Actions in Games That Made You Physically Uncomfortable.

[Blade1130]

Only thing that comes to mind is the eyeball thing at the end of Dead Space 2, not to mention I failed at like like 8 times.

Besides that, it always bothered me in BioShock whenever I had to "reload" my Plasmids. He stabs himself so hard with that syringe! I wouldn't say I'm afraid of needles, but I definitely don't like them, so that animation always annoyed me. Maybe that's why on my first playthrough I almost never used Plasmids, ever.

 

[Worgen]

In mass effect on my renegade play though when I killed the rachni queen, didn't like doing that. Kinda felt like killing a random japanese women because I knew someone who knew someone who died at pearl harbor.

 

[El Dwarfio]

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

THERE WAS A BACK DOOR MARSTON, A BACK DOOR!

OT - In Dwarf Fortress I had a fail-safe system in the event the upper levels of our fortress were overran. The system would flood the upper levels of the fortress and seal off the lower levels, drowning all intruders (and unlucky dwarfs).

Well it was hard enough to actually pull it and flood half of my beautiful fortress. It was so much worse when the weight of the water caused the roof of the legendary dining room below to cave in. This rendered the fail-safe worthless, flooded 3/4 of my gold encrusted fortress and allowed the intruders to murder everybody.

I physically couldn't watch, I stared at the keyboard as hundreds of poor dwarfs died due to my mistake ='(

 

[major_chaos]

Choosing who to side with in the first act of the Witcher 2 made me squirm because both your choices would be the villain in any other game and it was a matter of deciding who I hate less.

 

[Radoh]

Several moments in Heavy Rain,

Spoiler

Like the cutting off of a finger, shooting a drug lord in the head (lessened somewhat being the dick shot at me for like three minutes, and stripping Madison for Paco.

Some other moments in Mass Effect 3

Spoiler

Sabotaging the Genophage cure requires you to kill Mordin Solus. I was doing this for my renegade, human first Shepard, and doing that left me feeling so disgusted I actually deleted that save file. Had that Shep since MEOne, and totally ended him ever existing.
Also, I learned from internet that you could totally stop the Geth from evolving by shooting Legion repeatedly.
Say what you will about the game, it can make you feel like a dirtbag.

 

[Freechoice]

Playing Half-Life 2. Nothing was particularly wrong with it, but playing the game for 53 minutes made my head hurt in such a way that I had a headache for over a day.

Will never touch that game again.

Captcha: easy as cake


Oh, and parts of Portal gave me a headache as well. Fucking Source.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

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.

Pay closer attention, he's not all that clean either. My decision was to keep a knife for that mission. You can kill him silently, then walk away without ever tripping an alarm. And Niko isn't trying to put crime behind him, he's trying to put his enemies behind him. Remember, until you meet Darko, his goal is to find and murder the man who betrayed him.

So, a gameplay moment or scene that made me uncomfortable... Red Dead Redemption. Every time I had to help Abraham Reyes. I at one point committed suicide in a desperate bid to remove that wretched bastard from the world.

 

[The_Critic]

SPOILER!!! Getting rid of Allistar in DA:O in order to be able to get loghain.SPOILER!!!! Now if you never liked his character they it wasn't that hard for you, but I really liked him and felt like I completely betrayed a friend.

OH BIOWARE GO BACK TO THIS KINDA STUFF PLS!!!

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

Skyrim

Spoiler

I don't want to kill Parthuunax, he's a pretty chill dude! Sure, he enslaved people a really long time ago, he just helped me fucking kill Alduin!

I don;t thing I'll ever go through with it

 

[Eventidal]

God damn it, I've had so many games spoiled for me already in the first page..

Guys, learn to mention the NAME OF THE GAME before spoiling it! I was clearly interested in seeing what other people were heartbroken about in games but nobody cared to mention WHAT they were spoiling before spoiling it. So I clicked a bunch of unmarked spoiler tags to be met with "the part where you kill X and brutally Y.... in game Z, BTW."

Yeah, thanks a lot for that. >_> I would think it's common sense, but it's proven more uncommon than it should have been.

 

[AngryMongoose]

Spoiler

Ordering Logan's execution in Fable 3.

Sure he was a prick, but he was doing it for a really valid reason so killing him just always felt wrong. Especially since killing him is the evil option and if you're going with the evil options you end up doing the same shit he did, so it just doesn't make any sense either.

Actually come to think of it, most of the 'evil' choices during that part of Fable 3 made me feel uncomfortable, either because you stab your allies in the back or because you reduce Albion to a festering shithole.

