That Lizard Trial scene from Heavy Rain kept me up at night, those were some of the most visceral screams in a video game I had heard at that point... Also Kane and Lynch: Dog Days, the torture tapes
I remember the RDR mission, yes it is definitely one of the most disturbing things to happen in video games and entertainment in general. It’s necessarily because of the graphics but the thought of something like that happening even now on a farm is frightening.
Considering how often it ends up on youtube lists...I find that a little hard to believe, perhaps more accurate would be to say that a lot of people have never played it.
They Remaster it, they have to put it on Switch, otherwise what’s the point. But yes, I do want a remaster, I never really got to play it. The name Spec Ops back then just turned me off because there used to be on PS1 a game series by that name that I really hated. I hated that series so much that I blatantly ignored this game. I regret it now because of how amazing I heard this was. Now it looks like I am too late for the party and the only way I am going to be able to play it is if they remaster it. So, yeah I want a remaster too because I never got to play it the first time.
That's what's good about dead space 2. They wanted to do the game as psychological as they could. I saw some stuff when they were making the game and they were saying they hired an expert as to what the most disturbing thing the mind can handle and get away with for a video game. Dead space 2 was definitely a good game.
There's just something about Spec ops the line, Where game starts as a generic third person military shooter and leaves u traumatized by the end. Making u feel responsible for all the actions despite not giving an option to choose, Hidden Gem of a game that was.
I love when Call of Duty did missions like that. Video games should take risks and tell stories like this. Backlash or not, some things need to be told or shown and it’s not always pretty. Nothing is darker than real life. Some people are so evil it doesn’t seem possible in the things they do.
Never played the game before. My friend learned that. So he started MW2 and told me to play this mission. I knew about it but not the twist at the end. It was impactful and despite how messed up it was. However you can appreciate the devs for doing that. War is messed up, there’s no sugar coating that.
In my opinion, the Edith finch one you should’ve put in the list is the fish head cutter one…the ending to that story surprised and disturbed me like no other in the game
The little girl eating the mistletoe berries is the one that I always remember. Every part of that game is so hauntingly tragic but told in such an artistic way.
It may feel stupid for some, but for me the most disturbing moments I've experienced was the whole Paris Section of Modern Warfare 3. As a french teenager at the time, It felt odd playing this. The whole gas attacks, the military assault on the streets. It felt unreal, and unlikely to happen, but then again, it was scary because that could happen someday. Say what you want about CoD, the devs have talents to make you feel uncomfortable about war when they want to.
Expect CoD has tons of over the top moments, not to also mention extensive use of plot armor. Sorry, but reality will always be different from even the most seriously toned video games.
I'm surprised you included What Remain of Edith Finch, it's one of my favorite first person narrative driven experiences, I wish more people had played it.
Agreed. It being called "walking simulator" makes people not play. I didnt until i did with game pass and it was a fun game, very imaginative and creative with each of its little stories. So worth playing.
As a father of two small kids I can assure you I will NOT be playing this game any times soon. Especially now that I know there's a part like that in the game.... 😢
It's one of my favorite games of all time. I've been trying to get my friend to play it for years. Basically, since it came out lol. Fire Watch is another amazing "walking sim" I hate that term.
The Stroggification sequence in Quake 4 might not be the most 'realistic', but it sure seemed real enough to me the first time I saw it. Still have a scar in my brain because of that scene.
was about to comment on that, i played it while young on my brother's xbox, I'm not traumatized or else but i do remember it as something shocking enough
My limit was reached in Witcher 3 with the scene where you're pretending to turn in Triss for the reward and have to sit casually chatting with the boss while she's being tortured in the next room. And they also made this, by 5 orders of magnitude, the longest single dialog in any game ever made. I just hammer the skip button until it finally exhausts the dialog. Whoever wrote this scene of this quest needs to be on a watch list.
I only see on one eye following an early childhood accident with a sharp object and several subsequent surgical interventions (but eventually my sight in that eye degraded beyond saving anyway). As such, I'm pretty sensitive to anything involving eye trauma. That DS2 eye thing almost made me abandon the game. Good lord.
I'm not even a parent, but I was in tears before it was even over. Last year, my band played The Nutcracker Suite and I had to stop when we got to that movement
As a bonus, I'd include the Call Of Duty where the nuke went off...I don't know if that's exactly a completely realistic representation of what would happen to someone caught on the outskirts of a nuclear detonation, but it was definitely disturbing. Also, the Call Of Duty where you were driven through a town in the midst of a coup to your execution. Now that I think about it, the Call of Duty series is responsible for a lot of disturbing moments...🤐
@@OldmanNix eh, id argue that starting with Davis Family Vacation, they just started to be controversial for controversy's sake. watching kids getting killed is a bit too fucked up for me.
@@quinnmarchese6313 Your priorities are seriously messed up man. You're okay with seeing hundreds of innocent people get gunned down, or playing as a nuclear blast survivor in their last moments, but a kid getting caught in an explosion is where you draw the line and say they're being controversial for no reason. The scene advances the storyline, and does so in a more impactful and emotional way then just having a voice say they didn't get to the vans in time. This actually puts the player amongst the incident, and has a far more emotional impact than any other way of conveying the same information. It's actually a masterpiece of story telling. It's only controversy for controversy's sake, when it does absolutely nothing to advance the story, or tell something to the viewer. Same with sex scenes and the like. If it advances the story and allows a deeper connection with the story or characters than portraying the scene another way, then its not being controversial or sexual for the hell of it. Movies, Tv, Books, and Games would be lifeless, boring, and not worth interacting with if they cut out everything controversial that they use to create a connection between the viewer and characters. Your thought process is the very same thing that has lead to todays "out of sight, out of mind" mentality. When you see something you actually have to confront the fact that it happens. Just hearing about it isn't enough. We hear about car crashes, gang violence, overdoses, and third world crises every day, but very few people give it more than a glancing thought. Because they don't actually have to confront it when they just hear about it. If the news actually showed the graphic results of car crashes, shootings, overdoses, and other traumatic events, it would actually cause people to react, and not just shrug it off. And your comment proves it. Undoubtedly there would have been kids killed in that nuclear blast, not to mention dozens of kids left parentless after No Russian, and even more caught up in the countless events throughout the story, and that barely crosses your mind. And if it does, it has little emotional impact. Yet just showing one kid get caught up in the deadly events of the story is enough to cause a visceral and emotional impact for you.
