Jedenfalls scheint man am Ende des Spiels mit seiner Party durch die Zeit, oder so zu reisen, bis man bei einem Corridor ankommt der in enem Dreieck endet mit einer komischen Tür.

Vorweg gesagt ist der Villian ein Alien, welches in der ersten Stufe einen Bekannten oder Freund von Ness in einer Maschine gefangen hat und Ness bekämpfen lässt.

Dieses Alien, Namens Giygas konnte nicht mit normaler Kraft besiegt werden, sondern das Teammitglied Paula musste beten, während man irgendwie das restliche Team am Leben hielt. Nach einigen Gebeten Paulas transformierte sich Giygas nochmals in seine dann wahre Form.

Nach wenigen weiteren Gebeten und dem 4th Wall Break (ja sowas gabs damals schon), bei welchem der Player selbst wohl half, wurde Giygas besiegt.

I have one, but it ain't pasta, as it happened to me. Not me, Anon, but ME.

Unlike most of the games that have been discussed in this thread, the game my story has
to do with is quite real and 100 percent commercially available. There was nothing unusual about the
version of the game I played, other than I probably overpaid for the used piece of XBawks trash
(though this being Gamestop, you wouldn't think it'd be that surprising).

Some of you might even have played the game. It's a PC title with an Xbox port called Arx Fatalis.
And if you've played it, Anon, I'm sure you know why it's showing up in this thread.

Now I certainly can't speak for the original PC version of the game, but I can say with some degree
of certitude that the Xbox version was one of the creepiest games I've ever played. Those who've played
the game can attest to this;
The plot of the game was essentially that the sun of a LotR/WoW type world had begun to die, and that
the normally warring races of humans, goblins, dwarves et al had decided to collaborate to build a mine
large enough to house them all. The mine - called Arx - is basically one of the last few bastions of
civilization, and you get the sense that the few humans left down in the mine are leading a pretty wretched
existence.

The game really isn't half as strange or disturbing as it sounds. For starters, the game has virtually no
music - only ambient sound, and what passes for music in the game is an awful, grotesque jumbled up noise
like someone bashing on a calliope. This plays when the player is in areas populated by humans.
The ambient noise in the game is frequently interrupted - and this is where things become a little strange.

The game is undoubtedly poorly scripted - the game's few quests are disjointed and somewhat nonlinear, and
the storyline of the game isn't very informative. Hence, sometimes, you might encounter random bits of a
storyline you might not be familiar with - or of storylines that don't seem to be connected to the game at all.

These can range from the strange - being confronted by high level enemies at seemingly random times -
to the bizarre and disturbing - such as repeated instances of the loud sobbing of a young girl interspersed
with demonic chanting and sometimes high pitched noises that sound like screaming.

Frequently, in the latter stages of the game, you are frequently attacked by assassins - an event which becomes
surprisingly terrifying when the part of the mine you happen to be in is completely silent.

People who've played the game likely have their own stories to tell about the game's persistent strangeness -
more than what I've said, the gameplay itself exudes a strange feeling of helplessness. Your character is not
particularly quick or responsive, and this leads into the latter half of my story.

People who have played through the entire game - I've spoken to maybe a handful - tend to remark on one
specific event toward the end of the game. Anons who want to play the game might want to look away now -
the next part of the story is a spoiler to sone degree.

Toward the end of the game, you're sent far down into the mine to meet with the dwarves and have them
help you construct a special sword. The journey down to the base of the mine's pretty arduous, but at the
time I was pretty excited that the game had given me something specific to do. It was filled with it's own
strange occurrences, but nothing more strange than what's already been said.

A note: there's one other thing about Arx Fatalis that's worth mentioning. Though the game exudes a kind of
grotesque cartoonishness throughout, it's also violent and bloody. Surprisingly violent and bloody.
Dismembered corpses and blood soaked walls are pretty standard fare throughout, as well as animal sacrifices.

I don't know what I was expecting when I finally reached the dwarf level of the mine. I wandered around
for a short while before dropping into what looked like where I wanted to be: some kind of small room.
Blood was smeared all over the walls, and the room contained what appeared to be the remains of two badly
dismembered dwarves, from which you collect a key.