Spoiler: Fable 3

Yeah, I executed him, THEN thought about it, and felt really quite bad. Fuck you Theresa!

 

[soes757]

Heavy Rain, all of it, just, I miss my finger.
There's also a torture scene in Black Ops that really gets me

Spoiler: spoiler

you break glass, put it in a guy's mouth, and proceed to punch him, fun times.

 

[rob_simple]

Skyrim

Spoiler

I don't want to kill Parthuunax, he's a pretty chill dude! Sure, he enslaved people a really long time ago, he just helped me fucking kill Alduin!

I don;t thing I'll ever go through with it

I'm with you, after I beat the bad dragon --forget his name now-- and guys I'm with tell me

Spoiler

I have to kill the friendly dragon I was like, 'fuck no; he's legit.'

It was yet another moment in Skyrim where I felt, despite being the legendary Dragonborn, my input wasn't all that valued and/or necessary.

Spoiler

Ordering Logan's execution in Fable 3.

Sure he was a prick, but he was doing it for a really valid reason so killing him just always felt wrong. Especially since killing him is the evil option and if you're going with the evil options you end up doing the same shit he did, so it just doesn't make any sense either.

Actually come to think of it, most of the 'evil' choices during that part of Fable 3 made me feel uncomfortable, either because you stab your allies in the back or because you reduce Albion to a festering shithole.

Spoiler: Fable 3

Yeah, I executed him, THEN thought about it, and felt really quite bad. Fuck you Theresa!

I was much more annoyed at the very start of the game where I'm given the choice between

Spoiler

Ordering the execution of my girlfriend or several villagers.

It was like, 'I'm a prince I don't need to put up with this bullshit.' And they seemed to totally forget actions like this halfway through the game

Spoiler

When it turns out your brother was just being a giant dicksplash to prepare the country for the dark times. How exactly does that justify him forcing you to either kill the man/woman you love or a group of innocent people?

 

[HiC]

Spoiler: DA:O

in the elven origin where you have to kill Tamlen, and knowing it's your fault he ended up a darkspawn, that kept me up the whole night

 

[Radoh]

Skyrim

Spoiler

I don't want to kill Parthuunax, he's a pretty chill dude! Sure, he enslaved people a really long time ago, he just helped me fucking kill Alduin!

I don;t thing I'll ever go through with it

I'm with you, after I beat the bad dragon --forget his name now-- and guys I'm with tell me

Spoiler

I have to kill the friendly dragon I was like, 'fuck no; he's legit.'

It was yet another moment in Skyrim where I felt, despite being the legendary Dragonborn, my input wasn't all that valued and/or necessary.

Spoiler

Ordering Logan's execution in Fable 3.

Sure he was a prick, but he was doing it for a really valid reason so killing him just always felt wrong. Especially since killing him is the evil option and if you're going with the evil options you end up doing the same shit he did, so it just doesn't make any sense either.

Actually come to think of it, most of the 'evil' choices during that part of Fable 3 made me feel uncomfortable, either because you stab your allies in the back or because you reduce Albion to a festering shithole.

Spoiler: Fable 3

Yeah, I executed him, THEN thought about it, and felt really quite bad. Fuck you Theresa!

I was much more annoyed at the very start of the game where I'm given the choice between

Spoiler

Ordering the execution of my girlfriend or several villagers.

It was like, 'I'm a prince I don't need to put up with this bullshit.' And they seemed to totally forget actions like this halfway through the game

Spoiler

When it turns out your brother was just being a giant dicksplash to prepare the country for the dark times. How exactly does that justify him forcing you to either kill the man/woman you love or a group of innocent people?

Forcing you into line for fear of losing someone else important, of course. To gain the complacency of the only other royal blood would quell thoughts of a rebellious nature in the citizenry. That of course is ignoring the fact that you totally can and will fight against him for such shenanigans, but that's the reasoning.

 

[rob_simple]

Spoiler

Ordering Logan's execution in Fable 3.

Sure he was a prick, but he was doing it for a really valid reason so killing him just always felt wrong. Especially since killing him is the evil option and if you're going with the evil options you end up doing the same shit he did, so it just doesn't make any sense either.

Actually come to think of it, most of the 'evil' choices during that part of Fable 3 made me feel uncomfortable, either because you stab your allies in the back or because you reduce Albion to a festering shithole.

Spoiler: Fable 3

Yeah, I executed him, THEN thought about it, and felt really quite bad. Fuck you Theresa!

