This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Video Game Cruelty Potential: From YKTTW
Nornagest: The YKTTW notwithstanding, I think the later parts of the Grand Theft Auto series qualify. Kicking enemies to death, then continuing to kick their corpses to a bloody pulp; running people over repeatedly; killing one of your targets by burying his portable toilet in concrete; chewing up redneck farmers with a combine harvester for a satisfying shower of body parts. See what I'm getting at?
Cromage: After breaking this down into categories, I'm beginning to think this should be split up. All the shit you can do in Sim games/God games deserve their own trope.
- Over William: Seconded. We could even break up the different KINDS of God game cruelty (starvation, inferno, struck dead with lightning, etc).
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_-iZMkeuOs
Andrew: I won't delete this, but I'll admit that I find it more than a little disturbing:
This troper liked to spawn Barnacles in Garry's Mod and feed all sorts of NP Cs to them. There's just something hilarious about watching Alyx's pathetic corpse get pulled up to the ceiling by a long, dangling tongue and getting swallowed whole by a voracious alien...thing.
All those Moral Guardians bitching suddenly almost make sense ;p.
Black Charizard: Since I've seen several personal examples, I think this trope deserves a Troper Tales equivalent. Anyone willing to pull the worthy examples?
Nornagest: Cut —
- * Devil May Cry: This is (kind of) the point of the game, as while playing (technically optional), there will be a 'Style' meter shown. It increases based on the variety of the combos you did and lowers from getting hit. At the end of missions you are judged based off how well you did in terms of the Style component, the time it took to finish the mission and how many orbs you found in it.
That has nothing to do with this.
Sir Lemming: Moved the Thief examples from the Cruel God section to the Unchecked Player Rampage section, since it's not even close to being a "god game". Whoever put it there was probably just overwhelmed by the sheer length of this entry.
Redundance with http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCrueltyPotential, with a big "G" to "game". Perhaps delete this one ?
Neo_Crimson - Where would trying to get all the Bad Ends in Stay Night (and killing the protagonist Shirou in many horrible ways) fit into this trope?
