Video games are the ultimate fantasy, letting you become someone you could never be in the real world. This means a super-powered hero or an athlete some of the time, but it can also mean a genocidal maniac who is exempt from the law. Video games have done some really nasty things to us over the years, and some of them are memorable. These are the bad things we’ve all done in video games.
Super Mario 64 – Throw Penguin Off Mountain
Don’t even lie. Don’t pretend you’re better than the rest of us. At some point, everyone who played Super Mario 64 found the lost baby penguin and, instead of taking the penguin back to its mother, as you should, kicked it off the side of the snowy mountain to its doom. Why did we do that? Hear the sound a penguin makes when it explodes? To prove to the Mushroom Kingdom that we were in control? Or was it just feeling that rush that can only be experienced by taking another life? Maybe it was all these things.
Super Mario World – Letting Yoshi Fall To His Death
It’s easy to forget that “Yoshi” isn’t really a single character, but rather a group of adorable dinosaur creatures. For Mario, however, they are disposable. If you need proof, consider what we all did in Super Mario World: Jump off Yoshi’s back to make a hard jump, sacrificing him in the process. There were other Yoshis who would help us, unaware of what we had done to their fallen brothers – like a deer innocently smacking the barrel of a hunting rifle moments before its death. Mario certainly didn’t mind, maintaining his same cheerful demeanor as he shut Bowser down. But in the process, Mario – and we – became the villain.
Skyrim – Murder Everyone
The appeal of an open-world RPG is that you can effectively do anything – make the character in the game as close to yourself as you want. We are not sure what it says about humanity that so many of us have used this freedom for evil. Sure, you can pickpocket and steal in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, but you can also be a homicidal monster that destroys everyone in its path. On the same subject : The Video Game Treatment – Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta – Podcast on CNN Audio. If you’re evil, you feel little remorse for killing a bunch of random people, no matter who they are or what they’ve done, using a new weapon or spell. Of course, this can make the game more difficult, depending on who you antagonize, but being evil is not always easy!
Halo – Shoot The Funny Marines
The Marines you team up with in the Halo games, especially the first few games, were very helpful in clearing Covenant Squads and manning the guns on top of various vehicles. It is of course tragic that we still have to shoot them in the face. But we have to shoot them, because the Master Chief works best when he’s alone. See the article : World Games 2022: Germany Defeats US In Stunner Play Pool. Really, though, the Halo Marines are mostly fun to slaughter because they say funny things in response. Comedian David Cross even answered one, offering little quips every time he was shot. And unlike some of the evil acts in video games, this one comes with consequences, as the Marines eventually open up to the boss and send him on the Great Journey ahead of time.
GTA V – Run Over Innocent People
Several different Grand Theft Auto games could be on this list, of course, but none give you a bigger world in which to spread evil than Grand Theft Auto V. The most successful entertainment product of all time is also a breeding ground for pure evil. Get into any vehicle and just start driving on the sidewalk killing dozens, if not hundreds, of random people. Read also : Prime Day 2022: The Best First Video Game Market Available Now. They had families. They had hopes and dreams. And now, they have their blood all over the streets of Los Santos. As in Halo, there is a consequence for indiscriminate killing, as the police will chase you with everything from cruisers to helicopters, but it’s really not that hard to escape and go on another killing spree.
Watch Dogs 2 – Not Petting The Dogs
We have a small confession to make on this particular entry: We don’t really qualify for it. We’re not really evil enough to avoid dogs in Watch Dogs 2. In fact, every single dog we can find will probably extend the game’s total runtime by three or four times what it should be. But there are some truly heinous, sadistic people out there who choose to ignore dogs even though their heads are so perfectly cuddly and soft. They ignore them, even though their faces are the cutest thing you’ve ever seen. We can live with accidentally shooting someone while completing a mission, but we’d lose sleep if we didn’t pet a dog.
Tamagotchi – Letting It Starve
There’s a fine line between negligence and evil, and Tamagotchis have helped us all cross it at one point or another. As part of the virtual pet trend of the 90s and early 2000s, this little handheld found its way into many pockets. Taking care of a pet seems like a fun activity at first, but then you realize that it is almost impossible to keep the thing alive and still have any kind of life out there. So, after promising to be nice to the creature for a whole two hours, we all finally took a nap. And in that time this little pathetic digital baby managed to die. It would happen sooner or later.
Crusader Kings 3 – Ordering The Assassination Of A Child
Crusader Kings 3 is essentially the most elaborate choose-your-own-adventure story you could imagine, letting you rule a nation and grow it into a vast empire while micromanaging everything from taxes and defense to your own family’s marriages. But in addition to the above-board things, you can also become a clean monster. Take, for example, your power to order assassinations of foreign leaders – even if they are literal babies. This creates a “secret” that can be revealed later and jeopardize your political career, but there’s also a good chance you’ll just murder a baby and get away with it.