It is at this time that a creature appears from the crawlspace you just left.
didn't know precisely what it was when I first saw it, but I knew just from it's appearance
that I didn't want to be anywhere near it. The problem: I ran to the only way out of the room
to find it locked, and the way Arx Fatalis works you have to fumble through your inventory ring
for a few seconds to find your keyring. It was at this time that I began to comprehend what my
character had muttered when the creature first arrived: something to the tune of "I have no weapons
that can defeat this". I managed to get the door open as this thing begins chasing after me - running
in bounds, making this horrible thudding sound - I run into the hallway to find - a fucking dead end.
The thing mauled the shit out of me.

I've spoken with multiple people about this game, and invariably the topic always turns to this thing,
or as it's called in the game, the "black beast". The most disturbing part is what people have to say
about it when describing it; it's almost universally described as just a shapeless black mass with slanted
white eyes and large teeth. Pretty much everyone will say something to the effect that it looks like something
out of a really bad nightmare.

I know what you're saying. "The game's meant to be scary you fuckwit." Yep. Totally hear you, and I dis
promise that this wouldn't be one of those stories where everything starts to get hyperrealistic and shit,
and it's not.

Long story short I began to get so frustrated with my repeated deaths at this point that I'd decided to
reach into my big bag of xbox tricks and god mode this bitch like anyone respectable would have.

I talked earlier about how badly the game appears to be scripted. And about how strange things tended
to happen as a result of this bad scripting. (For those that asked, I really have no idea what the game is
like on the PC; if you want my advice, and want the game for the
fucked up experiences I had, I recommend the Xbox edition, which undoubtedly went without
the bug fixes that made the Xbox version what it was.)

I had pretty much managed to eke my way past the monster, and a whole lot of noclipping and god modeing later,
I'd wound up where I wanted to go. Unfortunately, I found out, I'd need to head back to where the monster was
for some book or rock or shit. And this is where things became truly frightening.

As I headed back toward where I needed to go, I heard that dreaded pounding noise that signaled that the
black beast was coming my way. By this point I was more
tired of dealing with it than frightened, but something frightening began to occur. The level itself began
to flicker in and out, and as the thing approached it's movements became jerky and crazy. This alone didn't
scare me half as much as it annoyed the shit out of me; after
a few seconds of trying to slip by the black beast (which by this point had ceased attacking me and was
just grinning in a crazy way and running at me), I realized I'd have to noclip this part too.

As soon as I did, the game began playing what seemed like random sound bites. They weren't
necessarily creepy ones - though some were. Some of them were innocuous, like the music
of a mandolin player from earlier in the game. But then I got the sound of the little girl crying.
I decided this was getting just a little bit too disturbing.

To explain this last part, the quest tie-in for the sound of the little girl crying is that she
becomes lost in an underground graveyard and you have to find her. If she dies before you
can, you get the quest message of something to the tune of "I failed her".

The level flicking in and out didn't lend itself very well to navigation. So I open my menu journalist
type thing to open the local map. To cut to the chase, it goes directly to my journal,
which is fucking FILLED WITH I FAILED HER MESSAGES. And the game just erupts with
the crying sound file. Like as if it were being
played stacked on top of itself a million times. This combined with the scratching and roaring
of the black beast convinced me to turn the game off. I did not play it again for a year. I have
never experienced anything like it before or since, though I have experienced similar sound problems
in other games so I guess it's not that uncommon.

