8 Video Games That Punished You For Being THE WORST

6. You Break The Game - Lands Of Lore: The Throne Of Chaos

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Sometimes a punishment for being an utter dick is as simple as the game itself saying "right ok. You want to be like that? Fine" and utterly bricking itself, which is exactly the situation the player will find themselves in if they get a bit too stab happy in the old school adventure game Lands Of Lore: Throne Of Chaos.

In this rather quaint title, you are tasked by the King Of The Realm to head out and gather a ruby to throw at a pesky witch, and when that goes south the king gets heartburn from a heavily fromaged smothered hunters chicken and sends you on a quest to find a mystical pack of Rennie. Upon returning from the shops it turns out they were having a sale on mystical McGuffins and so whip up a "Witch-Be-Gone" stew and finally rid the land of her evil.

I'm paraphrasing slightly here.

Still, if the player fancies doing none of that they can go up to Patrick Stewart (Sorry also forgot to mention the king is voiced by PATRICK STEWART) and throw a dagger, or rock, or some pocket lint in his face or at his guards, thus turning them hostile! As you scarper out of the throne room you're likely giggling to yourself at being such a naughty numpty, but here's the thing the kingdom is now aggro'd to you PERMANENTLY, meaning that when you return later they will kill you immediately.

Oh, and you can't complete the game. There's that as well.

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