I did it too. I pointed the gun at him and thought "I wonder if he can die?" *BANG* "Yes he can." After that I would just shoot him as soon as I was done buying/selling stuff. Then after I killed my 5th or 6th one I took a minute to look at exactly what I was doing. "Here, take this, this... I'll take that. Pleasure doing buisness with you." *BANG* I just shot another member of the large family tree that is the RE4 merchant bloodline.
They won my respect when they kept coming back to trade with me despite all of the merchants that fell before him and the knowledge that they were going to die; it was when he looked at me with his "just do it" eyes that made me stop killing them. You can't loot their bodies for their stuff anyway...

 

[IlikeLolis]

Going to work at 7am and thinking "Did I save at home? I should just die and respawn back in my bed."

 

[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.

My girlfriend won't kill wolves in Oblivion, and she hates the dogs in MW because you can't let them live.

She also found that one of the enemies in a different game which wasn't even supposed to be like a dog (it was like a bugbear or something) made a yelping sound like a dog and made me turn the sound down when we were in areas they inhabited.

She'd never be able to start a human in WoW..... or a dwarf or gnome for that matter. Wow the alliance don't like wolves.

Now, here's a contrast; in Oblivion, I went out of the way to kill every deer I came across. I hate deer. Deer were involved in one of the most frustrating car accidents I was ever in. So you know what? Damn what's going on. Damn Martin, damn Akatosh, damn the not-demons and damn whatever mission I happen to be on at the moment.

ALL DEER MUST DIE!

(The most fun I had in this respect was as my High Elf Destruction/Illusion/Unarmed specialist. Few things are as fun and cathartic as paralyzing a deer and then punching it to death before it can get back up.)

 

[DracusHawktalon]

Most of mine are Fable related:

Spoiler

I thoroughly enjoyed being the dick king in Fable 3 and felt no remorse when I drained the lake or replaced the orphanage with a brothel. When I found out you could kill your sister in the first game I was like "Heck yeah! Give me that sword!"

Oh, and I always stab the deserter in DA:O I'm too lazy to convince, bribe, or steal from the guard. As for the not killing dogs in Oblivion, yeah I can sympathize with that.

 

[StBishop]

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.

My girlfriend won't kill wolves in Oblivion, and she hates the dogs in MW because you can't let them live.

She also found that one of the enemies in a different game which wasn't even supposed to be like a dog (it was like a bugbear or something) made a yelping sound like a dog and made me turn the sound down when we were in areas they inhabited.

She'd never be able to start a human in WoW..... or a dwarf or gnome for that matter. Wow the alliance don't like wolves.

Now, here's a contrast; in Oblivion, I went out of the way to kill every deer I came across. I hate deer. Deer were involved in one of the most frustrating car accidents I was ever in. So you know what? Damn what's going on. Damn Martin, damn Akatosh, damn the not-demons and damn whatever mission I happen to be on at the moment.

ALL DEER MUST DIE!

(The most fun I had in this respect was as my High Elf Destruction/Illusion/Unarmed specialist. Few things are as fun and cathartic as paralyzing a deer and then punching it to death before it can get back up.)

You should get some deer hunting games. If you shoot them with a non-lethal shot they leave blood and hoof trails. It's a little sad.

You may find it enjoyable though?

 

[Gamer In Thought]

Well, this one might be weird. Anyone who's familiar with The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion knows there are actually animals mulling about besides monsters. While traveled with my high level Nord, I spotted a buck and doe while traveling and thought "Hey, alchemy ingredients and loot!" I shot the buck, then gave chase eventually catching up with it. I hit it once, and it went down with a sound I cannot really describe. I yelp of pain and sadness I have yet to hear in nature or the web to this day. I felt guilty for killing this bit of data, I asked myself "What the hell is wrong with me". I can't bring myself to purposely do something like that again.

I actually chase after the deer firing arrows and fireballs yelling phrases like, "I'm going to get you little deer! Why won't you die?! I really just want to use your meat for a potion. Seriously... Why the hell won't you just let me kill you already!" My boyfriend pointed out how damaged I am from that.

Then there's the fact that I'm more into doing the Dark Brotherhood quests and Thieves Guild quests than I am doing the main quest. My boyfriend is always on my case to get back to the main plot, but I seem to have gotten into stealing and murdering.

I think I first knew I was crazy when I cackled wildly after shotgunning a zombie into pieces in L4D. Yup... Disturbed. Glad to know there are others like me

 

[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.

My girlfriend won't kill wolves in Oblivion, and she hates the dogs in MW because you can't let them live.

She also found that one of the enemies in a different game which wasn't even supposed to be like a dog (it was like a bugbear or something) made a yelping sound like a dog and made me turn the sound down when we were in areas they inhabited.

She'd never be able to start a human in WoW..... or a dwarf or gnome for that matter. Wow the alliance don't like wolves.

Now, here's a contrast; in Oblivion, I went out of the way to kill every deer I came across. I hate deer. Deer were involved in one of the most frustrating car accidents I was ever in. So you know what? Damn what's going on. Damn Martin, damn Akatosh, damn the not-demons and damn whatever mission I happen to be on at the moment.

ALL DEER MUST DIE!

(The most fun I had in this respect was as my High Elf Destruction/Illusion/Unarmed specialist. Few things are as fun and cathartic as paralyzing a deer and then punching it to death before it can get back up.)

You should get some deer hunting games. If you shoot them with a non-lethal shot they leave blood and hoof trails. It's a little sad.

You may find it enjoyable though?

Not sure I feel like shopping at Walmart for video games.

Plus, I mostly enjoyed the whole "punching them to death" part.

Ooh, and fireballs. Fireballs were fun, too.

 

[RanD00M]

I played it at E3 and PAX Prime.

There's where you threw me off. You wrote "impale" instead of "impaled" which led me to believe that you had a copy of it.

 

[Red Bomb]

Fable 3 for me. Got married, had a kid, waited until the kid grew up to be old enough for me to drag him around by the hand. Grabbed him and took him to see his mom/the wife. Proceeded to take my big goddamn hammer and smash the wife's head in in front of him. Went to the orphanage, picked up my kid, and spent the next hour taunting him, yelling at him, and generally making him pee himself every time I came into view for the rest of his life. Then when he became an adult I smashed his head in too. And throughout the entire thing, I was giggling like a first grader on Halloween. Then I asked myself "what the hell is wrong with me?"

I was going to mention some nasty things I did in Fable and Dragon Age but all my things pale in comparison to this piece of ultimate GOLD! Had me laughing for far too long before I actually said to myslef "the hell is wrong with me?"

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I was playing ADOM a while back and (as usual) I'd taken the quest to find the little girl's lost puppy. I fought my way down through the caves where the puppy had gotten lost, battling though a treasure room of orcs in the process and saved the wee little beastie. I was returning to the village to re-unite the Cute Puppy with it's owner, and on the return to the surface I happened to pass a holy altar...

Yes, I sacrificed the Little Girl's Cure Puppy on the altar. Both my God and my curiosity demanded it.

 

[Vie]

I killed enough people, in one go, to make Snake vomit twice in a row.

And Cackled like a deranged loon all the way though, which on reflection probably isn't the healthiest reaction.

 

[Lexodus]

Every five seconds in El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. And not because I was doing something horrible, instead because apparently that game has the power to STEAL YOUR GODDAMN HAND-EYE COORDINATION THROUGH YOUR TV SCREEN. Oh my, the jumping and the falling and the oy vey...

 

[JesterRaiin]

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Sometimes i almost cry while stealing from people i just promised my help.
Almost.