10 Times Games MADE YOU REGRET Your Actions

[@SushiManSoda]

Fun fact: In stalker 2, if you dont talk to the npc that had the energy drink stashes and instead go back to the settlement, you can overhear him either talk to his friends about someone who took the entire stash and how he lost faith in good people OR if you put energy drinks in the stash instead, you'll hear him excitedly talk to his friends about someone putting in more of them and saying how he knew there were still good people out there, its really amazing what the devs thought to put in the game that are seemingly small. unimportant interactions.

[@Bicc_Burb]

Yeah it was awesome but not even close to the best in the game. In my opinion it was a lame addition to this list

[@UnevenRaccoon]

What about the elephant in It Takes Two? I felt horrible!

[@Gwendeuw]

Came here to say this

[@Prozacpapi187]

My daughters mother dropped her controller, and said “just do it” 😂😭

[@mikeberry5016]

I have never laughed so hard in my life

[@fabianlaibin6956]

@@UnevenRaccoon deserved

[@TheMadSocrates]

I literally cannot watch that scene it bothers me so much.

[@BionicDance]

Red Dead Redemption 2...if you follow a random NPC for too long, they notice. They tell other NPCs that you're a creepy stalker.

[@zenithquestor]

That is hilarious tbh

[@Jeremy-ql1or]

Wow, Red Dead Redemption really is like real life.

[@Mike-jr5hq]

The reactions for having to let go of a Palico would tug at the heart strings of any cat owner. Some of the dialog of the ending of Cat Quest did that with me.

[@BettyA51]

So, while it is not in SH3, the inference in SH2 is that James sees monsters, Eddie sees a pursuer, Angela sees flames, and Laura sees nothing. So a player would interpret the statement "They look like monsters to you?" as more intimate.

[@Fonzzz002]

I get the idea of missing some crucial information? I interpreted them as dark entities that take the shape of something personal, getting into the head of the beholder. So how they look is not particularly relevant to whether you should fight back. It's not like you've been shooting at innocent civilians this whole time.

[@Amins88]

Do NOT engage with these bots, people.

[@CPTNSL0]

Spec Ops - The Line: White Phosphorus is the number one that pops to mind

[@samgamgi]

Can you really regret something you never had a choice to begin with? It's like a doorman heard a resident saying they had a bad day, and then, out of a sudden, the doorman thought about not letting people out of the building anymore. Spec Ops is that thought.

@@samgamgi The list did have at least one unavoidable scene with Silent Hill 3 so I guess it qualifies. It was also my first thought. And that you didn't have a choice is a rationalization. I'm guessing most players went nuts with the OP weapon glad that they won't have to fight those "enemies" only to discover what they have done.

[@SiriusPayne]

So tired of this as a bad game. We get it. There are way worse games.

[@cameronk7012]

​@@SiriusPayne I'm pretty sure that nowadays people consider Spec Ops The Line to be a good game. I've even heard it called a masterpiece in terms of showing the repercussions of your actions.

[@Catheidan]

Spec ops The Line just rips off Bioshock and doesn't even do it as well

[@ryman671]

Seven words are: they look like monsters to you? Wait I’m counting six words!! 😂 😅

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

Yeah, later on you see the full line is: _"Monsters....they look like monsters to you?"_

[@ChillaQueen]

yeah, caught that too, probably meant syllables lol

[@ThatSoddingGamer]

@@ChillaQueen That might make more sense than my explanation.

[@Biggsmech]

It’s a small thing but if you pay attention in Dead Island 2. The Bursters say hi or sorry as they come at you. It makes you feel bad for what happened to them. It’s sad seeing their humanity trying to come out but they can’t control their actions.

[@sporkenste1n236]

In _The Last of Us_ you can hear some of the infected crying and saying things like "I don't wanna" as they devour corpses.

[@DoomsdayMayBeOkay]

The different topics you guy come out with is honestly amazing to see

[@SkylarArnone]

Bioshock and if you harvested the little sisters for Adam is another example.

[@txdave37]

I'm surprised Bioshock didn't make the list. It really makes you feel like scum for harvesting them.

[@SkylarArnone]

@ I agree 100%.

[@ChristophBrinkmann]

And Bioshock 2 where who you are directly affects Eleanor. So if you choose to be evil, she will be too

[@SkylarArnone]

@@ChristophBrinkmann Bioshock is such a great series.

