With all the creative freedom that video games have no one should get upset because its just to entertain people its not something that you should believe just let it pass by.
in good ways and in bad ways
it's definitely not uncommon in for developers
to step in controversial territory
however these games took it way further than anyone actually expected
what's up guys
welcome to Chaos Top 10's and today
we are going to be going over
our picks for the top ten times
a video game pissed off the world
Be it because of the content,
the state of release, or
any other reasons
these are going to be games
that just pushed the gaming world and the non-gaming world
over the edge
so sit back, drop a like on the video,
and away we go
At number 10 we have
Resistance Fall of Man
This shooter from 2006 was pretty fun
and it's a shame that we haven't really been hearing much about the Resistance series in a while
as the last game was released in 2012 and flew under the radar
however there's a good chance this controversy had something to do with why Resistance has been laying low in recent years
In the first game, Fall of Man,
there's a sequence where the
where the player does battle inside of the Manchester Cathedral
in England
Needless to say,
the Church of England was not happy about the Cathedral being used without permission
as well as the Cathedral being used as a battleground
for the video game. This controversy
actually
greatly increased the game sales in the UK
and almost brought in an influx of visitors
to the Cathedral
Go figure
At number 9 we have a
game that I'd never heard of
until I made this video
Hatred
Do any of you remember this game?
Probably not
Hatred was released on steam in 2015 and had
and had an insane amount of controversy surrounding it
The game was simply about going around and killing everyone in the world with no consequence
Kind of sounds like Postal 2
Aside from the incredibly brutal violence,
many news outlets picked up the game and criticized it for being senseless and over the top
which is-it-it absolutely was
In fact
it's one of the few games to ever get an AO rating
for violence alone. After all the intense backlash
actually pulled the game from Steam's Greenlight program
halting its release on the platform
but it was soon put back on the Steam marketplace with a personal apology from
So why don't you remember this game?
Well it's actually not that good
It's almost like it was made to stir controversy and nothing else
as the game itself is insanely repetitive and boring to say the least
Well
Now I know there are a lot of salty Mass Effect fans right now
and Mass Effect 3 could be why. Arguably,
the deepest series in video game history
Mass Effect 3 was set to close
up the trilogy and
have an incredible ending that changed depending on the decisions made by the player
all the way back from Mass Effect 2 and 1
Well you probably know by now, this was a big fat lie
Not only did the game not have an ending that was influenced by prior
games, as it was promised to have,
but the game only had a handful of endings. Period.
And almost all of them were the same
Not only, did this rendor everything you had done in previous games as pointless, but it also pissed
off the entire gaming world when it was
revealed that the epic trilogy had one of the worst endings of all time
BioWare tried to heal the with some expansions
that changed the ending,
but the damage had already been done,
and the trust of the players in the community,
had been lost
Do we have any Diablo fans in the comment section?
At number 7,
we have Diablo 3
once again, this epic conclusion to a legendary Diablo series definitely pissed the world off
upon release
What is it with epic conclusions on trilogies?
It didn't anger religious groups or
news outlets like some of the other entries on this list
but rather, this one pissed off the world of gamers
Diablo 3 featured a new component of the game that required the player to be online at all times.
Even when not using online services
This ended up causing a lot of problems
Because the game servers were not ready for the amount
of traffic
that the game ended up bringing in on release
leading to thousands upon thousands of gamers
being met with the now infamous
error #37
in being locked out of the game
This seems almost every instance of video game history where the developer introduces
always online
requirements never goes well
Developers: Message from me to you: Stop
doing this
Most of you knew when you saw the title of this video, that our number 6 spot would be on here.
Manhunt 2
While many games seem to get backlash from sensitive critics and news for being too violent,
Manhunt 2 was almost universally accepted as
excessive
As the game quite literally glorified brutal murder
The game even had
to be heavily censored to avoid an AO rating
from the ERSB
which would've greatly hurt its initial sales
Rockstar was forced to remove
many of the decapitations as those were the main complaint,
and place on the screen to make the extra graphic moments harder to see
This was enough to get the game an M rating and
official release
But of course
some smarter gamers found ways to get uncensored versions after the release, and they're pretty brutal
even by today's standards
Another one you may have never heard of, number 5
is Thrill Kill
while some games get extremely violent and graphic it's pretty rare for a game to get shut down all together
because of this
Well, enter Thrill Kill
one of the few games to actually get shut down by the
developers
because they thought it was too extreme. In
fact
Thrill Kill was the first game ever
to get the AO rating for violence alone. But in
1998, when the game was essentially completed and already rated, the publishers
were not a fan of the extreme violence
and the incredibly high rating
so they stopped the game
from ever seeing the light of day
However,
since the game was already finished rated, it became a
very easily bootleg thing to do
and plenty of players have got their hands on it since
it's
initial cancellation
You can't have a controversial game
top 10 without this on it
number 4: Grand Theft Auto
San Andreas
The Grand Theft Auto series is controversial in itself
Pretty much every new entry brings
new controversies
of people claiming that they're promoting crime,
and murder
and yadayadayada
There was one entry
in the GTA series
that went above and beyond the
expectations. Meet Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
when it was released, there was a sequence
that allowed you to take a girl home, and...uh...
have relations with her with an
interactive mini game involved
This was removed from the game, but not too long after
ofcourse players figured out ways to get it back in the game.
As the coding of the sequence was just locked off
rather than deleted from the game
entirely was that a mistake or was that done on purpose
what famously became known as HotCoffee
went down in history as one of the most controversial
discoveries in video game history
as at the time there was nothing this sexually graphic in video games
Another one you probably guessed would be on this list and
number 3 is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
remember...no rushing...Those three words managed to piss off
just about every single person in the world
released in 2009, Modern Warfare 2 was the follow up to the EPIC Call of Duty 4
and continued the story of Soap, Price and Makarov's plans for
World destruction. Howerver, there was one mission in Modern Warfare 2 that
managed to get tones of mainstream attention and not for a good reason
The mission involves the player going undercover as a terrorist in order to get inside information on the
games antagonist Makarov, but also puts the player in an airport as the terrorist group
guns down hundreds of inocent civilians
and your character is allowed to shoot down as many as they wish or
not shoot any. Needless to say this sparked massive controversy
and many news outlets accused the game of promoting terrorism in CoD:Modern Warfare 2 a
game where people can live out their terrorist fantasies
The controversy was eventually watered down
as the mission is completely skippable and the player gets a warning before hand
that there is graphic content ahead...Plus, the player doesnt actually have to kill anyone.
like i said in order to proceed and the mission is very essential to the story of the game
it wasn't put in the game for the hell of it. Regardless of the justifications for the mission
no Russian has gone down in history - video game history
as one of the biggest gaming controversies of ALL TIME.
Now were going back to mass effect for number 2
This entry isn't so much what a video game did to piss of the world
but rather what a news station did to a video game that pissed off the world
when the first Mass Effect came out, it was priced for its depth and amount of choices given to the player
However, Fox News was not impressed and decided to
lightly attack the game for its sexual themes
there is a part in the game where there is possible to engage in sexual relationship with an alien woman.
the sex scene isn't very explicit it is playable regardless of the player choosing to
carry out their adventures as a male or female
meaning it was possible to have lesbian sexual encounters in this game
Fox News issued their story called it "sex box" and accused the developers of creating a pornographic
game that contained full digital nudity and sex EA and BioWare retaliated claiming these statements were completely false