Have you ever had player's remorse?

[snekadid]

BL2: the quest where you help the people of overlook turn on their shield..... I miss Dave so much.... I know there wasn't an option in the quest and that was the only choice but I still feel bad for killing the best character in the entire game....

FO3: I actually started the game with the full intention to be a evil sniper chick and murder my way across the map, but after talking to the people I started to feel really bad about it and ended up becoming a saint by the end of the game. I usually play evil when ever they give the option in a game unless the story telling is good enough to draw that kind of guilt or pity out of me, the only 2 games capable of doing that so far are Bioshock and FO3.

Otherwise the only times I regret things I do is when I either didn't understand what the action meant or the description was so freaking bad that the character did something completely different from what the context sounded like.

 

[Tohuvabohu]

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines has quite a few quests that left me feeling icky with the choices I made in them.

For example: There is one moment where you stumble into an abandoned building, just in time to see one person fleeing the building while having a babbling nervous breakdown. If you decide to investigate further, you'll meet a disturbing Vampiress named Pisha of an apparently rare clan, who is even more grotesque than the Nosferatu.
You can get on good terms with her, if you decide to help her. She immediately asks you to find the person who escaped the building, and kill him - for he has seen too much.

I tracked the guy down to his apartment, and found him cowering inside his closet - still having a mental breakdown over what he's seen. I remember telling him that I regretfully had to kill him, the guy was too scared to even defend himself before I bled him dry. The man just saw his friends flayed and eaten in front of him, then a Vampire breaks into his home to finish the job. Sucks to be him....

.....Although there is one moment where you can trick an incredibly annoying human into believing there's a party in that same abandoned building. She wastes no time going right on over.... If you decide to speak to Pisha afterwards, she'll thank you for sending her a snack.... lol

 

[hermes]

After the pivotal point in Spec Ops: The Line everything I did was laced with regret and remorse.

And yet I kept on playing.

This... I just want to see this through. But, at the same time, I don't want to...

Bioware is pretty good at that. Although I don't know anyone that did it, people may want to search what happens when you

Spoiler

betray Wrex

Skyrim is another option. I joined the Stormcloak early in the game to get the achievements; but I didn't noticed that they are a bunch of xenophobic brutes until after I joined them. Funny thing is, I am not even a Norse.

 

[WaReloaded]

All four episodes of the Walking Dead have been riddled with such remorse. In fact, I had to convince myself not to Alt-F4 on several occasions. I decided to play the game morally, I saved and spared everyone I possibly could, chiefly because that's how I'd act in real life...I hope.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Not really a whole moral choice but whenever I play Journey, I'm always sad at the end, especially if I played the game with one person through the whole thing because I know I will never see that person again and the music doesn't help either, it makes me cry.

 

[Legion]

The Walking Dead: Episode 2.

The game gave me the option to stab that one guy with a pitchfork or let him live. He was an arsehole. I stabbed him. I didn't know Clementine was watching. The camera pans over and there she is, standing there with her hands over her mouth looking utterly horrified.

The Walking Dead was perfect for things like that. I never reloaded anything as I wanted to see how things turned out naturally, but damn were there a few moments where I regretted the choices I made.

Not really a whole moral choice but whenever I play Journey, I'm always sad at the end, especially if I played the game with one person through the whole thing because I know I will never see that person again and the music doesn't help either, it makes me cry.

I played the game for the first time the other day. I kept seeing random characters appear here and there, and had no idea why. I assumed that you got help at certain points and they left at others.

I then finished the game and realised that other people had been travelling along with me. I don't know why, but it made me really happy for some reason.

In Mass Effect 3, I thought I was just being nice to Jack (don't remember romancing her in ME2) and ended up alienating Liara. Her reaction made me feel like a cheating bastard.

bioware are bad for that.. i just said hello to them i dont want to bonk them for fuck sake

It's a different Bioware game, but this applies quite well.

 

[Cody Hargreaves]

When i caused the death of Tali in ME3

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I have a whole lot of trouble in New Vegas trying to join the Legion. Similarly, I have some moral qualms in Skyrim when it comes to the Stormcloaks since I can't shake that feeling that joining them makes me out as a racist...Not saying you are if you joined the Stormcloaks! It just seemed like they're dead set of bringing Nords back into power in Skyrim and screw every other race, government, religion, etc. Playing as an Argonian I couldn't help but feel offended by them. I took pleasure in 'dethroning' Ulric...or whatever the guy's name was...I honestly can't remember.

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Shadow of the Colossus...I still kinda feel like a dick after having killed that first colossus. My game decided it didn't want me playing it after that and I haven't tried fixing it quite yet...

 

[aceman67]

When they announced that SWTOR was going free-to-play, I lost all will to play the game.

I was a GM of a 600 member guild and I up and left... kinda scared to log in on the 15th and see whats happened to the guild...

 

[Roland Gutwein]

My moment came on my second playthrough of Knights of the Old Republic. After being a hero the first time around, I had every intention of playing through as a 'bad guy'- you know, to get the 'full effect' of the game. The longer I played, the worse I felt, until I finally just gave up. That's when I found out I just can't do it. I can't play the bad guy. So all those games that followed: KotOR II, Jade Empire, Fallout 3, Mass Effect, Dragon Age, etc., etc.... I am a stickler for not missing out on 'content' but... I just can't do it. Makes me feel bad about myself. Weird? Yes, but it happens anyway.

