Hacked Red Faction: Armageddon
I got a used copy of Red Faction: Armageddon for Christmas this year. I'd been following the Red Faction series since 2008 or so, so I was obviously pretty excited to play the latest game in the series. My brother spent most of Christmas day playing Skyrim on the only Xbox 360 in our house, so I had to wait until he was asleep to play it.
Playing through was a bit odd, with some errors here and there, like buildings spawning broken and being rather troublesome to repair with the nano forge, but that didn't stop me from enjoying the game. I'd just figured they were typical game glitches, and I was actually right about that. I was wrong, however, about the part where you uncover the evil aliens of doom or whatever they're called. I removed the seal from the temple, and then went down the pit to see the cutscene.
The cutscene starts with Mason in his mechsuit being lowered down the pit by a rope, and the aliens dart around in the dark. The mechsuit doesn't have any weapons, so when Mason sees the aliens, he backs off a cliff in his robot exoskeleton. Now, here's where something weird happens: it cuts to a scene with Mason lying on the floor, whispering to himself over and over again "So cold... so cold..." SAM(Mason's wrist computer) is visibly cracked, and static is flashing on Mason's on it, and the lighting in the general area is off. (I found later on youtube that this isn't supposed to happen, although I had a hunch that this scene wasn't supposed to be here anyways.)
I'm then given control of Mason again, and I can't use any weapons. The aliens don't attack me, instead just whispering incoherent nonsense. I just limp forward through the level, although the GPS thing isn't working, so I have to get around with trial and error. When I get to Bastion, there are no enemies or people, just empty buildings. There's this loud whispering in the background, and I can start to make out words: "Wake up", "Kill", "You're next", various cliched phrases that made me laugh. I had assumed that someone had altered the game or something and thought that it would be scary or something to trade it in at gamestop and scare the next buyer.
I played through the later levels and realized that whoever hacked this game wasn't aware of how cliched the things they wrote in were. The occasional screaming alien popping out of nowhere, signs saying things like "Turn back" and scripted objects, that have messages written on them like "You don't know what you're getting into AlixeTiir"(Which is my gamertag, by the way). Once in a while something would flash on the screen, but would only be there for an infinitesimal amount of time.
I finished the silly, cliché, hacked game that felt like it came straight out of a bad videogame creepypasta over the course of a week. I started getting strange, vivid, dreams. In the dreams, I approach people in alleyways, and proceed to stab them until they fall to the ground. When they are on the ground, I use my knife to slowly slice along the face, gently caressing it with my blade, next I pull the blade up and slam in down against the jawbone, and fruitlessly grate against the bone, I can feel the rough scraping of my knife against the bone, I cackle quietly as I lift my blade and bring it down to the heart, and stab with all my might. That's when I wake up.
Shortly after a few days of those weird dreams, I gave the game to my friend, David, who's obsessed with the paranormal. Afterwards, I saw a news report about a serial killer around town, but the police refused to release any details. A week and the dreams still haven't stopped, but then I get a call from David, he rants on about something, but I interrupt.
"Slow down Dave. What's your problem?" I said
"You're crazy! That's the problem!" he shouts.
"What are you talking about? I don't understand."
"You've been killing people over this game!"
"What? No I haven't!"
"Yes you have, you dropped a human heart on my doorstep last night, you sick fuck!"
"What makes you think it was from me?!"
"The handwritten note that says 'happy holidays'! That's what! I'd recognize your damn chicken scratch anywhere!"
"What?! No! It must have been the game! It's been giving me these weird nightmares about killing people!"
"It couldn't have. It's a normal copy!"
I dropped the phone in shock.
Well...
Happy Holidays...
Credited to AlixeTiir
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