Actions in Games That Made You Physically Uncomfortable.

[skywolfblue]

Killing the little sisters in Bioshock 2. I think the "bad" ending is a lot better then the good one, but it was so damn hard to bring myself to do it.

Also, Dead Space 2. Eyeball.

This. It doesn't help that I have a fear of needles.
Zombies being decapitated, limbs flying everywhere, blood all over the place? Peachy!
Needles? YOUCH ikes that looks painful!

 

[Soviet Heavy]

God Of War 3. Now the first two games, I could sort of get behind Kratos. In the first game, he is a tragic hero, and his intentions are noble enough. In the second game, he lost that feature after Athena screwed him over, so he was rightfully pissed off. There, I didn't have to empathize with him, because he was being a murderous prick driven by revenge.

However, in God of War 3, when bits and pieces of his humanity seep back in thanks to Pandora, I got uncomfortable. There was still something human about him, but his actions just became more and more barbaric, that I almost became ill watching him slaughter the Pantheon. Heracles' death in particular was sheer excess that I felt was way out of line even for someone past redemption.

 

[Valagetti]

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 shit, that was more terrifying than anything I've ever seen. Who is crazy enough to do that? All it would take is one strong gust of wind and suddenly you're falling to your death!

OT: The Dark Brotherhood's torture chamber in Skyrim. 'nuff said

Yeah, I agree. I can't believe I payed for that... the first time I walked into the room, I put them out of their misery. I still felt uncomfortable, even if they're apparently criminals and it if was well deserved...

 

[GartarkMusik]

The death of Andrew Ryan in BioShock definitely ranks up there in super uncomfortable moments, but my big one was when Dr. Steinmann killed that lady right at the part when you got to him and has officially gone insane. That was.....*shudders*

Ending of RDR also gets an honorable mention.

 

[Ninonybox_v1legacy]

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.

Says age does not matter and you should always use spoiler tags.....doesn't use spoiler tag in his own post.

Seriously dude, just calm down. No need to go around making others feel like crap.

 

[rob_simple]

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.

I felt exactly the same

Spoiler

when I sided with the Stormcloaks. I thought they were in the right but the way Ulfric went about making his voice heard through violence rather than discussion just made him seem more like a barbarian than a downtrodden native of the land. Also, I didn't feel comfortable with all the bigotry they spouted about elves and anyone else who wasn't a true Nord or whatever.

 

[dancinginfernal]

The entirety of Vincent's actions in Catherine.

 

[dancinginfernal]

Spoiler: Dark souls

I accidentally killed Quelaag's sister in Dark souls.

I thought she was an illusive wall so I gave her two pokes with my halberd. I ended up googling it up because I thought something was off (I mean, when does wall give humanity?). She turned out to be such a sweet girl too :'(

It was eating me up for that whole playthrough.

If you wear the Old Witch's Ring and speak with her, she's believe you are actually Quelaag. I watched a video of somebody killing her while wearing it. I started to tear up, it was abominable.

"Quelaag?...But,...why?"

 

[Kieve]

Physically uncomfortable would be Half-Life 2, Portal, etc - something about Valve's graphics engine just makes me queasy and results in a nasty headache. No idea why.

As for games that have affected me emotionally? Been a few, most of the popular ones already named here. I'll start with one that isn't though...

Morrowind: Defeating/Killing Dagoth Ur. Since he's pretty much the main bad guy from the beginning, I wouldn't say that's a spoiler.

Spoiler: But the reason...

...As the main questline progresses, you learn the history of how Dagoth Ur and Nerevar were friends, until Ur was corrupted by Kagrenac's tools and the power of the Heart of Lorkhan. All the game lore leading up to that point made it feel more like the ending of "Old Yeller" than a climactic battle between good and evil.

Other games:

Spoiler: Skyrim

-Molag Bal's quest, I chased the priest back after telling him about Molag Bal - what I'd meant to say did not translate well in the game's short-hand dialogue options, and he basically assumed that I was on Bal's side. So he ran, and I chased him back to the creepy dungeon, hoping I could warn him off the trap or somehow save his ass. Instead, I ended up locked into the torture scenario...

-Siding with the Imperials in the civil war. It was a decision I stewed about for a good half the game, and paid visits to both leaders before finally deciding that Ulfric was a power-hungry douche and needed to be taught his place (didn't help that he sounded like he was voiced by Stallone, who I'm no fan of). But the worst part was after the war ended, and seeing half the Jarls I'd helped sitting, ousted from their positions, at the table in Windhelm. Laila Law-Giver in particular broke my heart since she was about the only decent influence in Riften to start with, and it killed me knowing I'd turned the Jarl's throne there over to that damned Maven and her brat.

