10 Video Game Fates So Hilarious They Were Horrifying

When Fallout 3 finds you seemingly trapped forever in the virtual reality of Tranquility Lane, it doesn't seem all that bad. After all, you appear to be one of very few people inside the machine that know this world is fake, leaving you content to get up to whatever mischief you want without any guilt about your actions.

However, the idea that you could do this forever - because the machine you are in will keep you alive indefinitely - is actually pretty nightmare-inducing. Running around causing havoc as a little clown menace is one thing, but doing it forever is sure to get pretty old surprisingly fast, especially when only one other person is in on the joke.

Indeed, this seems to be the reason that this other person has lost their mind. "Betty" is actually the overseer of the Vault where this VR reality exists, whose real name is Stanislaus Braun. Braun has been repeatedly killing and reviving the other human inhabitants of Tranquility Lane to amuse himself, but ultimately the pressures of being the only one aware of the fact they exist in a simulation drives him insane.

So maybe don't stick around in this place for too long. Who knows what could happen.