I've been playing videos games since the atari D battery powered console came out. These realistic scenarios are the absolute worst in gaming, hands down. But it speaks not only to the art and entertainment of video games but the ability to put a person somewhere in an alternate world an experience realism at its finest, positive or negative. Thanks for the upload.
Edith Finch is overall pretty heart-breaking, but Gregory is probably the 'worst' offender, and maybe Lewis as well - the fish cannery sequence, which itself ties in to The Unfinished Swan. I'd forgotten about the Red Dead and LA Noire ones you mentioned, and I was actually kinda surprised to see you didn't include the mission from GTAV where Trevor tortures that one dude while Michael is off sniping. The torture stuff is enough to make me not want to replay GTAV at all. Ever.
I haven't played GTA V, because I don't have a good enough PC and I thoroughly dislike consoles, but I remember watching that mission on TH-cam and found it quite pedestrian to be honest. I mean, sure, he's torturing the guy, but it's not explicit as far as I remember. Usually unless it's gory I'm usually okay. It was pretty on brand for Trevor. I mean, it didn't surprise me at all in the context of the game. It surprised me "in the real world" so to speak, because I knew American audiences were gonna go batshit over it, but as far as I remember, it didn't surprise me or make me feel uncomfortable at all quite frankly
What Remains of Edith Finch is very close to my heart. It's the only game I've ever played in my life that got me almost sobbing for real, like the music, the sad atmosphere and then all those heart-braking little stories. Remember when I got to the room of the missing kid... damn, I had to pause and go to the bathroom to cry a little before going on. Such a beautiful game.
Honestly, even if you didn't like the story in Last of Us 2, the amount of discourse and controversy that the story started over the internet, to the point where the internet as a whole seemed toxic, I think that was going a bit too far for a story of a video game..
I had no idea about the discourse in the game until like a day or two after I started playing. I was loving the game and the internet and there was soooo much anger. That was probably a lowlight for gaming discourse for me. I don't care if people don't like it but it got really intense that I just stopped watching anything TLOU related for months. It was just a video game story that was taken way out of proportion
I still remember when I learned about a phosphor bombing of my home city during WW II in a book (by Curzio Malaparte); it wasn't pretty and the fact that it was my home city made it feel hit closer, uh, to home.
I admire CODMW2 for the ''No Russians'' mission, which is really bold and well told. But I dislike that Farah's childhood mission in the MW reboot very much. I think we're all used to these types of games treating Russia as an antagonist when they had to have their bad guys. But the old triology at least sets a solid tone that soldiers, regardless of their factions, should be respected when they're fighting for their countries and people. The new MW depicts all Russian soldiers as pure evil. The devs created a fictional middle-east country for Russia to invade and commit war-crimes, while telling the story in a documentary style to make it authentic. I don't know whether they did it purposefully in hope to make players believe this is actual history, or to invoke hatred and prejudice against Russians. But while Farah, Urzikstan, and General Barkov are fictional, Russia is a real place with real people. It's even more unatural, considering this game was made before the war in Ukraine. Personally I'm not Russian or US. But I think people really need to understand each other more, especially in recent years when governments are at each others' throats. But the new MW series simply are doing the oppsite.
This was a great video and hope to see more like it. Spec Ops developers did a good job with the mortar scene/aftermath. Made you really think about war and how devastating it truly is. Its not just a video game. Shit like that really happens. Thats how i felt anyways when playing that level
@@southcoastinventors6583i guess its the dipictions that make it feel that way. War is obviously horrible. I feel like i worded my comment wrong. What i was getting at is the sudden mood change from enjoying a game to "oh shit, this does actually happen"
@@sausageman4706 I guess it similar to monster movies where a monster destroys a bunch of building but you never see all the 1000s of people who die as result of doming just one building could you imagine if they showed that in cartoons.
In GTA V, during the Paleto Score heist, if you choose the worst gunman - Daryl Johns - as the crewman, he will be get hit by a police car and get stuck between it and a wall. He will then beg for the protagonists to help him and cry that he can't feel his legs. That moment is too real
@@DP-wf8ws a lot of which are just subjective. Besides, dude, originality on TH-cam in 2023?😂😂 By your definition, there is NO top notch content out there. I know people like to whine, but I’ll never understand why…
A week ago, I went to a laser doc to remove a chalazion in my bottom eye lead, which as I had been told and which is a fairly routine procedure, but all I could think of the whole day was this scene from DS2, daggommit I was nearly shaking when the doc called me in and took a syringe saying "this is the only painful part so take a deep breath...". I was literally ready to loose m eye in the most disturbing way, though it turned out to be fine, so thank you Visceral Games for such an experience lol
I loved the part in mgs2 after you enter the metal gear arsenal where the Patriots' simulation starts to fall apart and the colonel starts acting creepy.
Disturbing overall, but #1 really got me because I've had eye surgery and know exactly how that feels. Having a needle stuck in your eye is cringe memorable
I'm Brazilian and I didn't know that people used call that thing with burning people inside tires "necklacing". I'm not particularly familiar with that since it's a Rio de Janeiro's crazy gangs thing and I'm from São Paulo, but when I saw news about that they usually called it "microwave" 💀
iirc its the same controls for Arthurs dive in rdr2 (aim + square/B). pretty sure Niko Bellic can do it too and same with franklin, trevor, and micheal
On the weekends their videos are pre-uploaded to release at early times. I’m pretty sure the videos post before Jake, Falcon or anyone else on the team are even awake.
This list reminds me why I view video games as the ultimate art form. The fact that you have some level of agency in these games makes everything hit home harder.
