7 Times Games Stole Your Stuff To See How Good You REALLY Are

There comes a point in certain games where you become so comfortably powerful that said game steals all your stuff to let you prove how good you really are, without all your gear, weapons and upgrades to back you up. Consider these seven games that gave you just such a chance to shine while relying on just your wits, your fists and occasionally a fork. Enjoy, and subscribe for a video like this every Thursday!
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[@jessicastrike5640]

Dishonoured has my favourite example of this. After you’re betrayed all your gear and items are taken and you have to sneak through the level surrounded by deadly assassins, the best aspect is that you can actually collect your gear, if you choose to! You can decide to finish the rest of the game without it if you’re that much of a masochist

[@TrickyTalon23]

Nah I want my crossbow. Into the pit!

[@joshconfer209]

But you keep your abilities so it's fair

[@thesarrowgaming2707]

I loke the assassins blade f the crossbow

[@StefanoRobbo]

No way I’m leaving my gear behind, I’m no masochist… and I love the folding blade!

[@zulubunsen9067]

Arcane really seems to like this move, they even did it way back in Dark Messiah. Although you do get a demon transformation ability out of it (which is still overshadowed by the kicking).

[@incredibleflameboy]

"oh no. I'm underencumbered" has never been said by anyone 10 minutes into an RPG that allows you to pick pretty much anything.

[@RealBradMiller]

Lol, when I first played Fallout 4, I remember seeing a lightbulb and saying "Oh, I can pick that up!"

[@FelisImpurrator]

My first time through Skyrim, I took every single item I could from Helgen and slowly walked to town overencumbered to sell the keep's contents for pennies. Only weeks later, several days' worth of Draugr Lord ebony deep (stashing every item in the nearest container to every dungeon door, going outside, and fast traveling on horseback), did I realize I already owned a month's worth of barely sellable ebony weapons and didn't have to do that or pickpocket every NPC until it accidentally broke the Molag Bal quest. Ah, good times.

[@normalhuman9878]

“But what if I need it later” “I’ll sell it to the next merchant I see”

[@ezzedinezeid6049]

@@normalhuman9878 perhaps I can upgrade that later

[@psychronia]

"But if you've been playing the game as a guns-blazing, Havoc-Slab-toting, whirlwind of chaos and destruction..." It's okay, Andy. You can just say "if you've been Mike-ing it."

[@Chris_Sizemore]

Andy: Jane, where is all my stuff? Jane: I've given you the gift of testing all of your skills and ingenuity without the aid of all your gear. Me: Jane does realize every game on this list teaches Andy the way to get his stuff back is to kill Jane, right?

[@alfonsomena9349]

J.a.n.e just another noob enemy

[@YEETUSDAFEETUS]

I feel like Jane is gonna win idk why but she gives that "friendly until she doesn't have to be" vibe

[@camerontgore]

The Andy "Oh no..." Is my favorite part of the Fear Academy series 😂

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

Was that ALL your gear? Oh man. 😇

[@RainWelsh]

For me it’s top three along with “who could have written that there at doll-height?” and “oh no it’s the breakdancing lady. Look at her, popping and locking, it’s grotesque” from Layers of Fear. Though I do find it funny that Ellen’s getting mocked for her playthrough of the dollhouse when Andy’s response to first seeing Giant Fetus is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on this channel.

[@Okusar]

I do thoroughly enjoy Andy's "oh...oh no" teasing, with a secondary mention to Luke's "well that's not good." I think for me, though, my favorite moment had to be the sheer hype of Ellen managing to trigger P.T.'s secret ending. Her streamer luck is insane.

[@camerontgore]

@@Okusar A great moment to be sure! I remember having a similar reaction when I completed P.T. 😁

[@FergieTheTaurus]

Same 🤣

[@andymcp4752]

13:08 so glad you kept in Andy’s delivery of that far too sincere “... ..Oh nO..”

[@corison2058]

Was that ALL your guns.....oH No....anyway

[@oxfanblink4115]

That was his second best moment after “keep quiet the baby can hear you through the controller. No it can’t. I’m just making it up” 😈 😂🤣😂🤣😆😆😆

[@HovektheArtist]

@@oxfanblink4115 truly andy is a classy troll

[@theywalkinguptoyouand4060]

@@oxfanblink4115 oh yesssss

[@anthonypole5891]

You could just say "the beginning of every Metroid game." Samus manages to lose every upgrade she acquired in her previous adventure.

[@ericb3157]

oh, one exception is the first level of the first Metroid Prime game. you actually have a lot of stuff at the beginning, but lose it all when the space station blows up...

[@Ghost_gc]

God of war does that too

[@andrehashimoto8056]

Sometimes it was slightly reasonable.... Metroid Prime 3 tbh has Samus back into her Varia Suit (The Starting Suit of that game) after managing to reach the wormhole to escape the Phazon planet going Supernova..... That one at least could be reasoned as Samus removing the PED add-on since there's no reason to keep it.

