Poll: Truly evil games

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Cid Silverwing

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I'm not a Pokémon fanboy at all (no really, I'm not. I quit Pokémon like forever ago after I grew up from it), but Pokémon is an invalid poll choice. The franchise doesn't encompass players going around enslaving the pokés and make them fight to the death. They simply pass out when they take a few hits too many.

Above is a rectification of a misrepresentation.

Back on topic - WoW is an evil game. It sucks your money and buys your soul, damning you to an eternity of mediocre gameplay that never ever gets fixed properly.
 

xxcloud417xx

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Read :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Cleansing_(video_game)

Now you know what true evil is...
 

XSA37

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Boxpopper said:
Well considering that in the Sims 2 I made a small building I called the "Happy House" which I would lure my neighbors into with shiny LCD's, then delete the door and watch them starve... I also put a piano on the roof of it, so my eccentric and sociopathic Sim could play lovely tunes while the victim suffered.
Hmmm I did that once. I also remade some of the set of Saw and used console cheats to kill my Sims off in the most interesting of ways.
 

Lyri

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Pulse Reality said:
"There is no good, or evil, just shades of fucking gray" - Francis McReary, GTA4.

Games aren't evil in any way (With the acception of RapeLay), it's just some of the people who play them are idiots.
What makes Rapelay more evil than any of the countless games that have killing in them out there?
Neither is great subject matter, all of them are virtual simulation and none of them have victims to speak of.

I would never class a game as evil, only the intent of the player.
 

Mjolnir07

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Zeeky_Santos said:
Flying-Emu said:
Poke'mon. You enslave small, fluffy critters and force them to fight to the death against people you don't know for cash.

Why the hell isn't PETA on these guys yet?

Oh, because they're too busy bashing on Cooking Mama.
By god men, the Emu is right! All this money wasted when we could have asked the monocled monster itself, the flightless freak is now worthy of my attention. Gentlemen, I bid you good day.
That was a tad harsh, don't you think? I happen to agree with Mr. Emu, and I think he made the PETA comment in Jest.
 

Akai Shizuku

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Mjolnir07 said:
Zeeky_Santos said:
Flying-Emu said:
Poke'mon. You enslave small, fluffy critters and force them to fight to the death against people you don't know for cash.

Why the hell isn't PETA on these guys yet?

Oh, because they're too busy bashing on Cooking Mama.
By god men, the Emu is right! All this money wasted when we could have asked the monocled monster itself, the flightless freak is now worthy of my attention. Gentlemen, I bid you good day.
That was a tad harsh, don't you think? I happen to agree with Mr. Emu, and I think he made the PETA comment in Jest.
Which reminds me, next time I see a PETA meeting happening I'm going to walk in eating a hamburger and laughing.
 

Mjolnir07

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Merteg said:
I voted World at Warcraft because I played it for a month and it was the MOST BORING game EVER!!
I felt the same way after a day. I was honestly disappointed; with the game which promised much more than it turned out to be, and with the millions of people who have been enraptured by a disappointingly boring game.

What IS the deal with WoW anyway? I was shocked at how lame it was after all the hype I had been enduring for years before I decided to play it. I'm a fan of rpg's of all kinds, they are my preferred brand of gamage, I felt unreasonably let down by a game that was virtually guaranteed by the size of it's audience to be the greatest RPG ever.

Thoughts?
 

BoxCutter

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KOTOR 2, it was designed to derail and ruin one of the most promising series of all time.
 

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Akai Shizuku said:
Flying-Emu said:
Akai Shizuku said:
Vrex360 said:
Pokemon is evil. Invade the homes of quiet peaceful animals, beat them down, capture them and take them away from their families then enslave them and force them to fight against each other to the death as soulless killers for the grostesque amusement of angry spectators.
How do the Trainers sleep at night?
Well, there is a degree of bonding between Pokemon and Trainer that resembles close friendship, which is the reason why I didn't include it. Also, most Pokemon you encounter in the wild are attacking you. And I doubt it's slavery because why the hell would a freaking Charizard be afraid of you, pipsqueak human?
Because you have the technological advantage of being able to shove it into a small metal ball against its will.
Holy crap, maybe you're right.
Maybe, but actually not. It's been discussed before (On this site) and it's always come out the same: The Pokemon are willing to do these things. In this case, let me direct you to the show, wherein one Charizard quite literally bats the pokeball away. Example number 2: Pikachu. 'Nuf said. If you want the full reasoning behind why this is not cruelty, use the search bar (Cuz I'm too lazy to find the many posts on the topic).

