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

It's only a game, right?
"White phosphorous is a common allotrope used in your slaughter at the Gate. It can set fire to soldiers and the innocent civilians they are trying to help."
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Alright, I've got 2 evil deeds from Elite: Dangerous.

One day, I had accepted some smuggling missions, where I had to smuggle SLAVES to some different places 400 light-years away. Once I was there, I managed to complete some of the missions and got a handsome sum of a few million Credits. I then arrived at the next station, and as I was about to dock, the servers for Elite: Dangerous shut down for an update.
The following day, the servers were back up, and I was stranded in the middle of space with 26T of SLAVES in my cargo hold. The missions I had remaining expired, and the closest station had no Black Market to sell the slaves to. I then decided to jettison the slaves out of my ship, then RAM the canisters holding them. One by one, each canister exploded, ...until none remained.

I'll just say that it was a protest against slavery.

After this, I contacted Customer Support for the game, and told them about my plight. Except for ramming the slaves.
The lovely representative there managed to reward my account with 13 million CR as a result of server downtime. Thanks CMDR Kosmos and Frontier Support!


Another time, when I was in a dedicated fighter in an Anarchy system, I saw a Wedding Barge. Every time I see these, I get annoyed by them broadcasting things like,
"Help us celebrate our special day!"
Something popped inside of my head that day, so I decided to destroy the barge.
This barge then dropped out of supercruise (FTL travel inside a star system) and I followed it. The barge did not notice yet.
I rammed it with my ship so its shields failed (my shields were perfectly fine).
No response from the ship yet.
I started to shoot it, so it then attempted to flee.
The CMDR of the NPC ship said something like this,
"White wedding? More like white death!"

The wedding barge was promptly destroyed.


Following the game's lore, it states that CMDRs inside of ships do not die when the ship is destroyed, they are 'micro-warped' to the previous station that they had visited.

It seems like the NPC CMDR will live on to indirectly kill brides and grooms at weddings.

 

Without spoilers, taking the so-called "Lawful" route in Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together comes to mind. One of the few times where choosing Chaos over Law turns out to be more heroic.
(This is for the more recent remaster of TO:LUCT made for the PSX handhelds, though, where you have to play both paths using the game's "World" system to be able to unlock new classes/characters/items/features...)

 

Black and White 2 (God Game, PC)
So you can do almost whaat ever you want, be evil, good, win lands by force or by amazing buildings.
So.. Whats the most cruel thing to do that isn't sacrificing your little human peons to the Altar for mana? Build multiple Skyscrapers, highest point, fill them all (hopefully) with your peons, and then have your creature throw a boulder at the bottom of one (aiming right), to just COMPLETELY MASSACRE countless peons and their children... Yeah, thats pretty f*ing evil, not just Cruel.

 

Starbound
Cramped Colony Achievment

 

Inviting someone to the top floor of my massive castle in minecraft before punching them off the edge and laughing.

 

"Remember, no Russian."

 

Oh I'm gonna win this competition of one-upsmanship...

Let me tell you about.

THE MACHINE

A creation of mine in Minecraft: Better than Wolves. To the casual observer, THE MACHINE was simply a hole in the wall from which tanned leather would intermittently drop for crafting, however, if you listened more closely, sometimes you would hear howls of pain and terror from deep within it's bowels; for this machine turned pain and fear, into tanned leather...


Beyond the wall of the base (And veil of sanity) behind which it functioned THE MACHINE was broken into several levels. At the top-most level was a series of cows, bound into pitch dark cages, never to see daylight again. Intermittently, wheat would be dispensed into their cages triggering them to breed. The babies; never knowing love, would be washed down into another corridor where they would remain stuck until they grew big enough to crawl out of their confinement. Once they escaped however they were quick to discover that the only path forward brought them into a meat grinder, where their shredded carcass was seperated out; the hide macerated by a mill, the meat dropped into the next circle of hell...

This deeper, darker, dank layer below the grinder was eternally noisy yet pitch dark; almost like a sensory deprivation tank from hell. It was filled with sodden, starving wolves who have never seen daylight; eating the meat falling from the abattoir above they would naturally do their business, and the excrement washed out of their confinement.