[@Deano3225]

I remember being somewhat stunned by my first playthrough of Fallout:NV when I started Dead Money. I did the other DLC (and most of the main game) first, and was not really expecting to go from power armour and a tesla cannon, to a t-shirt and a stick. Brutal.

[@Kameth]

That DLC forced me to put my guns aside and invest in melee combat - by the time I'd finished, not only did I really enjoy Fallout's melee chaos but even with my guns returned, I remained much more dangerous with a mere knife.

[@Deano3225]

@@Kameth Same! The DLC grew on me over time, and once I worked out I could keep Rawr's Talon for it I was much happier.

[@Kameth]

@@Deano3225 I initially stated hating Dead Money for forcing me out my shoot and loot everything mentality, but I grew to love that DLC and really appreciate it making me engage with different mechanics which is quite the gamble for an expansion DLC bucking the most popular trends of the original base game by design. It's my favourite of all Fallout DLC's, which the Internet has kindly informed me is objectively wrong.

[@Anonymousrando-uz9sn]

By the time I would get around to Dead Money, I almost always had at least near-maxed-out stealth and unarmed. After that first time, I always went in prepared.

[@xarm23]

Breath of the Wild actually has two spots where it does this. Arrive on a particular island in the southeast corner of the map and a voice will knick all your stuff until you complete the local shrine. Far worse is the Trial of the Sword DLC, which strips you of your gear and then throws you into a combat gauntlet that you have to complete while in your skivvies.

[@LinkDawnbringer]

One of the silliest BotW challenges I've seen is doing that island without losing your gear, they basically had to drive a raft across the whole island in various ways until eventually launching themselves into the sky to activate the shrine

[@adhirg]

the One-Hit Stick challenge series was such bullshit. _especially_ with the hordes that included archers outside of the shrine - you only had a quarter ❤️ so even the breeze from an arrow whizzing past your head would kill you lol.

[@otakushrew3770]

The fact Breath of the Wild didn't make the list was mind-boggling. Eventide Island was one of the wildest Shrine Quests ever and it sticks in many a players memory.

[@KingdomKey-ik4xk]

@@adhirg Yeah, but it doesn't take away ALL your gear. You can still use your multitude of shields, bows, and arrows if you feel like ranged units are givin' you trouble.

[@Starbeam1979]

Came here to say this.

[@maxvel0city906]

Nice to see Jane "Become death, destroyer of worlds" Douglas living up to her middle name.👍😀

[@MrMBinder]

I, for one, welcome our world-destroying overlord.

[@Arkholt2]

Noctis: "Where is he??" Ardyn: "He's in a DLC right down the road. You'll have to pay a bit of money to find out where."

[@LinkDawnbringer]

In a shocking twist while I was uncomfortable in the Beneviento basement I wasn't as totally freaked out as I expected because as soon as my inventory was gone I knew this wasn't going to be a combat encounter and I could rest easy that any monster I came up to was going to be escapable in some way; didn't stop me from feeling uncomfortable, but did prevent me from being totally freaked.

[@ripopol]

Cidhna Mine was hilarious, because the game expects you to do this quest to get the shiv, but also, you still have your magic so i said F that and crushed his skull with a Daedric Battleaxe instead.

[@makahiya]

Yes, being able to conjure weapons really makes that whole “get the shiv” deal laughable

[@Danceofmasks]

I just activated wolf form and ate everyone. Imagine the guards finding all the corpses with hearts missing. XD

[@Santisima_Trinidad]

Hell, if you want you can just pickpocket all the key's and simply walk out by yourself. Or even go so far as to just play as an argonian and quite literally do more damage with your bare fists than when using the shiv.

[@dallydaydream]

Also, pickaxes, which litter the place seeing as it's a functional *mine*, absolutely function as weapons.

[@lunaisbestpony4217]

*laughs in bound weapons spellsword*

[@garyharbinii1701]

This entire list could be made of almost every Ubisoft title. Farcry New Dawn did this so much you could make it a drinking game.

[@christophcookit6334]

Assassins creed 1 and prince of persia did it also but pretty much like "These powers can be achieved, but now you don't have them anymore"

[@Klowd9888]

Farcry 1 did this too only half way through the game and you never get your stuff back like in some games like Chrono Trigger or FFVIII on Disk 2 in the prison in the desert.

[@Klowd9888]

OR you could just lay down in the cell as snake and break the katchup bottle. The guard then rushes in and you jump up and flip em or fork em.

[@Dr.Gortman]

Forkem? Where I come from that’s called doing the hibbidy dibbidy.

[@dinoshotgun]

Even Far Cry 5 did this

[@Kroepoek82]

In Skyrim there is also the option of killing all the inmates, EXCEPT Grisvar. Even Madanach, its a lot harder than normal and you need some preparation in skills, shouts or spells for it. But doing it this way clears your reputation, and the people of Markarth will call you a hero. Also...whoever thought giving convicts pickaxes to dig themselves out of the prison was a good idea, needs to learn a thing or two about incarceration.

[@bryceratcliffe1442]

Khajiit's 15 damage unarmed strikes are kind of OP for this, and brawls.

