There is a lot of disturbing things that games can do to you. Some are even gut wrenching! Although, this list will have some rules when it comes to the different definitions of "disturbing" to some players. There will be no scares that are disturbing and nothing that can scare you in particular. It has to be something heart wrenching, mind blowing, and suspense building. Hello Wandering Traveler and welcome to this top 10 disturbing moments in games. Be wary of spoilers and hope you enjoy!
10. What Would You Do to Save Your Son? (Heavy Rain)
You ever played Heavy Rain, then it must have been hard to witness this one scene. The game forces the player to cut off your own finger off as the Origami Killer wants you to record it! Those of you that have played the game are probably asking why? Well, it's because you have to do this to save your son. Although, it's not much of a suspenseful moment for me. I know his screams can get to you, but it didn't really hit me as hard as others, reason why it's not so high on this list.
9. Who Would You Kill? (Spec Ops)
Many of you fans may be asking why is this one here and no others? That's because that was an obvious placement on this list. But this one was a bit hard and not so fun. You are given a choice to shoot one of two men hanging on a broken freeway bridge. One has done nothing wrong or evil in his life and other did a crime. What crime? They never say what, but you have a choice, and it's not very pleasing on the mind.
8. Strogifaction (Quake 4)
Those of you out there that hate dentists, then this small scene will remind you of how awful it was getting that Root Canal 3 years ago. The player is captured by Strog Forces and is forced to go through the strogifaction process awake. The player gets a giant injection in his stomach, legs cut off and a translator implanted into his brain! God, I can't imagine the pain you have to endure for this.
7. Stick a Needle in Your Eye! (Dead Space 2)
One of Dead Space's most intense scenes, this surprised and scared the hell out of everyone who played this! God! The needle in an eye situation is so bizarre! Aaah! The game makes it more suspenseful as you get closer to the eye and no one has gotten this done on the first try. If you are visual thinker like me, then you probably gotten a headache every time you failed.
6. Cut it Out (Walking Dead Season 1)
One of the worst moments in the game. Well, when I say worst, I really mean one of the best moments that were bad for the character. Lee is bitten and you are given a choice to either tell the group you are infected or hide it. If you chose to hide it, you cut off the infected limb alone with no one to help you. If you told them, you would cut off the limb with a friend or friends by your side. The disturbing part is obviously cutting off the limb. You can stop mid cut and wait the pain out as you bleed out the infection, or cut it out as it was already too late to cut off without knowing.
5. Stay Quiet (MSG5)
If you played MSG5 long enough to see Quiet's torture, then you probably got yourself in a pickle when she was getting waterboarded. In the scene, she is getting dunked into a crate of water until she passes out. When she is out, you can here the guard unzip something. Good thing Quiet stop him before they could have any fun. And got something cut off in the process...
4. For Mother (F.E.A.R. 3)
If you played this sorry excuse for a game to the end, then you found some weird crap. The good ending (The ending where you play as a human instead of a ghost), then you didn't get as much of a weirded out moment as some players. If you got the bad ending, then you got something worth the game! Well, not really. The game ends with you possessing your brother and eating your mother's pregnant body. Glad I put that image in your head? It doesn't sound bad, but it just gives you a weird feeling while watch him feast down like a dog.
3. Sonic Boom
I know this is more of a personal pick, but I did not feel very happy playing this. I wasn't angry about how bad it was like Egoraptor, I was more weirded out of how incomplete this game was. You know that feeling when you turn in a report for school and you realise it was half done? It feels like that to me. Just worried I might get something bad out of it. God, I hated playing this! Playing this game became a challenge in of itself!
2. Adam Splicing (Bioshock)
Remember that first scene in Bioshock where you got your first Adam ability? Yeah, I hated that scene. I don't like getting needles in my wrist, so it was painful to watch him feel the pain of Adam. The pain he feels when his body adapts to the drug, the moment he plunges that syringe into his wrist, and when he falls down that edge to the first story, you can just feel it! Ouch! My wrist is starting to hurt now!
**Here are some Honorable Mentions***
Interrogation(GTA5)
This scene was suspenseful, but it wasn't that much of big deal in my mind. I know it's a bit personal to put it here, but it didn't hit me as hard as most have.
It was Your Fault (Spec Ops)
This was too much of an obvious placement on this list, and it was too much of a good pick to just throw away. It might have been too obvious, but I'd like to make you guys happy that this is here.
Until Dawn's Purpose
There are too many moments in Until Dawn that made my skin crawl! The game itself was made to do that, so this was a bit of an obvious placement on this list. The game is good, but too much of it was disturbing to put in one list.
Beat Down! (Black Ops 3)
If you finished the first mission in the Campaign, you are met with this cutscene. You are beaten and ripped apart by robotic soldiers which gave the best abilities in the game. Too bad the rest of the campaign sucked for this to enter the list. It wasn't that, it was because my friend's 5 year old sister thought this scene was cool.
**And Now for Number 1**
1. Remember, No Russian (Modern Warfare 2)
Remember - No Russian are the first words you hear from the sinister terrorist, Makarov in the beginning of the mission. Before the mission starts, the game asks you if you want to skip this mission, giving you a warning of what you will see since the devs knew this was a step too far. The game gives you a fully loaded LMG weapon and throws you in a Russian airport. The player thinks that he/she is suppose to kill all of the unarmed civilians, but what they don't know is that you don't have to pull the trigger. This gotten to the news and almost got the game banned from the market for giving ideas of terrorism. This really rocked the world as the player were disturbed by how they were made to do this mission.
What is your disturbing moment in the games you played? And did I miss any big ones? You can go ahead and tell, but as usual...
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