What's the most evil thing you've ever done in a video game?

[bigfatcarp93]

In one of my Fable: TLC playthroughs, I pretty much went full Evil Overlord, horns and dark magic and everything. I pretty much spent the bulk of the playthrough wandering Albion just killing indiscriminently (spellcheck says this is wrong, but fuck it) and on a whim. I would just cat down anyone I saw, and I got so powerful that no one could stop me.

Good times.

 

[Something Amyss]

I played Saint Row 2.

I mean, I've done evil things before (and since), but never such recreational evil.

 

[Something Amyss]

GTA murder sprees. Not sure what gets more evil than running around as a psychopath in dirty underwear mowing down innocent bystanders and causing general chaos just because.

Doing it in Saints Row 2, parachuting in with dual SMGs just because.

Or IV, doing it with superpowers.

 

[soren7550]

Recently? Can't think of anything I've done on purpose recently (did accidentally euthanize a guy in State of Decay by kicking his head in), but I do remember a particular evil I did years back.

In Zoo Tycoon, I made exhibits where people were the attractions. Now, in order to keep them in there, you need to make the exhibit a deep pit, otherwise they'll just walk out. A zookeeper won't feed them or maintain the show, so to keep them happy, you need to imprison a janitor as well and install a restaurant and a bathroom or two. Add in some benches and garbage cans, and you got a recreation of their natural habitat!
Also, I built electrified fencing around the exit so that no one could leave and release a bunch of dinosaurs. And at some point I had a fighting arena where I'd pit animals against one another. Penguins are savage beasts.

 

[tangoprime]

I'd have to say pretty much every single time I play GTA Online is pretty evil. I mean, the body count after getting to level ~100 or so, you've pretty much killed the population of a small town.

But what takes the cake... a while back I did a FO: New Vegas playthrough as a stealthy melee with high security skills, Mister Sandman, and of course, Cannibal. Goodsprings didn't make it through the night. Nor did any other town I ran across in my path to Vegas. To this day, I'm not sure how exactly I feel about that playthrough.

 

[Hubbl3]

Forcing Zaalbar to kill Mission.

 

[lee1287]

I Feel real guilt if i do something bad in a game, like kill an animal or something, so i tend to be good, aha. Though i kill copious amounts of hookers in GTA V.

 

[Ambient]

I toss people and children into the Everfall and off cliffs,summon giant tornadoes and cause earthquakes inside towns in Dragon's Dogma.
I shoot people in the back and loot them before they hit the ground in Skyrim.
I also got Brand-Shei sent to jail, but I actually feel incredibly bad about that.

 

[BarkBarker]

And in Infamous 2, on the evil path, I killed surrendering enemies and slaughtered civilians for such petty reasons as being in my way or yelling at/insulting me.

Same here, its not MY fault she tempted fate by saying "you wouldn't hit a lady...right?". Honest to god they bring it upon themselves, which is why I go the extra mile and throw a tornado down their way.

 

[freaper]

How's that for evil?

Idk, some people would laud you for your Machiavellian thinking

OT: Probably killing Nazeem after the umpteenth comment about me not being able to go into the Cloud District. Although, depending on the playthrough, I've killed a lot of NPC's.

 

[Dragonlayer]

Lets see....

Oblivion/Skyrim: taking and killing hostages until someone brings me the real Lusty Argonian Maid, becoming Listener of the Dark Brotherhood, killing and robbing anyone who looks anti-Imperial, crushing all those who stand in my path to personal power....

Rome Total War: betraying the other Roman houses and installing myself as Emperor, overthrowing the Roman Republic in the process, assassinating potentially dangerous Generals and agents from allied factions, cracking down on any kind of provincial dissent with overwhelmingly strong garrisons, crucifying the populations of captured settlements who tried my patience, pillaging and raping as the Germanic tribes....

Medieval Total War 2: exterminating the populations of any settlements who resisted besiegement, wiping out every last Italian man, woman and child after Venice dared to betray the Holy Reich, deliberately infecting spies with the Black Death and sending them into other countries as a living biological weapon, burning innocents as heretics and witches, assassinating the Pope and installing my own puppet alongside a German dominated college of cardinals, launching Crusades against political enemies, mass executions of enemy prisoners who had the sheer gall to fight Germans, betrayal of allies who have served their purposes....(though to be fair, I've implemented a policy of having Chivalrous Generals act with compassion and mercy - had a Crusader General who conquered the Holy Lands who was the paragon of honour and morality).

Company of Heroes series: Using incendiary weapons on Allied/Soviet medical facilities, playing exclusively as the Not-Waffen SS, driving Panzers over enemy wounded, booby-trapping civilian buildings....

Dragon Age-Origins: Killing Arl Howe's entire family in revenge for his massacre of the Couslands, killing the possessed child in Redcliffe, siding with the Templars and destroying the entire Mage's Circle, siding with the werewolves and wiping out the Wild Elves, destroying the Chantry's most holy relic and killing Leliana over it, fathering a child via Morrigan purely to save my own life and then murdering her....