[@Kameth]

San Andreas pulls this twice, but each time leaves you with a knife that you can do stealth kills. But if you spent a few hours at the beginning of the game leveling every weapon available to you to max, after your first kill you turn a single pistol and tec-9 into dual wielded versions, meaning instead of a kinda forced stealth section you just start rampaging as per GTA norm.

[@Pritachi]

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the Eventide Island shrine quest that takes away all weapons, items and armour. And shirts and pants as well. Link must complete that trial in his underwear.

[@katrose5179]

Yeah, but that one is easy to cheat.

[@RageUnchained]

@@katrose5179 grab a box and smack the Hinox

[@estoericaferret]

And then does the same thing again when you do the Master Sword Trials.

[@katrose5179]

@@RageUnchained I just go over on a raft and drop everything on it before setting foot on the island. Pick it all up again.

[@foxbird123]

I was thinking of these when I saw the title.

[@notoriousbmc1]

Michael De Santa checked all his weapons at the airport, which were then placed on the incorrect flight. Unfortunately, he forgotten that he had spent literal minutes, learning to become his own pilot, to avoid this exact scenario.

[@SuperGravyMan]

The Spire in Fable 2 was a good one for this, it really reinforced the threat you were facing, and the huge prison break at the end followed by the passage of time changing the world was a cool idea too

[@leeman27534]

... i don't really recall this, my brain went "maybe time to replay fable 2 then"... and then also recalled my 360 got the RROD not too long ago. shit.

[@firepenguin38]

Ohh the fucking spire... Good times lol

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of that part of "Chrono Trigger" where you lose all your gear... BUT you can get it back with a little sneaking around. which is much easier IF you have Ayla in your party, since she can fight empty-handed!

[@mitchellbonds766]

Thank you! I came here to say exactly this!

[@Esiaa]

I thought about the same thing!

[@idontthinktheysawthatcomin6792]

Well what are they gonna do? Cut her hands off?

[@fakjbf3129]

Mass Effect 3: Citadel DLC. Shepard shows up expecting to just eat sushi with Joker, but after an ambush they are left with just a pistol and no armor. It’s not so bad if you are a biotic who can lash out with your powers, but if you are playing as a soldier the very limited ammo makes it extremely annoying on higher difficulties.

[@crazyandorian]

Just done this, and as an engineer with combat drone and sentry turret, it was so much easier haha

[@MEver316]

Vanguard. Biotic Charge-Nova-Heavy melee... Repeat. Who needs ammo or weapons?

[@EvilPaladin11]

I played as a soldier. I'm glad that I did that I selected Liara's (I think) biotic attack as my implanted teammate power. Things got difficult once I ran out of grenades, and I was stuck in a corridor with a rapidly depleting ammo cache.

[@epicsandwich7194]

Me: Puts hours of time into game, grinds up all necessary skills, money, items, weapons. Game: Nah, I don’t want you to have that

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

The entire Metroid story in a single point.

[@samthompson1804]

Like a DM saying 'Trust me guys; this'll be fun! I promise!'

[@epicsandwich7194]

Legendary Detective Wobbuffet oof🤣

[@geoffreyshepler4954]

I'm surprised Half Life didn't make it on this list. Just when I got all the weapons, seemingly unlimited ammo, and and awesome battle sequence where I was kicking all the ass... Things suddenly got really calm as I walked towards the exit. And next thing I know, I'm waking up locked in a room without any weapons. Imagine my surprise when it became clear that there was no locker at the end of the stage were my gear would be waiting for me.

[@onedropmtg6038]

One of my favorites was the Silverite Mines in Dragon Age Awakening where you had to kill ghouls wearing your gear. It was short but fun IMO, plus if Oghren’s in your party it results in one of the best lines in the series “No one touches Oghren’s junk and lives!”

[@spazzyhilo1]

This reminds me of when I played Fallout 3's DLC The Pitt. They wanted to take all my stuff before letting me in and for some unknown reason I was convinced I wouldn't get it back so I dumped it all in a trash bin outside of the gate thinking I could easily get it back. No. No I was wrong. I did eventually get it all back but only after completing the entire DLC when the gate opens up again. That was painful.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

And that's why I always put up a seperate save file and do so often. I even did it after every win in Caravan in New Vegas.

[@easyrain9453]

Speaking of Fallout, NV's Dead Money did the same thing: shove all your stuff in a box before you go. You have your crafting skills and whatever you can find, and that's it. It was really satisfying making cluster bombs from plasma though.

[@aquelegabriel]

@@easyrain9453 dead money is brutal with the thing of "let's see how good you are" mentality. No more guns, no more stimpacks, no more armor, no more ammunition. But they give you a new neckless, so that's something...

[@SyndicateOperative]

@@aquelegabriel Neckless... well, that's what the necklace will make you if father elijah sets the bomb off.