 

[AntiChri5]

In Mass Effect 2, starting a romance with Jack and then ending it at the climax.

Her entire life, everyone has been viciously using her. For her powers, her body, or both. Her childhood was nothing but torture, and she has been tormented to the point where she considers being gang raped by more then six guys to be not a big deal and death to be nothing but a "fucking on-off switch".

Romancing her involves showing enough respect and genuine caring that she lets down her defenses, refusing sex when she uses it to distance herself from you, convincing her that people are worth believing in and working with, convincing her that love might be worth a shot and there may be more to life then drugs sex and violence.

Until you have reached the point where she has worked through her issues enough that she is ready to admit she has feelings for you, that she can feel genuine love for anyone.

At that point, you can straight up tell her she isn't worth all this crap and to fuck off.

Man, the look in her eyes. A thousand dying puppies cannot compare. It makes things like Megaton just seem like a child smashing a lego set.

 

[WinkyTheGreat]

I always felt bad when I shot down Tali in Mass Effect 2, but Liara was always my woman.

I also felt terrible after playing The Force Unleashed 2. Not because of any action on my part, jut because I played the game...

 

[MetalMagpie]

Not exactly a choice I made, but I felt really bad about killing the Rakk Hive in the first Borderlands. It went down without really fighting back, then just lay there gasping for air. I tried a couple of times to shoot it in the head and put it out of its misery, but it didn't work. I felt like a total bastard every time I had to walk past it, even after it had stopped twitching.

 

[MrBenSampson]

I've been playing as an evil bastard in games for so long that I've stopped feeling sympathy for NPCs... Or so I thought. The evil choices in Fallout 3 would often make me laugh like the Joker, but there was that one unpleasant moment...

Spoiler

when I decided to kill Harold with a flame-thrower. I can still hear the screaming.

 

[KiloFox]

what is this remorse emotion of which you speak? it sounds like a debilitating weakness to me.

yeah, i almost always play the evil branch in games and i love games that let you play an anti-hero (see Disgaea) i do feel bad when i break my loyalty though. (which includes letting allies i WASN'T planning on double-crossing die) but remorseful? nah. i just reload and make sure they live.

i guess the most i ever get to remorse is when i have to kill animals or anthros/weres in games. people suck and i hold no remorse for them, but animals are innocent in that bullshit and i love anthros and weres. i don't wanna kill them. i wanna JOIN THEM

 

[freaper]

Yep.

That's why I quit my Renegade playthrough of Mass Effect 1 after 15 minutes of playing.

(Spoiler for Spec Ops: the Line)

Spoiler

Or why I shot myself at the end. I wouldn't be able to live after all that.

 

[King of Wei]

Walking Dead episode 3, I let the girl get eaten by the walkers to buy me extra time to gather supplies. You can hear her screaming for help for a go0d 30 seconds before she finally dies and the walkers somehow hone in on your position.

Being slowly eaten alive is a horrible way to go so I did feel bad for a bit, but she died for a good cause. I would have been more inclined to help her had she not screamed her head off and got the attention of every damn walker in a 5 mile radius.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

After the pivotal point in Spec Ops: The Line everything I did was laced with regret and remorse.

And yet I kept on playing.

GOD IN HEAVEN YES. I forced myself to play through that, just to see if it lived up to it's hype, and... I knew every single twist and turn, I had every moral choice planned out before they showed up, and even then... I felt DIRTY playing through that game.

Spoiler: MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR SPEC OPS THE LINE, DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU'VE FINISHED!

The white phosporus, the water tanks, destroying the Radioman's tower... When I had a choice other than turning the game off, I always went for the merciful option. Saving the civves instead of Gould, mercy-killing Riggs, refusing to kill the crowd that lynched Lugo. In the end, I proved Konrad's philosophiy that soldiers can't go home wrong, and chose The Road Back. But even then, I know that I can never enjoy a modern war game again.

Heck, it even managed to turn something I really wanted to see against me. Being English, and farily fed up with "America saves the world" gunwank, I was actually kinda looking forward to facing American enemies. But then... remember Chapter 5? The Edge? The first pair of enemeis you come across aren't patroling or anything, they're just taking a little break, swapping gum, bitching about their squadates, talking about the view and finding a moment of peace in the hellhole that is Dubai. I didn't really want to shoot them, but I had to if I wanted to continue. Then I snuck past their corpses, and I heard a soldier and his commanding officer talking about how many peole they've lost, and wondering why the guys upstairs, the ones I killed, haven't reported in yet.

I paused for a while after hearing that.

 

[winginson]

Fallout games. I keep trying to do evil playthroughs but I can't. The world is so screwed up already that I find it too hard to make it even worse. However in the TES games I'm usually KittenEater McMurderface.

 

[bafrali]

In Half Life 2 i feel terrible when i let the Alyx die from enemy pressure, especially when i am supposed to protect her during some of the missions.