Bit of an explanation as to what prompted me to make this post: I recently played through Sniper Ghost Warrior: Contracts 1 and 2 and I just felt off. I’ve slaughtered hundreds of innocents for my amusement in games like Fallout and TES, I play through No Russian with a grin, but for some reason, I refrain from killing bad guys in SGW? The first one has you hunt down Russian oligarchs and war criminals, while the second one is about Middle Eastern terrorists and this is the game where I feel bad about killing? There’s just something about the soldiers talking about their daily problems like making no money, uncomfortable boots and sweating too much, or showing eachother pictures of their dogs, not to mention the absolute horror when you’ve got a knife against their throat or when they find a body. I hope this isn’t weird, but I’ve never experienced remorse for killing a video game enemy, and I’ve played a lot of different games. I’d like to hear about your experiences, and which games do a good job humanising common enemies, the concept intrigues me.
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Last of us 2 when you killed a guy. When someone else finds the body he would be like MICHEAL NOOO. Plus killing the doggies didn’t feel good. They were just protecting there master
Dark souls 1 - grey wolf sif, bo seeing him go towards me limping made me stop fighting
None, cos it’s a game and not real 🤣🤣🤣
Okay I scanned down a fair bit and nobody has mentioned Undertale.
The biggest genuinely saddest monster fighting game there is.
Divinity: Original Sin II
In fort joy, I gave a hungry dog a piece of flesh, and he attacked me because he didn’t like eating people…
Heavy Rain. The guy in the apartment, that game sucks you into the story so bad I killed him because I actually felt like it was MY son I was looking for, and holy shit I felt like I actually killed someone. I had to put the controller down for a bit.
Mw2 No Russian
The ens of TLOU
I remember reading a story about a kid who played Shadow the Hedgehog. You can choose to side with the heroes or the villains. If you kill the good guys, one of them says something along the lines of, “THEY GOT BOB!!!” And the kid was so distraught that they started crying and didn’t play the game for a long time. But when they got back to the game, they realized that the sound clip is used almost constantly throughout the whole game. 😂
Assassin’s Creed! I was new to the game and still getting the hang of the controls and I accidentally stabbed a dog, killing it instantly, and then a young woman who ran over to the dog after I accidentally stabbed it, I accidentally stabbed her too. And I’ve never played the game since.
The sims… to start with :P
Deus Ex (original) - I was working for the bad guys?!
Super Mario Bros Wonder. I cry every time I jump on one of those little goombas head.
Hitman: WOA, there’s are some targets that will make you feel bad once you know their backstory (Ex. Penelope from Colorado and the Haven Island targets)
dark souls 1. Sif was just protecting us from his master’s fate.
dark souls 3, specifically Yhorm and the twin princes. Yhorm was a genuinely good leader for his people but he is a shadow of his former self. And the poor twin princes, their fates intertwined forever, just waiting for the end to come.
baldur’s gate 3, the drider Kar’niss and his crew. Drider transformations are a punishment and are excruciating to the one getting punished, so it always breaks the mind of the punished. And Kar’niss, volatile and insane, was deceived once more by something he thought was a new, kinder Goddess.
I just feel incredibly bad for him. Especially knowing how absolute shit male drow get treated in Lolth-sworn drow societies, so his life probably was crappy even before being turned into a drider.
i would add the innocents of the Grove but I refuse to do that ever. 😅