[@CowKirbo]

The entire dlc of the Pitt is this section

[@spacejesus6581]

Dragon Age Origins-Awakening In the silverite mines everything you own gets stolen and you have to kill doppelgängers wearing your overpowered loot to get it back, most of the dungeon is using low level stuff that's so bad your fists are better lol Oghren if he's brought along has the best line when he sees it. "HEY! Thats mine! That thing has my things! It's got its sallow crammy hands all over my doo-dads, touching my junk!" *creature looks at him in confusion* "NO-ONE TOUCHES OGHREN'S JUNK, AND LIVES!"

[@arthurcarnegie9144]

Yesssss! I love oghren’s lines in that one!!! It was so funny!

[@miceltusav88]

I loved the line Shale said when you didn't take them to fight the arch demon. Something like "do take SOME care, will you? If by chance the dragon ate you and had to poop you out, my luck would make it so that it lands on me"

[@CJTerry]

I freaking love dragon age origins

[@AndrewsYoutube]

My favorite one of these type moments is near the start of 'Castlevania: Symphony of the Night'. Alucard comes running into Dracula's castle, equipped with some of the best armor and weapon in the entire game. Death itself stops you four rooms in and is like "I don't think so." and takes away all your equipment, cackling maniacally as he floats away. 🤣🤣

[@FelisImpurrator]

It's funnier because you can glitch the game to keep them by using the warg (booping it on the nose at low health) to near death catapult ragdoll yourself directly through that room, skipping Death and letting you use the save point to trick the game into thinking you're done with the cutscene.

[@MK-dr7dx]

@@FelisImpurrator I'll have to try that.

[@jmason425]

My favorite example of this is Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild. The Eventide Island Shrine was such a fun experience, having all of your weapons and gear taken, leaving you with just the Sheikah Slate, your runes, and your wits to get three stone orbs into pedestals. A truly refreshing experience

[@DKQuagmire]

that island always reminded me of Crescent Island in The legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages, where when Link first washes up on shore, the local "Tokay" People steal all of Links Stuff, and the Link has to explore the island to get all his items back, just so he can enter the 3rd dungeon located on the island.

[@jellysharkbat]

I just did that island and panicked the entire time. XD

[@starscreamsniper926]

In Metroid zero Mission, after beat you Mother Brain, in a cutscene Samus loses her armor and spaceship and you have to navigate a space pirates gunship with nothing but her emergency pistol which can only stun a space pirate at full charge.

[@MusingMageofDisney]

Kingdom Hearts, the original. Hollow Bastion, Riku literally yoinks the Keyblade out of your hands and make you fight with a wooden sword

[@douglasgoodwon8227]

10:23 See, in Morrowind, the Dunmer were *professional* slavers, they locked a shackle onto their prisoners that continually sucked out their magicka(or would've if it'd been coded properly.) In Skyrim they just toss you in like you can't immediately summon a sword in one hand and blast lightning out of the other.

[@healsallwounds]

The Awakening expansion for Dragon Age: Origins had the main quest “The Righteous Path” where the talking darkspawn known as The Architect knocks you out with a spell and you must escape his laboratory. Your gear is all being used by various ghouls throughout the Silverite Mine where the Architect has set up his base.

[@EmonyLP]

Speaking of Skyrim, what about that bit right before you sneak into the Thalmor Embassy? All well and good unless a bloody dragon shows up! (A bloody dragon showed up.)

[@jasperzanovich2504]

Doesn't count since you can have the NPC smuggle everything you own into the party.

[@EmonyLP]

@@jasperzanovich2504 It counts when you're at that moment right in between when your items are taken and you leave for the embassy and A BLOODY DRAGON SHOWS UP

[@joenesvick7043]

Got a mod disabling random dragon attacks, I really hate it if they interrupt my conversations, gotta go to their walls for the Souls

[@lisah-p8474]

@@EmonyLP Yes!! I was listening to Delphine give me the quest rundown and a dragon decided to attack the farm/stables and stopped the quest. I was stuck in combat in my dumb party clothes with no weapons and had to reload my save. Happened twice! 😡

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of a time i was practicing pickpocketing... i like to practice on Town Guards, since i can simply say "i'll pay the fine" if they notice, but once a dragon appeared JUST THEN and interrupted the dialogue, so i wound up fighting the dragon AND everyone in town... good think i quick-saved first!

[@TheManInTheLongBlackCoat]

Silent Hill 2 where you had to empty literally every single weapon, healthpack and accessory before entering a lift.

[@scottenright1363]

Right? Even your flashlight!

[@ddjsoyenby]

yes that...........that was cruel.

[@brantpeters3655]

Came here to say this. Not only does that elevator alarm scare the crap out of you, if you're like me you tried to just drop all the heavy stuff ("This great knife is clearly the issue"), before slowly coming to the realization that even just a picture makes you too heavy for the "one person" limit. And the game doesn't just give it back, you have to go back and get it. Hope your memory is good under panic.

[@HavocHounds1988]

Something like this happens in Assassin's Creed Origins as well. You get captured and have all your gear taken and placed in a chest. You have to sneak in and get your gear back.

