Well....Soldier of Fortune 2 made me want to throw up after a while, though i'm not sure if that was really the violence or if it had a bad FoV or something.
In general for me its kinda hard to make me cringe. The only times that I can think of would have to be horror games. I love to play survival-horror games and I'm a fan of the genre. So I'm use to seeing alot of graphic stuff.
At the moment the game I'm currently playing is Silent Hill: Downpour. Its the reason why I made this topic. Even though the puzzles in the game drives me to insanity and makes no fucking sense. I enjoyed walking around the town beating the shit out of monsters. I like how in downpour they took the best aspects in the previous Silent Hill games and put it into one.
Even though I enjoy the game. If this had a bigger budget and better combat system. It would have turned out to be truly amazing.
Game violence doesn't really disturb me because it never feels realistic to me regardless of graphical quality. (On the other hand, good voice acting can make me completely unable to take the "evil" path in a game because I feel too bad about killing those characters). Regardless, Noob's "Wishbone" fatality from MK9 and the finishing move from Assassin's Creed 2 where you impale the enemy from their collarbone to their groin are definitely "ouch" moments.
No game ever has made me cringe and probably ever will. It has to be real for it for effect me.
Don't care what anyone else says, turn the filters off in Manhunt 2 and you have the most violent game ever released on the market. Very graphic and just listen to that superbly sickening sound design; slashes, cries, screams, gurgles, it's fucked. Yet, surprisingly I find it fascinating, not sickening. I give props to Rockstar for getting all that crazy shit in Manhunt 2.
Unfortunately I was one of those kids who thought he was super edgy when they were a teenager and I spent my young adulthood online on sites like Ogrish and StileProject (before it became a porn video host and was still a shock-site) and mostly desensitized myself to violent stuff. After seeing so much real-life shit, video games tend not to phase you.
I'm not trying to brag about looking at all that horrible stuff or anything, just stating facts. I regret most of it actually, but what's done is done.
Unfortunately I was one of those kids who thought he was super edgy when they were a teenager and I spent my young adulthood online on sites like Ogrish and StileProject (before it became a porn video host and was still a shock-site) and mostly desensitized myself to violent stuff. After seeing so much real-life shit, video games tend not to phase you.
I'm not trying to brag about looking at all that horrible stuff or anything, just stating facts. I regret most of it actually, but what's done is done.
I seen alot of nasty disturbing stuff online too. I have a friend who showed me the most disturbing site I ever seen, and that is called crazyshit.com. That site has some of the most fucked up things I ever seen.
Manhunt 2... The only old Violent game that still is cringe worthy. I remember being amazed but Soldier of Fortune, but that was ages ago. Same for God of War, both those series lost it I think, or I outgrew it. Who knows.
For more current games, I'd definitely say Darkness 2 and Dead Space 2 are really fucking graphical and MK9 ofcourse, but I can't take that game seriously. Everyone reacts to Noobs Wishbone the first time they see it though. XD
Nothing, really. I did however looked away once. As in, I move the mouse upwards to hide what happened, which is funny since I'm perfectly okay with splatterfilms and in general I'm very desensitized with blood/gore/horror stuff.
Scene in question was the opening to Skyrim. No, seriously.
I must agree with a few others when I say Manhunt; in terms of impact that violence was crazy. God of War (the first one and 3) mainly due to the surprise of watching such a brutal game and the way Kratos slices the guts of the centaurs and the innards just slide out.
I think the newest MK is kinda fucked up in places, but it's cartoon gore and that seems ok, same with things like gears. But God of War 3 came across as really distasteful in its violence. I found it unsettling in ways I really was not fond of.
There was an old Dragon's Lair-like game called Braindead 13 that had cartoonish, but unexpectedly gruesome death scenes. One that sticks out in my mind (I don't know if it's in the videos) is a very simple one. A bad guy sneaks up behind your character and whacks him in the back of the head with a mallet. Your character's skull pops right out of his mouth, and his now empty head just deflates. No blood or anything, but holy shit.
Max Payne 3. For some reason that game realised violence in a way that other games haven't. It's not so much the gore but the detail in which bullet wounds are depicted. Really got my teeth on edge. The effects they used for bullet impacts especally.
The figurative violence of Defcon is affecting in a way that graphic violence isn't. That said CoD: World at War made me through up, but I had been spiked with LSD.
'splosion Man fucking got to me. I haven't played it (and I won't) but just watching the Quick Look of it nearly made me vomit. I have no idea why, maybe because the scientist's turned into literal pieces of meat, which I also associate with food. Also just generally seemed way brutal.
@Emperor_Jimmu: Agreed with Defcon. Just hearing random crying in the background was surprisingly eerie
The STALKER games are probably the only ones to get an actual reaction out of me. I remember in Call of Pripyat where there will just be some guy curled up in a fetal position, crying in pain, and some rival faction member will just walk up and shoot him in the head. There was just something about it that freaked me out.
I feel I've become slightly desensitized to video game violence (not real world, just video game). So something in video game world has to be real brutal for me to cringe. The only thing I can think of in recent years was from God of War 3 where you were bashing Hercules's face in.
It's probably not the most graphic I've ever seen, but Max Payne 3 has, at least for a videogame, the most realistic depiction of bullets entering your body. Therefore, it's the most disturbing to me.
Video game violence has never bothered me. In fact, I quite enjoy it. However, there's a scene in The Suffering: Ties That Bind when you walk into an apartment seconds after a guy kills himself via shogun to the face. You walk into the room and see him on the floor. There's just a big gaping crater where his face used to be, with one eyeball still on the stem sticking up, twitching with blood spurting out. I always found that to be fairly disturbing and it's stuck with me ever since I played that game.
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