15 Video Games That REWARD YOU For Playing Badly

3. Shadow Complex

Crash Bandicoot
Microsoft Game Studios

The whole point of being a heroic protagonist is usually to save the day, or at the very least the people you care about most. Shadow Complex, however, allows you to disregard this responsibility altogether by choosing to rebel against the storyline.

Jason Fleming and his girlfriend Claire are on a backpacking holiday when she is suddenly kidnapped by an elite group of mercenaries. The rest of the game sees you trying to rescue her from her mysterious captors- that is, if you can be bothered.

Lazy players, or ones who somehow manage to blunder the wrong way, can hop back in the jeep they arrived in and drive off into the horizon with a smirk on Jason's face, as he ponders the idea that it's far easier to get a new partner than to rescue his presumably newly ex-girlfriend.

This amusing early ending is your reward for failing to hero properly. Whether it's really worth the guilt that comes with being such a douchebag is entirely your choice.

Needless to say, if you find yourself on Tinder looking for a compassionate, caring boyfriend, definitely swipe right if this guy shows up. Especially if he's using some backpacking photos- what bigger a red flag do you need?

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I'm perfectly sane, or so the voices tell me. British, sarcastic, president of the European Slinky Association, have a tendency to lie when listing things about myself. 100% guilty of being a massive geek obsessed with Doctor Who, Harry Potter and video games. If you can't find me on the internet, I'm probably locked in a room playing Spyro the Dragon on my old PlayStation, or blowing everything to smithereens with a concrete donkey on Worms: Armageddon.