Actions in games you had to take but didn't want to

[xPixelatedx]

Betraying Gaia in God of War 3 just because Kratos was impatient. It's like... really? It's not enough to have the GODS after you, you have to make enemies of the titans to!? What's worse is I liked Gaia.

 

[Padwolf]

For me that would be Metal Gear Solid 3.

Spoiler: Ending Spoilers

I didn't want to shoot. I sat there just staring. I was in tears.

Also Dragon Age Origins

Spoiler: Spoilers

When Alistar had to sleep with Morrigan. That's my man! I don't care if it will save the world, that's my Alistar! *grumble grumble*

 

[FalloutJack]

Killing the nightkin leader in self defence in fallout: NV

You mean Tabitha on Black Mountain? I fixed her robot, walked out, panicked, and then found out that she didn't wanna fight because I made her friend work again.

OT: I didn't want Eden's FEV in Fallout 3. Buuut even when I shut him down, the game went "Screw you, you're taking this and you can't even drop it!". So, I gave it to Lyons. Fuck you, you political robot.

 

[Raptor]

For me I think it would have to be in LA Noire, finding out that Cole Phelps had an affair with the singer, with basically no build up, pretty much ruined the entire game for me. It came out of the blue with no decision from the player.

 

[CannibalCorpses]

For me I think it would have to be in LA Noire, finding out that Cole Phelps had an affair with the singer, with basically no build up, pretty much ruined the entire game for me. It came out of the blue with no decision from the player.

I'll second that. Also having to keep your mouth shut about the serial killer, no chance...i'd have blabbed that once straight to the papers and stuff what the police chief thinks. I was also disappointed i couldn't kick the crap out of the necrophilliac...only one corpse shagger in this town and thats me!

 

[CityofTreez]

That part in Bishock 2 with Sinclair.

You know...

 

[FootloosePhoenix]

Spoiler: inFamous 2 Evil Ending

Killing Zeke in Infamous 2 in the "Evil" Ending.

The first and as of yet only thing in a video game to bring me to tears. And then I proceeded to sob all through the credits (though of course the music didn't help matters). So yeah, this.

Additionally, this doesn't really count since it's optional, but harvesting Little Sisters makes me feel terrible, especially in BioShock 2 since they trust you and everything. Needless to say I rescue all the poor girls I come across now.

 

[PunkRex]

That part in Bishock 2 with Sinclair.

You know...

That hurt, whats worse I ended up NOT killing Lamb, whose head I wanted to cave in the entire bloody game!!!... poor Sinclair, he was a good character.

 

[shadyh8er]

Getting the bad endings in Heavy Rain nearly killed me. I had to keep killing Jayden.

And then there was this:

Spoiler

The trial where you have the option to kill the drug dealer even after he begs you to spare his life for his daughters' sake. I went through with it, and almost had the same reaction Ethan did.

 

[floppylobster]

The whole of Bioshock.

I tried to swim away from the island after the plane crash. I hit an invisible wall. I didn't want to inject plasmids. I couldn't progress without it. I didn't want to rescue some guy's family in a sub. I had nowhere else to go... etc, etc...

 

[philosophicalbastard]

Spoiler: Mass Effect 3 spoiler

Having to chose between killing the Quarians or killing the Geth because I didn't do this one mission before completing the final part of that race recruitment mission. I favored the Geth, because the Quarians were being complete ass-hats by attacking the Geth for no reason. Then I had to sit and watch as the Quarians, led by Admiral McJackass who I took great pleasure in punching in the renegade interrupt earlier, were all killed, then Legion died, then Tali killed herself. I really regretted not doing that mission.

And of course there were the options in the Endotron 3000 that were absolute shit.

 

[Section Crow]

In Armoured Core for Answer, i wanted to save white glint and then join line ark just for the story but nooo the game decided i couldn't possibly continue with them.

Nier Ending D. Damn that was sad and depressing, the fact it even stands as an option when the guy knows he has a daughter to protect makes my eyes act up...

 

[The Wykydtron]

Pretty funny one in Alpha Protocol. At one point you have to choose to go to either the East or the West Wing in this building with one being defusing some bombs and the other not defusing bombs and saving this one girl.

I missed some dialogue and I honestly didn't know which direction was which.... So I made a blind choice and ended up going after that one love interest I had zero affection for. Lolz

Dragonage 2 for the ending that I think was actually pretty masterfully done even if the whole rest of the game was a bit of a shambles :/

Oh and for choices I really didn't want to make I have to go with near all of my Champion picks in LoL today...

All I want to do is to play some solomid Diana. That is all. If she isn't banned, she's on the other team, jungling on our team or some other asshole took mid before me and instalocked fucking Ahri.

And Blind Pick is Diana vs Diana game after game so fuck that.