Fallout 3: Butchering the ghouls outside Tenpenny Towers and getting a private suite, killing everyone inside Tenpenny Towers when I was bored, nuking Megaton out of existence, working for the slavers in Paradise Falls, enslaving countless innocents for a few hundred bottlecaps each, returning to Vault 101 (I think it was) and slaughtering the inhabitants for kicking me out in the first place, pledging eternal loyalty to the Enclave (God Bless President Eden) and helping them reclaim the blasted wastes of America by purifying it of degenerate elements, poisoning the water supply with the Enhanced FEV virus, crippling the Brotherhood of Steel by killing everyone within it I could, becoming Slaver-King of Pittsburgh....(eventually I killed every single human in the game, bar the Slavers and Enclave personnel I could avoid, and then went mad from loneliness).

Fallout New Vegas: Supporting Caeser's Legion all the way and bringing order to the Mojave, infiltrating the NCR as a double-agent and rotting its Mojave position away from within, betraying everyone in the Sierra Madre, sabotaging the ghoul spaceship, annihilating entire NCR outposts by myself, convincing the Butch and Cassidy-style couple into giving up their foolish plans and handing over their special SMG, then blowing both of their heads off, having Benny crucified....

Hearts of Iron series: Leading Nazi Germany to victory in the Second World War, absorbing the Wehrmacht into the SS (by renaming every new division as an SS unit), rampaging through mainland China as Imperial Japan, breaking free of British oppression as Fascist Iraq and storming into the Caucasus in assistance to Germany's anti-Bolshevik crusade....

The way I see it, there *must* be order and stability. If a few heads must roll, and a few towns razed to the ground to see that happen, then that is a price worth paying.

Funnily enough, I'm the nicest person you'd ever wish to meet in Mass Effect (provided you haven't broken the law or fucked with anyone I care about) and I just cannot bring myself to do anything genuinely villainous in that.

 

[Dragonlayer]

Well on my high chaos ending in Dishonoured when Sam tells you he's through working with you because you've gone too far and starts to slowly sail away I shot him in the back and carried on. It felt like the right thing to do and to its credit, the game didn't give him invincibility frames on leaving which I half expected.

If only the game had anticipated my elaborate way of making Lady Boyle's assassination look like an accident. Let's just say there's a bath in her room and she's currently unconscious... Anything is better than the non-lethal option in that mission y'know. That shit was fucking chilling.

what's the problem with the non-lethal option?

You give her to man who will "take her away forever", meaning you give her to a stalker and he takes her to a remote location, probably chained up in a basement until she "learns to love him".

I had fun killing everyone in my High Chaos playthrough, but with Lady Boyle I sincerely felt I was doing her a mercy - a quick blade in the heart is better than a lifetime with that creepy fuck.

 

[Phasmal]

I specifically experimented on how to kill children in the Sims 3.

I always join the Dark Brotherhood.

I make anti-mage decisions in DA:2 simply because I want to romance the grumpy elf who hates mages.

Oh! I had to just go ask my boyfriend because I had forgotten about most of my evil things, and he reminded me of a good one.

Heads in a bathtub!
Ok, so what I did was I went into Megaton and shot someone randomly, just to aggro everyone. Then you run into the ladies room. They'll start filing in and you kill them until the floor is covered in bodies both of named NPC's and random Megaton civvies. Then you go over the bodies with your trusty knife and cut all the heads off. And put them in the bathtub. See how full you can get it.

I thought it was funny.

Oh and I also chopped up that woman you meet in the house outside Vault 101 and hid her body parts all around her house, then gave my boyfriend the controller to see how long it would take him to find them all.

EDIT: Oh and I tied a woman to a railway track in RDD before I even knew it was an achievement. To be fair though, ***** tried to steal my horse.

 

[Erttheking]

I remember piling up the corpses of Powder Gangers in Fallout NV after I took back the NCR correctional facility and mockingly reenacting Shakespeare with one of their disembodied heads.

 

[Dragonlayer]

I specifically experimented on how to kill children in the Sims 3.

I always join the Dark Brotherhood.

I make anti-mage decisions in DA:2 simply because I want to romance the grumpy elf who hates mages.

Oh! I had to just go ask my boyfriend because I had forgotten about most of my evil things, and he reminded me of a good one.

Heads in a bathtub!
Ok, so what I did was I went into Megaton and shot someone randomly, just to aggro everyone. Then you run into the ladies room. They'll start filing in and you kill them until the floor is covered in bodies both of named NPC's and random Megaton civvies. Then you go over the bodies with your trusty knife and cut all the heads off. And put them in the bathtub. See how full you can get it.

I thought it was funny.

Oh and I also chopped up that woman you meet in the house outside Vault 101 and hid her body parts all around her house, then gave my boyfriend the controller to see how long it would take him to find them all.