[@maxfreeman818]

Nothing is more heartbreaking than seeing an animal cry, especially a close companion

[@ModestPavement]

Your pets cry? I've never seen any of mine do that lol.

[@bruticus1496]

Probably meant whine or cry out in pain

[@zenithquestor]

This is very true

[@0darksoul0]

In Detroit Become Human, when you first play the game you are met with a friendly android welcoming you to the game and each time you start up the game she starts becoming more and more human like, deviant (like the premise of the game) once you get to the end after all the events of the game you are faced with a question from her. It’s something like “would you let me go?” And you’re faced with a choice of ‘freeing’ or not letting her go. Most choose to let her go as shes now fully deviant and she can live her own life. You can also ‘purchase a new android’ to replace her with real money after she’s gone. The whole game has such an amazing premise and makes you think, highly recommend playing it if you haven’t already.

[@Roschach96]

00:14 Number 10 - Killing people (Red Dead Redemption 2) 01:23 Number 9 - Robbing on The Poppy Field (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl) 03:33 Number 8 - Confronting the King of Puppets (Lies of P) 05:04 Number 7 - Cutting off a branch of the tree (Return to Monkey Island) 07:22 Number 6 - Killing Illuminate zombies (Helldivers 2) 08:34 Number 5 - Killing your own horse (The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) 09:50 Number 4 - Killing Cliff (Dead Rising) 12:07 Number 3 - Killing infected people (Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain) 15:01 Number 2 - Killing monsters (Silent Hill 3) 16:47 Number 1 - Releasing a companion (Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate)

[@ZombieBigfoot]

Dang it’s about to be a whole new year already. I feel like I just celebrated new years and it’s already back.

[@elyssa.c90]

Happy New Year Jake and crew!

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year!

[@norfairaffair]

2:11 “not” nailed down, Jacque Baldino!

[@Montage37]

I literally was just about to do that lol

[@norfairaffair]

@ haha glad I’m not the only one who caught that!

[@bibochu7939]

some of the cyberpunk2077 endings and epilogues, especially the phantom liberty ones, are just so sad that makes you question life itself. also, signalis endings.

[@jimmymurphy898]

I actually can't ever bring myself to play Rdr2 with low honor. Arthur Morgan is my favorite videogame character ever and it would just make me too sad. I want him to do the honorable thing and I feel bad when I don't. It's the only game that really made me feel that way.

[@Carloszavalalol]

I'm on a low honor play through and let me tell you, boy let me tell you. *Anyways I started blasting*.

[@bruticus1496]

If your concerned about the widows just send them to their loved ones you sent to the beyond

[@jujuchonk]

Definitely need to do a part 2 of this series! The first thing that comes to mind is Until Dawn....😬

[@intox8867]

Until Dawn, The Quarry, most games of that nature have huge guilt trips in them

[@DrVenture45]

I love immersive, reactionary NPCs and dialogue, in sandbox games in particular. Nothing feels more involving than their reaction to your activities. This was one of the features sorely underdeveloped in Starfield and it genuinely left you questioning why you’re doing most of the tasks…zero reaction to smaller yet relevant details.

[@Grapefruit5000]

Same, that's why I'm looking forward to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. Even if it doesn't have a ton of different outcomes during the story, the NPCs in the actual open world remember your actions and decisions and I think that's even more important than some scripted alternative outcome.

[@Wedge86-hy3rz]

The return to Monkey Island scene gave me the chills, the guilt and an endless amount of laughter, all in one. Boy did I equally love and hate that moment so much.

[@XhaneLeon]

Yeah the metal gear solid one hurt my soul. I was in such a bad mood after that lol

[@GrenadeGoat]

Love you Guys 💙❤️

[@larryisntmynamebutyoucanca9625]

It's crazy to me that you guys drop hundreds of videos per year and you keep coming up with great ideas for them

[@drumeshopeth]

A new gameranx vid upon waking up. Yum yum.

[@Unknown_Gaming504]

Happy New Year, Gameranx!

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year

[@user-bx9il4qt9w]

Video literally starts with our hero, Luigi, "the adjuster."

[@amir.music2005]

In rdr1, npc's randomly demand you to duel with them for killing their family.

