10 Video Games That Immediately DEVASTATE You
5. Fallout 3
It’s very easy to get attached to your player character in Fallout 3 primarily because you’ve been with them since the beginning. Quite literally, as the game opens with your birth. However, after the death of your Mother, it’s up to your dear old Dad, lovingly portrayed by the warm tones of Liam Neeson, to guide you.
The first 20 minutes of Fallout 3 show what it’s like to live in an underground bunker after the end of the world and, whilst it might be a little weird and tense at times, at the very least you’re part of a self-sustaining community.
Then everything goes awry when your Father, for reasons unknown, decides to escape the Vault. Total chaos ensues, in which your best friend Jonas is killed, and with the Vault’s authorities in pursuit you escape into the Wasteland.
The game shows you your childhood and then rips that safety away from you. Very rarely do games let you live out your early days in relative safety before things spin on their axis quite the way that Fallout 3 does. With your Father missing and having just been chased out of your home, there’s an unshakeable feeling of isolation despite how big your brave new world is. There’s no going back to your safe childhood now.