EDIT: Oh and I tied a woman to a railway track in RDD before I even knew it was an achievement. To be fair though, ***** tried to steal my horse.

Ah yes, completely forgot about the sadism Sims brings out in me when I tire of a "proper" game! My favourite instance of brutality was forcing a default nuclear family to swim in the pool, then deleting all of the ladders and watching them bob around helplessly, unable to escape and slowly becoming more exhausted until they started drowning, one by one. First the daughter, then the mother, then the father and just as the son was about to perish, I built a ladder to let him out of the corpse and urine/feces filled pool (since their bladder stats needed fulfilling).

Starving and traumatised, I had him cook a meal in the oven without having any skill at it and when it inevitably caused a raging fire, I forced him to perform yoga squats until the inferno claimed him. Now that's what I call achieving Zen!

 

[Deacon Cole]

Playing Minecraft in creative mode, I spawned a bunch of villagers on top of a tall jungle tree just to here the grunts when they hit the ground and die. The children made a more amusing sound than the adults.

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

Nearing the end of the main story of Fallout 3, I returned to Megaton. It wasn't my home or anything...just a nice place I had visited for awhile. I then proceed to litter the place with mines, Nuka-Cola grenades, and other high explosives.

I, then, take a lengthy hike outside of the town, pull out my sniper rifle and shoot at the clump of explosives I left near the Megaton bomb.

The game lagged for about a minute before the carnage finally revealed itself. And it was glorious.

 

[Teh Jammah]

Surprised nobody's brought up the Closed Fist option in Jade Empire yet...

Spoiler

You know, the one where you take over the Soul of Death's Hand, then when some of your party object about it, bind their still living souls to make them your goddamn human puppets. And then mudering them to fuck, so you can use their blood to taint the water dragon's power, allowing you to usurp it, kill her and become a living god.

Although making Zaalbar kill Mission is a close second. Especially if you then kill him afterward.

 

[Schadrach]

If only the game had anticipated my elaborate way of making Lady Boyle's assassination look like an accident. Let's just say there's a bath in her room and she's currently unconscious... Anything is better than the non-lethal option in that mission y'know. That shit was fucking chilling.

Funny enough; I did take the non-lethal approach to that and I didn't realize until it was too late what I had done and how it was worse than death. I usually play the paladin when given the option but I rolled with this one rather than reloading. I'm not sure if it counts for me or against me that I wasn't trying to be evil in doing it; I genuinely thought at the time that it was the kinder thing to do.

Most of the non-lethals in that game are fates worse than death (except for having the one guy arrested, which is just slightly delayed death). Hell, if you non-lethal the priest you can find a weeper in priests robes with a note nearby that certainly sounds like it was that guy. Given a choice between just having my throat slit or dying of the plague in a gutter, well, one of those is quick.

My own entry to this thread is saving my daughter by dooming humanity to extinction, after destroying the ghosts of countless innocent people who really didn't understand what they were doing. I've played NieR.

 

[DataSnake]

There's a Shakespeare quote on the subject (click for specifics):

Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,

Spoiler: As kill a man, or else devise his death,

I've killed a total of 13,523 civilians in the Saints Row series.

Spoiler: Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,

Lady Boyle sends her regards.

Spoiler: Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,

The shill jobs in Skyrim, as well as the "he's the shapeshifter!" option in Prototype

Spoiler: Set deadly enmity between two friends,

Again, accusing others of being me in Prototype, as well as Skyrim's fury and frenzy spells.

Spoiler: Make poor men's cattle break their necks;

Skyrim again. And I know the owners were poor men because I had just stolen everything they owned.

Spoiler: Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night, And bid the owners quench them with their tears.

In Saints Row 2. It was a drug farm, and I was in the middle of the fumes from the fire. Good times. There was also the time I burned down the projects district, though that was mostly by accident.

Spoiler: Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,

Necromancy. 'Nuff said.

Spoiler: And set them upright at their dear friends' doors, Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;

Pretty close; I occasionally take undead thralls to visit their kids at the orphanage in Skyrim.

Spoiler: And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, Have with my knife carved in Roman letters, Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.

Not literally, as very few games allow for free-form writing on bodies, but the way I trolled Maero in Saints Row 2 was pretty close.

Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

EDIT: it doesn't fit with the quote, but there's a mod for Just Cause 2 that allows you to launch multiple unbreakable grappling lines. Let's just say there were bodies hanging everywhere after I found that, not all of them dead yet.

EDIT 2: Special mention also goes to how thoroughly I ruined Braith's life in Skyrim after she announced that she wasn't afraid of me. I could have just installed the killable children mod, but that wouldn't have been very creative. First, I used illusion magic during the night to make her father murder her mother. Then, I used the same spell during the day and let the guards do their thing. After making sure he was dead, I went back into the house, cast Undead Thrall on Saffir, and waited. Once a few more quests had been completed, I showed up at the orphanage with Undead Saffir in tow and adopted her. Once we got to my place, I decapitated her undead mother right in front of her and walked out, never to return.