Finally! One of my traumatic incidents is relevant! 😂 Few years ago I managed to somehow get a small metal shard embedded into my cornea, which chilled in there for a few days while I thought I had pink eye. Finally gets so bad I go to an urgent care who takes one look and goes "please go to this eye specialist right now" so I go there and they get me directly into a room and doc man gives me an eye drop which feels incredible, best relief of my life. Then he whips out a big hypodermic needle and says "ok I'm going to get that out of there" and I nearly faint. I ask if he has anything besides a needle to use and he goes "oh sure 😄" and turns back around with the tiniest little dental drill thing I've ever seen which is not much better. Then I have to put my head in the holder thing and he says "ok don't blink!" And goes at my eye with the little drill thing.... felt way better after but definitely still have nightmares about that one...
The Elephant Scene from It Takes Two should have made the list - Hell, it should have been at the top of the list. I've killed legions of monsters, ghouls, demons, and nondescript bad guys, but man, taking out that elephant was a whole 'nother level of messed up.
Played What Remains Of Edith Finch and was speechless at the end of the game. Was not expecting to play one of the most depressing games, but it was a phenomenal for only being like 6 hours. Highly recommend it
I’d love to have another LA Noir or a full fledged 4K remake/Remester but I still think the OG game looks decent. The facial animations were so revolutionary when it came out. I’ll never cool off over TLOU2. It was so bad what they did to our boy. They ruined that story so bad. The game is amazing but that story and choices they made are ugh.
To me, easily one of the most disturbing realistic scenes was the torture moment from GTA 5. The fact it wasn't a cutscene, and you had to do the actual torturing yourself, made it all the worse.
I had to close my eyes while going through #5, I've seen the aftermath of these things in the real world so that mission damn near brought me to tears and filled me with emotion. I only played that mission once. That was enough.
I understand the people are mad about #4 but honestly he had it coming. There was no way he wasnt gonna have somebody hunting him. Especially when he did what he did in the first game.
everyone reasonably expected him to die. but not by being an idiot and suddenly ignoring a game and a half of his character development as an over cautious, borderline schizoid paranoid survivor
@@JoJoZaka It makes sense if you put it in the context that he had been living in relative safety in one place for years that was almost normal, so he may have lost some of his edge. It happens with actual law enforcement and soldiers when you take them out of extreme stress situations and place them in more relaxed atmospheres. Joel was a survivor, true, but he was just a normal guy, not a super-soldier.
This is the thing about 90s games that sets them apart. They're so real and immersive - character and story wise - that killing comes to the player as something terrifying. Today, most "AAA" games are nothing more than just a graphics showcase, with trigger happy mechanics, pace-driven plots and emotionless characters.
That scream at the end of nº1 happens only if you rush it. Yeah, you can't even do that, you have to pause a bit during that to slow down Isaac's heartbeat, which makes the whole procedure smoother, yet all the more disturbing. What a game, tho!
Wow I really like gameranx content , please consider these ideas also: 1. Top ten games released on sunday 2. Top ten games where protagonist takes more lefts than right overall 3. Top 10 games where you play as shit in the floating toilet 4. Top 10 games which makes you scratch your balls 5. Top 10 games which has more daylight scenes than night. Please consider these.
Could've extended that list to another 10 - Sleeping Dogs had some brutal moments, as did Cyberpunk 2077, Mad Max, The Witcher, hell even Nier Automata had some disturbing scenes. Honestly, not a huge fan of 'shock value' moments. But when they're thought provoking they can really give the narrative a great deal of impact and turn an alright story into something really memorable.
Playing as young Farah was one of my least favorite missions of all time... for some reason catching a glimpse of her little boots brought tears to my eyes, since I have a daughter who is so young, I imagined it was her... I was simultaneously relieved that she has never had to endure such an awful reality that so many people actually experience in real life.
Edith Finch is one of the darkest games I've ever played, but I loved the story. And yeah, on the surface is just another neat exploration/puzzle game but it quickly changes into a deep dive into a family's traumatic past.
Spec ops: the line is easily in my top 5 games of all time. Since The first time going through the story roughly a decade ago, it still sticks in my mind to this day. If any game deserves a faithful remake of remaster its Spec ops
It's because of this controversy that I don't consider The Last of Us 2 Game of the Year. It should have been Ghost of Tsushima. I respect Caddicarus's opinion. He said "Look Ellie, I think Last of Us 2 is a fine game but not worthy of Game of the Year." I think there was a guy who didn't include Last of Us 2 in his top 10 games of 2020. I think Joel made the right choice in Last of Us part 1 since killing Ellie probably wouldn't be able to make a cure anyway. Matt Pat from Game Theory says they could make a cure without killing her and says how. Don't you actually see the thing jab into the eye in Dead Space 2?
The eye scene was TRAUMATIC . Couple that with the fact that if you miss , the whole machine just jams it into your head . Couple that with the extraordinary voice acting .. WOOO BOY .
I never had an issue with “No Russian”. Back in 2009 gun violence and mass shooting weren’t as prevalent as they are today and being able to skip the level seemed to work well. Even still, I knew it was just a video game.
The Rdr mission was dark with context and the player was to put a stop to the psychos and shouldn’t be included with the flat out pointless no Russian area, that added nothing but made the player become the mass shooter for the Russians. Honestly everyone agreed that scene wasn’t needed or wanted.
As a Combat Veteran We don't want war but train to fight in the event of war Lost 2 close friends and an Iraqi Girl about 7 yr's old to an IED my son was born a month after she passed. 20 yr's later I still think of them. I know you're talking about gaming but some of these hit close to home. Peace.
I believe fallout 4 or NV has this type of mission. But one I can remember vividly is The outer worlds. There’s a side mission you have to find a missing person. It leads to this house. Whole family inside mom dad brother and sister. They invite you to dinner. As you go through their things you can tell something’s off even your companions say something. As you go through the house you stumble across a locked door. You open it and and see some blood on the floor you can past the curtains to find a dude strapped to the bed chopped to pieces. The family living there are cannibals. Once you go down stairs to confront they notice blood on your shoes. And then they know and attack you. Some crazy stuff man. It was trippy. Lol
These are all rough, but I haven't thought about the LA Noir scene in years, and it was absolutely rage-inducing. I dropped my controller and put the game aside for a month, furious that I couldn't do anything about it.
