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Make it a VR game and the only way to truly win... is to take off the headset.


MGS2 already did that. A hostile AI orders you to kill someone, and knows you'll do it because the only way to not do it is to turn the console off.


There was also the Sega Genesis X-Men game. The whole game is supposed to take place in a hacked Danger Room, at one point you need to reset the computer and you do it by resetting the actual Genesis itself. The cartridge had to have a special battery to do this and it blew my mind as a child.


Don't forget Spec Ops: The Line, which plays on the idea of not having a choice in committing war crimes and justifying terrible amounts of violence, because you won't close the game.




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