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2012/11/17 07:07:10
Subject: Re:Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
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I'm not sure if it REALLY counts, but the Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas was quite...jarring compared to the others. I mean, Old World Blues is pretty campy and OTT, Honest Hearts is kind of a bland story, and Lonesome Road is nice and dramatic. Dead Money, though, that was an actual survival horror game in Fallout. A choking mist covering the Sierra Madre, "ghost people" that are hard to kill (but will kill you quickly), a freaking eerie soundtrack, a character who had her face cut up and her vocal chords surgically removed...the list goes on.
Oh, and on that same note, pretty much anything Caesar's Legion does in that game. More specifically, what they did in Nipton. Short version: they rounded up everyone in town, gave them all a lottery ticket, and drew numbers. The "lucky losers" were killed instantly, most were crucified, and the second-place winner had his knees broken so he couldn't leave. One lucky man got to leave unharmed, but terrified out of his wits.
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Locclo wrote: I'm not sure if it REALLY counts, but the Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas was quite...jarring compared to the others. I mean, Old World Blues is pretty campy and OTT, Honest Hearts is kind of a bland story, and Lonesome Road is nice and dramatic. Dead Money, though, that was an actual survival horror game in Fallout. A choking mist covering the Sierra Madre, "ghost people" that are hard to kill (but will kill you quickly), a freaking eerie soundtrack, a character who had her face cut up and her vocal chords surgically removed...the list goes on.
Yeah, Dead Money was creepy compared to most everything else in New Vegas, except maybe parts in Lonesome Road. And the part at the end when you
Spoiler:
trap Father Elijah in the Sierra Madre vault
is pretty horrible.
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2012/11/18 17:57:11
Subject: Re:Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Locclo wrote: I'm not sure if it REALLY counts, but the Dead Money DLC for Fallout: New Vegas was quite...jarring compared to the others. I mean, Old World Blues is pretty campy and OTT, Honest Hearts is kind of a bland story, and Lonesome Road is nice and dramatic. Dead Money, though, that was an actual survival horror game in Fallout. A choking mist covering the Sierra Madre, "ghost people" that are hard to kill (but will kill you quickly), a freaking eerie soundtrack, a character who had her face cut up and her vocal chords surgically removed...the list goes on.
I wouldn't say that counts at all. While it's dark and creepy, it's part of the Fallout series. Fallout is a series with some campy humor counterbalanced by absolutely bleak and terrifying life in a post-apocalyptic hellscape. If anything, Old World Blues is the outlier here, as it's really funny despite some of the darker themes behind it.
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2012/11/18 18:16:42
Subject: Re:Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Mimi, from Super Paper Mario. It's a little girl that stalks you around a castle, and then turns into her true form by breaking her own neck.
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And then there's this Kirby level. Seriously, the music alone on this qualifies, but skip to :45 and 5:00 for some pretty weird stuff.
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2012/11/19 16:39:34
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
The Borderlands series is relatively lighthearted. It's violent, sure, and definitely not a children's game, but much of it is silly and over-the-top with the intent of being comical.
However, Borderlands 2 has some moments that definitely darken the mood, particularly concerning the echo recordings you uncover about Handsome Jack.
Spoiler:
-The Handsome Jack Here quest: He insults, then kills Helena Pierce and has Wilhelm massacre her friends.
-Tiny Tina's Backstory: Jack ordered scientists to inject her parents with Eridium in brutal experiments while she watched. Later you help her take revenge on the man who sold her parents out under the guise of "setting up a tea party."
-Angel: She is Handsome Jack's daughter, who he imprisoned and forced to use her Siren powers to charge the vault key by pumping her full of Eridium against her will.
-Bloodwing: He steals Bloodwing from Mordecai, then injects her with Eridium. The entire fight you are trying to subdue and tranquilize her, but Jack planted explosives in her head, killing her after Mordecai hits her with the tranq dart.
With all the silly enemies, amusing character lines, funny echo recordings, and over-the-top enemy taunts, Handsome Jack brings a serious dark note to an otherwise amusing series, and when you finally kill him, it feels wonderful!
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Duke Nukem 3d has some pretty dark moments, that go against the overall gung ho, over the top action movie style in the game.
Like what the aliens do the women.
If Borderlands 2 counts, then I'm putting Bloodrayne 2 here as well. Like borderlands, its a delightfully over the top action game with some fun dialogue and is actually quite colorful.
