10 Most Inappropriate Video Game Storylines Ever Written

The games primed for nightly news reports.

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When it comes to video games, how far is too far?

On one hand, can there ever be such a thing? After all, games - just like films and books - are an art form that has to tackle difficult subjects in order to express themselves.

But on the other, sometimes things can go a little too crazy, becoming taboo and inappropriate simply for the sake of it, as though a game is entirely determined to get a disgusted response from the viewer for the sake of the controversy.

While it is nobody's place to fully judge whether a game has "gone too far" and become too offensive or disgraceful to even exist, it is important to remember that just because art has a message, it doesn't mean that it's right, acceptable, or even any good.

So with that in mind these games have all for one reason or another, proven themselves to be filled with the type of taboo subjects and challenging themes that simply aren't fit for mass media.

... Let alone anybody else.

10. Conker's Bad Fur Day

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Conker's Bad Fur Day is one of the original examples of games you shouldn't be letting your children play, but because of the adorable cartoon squirrel mascot obviously that piece of advice was handily ignored.

What the player gets with Conker is akin to what South Park had been doing for years, it was crass, unfiltered, and ultimately completely NSFW.

The whole narrative starts as all the classics do: After a night of intense binge drinking Conker tries to find his way home to see his girlfriend (an extremely sexualised rabbit), but along the way he gets into a little bit more than he bargained for.

Whether it's fighting off waves of Nazi teddy bears or partaking in a musical sequence with a giant turd, Conker's quest to find his way home is consumed by one absurdity after another, and while the game's humour hasn't exactly aged well, at the time it was considered to be filthy, taboo, and hilarious.

The ending though? That involves Conker staring down the bottom of the bottle, surrounded by people he can't stand, as it's implied things only spiralled further downwards after the credits rolled.

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