EDIT:

*snip*

Mostly agreed, although the Imperials are trying to avoid rekindling full-on war with the Thalmor. Seems weird trading national war for civil, but either way I made it a point to murder every Thalmor in sight. Taking out that one ambassador and his two bodyguards in Markarth's inner keep and getting out without a bounty? Possibly my favorite moment in the game. 'Course, they all have kill-on-sight orders for Ra'Shirr now, but that's their deathwish. >:}

Spoiler: Mass Effect 3

-Failing to make peace between Quarians and Geth. Seeing Legion on its knees, asking if it had a soul? I cried. Hard. Stopped playing for the rest of the night, and was still a wreck when I went into work the next day.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 1

-In the "Bring Down The Sky" DLC, a Batarian renegade forces you to choose between killing him and saving a number of innocent hostages. I typically go full paragon, but it was damn hard not to put a round through each of Balak's eyes, especially considering the side-quest on that asteroid where the one tech asks you to look for his missing engineers - all dead, and all with some pretty brutal "how they died" message popups. I still wonder why having the Normandy blow Balak's escape shuttle apart wasn't an option...

 

[NightHawk21]

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.

Spoiler: infamous 2 Spoiler

Killing Zeke at the end of Infamous 2 evil ending was Uncomfortable to say the least.

Ya that one was pretty bad. This one from skyrim was also unpleasent. Mind you I realize they're just pixels so the feeling is dulled in some respect, but this is the most recent example I can think of atm.

Spoiler

In one of the first big Dark Brotherhood quests in Skyrim you get an optional objective to kill some innocent girl out of spite to make some old woman feel bad or something

 

[TaintedSaint]

Morden Solus renegade choice ME3

 

[Voulan]

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 don't want to either! Luckily you don't miss out on anything for not doing it, but you lose a good group of friends. But I refuse to! He's repented, more than enough, and I'll never back down on that decision!

I did once though, just to see what would happen. I felt so horrible I reloaded before I did it.

Most definitely in Penumbra: Overture

Spoiler

was having to kill Red. Luckily Philip wasn't too pleased with the idea as well, and Red really wanted to be set free, but his death was horrible and unnecessary.

 

[Smithburg]

Hwavy Rain, where you make him cut his finger off with a pair of safety scissors XD It was difficult, but I had to do it, albeit with a bit of cackling >.>

 

[StormShaun]

Hwavy Rain, where you make him cut his finger off with a pair of safety scissors XD It was difficult, but I had to do it, albeit with a bit of cackling >.>

I saw a playthrough of that and it made me CRINGE through most of it.

Luckily I was smart in my playthrough and did it the better way.

OT: Red Dead Redemption, I felt every bit of it.

and mostly Molag Bal's quest in Skyrim, What the...no good ending!?

 

[Don Savik]

The entirety of Vincent's actions in Catherine.

Yea my friend said him being a spineless ponce made him easier to relate to as a character.

NO IT DIDN'T. He was a jack@$$ in every sense of the word. I hated how stupid that game's premise is.

"I have a pregnant girlfriend who I'm about to marry! But if a girl shows me their tits OH NO I CAN'T HELP MYSELF I HAVE TO HAVE SEX WITH HER BECAUSE I HAVE TO....oh noooooooooo....im a deep and complicated individual.....or.....something."

Either punch the broad in the face, or break up with your current girlfriend. BAM end of story.

If you can't tell I hated the game.

 

[ultrachicken]

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.

Spoiler: infamous 2 Spoiler

Killing Zeke at the end of Infamous 2 evil ending was Uncomfortable to say the least.

Spoiler

Damn straight. I actually tried to let him kill me in that segment. It unfortunately didn't work.

 

[ultrachicken]

Mine's probably a little meh in comparison to most of these, but did anyone ever feel a little guilty about killing the security guards in Splinter Cell Conviction's Deniable Ops?

Because it made you kill at least ten of them to move on. 10 guys who probably had no idea what they were guarding, and had kids.

I felt nothing because that mode was presented in an entirely arcade fashion.

 

[Sonic_Boom]

Skyrim so...

Spoiler

Killing Cicero in the Dawnstar Sanctuary. I know that it's a choice, but when I did kill him I felt terrible, especially as he says "Coming...Mother!..." when he dies ;_;
So I instantly did a quickload from before killing him.
It's made worse by the fact I never really liked Astrid anyway.

Also in Fallout: New Vegas I was originally going to get the legion ending first, then get the Independent ending, but the way everybody in game (mainly Arcade and Boone) talked about the legion and the way I never really liked them made me feel really uncomfortable joining them, so I ended up getting the legion ending second time round and an independent ending first. Even then I felt uncomfortable, and on that run I was blowing up the head of every Human, Ghoul and Robot I could see, karma be darned.
I dunno it might be just me, but did anyone else feel terrible when getting the legion ending?

 

[samaugsch]

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.

Another thing I thought was strange is that as long as children are apparently invincible in Skyrim, they should just send them after Alduin instead, or at least accompany him. Children seem to be more effective than any armor in the game anyway.

 

[Cheesus333]

This is on the edge of not counting, but I'm pretty massively arachnophobic and so although I can bear to run right up to Skyrim's spiders[footnote]As horrifically grotesque as they are[/footnote] and kill them, walking my character over the corpses makes me squirm. It's ridiculous, but I can genuinely feel them underneath me and it just makes me nauseous.

Captcha: hairy eyeball

...In a post about spiders? Fucking hell captcha, you're actually trying to make me gag, aren't you?