Your Most Shocking Video Game Moments

[Jennifer]

Headhunter: I've never had a game shock me with it's plot twist more than this one did:

In the game, you're a bounty hunter in a dystopic future (that's made out to be a utopian future by seperating it's criminal element from the general population and letting them fend for themselves). You are trying to stop a mass murder plot. You discover that a scientist has put a synthetic virus (that is dormant until triggered) in a popular beverage, and, under the guise of charity has given the drink out to every portion around the world. Up to that point, news broadcasts in the game would tell you that the beverage had become more popular than water due to it's healthful properties, with some places going as far to install the beverage in water fountains due to the fact that it was practically free. Commercials would play throughout the game advertising the beverage. At first they seemed like a simple homage to the countless dystopian sci-fi movies that played mock-commercials throughout the movie. But, at the end, when you think you stopped the scientist, one of the commercials goes out on all television broadcasts in a different color then usual, and it's revealed the commercial was the trigger.

[JordyLicht]

System Shock 2, no game has messed with my head like that one.
The multiple layers, plot twists, atmosphere and of course the amazing voice acting made for shocking and above all, very enjoyable, video game moments.

[KuroShiro]

Planescape: Torment, though it was more of a gradual thing than an 'oh shit' moment.

[Johro]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

10.) Silent Hill 2

Surprising because, being a figment of Harry's guilt, he had NO reason what so ever for being in this or any other subsequent SH game(other than fans liked him).

[Noname215]

There’s a particular scene in Dead Space where a guy has all of his skin ripped off of his body and he’s trying to commit suicide by bashing his head against a pipe.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

Headhunter: I've never had a game shock me with it's plot twist more than this one did:

In the game, you're a bounty hunter in a dystopic future (that's made out to be a utopian future by seperating it's criminal element from the general population and letting them fend for themselves). You are trying to stop a mass murder plot. You discover that a scientist has put a synthetic virus (that is dormant until triggered) in a popular beverage, and, under the guise of charity has given the drink out to every portion around the world. Up to that point, news broadcasts in the game would tell you that the beverage had become more popular than water due to it's healthful properties, with some places going as far to install the beverage in water fountains due to the fact that it was practically free. Commercials would play throughout the game advertising the beverage. At first they seemed like a simple homage to the countless dystopian sci-fi movies that played mock-commercials throughout the movie. But, at the end, when you think you stopped the scientist, one of the commercials goes out on all television broadcasts in a different color then usual, and it's revealed the commercial was the trigger.

That's so friggin cool.

[Hudomonkey]

KotOR's twist was pretty cool

[DAISHI]

Oh yeah. Sarah Kerrigan being abandoned to die at the hands of the Zerg.

[Shadowknight1]

Injustice: Gods Among Us had a couple of pretty good ones outside the highly obvious one at the beginning of the story.

When Batman and the Insurgents of Earth V break into Stryker's Island to rescue the Batman of the primary Earth, Batman and Green Arrow are confronted by Catwoman and Nightwing. After Catwoman is defeated, it is revealed that the Regime's Nightwing isn't Dick Grayson, but Damian Wayne who took the mantle of Nightwing by force, after killing Dick. The next one was the death of Shazam at the hands of Superman. Superman had just decided to release Doomsday and his army upon Gotham and Metropolis in response to the Insurgency and Shazam spoke out against it, saying that Lois wouldn't want him to do it. Superman grabbed him by the throat and then froze Shazam's mouth shut before he could say, "Shazam," and then burned a pair of holes in his head with his heat vision. This was horrific in several ways. First off, Shazam is really Billy Batson, a young boy. He is also, essentially, a Superman fanboy. Superman murdered a child that looked up to him completely.

[ryannumber1gamer]

Yeah some Injustice moments were shocking.

[Noname215]

Testament of Sherlock Holmes - The Death of Sherlock Holmes

[der_ketzer]

Playing a good poker game by Telltale. I was really shocked.

[Jen Kollic]

I'm not easily shocked by games, so these are mostly games I played when I was much younger.

Laura Bow: The Colonel's Bequest. CORPSE PARTY IN THE CELLAR!

SimAnt. THE SPIDER HAS LASERS NOW?!

Rama. Oh hey, it's that adorable caterpillar robot and OH GOD WHY IS IT EATING ME?!

Zork Nemesis. EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME. I was expecting something like Return to Zork, but nooooooo, it had to get all grimdark on me.

The pre-Broken Steel ending of Fallout 3. "Oh, the control room is super irradiated and will kill me if I go in there? That's fine, can you go punch the code in Fawlkes, since rads don't bother you? WAIT, WHAT? *reload with Charon as companion* Okay, Charon, you go punch the codes in, rads freaking heal you. OH THIS IS BULLSHIT." Basically, you have to either die and be a big goddamn hero or let Sarah 'Titwank' Lyons die. Even if you have companions that are immune to radiation and have no reason to not do it. Screw you Bethesda.

Also, am I the only person who finds Phantasmagoria and Harvester hilarious? IMO, Harvester is way better because it's not taking itself seriously in the slightest, whereas Phantasmagoria is supposed to be this masterpiece (according to Roberta Williams, it's the game most representative of her career) but it's just... terrible.

[der_ketzer]

Phantasmagoria is not terrible. (well okay maybe, for some strange people it is.)

[Darth Marsden]

It's hysterically insane. Good, bad... who cares when it's this nutty?

[Jen Kollic]

I just find it cheesy and awkward and not scary in the slightest. (plus it's aged terribly) I find the two Laura Bow games to be far more suspenseful/scary than Phantasmagoria, whereas Phantasmagoria just tries to gross you out with the murder scenes.

ETA: Don's hysterical 'evil laughter' cracks me up every time. EVERY TIME.

[Rather Dashing]

Originally Posted by Jen Kollic

The pre-Broken Steel ending of Fallout 3. "Oh, the control room is super irradiated and will kill me if I go in there? That's fine, can you go punch the code in Fawlkes, since rads don't bother you? WAIT, WHAT? *reload with Charon as companion* Okay, Charon, you go punch the codes in, rads freaking heal you. OH THIS IS BULLSHIT." Basically, you have to either die and be a big goddamn hero or let Sarah 'Titwank' Lyons die. Even if you have companions that are immune to radiation and have no reason to not do it. Screw you Bethesda.

Fallout 3's ending is symptomatic of the game's larger overriding issues.

[coolsome]

Not playing as Snake for the bulk of MGS2. Though not to brag but I didn't take it nearly as bad as a lot of the more angry members of the MGS community.

[medacris]

The ending of Mortis Ghost's OFF. It's one of those games that alludes to the twist almost from the very beginning, but very subtly and gradually over time. Totally changes how you see one of the main characters in hindsight.

[Shadowknight1]

Originally Posted by ryannumber1gamer

Yeah some Injustice moments were shocking.

Indeed. Great story, probably one of the best Justice League stories I've seen.