[@ryadinstormblessed8308]

13:10 "ya HATE to see it." Factually, no, Andy seemed to be quite relishing the sight of that happening to Ellen. 😁

[@BisectedBrioche]

Shout out to Alien: Isolation for making you deposit all your guns in a locker right when it sends you to the one area with robots wearing suits that protect them from the cattle prod and EMP bombs you can still use/craft. Then they just show up at the bottom of a ladder for no reason, (luckily just when you really need the flamethrower again).

[@JenniferWolffJennyWeb]

Just finished another play-through of this game and I came here for this. Even the pipe bombs you might still have aren't terribly effective on these guys.

[@DavidasaurusRex]

Just about out to that game for being amazing

[@daniellefoster6039]

100% this moment

[@darkhorse989]

No Dragon Age Origins? When ya get captured after rescuing Anora in Denerim, you (and possibly Alistair) end up naked in the dungeons of Fort Drakon. All your stuff is gone till end of the level.

[@joenesvick7043]

Yeah, I always prefer going there just to clear that dungeon out. The other option is to just resist and win

[@MephiticMiasma]

Skyrim, I just _had_ to ask him "so where did this tunnel come from?" ... oh, from the dwarves, you say? Yeah, I already noticed.... seriously, you were down here for years, and you had that escape route handy the whole time? Quite convenient!

[@adacskipper]

Shadow of the Tomb Raider did this to incredible effect. You lose all your gear except your knife and bow, and have to engage in stealth guerilla warfare against a gang of very heavily armed soldiers. It was the first time I really felt like a terrifying warrior of death as I snuck from bush to hanging vine, dragging helpless enemies into the shadows before they can even scream. Then the sequence ends by giving you the best weapon in the game and you go on a total rampage, destroying everything in your path in a fit of unleashed rage. It was incredible.

[@jamiechristensen6433]

Ok, but where is The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild? Eventide Island is literally a trial to see how good you are without your gear!

[@EmonyLP]

that was my first thought, as well

[@robertjames9190]

Xbox

[@damienjones9064]

This list cannot be completed without that trial.

[@robertjames9190]

But its not on the xbox

[@wildste]

And now, there are multiple shrines in TotK with that concept

[@johnoneil9188]

My prime example is the Dead Money DLC for Fallout New Vegas. You get zapped, abducted, bomb collared and then released into a toxic gas filled maze full of semi-immortal enemies with not much more than your underpants. I loved that game to bits but that segment can honestly go bonk itself.

[@easyrain9453]

That segment was great: IF you had crafting skills. There was lots of random stuff to craft with. Cluster plasma bombs wrecked things. Without that, though, I could see problems.

[@josephmagro9648]

BOTW literally has an island (Eventide Island) that says “Hey, we see you have all this cool stuff. It would be a reeeaaalll shame if we took it” “BTdubs, we taking it”

[@blitzgirl6522]

I thought Village might appear on this list! God, that section was terrifying, and when I saw my inventory was all gone, I knew something awful was going to happen...

[@nicholascross3557]

The original Deus Ex does this too, you get captured and wake up in a cell with absolutely nothing in your inventory and get gloated at by Anna, if she's still alive at that point. Handily, a "friend" unlocks the cell door but it's then up to you to sneak your way to all your gear using only whatever you can find along the way. On a side note, pretty much every DM will try to do this to their gaming party which led, on at least one occasion, to said party resisting so hard they had to relocate to another country having slaughtered most of the guardsmen in a city.

[@SyndicateOperative]

It shows how often I kill off Anna early that I didn't even remember that Anna turned up at your cell.

[@tsukimilo]

I really hope you make a Commenter's Edition of this topic. Because, Metroid: Zero Mission's final stretch was both unexpected in the remake and nothing feels better than, after having to stealth without any of your powers, to get them all back and more to just become Death herself.

[@samthompson1804]

Unless you were on a 15% items run. Then you got your gear back and were still incredibly vulnerable.

[@samueldupuis1468]

I would have also put in Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword in Eldin, as well as Dying Light's arena fight

[@Ptero4]

@@samueldupuis1468 Don't forget Twilight princess, you acquire a peculiar upgrade early on and at the end of the third dungeon it is taken away from you forcing you to stealth your way to where you recover it.

[@samthompson1804]

Star Wars Jedi Academy had a very memorable level where you landed right outside an Imperial Base, only to be immediately encircled by snipers, stripped of all your gear (including your light sabre), dumped in a cell and then taunted by a man with an ambiguous accent. Force Pulling a gun out of the arms of a stormtrooper and immediately shooting him with it was a fun way to start your big comeback.

[@ericb3157]

yes, having no lightsabre makes it much harder. fortunately, I usually grab Force Lightning early on.

[@MongoSmash591]

The Jedi Academy mission where you lose your stuff always stuck with me. Starting out with a lightsaber spoiled you to not having to use blasters if you didnt want to.

[@matthewneuendorf5763]

Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut and the integrated Missing Link DLC segment strips you of all your augments and gear, and even rewards you with an achievement for not spending any Praxis points after you've recovered your kit, sticking with your factory reset augmentation state for the entire DLC.

