Imagine how horrifying it is for the villagers you meet on those Nook Mile islands. They get invited to live with someone who strips the land bare of all it's worth...
honestly I loved that mechanic, having to track down the good pelts, only real time it was tedious was really rare ones Also the parakeets in 2 could go extinct
I like how you're completely razing an island and Flora is just walking around in the background like "This is my life now." But then later we see her on your island, so I guess she did manage to escape the lifeless hellhole you created.
I know Mike made the comment about the inside of the tank having interior made entirely of marshmallows or whatever, but I still can't get over the thought of what would happen to someone inside a tank after a fall like that. those things are such a tight squeeze with so much dense metal, weird sharp angles and instruments, etc 😂
Well, it's similar to what's happening in Animal Crossing, except in Minecraft you can improve on the areas you harvested. In the Animal Crossing islands, Wilbur gets rid of the maps for reasons, and you can't go back to fix it.
I didn’t let my father-in-law watch the last episode to spare him. Turns out he was a lying cheating scumbag who cheated on my mother-in-law. And ran away just before covid 19 was a thing. And now wants to come back (over our dead collective bodies) despite the fact that my mother-in-law is high risk (lifelong asthma, heart problems) and who the hell knows where he’s been. And also expects us to send him money every month. What I’m saying is I REALLY wish I let him watch the last episode of GoT.
"if you choose to play the game less like a diligent assassin and more like an angry knife tornado..." I laughed SO hard. Thanks, Jane!! Out of curiosity, do you guys each write your own lines, or do you have brainstorming sessions and come up with all the material cooperatively? (Or is it more compartmentalized, like: Andy writes the cocky lines, Jane writes the sinister lines, Mike writes the irate lines, and you guys kick it over to Luke and Ellen if you need something a little more upbeat...?) In any case, thanks for another great video. :)
Just for the sake of posterity, I feel like I should mention that Buffalo aren't extinct in America. They came close, though... They've been bred back pretty spectacularly here in Colorado. There is a population in the hundreds of thousands nowdays, but that's still millions less bison than there used to be.
Well, a lot of what used to be Bison pasture is now farmland. that's actually a big reason why they got shot to death in such numbers. It's really hard to make a living selling crops if Bison eat them like 2-ton locusts. Bison are actually numerous enough now that people sell ranched bison meat in some grocery stores.
For the sake of posterity, I feel like I should point out buffalo and bison are not the same animal. The bison was crossbred to try and restore the buffalo population, an effort that unfortunately failed. The American buffalo has been extinct for quite some time now.
@@lizh6492 Those are two different names for the same species of animal. Are you sure you're not thinking of Beefalo? those are a hybrid of American Bison with domestic cattle. There are still pure-bred American Bison and some of them are in the wild.
@@lizh6492 After doing some more research, it seems that the Beefalo were bred after ranchers realized that Bison and cattle actually didn't give a --- about the concept of "species" and would hybridize any time you left them in the same field. Which has resulted in what one could call "genetic contamination" of the wild population.
Totally did the Megaton bomb mission on my first play through of Fallout 3, but on my 2nd play through I had the ' Black widow ' perk and I inadvertently seduced Burk into leaving Megaton and the bomb alone. Later he sends you love letters while on the run from Tenpenny lol maybe a top video game list of bad guys you got on your side using your charms? Don't know how much that shows up in other games, just curious.
How about a list of games that started development in other franchises? Like how Sleeping Dogs started out as a True Crime game and Assassin's Creed started as a Prince of Persia game.
@@Jonathon_Hennessey Wait are both them true? Never knew that. To repay the fact, here's one you might not know: Cats only have four toes, yet they have five fingers and a dog's thumb is known as a Dew Claw. Bonus fact: Cleopatra had a child with Julius Caesar.
I remember bailing out of a flaming helicopter, only just surviving the fall, and thinking 'geez that was lucky. Wonder where I am'. Then checked the map and realised I was on Arapice Island... Sadly the undead aren't too sympathetic to someone with only a fraction of health left.
Bioshock Infinite is quite an example of that if you ask me. Towards the end of that game I was quite impressed with how a simple task ended up messing an entire city up completely.
In Dishonored 2, by the time you finish an evil Corvo run, you’re known as “Corvo the black.” Empire in chaos, your daughter cast in stone, and most social structures have been shattered.
