History Main / CruelPlayerCharacterGod

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[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=122 Leo is a cruel god.]]]]

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[[caption-width:427:[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=122 Leo is a cruel god.]]]]

-->''It's an idea that many people seem to latch onto that if we were created by some kind of God, then obviously he did it because he loves us so huggy-muggy much. Never are the holes in this theory more obvious than while playing God games, because it seems whenever you place most people in the position of a god and give them responsibility over many tiny lesser beings, then their attitude towards them is usually less about "beloved children" and more about "target practice".''
-->-- '''[[ZeroPunctuation Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]]''', reviewing ''SimCity Societies''

[[caption-width:427:Leo is a cruel god.]]

* ''RollerCoasterTycoon'' allows quite a bit of this. You can build roller coasters to nowhere and still run them -- causing the car to fly off the track and [[{{Madeofexplodium}} explode spectacularly]], creating a very nice death toll. You can mess with settings to rig prebuilt rides to fail similarly. Both of the above cut into your revenues. However, another option for cruelty is both fun and profitable! Give soft drinks away for free, then charge $6 for each use of the bathrooms.

* Any time you are playing an RTS game, pulling a WeHaveReserves sort of strategy.

** Don't forget to put a "No Entry" sign at the entrance/exit of your park, that way even if all your guests hate you because you're a horrible murderer who didn't build any bathrooms, they can't escape the park and just wander around waiting to die.

* ''VivaPinata''. Yes, ''[[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=229 Viva Pinata.]]''.

* In ''Sid Meier's SimGolf'', why build a nice green fairway between the tee and the hole when you could build a giant sand trap, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/simgolf-ragequit_5806.gif water hazard]] or celebrity housing complex instead? Laugh as your customers all RageQuit from your fiendish designs.

* The iPod Touch/iPhone game app [[PocketGod Pocket God]] makes you the god of a tiny island nation. You can either give them gifts (coconuts and fish) and make them dance... ''or'' you can maim/kill them in one of a dozen or more ways: [[spoiler:drowning, lightning electrocution, hurricane, fire ants, magnifying glass, vampire attack, shark feeding, manipulating gravity, volcano eruption, meteor crush, earthquake, squid feeding, Tyrannosaurus Rex attack and more to come.]]

* The iPod Touch/iPhone game app [[PocketGod Pocket God]] makes you the god of a tiny island nation. You can either give them gifts (coconuts and fish) and make them dance... ''or'' you can maim/kill them in one of a dozen or more ways: [[spoiler:drowning, lightning electrocution, hurricane, fire ants, magnifying glass, vampire attack, shark feeding, manipulating gravity, volcano eruption, meteor crush, earthquake, and more to come.]]

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[[caption-width:427:Leo from ''VGCats'' is a cruel god.]]

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[[caption-width-right:427:Leo from ''VGCats'' is a cruel god.]]

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[[caption-width:427:Leo from ''VGCats'' is a cruel god.]]

** This [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailer]] for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXME2pm83c The Sims]] shows how [[{{Deconstruction horrible]] this would be in real life.

* The iPod Touch/iPhone game app "Pocket God" makes you the god of a tiny island nation. You can either give them gifts (coconuts and fish) and make them dance... ''or'' you can maim/kill them in one of a dozen or more ways: [[spoiler:drowning, lightning electrocution, hurricane, fire ants, magnifying glass, vampire attack, shark feeding, manipulating gravity, volcano eruption, meteor crush, earthquake, and more to come.]]

* ''{{Nintendogs}}''. Sure, you can feed it and walk it and love it and all that, but sometimes that gets a little old. So you spice things up by oh, say, not feeding or cleaning it for a week. Or ramming it repeatedly with a Mario Kart. Or "accidentally" tripping it up with the Jump Rope. Or scaring it with the toy military chopper (with "Flight of the Valkyries" as background music!). Or throwing a Moai Statue at it. Or ignoring it for hours on end and watching/listening to its shrill barking and whining as it wanders where you've gone to. And that's not even getting into the OTHER things you can do to it: the kind that'll change your dog's personality from a sweet-natured pup into an aggressive, snarling hellhound that bites you if you dare to pet it.

** In addition to the comic shown above, [[VGCats Leo]] [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=199 has "fun" playing]] ''{{Spore}}''.

* ''{{Warcraft}} 2'' and ''{{Starcraft))'', by clicking on the critters enough times, you can cause a harmless explosion that consumes the critter and only the critter. Why would you do this? Why not?