10 Horror Video Game Offers You MUST Refuse
7. Alone In The Dark (2008) - Letting Flores Become Possessed
If the phrase ‘down bad’ could be summarised in one game ending, it would be this one. Atari’s fifth instalment to the Alone in the Dark franchise sees you play as Edward Carnby, a paranormal investigator.
After a wild ride that sees Carnby discover his own identity, meet a nice girl (Sarah Flores) and kill a dangerous occultist, he ends up at the portal to the afterlife. Putting together two parts of a very old, sort of sacred stone, Carnby is told that the universe’s balance is now restored, but now he must face Satan.
Both endings to this game are known for being bad, but one takes the cake purely for its unbelievably bad dialogue. As Lucifer comes through the portal, he ends up going into Carnby’s lady-friend, at which point Carnby is offered the choice to shoot her and take on Satan himself, or let her be possessed and walk away.
Either way she ends up dead, but only in one of these endings does the player character utter the most tragic final line ever. Should he choose to save himself from possession, the now-inhabited Flores asks him, “how does it feel to be so alone?”, and he simply responds, “I’m used to it.”
As if this losing situation wasn’t bad enough, your player-character has now gone and dunked on himself and delivered the most pathetic ending imaginable.