And then the shroud is activated, and oh boy does it become dark!
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2012/11/21 01:13:39
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
In Borderlands 1, when you visited TK Baha again after finding New Haven, finding him hanged on his ceiling fan was pretty dark.
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2012/11/25 14:16:23
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Naughty Bear, the whole time the narrator is happily telling you to kill bears in "creative" ways and everything thing else is silly and innocent.
You know Warhammer is getting to real when you being using 40K swears, for example "fug" and "Emperors Hairy Arse!" When writing this the word arse was not recognized, well done.
2012/11/25 16:03:17
Subject: Re:Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Jesus where do i start. Phoenix wright: the amount of 15 year old girls being invited into offices and being blackmailed into doing what people want? (Kudos goes to gant and ema in the last case of the first game, she looks rather...withdrawn when she comes out..). Plus the "justice in 5 minutes" system or whatever its called, makes you wonder how many innocent people are doing life sentences for nothing..
Another for chrono trigger is after chrono "dies" and you can go back to his house and talk to his mum and she asks just how her little chrono is doing...
Or the fact when that female character (marl?) vanishes near the start she ceases to exist due to you changing the timeline right? She says its a horrifying feeling of nothingness. Now think about how you went through the game rearranging the timeline..all those people...
Cant believe ReDeads from Legend of Zelda didnt get mentioned yet too >>
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2012/11/25 20:18:01
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
Oh GOD the ReDeads. Getting your spine humped by a corpse is not fun. Ugh.
May I also mention the deaths of the Archbishop, the Chief of Police and the Mayor in Scrapland, which while dark, is far from a horror game. Damn, they still give me shivers.
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2012/11/25 20:21:55
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
In fairness any light hearted game can turn dark, go play animal crossing sometime >>
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2012/11/25 21:10:28
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
None are as dementedly sadistic as that bastard and his cold greedy stare.
From to the moon, which I recommend. I also recommend not reading it until actually playing as the main point of the game is it's story which is really quite nice for a change.
Spoiler:
The client's mother backs over the client's twin brother, instead of counciling they opt for memory altering drugs. Subconciously the client picks up all the traits of his dead twin, and his mother calls him his twin's name as a nickname. She explains it as he reminding her of his dead grandfather, so calls him that at times.
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doc1234 wrote: Jesus where do i start. Phoenix wright: the amount of 15 year old girls being invited into offices and being blackmailed into doing what people want? (Kudos goes to gant and ema in the last case of the first game, she looks rather...withdrawn when she comes out..). Plus the "justice in 5 minutes" system or whatever its called, makes you wonder how many innocent people are doing life sentences for nothing..
I dunno, I think the Phoenix Wright games are silly enough to get away with it. I don't recall the implications of the justice system ever coming out, it's mostly just something that everyone accepts. Considering all the bull- that happens throughout the entire series (like the concept of being guilty until proven innocent, since no case is over until you find the actual killer) I think it's just a matter of suspension of disbelief.
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2012/11/27 07:17:18
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
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Gameranx wrote:In the Battle.net chat, there used to be a blue gem that adorned the area below the center of the chat window. This gem seems to have been meant to be nothing more than a fancy decoration but the curious thing was that it was clickable and it often gave messages like “Gem Activated” or Gem Deactived” or “Perfect Gem Activated.” Blizzard never revealed what the gem did and so this lead to a tremendous amount of myths and legends about the gem.
First, before we get into those, the Blizzard “Multiplayer FAQ” said this about the gem:
Q: What is the functionality of the Gem in the Diablo II Battle.net Chat room?
A: While we cannot reveal the purpose or function of the Gem in the Diablo II Battle.net Chat room, we can say that it is working correctly and has more than exceeded our expectations. Also, Blizzard employees cannot confirm or deny any rumors regarding this Gem.
These comments ran a whole gamut of possibilities. For example, some players attributed clicking the jewel and activating it perfectly to finding gems or gem shrines. Another player swore it said, “Moooooo!” when they clicked on it 286 times and then found a gem shrine.
Other players believed that it was a means to activate chat filters for curse words. Other people (testers for Diablo 2) speculated that the gem was a way to open up a trade window. Still others swore they heard from blizzard employees that the gem didn’t do anything.
