10 Most Disturbing NPC Encounters In Video Games
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Sometimes, you'll find yourself going about your video game adventure, exploring a new location or browsing through an in-game store, and an NPC will suddenly do something incredibly unnerving. There's nothing quite like encountering a character who is saying, doing, or being something incredibly creepy and we're here to show you the freakiest freaks of them all. Here are 10 Most Disturbing NPC Encounters In Video Games!
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Niall Gray
Video Editor: Lean Bacalzo (@LeanBacalzo)
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Fallout 4’s Pickman is named for the titular artist from HP Lovecraft’s “Pickman’s Model.” In the short story, Richard Upton Pickman is a Boston resident known for his impressive but horrifying paintings. He doesn’t turn out to be a serial killer though, just a talented painter with some personal (but quite literal) demons to deal with.
"My God, Pickman...the background was..."
Nice reference
He shows up again in the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, having become a ghoul. So here's hoping they throw him into another Fallout
I loved Pickman! I wish he could have been a companion and romance option. Same thing with Kellogg, they were my two favorite characters in the game
His apartment is even in the area where Fallout 4 places it, and just as in Lovecraft's story it's connected to forgotten underground tunnels from colonial days.
But isn't it cute, how gleefully happy Falanu says "thanks!" after you tell her about the low fine?
“I SWALLOW SLUDGE TO TRANSFORM MYSELF”
The dialogue choices were incredibly limited. Swallow, Sludge and Transform were game moves which were in the options. I guess the writer was just having a bit of fun.
Pickman's a model citizen. Loves his craft.
Dung Eater from Elden Ring comes to mind. In a game filled with characters with often disturbing and motivations and goals, his is so far more disgusting than anyone else's.
dung eater is hilarious.
Eh, he's a pushover.
If you’re going to make a part 2 to this (you should!), definitely put Gaunter O’Dimm from the Witcher 3 up there
I would like to nominate Pisha from Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, for a part 2. In a game about vampires she manages to stand out as incredibly creepy.
or the fleshcrafter, or the whole hotel sequence
I liked her. Wish she had a larger role
The 90s FMV Zork games have never been topped for me as far as creepy NPCs go. I actually ended up hallucinating some scenes from Zork Nemesis when ill once.
Most 90s FMV games were pretty creepy, Phantasmagoria, Ripper, 7th Guest, etc.
I love Zork Nemesis
The “necrophilia” line might have been a error for “necromancy” as all the mages seem to be obsessed by it.
Says a lot about the person responsible for the script!
Sam Mraovich (who wrote and directed Ben & Arthur) also made a movie called "Steves Hollywood Story". In it a woman had a genetic/hereditary condition and needed surgery. Mraovich didn't QUITE know how to use the terms genetic and hereditary, and ended up describing her condition as "heretic". I'm not saying Mraovich contributed to Oblivions writing, but it wouldn't surprise me. 😁
necrophilia and necROMANCER is the same thing.
It most definitely was a mistake. And IF it was ever caught, someone definitely kept quiet in hopes it made it to the finished product.
@@pauldiamond1583 Are you sure? The Dunmer are rather blase about what we might consider serious debauchery and perversion. It happens when you form a society in a place constantly trying to kill you and begin things by worshipping Daedra.
They have a lot of necromancers, but that's because they have magical talent and the harshness of Morrowind breeds a desire for power. But the culture is actually very testy about necromancy. Their religions use ancestral remains to guard family worship shrines, and had used them to reinforce the Ghostfence. So they regard necromancy as a defilement, theft and perversion of sacred things. Plus, the game makes a big deal of what a crackdown Hannibal Traven is making on necromancers.
Yet miss Hlaalu, who has grown up in that culture and knows the major current events here, is comfortable asking _a near-stranger_ what her penalty would be for practicing necromancy... and is relieved but not shocked it's a reasonable _fine?_
(The implication being that in Morrowind they *also* just rap your knuckles.)
That doesn't scan.
My favourite part of Pickman gallery is when he points out you're both doing the same thing
Yeah-- we all kill a dozen raiders on a daily basis just to cross Concord and risk getting shot, stabbed, clubbed, or set on fire... rather than just *go around* the suckers who we know will be there after the first few times, and who pose no real threat anyway after a time! Most of the time, they're just a traffic nuisance or looting obstacle to us; at least with Pickman it's always something he really cares about.
And if you're like me, you don't even leave the bodies with the pitiful clothing they wear. You scoop it *all* up to trade a few bits, save ammo and medical supplies, and dismantle the rest at a settlement.
Andrei from Vampire, the masquerade, the house you meet him in, in the video nasty quest line is really disturbing, especially from a game from the late 90s.
The blonde person at 4:20 (blaze it) looks like Boris Johnson.