I’ve been able to find most of the ones that I’ve played online, but there’s one that I haven’t seen any mention of. I bought it at a flea market about five years ago. Here’s a picture of the cartridge, in case anyone recognizes it. Unfortunately, when I moved two years ago, I lost the game, so I can’t provide you with screencaps. Sorry.
The game started with the familiar Nidorino and Gengar intro of Red and Blue version. However, the “press start” screen had been altered. Red was there, but the Pokémon did not cycle through. It also said “Black Version” under the Pokémon logo.
Upon selecting “New Game”, the game started the Professor Oak speech, and it quickly became evident that the game was essentially Pokémon Red Version.
After selecting your starter, if you looked at your Pokémon, you had in addition to Bulbasaur, Charmander, or Squirtle another Pokémon -- “GHOST”.
The Pokémon was level 1. It had the sprite of the Ghosts that are encountered in Lavender Tower before obtaining the Sliph Scope. It had one attack -- “Curse”. I know that there is a real move named Curse, but the attack did not exist in Generation 1, so it appears it was hacked in.
Defending Pokémon were unable to attack Ghost -- it would only say they were too scared to move. When the move “Curse” was used in battle, the screen would cut to black. The cry of the defending Pokémon would be heard, but it was distorted, played at a much lower pitch than normal. The battle screen would then reappear, and the defending Pokémon would be gone. If used in a battle against a trainer, when the Pokéballs representing their Pokemon would appear in the corner, they would have one fewer Pokéball.
The implication was that the Pokémon died.
What’s even stranger is that after defeating a trainer and seeing “Red received $200 for winning!”, the battle commands would appear again. If you selected “Run”, the battle would end as it normally does. You could also select Curse. If you did, upon returning to the overworld, the trainer’s sprite would be gone. After leaving and reentering the area, the spot [where] the trainer had been would be replaced with a tombstone like the ones at Lavender Tower.
The move “Curse” was not usable in all instances. It would fail against Ghost Pokémon. It would also fail if it was used against trainers that you would have to face again, such as your Rival or Giovanni. It was usable in your final battle against them, however.
I figured this was the gimmick of the game, allowing you to use the previously uncapturable Ghosts. And because Curse made the game so easy, I essentially used it throughout the whole adventure.
The game changed quite a bit after defeating the Elite Four. After viewing the Hall of Fame, which consisted of Ghost and a couple of Pokemon I used for HM`s, the screen cut to black. A box appeared with the words “Many years later…” It then cut to Lavender Tower. An old man was standing, looking at tombstones. You then realized this man was your character.
The man moved at only half of your normal walking speed. You no longer had any Pokémon with you, not even Ghost, who up to this point had been impossible to remove from your party through depositing in the PC. The overworld was entirely empty -- there were no people at all. There were still the tombstones of the trainers that you used Curse on, however. You could go pretty much anywhere in the overworld at this point, though your movement was limited by the fact that you had no Pokémon to use HMs. And regardless of where you went, the music of Lavender Town continued on an infinite loop. After wandering for a while, I found that if you go through Diglett’s Cave, one of the cuttable bushes that normally blocks the path on the other side is no longer there, allowing you to advance and return to Pallet Town.
Upon entering your house and going to the exact tile where you start the game, the screen would cut to black.
Then a sprite of a Caterpie appeared. It was the replaced by a Weedle, and then a Pidgey. I soon realized, as the Pokémon progressed from Rattata to Blastoise, that these were all of the Pokémon that I had used Curse on.
After the end of my Rival’s team, a Youngster appeared, and then a Bug Catcher. These were the trainers I had Cursed.
Throughout the sequence, the Lavender Town music was playing, but it was slowly decreasing in pitch. By the time your Rival appeared on screen, it was little more than a demonic rumble.
Another cut to black. A few moments later, the battle screen suddenly appeared -- your trainer sprite was now that of an old man, the same one as the one who teaches you how to catch Pokémon in Viridian City.
Ghost appeared on the other side, along with the words “GHOST wants to fight!”.
You couldn’t use items, and you had no Pokémon. If you tried to run, you couldn’t escape. The only option was “FIGHT”.
Using fight would immediately cause you to use Struggle, which didn’t affect Ghost but did chip off a bit of your own HP. When it was Ghost’s turn to attack, it would simply say “…” Eventually, when your HP reached a critical point, Ghost would finally use Curse.
The screen cut to black a final time.
Regardless of the buttons you pressed, you were permanently stuck in this black screen. At this point, the only thing you could do was turn the Game Boy off. When you played again, “NEW GAME” was the only option -- the game had erased the file.
I played through this hacked game many, many times, and every time the game ended with this sequence. Several times I didn’t use Ghost at all, though he was impossible to remove from the party. In these cases, it did not show any Pokémon or trainers and simply cut to the climactic battle with Ghost.
I’m not sure what the motives were behind the creator of this hack. It wasn’t widely distributed, so it was presumably not for monetary gain. It was very well done for a bootleg.
It seems he was trying to convey a message; though it seems I am the sole receiver of this message. I’m not entirely sure what it was -- the inevitability of death? The pointlessness of it? Perhaps he was simply trying to morbidly inject death and darkness into a children’s game. Regardless, this children’s game has made me think, and it has made me cry.