Eventually, Blizzard added this to their multiplayer FAQ:
Q: I want to know what the Gem does in the Diablo II Battle.net chat room, and don't tell me you can't say -- just tell me what it does!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A: After a solid year of silence, we just can't keep the secret anymore. The long awaited answer to one of the most burning questions about Diablo II is simple: It does what it does. When you click on the Gem, it works perfectly every time, and that is what we have always said. To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, "Sometimes a Gem is just a Gem"!
Wow...kind of a dick move, really.
Although I still don't get the Irisu Syndrome thing. What exactly happens? All the article has is a link to a video and a place to play the game.
Edit: Just read through the whole list. So apparently a rare mob spawn in Mists of Pandaria warranted its own little section, but nothing about Ben Drowned from Majora's Mask? Silly.
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Not that Skyrim is light-hearted, but it was disturbing when I installed the new Dragonborn expansion to find it makes all the kids in the game lose their clothes.
Godless-Mimicry wrote: Not that Skyrim is light-hearted, but it was disturbing when I installed the new Dragonborn expansion to find it makes all the kids in the game lose their clothes.
I've heard of many strange glitches in my day, but this is undoubtedly one of the strangest.
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2012/12/05 03:28:05
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Portal and Portal 2 started to really creep me out after a while. Especially portal 2. When you start walking through the old facility you start to feel very, very alone. I got so creeped out after a while I turned on all the lights back on lol.
Also LIMBO looks like it might be a light hearted game on the surface, but it's not, to say the least. There is one part where you have to drag a corpse across a pond to use it as a "bridge", for instance.
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2012/12/05 03:38:23
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Portal and Portal 2 is a surprisingly dark game...
Then again the game has always used very dark humour...
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2012/12/05 03:48:12
Subject: Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
May the the blessings of His Grace the Emperor tumble down upon you like a golden fog. (Only a VERY select few will get this reference. And it's not from 40k. )
2012/12/11 05:21:21
Subject: Re:Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
Godless-Mimicry wrote: Not that Skyrim is light-hearted, but it was disturbing when I installed the new Dragonborn expansion to find it makes all the kids in the game lose their clothes.
I've heard of many strange glitches in my day, but this is undoubtedly one of the strangest.
Doshin the Giant is a fairly freaky game, it's all cutesy and light-hearted, but surreal enough to make the game a little bit wierd... got it with my GameCube way back when.
To be fair, the entire game is some wierd-acid-trip made into a video game, especially when you turn into Jashin...
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And that is why you hear people yelling FOR THE EMPEROR rather than FOR LOGICAL AND QUANTIFIABLE BASED DECISIONS FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE MAJORITY!
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2012/12/15 16:35:00
Subject: Re:Most disturbing things from otherwise lighthearted games/series...
doc1234 wrote: Jesus where do i start. Phoenix wright: the amount of 15 year old girls being invited into offices and being blackmailed into doing what people want? (Kudos goes to gant and ema in the last case of the first game, she looks rather...withdrawn when she comes out..). Plus the "justice in 5 minutes" system or whatever its called, makes you wonder how many innocent people are doing life sentences for nothing..
I dunno, I think the Phoenix Wright games are silly enough to get away with it. I don't recall the implications of the justice system ever coming out, it's mostly just something that everyone accepts. Considering all the bull- that happens throughout the entire series (like the concept of being guilty until proven innocent, since no case is over until you find the actual killer) I think it's just a matter of suspension of disbelief.
I always joke with my brother "Hey, for a Kids Game Phoenix Wright sure does have a lot of MURDERS" (pretty much every single case involves a murder or death)
Also you find that concept of "Guilty until proven innocent" silly? In fact that is actually very much based on the Japanese System of Justice.
You know, for a kids game!
Speaking of Phoenix Wright, Marvel Vs Capcom has its share of disturbing. Yea yea its all "Super Heroes" so its expected but still....
Nemesis turning into his tentacle Beast Mode and "consuming" whoever he grabs
Dormammu teleporting you to his home dimension and crushing you like a grape
The end boss in MvC2 Abyss who goes from an armored figure, to a man sized spirit, to a giant red liquid beast that could very well be blood or something
Several people abusing the camera man when they win (Rocket Raccoon brings out a friggin Knife to the poor man while Super Skrull breaks the camera)
MANY people's beginning and end quotes (especially Ghost Rider who tells pretty much everyone to go to Hell, even the Sun God Amaterasu)
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that happens throughout the entire series (like the concept of being guilty until proven innocent, since no case is over until you find the actual killer) I think it's just a matter of suspension of disbelief.
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