@@dtanobo people who criticize people's picture while not showing their own face don't matter to anyone except their parent whose basement they live in.
@@cppblank did you come up with that on your own or did the Facebook council of men who take selfies in their car with coloured sunglass lens hive mind do it for you
@dtanobo that picture is from when Google Plus still existed and I was just creating an account. Also, anyone with common sense (you clearly don't fit into that) can tell that isn't a car. It isn't my fault I'm not ashamed to show my face like you.
I can't believe people are still freaking out over "No Russian." Yes, it's terrible. But...they're pixels. No one is real. If you are mentally unstable, sure this may be worrisome, but for most of us who aren't mentally unstable, this is just a mission to forward the story.
Played through the dead space 2 segment along with the entirety of the game in second grade. My mom bought it for me on her way home from work one day and made my day that day. The opening scene made me go “HOLY SHIT” so quick, along with the needle segment. I remember what was worse to me was when I walked into the daycare segment of the game. Along with the portion of the game near the beginning of the mother crying for her child really instilled such a feeling of despair and sadness. I wanted to do anything I could to help the NPC as a kid… it hurt that I couldn’t.
Rescuing Keith from Buck in Far Cry 3. The way Keith reacts when you reach him, and suddenly you realize what Buck has been doing to him. Nothing is said, nothing is shown, but it's sickening.
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Brazilian here. The tires plus gasoline thing is called "necklacing" in South Africa, in Brazil it's called "microwaving".
Microwaving in Boston is a much different thing. Give me 10 bucks and I’ll show you
Facts - thanks for the clarity.
I thought that "microwaving" In Brazil was something involving fire and prison cells.
Is it a word with multiple meanings?
@@DavidCowie2022 not that I'm aware of.
You live in a pretty barbaric place man, I gotta tell ya. That’s some 3rd world torture shit you’d hear about in rural Africa.
This is definitely a series that can go on for several more parts.
For sure.
Enough said.
GTV 5 mission fun with electric, water and pliers.
@@southcoastinventors6583 I remember that. It still haunts me to this day.
That Lizard Trial scene from Heavy Rain kept me up at night, those were some of the most visceral screams in a video game I had heard at that point... Also Kane and Lynch: Dog Days, the torture tapes
I remember the RDR mission, yes it is definitely one of the most disturbing things to happen in video games and entertainment in general. It’s necessarily because of the graphics but the thought of something like that happening even now on a farm is frightening.
Besides the hanging human body, that's pretty close to an actual slaughterhouse / farm. That's why Ag-gag laws exist.
@@charlesolarte7104 nobody cares liberal
Spec Ops The Line really deserve a remastered at least. Such a great game, and yet lots of people doesn't even know it exists.
Considering how often it ends up on youtube lists...I find that a little hard to believe, perhaps more accurate would be to say that a lot of people have never played it.
Hell even just a port on modern consoles PLEASE!!!!!
Absolutely. Hidden gem for sure
Heck I loved that game! Did a couple chapters on my channel recently...
They Remaster it, they have to put it on Switch, otherwise what’s the point. But yes, I do want a remaster, I never really got to play it. The name Spec Ops back then just turned me off because there used to be on PS1 a game series by that name that I really hated. I hated that series so much that I blatantly ignored this game. I regret it now because of how amazing I heard this was. Now it looks like I am too late for the party and the only way I am going to be able to play it is if they remaster it. So, yeah I want a remaster too because I never got to play it the first time.
That's what's good about dead space 2. They wanted to do the game as psychological as they could. I saw some stuff when they were making the game and they were saying they hired an expert as to what the most disturbing thing the mind can handle and get away with for a video game. Dead space 2 was definitely a good game.
Spec ops, the dying soldier asking you why you did it, and just saying "we were helping" still gets me everytime
There's just something about Spec ops the line, Where game starts as a generic third person military shooter and leaves u traumatized by the end. Making u feel responsible for all the actions despite not giving an option to choose, Hidden Gem of a game that was.
Yup, really the only military shooter that by the end of it has you contemplating every action you've made.
"Do you feel like a hero yet?"
I love when Call of Duty did missions like that. Video games should take risks and tell stories like this. Backlash or not, some things need to be told or shown and it’s not always pretty. Nothing is darker than real life. Some people are so evil it doesn’t seem possible in the things they do.
Real people puts fiction to shame at points.
Never played the game before. My friend learned that. So he started MW2 and told me to play this mission. I knew about it but not the twist at the end. It was impactful and despite how messed up it was. However you can appreciate the devs for doing that. War is messed up, there’s no sugar coating that.
@@joegardner851exactly.
bro the remake happened a couple years ago...
Yeah remember that Fidel Castro shooting scene that was great
In my opinion, the Edith finch one you should’ve put in the list is the fish head cutter one…the ending to that story surprised and disturbed me like no other in the game
I finished that game and sober reflected for 2 days!
The little girl eating the mistletoe berries is the one that I always remember. Every part of that game is so hauntingly tragic but told in such an artistic way.
The most realistic yet disturbing thing in videogames is RockStar telling people RDR1 is $50.
Basically day light robbery
“What do you mean I shouldn’t pay $50 for a port that removes features?”
Get over it, f*cking baby
It’s worth 15 at most. They didn’t upgrade ANYTHING.
@@MrSpartan993 and STILL didn't put it on PC
It may feel stupid for some, but for me the most disturbing moments I've experienced was the whole Paris Section of Modern Warfare 3. As a french teenager at the time, It felt odd playing this. The whole gas attacks, the military assault on the streets. It felt unreal, and unlikely to happen, but then again, it was scary because that could happen someday.
Say what you want about CoD, the devs have talents to make you feel uncomfortable about war when they want to.