I'm not childish enough to fold my arms and say "GTFO DIANA OR FEED" I actually want our team to have a chance and not hate each other so I have to fall back to my somewhat decent jungle Shyvana or badass Irelia solotop.

Though it always comes back to my Support Sona... Hopefully Beast Mode Sona where I fearlessly dive some turrets, save my carry from turret dives and just generally carry the game myself.

7/1/20 ftw.

Wasn't even killstealing! Mostly. I swear the double damage Power Chord hits at the worst possible times DX

Her burst is insane... Zero items and she can halve a carry's health with a lvl 5 Q + Power Chord.

 

[DarkishFriend]

MSG 3; you goddamn monsters. You awful monsters, I loved the boss, it killed me, I didn't even know you had to pull the trigger at first.
The infamous 2 evil ending. The first one was stupid, but god the second. Killing zeke was horrible. It was like watching humanity drain out of cole.
Bio shock; killing Ryan was hard to watch.

 

[chadachada123]

Fable III.

I witness

Spoiler

an immortal asshole MURDER an innocent worker, who then tries to murder ME, and then when I finally become king, I have no option to arrest him, to kill him (or at least attempt to) myself, or to lock him up for being a murderous dick.

No, instead, I appoint him to be MY FUCKING FINANCIAL ADVISER.

That was the final straw in what was ultimately a very, very shitty game that provides absolutely no choice whatsoever.

 

[Mirroga]

snip

Slap that in a spoiler, dude.

Can't really think of much. Maybe in Saints Row 3

Spoiler

Leaving Johnny alone in the plane. That sucked.

Thanks for the reminder. But IMO, everything about this topic is spoiler-heavy. Inhumane or hard-to-do acts in storyline has always been spoiler-heavy.

 

[Windcaler]

Dragon Age: Origins when you get into the whole thing with Jowan and the Arl of Redcliffs kid. At the very end Jowan' still alive and by god my mage wanted to conscript him into the grey wardens. It seemed like the only way to save his friend and you cant tell me the grey wardends couldnt have used some more help

Instead what happens to him is left largely up in the air. Most likely he was executed or sent to that mages prison but they just never make his fate known

 

[Sennune]

This is a minor one, but it happened to me today, again. There's a part in Modern Warfare 3 where you're skulking towards an African village with Soap and Price. On the way, you come across a bombed out hut, with four African "soldiers" standing around three civilians about to be executed. You hear truck sounds in the background and a couple pickups with machine guns mounted in the back park around the area with several patrols walking around. Price says, "Stay down and don't do anything stupid." While I understand that given the situation we're heavily out gunned and announcing our position would leave us with no where to run, seeing innocent civilians shot point blank in the back of the head leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

 

[McMullen]

Many times in Red Dead Redemption. Wanted to injure or kill Nigel W. Dickens, Irish, Reyes, Sanchez, and McDougal, had plenty of reason to do so, and he wouldn't do it.

Also, in ACII and later, I kill heralds frequently even though I'm not supposed to. They're lying for the Templars, they're not acting as civilians, I should be able to do it. Besides, Altair killed every herald he interrogated, and Ezio has an assassination contract on at least one at some point for, yep, spreading lies on behalf of the Templars.

I sometimes spend more time wanting to slap Ubisoft employees than having fun while playing their games.

 

[gaiusimperator]

I guess there's a few reasons you might find yourself in a scenario like this.
For one, and I think this is possibly a mark of less effective storytelling, the game forces you to do something in order to continue but you don't feel it's necessary in terms of plot, or maybe inconsistent with your character. So in this case, you don't want to take the action because it doesn't seem like you should have to.
Another possibility is that you are emotionally involved in a way that makes it seem unpleasant et cetera. Here, the storytelling's more effective, the action has to occur for the gameplay to continue and it makes sense that this should be the case on a narrative level. The reason you don't want to do it in this case is that it'll make you upset, I suppose, although it's an effective storytelling technique and you accept that you must do so to continue.

For me, the end of Crisis Core had shades of this.

Spoiler: Well, if you played FF7, you knew this had to be coming...

I didn't want to march Zack out to his death, or face the Shinra army until he was inevitably killed. I knew that I had to, and I knew that it was necessary for him to die for the story to continue, but I was emotionally attached to him and didn't want him to die.

So yeah, effective and ineffective occurences of this?

I killed Mordin in Mass Effect 3. I had to. There was no other choice, and the game was incredible, in that it used that as a wedge to split my character apart and destroy his psyche.

I didn't want to, but my character knew the Krogan hadn't changed. Every second on Tuchanka was a knife in my heart, seeing the green grass near the temple, seeing the ancient Krogan art, knowing who they used to be. It hurt, but I did it, and I doomed an entire species against my will.