This poop is then combined with the rawhide and boiled in a cauldron until tanned, and the product piped out a reasonable distance until it pops out a wall into a container inside my base. Far enough away that visitors could not hear or smell the source of the products, only marvel at it's seemingly magical productivity...




tl;dr - I built a self sustaining, fully automated leather tanning plant that was literally animal cruelty made manifest.

 

...you monster.

 

I once jaywalked in Grand Theft Auto, cruelly disregarding the people trying to drive and making them wait. I showed a complete disregard for the rule of law and the speed of traffic. In short, I am evil incarnate.

I'm living on the edge.

 

For me it was: Slaying countless Dragons, Humans and Evil Sorceresses in any and all video games, despite standing for Humanity, being a Wiccan who loves Witches and Sorceresses, and Dragons being an Endangered, Highly Intelligent and Awesome Race.(I love or at least used to love dragons, until I became an enemy of the Furry Fandom)
(Even if they were bad guys/bad girls, especially when it came to slaying Veran, Sorceress of Shadows, because she's very Attractive.)

What was worse was the game forced me to proceed with these actions in order to continue the game.
I remember FF4 forcing me to burn a town of summoners to the ground(no option to throw away that forsaken ring) and slaying Rydia's Mother.

Edit: Replies to some after-reading:

This is how you PWN Noobs in Co-Op. Owned.

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I think Kaminaze's got you beat, RyuujinZERO. Cause Personally I think a Massacre involving Human Genocide(against Russian Citizens) is worse than the Gory Slaughtering of Cows and Depravity of Wolves.(Idk, maybe it's just my thinking of valuing human lives over animal lives.)

 

Started up GTA San Andreas. Feel the huge amount of nostalgia rushing to my brain. Started off in a very familiar passageway and that recognizable bike. The first thing I do after that? Cheat in a goddamn tank and proceeded to rampage through the whole city of los santos.

Ahh... nostalgia at its finest.

 

Set creches ablaze in Black & White.

 

In Fallen London, I had the option of burning a place to the ground or freeing as many people as possible. They were all brainwashed and the entire building's purpose was to brainwash every person they got their hands on. The experiments they did there were horrific and permanently damaging. So uh... I burned it to the ground.

Kind of regretting it now. I may have stopped those experiments, sure, and I may have ended the suffering of those too far gone, but still... I committed arson and mass-murder...

Oh, and in the same game a woman had been turned to a clay statue (still sentient, only thing she could move was her eyes), so I uh... put her out of her misery by smashing her to pieces.

(\._.)\ I feel bad about my decisions, but I don't think I could've lived with myself if I chose differently anyway.

 

Running over all those Marines in Combat Evolved.

 

Killed Benny in Fallout New Vegas and took his head around the casino with me and rubbed the blood over all the people in the casino especially the casino owner

 

In Life is Strange, I let Chloe die... twice. (no bae over bay )

 

I think it was meant to be, to let many others live. Bad for her, though.
On the other hand, in Max's place, I'd chose Chloe over the whole city. After all, she was the closest to her, right?

 

I once forced some poor soul through hell with more Gravelording than you can imagine. It took four other friends to reach levels of Gravelording yet unseen by man. I like to consider myself a 'hardy' gamer, but what that person endured was torture.

 

Aside from the Genocide Run in Undertale:

-Sims 4 (or was it 3? Might have been 3). I did the "basement artist" thing. For those who don't know: there's absolutely nothing stopping you from creating an artsy sim, giving your house a deep basement, getting the sim in there, then removing all exits. Then you give him nothing but an easel, a fridge, a shower and a toilet - just so that he doesn't die. He gets REAL good at art, and basically can fund anything the family living above could need, but he does get a little insane.

-Actually come to think of it, I did a whole lot of cruel things in a lot of Sims games. Set the house on fire on purpose after deleting the doors, POOLS CLOSED, putting a child alone in a room with a clown and no exit, and various evil things to children to see how long I could delay child support services. Oh, and in the Sims 4, I lured a Sim that my character didn't like into the 9th basement of my house (yes I had 9 basements), then froze her right there and then. I think she might still be there.

