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I was playing Besiege earlier, when I came across the strangest feeling: guilt in a video game. I had just wiped out an entire island without any remorse, and was moving to the next. But on the first level, instead of getting attacked, the knights came out, greeted me with horns, and offered me gold and a peace treaty. My job was then to go massacre every single one of the defenseless knights, who were doing nothing more but try to appease a monster and save their lives and kingdom.
For the first time, I actually felt guilty about killing someone in a video game. I of course knew that they were just pixels, designed to be killed. But knowing that my task in this game was mowing down defenseless people reduced to pleading actually made me feel bad. It was such a strange feeling that I'm wondering if something is wrong with me, or if its just an unusual situation. I feel like my cat dying fairly recently may have had something to do with it. But still, I'm curious what the general consensus is on this.
EDIT: Instead of massacring them all, I decided instead I'd just grab their offer of gold and let them live. I feel a lot better now.
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