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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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[–] thatdudeoverdthee@alien.top 2 points 9 months ago

None, cos it's a game and not real 🤣🤣🤣

[–] Skolpionek@alien.top 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Dark souls 1 - grey wolf sif, bo seeing him go towards me limping made me stop fighting

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[–] Sufficient_Fall_3290@alien.top 2 points 9 months ago

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

[–] Clockwiserioting@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] The_Other_19@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

SOMA, a game that makes you question what it means to be human

[–] Plagues-Demise@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

"Remember, no Russian."

[–] Original-Childhood@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Telltale The Walking Dead. Remember Kenny's son? Or that boy in the attic?

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[–] ElectricBOOTSxo@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Portal. RIP my best friend the Companion Cube

[–] HateBearUniversity@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Letho, I remember finally getting to the last fight hearing the full story and ultimately deciding I didn’t come all this way not to get my justice. It didn’t feel right but the whole game was chasing him down, to just let him go also didn’t feel right. Love the Witcher series.

[–] EuphoricFrogg@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I tried Monster Hunter some time ago but i just feel terrible for slaughtering non existent, imaginary monsters apparently

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[–] vienas456@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Spec ops the line after white phosphorus hits

[–] SnooRabbits8459@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Detlaff from The witcher 3 I mean i get this guy anger and motivation. But sometimes life is a bitch and all. This fight gave me no emotions but pity for him

[–] Logap20@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Dishonoured but only cos non lethal was an option and made me feel like I was supposed to do that the slaughter in that game is still beautiful

[–] SelamBenTen@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Undertale, Fear And Hunger.

[–] AiR-P00P@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

No Russian in MW3 made my jaw drop and I genuinely questioned my sanity before I left the elevator at the start of the mission. Do I play along and kill people? Do I run around and shoot around people and not kill them? What do I do?

[–] Miragold123@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Mission 43 in MGSV

[–] vidril@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Fire Emblem 3 Houses. For the first half of the game, you teach a group of students, get to know them, and endear them to you. For the last half of the game, you have to kill 2/3rds of them

[–] plymouthvan@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Any game that has attack dogs you have to kill. Don't make me kill dogs, ever. Let me rehabilitate them, or chain them up, or trap them inside something. Never make me kill dogs. Undead ones are okay, but still not ideal.

[–] adullploy@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Played the open beta for the upcoming call of duty when the Israel-Gaza was fresh and it made me feel really shitty to be running around shooting people so I deleted it and haven’t played again.

[–] SteamtasticVagabond@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago
[–] PolluxDiS@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Rainbow Six Siege made me feel bad when they started punishing for killing teammates. My friends were very happy on that day...

Does that answer count?

[–] bluejester12@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Killing Narfi in Skyrim. Dude was just a lowly beggar.

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[–] Doopoodoo@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

RDR2 when you have the mod that makes people die in more realistic ways, and often bleed out. Takes the immersion to another level and can actually make you feel bad

[–] Terakahn@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I don't think I ever have. That's probably bad right?

[–] LoganGyre@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In world of Warcraft there are two spots that make me feel bad.

Slaughtering the people in stratholm as they don’t know why there king is murdering them all.

And one farmer outside of stormwind gets super depressed if you cast an Aoe and kill all his sheep. Dude just straight plops on his ass and just has this very sad animation. Like you just cast a fire from the sky that murdered his entire livelihood and even if he wanted to their is no chance or even reason for him to get revenge.

[–] MuNansen@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I took down the Pirate faction leaders in Starfield. Got to know them well. Had some real characters among them. Then I showed up and massacred them. Felt bad. Was tempted to Reload and find some good non-lethal weapons, but figured I should wear my shame.

[–] Embarrassed-Depth-72@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (13 children)
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[–] Dr_Quack1@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Inb4 typical "Undertale" response.

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[–] KnackeredParrot@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (17 children)

Spec Ops: The Line goes to a dark place that played on my mind for a while after

[–] grizznuggets@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Is this the ultimate answer to this question? I haven’t played Spec Ops but based on what I’ve heard about it I can’t think of a game where killing has more emotional baggage.

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[–] THEONLYFLO@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I made the difficult choice of Jin’s father at the end

[–] Xenomorph_kills@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (5 children)
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[–] IAndrewNovak@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)
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[–] Bicone@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (19 children)

I felt genuinely bad when GTA V forced me to torture some dude. I hate that scene and it stuck in my memory.

[–] murxdrnj@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Stopped the campaign there in 2013 and haven't touched it since. Played some GTAO during the pandy but completely otherwise completely lost interest in the series because of that.

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[–] Poutine4Supper@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (21 children)

There is a scene in it takes two that acutally made me feel bad.

In case you know the game, its the one with the elephant stuffie.

[–] Stotakoya@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah that was messed up. The entire time my wife and I just were like: “Kids are supposed to play this too right…? Right…?”

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