History YouBastard / VideoGames

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', a late-game critical decision determines whether you side with [[spoiler:Dagda and help him destroy humanity in order to create a new universe free of the gods' tyranny]], or go against his plans. If you choose to side with him, [[spoiler:all of your companions fight against you while SadBattleMusic[[note]]It's the same theme from ''Shin Megami Tensei IV'' that plays when fighting [[spoiler:Isabeau]]...and [[spoiler:Isabeau]] so happens to be among the former comrades you fight here[[/note]] plays, with every last one of them disappointed in your decision, and the battle is fairly easy just to rob you of the satisfaction of a challenging battle. Afterwards, Dagda gives you the choice of reviving one of your fallen partners to serve as your personal goddess, but it's clear that [[ReforgedIntoAMinion whoever you revived is no longer themselves, having been brainwashed to only take care of your needs]]. Later, Fujiwara and Skins rally the people of Tokyo in a final bid to stop you and Dagda, lamenting that YouCouldHaveUsedYourPowersForGood, with the outcome being that you turn them into a mountain of corpses. Ultimately by the end of the game, you kill YHVH and create a new universe...with only you, a similarly revived-and-brainwashed Flynn, and your goddess by your side.]]

* Remember how in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' you would take advantage of the protagonist's [[ChickMagnet way with the ladies]] and have up to six girlfriends at once? Well, you won't anymore as of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'', because if you attempt to do so, come Valentine's Day, you'll have to make a choice of a single girl you want to make happy, leaving the rest of them in tears. Ouch. Of course, [[BlamedForBeingRailroaded the game also grinds into you if you turn down their romantic overtures]], so it's really a matter of choosing ''when'' the game will yell at you.

* There's a subtle one in the 2016 ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2016 Hitman]]''. Your targets in the primary missions are [[AcceptableTargets scum of the earth]] (and you're discouraged from murdering non-targets), while the targets in the training are ISA employees acting out roles and [[AllPartOfTheShow "all weapons are simulated."]] So your conscience is clear, right? ...Except, in the second tutorial mission, the most blatantly-presented path to "killing" the target (and therefore the one that most first-time playthroughs go for) is to repair a disabled ejection seat in a fighter jet, then convince the target to sit in the cockpit and pull the right lever. This gets a special achievement, and is, like many other Hitman kills, hilarious to watch... unless you remember that you just launched one of your own screaming through the hangar roof, and notice the people around you break character enough to suggest that there was no simulation in place for that, [[YouMonster he's ''really'' dead]]...

* Go try to sell an animal in ''[[VideoGame/HarvestMoon Harvest Moon: A New Beginning]]''. The expression on [[NotGoodWithPeople Neil's]] face when he tells you to tell him which animal you're selling is ''depressing''.

** ''Lonesome Road'', the final story add-on for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', manages to give the player one from all the way back in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' and it's add-on, ''Broken Steel''. Throughout ''Lonesome Road'', you hear logs from a Dr. Whitely, a kindly [[spoiler: Enclave]] scientist. It turns out he was at [[spoiler: Adams Air Force Base, which the [[PlayerCharacter Lone Wanderer]] canonically seems to have destroyed]].

* In ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', you make affable treasure hunter Nathan Drake run around snapping necks, crushing tracheas, throwing men off moving trains, and shooting veritable armies of mooks. So when [[BigBad Lazarevic]] says, at the climax, "How many men did you kill... today?", it's probably supposed to be a boilerplate [[NotSoDifferentRemark "we're not so different" speech...]] but it's hard not to admit he has a point.

* ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'' has a TakeThat at video games that use this trope. The LemonyNarrator, trying to make a more appealing game for the player, decides to have a four hour baby game where you must continuously press a button to stop a cardboard baby from going into the fire. Now both the baby and the button pushing are extremely annoying, this mixed with the fact that game forces you to play this game for FOUR HOURS in order to beat the mini-game, its pretty much forcing you to let the baby die. And when you do, the narrator calls you out on it. Even though he basically forced you to do it in the first place.

* Mocked in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'' with the Morningstar sniper rifle, a gun awarded to you by the MegaCorp Hyperion. A gun for "murderers... like you!" It has a high-pitched, shrill voice that whines at you for killing psychopaths, robbers, pirates, and vicious creatures by [[WhatMeasureIsAMook saying that they could have had a bad day]] or [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes that they just wanted to feed their family,]] and that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality serial killers thought THEY were good people, too!]]

** This ''may'' have been part of what Creator/HideoKojima was going for in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''. [[MindScrew Then again, we can't be sure...]]
** Every boss in the series after they've been beaten.