I was much more annoyed at the very start of the game where I'm given the choice between

Spoiler

Ordering the execution of my girlfriend or several villagers.

It was like, 'I'm a prince I don't need to put up with this bullshit.' And they seemed to totally forget actions like this halfway through the game

Spoiler

When it turns out your brother was just being a giant dicksplash to prepare the country for the dark times. How exactly does that justify him forcing you to either kill the man/woman you love or a group of innocent people?

Forcing you into line for fear of losing someone else important, of course. To gain the complacency of the only other royal blood would quell thoughts of a rebellious nature in the citizenry. That of course is ignoring the fact that you totally can and will fight against him for such shenanigans, but that's the reasoning.

I agree with you, but this was just another example of the moral choice system falling apart for me.

Spoiler

If my brother forced me to kill the woman I loved, I don't care if he's the king I'd vault up the stairs to his throne and put a sword through his damn throat, even if it meant my own execution.

But instead you have the choice between the selfless act or the selfish; it's not freedom of choice it's 'bad and slightly worse'.

 

[Radoh]

Forcing you into line for fear of losing someone else important, of course. To gain the complacency of the only other royal blood would quell thoughts of a rebellious nature in the citizenry. That of course is ignoring the fact that you totally can and will fight against him for such shenanigans, but that's the reasoning.

I agree with you, but this was just another example of the moral choice system falling apart for me.

Spoiler

If my brother forced me to kill the woman I loved, I don't care if he's the king I'd vault up the stairs to his throne and put a sword through his damn throat, even if it meant my own execution.

But instead you have the choice between the selfless act or the selfish; it's not freedom of choice it's 'bad and slightly worse'.

Yeah, that whole first choice was a Peter Molyneaux experiment.

Spoiler

Basically he asked "What if we had a really important choice at the beginning of the game?" Too bad it didn't really work that way since it was over a character we know nothing about and therefore have no investment in their well-being, not to mention a complete lack of 'importance', but still.

 

[Scabadus]

No spoilers here but a lot of ingame lore from Skyrim. If you want to figure out the entire backstory and political situation yourself, you might want to skip this post.

Trying to choose a side in Skyrim's civil war is hard, bth sides are just such assholes. The Imperials want to stop freedom of worship in Skyrim not because of any real threat but because the elves don't really like it and the actual govornment system is pretty much full of their puppets. On the other side while the Stormcloaks are in theory fighting for freedom, Ulfric's method of doing so is to murder the high king in cold blood, technically during a legal challenge but still in cold blood (I know that sounds like a spoiler but it really isn't, it's already happened by the time the game beings) then escape the city via a bribed guard (or maybe otherwise convinced, I'm not 100% sure about the guard) and sit on his throne while you kill the Imperials. He's a coward, the Imperials are fachist assholes and my characters want no part of it.

The annoying thing is, I actually agree with Ulfric's agenda, if not his methods. If he'd stop being such a coward, hiding while the fighting happens and terrifying civilians, if he'd actually strike at the standing military and loyalist Imperial enterprises and companies instead of anyone who isn't a dedicated Stormcloak, I'd happily fall in behind his little rebalion.

 

[Easton Dark]

In starcraft: brood war, the mission where your forced to *spoiler*

Screw Duke, he was an asshole. Fenix was a really great character though.

 

[Exius Xavarus]

Spoiler: Tales of Symphonia

Killing Zelos. Zelos is, and always will be, one of my favorite characters in a video game. :{

Spoiler: Tales of the Abyss

Leaving Asch to die so Luke can escape, after the final battle between the two. Mostly because to me, Asch>Luke.

Spoiler: Tales of Graces f

Emeraude's disposition toward Lambda while he was still a child. Lambda's smile made me want to hug him, not fight him. Also, while it doesn't really make me uncomfortable, it annoys the hell out of me that the cover art features Lineage & Legacies content. More specifically, Asbel's eyes. It basically spoiled what was going to happen at the end of the game, when I saw Emeraude merge with Lambda.

Spoiler: Silent Hill: Downpour

Attacking and killing the sequestered prisoner in the beginning of the game. I don't know if you learn later why Murphy wanted him dead, but not knowing what he did, I felt a little uncomfortable attacking a half naked fat dude in the shower.

Spoiler: Demon's Souls

Killing the Maiden in the Black at the end of the game and stomping on her head as you walk over her, for the evil ending. She was nothing but nice to you throughout the entire game, and she's the one that granted you the power you obtained through the game.