[@tschmidt7409]

I was so mad the first time I played and this happened, but once I learned the alternate paths this was a breeze

[@hellm0]

FFVIII - Ultimecia's Castle. Literally takes away all of your abilities such as items, magic, summoning etc then makes you solve puzzles and battle minibosses to get them back on your way to kick her ass at the end of the game.

[@Aro2001]

FFVIII does it twice. There's also the prison that takes all of the weapons. In that case, they end up sending Zell to get all their weapons back since he is the only one who can fight unarmed.

[@hellm0]

@@Aro2001 Oh! I completely forgot about the prison one, you right!

[@rogerstewart5525]

Of course, when Laguna is imprisoned and made to do forced labour in Esthar, they helpfully let him keep his machine gun

[@B1GB3RN]

@@rogerstewart5525 Classic JRPG logic... You have to have a prison that's easily escapable from and they have to let you keep your weapons...

[@theonemrtom101]

I could have bought FF VIII for two dollars, but I refused, it looks so terrible in the gameplay videos😖 it's the only FF game I didn't buy, even though X-2 is terrible as well, I tried to like it 4 times, but I'm never able to play for longer than 30ish min

[@justinoconnell90]

“The Pit” scenario in Dying Light has you stripped of your gear, a decent challenge depending on the difficulty level. IIRC “Bozak Horde” too. The Syphon Filter trilogy had a couple levels where you lose your gear too, but typically before stealth segments I believe.

[@onoff4244]

Also in one of the missions they take away the ability to use the grapple hook

[@lachlansharman1828]

What about Batman: Arkham knight The game has the audacity to take not only your gadgets and your car but they in the end permanently take Mark Hamill from you

[@todaysaveragegamer]

"Well you had several guns, check your inventory and you can use one of the other ones...oh no...oh no..." classic Farrant humor.

[@nina9565]

That skyrim quest is the reason I always have the bound sword spell in ever playthrough

[@supersparerib]

Also: Eventide Island in Zelda:Breath of the Wild. You have to complete some kind of ball quest without all of your gear.

[@dragnl0rd]

Breath of the Wild does this to you several times! Especially in the trials to unlock the upgrades to the Master Sword, which even take away your ability to save the game!

[@timedragon5492]

Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword’s fire dragon’s trial. You lose all your weapons, including your sword, and have to make your way through a bokoblin encampment on your own. Or just the sacred trials in general. Guardians are terrifying

[@1Thunderfire]

I really loved that part. 🙂

[@samueldupuis1468]

Glad to see someone else who remembered the Fire Trial, but honestly, screw the Silent Realm trials. Swear that section always gave me near heart attacks as a kid

[@Zenlore6499]

The original Doom: You’re back to pistol starts with every new chapter. Oh, and those rockets you saved for tough fights? Too bad, the bosses don’t take explosive damage, so those rockets are just big slow bullets.

[@Korvar]

Quake, too. 25 Shotgun shells.

[@ericb3157]

reminds me of the first Serious Sam, where you lose all of your AMMO at the beginning of a late mission. oh, and that silly game "serious sam the second encounter (NOT the same as serious sam 2) where you lose all your stuff 2 times. JUST after beating the first two major bosses, BTW.

[@Zenlore6499]

@@ericb3157 Oh, YES! I thought of that too, but I just couldn’t place it. I’ve played it recently too, what the heck?

[@WTFmybacon]

@@ericb3157 I mean, at this point, it has pretty much become a trend of the Serious Sam games taking away your weapons (or, as is the case of The First Encounter, your ammo, as you said) at some point in the game, considering that it also does this in Serious Sam 2 (which does it a total of EIGHT times as well!), Serious Sam 3 and Serious Sam 4.

[@javierperezgarrido893]

After plowing through the main campaign of Neverwinter Nights, the expansion pack, Hordes of the Underdark showed me how poorly built my bard/rogue/red dragon disciple was, after stealing my op gear and small fortune at the beginning of the story.

[@YalelingOz]

The Fallout 3 DLC, The Pitt, is hands down my favourite part of Fallout 3. You stash all your gear, and have to 'make do' with steel saws and the infiltrator rifle to (maybe) liberate a city of slaves.

[@KHShadowGamer45]

And the Mothership Zeta DLC where you get abducted by aliens but then you get some cool alien gear in which to obliterate aliens with, that was awesome.

[@andyv8624]

In Summoner, Joseph collects all these rings that let him summon powerful monsters to fight for him, only to be tricked into sticking his hand into a burning forge. He eventually gets his hand back but can’t summon anything until you find all new rings. Don’t be like Joseph, don’t stick your hand into a forge even if someone says it will be fine.

[@ryanmaxwell7816]

Honestly forgot about Cihdna Mine, I just summoned my Demora who obliterated everything in there.

[@iateitguy903]

"Oh no, I'm UNDER encumbered!" got me pretty good.

