Cruelest thing you had done in a game?

I kill pigs as well as transport them to other islands in Wind Waker. Also, I have repeatedly suicided Mario in Super Mario Sunshine for the fun of it. I even kept records on fastest deaths for each level.

I have now blown-up Megaton in Fallout 3.

Take a number. Blowing up Megaton seems to be quite popular.

On the other hand, it's one of the most nonsensical decisions I think I've ever made in a video game. There is no logical reason to blow up the town, or listen to the man who asks you to blow it up. You really have to come out of Vault 101 an evil bastard to just up and nuke a town like that.

High-five.

edited 15th Aug '14 9:04:11 PM by FOFD

...Oh. Yeah, I remember reading about that.

...That is almost certainly the worst possible thing you could say to Jack.

That's why I prefer the faction system of New Vegas to the karma system.

I beat up some challengers in SFXT with Bad Box Art Megaman. I also gave him colors resembling X's Ultimate Armor from X8 so he'd seem badass. He's surprisingly good, I found. Simple, but strong.

No, the cruel thing to do is to crush Moira's dream. AFTER nuking Megaton and turning her into a Ghoul.

And then lie to your father's face when you get him out of Tranquility Lane.

After condemning its population to an eternity of torture.

The Suicide ending of Stanley Parable is particularly cruel, especially after going back to the glowing lights after each jump.

Yeah, but he'll eventually find out all you've done, though. And he won't be mad, just disappointed, and that's how he crushes you.

So, make it your prerogative to never complete the Dad plot if you can help it.

I was playing as the Byzantine emperor in Crusader Kings II recently. My brother inherited the Kingdom of Anatolia and decided he'd do a better job of being the emperor than me. I had him blown up in a manure explosion.

Didn't stop there though. After that, I had his pregnant wife strangled in her sleep. And then to top it off, had his seven year old daughter thrown off her castle battlements, and his baby son smothered in the crib.

Basileus Leon VI was not a man to cross.

Business as usual for Byzantium.

You really wanna be cruel, you should have captured him and his family, castrated/blinded the boys, and kept the women in your court long enough to marry them off to some Muslim sheik in the middle of nowhere Afghanistan. Just killing them doesn't count as nearly cruel enough for this.

@Journeyman, RE: Crime Lords: Even ignoring the sixth crime lord who you eliminate in-story, locking up the other five instead of just one isn't as good. You see, if I lock up all five, they could at least commune with each other in the cells and avoid loss of sanity, or at least rest easier knowing they weren't singled out and are not alone.

By picking just one, he gets to rot in a cavern/cell for all eternity knowing that there's no human life for thousands of miles in a given direction nor anyone suffering the same fate he's met, and that his fellow crime lords were allowed to go free while he was singled out for seemingly no reason (And they didn't even care as they left).

I went for quality, not quantity.

Toufuckingche. Nice work.

Ooh, here's another from the same game.

You see, one of the rooms you should build in your evil lair is a Freezer room. A big, large frigid room filled with large meat racks. But you don't store frozen goods in there for eating; the "meat" you store in it is the dead bodies of enemy agents that have gotten themselves killed on your island, to prevent them from rotting out in the open or being seen by other enemy agents, and for keeping them out of sight and out of mind for your own agents.

So, sometimes I'll deliberately start messing with the lock systems to goad an innocent tourist into my evil lair, lure them into the freezer, and watch them scream and panic as they realize they're in a room filled wall-to-wall with human corpses. And then I lock the freezer door...

The plus side is, once they eventually die from hypothermia/starvation/whatever, I don't even have to bother moving the body since it's already in the freezer.

On a nightly stroll in Clock Town, I witnessed a theft in progress. a bald man casually sauntered by a sweet old lady with a pack on her back, who prior to this, seemed to apologize to me for no reason.

The bald man, after passing by the lady, snatched what she was carrying, and started to run off.

Upon seeing this, I thought, I could just knock it off and have him run home empty handed. But no. I decided to take things up a notch.

Drawing an arrow from my quiver, I took aim at him, mainly the pack that he just swiped. The arrow sailed through the air and struck the pack, resulting in an explosion.

And with that, the thief was dealt with, now and forever... at least until the next time I play the Song of Time.

EVERYTHING in Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures. Here's a whole playlist which showcases how the player can be a true Dennis the Menace (US)

edited 17th Aug '14 1:14:14 AM by aNinjaWithAIDS

Killed children and people who annoyed me in Star Wars Episode 1 The Phantom Menace game.

Oh, here's another one.

I didn't give Natsume Spiral Edge.

no one will get that reference lel

(Hopefully I can revive this thread)

Once upon a time in Watch_Dogs....

I arrived at a possible crime scene in an alley. The scene seemed to be taking longer than usual to occur, so I decided to grab a vehicle (a postal service truck).

As soon as I could intervene, I did...

By ramming both the victim and his assailant with the truck while saying "Choo Choo, Motherf*cker!" for seemingly no reason at all.

Or there was that time when I used an ambulance as an IED when police arrived.

Or the time where I sniped a boat driver from 100m away with a pistol, just to see if I could.

Or the time when I executed a shop owner because I believed his coffee was overpriced.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a terrible person when it comes to games.

I purposefully sent Jacob in the vents of the Collector Base so he would die and I would not have to see his face in the third game. Mind you, that was before Citadel was released. I also picked Morinth over Samara once, in that same playthrough.

But aside from that, I really am a sensitive guy when it comes to choices, and am totally unable of doing most of the worst things allowed by the story. The worst of the worst in my opinion are people who decide to kill Falere. It is the most pointless thing in the entire franchise. Even gunning down Mordin may be somehow justified depending on the circumstances. Killing Falere is a clear-cut murder.

edited 20th Sep '14 3:52:24 AM by Julep

I used the double-barreled shotgun in Call of Duty: World at War to deliberately blow SS soldiers' legs off.

One time on TF2, a lone Scout made me lose my 10-kill streak the moment I exited spawn. The next life I got revenge on him by building a new killstreak made entirely out of only killing him specifically. Oh, and I would taunt in his freezecam every single time.

Sometimes I also deceive as Spy by pretending to be a friendly Heavy. That always seems to get people off guard. And one time I reversed it by actually being a friendly Heavy and letting a Spy disguise as me to troll with an Engineer on my team.

edited 20th Sep '14 11:35:26 AM by Tuckerscreator

Being forced to pull the trigger on The Boss in Snake Eater.

Really, because you wait for half a minute without any instruction before realizing you have to press the button.