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Has any game made you feel more guilty than SotC?

explodet

Member
Bearillusion said:
Seeing my victims in MGS3 (in the river where you meet The Sorrow) made me feel so bad I almost restarted the game.
I'm still a bit ticked off (not much, just a little) that The Sorrow was spoiled for me on GAF. And by a mod, no less.
It changed the way I played the entire game.
 

RevenantKioku

PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS PEINS oh god i am drowning in them
Great Rumbler said:
The one that really got me was the old woman that gives you the list of presents to buy for her children, but instead you have to kill all of them. I felt really bad about it, but I killed them anyway. I'm such a horrible person. :(
Heh, I shot her in the head while she slept. Then I punched her dog until it yelped.
But once I got the highest rank in the Dark Brotherhood, my enjoyment in Oblivion waned. :(
 
That image just makes me want to go play some Mario so I can slaughter more goombas and koopas as I destroy their civilization of random, hovering bricks.
 

lyre

Member
Don't forget to rob them of all their shiney precious gold coins as well as their delicious mushrooms and fireflowers.

There is no better way to play the games. :p
 

ohamsie

Member
I just finished replaying Kotor 1 and 2. My intention was to go lightside for one and darkside for 2, but I couldn't bring myself to be such an evil bastard in two so I ended up being halfway between good and neutral.

I did enjoy mind controlling two thugs to jump into a bottomless pit on Nar Shadaa though.

"I should jump into this pit. I will reach the ground much faster." :lol
 

ronito

Member
Oh man I know what you mean. First I'd get a feeling of exhilaration when I did it, but then as they fell I was like "What have I done? Wouldn't that girl want him to stay good?" They might've been
mindless machines/seals
but still they did such a good job of personifying them that I felt more and more dirty the further I went.

Related: For some strange reason I felt guilty in DQ8 when I broke people's vases and took stuff from their cabinets right in front of them. I don't know why it's never bugged me in any other game. But in DQ8 it really bugged me.
 

ant1532

Banned
Cmon boys!
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I felt bad in one scene of the Warriors where the gang harasses some guy for money he owes them. He's blubbering "But I just got out of jail and wah". Then I remember him falling off a roof and dying. I felt kind of bad I guess.

In Breakdown just after you get your first real superpower so you can beat up those T'lan freaks and stop running from them I save the life of some scientist. I thought he was giving me sass however so I punched his face off. He probably could have survived if it wasn't for me.

In Morrowind I also killed Caius Coscades. Sure he was a nice guy, letting me sleep in his bed while he hovered over me half-naked. But yep I killed him and got that "The world is doomed" message. I think I killed everyone else that ever annoyed me, even using that one glitched spell I had that was 900-1000 damage with a 5,000 foot radius and 20 seconds worth of damage..whatever the case I wiped Balmora clean. After that I just sort of sat there and quietly weeped.

In Online FPS whenever I kill a guy who obviously is new to the game. Even worse when I kill this new guy 20 times in a row.

Deus Ex 2 was stupid fun with the ragdoll physics. You could pick up any body as long as it was either unconcious or dead. I'd toss bodies into dumpsters, throw them into showers(which for some odd reason killed them instantly), flinging them at guards to freak them out, hurling them against security lasers to watch their bodies catch on fire and hearing their dying screams. The only time I actually felt guilty though was when I killed some woman dying from a terminal disease and tossed her up into the air and caught her before she hit the ground.

Oh man that goomba with the brick through it's head is heartbreaking. :(
 
When I was playing Doom3 once, I got to that section where you have to escort the scientist. I was already set on edge by the game, and after a minute or two of walking behind him, the lights went out. I jumped and pulled the trigger on accident...and when the lights came back on, he was dead. I felt really terrible. :(
 
I can't bring myself to slap my Imps in Dungeon Keeper. :lol
And I always feel guilty when I beat the tree boss in Kirby's Dream Land.
I also felt guilty in StarCraft: Brood War
when I killed Fenix
.
 
echoshifting said:
You're nuts, I used to slap them TO DEATH to set an example.
I feel no guilt about slapping a Dark Mistress though. ;)

Aggh, me too. :( That mission was sad as hell.
Yeah. Especially because of one of the previous mission where he was constantly rambling. I grew attached to the character. But I gave him an honorable death: he died fighting a squad of Hydralisks and Lurkers (so I didn't use the humiliating Spawn Broodling). General Duke, however, was Scourge'd to death! :p
The coolest death in the game IMO is the death of Aldaris: four Lurkers striking him in an 'X' pattern, and then the final blow (well, the final cut) by the Queen of Blades herself!
 

