Has there ever been a moment in a video game that genuinely disturbed you?

[purplegothchick]

I don't really play horror games (they scare me too much, lol) so I don't have anything scary, but it did really disturb me when the story arc in Saint's Row 2 came around to what the Brotherhood did to Carlos. That was fucking sick, he was a good kid and didn't deserve that.

Also, the first time I encountered a Witch on Left 4 Dead. I don't like zombies, so she really scared the shit outta me, especially the first time I got attacked by one. I've had bloody nightmares about it since then! Brilliant game, though. (I've since got over my fear somewhat ^_^)

 

[Internet Kraken]

The final scene with the Master in Fallout 1 is pretty weird.

 

[Internet Kraken]

Believe it or not, this little game --> http://zarat.us/tra/offline-games/eversion.html
Oh it doesn't look like much, but the further you go the more the game does to mess with your head and creep you out. There wasn't any particular part that was disturbing, but the cumulative effect left my nerves so frayed by the end that I couldn't stop laughing (in that nervous way)

And THAT is a lesson on how horror really works. I hope your taking notes.

DAMN YOU. IT'S DARK ALL THE WAY UP TO MY ROOM.

Was that game really that bad? I played like the first 3 levels of it and it was a little creepy but nothing too scary or disturbing. Should I keep going?

Honestly, I've played the whole game and I don't think it's disturbing at all. It's just stupid.

 

[Musicfreak]

I think I Have the most disturbing one of all time. Anyone who has played Psychonauts may have found the room that discuses Milla's eight (I think is was eight) children that died in a fire. well in the room there is a chest that when opened will take you to a chamber populated by eight (I think) emotional demons that scream things like "it burns" and "Milla, why did you let us die!?!" Anyone else have a bad reaction to that?

Oh hell yes that was disturbing, mainly because the entire game is all happy fun and quirky and theres a dance party going on and than I walk into a room and Creapy demons are saying that stuff.

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

I had a goosebumps game for the computer when I was very little for my computer. I had this when I was 4 or 5 and it was pretty much a watered down survival horror game, but there was always one area (can't quite remember) that freaked me out. I would proceed to start the game over.

 

[Crusader078]

A genuinely disturbing moment within a video game?
Well....there's the time in House of the Dead: Overkill where the main antagonist admits to fucking his own mother and then proceeds to climb back into her vagina.
Does that count? Because thats some 1st class fucked up shit right there!!!

 

[RootbeerJello]

Not even really horror, but it was my initiation to serious M-rated games so yeah. On Ravenholm in Half-Life 2 when you use the gravity gun to set a zombie on fire and you hear them scream "Oh my god, put it out!" or something before they die. It's creepy thinking that the zombies you're massacring apparently still have living people inside. -shudders-

 

[Just Joe]

Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy: (hooray for colons!) that mission with the worms. The giant, tunnelling worms that EAT YOU if you step on the sand. I almost threw up during that mission. Thank God the game doesn't make you do all of them.

 

[Mr. Fister]

The last time I was disturbed by a game was Mother 3, specifically on TaneTane Island.

Spoiler

That whole sequence was messed up: Mailboxes containing 6,000 rat corpses, Wess suggesting that Duster drag Kumatora off into the woods to...do stuff, Flint threatening to beat Lucas, and every enemy disguised as an eerie smile had me freaked out the entire time.

The music there was awesome though.

Ugh, the music only made that part freakier. Not just the overworld, but during the battles, too. It's like the developing team really wanted to disturb players in that scene or something.

 

[sgtshock]

In Oblivion, there's a Dark Brotherhood quest where you have to kill an entire bloodline, but your only lead is the location of the mother. When you get there, this sweet old woman mistakes you for a courier she hired to deliver gifts to all her children. The very children you were hired to kill. And you have to murder her as well. She obliviously gives you a letter giving all thier locations, and gift ideas for all of them, and then she pays you for it. Usually your targets are spoiled nobility or evil doers, but this mission was just plain wrong.

 

[A Pious Cultist]

In Oblivion, there's a Dark Brotherhood quest where you have to kill an entire bloodline, but your only lead is the location of the mother. When you get there, this sweet old woman mistakes you for a courier she hired to deliver gifts to all her children. The very children you were hired to kill. And you have to murder her as well. She obliviously gives you a letter giving all thier locations, and gift ideas for all of them, and then she pays you for it. Usually your targets are spoiled nobility or evil doers, but this mission was just plain wrong.

I still weep for Adamus Phillida. Then I start playing around with his corpse; someone should really move him.

 

[Spirit_Of_Fire]

The Silent Hill series. I played the first one and had to stop after about 5 mins because it was so scary. A few years later I played a demo of another one and that scared me all the same what with the constant sounds behind you when walking.

 

[DaMan1500]

A genuinely disturbing moment within a video game?
Well....there's the time in House of the Dead: Overkill where the main antagonist admits to fucking his own mother and then proceeds to climb back into her vagina.
Does that count? Because thats some 1st class fucked up shit right there!!!

My mom was watching me play during that scene, and she totally lost her mind. Hilarious.

 

[neurohazzard]

Believe it or not, this little game --> http://zarat.us/tra/offline-games/eversion.html
Oh it doesn't look like much, but the further you go the more the game does to mess with your head and creep you out. There wasn't any particular part that was disturbing, but the cumulative effect left my nerves so frayed by the end that I couldn't stop laughing (in that nervous way)

Someone Else who's played Eversion? I was gonna mention it as well, but i could not for the life of me remember the name.

It certainly does have that grating effect on the mind, dosn't it?

Yup.
Oh man, like the first time it said something other then "get ready" when I died, I think it said "give up", but I only saw it for a second and wasn't sure if it had really happened.
Actually that usually gets me, when I only catch a glimpse of something.

 

[LiquidGrape]

I don't remember a game being disturbing exactly but Stan Gimble's prosthetics shop in Vampire Bloodlines was something like that.

Ah, absolutely.
I'd also like to add 609 King's way.
In my opinion the most disturbing facet of the game.

Apart from that, every single vivid second in the Silent Hill-series is an exercise in perturbing terror.

Tale of Tale's The Path is genuinely disconcerting with all it's implications and allusions.

Psychonauts takes the cake however.
Milla's locked-away memories.
By far the single most disturbing experience I've suffered in any interactive context.

 

[Gerazzi]

How come nobody mentioned the final battle of Earthbound?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcaErqaoWek&feature=related

Most disturbing RPG final battle, probably...

YES.
Creepy as hell.

 

[More Fun To Compute]

Psychonauts takes the cake however.
Milla's locked-away memories.
By far the single most disturbing experience I've suffered in any interactive context.

That was really well done. It was completely unexpected but made so much sense in terms of the game and character.

 

[Dr.Poisonfreak]

resident evil 5: as you walk through the village at the beginning there is a man in a sack getting beaten by several other villagers with huge branches and sticks, that genuinely un nerved me a little bit