Gaming Moments That Made You Feel Awkward or Uncomfortable

Bioware games are generally spectacular at making me feel awkward, making hard choices where either option is uncomfortable on some level. This is largely due to the fact that I do not read wikis or Save Scum to get optimal results, and instead have to live with the decisions that I make in them.

Eh, I've never had moments like these, to be honest.

It's in the Dragonblight. The Tuskarr have you kidnap Wolvar pups so their species will continue if the two go to war.

How about that time when Asura's Wrath ended?

edited 11th Nov '13 4:18:24 PM by Ninety

Another one: Beating Mr House to death in Fallout New Vegas. Like, sure, he was VERY morally dubious, and his obituary raised more than a few warning signs… But I didn't feel right murdering him, especially on the orders of that bitch Col Moore. A Man Chooses, a Slave Obeys… Wonder what that says about my Courier… (Not much because I still chose to do stuff like save the Dead Money crew, spare the Think Tank, stop Graham from defending into darkness, convinced Ulysses to stand down and had a hard time letting ED-E do his sacrifice

edited 11th Nov '13 4:27:34 PM by Emperordaein

Another one from Metro Last Light, the entire series gets a bit heavy at times.

Another DLC, you're a Reich heavy, you've got a minigun, the Volt Driver and a grenade launcher.

You and 4 others hold out against a ridiculous amount of oncoming men, snipers, riot shield troopers and another heavy with a minigun on this platform and you even destroy a tank to boot.

You hold the line and this big triumphant fanfare plays, you assume a badass pose and your comrades are cheering.

Then the camera starts to pan over the corpses of the attackers, some of them still twitching and moaning and you realize that well over a hundred people died trying to acquire a worthless piece of track in a pointless war. What a Senseless Waste of Human Life

edited 11th Nov '13 4:25:21 PM by LeGarcon

Why didn't you just shoot him? You still get a karma loss, but it's not as creepy as beating someone to death.

I used a super sledge.

A man chooses. A slave obeys. A woman kills all the gods and masters and seizes the wasteland for herself.

edited 11th Nov '13 5:05:39 PM by ShirowShirow

It's for an achievement.

Three words. By The Book. Surpassed Samus's breakdown in Other M as the more uncomfortable things I've seen in gaming.

The death of Skelter Helter at the start of No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle.

I hadn't played the first game, but I knew about the series to someextent, so I was expecting blood and death and sex jokes and all that, but Skelter going on and on about vengeance after having his head cut off, and then ripping his own head off again in an even bigger spray of blood set the tone of the game as being more over-the-top than I'd prepared for, and I felt a bit weird about playing it during daylight hours. Especially around my brother, as I hadn't, to this point, been known for playing really bloody games.

The intro to the Nathan Copeland fight and the finishing sequence of the Cloe Walsh fight were even more unsettling.

Still a good game, it just surprised me right out the gate, and I thought I knew what I was getting into.

edited 11th Nov '13 5:21:52 PM by Enlong

I would think that Bastion moment previously mentioned is a bit far from where I am right now, considering I just got one core after I met him (not the first one). lol

edited 11th Nov '13 5:23:41 PM by entropy13

Game's not long, it won't take you much more time. Said moment's at the very end, by the way.

edited 11th Nov '13 5:44:27 PM by Ninety

For the gore alone, or just the tongue-in-cheek nature of the gore?

First and ONLY time I tried Harvest in Bioshock. Every time before that and after that, I used Rescue. The one time I Harvested a Little Sister, I felt sick. In retrospect, that's the point where I should have realized Atlas was up to no good.

I'd say what you had to do to get Poseidon's Trident (Or whatever the artifact that enables swimming is called) in God of War was one of the more unnerving things I've encountered. I couldn't play the rest of the series after that.

Pretty much everything in God Of War III, now that I think about it. I mean, from the first battle of the game, where you beat Poseidon to death with your bare hands, from his POV, to the last one, where you do the same to Zeus, also from his POV, in both cases the screen filling with blood as you punch and punch? Seriously, that was a whole lot less catharsis and a whole lot more "what the fuck is wrong with the developers"?

I think they did that so you didn't feel cheated when Kratos kills himself at the end, and would understand why he did that.

"By the Book" made me uncomfortable too, but the more I play it, the more I find gallows humor in it. The grimy setting, the sinister music, the monitor beeping, Trevor's one-liners, Steve Haines' cheery smugness, Kerimov's whimpering…it all comes full circle, to the point where it's so dark it's funny.

"Vinewood Souvenirs-The Last Act", where a gold requirement is driving Al Di Napoli to the tracks and letting him get hit by a train. He begs for his life the whole way, and I always feel bad whenever I go through with it.

edited 11th Nov '13 6:16:24 PM by Robotnik

Watching Madison use the toilet in Heavy Rain.

Heavy Rain gave us male and female shower scenes, eating scenes, very egalitarian. But that was a bit awkward. You get used to the running joke that male video game protagonists use the restroom to "save their game", but Madison did it as an ordinary action, just something the player could do to immerse themselves in the game.

Nobody Poops averted.

edited 11th Nov '13 6:19:25 PM by FOFD

A lot of what Trevor did in Grand Theft Auto V. He's funny at times like the above, but there comes a point (such as him rubbing Johnny's death in Terry and Clay's face, complete with a display of his brain on his boot) where you think to yourself, "This guy isn't badass, or scary, or cartoonish. He's just a dick."

edited 11th Nov '13 6:22:03 PM by Robotnik

@maxwell: It made me cheer, if that's what you mean.

Basically any time that I try to play the "evil" route in a game for the achievements or 100% completion, especially if the evil route isn't in some way comedic. I mean, in Infamous, playing as an evil character just makes me feel uncomfortable.

While Renegade Shepard has some really funny lines, there are other times (like Zaeed's loyalty mission) that are just awkward.