Dishonored is the only game I willingly played the "evil" route. It was so much fun to watch the game world devolve into madness. Few games actually show you the effects of your actions quite like Dishonored did.
@@gurderguile9258 dementia? He doesn't have dementia, his brain is slightly altered and he becomes more aggressive. Peter tries to get Ock to slow down and take a break. He's a good friend.
@@reececowell6642 yeah, Peter spends most of the game worried about him, in the middle of worrying about everything else (including the local fish population and a nice dude's escaped pigeons) and holding the city together as best he can. Sure, Fisk was right that worse was out there, but I personally don't think holding Peter responsible for what happened to Otto is fair. It was a lab accident and Otto was too far gone before Peter even knew the extent of what happened.
Agreed. There was no direct connection between the rise of Dr. Negative and the capture of Fisk during the tutorial. Like, the dude's still got brainwashing powers and a somehow-limitless supply of chinese-speaking lackeys (in New York?) whom he can empower with magic. And of course, the breakout on Riker's Island was going to happen anyway, since the villain in question only *got* his powers after the Fisk incident, and in unrelated circumstances. So even blaming Spidey for the Demons is tenuous, and as for the escaped inmates, Sinister Six and Sableites, those were all the actions of villains far above Fisk in actual power level.
How could you leave Dragon Age II off of this list? That's the game where you play as Hawke, the "Champion of Kirkwall," ... and end the game with the city of Kirkwall a flaming ruin thanks to the bloody full-scale civil war you either failed to prevent or helped to instigate. At which point the "champion" skips town and leaves it to the heroes in the next game to try to end the war and rebuild civilization... Oh, and in the DLC "Legacy," the "champion" accidentally unleashes an ancient evil that attempts to destroy the entire world in the sequel. I'm frankly surprised Dragon Age II didn't include mini-games where you go around putting salt in the farmers' fields and wrecking the city infrastructure.
Sometimes I feel bad towards Hawke tbh. The similar thing happens in Inquisition though the future is yet vague. That moment when your efforts to save the world is revealed to be a part of an apocalyptic plan
I am glad to know that I'm not the only one that feels awful about going to a Nook Miles island and ravaging it of it's resources. Doesn't stop me from doing it, but I cut trees through the tears.
The crew may well know this but left it out for time/humour, but in dishonoured the logic is that all the corpses you left are great food for plague rats, causing the plague to get worse
And then there's Dragon Age Inquisition's Trespasser epilogue, where you learn that you've been enabling Solas and his "bring back the old elven world at the price of this one" this whole time, kindly fixing all his screw-ups along the way.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice? You kill easily hundreds of Ashina's soldiers, including it's best defenders, leaving it open and vulnerable to invasion by the Central Forces at the end of the game. Then, if you got the Dragon's Return Ending, you, the most capable fighter in the land, just eff off to the west while Ashina gets crushed by the Interior Ministry
There we go, I knew there were other examples! SEKIRO really hates it when you die, and other stuff (I'm not as far as the stuff you're describing so I'm not reading it)...
Made even worse if you go for the Shura ending, in which Sekiro abandons his honour, forsakes all ties and gives into an inner rage that leads to him slaughtering almost the entire main cast and then, according to the epilogue, becoming "a demon [stalking] the land" who committed "the most tragic massacres of the Sengoku era". Yikes
@@wackamack9829 thought of that one too, honestly lol. That's legitimately worse than the ending I chose to talk about, but yeah. The takeaway here is Sekiro just isn't a happy game lol
1:45 I don't know why people keep saying getting K.K. Slider is "beating" Animal Crossing or the end game condition. That's the end of the intro. The game actually starts once you bring him there. I saw someone saying that it's the end because credits play when he sings, but credits have always played during his concerts. Seems pretty silly to say a game that is designed to last a year or more (or even indefinitely) due to the real-time aspect is over in a couple weeks because you finish the small goals the game sets to teach you how to play.
Yep; it's once you've actually met K.K. Slider that all the remaining options in the game are made available, if you're willing to put in the work of course. He shows up at a 3/5 rating, which should be a hint in and of itself.
"An explosion so huge it could probably be seen from fallout 4" Nah,a super volcano erupting is much better because you can see it from MOTHERFRICKING SPACE!