Sanitarium was lovely!
The fortune teller in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines was cool, as was Flowey from Undertale.
Don't open it!
"Asriel Dreamurr" is an anagram of "serial murderer"
The red dead redemption story you mentioned reminds me of an actual story from the old West where I believe it was somewhere in the Western part of Kansas there was a trading station back in the early days They would do much the same bashing people on the back of the head then dumping them in a pit under their house But what they did Was take the people and eat them And larger groups that were passed through were unmolested but they always had a warm meal ready for them One of their victims survived from his only knock out and escaped and alerted authorities all 4 of the people escaped and was later determined that none were related And it could be the 1st ever example of a cult in America
The jester from skyrim should be on here
Sanitarium is one of the best games ever created!
I saw the revelation in the RDR2 one coming a mile off. Don't know why people were so shocked.
Just started watching. If the granny from Resident Evil 7 isn't in here, I demand a part two!
She's not an NPC, though. Not really.
@@crazydud3380 you can't play as her, so she is an NPC.
To make the Sanitarium entry even worse is that it is the first area you explore outside the main hub area, the proper "first level" of the game. And every single of the interactions with the children is jarring.
But I have a few more disturbing interactions for you:
In Fate/Extra for the PSP (with a remake coming soon), you can face Lil' Ronnie, a lady in clown make-up that is a parody of a certain fast food mascot. Her laugh is already unnerving enough, the fact she is paired with the historical figure that inspired Dracula is also unsettling, but then comes the disturbing revelations that we are talking about a cannibal clown that "devours everything she loves". There is a reason why she wasn't mentioned in the anime sequel.
Another two disturbing interactions can also be player characters in the most unassuming game: The Sims 2. It is a well-known part of the lore that Olive Specter from Strangetown might have had a fling with the Grim Reaper and her house's graveyard has a disturbing number of former husbands/love interests. Also in Strangetown, Olive's son with the Grim Reaper, Nervous Subject, was taken away from his home and taken in by Loki and Circe Beaker to be their...uh... test subject.
Cyberpunk 2077 has a particularly disturbing individual you eventually have to crucify at his own behest
Wasn’t that everyone who bought the game on day of release? 😁
References bandits, while focusing on Jack of Blades, an extraplanar entity.
Another from DA is The Mother, a human sourced Broodmother who ramps the body horror up to eleven.
I believe it's actually stated in game that Chauncey isn't a ghost of a baby, but rather a baby born from two ghosts. Though there are three other children ghosts in Luigi's Mansion that are the ghosts of actual kids.
Ghosts reproducing is an odd, but fascinating concept.
Still, that's scary in and of itself... sort of a 'Squire of Gothos' scenario. The enraged facial expressions on a pallid, glow-eyed huge baby trying to murder you are no picnic, either.
You need a new list with the haunted mansion from Vampire Bloodlines
Vampire Bloodlines has lots of them. The cab driver if you play as Malkavian and The Voermans come to mind.
For me though nothing beats the paranoia unleashed by having your head chomped off by the first Mimic in Dark Souls as I try to open that chest in my _grand intoxicating inncocence, how could I be so naive?_
13:56 About Issues with understanding: You found a way to find your way to the Battle Frontier in Pokémon Ruby?
I doubt that.
-> The Battle Frontier is an Emerald Exclusive. And was the source of many unhappy customers when Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire didn't include it.
Also you take "Sludge Eater's" words way too serious.
Why?
All NPCs in the Battle Frontier have an odd shared trait. Their Dialogue is built randomly with the very limited phrase-based dialogue options the game gives the player.
For some reason all Moves in the game are in this list. Such as Swallow, Sludge and Transform.
This list could be entirely made up of F3 and RDR2 npcs and i wouldn't even be mad or disagree.
I'm pretty sure that Nico was Liberty City's most violent killer!
Walter Sullivan from Silent Hill IV: The Room...him and that damned doll.
You're actually kinda wrong about the baby from Luigi's Mansion. If you read a diary from one of Chauncey's parents found in the game, it states that the baby was born a ghost, unlike his two older brothers. Meaning that the baby didn't die and become a ghost, he always was one. But his twin older brothers, did die. So if anything, their story is actually the worse one
Two that come to mind for me are in Genshin Impact(not everyone's cup of tea. I know, I'm sorry.). The one Mondstat NPC that wants to make a boat for Flora seemed to be in love with her while he was an adult and she was a child. The inital translation assumed that Flora was going to be an adult woman until she was changed into a child NPC but the line wasn't adjusted for this until later. The other is a really weird encounter with a very mentally unstable Kairagi warrior near the Snake God's remains in Inazuma. That was just all sorts of weird.
Oof, that Pickman guy is something else.