[@lynell3902]

Sometimes I really liked these sections. It feels like I'm being tested if I'm still a good player even without all my toys But sometimes too, these sections could be very boring or hard

[@plinkitee]

How about We Happy Few? An old man asks Arthur to retrieve his medals from the hooligans that stole them from him. When Arthur reaches the hooligan camp, he's caught, made to give up all his stuff, then has to fight to the death in a public arena.

[@greengraciano6846]

Im surprised that theres no old school Tomb Raiders on this list. It was a recurring motif of the PS1 games that at some point your inventory would be taken away - with their recovery usually being an optional out of the way task.

[@sunshinebubble3925]

Horizon Zero Dawn does this as well. There's a point in the main quest at which the enemies steal all of your gear, including your focus, and put you in a giant death arena with a giant metal monster. They obviously expect you to die, but you can beat it by making it crash into pillars (if you don't die first) until it gives you your gear back (minus your focus, one of your main advantages in battle)

[@molybdaen11]

There was one mission in crono trigger where you got caught and were supposed to sneak out of prision. Well, if you had that stoneage lady super saiyan with you, you could instead let her run rampange :)

[@thumper5555]

Love the banter at the end of this one.

[@fdjvfyvfhb8235]

What about Risk of Rain 2 when the final boss of the run, Mithrix takes all of your items during one of his phases reducing you to the state you started the run in

[@CuppaLLX]

special mention to Fallout 3: After the Enclave capture you, you wake up and get monologed at and then set free...your gear is in the chest directly infront of you before anyone even fires a shot at you

[@devinco1]

Breath of the Wild also leaned extra hard into this. In Skyrim, you can also just murder the heck out of Madanach and pocket the key to escape.

[@odddd99]

In Dragon's Dogma, when you get put into jail, you are robbed of all your equipment.....oh wait it's all there in the inventory and you just have to equip them again! Also, if you have skeleton keys you can get out of jail easily and walk past the guard 'cause he doesn't even care.

[@eggguy20]

Let's hope that the sequel expands upon the jail part and makes it to where you can fight in the makeshift arena in order to get out or spend time sleeping in bed to shorting the sentence

[@kRx1203]

What about Jedi Academy? The mission where you get captured and have to win without your lightsaber was by far my least favourite one, on the account of how fun the lightsaber combat in that game is.

[@faylinnmystiquerose2224]

I was going to suggest that same one ^^; they can take your lightsaber and any weapon you might have chosen to take into the mission with you, but they can't turn off your force powers, I make liberal use of Force Lightning through the entire thing, which is generally maxed out by that point regardless of which side I take through my playthrough.

[@SkyScraperC]

I think the best example of this scenario (or worst depending on your perspective) is in Dying Light when Riaz takes all of your stuff and throws you into the arena. This is also the time in the game when you have your first encounter with a Demolisher. One of the most tanky and punishing enemies you will encounter in the game. Then the icing on the cake is that when you manage to beat it, you end up having to run out of the arena with a bunch of guys shooting at you, still not able to get your gear back until you reach a safehouse

[@kellykr22]

There’s a collection of “secret stars” in Super Mario Sunshine where the level starts with FLUDD getting stolen forcing the player to beat the level without any of the water mechanics

[@samuelmcgrath9711]

Divinity original sin! There's a quest where you follow a lady/gent of the night upstairs only for him/her to poof away your fancy goods and all you have to use are various items around the room one hit away from breaking.

[@matthewgreen3988]

Would FFVII count when Yuffie steals all your good materia?

[@Kartissa]

Or all of it, if you haven't bought a lot of extra materia up to that point.

[@SkyScraperC]

Played that semi-recently... She left me with 2 pathetic Fire materia with no AP 🙁 Debated going back to a previous town just to buy some restore materia, because potions just don't cut it at that point.

[@Kartissa]

@@SkyScraperC I always end up with nothing, but I'm usually slightly over-levelled by that point, so Hi-Potions are sufficient. I also hold on to elemental items like Swift Bolts and Ice Crystals for extra damage when I need it.

[@AAdams456]

In MGS3 if you call Major Zero straight after escaping the cell and picking up the fork, sometimes this conversation triggers: "Snake, have you found any weapons?" "I've...... got a fork..." "You call that a weapon?" *Snake grumbles*

[@dragour8723]

In Saints Row 3 there is a mission called "Pimps Up, Hos Down" where the Playa ends up with nothing, something you are not warned about before that moment

[@firehedgehog1446]

For all of 3 seconds, Zimos comes in to give you your guns back

[@Alex_vdR]

Skyrim does this twice actually - to achieve the rank of master of restoration magic, the college of Winterhold dumps you in a locked room, strips you naked and summons unkillable ghosts trying to murder you, so cou can proof you are able to heal yourself through the onslaught

[@marhawkman303]

Star Trek Online does this in that weird MMO way of not REMOVING gear, but... making you use something else. It has multiple missions where you have to fly someone else's ship and sucks to be you if you can't figure out what the buttons do. Then there's a few missions where you don't even play as your own character. Those missions you have to use whatever the character you do play as comes with. Playing as Leeta? Non-combat.... but playing as Leck or Neth Parr? that gets REALLY interesting since they have powers that players can't use. then there's the mission Coliseum where Star Trek Online has a section where you can't use anything but melee weapons.

