Cruelest thing you had done in a game?

Murdered children to put my imbecile cousin on the throne of Navarra in CKII. I later betrayed him to put Navarra directly into my empire.

Used a grenade launcher on a crowd of civilians in PAYDAY: The Heist

On that note, in Watch_Dogs, I once saw an Cool Car, and decided that I wanted it. So I did what any normal human being would:

I pulled out an M107 anti-armor rifle and sniped the driver in cold blood.

Unfortunately, the car also exploded.

Also, more related to your topic (in the same game as before), a crowd of civilians were calling the police since I had just used my sidearm to take down a criminal. A rather large amount of them happened to be standing over a steam pipe (that could be detonated via hacking)

You get one guess as to what happened next.

You are clearly not the hero Chicago needs, but the hero Chicago deserves. *eg*

In one side-mission in GTAV I played as Trevor and I refused to let that actor out of the trunk of the car and parked the car on the train tracks.

Playing Horde side on World of Warcraft makes me feel like I need a shower afterwards.

Otherwise...well. I have a serious problem with positioning corpses of whomever attacks me in Fallout games. In TF 2, if the enemy team is bein an asshole I make sure to dominate the fucker and taunt. Also, Goldeneye 007. Putting proximity mines in the proximity mines ammo boxes in multiplayer :>

I shot Mordin.

I shot babies with a rocket launcher in one of the Scribblenauts games. I forgot which one.

In the second Mercenaries game (I forget the subtitle) I personally called in nuclear bunker buster strikes....

...on pedestrians.

For fun.

My country in Nation States was just ranked in the top 5% percent in the world for most authoritarian, with a rating of 3.537 Stalins. For comparison, the world average is ~0.322 Stalins.

For further reference, here is the (current) overview for The Most Serene Republic of Razzle-Frazzle:

Not mentioned in there, political freedoms and elections are outlawed, citizens are barcoded to keep track of their movements, political activists are routinely executed, and couples are required to refer to eachother as "Darling" at least once a day or face a fine.

edited 26th Sep '14 12:57:51 PM by TheAirman

I once threw a gun my friend really wanted off a cliff in Borderlands 2 just to spite him.

You monster.

I just started playing God Of War for the first time, and I'd have to say saving a guy from falling into a Hydra's stomach and then throwing him in there for no discernable reason is pretty high up there. I imagine it will get worse as it goes on.

That bastard ate the last donut, he deserved it.

Nie R in general. subsequent playthroughs show you that you are essentially a mass murderer of innocent people and that you doomed the entire world.

Once upon a time in GTA 5....

It was my first (and last) time playing, as I was at a friend's house.

Within 30 seconds of starting the multiplayer mode, I discovered the Sticky Bomb, and further noticed that they could be stuck onto cars and remotely detonated.

What happened next was equal parts hilarity and douchebaggery.

I proceeded to Jihad bomb literally everyone (i.e. Driving a car/plane/etc. at them and detonating the explosives) and within 15 minutes had reduced my karma to almost unholy levels. This proceeded until everyone either hid inside their homes, or rage quit.

My friend has not let me play on multiplayer since then.

I ate Nanako's science project.

edited 27th Sep '14 3:55:40 PM by Lionheart0

You bastard! Now she's gonna fail!

That's amazing, I have to try it.

Well, borrowing a friend's console and game, I played a little of Fallout: New Vegas for the first time over the weekend and blew some thugs' limbs off with that grenade-rifle thing that showed up in my inventory. They kind-of deserved it, though, coming at me with rifles and tire irons... (I'm not used to particularly violent games / ones where you kill humans instead of monsters).

I suppose killing Colossi does not count, even though I've done it multiple times in multiple playthroughs. Shadow of the Colossus is designed to make you feel bad about achieving your goals. Poor Phalanx, though...

As for purposeful, choice-cruelty, I'd have to say drowning Link a couple of times in a couple of different Legend of Zelda games. You see, some of the console games have interesting variant death-animations. I've drowned Link in Twilight Princess on purpose in both the Iron Boots at the bottom of Lake Hylia and releasing him just before surfacing just to get a good look at how he dies. I had read somewhere that something interesting happens in Ocarina of Time if you drowned Link via the Iron Boots. I tried it and it just went to black screen. I actually still feel bad about this. Poor Link! I love him, but I'm horrible to him.

My fiancee' discovered something cruel to do in TP when he was messing around in the game. In Ordon Village - hit the kids in the head repeatedly with the Slingshot. Also, find rocks, throw them at the kids' heads. They don't get actually-hurt, but they do have reactions of surprise and annoyance.

Doing stuff to Remlits in Skyward Sword. It's kind of cruel because to be able to pick up the demonic ones at night, you have to hit them with your sword a few times. Then you can throw them off the edges of Skyloft. It's funny because they can fly with their ears and don't actually fall to their deaths - that that's something I found out.

— Still not as cruel as the Link-drownings, though.

The cruelest thing I've done, at least recently, would have to be in a game called Hyperdimension Neptunia Mk 2. (A odd Japanese game where you play as moe versions of various consoles The gameplay is mediocre at best and there is far too much fanservice, but its funny enough for me to have fun with it).

For some reason, even though most of the game is not serious at all, there is a secret ending (Which is difficult to get accidentally, I should add) in which you make the character representing the Saga Game Gear kill all of the other consoles to power up a cursed sword as it is the only way to kill the final boss in this ending. This includes two young twins who represent the DS, after you kill their big sister (the Wii) in front of them, and your own sister (The unrelesed Saga Neptune) who begs you to kill her after she help you kill all the other consoles. The worst part is that the final boss doesn't put up a fight after she realises what you have done, since you have done her work yourself.

Your character understandably gets a Heroic BSoD during this ending. So putting that character through that is probably the cruelest thing I have done. It made me feel like a dick for doing this ending on purpose, anyway.

I used Unlimited Arakune while my inexperienced sister was using Tager.

In Fallout New Vegas, I reverse pickpocketed Nuka Grenades into the scantily-clad hookers walking around New Vegas.

Sure, I got caught in the explosion, but the difference between her and me was that I suffered minor radiation burns, and her torso skyrocketed into the stratosphere.

Is it cruel? Hmm yeah, kinda. Is it funny as hell? Damn right it is!

edited 3rd Oct '14 7:28:15 PM by DRCEQ

I forgot you could do that! I need to play Fallout again.

Got all the endings in Strange Journey. Two of which are:

Law ending: Enslaving and brainwashing humanity to a insane tyrant deity.

Chaos ending: Reducing humanity to barbarians and turning Earth into a Death World.

@Trip: Got the reference, Trip.

edited 4th Oct '14 9:13:59 PM by HeirophantsFool