Expect CoD has tons of over the top moments, not to also mention extensive use of plot armor. Sorry, but reality will always be different from even the most seriously toned video games.
You haven’t played spec ops the line I see
I'm surprised you included What Remain of Edith Finch, it's one of my favorite first person narrative driven experiences, I wish more people had played it.
Agreed. It being called "walking simulator" makes people not play. I didnt until i did with game pass and it was a fun game, very imaginative and creative with each of its little stories. So worth playing.
Got it sitting in my "to play" list for sooo long.
That was a lovely surprise in this video, its such a great game. One that has stayed with me.
As a father of two small kids I can assure you I will NOT be playing this game any times soon. Especially now that I know there's a part like that in the game.... 😢
It's one of my favorite games of all time. I've been trying to get my friend to play it for years. Basically, since it came out lol.
Fire Watch is another amazing "walking sim" I hate that term.
Falcon petting a baby seal was pretty heartwarming 🦭
Falcons voice sounds off. 🤔
The mic maybe
He's going through puberty
No
He was practicing for this video.
AI Generated Falcons
The Stroggification sequence in Quake 4 might not be the most 'realistic', but it sure seemed real enough to me the first time I saw it. Still have a scar in my brain because of that scene.
was about to comment on that, i played it while young on my brother's xbox, I'm not traumatized or else but i do remember it as something shocking enough
Not to different than Dr. Who and becoming a cyber man or borgification.
My limit was reached in Witcher 3 with the scene where you're pretending to turn in Triss for the reward and have to sit casually chatting with the boss while she's being tortured in the next room. And they also made this, by 5 orders of magnitude, the longest single dialog in any game ever made. I just hammer the skip button until it finally exhausts the dialog. Whoever wrote this scene of this quest needs to be on a watch list.
I love a well placed Wilhelm scream.
So that’s what that is called lol
I haven't played 'what remained of Edith Finch' but watching the kid "lost in his imagination" in the bathtub made me tear up.
That game is one of the very few that made me rethink parts of my life over
I love Falcon's deep-cuts. For me, it will always be the Dead Space 2 Eye Needle. 😨
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@@gameranxTVwhat a dad response
@@seize2179 🤣
Best not get macular degeneration then.
Ohhh nooo.
I only see on one eye following an early childhood accident with a sharp object and several subsequent surgical interventions (but eventually my sight in that eye degraded beyond saving anyway). As such, I'm pretty sensitive to anything involving eye trauma. That DS2 eye thing almost made me abandon the game. Good lord.
The "stick a needle in your eye" part, on hardcore mode, was one of the most stressful moments in my gaming life.
That scene in Edith Finch…I could tell what was coming but it was so devastating
I'm not even a parent, but I was in tears before it was even over. Last year, my band played The Nutcracker Suite and I had to stop when we got to that movement
It was so sad man
As a bonus, I'd include the Call Of Duty where the nuke went off...I don't know if that's exactly a completely realistic representation of what would happen to someone caught on the outskirts of a nuclear detonation, but it was definitely disturbing. Also, the Call Of Duty where you were driven through a town in the midst of a coup to your execution.
Now that I think about it, the Call of Duty series is responsible for a lot of disturbing moments...🤐
They were all functional tho.
@@OldmanNix eh, id argue that starting with Davis Family Vacation, they just started to be controversial for controversy's sake. watching kids getting killed is a bit too fucked up for me.
@@quinnmarchese6313 Your priorities are seriously messed up man. You're okay with seeing hundreds of innocent people get gunned down, or playing as a nuclear blast survivor in their last moments, but a kid getting caught in an explosion is where you draw the line and say they're being controversial for no reason. The scene advances the storyline, and does so in a more impactful and emotional way then just having a voice say they didn't get to the vans in time. This actually puts the player amongst the incident, and has a far more emotional impact than any other way of conveying the same information. It's actually a masterpiece of story telling.
It's only controversy for controversy's sake, when it does absolutely nothing to advance the story, or tell something to the viewer. Same with sex scenes and the like. If it advances the story and allows a deeper connection with the story or characters than portraying the scene another way, then its not being controversial or sexual for the hell of it. Movies, Tv, Books, and Games would be lifeless, boring, and not worth interacting with if they cut out everything controversial that they use to create a connection between the viewer and characters.
Your thought process is the very same thing that has lead to todays "out of sight, out of mind" mentality. When you see something you actually have to confront the fact that it happens. Just hearing about it isn't enough. We hear about car crashes, gang violence, overdoses, and third world crises every day, but very few people give it more than a glancing thought. Because they don't actually have to confront it when they just hear about it. If the news actually showed the graphic results of car crashes, shootings, overdoses, and other traumatic events, it would actually cause people to react, and not just shrug it off.
And your comment proves it. Undoubtedly there would have been kids killed in that nuclear blast, not to mention dozens of kids left parentless after No Russian, and even more caught up in the countless events throughout the story, and that barely crosses your mind. And if it does, it has little emotional impact. Yet just showing one kid get caught up in the deadly events of the story is enough to cause a visceral and emotional impact for you.
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I've been playing videos games since the atari D battery powered console came out. These realistic scenarios are the absolute worst in gaming, hands down. But it speaks not only to the art and entertainment of video games but the ability to put a person somewhere in an alternate world an experience realism at its finest, positive or negative. Thanks for the upload.
Edith Finch is overall pretty heart-breaking, but Gregory is probably the 'worst' offender, and maybe Lewis as well - the fish cannery sequence, which itself ties in to The Unfinished Swan. I'd forgotten about the Red Dead and LA Noire ones you mentioned, and I was actually kinda surprised to see you didn't include the mission from GTAV where Trevor tortures that one dude while Michael is off sniping. The torture stuff is enough to make me not want to replay GTAV at all. Ever.
That Trevor scene was way too much, and really unnecessary.
That Trevor scene was awesome!