[@SaitoLogan]

When I saw the scene from Village, I was like “Nope, that ain’t to “test how good I am”, that was heavy mental torture”! So nopeeeee. I’m way too scared on that scene lol.

[@izjustme4229]

I haven't personally played it yet, but my boyfriend is constantly replaying Ratchet & Clank series. In the second game, there is an arena with challenges that award you bolts, and the final challenge makes you survive a whole bunch of round with just your wrench; no guns, no shields, just the wrench you have and I think your armor too. When he finally beat it, he was so happy and excited which is understandable I know it's not technically required, but still fits under the "Game takes away everything so you can prove how good you are" category

[@lettherebedragons8885]

Mass Effect 3 the Citadel DLC. At the beginning of the DLC you find yourself all alone with just a shitty pistol against hordes of enemies.

[@aquelegabriel]

Heeey, I like that pistol! Loads of critical hit damage on headshots

[@ashl.7673]

Chrono Trigger has the great awesome Blackbird sequence where you have to break out without your weapons, items and armour!

[@FuriousMaximum]

THANK YOU!

[@KOU-ZAI]

This reminded me of Alien Isolation where you surrender all your weapons on a conveyor belt in order to get through those metal detectors. That moment made one's heart sank, but at least you regain them later.

[@ericb3157]

oh, that reminds me of a level in Perfect Dark where you are trying to sneak into Air Force 1... first you waylay a stewardess and steal her uniform, (you MUST use non-lethal means or insta-fail), then you put everything you have into a suitcase, then you have to run like crazy to turn off the alarm, punching out a guard and taking his weapon along the way...

[@mickeyd8966]

Red faction hurt the most. You give up your stock of assault rifles to "not get noticed". Once you're 40 feet away they light you up. Good luck with those fists comrade.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In the beginning of the Missing Link DLC for Deus Ex Human Revolution, Adam's gear is taken from him and his augmentations are disabled.

[@Monkeyzforever]

The final boss of Kena: Bridge of Spirits has you fighting with nothing but basic attacks for the first two segments - and let me tell you it's really frustrating. I could have dealt with losing my better abilities, but because you've lost the Rot you've lost your only ability to heal and the boss fight is exceedingly long with no checkpoints. If you're on the easiest difficulty it's no bother, but literally the next difficulty up (which I played for most of the game) becomes nigh on impossible with only two opportunities to heal in the entire fight, and them only becoming available like 20 minutes into it. I tried a few times, got to the final part, had a sliver of health left and didn't know what I was supposed to do, died, and then immediately set the difficulty to easiest because I wasn't going to waste another half an hour of my life just to die again. Overall though, it's a good game. Some fights were just frustrating.

[@AFLoneWolf]

Dragon Age Origins did it twice. Once when you were captured and chose to escape on your own instead of waiting for your party to rescue you. And again in the Awakening DLC when you're captured for the second time. To add injury to insult, you fight enemies wearing the gear you had on.

[@CowKirbo]

The deathloop part reminds me of a similar part in dishonored 2. The part where you can flip between past and present. You can't use your powers so a lot of that level is tough

[@HassallBrony4]

No love for Fallout New Vegas, Dead Money DLC? They take all your goodies and place you in a poison cloud filled hellhole.

[@nikmcgarity]

No, there is no love. Only terror. Only fear. Only pain.

[@nicholascross3557]

Beep. Beep. Beep.

[@liamnehren1054]

I usually love these parts since then you can see how much you have actually mastered the game's system. breath of the wild's was particularly nice.

[@autumnalchild8683]

it reminded me about a "Soulbringer" (2000) game: when demon Lilith spirited you away and left you fend for your life in her Ice castle without all your precious gear and weapons and potions

[@FiendTheWhacked]

The Cidna Mine one is fun because like the Bioshock example it does nothing to disable your magic, which, granted, magic isn't great in Skyrim, but pop some conjured weapons & you'll pack a decent punch. Alternatively, werewolf.

[@coffeeaddict9605]

Always a good time for a new list! Surprised I didn't see Breath of The Wild on here. Eventide island was a trail alright!

[@Stargazeer]

Legitimately surprised neither Eventide Island or the Trial of The Sword made it on this list

[@woongfairy]

i wish this would have included persona 4 golden, marie’s dungeon!! all your items get taken away and u have to pick up enough items throughout the floors in order to beat the boss fight l’ lots of people don’t like the level but i enjoyed it cause it was something different ◡̈

[@6kang971]

I really expected Judgement to be in this list as when you fight Amon, he steals your phone and as an effect, your ability to pause or use any of the items in your inventory.

[@Confron7a7ion7]

Skyrim: Let's see how good your stealth archer is without his bow! Summons magic bow out of thin air.