The Sims – Removing The Ladder From The Pool While Someone Is Swimming
The Sims gives you almost total control over the lives of your virtual characters, and this includes the ability to kill them in creative ways. One of the classic techniques that almost all of us have done is the “disappearing ladder.” After one of your Sims goes to the pool for a relaxing swim, you enter the editor and remove the pool ladder. This causes them to never be able to leave, causing them to eventually die – perhaps after they poop their pants. Sure, it’s a horrible thing to do, but it’s also extremely satisfying when you really hate how this person treated everyone else in the house.
Zelda – Attacking The Chickens
Play Zelda for even an hour or two and you know you shouldn’t attack the dogs. Unlike most of the other evil acts on our list, this one actually comes with dire consequences. Sure, you can swing your sword at the dogs that roam the peaceful towns of the Zelda games, but do it too much and you’ll face the wrath of a massive swarm of birds. It is unclear exactly why Nintendo decided that this was the evil deed that could not go unpunished, but this punishment is universal. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you can actually trick enemies into hitting the dogs, using your unwitting new allies as a personal assassination squad.
Super Smash Bros – Edgehogging
An evil practice that is still widely used by professional players, edgehogging in Super Smash Bros. After knocking an enemy off the edge of a stage, players discovered that they could grab onto the ledge and prevent an opponent from doing the same when trying to recover. This was eventually removed from the series, forcing players to actually jump and attack enemies trying to retrieve them. Still, with melee remaining a popular choice for competitive players, it’s something that almost all of them have to deal with.
GoldenEye 64 – Playing As Oddjob
Back in the 90s, no one really cared that much if there was a massively unbalanced character in a multiplayer game. After all, it wasn’t like you had to worry about someone exploiting it in an online match. However, the fact remains that the game was utterly despicable as an odd job in GoldenEye on Nintendo 64. Because the character was so short and the N64 controller didn’t allow for quick aim adjustment, whoever played as Oddjob could easily kill their enemies. If you won as an oddjob, you would ruin everyone’s day and couldn’t even claim the glory for yourself. It’s not just us saying that, either, but the game’s own designers.
Giving Your Guest The Cheap Controller
Is it evil, or is it simply an established rule? Most video game systems released after the early 90s came standard with only one controller, and especially for younger gamers, the idea of paying $50 or $60 for another one was daunting. There were – and are – many third-party alternatives available for much less money, however, and many of these cheap controllers became the go-to for a host. Back before the Mad Catz brand was resurrected as a high-quality accessory line, it was synonymous with “bad wired controllers,” and those guests before a round of Madden or Halo. They never had a chance, with those squeaky plastic triggers and buttons that act like nails on a chalkboard, as they lost to a player with a genuine first-party controller.
Screen-Looking
A capital gaming offense (and one that we think deserves a light punch on the arm), screen-seeing has been a cardinal sin for as long as split-screen games have existed. Whether it’s a sports game, a shooter, or even a racing game, looking at your opponent’s screen gives you an unfair advantage that can lead to cheap kills and sudden stops. Some have even taken drastic measures to eliminate it, such as putting up curtains in LAN party rooms or drawing cardboard divisions on the TV itself. Online gaming has certainly helped reduce the impact of the screen’s appearance, but it’s something none of us have really forgotten.
RollerCoaster Tycoon – Capturing Your Guests And Charging For The Bathroom
RollerCoaster Tycoon allows you to do a lot of evil things, such as drowning guests you don’t like or deliberately designing a death row so that the student body of an entire middle school explodes in a fiery wreckage. But even those aren’t the worst things you can do in the game. No, we’re talking about building a fence without doors around a group of guests, putting a bathroom in the middle of the place, and charging them a few dollars each time they want to use it. What choice do they have? If a gorilla happens to get loose while waiting in line to cook, it just makes it more exciting. Yes, this is an amusement park, but the amusement is not for the guests.
Ganking Beginners In MMOs
If you’ve ever wanted to make someone stop playing a game they’ve just started, you’re a jerk, and you’ve probably done this. MMO games are typically divided into distinct zones, with the “starter” areas containing low-level quests so players can get used to the game mechanics and story. If you are a monster, you enter a high character in these areas and trick the newcomers into fighting for you. In a game like World of Warcraft, players of one faction sneaking into the city of the enemy faction must be attacked before they are able to attack other players, but it is not that difficult to do this. What follows is often a complete slaughter of an entire city, and what did you gain from it?
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