I haven't played GTA V, because I don't have a good enough PC and I thoroughly dislike consoles, but I remember watching that mission on TH-cam and found it quite pedestrian to be honest. I mean, sure, he's torturing the guy, but it's not explicit as far as I remember. Usually unless it's gory I'm usually okay. It was pretty on brand for Trevor. I mean, it didn't surprise me at all in the context of the game. It surprised me "in the real world" so to speak, because I knew American audiences were gonna go batshit over it, but as far as I remember, it didn't surprise me or make me feel uncomfortable at all quite frankly
@@nahuelma97 congrats I guess? It made me feel physically ill, like I literally almost threw up from it, and I'm not American
@@adammustafa3330 agreed lol
What Remains of Edith Finch is very close to my heart. It's the only game I've ever played in my life that got me almost sobbing for real, like the music, the sad atmosphere and then all those heart-braking little stories. Remember when I got to the room of the missing kid... damn, I had to pause and go to the bathroom to cry a little before going on. Such a beautiful game.
What remains of Edith Finch is overall very disturbing and devastating. Thats why it is an incredible game
Honestly, even if you didn't like the story in Last of Us 2, the amount of discourse and controversy that the story started over the internet, to the point where the internet as a whole seemed toxic, I think that was going a bit too far for a story of a video game..
I had no idea about the discourse in the game until like a day or two after I started playing. I was loving the game and the internet and there was soooo much anger. That was probably a lowlight for gaming discourse for me. I don't care if people don't like it but it got really intense that I just stopped watching anything TLOU related for months. It was just a video game story that was taken way out of proportion
I also thought it was too much for a video game, just thinking about that story makes me so sad.
I still remember when I learned about a phosphor bombing of my home city during WW II in a book (by Curzio Malaparte); it wasn't pretty and the fact that it was my home city made it feel hit closer, uh, to home.
While not strictly "realistic", I wince at the scene in the Tomb Raider reboot where Lara falls on a piece of rebar that impales her.
The reboot doesn’t get talked about enough. The next two are on my backlog
@@JC-ji1hp I enjoyed all 3 of them. I'm still holding out hope for a fourth.
@@JC-ji1hpi enjoyed all 3 but it was more Uncharted than it was Tomb Raider.
Tomb Raider 2013 (and to a lesser extent Shadow as well) basically becomes torture porn.
Why was there so much murder porn in that game? It was really unnecessarily grotesque.
Based on the missions featured in this list, I think Cyberpunk 2077 - ‘The Hunt’ definitely deserves mentioning.
My goodness, yes! Certainly the most disturbing mission I've ever done in a game to date.
I admire CODMW2 for the ''No Russians'' mission, which is really bold and well told. But I dislike that Farah's childhood mission in the MW reboot very much. I think we're all used to these types of games treating Russia as an antagonist when they had to have their bad guys. But the old triology at least sets a solid tone that soldiers, regardless of their factions, should be respected when they're fighting for their countries and people. The new MW depicts all Russian soldiers as pure evil. The devs created a fictional middle-east country for Russia to invade and commit war-crimes, while telling the story in a documentary style to make it authentic. I don't know whether they did it purposefully in hope to make players believe this is actual history, or to invoke hatred and prejudice against Russians. But while Farah, Urzikstan, and General Barkov are fictional, Russia is a real place with real people. It's even more unatural, considering this game was made before the war in Ukraine. Personally I'm not Russian or US. But I think people really need to understand each other more, especially in recent years when governments are at each others' throats. But the new MW series simply are doing the oppsite.
I agree with you
This was a great video and hope to see more like it. Spec Ops developers did a good job with the mortar scene/aftermath. Made you really think about war and how devastating it truly is. Its not just a video game. Shit like that really happens. Thats how i felt anyways when playing that level
I mean how could you not think war was not that devastating before the video game.
@@southcoastinventors6583i guess its the dipictions that make it feel that way. War is obviously horrible. I feel like i worded my comment wrong. What i was getting at is the sudden mood change from enjoying a game to "oh shit, this does actually happen"
@@sausageman4706 I guess it similar to monster movies where a monster destroys a bunch of building but you never see all the 1000s of people who die as result of doming just one building could you imagine if they showed that in cartoons.
@@southcoastinventors6583exactly. Well put
That Gregory scene was heart breaking. What Remains of Edith Finch is a masterpiece.
In GTA V, during the Paleto Score heist, if you choose the worst gunman - Daryl Johns - as the crewman, he will be get hit by a police car and get stuck between it and a wall. He will then beg for the protagonists to help him and cry that he can't feel his legs. That moment is too real
Damn TLOU2 still gets me
not only brazil....in fact, necklacing was performed by both Nelson Mandela and his wife on multiple occasions
I was kinda expecting something from a Dead Rising game here. Some of the psychos are messed up. Adam the Clown and Slappy come to mind.
As always thank you for the top notch content. Always love waking up to a falcon video.
Glad you enjoy it!
Not to belittle or anything, it was entertaining, but is that really top notch content?
@@DP-wf8wsguess it depends on your definition of top notch content. What’s yours?
@@jordancave3089 Effort, quality and originality/uniqueness.
@@DP-wf8ws a lot of which are just subjective. Besides, dude, originality on TH-cam in 2023?😂😂 By your definition, there is NO top notch content out there. I know people like to whine, but I’ll never understand why…
A week ago, I went to a laser doc to remove a chalazion in my bottom eye lead, which as I had been told and which is a fairly routine procedure, but all I could think of the whole day was this scene from DS2, daggommit I was nearly shaking when the doc called me in and took a syringe saying "this is the only painful part so take a deep breath...". I was literally ready to loose m eye in the most disturbing way, though it turned out to be fine, so thank you Visceral Games for such an experience lol
I loved the part in mgs2 after you enter the metal gear arsenal where the Patriots' simulation starts to fall apart and the colonel starts acting creepy.
Raiden, turn the game off right now!
@@scrambles6396 Fission Mailed
Disturbing overall, but #1 really got me because I've had eye surgery and know exactly how that feels. Having a needle stuck in your eye is cringe memorable
Literally just finished a Gameranx video, hoping for a new one soon and then boom! new video. Thanks Gameranx
Hope you enjoy it!
