Really effed up things in games you didn't realize till you were older

[Rukh]

Warcraft overall had a shitty story, hell if you read about its origins the lore was so freaking basic you'd be pissed and they started creating things on the go, but it doesn't excuse them as generic fantasy storylines:
-Arthas is a good guy that in looking for his goal he loses everything, WHAT A TWIST.
-Thrall is really a good guy but no one understands him, he's pretty much romeo and his juliet is jaina, WHAT A TWIST.
-Illidan is not much far from arthas, but more of a dick.

I know hating on warcraft is cool, but I can't agree. Arthas' corruption was a decent story, as far as fantasy stories go.

[Verdugo]

I know hating on warcraft is cool, but I can't agree. Arthas' corruption was a decent story, as far as fantasy stories go.

If you replay it, you will notice there actualy wasnt much of a buildup.

[Deleted]

Replay through the Banjo-Kazooie games as an adult after having played through them as a kid

You'll have a literal laundry list

Where are you referring to? :P I don't get this one.

[barackopala]

I know hating on warcraft is cool, but I can't agree. Arthas' corruption was a decent story, as far as fantasy stories go.

What? i'm not hating on Warcraft, i love warcraft as an RTS, it's fucking GOOOOD, i despise world of warcraft as an mmo... but that's pretty much my criticism for almost the entire MMO genre, but the warcraft storyarch is bad, if you ever read about warcraft 1 and how the lore got created you'll get what i stated with the "made up lore on the spot".

[CJack14dt]

Legend of Dragoon.... Rose's ability where she menstruates and the blood dripping out of her opens a door to Hell and everything opposing her dies. I just wasn't old enough to understand the context or the parallel.

[Jinxz]

Legend of Dragoon.... Rose's ability where she menstruates and the blood dripping out of her opens a door to Hell and everything opposing her dies. I just wasn't old enough to understand the context or the parallel.

OMG my childhood memories of legend of the dragoon have been ruined!!!! How could you!?

Wtf now that I think about it....yea..I'll stop here.

[dwightyo39]

The NES boxing game Ring King has a messed up cut scene between rounds. As a kid I thought it was a small trainer tending to your fighter. As an adult I realized every fighter looks like John Holmes and your trainer is just giving you a blowjob.

[johnhoftb]

While this isn't something I realized, a Nintendo employee posing as the Happy Mask Salesman from Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask on Miiverse gave a more chilling reason for why Link screams when he's putting on the transformation masks in Majora's Mask.

It's very simple! The boundless sorrow surrounding each mask comes rushing inside the wearer when they put it on, so the urge to scream is quite understandable, really.