* In the game ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', ''you'' perform one of these in a game that otherwise tries to allow you to revel in being a DiabolicalMastermind. Each global anti-Evil-Genius group has a Super Agent, a practically-unkillable Super Agent that can only be killed in a certain way. [[NubileSavage Mariana Mamba]]? [[spoiler: You strap her down in a surgery booth and make her morbidly obese]]. Not that bad, she can recover. [[BruceLeeClone Jet Chan]]? [[spoiler: You challenge him to a karate duel, win, and he flees to contemplate his loss.]] Thats okay, he's not injured except for his pride. [[ActionHero Dirk Masters]]? [[spoiler: You dunk him in a biological tank filled with chemicals obtained from his own steroid-riddled gym rag]]. Kinda fitting and justified. But defeating [[IceQueen Katarina Frostonova]], the emotionally-dead assassin who lived in a Soviet-run OrphanageOfFear after the KGB accidentally killed her parents? [[spoiler: You find the only thing she ever cared about as a child - a big teddy bear - '''and cut it to pieces in front of her.''']]

* In the game ''VideoGame/EvilGenius'', ''you'' perform one of these in a game that otherwise tries to allow you to revel in being a DiabolicalMastermind. Each global anti-Evil-Genius group has a Super Agent, a practically-unkillable Super Agent that can only be killed in a certain way. [[Series/CharliesAngels Mariana Mamba]]? [[spoiler: You strap her down in a surgery booth and make her morbidly obese]]. Not that bad, she can recover. [[BruceLeeClone Jet Chan]]? [[spoiler: You challenge him to a karate duel, win, and he flees to contemplate his loss.]] Thats okay, he's not injured except for his pride. [[ShellshockedVeteran Dirk Masters]]? [[spoiler: You dunk him in a biological tank filled with a chemicals obtained from his own steroid-riddled gym rag]]. Kinda fitting and justified. But defeating [[IceQueen Katarina Frostonova]], the emotionally-dead assassin who lived in a Soviet-run OrphanageOfFear after the KGB accidentally killed her parents? [[spoiler: You find the only thing she ever cared about as a child - a big teddy bear - '''cut it to pieces in front of her.''']]

* Remember how in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' you would take advantage of the protagonist's [[ChickMagnet way with the ladies]] and have up to six girlfriends at once? Well, you won't anymore as of ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'', because if you attempt to do so, come Valentine's Day, you'll have to make a choice of a single girl you want to make happy, leaving the rest of them in tears. Ouch.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Advance'' has the BonusBoss ''Kaiser Dragon'' condemn the heroes for slaughtering its fellow dragons simply for the sake of fighting in its introduction speech.

** The Fair Lady, Quelaag's Sister. You need the Old Witch's Ring to understand her, and if you can [[PlayerPunch you'll wish you couldn't]]. The poor girl's only comfort in [[IllGirl her unending torment]] (a consequence of her own selfless kindness) is her dear, beloved sister who looks out for her- even her devoted acolytes, the Egg-Burdened, can't do much to comfort her as they don't even speak her language. Unfortunately, if you're actually able to reach the Fair Lady, [[spoiler:Quelaag is already dead. Because you killed her. But not only is she unaware that Quelaag is dead, ''[[ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity she mistakes you for her]]'']].

* ''VideoGame/NieR'' gets a lot of comparisons to ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'', and for good reason. By the end of the game, you'll have the unpleasant suspicion that your desperate, well-meaning main character is kind of an asshole. [[spoiler: By the end of your New Game+, you'll learn that he's [[MikeNelsonDestroyerOfWorlds much,]] [[NiceJobBreakingItHero much]] [[TheUnfettered worse.]]]]

* In FMV-driven adventure game ''Quantum Gate'' and its sequel ''Vortex'', the 'bugs' you wind up shooting in the 'tween-act minigame were actually fairy people, and the barren planet is actually a lush paradise. Has slight UnfortunateImplications running along the WhatMeasureIsANoncute line because, even if they WERE giant bugs, you were still invading their home on behalf of an evil corporation, albeit one with a noble endgoal.

* Travis in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' actually calls out the player for enjoying watching him and his fellow assassins fight to the death towards the end of the second game. Well, technically he calls out Sylvia and the UAA, but [[BreakingTheFourthWall the way he does it certainly causes the player to pause and say, "Wait, is he talking to me?"]]
** The whole game is a subtle example to everyone that enjoys GottaKillThemAll plots. It gets less subtle in the second game with the above example.