I'm Brazilian and I didn't know that people used call that thing with burning people inside tires "necklacing". I'm not particularly familiar with that since it's a Rio de Janeiro's crazy gangs thing and I'm from São Paulo, but when I saw news about that they usually called it "microwave" 💀
This entire time I had no idea John Marston could roll in RDR.
iirc its the same controls for Arthurs dive in rdr2 (aim + square/B). pretty sure Niko Bellic can do it too and same with franklin, trevor, and micheal
The one that comes to my mind is Ghost Of Tsushima when the Khan does a particular thing to Taka 🫣 great video Falcon 🦅
Does gameranx usually post videos at 530 in the morning? Speaking of, why am I still awake… goodnight.
Timezones exist. It was uploaded at 8:30 in my time.
On the weekends their videos are pre-uploaded to release at early times. I’m pretty sure the videos post before Jake, Falcon or anyone else on the team are even awake.
@@affliction1979ah shit I was so tired and delirious I forgot about time zones…
This list reminds me why I view video games as the ultimate art form. The fact that you have some level of agency in these games makes everything hit home harder.
Gameranx be like"lets talk in the comments" and then reply with a thumb up emoji🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
this is one of the BEST video ive seen about game especially coming from gameranx, kudos to you and this series must be continued
The baby crying in mw2 make me feel guilty
Just make sure it doesn't cry anymore 😂
@@JordanRichesinat least the baby went to heaven.
Finally! One of my traumatic incidents is relevant! 😂 Few years ago I managed to somehow get a small metal shard embedded into my cornea, which chilled in there for a few days while I thought I had pink eye. Finally gets so bad I go to an urgent care who takes one look and goes "please go to this eye specialist right now" so I go there and they get me directly into a room and doc man gives me an eye drop which feels incredible, best relief of my life. Then he whips out a big hypodermic needle and says "ok I'm going to get that out of there" and I nearly faint. I ask if he has anything besides a needle to use and he goes "oh sure 😄" and turns back around with the tiniest little dental drill thing I've ever seen which is not much better. Then I have to put my head in the holder thing and he says "ok don't blink!" And goes at my eye with the little drill thing.... felt way better after but definitely still have nightmares about that one...
Kid named Shaun getting Kidnapped is Canon event in every universe 🙂
Fallout 4 🫡
The Elephant Scene from It Takes Two should have made the list - Hell, it should have been at the top of the list. I've killed legions of monsters, ghouls, demons, and nondescript bad guys, but man, taking out that elephant was a whole 'nother level of messed up.
Played What Remains Of Edith Finch and was speechless at the end of the game. Was not expecting to play one of the most depressing games, but it was a phenomenal for only being like 6 hours. Highly recommend it
So glad to see Edith Finch getting a mention.
I’d love to have another LA Noir or a full fledged 4K remake/Remester but I still think the OG game looks decent. The facial animations were so revolutionary when it came out. I’ll never cool off over TLOU2. It was so bad what they did to our boy. They ruined that story so bad. The game is amazing but that story and choices they made are ugh.
Jake's Falcon impersonations are getting better.
To me, easily one of the most disturbing realistic scenes was the torture moment from GTA 5. The fact it wasn't a cutscene, and you had to do the actual torturing yourself, made it all the worse.
Pretty tame by comparison when compared to Spec-Ops if it to much for you can always play Pokemon oh wait that just weaponizing animals nvm
I agree and knowing he was the wrong guy made it even worse
I had to close my eyes while going through #5, I've seen the aftermath of these things in the real world so that mission damn near brought me to tears and filled me with emotion. I only played that mission once. That was enough.
I understand the people are mad about #4 but honestly he had it coming. There was no way he wasnt gonna have somebody hunting him. Especially when he did what he did in the first game.
everyone reasonably expected him to die. but not by being an idiot and suddenly ignoring a game and a half of his character development as an over cautious, borderline schizoid paranoid survivor
@@JoJoZaka It makes sense if you put it in the context that he had been living in relative safety in one place for years that was almost normal, so he may have lost some of his edge. It happens with actual law enforcement and soldiers when you take them out of extreme stress situations and place them in more relaxed atmospheres. Joel was a survivor, true, but he was just a normal guy, not a super-soldier.
This is the thing about 90s games that sets them apart. They're so real and immersive - character and story wise - that killing comes to the player as something terrifying. Today, most "AAA" games are nothing more than just a graphics showcase, with trigger happy mechanics, pace-driven plots and emotionless characters.
This video is about disturbing things sooo....
That scream at the end of nº1 happens only if you rush it. Yeah, you can't even do that, you have to pause a bit during that to slow down Isaac's heartbeat, which makes the whole procedure smoother, yet all the more disturbing. What a game, tho!
You forgot one :
11. $50 is not realistic and very disturbing
"Cross your heart and hope to die, stick the needle in your eye"
That line will forever stay with me, thanks Dead Space
Great list Falcon I've played most of the games here and damn they hit hard.
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Wow I really like gameranx content , please consider these ideas also:
1. Top ten games released on sunday
2. Top ten games where protagonist takes more lefts than right overall
3. Top 10 games where you play as shit in the floating toilet
4. Top 10 games which makes you scratch your balls
5. Top 10 games which has more daylight scenes than night.
Please consider these.
Could've extended that list to another 10 - Sleeping Dogs had some brutal moments, as did Cyberpunk 2077, Mad Max, The Witcher, hell even Nier Automata had some disturbing scenes.
Honestly, not a huge fan of 'shock value' moments. But when they're thought provoking they can really give the narrative a great deal of impact and turn an alright story into something really memorable.
Dude, I was really high the first (and only) time I decided to hammer the nails in the Sinnerman mission, and hoo boy was that a big mistake.