[@Boss_Fight_Index_muki]

In Dragons Dogma 2 there's a shopkeeper who unknowing turns his wife and daughter to ashes if you help him with his curiosity regarding two magical tomes. Really dark stuff.

[@PlazDreamweaver]

He also offs himself afterwards and that shop is permaclosed for that playthrough. Such a lame punishment for following a super interesting questline where you finally get to see the purpose of those mysterious books you found randomly while playing.

[@zenithquestor]

​@@PlazDreamweaver true..

[@zenithquestor]

​@@PlazDreamweavertrue..

[@axeldrane]

Bloodborne- the whole quest about Gascoigne's daughter ends up in a guilt trip no matter how you handle it.

[@fitzgerald434]

I remember to this day blowing up Megaton in Fallout 3 and restarting the game because I felt bad seeing the town blown up and the dad in the game being angry I did that 😆 🤣

[@KamikazeDreamer]

First thing that came to mind: fighting The Sorrow in MGS3

[@oneforallgoldenage6466]

Happy New Year, Jake!

[@eXiLe824]

Does anyone remember on the Xbox 360 when you went to delete your avatar it would look scared and even shake its head and plead for you not to do it?

[@bloodsweatandbeers4684]

Haha yeah. And moving the thumbstick could make them smile, frown, or become dizzy

[@asmodeusml]

I still feel like Nier Automata deserves a spot on this list and not just a brief mention. Like the whole game is virtually a guilt trip. Nier Replicant/Gestalt is also pretty much the same way. Also Spec Ops: The Line. If you know, you know.

[@solracrod]

Happy New Year Gameranx! Thanks for another year of great content!

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year

[@mocmocgueye8720]

MGS3, when Snakes is fighting against the Boss's lover and you see the ghost of every characters you killed during the game!

[@Daishokurou]

Forcing the player to pull the trigger at the end of the game got me.

[@kjjorgensen]

I have gotten so good at predicting which episodes will be hosted by Jake vs Falcon. I don’t know why or how, but this one had major Jake vibes before I pressed play.

[@007oskari]

Its becouse jake is now a CIA operative, pushing a secret game to find the chosen warrior amongst us

[@Fonzzz002]

Child Of Light also has one big regret moment: investing your valuable resources in Norah. I quite liked her moves and wanted to improve her as much as possible, only to find out she'll betray you and go away with all the resources you used on her. You don't get any back and the resources are quite usefull for other characters too.

[@davidhelka8929]

Great video man 👍

[@brainybunny13]

Happy New Year! You guys are doing a great job. May this year bring lots of fun and amazing gaming experiences. I am hoping this year we will all have fewer delays and disappointments with new releases, too. 🎉

[@QSRSimulations]

0:49 “not fun to go on a murderous rampage” brother what I am a menace 😂

[@joshconfer209]

They were very rude TBF

[@DarkMega-xt9]

15:23 "They look like monsters to you?" That's six words. Not seven.

[@Sailor_alan]

I thought the guy in the game audio said "Did they look like monsters to you?" I could be mistaken though.

[@Catheidan]

Everyone in silent hill sees something else. Like how Fat Eddy has foggy breath but its perfectly warm. Because his reality is different

[@Fonzzz002]

I remember feeling awful about ruining Jodie's date in Beyond Two Souls. The game is told on non-chronological order, and the player knows her date will backstab her later in the story. If you let your hatred of him get the better of you, Jodie will get rejected and end in tears. Convinced no one will ever love her.

[@akashchandrasekar8699]

Hi jake 👋 gameranx is so consistent ❤

[@gameranxTV]

Hey

[@matilhathehunter9537]

Another one that hit me HARD: Warren Report from Tactics Ogre. Knowing the motivations of the leaders we just killed in each scenarios just adds for the "war is hell" feeling of the game.

[@gameranxTV]

👍🏼

[@Jpilgrim30]

I love that Lies Of P detail. That’s actually pretty awesome

[@XenoLife]

See you next year Gameranx ! Happy new year !

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year!

[@ferd617]

The best thing about the Monkey Island one is, if you really read into everything it's heavily implied in the descriptions and Guybrush's dialogue that he's *_so stupid,_* he made the mop handle by whittling down the TRUNK of the tree. Like, instead of just cutting off one of the many, many mop-handle-shaped branches, this guy goes and kills an entire tree just to turn it into a single mop handle.

