What's The Meanest thing You've Ever Done In A Video Game?

[Cfrock]

I don't like being mean, but sometimes it happens. Games give us a lot of opportunity to indulge our darker impulses, and sometimes we give in. Other times we seek those opportunities out. Sometimes we create them ourselves...

But for some of us being mean lingers in our hearts. Sometimes we do something in a game that makes us feel guilty, or just plain bad, and we maybe wish we hadn't done it. Have you ever done something that made you feel that way?

What's the meanest thing you've ever done in a video game?

 

[Fraxinus]

I was buttonmashing in RF4 and the dragon, Ventuswill, gave me dragon bones as a reward for completing some request of hers. Well I accidentally gave them back to her and she was NOT. Happy. I felt so bad.

I don't usually have the guts to be mean in video games, unless the character is completely irredeemable but even then, there's some charm in that.

 

[Spirit]

I threw a pig off a cliff into the sea in The Wind Waker.

It swam back but I felt instantly bad.

 

[Dio]

Mr Burke and his temptations were much too much for me to pass up. I can't say I felt bad about what I did though. I thoroughly enjoyed nuking megaton in Fallout 3. Later on I murdered pretty much everyone I could get away with in the wastes.

In Skyrim I just couldn't stop myself killing NPC's either after a while and places were very empty by the end and just didn't seem alive like they used to.

 

[Kirino]

If you count assassinating random villagers and townspeople and then proceeding to steal everything they own even though I don't need it, then that probably makes the list. This happens often when I play Skyrim. Don't usually feel too bad about it though, lol.

In terms of specific events, the main one that comes to mind is killing Whacka in Paper Mario. Poor guy is so friendly and sociable, only for you to keep beating him with a hammer for his tasty head lumps, after which he suffers progressive brain damage and eventually dies. Made even worse by the fact that this is the last member of the species, meaning you just caused an extinction. The game makes you feel even more worse when talking to a Whacka enthusiast who remarks that she hasn't seen him in a while, not even knowing that she's talking to his killer. So I felt pretty guilty about it, and as great a healing item as the Whacka bumps are, I can't really bring myself to hit him anymore.

 

[Spirit]

Oh also, I ran over a fox and felt bad in BotW, but that one wasn't my fault, it got in my way.

 

[Dizzi]

Hitting innocents and accidentally stealing...and running over pedestrians but mosta them walk in my path..

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

I've been desensitized to meanness thanks to RDR2, GTA, Skyrim, and other sandboxes...

 

[Cfrock]

you to keep beating him with a hammer for his tasty head lumps, after which he suffers progressive brain damage and eventually dies. Made even worse by the fact that this is the last member of the species, meaning you just caused an extinction.

Dear lord...

Yeah, I can see how that one would stick with you

 

[Princess Niki]

Teasing the boy with the glasses in Goose Game cuz he is the only villager that is not mean to you.

 

[DeletedUser8]

If you count assassinating random villagers and townspeople and then proceeding to steal everything they own even though I don't need it, then that probably makes the list. This happens often when I play Skyrim. Don't usually feel too bad about it though, lol.

In terms of specific events, the main one that comes to mind is killing Whacka in Paper Mario. Poor guy is so friendly and sociable, only for you to keep beating him with a hammer for his tasty head lumps, after which he suffers progressive brain damage and eventually dies. Made even worse by the fact that this is the last member of the species, meaning you just caused an extinction. The game makes you feel even more worse when talking to a Whacka enthusiast who remarks that she hasn't seen him in a while, not even knowing that she's talking to his killer. So I felt pretty guilty about it, and as great a healing item as the Whacka bumps are, I can't really bring myself to hit him anymore.

If he's the last of his kind, then how did he appear in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door? .

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

I can't say anything bad I've done in a game has stuck with me particularly. I suppose the most recent bad deed I did that I remember was in Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. In Anthony's Chapter I saved a monk who gifted me with a Long Sword, it's the best weapon in that chapter. I don't know why, but I decided to face the monk, I tapped the button to swing the sword which killed him, and it made my jaw drop. This is an old early 2000s game, I was fully expecting to swing the sword and for it to just pass through the monk. I did feel pretty bad that I killed him with the weapon he gave me as a gift. I also paid for killing him, because the act of killing an innocent human instantly drains your sanity meter completely - the last few minutes of that Chapter were trippy as hell.

Oh, and let us not forget...

 

[AnActualZeldaFan]

I shot the wall near the last Merchant in Resident Evil 4 with a rocket launcher to see if that was close enough to cause damage. (Also to clear up some space in my inventory so that I could buy stuff.) He died.

 

[Echolight]

Hitting koroks with rocks

 

[~Kilza~]

I was going to say "oh yeah I murdered a bunch of people in RDR/GTA/Fallout/whatever" was the meanest thing I've done, but then...

Mr Burke and his temptations were much too much for me to pass up. I can't say I felt bad about what I did though. I thoroughly enjoyed nuking megaton in Fallout 3. Later on I murdered pretty much everyone I could get away with in the wastes.

I did this too so oops