-Anyone remember Interactive Buddy? For those who don't: it's an OLD flash game about a buddy. You could do nice things to it, you could do harmful things to it. Thing is, to get more objects, you need money. And it just so happens that the quickest way of getting money is INSANELY painful - it basically involved finding the perfect position to taze them repeatedly, if I remember. Good thing it's all forgotten after a few minutes of being nice...

-Minecraft. The Slaughter room. It was a modded minecraft - but basically, the concept was as follows: have cows. Have a machine that automatically feeds the cows for breeding. Have a sensor that would detect how many cows there were in a pen. Once there were more than 20 cows, open gates, activate conveyor belts. Push six cows back in pen for breeding purposes. The others went straight to a painful, seventeen-stage piston-powered grinder (the pistons had some iron spikes with ridiculous, unbreakable, enchanted swords on them) to get copious amounts of steak.

-Minecraft again. There was a time where I kidnapped villagers with trades that interested me and then committed genocide on the rest of the village.

-Abused glitches to build unreachable sentries that could shoot inside enemy spawn points in Team Fortress 2.

-Gunpoint. Punched a guy 100 times in the face for an achievement.

-Gunpoint again. Threw a guy out a window and seven floors down a building for an achievement.

-Gunpoint AGAIN. Made a security guard shoot another for an achievement.

-...Basically all of the Gunpoint achievements are actually needlessly cruel, such as: electrocuting someone, kicking a door in so hard someone fell from the 2nd story, "leaving no living witnesses to your presence on a mission that has guards" (and I quote the achievement),

-Garry's Mod. Oh god the things I've done with Garry's Mod. I'm sorry Kleiner...

-Found the one spot in Batman: Arkham Origins where the roof didn't have an invisible wall. Threw someone off a roof.

-Skyrim. Not only did I commit complete genocide in every town - but I made SURE that every single soul would be trapped in a Black Soul Gem. To those unaware of what this entail: this is basically the ultimate worse-than-death fate. At best, you're denied the afterlife forever in a lonely pocket dimension for all eternity. At worst, your soul is slowly used up until you find yourself entirely in a parallel dimension of the dead where you're basically a toy at the hands of some higher gods or something, forever tormented. Either way, the afterlife is forever locked off for you.

-Starbound. Allowed a cat to have a long, painful death in poison for 216 pixels.

-All of the pointless moves I've plotted against a helpless enemy in Toribash. Especially those which just rip them in half or tear their heads off.

-Endless Sky. During my pirate run, I've pillaged countless merchant ships, stripping their ship of engines, weapons, reactors and jump drives. What does this mean? It means that they're stranded in the middle of space, with no weapons to defend themselves against any other pirates that might come and slaughter them, no engines to flee to the nearest planet for repair, no jump drive for them to attempt doing an emergency jump to a planet and all of that doesn't matter because they don't have reactors to power the weapons, engines, jump drive... and life support.

-Fallout New Vegas, the REPCONN facility. I started by pretending to help the Followers of Bright. Cleared out the basement... but before returning to announce the news, spend countless days - both ingame and IRL - amassing as many caps as I can, and collecting as many land mines as I can. And then I proceeded to go back in the basement, lay all 322 land mines I had with me down there, and THEN tell them to go down. There were no survivors - they made it 3/4 of the way though.

-Kerbal Space Programs. Between the de-orbits using a jetpack and the needlessly violent mun landings (lol, mun guacamole), my favorite pick has to be the one time I propelled a ship with 22 crew on it straight into the sun. TO BE FAIR I had high hopes for my heat shields to help any. HINT: they didn't.

-Starbound again, actually. Made a moon colony just to have some awesome weapons. Left them with the ghosts once I had what I wanted.

-And starbound again. Was hunting an outlaw. He disarmed himself and surrendered. I dug him a 4x4 hole in the ground and finished him off by pouring sulfuric acid on him.

-Mass Effect 2. Completed Zaeed's loyalty mission post-endgame. Left him to die after that (because it's an option post-endgame, because he HAD fulfilled his contract).

Might come back for more.

 

That never works. My friend tried it on LAN multiplayer (I TOLD him it was a bad idea) and then wondered why everything was so expensive. The prices increase when you do that.