Also, Pokemon are not animals, they are monsters. No such thing as monster cruelty.
 

Nurb

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You can't be truely evil in the vidya games; its all cartoon villiany with gore to make you THINK you're evil...

sure you can nuke towns, beat hookers to death with baseball bats, beat people to death with a wrench, shoot beggers outside towns, but that's just being a major asshole. No developer has the balls to, for example, include kids in any of the games (and if they do, they're immortal). Peter Mollyeeeww came close to allowing it in the first fable game because evil people kill others regardless of age, but crumbled under pressure and just made them cry and get you in trouble. Of course there's the hypocrits who beat and shoot 3D people but gasp and say you're a monster for bringing up the question in the first place since you're already running over innocent bystanders on the sidewalk. Hey if you wanna be evil, go for the damn gold.

Another point is that being truely evil doesn't just mean killing everyone you see on the screen or picking "I don't care what happens to him, whats in it for me" from a dialogue tree, it's getting minions, ordering the deaths of those who oppose you, enslaving entire populations, making examples of people for no reason, make poor people vote against their own interests by scaring them with a news network you own, and lobbying the government to ignore your destruction of the world economy.

you're usually just a dick in games, but never "evil".

(note: I usually go the good path if there's a choice XD)
 

El Camarado

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Any game where you mindlessly kill zombies. Why? I am a zombie rights activist, and I feel they are racist towards zombies. In a slightly more serious way, I feel that it is basically saying "if something tries to hurt you, kill it", though it is minor, and a natural instinct to try to kill things that try to kill us, but still...

All silliness aside, I would have to say that the only game that really strikes me as "evil" is Pokemon. Essentially, you enslave wild animals, deprive them of food, and force them to fight, and in some cases, even help you capture and enslave more animals. What makes this truly evil is that it is marketed as being cute, and innocent.
I, personally, don't think violent video games are bad, because the violence isn't depicted as the right thing to do, usually. Even if it is depicted as right, like in Fallout 3 (how did THAT not make it onto your list, you gain karma for killing evil people, and cutting off and selling their fingers!) it usually isn't depicted as being cute, or innocent, after all you won't see any first person shooters where your enemies and your allies are pokemon who wield assault rifles... yet.

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, censoring violence, without eliminating it, could potentially be counter-productive. Instead of say, people getting killed by several bullets, and getting blood everywhere, if the person got knocked unconscious by several bullets from a slingshot, with candy, or something, spilling everywhere, that kind of markets violence as being completely harmless, fun, and, hey, people are full of candy!

I don't know, censorship just seems to make everything worse. When you think about it, why are people worried about children going on murderous rampages? Because people, especially children, are curious? How do you prevent their curiosity from allowing them to go on a murderous killing spree? Well, I don't think that covering things in black boxes, removing blood, and preventing them from seeing or playing things like that is the answer, in the end, in my opinion, they are more likely to want to see what is behind the black boxes, so to speak, than they are to kill people because they think it is alright because of violent videogames. Also, even in easy games, they'd probably die time from time, and I'd imagine they wouldn't think they could survive that much, meaning that they could learn that, if you DO something horrible (like murder) you could either spend the rest your life in jail, or spend the rest of your life bleeding to death after getting shot because you resisted, and then dying.
 

A Raging Emo

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Wizzie said:
Pulse Reality said:
"There is no good, or evil, just shades of fucking gray" - Francis McReary, GTA4.

Games aren't evil in any way (With the acception of RapeLay), it's just some of the people who play them are idiots.
What makes Rapelay more evil than any of the countless games that have killing in them out there?
Neither is great subject matter, all of them are virtual simulation and none of them have victims to speak of.

I would never class a game as evil, only the intent of the player.
I suppose that's a good point, but what about the Developer? Is he/she evil? Surely it's not just the player and their intentions that are evil...

I guess I'm contradicting myself a bit as I am now saying that the Developers could be evil. The Dev's desired use or idea for how the game will play might be different to the player's, as everyone plays differently.

Look at Fallout 3, does playing through the game as a good character mean you are instantly a good person? Is the opposite true for when you play through it as an Evil Character? No, it just means that is how you are playing the game.

With RapeLay, there is only one way to play: Rape the characters you are supposed to. How the Devs wanted you to play the game.

My point is, I was wrong to say the games are evil, I'm also wrong to say the Devs are evil; I'm not wrong, however, to say the Devs are misguided.