** In response to the [[BrokenBase controversy]] surrounding VideoGame/MortalKombat11 toning down the [[FanService female fanservice]], Creator/NetherRealmStudios [[TakeThatAudience has given their former demographic the unflattering comparison to]] [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Shao Kahn]].

** In Stormheim the player can attend a jarl's wake and provoke the other attendees to kill them. One female Vrykul drops two poppy flowers, given by her twin daughters when they wished her a safe journey.

* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', some characters react strongly if the player chooses a more morally ambiguous option, or just one that character disagrees with. ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' has its fair share, but probably the worst case is if [[spoiler: Wrex is still alive and you faked the genophage cure, leading to a confrontation on the Citadel. Wrex will even go as far as to call Shepard a hypocrite, and the encounter inevitably ends with his death. If you killed the Virmire survivor during the Citadel invasion (which can only happen if you didn't visit them while they were in hospital), Wrex will call you out on that too]].

* There's a subtle one in the 2016 ''[[VideoGame/Hitman2016 Hitman]]''. Your targets in the primary missions are [[AcceptableTargets scum of the earth]] (and you're discouraged from murdering non-targets), while the targets in the training are ISA employees acting out roles and "all weapons are simulated." So your conscience is clear, right? ...Except, in the second tutorial mission, [[spoiler:the most blatantly-presented path to "killing" the target (and therefore the one that most first-time playthroughs go for) is to repair a disabled ejection seat in a fighter jet, then convince the target to sit in the cockpit and pull the right lever. This gets a special achievement, and is, like many other Hitman kills, hilarious to watch... unless you remember that you just launched one of your own screaming through the hangar roof, and notice the people around you break character enough to suggest that there was no simulation in place for that, [[YouMonster he's ''really'' dead]]...]]

** And then there was the FinalBoss of ''3''.

* Parodied in web games ''[[https://tinysubversions.com/game/ywhtwt/ You Were Hallucinating the Whole Time]]'' and ''[[http://tinysubversions.com/videogamemoralityplay/# Video Game Morality Play]]'', which were created largely as responses to ''Spec Ops: The Line.'' Both of them railroad the player into doing bad things (eg. shooting civilians, or playing a spaceship shooter where you were ''actually'' hallucinating and shooting orphaned children) and then chastise the player for it, subtly suggesting that the designers think this kind of false moral quandary is lazy and patronizing.

* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', when Ness reaches Magicant, he can recruit one of the five Flying Men to accompany him through the rest of the dungeon. If one dies, he can go back to their house to recruit another, but the remaining Flying Men get increasingly angrier at you for letting them die, and the graves of the deceased Flying Men have decreasingly detailed inscription until finally, all the Flying Man are dead and the last grave is unmarked.

** Do you feel bad about completing a Genocide Run? The game will make sure you ''never'' forget it. If you decide to do any subsequent Pacifist runs, you'll get one of two new last-second scenes that act as a reminder of the Genocide run: [[spoiler:either the player character wakes up and stares at you before letting out a modified version of the main villain's Evil Laugh, or the photo that normally shows Frisk with their friends has their friends crossed out, with the Child taking Frisk's place instead.]]

** And if you play the game as violently as possible, ''[[UpToEleven the whole game]]'' will contain not only multiple straight examples of this trope, but also become one long, extended, horrifyingly detailed non-stop meta example of this trope, where the entirety of the plot and the reactions of other characters to the protagonist are designed to make you feel like you're a horrible person for playing that way. In addition to the whole situation being designed to upset your conscience, if you go far enough down this path, you will get called out on it for having the power to stop and then continuing it anyway. Extremely spoiler-tastic, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-bLD_K9Ayc this]] video pretty succinctly sums up the overall tone of the game when you get deep into a Genocide run. [[spoiler:By the way, earlier when we said ''you'' we meant the player, not the player character. Characters begins to acknowledge the player and calling them out.]]

** At the end of each level, the game describes you with a "playstyle" depending on what you did while completing the level (examples: killing several enemies while in the line of sight of several ''more'' enemies will give you the playstyle "Exhibitionist", performing five separate combos in a single level will give you the playstyle "Combo Breaker", etc.); if, while completing the level, you made heavy use of silenced firearms, sneak attacks, and/or stealth, your playstyle may be listed as "Coward".

** At the end of each level, the game describes you with a "playstyle" depending on what you did while completing the level (example: defeating an enemy while in the line of sight of at least one other enemy is labelled as an "exposure". Completing the level with six or more exposures prompts the game to give you the playstyle "Exhibitionist"); if, while completing the level, you made heavy use of silenced firearms, sneak attacks, and/or stealth, your playstyle may be listed as "Coward".