10 Cruel Tricks Video Games Played On RPG Players

Generally speaking, even the most freedom-loving video game makes it impossible for players to lock themselves out of the end-game, but The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is no regular game now, is it?

Morrowind features a number of "essential NPCs," whereby if the player kills them, the game will throw up an hilariously disapproving message:

"With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created."

Furthermore, this will often make completing the main quest-line either extremely difficult or downright impossible - without reverting to a pre-infraction save, that is.

Considering that around 99.8% of all video games will literally prevent you from killing an NPC whose death effectively breaks the game, there's something both refreshing and deliciously insane that Morrowind just... lets you throw the game away.