[@sikliztailbunch]

Avoiding ludonarrative dissonance when developing an inherently violent game is skillful mastery. It reinforces the immersion greatly. RDR2 is a great example on how to do it right. Hatred would be a bad example.

[@UraduceIndieToylet]

When i was a weee little gamer playing Pokemon Yellow, and storing Pikachu. Hearing its little 4 bit cries as it got stored.

[@huangjun_art]

You monster!

[@PIGEON5265]

Happy new year team 😀 thanks for the videos, as always.

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year

[@suburbantimewaster9620]

Yeah, there are some decisions where I have to google what the best option is because it’s too difficult for me to decide on my own.

[@hollaxpino]

The chao garden was the worst experience when I was younger when the music kicked in I always changed my mind…it got up to the point I had to mute the tv

[@LaviathnGames]

Number 9 reminds me of a moment in Prey. There’s an injured NPC by table stacked with food. If you start taking all the food, she calls you out on it. I’ve never tested if there’s a different reaction if you drop food on the table.

[@Kianlewis445]

Happy Monday guys, and have a great week 😊👍

[@gameranxTV]

Thank you! You too!

[@KieranStowell]

Yoshi's Story, watching them being carried off to prison crying, because I lacked the skills to complete the level, haunts me to this day.

[@ouroboros6666]

Spec Ops: The Line, almost whole game has this oppressive feeling of regret

[@CredenzioStudios-c3z]

Wow, this is so true. Some games just do it right.

[@foxmind2490]

In the original Prey, you could accidentally reactivate the machine that kills captives at the start of the game. The developers know gamers like to press every button, so I felt really guilty for giving into my gamer instinct on that one.

[@XGothWolfX]

As a full low honor player in RDR2 I can confidently say it's satisfying as all hell going on a rampage.

[@bpdmf2798]

Plenty of games made me regret buying them.

[@hlriiiviiiv]

That time in project zomboid I burned a pile of corpses instead of bury them and ended up burning down my entire base it took me three in game weeks ti build.

[@DomCmD1443]

happy new year

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year

[@wallingfordd]

"Approaches you, says a few things & then leaves" as she's crying uncontrollably & vomiting in the street 😂

[@anotherbacklog]

In Earth Defense Force 5, you will hear NPCs mentioning that they encountered humanoid aliens. They looked just like humans, two arms, two legs, one head, one mouth, two eyes and a nose. Some soldiers even couldn’t bring themselves to shoot at the aliens, because looked identical to humans.

[@STOICYOUTUBER-g8h1234]

Advanced happy new year jake and falcon 🎉🎉

[@gameranxTV]

Happy new year!

[@VaronDiStefano]

I really need Lies of P 2 in my life. Such a good Soulslike and the lore was incredible

[@Combo_Slice]

No 8 feels even worse when you consider that the boss is made to look like your dad in Katamari

[@dionisiecalistru]

One that hits harder in stalker 2 is when there this one guy that asks for a spare detector and ends up dying on hill if you refuse giving it to him, you can find a note on him detailing his demise

[@macpocketedition5283]

I find it cute when games do these makes me wanna chuckle.

[@Joshua_Graham2281]

Honestly in Telltale Walking Dead killing Larry when he’s having a heart attack also hits hard and made me feel guilty purely because of Clementine’s reaction to it

[@c.lvr2602]

Nah fuck that guy, Kenny dropping that thing on his head was hilarious to me 😅

[@SkyGrid11SkyGridXG1]

Telltale's Walking Dead has a few moments like that..

[@Amins88]

End of Season 2, killing you-know-who I first played it over a decade ago and as hard as it was, I felt it was necessary. But now I don't think I could do it again. I was a different person then, and I'm old enough now to know that the other one can't be trusted.

[@ayekantspeylgud]

The elephant in It Takes Two… The residents in Animal Crossing if you leave the game for an extended period, and NINTENDOGS

[@justins9886]

Spec Ops. The entire game.

[@MrChildYeeter]

"It takes a strong man to deny what's right in front of him, and if the truth is undeniable, you create your own"

[@PRITISINGH-hj6kk]

😢

[@samgamgi]

Blech, no. Most pretentious game I've ever played. No game can make me feel bad about doing something if doing the damn thing is the only way to play it.

[@monkeyspanker-r7g]

I thought every second of it was funny.

