Inadvertently disgusting moments in video games

[ninja666]

All that grass you eat in Demon's Souls. Isn't grass supposed to induce vomit?

Yea, cause vomiting's surely gonna help for a stab wound, or blood intoxication.

I know dogs usually eat grass to instigate vomit when they feel they've swallowed something that doesn't suit them, I figured it would have about the same effect in humans.

I got your meaning before I replied the first time. The thing is, the use of grass in Demon's Souls isn't really something that would include the context of vomiting something out. You don't need it. You just eat it and it magically heals your bleeding wounds and/or cleans your veins out of poison.

 

[Evonisia]

The amount of heads you need to put in your bags in WoW is quite absurd. The rest of my stuff probably needs disinfecting after that, especially with the dragon heads.

 

[bluepotatosack]

Just recently I was hit by the realisation that the Apocalypse most likely puts a stop to all toilet paper production...

Yeah, think about that.

Hm, I wonder though. Depending on the type of apocalypse there might be enough water that isn't safe to drink but good enough to wash with, that you could fill like a plastic squirt bottle or something with. Homemade bidet!

 

[ninja666]

I just got another one: "Fresh beef" ration item in Mount and Blade. You acquire this by killing cattle. So basically your troops kill a cow, harvest raw meat from it and eat it without any further preparation.

 

[Teoes]

I've always thought it's really gross in any RPG when you loot dead bodies for equipment and items. Especially armor. I just can't get past the fact that in real life your bladder and bowels release when you die.

Hoo boy, one of my survivors in This War of Mine went to scavenge a house and disturbed the occupants. The guy came at me with a knife and got himself bludgeoned to death with a crowbar. His partner came running downstairs, ignored me and started sobbing over the body, while I rifled through his pockets for any possessions. She stayed there while I stole all the food they had, plus any valuables I could stuff in my pockets.

Yeah my character and by extension me, felt like shit for that one.

[sub]Didn't stop me sending someone else back the next night for more bits and bobs.[/sub]

I know it's not inadvertent in this game but it's linked to what you said and I still feel pretty bad.

 

[Monkeynet]

Drinking out of toilets and obviously unsanitary water in Fallout and some other RPGs.

I never really thought about it until now for some reason...

 

[Brian Tams]

Ever since reading the Nuzlocke challenge comic, I find it weird using things like rare candies and TMs on a pokemon, since I can't help but imagine myself cramming the items down the poor pokemon's throat.

http://nuzlocke.com/pokemonhardmode.php?p=24

(For those who don't know what I'm talking about. No, I don't know how to do images here. So what?)

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Assassins creed 3:

The bit where you invade abstergo with a knife. The guards are unarmed. You cant disarm them. You just have to watch 10 mins of you performing knife executions on unarmed opponents who pose no threat to you. You have to kill them to advance. Made me hate the assassins, i couldn't support them in the story after that shit. It was horrible really.

 

[Lieju]

Alchemy in Elder Scrolls. What? You want to tell me that making, and then later drinking a potion made from a yokel-looking plant, fish scales, grinded antlers, and a big toe cut off from a giant's foot isn't disgusting?

Oh yeah, I remember eating a giants big toe in Skyrim to see what it dose and then realising how disgusting that would actually be.

Ew, me too.
I mean, if you make a potion out of it I'm assuming it's all boiled and stuff.
But my character's habit of eating random corpse parts and things she found from bandits' sweaty pockets was just gross.

 

[Sylveria]

Just recently I was hit by the realisation that the Apocalypse most likely puts a stop to all toilet paper production...

Yeah, think about that.

If gaming has taught me anything, its that when you're on an adventure you never need to use the bathroom.

 

[Riot3000]

Old School would be Streets of Rage picking up apples and turkeys out of trash cans.

Any RPG with giants rats and spiders and what in a person basement like how did it get into that position in the first place.

In God of War 3 when you beat Posiedons face was one part holy crap and one half that is a bit much Kray Kray.

Since, in Skyrim, discovering what ingredients actually do, involves you eating them, there's a bunch of weird stuff that the dragonborn stuffs into his mouth to see what would happen if he put it in a potion.

Involves:

Toes of a giant, Deer Antlers, flowers, Crab Claws, Cat Claws, Bees, Butterfly wings, Dust, Human hearts, Elf ears, feathers, teeth and lastly Human flesh.

Can you imagine watching the country's hero, the Dragonborn, to shove all that shit into his mouth?

Depends I made my Dragonborn a skooma addicted Argonian who only saves the day inadvertently in the search of his next fix.
My way of showing the dangers of leaving world saving responsibilities to large scale random population sampling.

 

[Someone Depressing]

In Wakfu, monsters don't spawn. Rather, you extract their seed (literally) and plant it in fertile soil. It wasn't until I made babies from the seed of a hulking sheep monster when I realised the implications behind this thin veil of whimsical fantasy.

And it was entirely intentional. At one point, the game also advises you to be careful about who you lend razors to, and there's an entire armour set called "Orgasmik" that eats your skin and becomes your skeleton, yet you just stick it on because it increases your fire resistance, without thinking. Note that one of the classes are just walking skeletons. Oh, the French! (this is a kids' game.)

And in Oblivion and Skyrim, I basically sat down and ate entire monsters that I'd killed, the second I'd killed them, like a voracious hunger-driven, savage vagrant desperately clawing at his kill.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

In any game where you are locked into the character's perspective in every moment of their life, realizing that they eat and go through dirt but never go to the bathroom.

Also killing many animals and eating them raw, up to and including irradiated insects.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Murdering Dom's wife in Gears of War 2.
That's the most disgusting thing that ever happened to me in a cut scene.

Yeah sure eating out of a trashcan is gross but when we're talking about gunning down in cold blood the target of a rescue mission, that sort of takes the cake... out of the trash, and eats it.

 

[EHKOS]

Killed a Fate, just gonna walk into the Loom Chamber and AHHH OH ZEUS!! I NEED A PLASTIC BAG!!!

 

[JimB]

Final Fantasy X, when Rikku joins the party and Tidus spends about thirty seconds in a cutscene with his right hand elbow-deep in his front pocket watching the fifteen-year-old strip.