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.

  • Skolpionek@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

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

  • Sufficient_Fall_3290@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 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

  • mistcrawler@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Face McShooty in Borderlands 2.

    I killed countless brethren of his getting to this quest in the game, and I was sitting there for at least 10 minutes struggling with fulfilling his wish of “BULLETS IN THE FACE! WANT EM! NEED EM! GIMMEGIMMEGIMME!”

    The game was never the same without Face McShooty around…

  • augustus_feelius@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Ironically monster hunter world, last night while I was speedrunning a nergigante with a master rank bowgun, breaking both of the horns while it was helplessly stunned from the massive amount of DPS being dealt made be realise that even the most gruesome elder dragons in this game are still literal animals. Jesus nergi witn both of it’s horns broken looks so sad…

  • RainbowCrane@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Every survival or ROG game that involves killing wolves or dogs that attack me unprovoked. It’s not specifically the killing that bugs me, it’s the pitiful dog yip they always put in the audio effects. WOW classic is the current offender.

  • CubicleFish2@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The second plague tale game.

    I don’t think I’ve ever walked slower in my entire life because you know what’s coming but you don’t want to do it

  • LycanWolfGamer@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’d argue SOMA, no one else mentioned it but there’s a few times you can end the pain which is a mercy killing but there’s times they’re just happy, unknowingly where they’re at atm