[@ouroboros6666]

​@@samgamgi Actually, the game was basically telling you to stop playing it. Technically there's a choice there...

[@kingofnamek]

"Oh no this is really sad, these poor people have been transformed into mindless zombies." Yuri Lowenthal: GET SOME!! (8:30)

[@ToddGrasle-y6v]

I just had this happen in the game I played today: Wierd West. You have a choice to release a cursed entity from a statute via a ritual.

[@BernGoulart]

there's also that one cutscene in Dave the Diver that the fish looks at bancho with absolute fear while he's preparing his knife

[@christianmaiorino8649]

11:09 Is this David Hayter?

[@999cris]

I wish 😢❤

[@amckgm3224]

The Last of Us where NPCs beg for their lives before you kill them. And in the last of us 2, where enemy npcs react to you killing their friends, or worse their dogs.

[@barry.w.christie]

First of all, Happy New Year when it happens 👍 ... secondly, my only regret in any video game is not killing everything fast enough 🤣

[@zenoafro]

Recently played Nier Automata and the end of "Machine Extermination quest" made me think to myself for a while. The way Engels talk about Sin and how 2b talks about their part of Sin to 9s

[@zenoafro]

And the end of Yorha Betrayers quest was shocking too. Along with the A2's line later down the story which kinda makes sense with how some stories went

[@JayRacer]

Witcher 2. Killing the Dragon in the first play through “Roche Path.” Then realizing during the “Iorveth Path” who the dragon actually is.

[@draconusfrigidus]

Mass Effect 3 manages a small one, likely by accident. If you choose Morinth over her mother, Samara, in the second game, Samara's last words to you are that you'll regret doing so. Come ME3, and Morinth is nowhere to be seen...until the very end of the game where she shows up...as a bog standard banshee enemy. Literally, it's just a normal enemy except the name 'Morinth' is above the health bar. No big build up, no real pay off, just a complete anti-climax. Samara really was being sincere that you (as in the player) would regret that choice.

[@Ghost19_]

Robber Weasel on LoP: *_"I don't wanna die.. I just wanted a full belly... that's not so wrong..."_* I have to drop my controller after hearing that /Feels really bad man.

[@kelvincannon3675]

Guilt makes “regret,” & “normality” annuls “guilt,” so that “vulnerabilities unnecessarily” in plain-sight will remain a “game!”

[@TheKoxy1995]

Ahhh, completely forgot about that Metal Gear Solid mission. It was soo devastating, it left such a heavy impression, like holy fuck

[@mrfuzzypaws]

Your New Year’s resolution should be to name the chapters the game titles. All games look like Elden Ring so I’m constantly going back to see what you’re really talking about.

[@Mikerich_94]

Lmao the ladybug falling off

[@Razmoudah]

So Nintendo has progressed from shopkeepers killing link for shop lifting to giving him long lectures about killing his horse.

[@jimbo130406]

The most guilt ridden I've ever felt after playing a game was the bit with the cute elephant in It Takes Two IYKYK 😮

[@thrashmetaldave]

Feel GUILTY about something you've done in a VIDEO GAME 😂😂😂😂😂

[@centerleft6813]

The helldivers reminded me a little of dying light with the virals. Right before the last blow they usual cower in fear telling the protagonist to stop. As they are the most recent to catch the virus. It’s like you drop kicked the humanity back into them for one last time.

[@MaxWeb2599]

I every dead rising is one character I feel bad for: DR1 has cliff, DR2 has Ted and in DR3 it's the first boss, who lost his will to live so bad that we aren't even the one who finish him off. (but cliff is definitely the one I felt the worse for)

[@JT--XL365]

yeah that MGS mission was tough for me. only a handful of games I've played make you feel sad/bad for doing something.

[@sm1g3t]

Taking the guns in army of two the 40th day still makes me feel bad

[@Matt-md5yt]

yeah it's crazy how they can get us in the feels like that

[@odedyaron3286]

What about the best most viceral one: The Custodian hammering some hard truths into you after your support for Johanca's visions led her to the gallows? Side note: I was arrested by mistake and missed the trial - the priest wouldn't let me forget it

[@parthanetwork4688]

The amount of shots missed was wild

[@MeowMeow_00000]

The MGSV moment hurted then and now

[@intox8867]

I haven't played that Monster Hunter, so I haven't even built up any relations with the Palicos, and that still made me sad to see