Oh, well, back to my character killing hundreds of raiders.
Harvester.
Just...the entire game. All the characters minus maybe about two or three. They're all disturbing. Should have been number one.
You always were a kidder Luliby
So everyone keeps telling me.
Hespith was the first one i thought of when i read the title, glad to see her inclusion it really stuck with me
Also pretty sure she turned into the broodmother as opposed to randomly disappearing
@@funnyjordand Nah. I can't for the life of me remember how you access it, but I distinctly recall a brief cutscene where Hespith flings herself off a cliff. Even if my brain is just playing tricks on me here, I thought the game implied that becoming a broodmother was a process, and while Hespith was super tainted by that point, she couldn't just hulk out and turn into a fleshy monstrosity that quickly.
One thing the video doesn't mention is how the long-ass period of isolation amplifies the creepiness. You spend a couple of hours stumbling around the Deep Roads, miles and miles from civilization, nothing around except darkspawn, and then all of a sudden you hear that voice. At first you're like "Oh! a person!" and then once you realize what she's saying... the relief is pretty short-lived.
@@duckfoot6131 I'm pretty sure you can convince branka to fling herself off but i thought hespith transformed through eating darkspawn meat
@@funnyjordand She did, but she hadn't transformed far enough to become a broodmother yet--or at least not in the space of a few minutes. I think the broodmother was actually Laryn, the woman Branka mentions in her ramblings a few times.
I know I'm late, and just now watching this, even though I watch every video from TJ (thanks, broken RUclips algorithm 👍)....But Silent Hill 2's scene with Pyramid Head um..."R-wording" a sentient mannequin while hiding in a closet and hoping he doesn't hear you was and still is one of the most fxxked up NPC encounters ever, and helped make that game one of the scariest ever, a list that is very short for me. (Fiction, especially video games, rarely get to me, but Silent Hill 1 and 2 were just built different)
Was playing GTA online, just driving around the industrial areas of Los Santos...and I came across to women dressed in bloody aprons and scrubs, standing by a warehouse with a white van parked close by, both nonchalantly smoking cigarettes.
I mean, I kind of liked Pickman. Getting rid of raiders is ok with me. Not that I'd be creating "art" out of them.
Was wondering if any Fallout folk would make the list, glad I didn't have to wait long. 😂
@TripleJump What about Agitha from Twilight Princess? "Little stag beetle, those sharp pointy horns, they must feel so good..." And I'm like "...I don't even wanna think about what she means by that."
“disconcerting boys, girls and others”
Where were the “others” in this list? I listened out for them but I only heard male and female characters talked about.
Logic doesn’t mean anything don’t you know
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That creepy mommas boy assasin from skyrim
He's pretty cool imo, and kind of a hero....
Edit: Actually, I'm not sure I'm thi king of the same kid, I was referring to the one trying to contact the Dark Brotherhood to kil that evil old woman
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young scrolls made me almost feel sorry for falanu. almost. ALMOST.
I loved Sanitarium!
Fun, little known fact - Falanu Hlaalu is the only NPC in Oblivion with perfectly symmetrical face.
You're kidding me.
I thought they essentially used the same template process as character creation, for all but certain ones.
@@henrysokol3466 I'm not kidding, check in construction set if you don't believe me.
They definitely used standard template for some characters. I know that basic Imperial and Bretons - the first face shown in character creation is the basic Facegen one (you can tell, Dark Souls 1 uses exactly the same default face) - and this is assymetrical by default. Other basic faces seem to derrive from this template.
As for NPC - it seems that there are plenty of them that were hand tweaked a lot - not talking about Emperor or Martin, who are based on actors, but plenty of others are hand made - so devs probably played around with some characters and Falanu is one such example.
@@hideshisface1886 Weird.... why would they build in asymmetry? It happens in real life, but it's not like they were being that anal-retentive about realism! Symmetry would make things simpler to code and manipulate, and players wouldn't really notice the difference against all the other NPC issues.
@@henrysokol3466 Asymmetry is built into facegen used in Oblivion by default, it is not Bethesda's invention, it is a third party program, technically. When you look at it - even the very default models have asymmetry built in.
Oblivon was quite revolutionary at the time with this particular feature - sure, it didn't age quite well, but it was a game-changer in character creation in games - even if Oblivion still botched it as fuck - the implementation was glitchy as hell.
BUT, there was another problem - player, beyond construction set, had no ability to fiddle with symmetry settings. BUT "random" button DID.
This means, in Oblivion, without fiddling around with construction set or mods, there is no way to give your character a symmetrical face, unless you hit like 1-in-a-billion combination with random.
How about Tingle from the Zelda games? I think that guy should be kept away from kids.
Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic II: The Sith Lords has a Twilek you meet in a cantina. Peaceful fellow, who has basically two lines: "Do you like my lekku?" and "I just had them vaxed." Wether or not this is a disturbing encounter depends all on what a "lekku" actually is. The game never explains this of course, so if you (like me) have a filthy enough imagination, it CAN be sightly off putting. 😁
Lekku is the tails they have as hairs
Raiders had it coming, go go Mr Pickman!
I’m sorry, what? Granny Rags doesn’t turn into a gigantic rat... I was really excited to see the ever-rare acknowledgement of Dishonored on your list, but with how bizarre and incorrect your assessment of Granny Rags is, I can’t help but wonder if you had even played the game, let alone any of the ones you put together for this list...
Those were not Dwarf women, where are their beards? ;)
ngl pickman never really weirded me out
i usually play as a "raider hunter" in fallout games when im bored, the dudes an obvious HP reference which is all over FO4 so the guys is kinda supposed to be a bit "off"
I'm a few uploads behind, so in the order I watched them... TWO PETER ENTRIES IN A ROW!
(There's a joke in there, somewhere.)
A DP joke, surely....
@@shuruff904 it writes itself!
My roommate / fellow guitarist in my band in college, junior year,99-00, got obsessed with Sanitarium…I had it on my Compaq Presario Pentium 2! Lol! 24 megabits of RAM, baby…and it still could barely run Sanitarium without the CDROM drive trying it’s best not to spin itself on fire.
I had had the game for like a year, and couldn’t get anywhere with it. Jason(roommate), downloaded one of those 90’s text file walkthroughs…using it removed any challenge for the game at all, but we didn’t care, we just wanted to see what happened. That game has one of the wildest stories ever…it and “Bad Mojo”…okay, and “The Dark Eye”, are my three favorite PCCDROM games from the era. Awesome!
You are the first commenter I've ever seen mention Bad Mojo....that game was a trip and I can't think of anything close
@@shuruff904 heck yea, man. Absolute masterpiece…and what it was, more than anything, is the atmosphere it created…it transported you to a hellish twin of our reality that was completely fascinating. The music, the imagery-wow. And those super creepy cutscenes…the one that sticks out to this day was the little cutscene in the kitchen where the half butchered catfish on the counter were lamenting their lost lives and pain…incredible. The fact that all the animals were voiced by the ghostly woman was a genius move. Who would have ever thought that a dying, blood soaked channel catfish would have the voice of a beautiful young girl? I’m glad my comment found another fan. I wish more people could have experienced it.
Maybe it's just me but i don't think that luigi baby belongs on this list.
1 and 2 were a bit weak- minor NPCs (nameles in one case) whose entry is based on a single random throwaway line. #1's line could even be considered black comedy. Not much at all compared to the #3 pick.
I was expecting Fallout 3 to be on here...
"GAAAAAAARY!"
Gary? AH HA, GARY!
@@shackilleuhdeal7462 🤣🤣🤣 I don't know why, but I think of that weird kid in middle school who always thought he was a Pokemon.
The baby ghost is by far the most horrifying in my opinion, given the fact of the game's somewhat child friendly presentation. The second one would be that one of the world of possessed children.
Dung Eater - Elden Ring, would be my pick. This storyline is just diturbing and sickening.
Pickman is an exception who I'm inclined to let live, but not without some reservation.
There are ways for humans to transform into pokemon so maybe the dude that ate sludge knee something we don't
I mean….have you played Dante’s Inferno?
All the NPCs in that are disturbing, that’s part of what makes it such a boring game. When you start off at a 10 on the edgelord meter you don’t leave yourself anything to build towards, so after like an hour the game just turns into a competent God of War clone with a generic “save the princess” plot.
Is a boss fight an npc? I would put them in different characters
Any character the player can’t control is by definition an NPC, so technically yes, boss characters (and by extension all enemies) are NPCs.
I sided with Pickman and let him go away. 😆
why are you disturbed by pickman, I run around and kill raiders too and collect their bones to craft into oil at the chemical workbench.
one could say I get some enjoyment from it. its a completely voluntary activity as I could just not play fallout 4. I'm not sure how you can define pickman as disturbing when you do the same thing. or much worse.
Pickman did nothing wrong.
In Fallout 4, Pickman is partly inspired by a short story by our favorite horror writer H.P. Lovecraft!!!
Sanatarium Remake as a 3rd person adventure game with todays graphics, would be such an awesome experience
Number niiiiiiine. Mother childrennnnnnnnnnn. Sanitariummmmmmm. Img could you draw your words out any longer? Had to out this shit on 1.5 soeed just to give you a normal cadence
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I hear they will have a female robot in new ⚛ ♥ game, that would be flirtly etc to you
Sorry guys, I usually love your uploads, but this one is not it, you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel here