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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None, cos it’s a game and not real 🤣🤣🤣
Dark souls 1 - grey wolf sif, bo seeing him go towards me limping made me stop fighting
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
Starfield
Doing the crimson fleet mission… The end, If you side with UCDEF… the crimson fleet ship technician 😔
Nintendogs.
I tend to just mow NPCs down for fun
Even in RPGs
Cyberpunk made me feel bad for Johnny a bit tbh But overall I tend to just distance my own personality in those games and just do whatever I feel like.
Even if that’s just causing complete mayhem
Ghost of Tsushima, especially the ending choice 😫
They’re not real people. Just like movies, TV, and non fiction books. Poepl need to get a grip. Someone wrote it to get an emotional response, they were a story teller but they aren’t real.
Undertale genocide route
Undertale
None.
Bioshock. The first interaction when you have to choose between killing the little sister or setting her free was wild. I played it after my daughter was born and man that feeling that I got was crazy. I couldn’t do it.
MW2 - No Russian.
Felt like crap doing that.
Skyrim. I really like Balgruff, only sided with the Storm Cloaks once. I was not happy about killing him and reloaded to a previous save.
Oh! And when you have. To choose a friend to die in the trap in Until Dawn. I was fuming!