8 Video Game Curses You Actually Want

Now on paper becoming a werewolf in any form of literature, movie or game seems like a right pain in the now very hairy hole.

For starters say goodbye to your favorite t-shirt each time you go pube-beast, and also the lack of any semblance of rationality is likely going to lead to some terrible acts such as either biting the face off your loved ones or giving YouTube what they want and signing up for Premium (You'll not have my pennies!). However, as with the likes of Twilight taking all forms of horrible curse and making them mildly annoying at worst and moderately sexy at best, The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall also renders the curse of the lycanthrope as something with far less bite than its bark.

Here, in the game that paved the way for what the series is today, you could become a hulking brute of an animal (even with the added choice of becoming a wereboar as well as a werewolf) which gains massive buffs to strength and endurance, as well as a rather nifty ability to ignore all non-silver based weapons. As you can imagine in a world where people don't have two coins to rub together for some bread and likely don't have enough to melt and turn into weapons means that combat is like walking through a crowd of children trying to stab you with bendy plastic sporks while you're wearing a mattress as a suit of armor.

The downside for all this power? Well, you're told by the game that you need to hunt an NPC or Town Guard every two weeks or your health will begin to drain. Now we're not about killing random NPCs for sport (even if they literally respawn behind you and your were-character and regular human do not share crime histories so you could murder everyone then walk back into to town to sell them their own looted shoes), and so we need a more peaceful solution.

Well, how about going on a simple mission to kill another lycanthrope who is much more evil than you, return to a Daedric shrine, and get a ring that lets you transform at will and removes the need to kill? Seriously how is this a curse at this point?