TheGrue

Member
When I played the game, my wife would give me shit. "Leave those guys alone! Why do yo uhave to hurt them? They seem nice!"
 

Sfida

Member
Why should I feel guilty? It's just a game.

Besides, you all know damn well the Colossi would do the same thing to you if you were a giant statue.
 

-Rogue5-

Member
Sfida said:
Besides, you all know damn well the Colossi would do the same thing to you if you were a giant statue.

HEY, C'mon now. Most giants are more affraid of you, than you are of them -- they'd just as soon flee. The crux of the game is that the main character (you) loves Wanda so much that you're willing to kill anything; innocent or not... even puppies.

...In fact I heard that in SotC2 instead of giant colossi you would actually have to kill harmless, cute and fuzzy little puppies instead. It's supposedly really hard to do because of how cute and fuzzy they are.

Seriously though, I think the majority of emotion/guilt/etc in that game is in large part due to the AMAZING music... It's just, well, amazing.
 
I never actually played the game, but from looking at the pictures I thought it would be really cool and sad if the collossi were kind, sentient creatures, but had to be kiled because their existence destroying the planet or something like that.
 

RSLAEV

Member
Yeah, if those Collosi were wandering around helping children and picking pretty flowers instead of trying to obliterate me I might have felt bad. As it is, I took them down WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.
 

J-Rzez

Member
I feel bad killing the grunts in Halo after they yell "run away!"... but it's soo appeasing at the same time cracking their skulls with the but of the shotgun... or sticking them with plasma grenade and they yell "Get if off, get it off"...

Killing Sniper Wolf was pretty harsh... I must say... but not as bad as in MGS3 where you stand there in the open field above boss holding the gun to her, and it won't move on till you... you know... sob... hit-the-button... :(

but F-those colosi... I killed them all in self-defense, and in hopes of getting a piece with that trick yo...
 

Animal

Banned
i felt like shit after preordering the bouncer for 74.99+tx canadian ... If i remember correctly, the guilt trip for blowing so much cash on something so pathetic came within the first 10minutes of playing.
 

elostyle

Never forget! I'm Dumb!
Nothing beats killing the civilians running around in god of war for health. SotC? Not even close.
 

mug

Member
I felt like shit when
the damn horse fell... I was all like "nooooooo!!!" and shit then I weaped a tear. Although the gut clencher is when the horse walked ALL THE WAY BACK to the beginning with broken bones. Poor guy, best horse ever :p
 

Tabris

Member
RSLAEV said:
Yeah, if those Collosi were wandering around helping children and picking pretty flowers instead of trying to obliterate me I might have felt bad. As it is, I took them down WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

Except they were just peacefully sleeping when you awake them and threaten their existence. It wasn't the other way around.
 

Ranger X

Member
The only time i felt bad getting rid of some characters in videogames was in Manhunt and also when i killed the old guy in MGS3... I mean, poor old guy :(
 

Mikazuki

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That Goomba picture makes me want to cry. :(

The only two I can remember are

- Destroying my towns in Animal Crossing.

- Being an asshole to Aeris for no reason so I get the date with Tifa. :lol
 

Ranger X

Member
SolidSnakex said:
You don't have to kill him, just skip your date on your PS2 ahead a week and he'll die of old age. :p

You can't be serious... ( oh my god )
If this is true ( i'm sure you will confirm it or not ) it's another god damned "Kojima detail" that only happen in his games! ­ **love**
 
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