Actions in Games That Made You Physically Uncomfortable.

[GamerAddict7796]

Shooting the humanitarian lawyer in GTA IV. For a game that prided itself on choice and freedom and for a story about a guy who's trying to put his bad life behind him, this just took me out of the game. They could have done so much if they'd given us the option to walk away.

That made me feel bad.

Damn you Francis McReary!

OT:

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when your dog gets shot at the end of Fable 2

or maybe

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Watching your Dad die in Fallout 3 and then being kidnapped by the very guy he tried to stop! Why!

 

[lemby117]

Well you might want to say spoilers in the title. But the game I want to say it about a year old so if you haven't played it yet you are not going to. Killing Zeke at the end of Infamous 2 evil ending was Uncomfortable to say the least.

Reported for spoiling. Regardless of age you don't fucking spoil a game like that, it just makes you look like a prick.

OT: Strogg conversion in Quake 4.

DOOD WTF MAN I WAS NEARLY AT THAT PART AND U SPOILED IT FOR ME ASSHOLE! REPORTED ;-p

OT: Watching videos of people sabotaging the genophage and killing Wrex made me feel ill could never do that to him

 

[TheKruzdawg]

Spoiler: Skyrim Daedra Quest

A daedric quest starting in Markarth has you lure a priest into a dungeon and to a shrine, where he is killed. You then eat him, along with a group of other cannibals, all of them making fun of the whole thing, one hinting at eating her husband ("My husband recently passed, very sad. He had such wonderful... taste."), another at serving human(oid) flesh to the customers at his inn.

You even get a ring that gives you a stat buff whenever you eat someone.

And that's why I hated the uproar about the "killable children" mod.

Yeah that was pretty messed up. Didn't know what I was getting into.

OT: In Mass Effect 2, I had to force myself on a Renegade playthrough to let the people in the oil refinery during Zaeed's mission die. And I reloaded twice because I felt so bad about it. Hearing their screams and the explosions... I felt like a terrible person.

 

[Sacman]

Leaving my brother in Deus Ex... I mean the worst part is that I thought it was the only option I had... and later playthroughs I actually helped him escape...<.<

 

[Breaker deGodot]

Metal Gear Solid 3:

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Killing off Big Boss is sad enough once you find out what a tragic character she is. Forcing the PLAYER TO PULL THE TRIGGER is just too fucking much. That scene emotionally crippled me for a while afterwards.

 

[lacktheknack]

Well you might want to say spoilers in the title. But the game I want to say it about a year old so if you haven't played it yet you are not going to. Killing Zeke at the end of Infamous 2 evil ending was Uncomfortable to say the least.

Reported for spoiling. Regardless of age you don't fucking spoil a game like that, it just makes you look like a prick.

OT: Strogg conversion in Quake 4.

You could have just asked politely instead of being a douche about that but ok.

Also I spelled politely wrong the first time.

And you could have been polite and used spoiler tags, but you didn't.

Please go back and put all the spoilers in your quotes in spoiler tags. It's only a decent thing to do.

OT: The ending bit of Myst IV. I was sure of what the correct thing to do was, but holy crow, if I was WRONG, then I would have <spoiler=Myst IV spoilers>accidentally sucked a little girl out of her own body.

 

[Legion]

And you could have been polite and used spoiler tags, but you didn't.

Yeah but I didn't' think there was anything wrong with that like I said it's been out for a while I thought anyone who cared played it already and I was wrong I guess. You know calling someone a prick is a rude thing to do.

Regardless of that that's no excuse. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

I don't agree with the aggression, but I agree with Hobbit's point. I didn't play Mass Effect or Bioshock for over a year since they came out and so was extremely lucky not have them spoilered for me. I'd have been pissed off if they were though.

People also need to mention what game the spoilers are from too. [Spoiler: Click to View] helps nobody.

Spoiler: Skyrim A taste of Death quest

I felt bad about eating the guy, but my character was collecting Daedric artefacts (to stop people abusing them) and needed it. She then killed all of the cannibals

 

[DustyDrB]

Well...the latest TF2 patch broke the game for me, making it so laggy that I began to feel nauseous.

 

[Pfheonix]

The Molag Bal quest in Skyrim.

Anyone who enjoyed doing that quest is a sick fuck.

Then I'm a sick fuck. I was a lil bit tense from the atmosphere, but it was entertaining. My favorite has got to be random back stabs on villagers though. Awesome times...

 

[JasonKaotic]

I'll throw another vote towards Heavy Rain. The way the whole scene was presented made it that much more horrible. Along with the game's Butterfly trial, too. And choosing the 'bad' option for the Shark trial. Fuck you, Heavy Rain. Why do you have to be so well done?

Also, does not flaming players that kill you after you make a crapload of progress in Dark Souls count?

 

[Thetwistedendgame]

Shadow of the Colossus. All of it. Every single goddamned enemy. Not to mention letting the horse fall into a ravine.

 

[Pockydon]

It would be impossible to post on this thread and not mention cutting off your own finger in Heavy Rain. Especially if you try and do it with scissors...