@@Skaftholu lol. It would've been cool if they continued that mission with some repercussions of whether you crucified the guy or not
LA Noire doesn't look that dated imo
The darkness scene when Jenny died in front of you was one of the craziest things I remember seeing when I was younger in gaming besides FF7 of course
Playing as young Farah was one of my least favorite missions of all time... for some reason catching a glimpse of her little boots brought tears to my eyes, since I have a daughter who is so young, I imagined it was her... I was simultaneously relieved that she has never had to endure such an awful reality that so many people actually experience in real life.
lol
Edith Finch is one of the darkest games I've ever played, but I loved the story. And yeah, on the surface is just another neat exploration/puzzle game but it quickly changes into a deep dive into a family's traumatic past.
I enjoyed the no russian mission from the origonal. Games need to have personality and some hard hitting moments. It was well done.
Spec ops: the line is easily in my top 5 games of all time. Since The first time going through the story roughly a decade ago, it still sticks in my mind to this day. If any game deserves a faithful remake of remaster its Spec ops
It's because of this controversy that I don't consider The Last of Us 2 Game of the Year. It should have been Ghost of Tsushima. I respect Caddicarus's opinion. He said "Look Ellie, I think Last of Us 2 is a fine game but not worthy of Game of the Year." I think there was a guy who didn't include Last of Us 2 in his top 10 games of 2020. I think Joel made the right choice in Last of Us part 1 since killing Ellie probably wouldn't be able to make a cure anyway. Matt Pat from Game Theory says they could make a cure without killing her and says how.
Don't you actually see the thing jab into the eye in Dead Space 2?
The eye scene was TRAUMATIC .
Couple that with the fact that if you miss , the whole machine just jams it into your head .
Couple that with the extraordinary voice acting .. WOOO BOY .
I'm surprised Mafia 2 stabbing scene is not on this list. It was super disturbing and came out of nowhere.
The one where Henry (or whatever his name was) is hit with meat cleavers by the Triad members?
great vid. nice change of pace
Surprised the torture scene in GTA 5 wasn't on the list.
Agreed. Always hated replaying that mission. I get what it was doing but damn
I can confirm that yes even in 2023 people including myself are still pretty pissed at how joel was done.
I never had an issue with “No Russian”. Back in 2009 gun violence and mass shooting weren’t as prevalent as they are today and being able to skip the level seemed to work well. Even still, I knew it was just a video game.
Doesn't mean others have the level head to deal with it though. Some stuff just shouldn't be in video games.
Hey falcon love the channel bro keep it up🙌🙌
Thanks
@gameranxTV no way u replied to mee!!
Happy the Last of Us II gets the love it deserves.
The Rdr mission was dark with context and the player was to put a stop to the psychos and shouldn’t be included with the flat out pointless no Russian area, that added nothing but made the player become the mass shooter for the Russians. Honestly everyone agreed that scene wasn’t needed or wanted.
Hey falcon do a face reveal
As a Combat Veteran We don't want war but train to fight in the event of war Lost 2 close friends and an Iraqi Girl about 7 yr's old to an IED my son was born a month after she passed. 20 yr's later I still think of them. I know you're talking about gaming but some of these hit close to home. Peace.
Petition for necklacing to be the new form of sentencing to pedophiles, rapists and murderers pls
Tone down your petty revenge fantasies, it can't be mentally healthy. Also, we don't live in a medieval society anymore.
I believe fallout 4 or NV has this type of mission. But one I can remember vividly is The outer worlds. There’s a side mission you have to find a missing person. It leads to this house. Whole family inside mom dad brother and sister. They invite you to dinner. As you go through their things you can tell something’s off even your companions say something. As you go through the house you stumble across a locked door. You open it and and see some blood on the floor you can past the curtains to find a dude strapped to the bed chopped to pieces. The family living there are cannibals. Once you go down stairs to confront they notice blood on your shoes. And then they know and attack you. Some crazy stuff man. It was trippy. Lol
Pretty sure that was fallout 3
These are all rough, but I haven't thought about the LA Noir scene in years, and it was absolutely rage-inducing. I dropped my controller and put the game aside for a month, furious that I couldn't do anything about it.
The most infuriating part is that, because the game never got a sequel, some of the bad guys essentially got away with it.
It's just a game lol
@@blueninjanoname7338 eeeeemotional damage
That funny you think that the worse part of the game when compared to the Black Dahlia missions
@@blueninjanoname7338 That happens in real life and we couldn't do anything about it.
Kind of surprised you guys didn't mention mafia two when Henry gets killed
The only bad thing in The Last of Us is being force to play as Abby and spare her at the end.
Dudes whose photo is of them wearing sunglasses in the front seat of a car have a shared subconscious
@@dtanobo people who criticize people's picture while not showing their own face don't matter to anyone except their parent whose basement they live in.
@@cppblank did you come up with that on your own or did the Facebook council of men who take selfies in their car with coloured sunglass lens hive mind do it for you
@dtanobo that picture is from when Google Plus still existed and I was just creating an account. Also, anyone with common sense (you clearly don't fit into that) can tell that isn't a car. It isn't my fault I'm not ashamed to show my face like you.
@@cppblank showing your face ain't the smart thing to do here buddy
Yeah that scene in the last of us 2 hit hard actually brought a tear to my eye i must admit
You would tell us if you were using an AI voice, right?
I can't believe people are still freaking out over "No Russian." Yes, it's terrible. But...they're pixels. No one is real. If you are mentally unstable, sure this may be worrisome, but for most of us who aren't mentally unstable, this is just a mission to forward the story.
Played through the dead space 2 segment along with the entirety of the game in second grade. My mom bought it for me on her way home from work one day and made my day that day. The opening scene made me go “HOLY SHIT” so quick, along with the needle segment. I remember what was worse to me was when I walked into the daycare segment of the game. Along with the portion of the game near the beginning of the mother crying for her child really instilled such a feeling of despair and sadness. I wanted to do anything I could to help the NPC as a kid… it hurt that I couldn’t.
Major W for Falcon referencing Blood Meridian.
Rescuing Keith from Buck in Far Cry 3. The way Keith reacts when you reach him, and suddenly you realize what Buck has been doing to him. Nothing is said, nothing is shown, but it's sickening.