Games where you get played like a fiddle

Doesn't matter if it's from the developers, the game mechanics, the AI or the overall story, which games do you guys know where you get manipulated and toyed with by forces bigger than yourself?

Alternatively, which games allow you to do so?

Dark Souls

Mafia
Vagrant Story
STALKER SoC

Holy shit I loved that game. The insanity system was even more enjoyable than the story.

Soul Nomad.

Sine Mora

What about Nomad Soul?

Okay but how in each particular instance? Does the game fuck with you on a psychological level too?

This fucking game

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is it just me or did I just borked not only spoiler picture but also thumbnails?

Holy shit, that's big.

Ego Draconis. 1 and 2.

We know how you like 'em user. ;)

how

I suddenly don't feel in charge

t. fuccboi

Lel?

Why did this thread get so gay so fast?

Vampire - The Masquerade: Bloodlines

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I thought you didn't want spoilers

You lead a final charge to free your people. They are enslaved, disfigured and repurposed for their time manipulation powers
Final area is the prison guarded by a boss.
When you kill it, the prison begins shutting down. The boss was a battery keeping them alive, instead of saving them you doom them.

It's just a shmup but with a cool story.

In the secret ending.
You find out your mother wiped out your memories at the beginning so you could go on an quest and kill god
She then brainwashes you so you can conquer the rest of the world with her

I vaugely remember something about png headers breaking the code. But then I don't really care, it is a janitors job to fix that mess and I love that logo.

Your master a shit

Well, in Soul Nomad,

Literally everyone of any note is plotting and scheming some kind of plan or another, and you're usually a pawn in those plans to some degree. Yes, even the good guys are using you to no small degree.

NO, I'M IN CHARGE!

Metal Gear

Snake is retarded tough so you cant blame the player

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Dutch did nothing wrong

fuck… what have I done…

oh, well fuck bad code, and Holla Forums with shitty porn is somehow more bearable.

How was that game? I assumed that since it takes place mostly underwater, movement would be ass. I've never gotten the chance to talk to someone who played through it.

Pic related fits the criteria, as does Mass Effect 3 on several levels.

Undertale

Don't pretend it doesn't pull a few fast ones on you.

Master Lin was one of the best pieces of writing in that game and evidence Bioware was at one point not shit before EA bought them

I knew Rimrah was a bad guy but I killed my mentor anyway

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You got played like a damn fiddle on a deeper level than you realized, user. Rimanah, Mentor and the player character were just different aspects of your personality externalized in your necro-cybermantic coma fantasies. The only person of note you've really killed was your wife.

A friend of mine would like to see the source of that pic, user

It gets better as you progress. Got really far, but my pc got hosed and I never finished it proper.

is right

you are rhimanna

You guys are missing out on the best example there is.

It's pretty great, plays like a simple metroidvania, but its world is absolutely gorgeous with some great soundtrack. It's got one of the best abyss levels in vidya, for instance. Its only flaw is having a completely artificial romance.

Wanna go into more detail about that?

They didn't do a good enough job hiding the gems.

La Mulana

I knew a lot of the spoilers ahead of time and the game still managed to fuck with me.

it was an ALASKAN BULL WORM

You do the bidding of the villain who is lying to you, and it's no secret to you as the player that you're playing into his evil plot. Because you know, you're told so in first few cutscenes if the excessively sarcastic speaking manners of the villain don't give it off.

You're lied to in every Metal Gear game.

I guess that's true but then again if you follow the story both Coco and N. Brio tell you multiple times that Cortex is being a manipulative asshole. Guess it makes no difference to Crash though. Crash 3 works as well since you just bring all the easily obtainable items to the final boss.
What I'm talking about is either a rather sudden twist where it's apparent that you got tricked by someone else only when it's too late or games that trick you into doing something for the AI's own good.

this

Would you kindly not make these kind of threads OP?

what if crash is rusing them the whole time?
he plays along and fucks them in the ass every single damn time.
but,
hey,
that's,
just,
a,
GAME THEORY

Asura's wrath
Halo CE, 2, ODST (only if you get all the audio logs), and the lore as a whole

Dark Souls. Holy fuck what a hard game. I got my ass reamed left and right by the diabolical difficulty.