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Heavy Rain. Pliers. Pinky finger.

i couldn't even complete this damn game, i remember playing it for nearly 4 hours straight, on a 80 degree sunny as hell day with not a cloud in the sky, and I was depressed all day because of it, so i sold it and never finished the damn thing. Stupid game, I felt like the worst dick in the world where you

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lose sean in the mall and are basically forced to feel like a piece of shit father for doing so since you could see him at some points off in the distance in the crowd. that is one of my biggest fears of becoming a parent is a situation like that.

Lots of morality discussion in here, but I can say with authority that the one thing that makes me feel genuinely PHYSICALLY uncomfortable in games is "heights". I'm acrophobic, so if your game has me clinging to a little ledge or performing acrobatics at some absurd height my palms become instantly sweaty and my testicles try to climb back up inside my body.

I actually had to stop playing Mirror's Edge pretty early on, I just couldn't take it.

Here's a good test to see if you, too, are afraid of heights!

holy crap! that is frickin crazy...all the way up there with NOTHING holding you onto the tower...my palms didn't get sweaty, but my feet were tingling like they'd just fell asleep for the past two decades. granted I took an advanced rock climbing course last year in college, so I've gotten over my fear somewhat of heights/climbing stuff, but damn that's crazy..

OT: most games don't make me feel this way thankfully, so I can't add to much on the "physically uncomfortable" part, if I were to add one though it'd probably be resident evil 2 as a kid, I played it with my uncle and it scared the shit out of me to the point where i flung the controller and ran out of the room, and didn't touch it since.

 

[Quaxar]

Yeah, definitely Heavy Rain - that was horrible.

Another shout out to Condemned 'cos that game had some twisted first-person melee violence.

And as final example Red Dead Redemption - walking outside at the end.... *sobs*

Oh god that too, and then its even worse when

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They bury John and that song is playing in the background, then Jacks mother dies, and the final twist of the knife when Jack grows up to be exactly what his father didnt want

Red Dead Redemption was such a great game :'(

I cried many manly tears about that ending. Actually, I just went to youtube to watch it again and I was near again. Damn this Marshal, I really enjoyed my revenge!

 

[rob_simple]

Spoiler: Gungrave Spoiler

Also, the end of Gungrave where you have to kill your corrupt best friend and the cutscene actually waits for you to pull the trigger before progressing.

I was just thinking "Wow! They are REALLY dragging this out, aren't they?" before I realized what was going on.

I was exactly the same, I'd stayed up all night finishing it and I thought it had crashed at the final damn cutscene only to realise it was a QTE.

 

[Biodeamon]

basically

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Erasing ALL the charecters from Drawn from to life 2 that you grew to like. yes ALL OF THEM. Every single person except for you, who you find out aren't even real and wake up from a coma in the hospital to find out your parents are dead. who the hell thought uo that crap?

the game makes you speciffically touch the screen to kill everybody and won't procede until you do. they don't even tell you what you did until after you do it. i raged and cried for 2 hours straight.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

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Choosing between Tali and Legion, and by extension the Free Geth and the Quarians, when I had insufficent charm points to bring them together. Its even more gutting because now I know both ways, I lose Legion, another friend to add to the list. And not being able to really stick two fingers up at the Reapers in any meaningful way didn't help >.<

I am not ashamed to say, there were a few scenes in ME3 that really brought me to tears, and no other game has ever done that.

yeahh, i genuinely cried when

Spoiler: ME3 spoiler, nothing to do with the ending though

i had to let mordin sacrifice himself. i mean, that's just not cool. that along with thanes sacrifice was pretty saddening, especially the end scene with his son.

the andrew ryan incident in bioshock also did unnerve me a fair bit.

Spoiler: MASSIVE ME3 SPOILERS

Yeah, I really enjoyed Mordin's death, but Thane's was ruined by the retarded way in which it happened. "I think I will just run Towards the guy with the gun." Kai Leng shouldn't have been in that game, he was like instant failure to any scene he was in.

 

[Rumpsteak]

The entirety of Mario Party 1.. but I sense that is not the uncomfortable you are going for. Second playthrough of shadow of the colossus knowing exactly what was about to happen to me four legged companion. Heart-breaking

 

[rob_simple]

The Molag Bal quest in Skyrim.

Anyone who enjoyed doing that quest is a sick fuck.

I found the majority of the Daedra quests to be extremely unpleasant. I found it even more annoying that doing the evil option in one of the quests doesn't get you the artifact which meant that I both screwed up my Oblivion Walker trophy and

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had killed a dog for no reason, which you can call me hypocritical for, but it made me more uncomfortable than any of the countless people I murdered in the game.

Lots of morality discussion in here, but I can say with authority that the one thing that makes me feel genuinely PHYSICALLY uncomfortable in games is "heights". I'm acrophobic, so if your game has me clinging to a little ledge or performing acrobatics at some absurd height my palms become instantly sweaty and my testicles try to climb back up inside my body.

I actually had to stop playing Mirror's Edge pretty early on, I just couldn't take it.

Here's a good test to see if you, too, are afraid of heights!

I can't watch that video, it makes me feel sick. I've never been put off a game entirely because of heights, but every time I do a ridiculously high jump in games like Crackdown or the cliff dives in Zelda/Assassin's Creed it does make my stomach turn.

 

[applesandoranges]

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