It just got progressively worse too. Kill Poseidon? Now there's a flood that drowns half of Greece. Kill Hera? Well those innocent bystanders still left after the flood are now going to die of pestilence. And the real kick in the pants for the innocents is when you kill Hades. So not only can they not got to Elysium, since it was destroyed when you killed Persephone in the previous game, now they can't even have place for their souls since you killed the God of the Underworld.
What's Andy talking about? I've been trying to contact him for months now for his pelt. Saw it once on craigslist. He never responded to my inquiries though.
Seriously. Seeing the Green Logo in my notifications is like a high for me, like I just took a giant hit of a happy pipe!! Especially these videos, Lists are my favorite 🤓
Well I’ve replayed FFVI recently, and finished today. Spoilers following this point: So remember when Celes straight up stabbed Kefka on the Floating Continent, causing him to go even more berserk and take all the power. And then he ruined the world and became a god. He destroyed a few towns like Mobliz, let out ancient evils, and all that. I mean, if Celes didn’t stab him, the emperor was just power hungry, and not as insane as Kefka.
So he redistributed the wealth, broke the aristocracy's monopoly on violence (and self-defense), revolutionized transportation, and increased the biodiversity by introducing numerous types of megafauna that had long been thought to be lost!
"That may have sounded like just a fun thing to say when you're being thrown into the back of a police van, and I'm definitely going to try it" - Jane, something you want to tell us...?
No Zelda? Link break-and-enters everybody's home, and if you had flowers, or anything in your pots, and they are quickly made a mess at the base of the wall this mute child just threw it against. Heaven forbid you had chickens...
Buddy if some kid in green did my errands for me and at the end of the day, murders an evil tyrant, he can come to my house and break at all the pots he wants.
How about Columbia from Bioshock Infinite? Sure the place was an ideological mess when you got there but extra points for messing up multiple universes versions of one game world in just one play through
To be fair to Spider-Man, the police were already going after Fisk and he was just aiding them. NYC was doomed to the consequences either way (well, as long as the police succeeded without Spider-Man's help).
The Red Dead thing was less of a metaphor and more of how it actually happened. When trains were all the rage in the midwest/southwest it was legal to carry a gun on board, and pull it out casually. People shot down buffalos as a pass time on trains, sure they were also hunted for meat and pelts but nothing seems more destructive to an environment than shooting wildly as pass by on a train
Ah, yes, the myth of the Noble Savage. When the Native Americans ancestors arrived, the North American continent was overflowing with large mammals. Within a few centuries, almost all of them were hunted to exctinction, even without the benefit of gunpowder. Later, mostly Europeans settlers tired gamely, but failed, to eliminate the last remaining large herbivore species left on an ENTIRE CONTINENT, but are somehow still the monsters. Obviously
I never activated the nuke in Megaton in a permanent save file. I can't bring myself to kill all those people, nor can I bring myself to consign Moira Brown to a fate of ultimate madness as all ghouls eventually enter. Mora Brown is the only fictional character that I ever felt myself developing like...actual feelings for. I don't know who else has ever had a set of dreams that all continue the same story, but I had 8 dreams over the course of 8 days which had me in the world of Fallout 3 getting married to Moira Brown. It's so weird...I was afraid I was actually losing my mind at the time...only to find out that a LOT of people really like Moira Brown. She's easily the most interesting and believable character Bethesda has ever created. There would totally be someone like her in a post-apocalypse. Never before, nor since, have I ever come down with the "waifu flu".
Bit of an odd choice, but what about Republic Commandos? In the final mission you’re meant to free the Wookiees on Kashyyk from slavery and the CIS, but by establishing Republic forces on Kyshyyk you made possible the Empire’s mass enslavement and exploitation of the Wookiees and their planet.
It reminds me of all my Dishonored playthroughs. I'm trying very hard to get a low chaos ending right now, but it's hard! There's so many fun ways to kill people!
@@madalice5134 Haha I feel you ! But the low chaos ending is very rewarding and hearing The Outsider being somewhat impressed of your reserve is very satisfactory 😉
17:43 somehow the real quote from Lady Bracknell is even worse. “To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune-to lose both seems like carelessness.” For those unfamiliar with this wonderful play, he lost his parents just after he was born and left in a handbag in the cloak room at a train station.
What, we're discussing terrible destruction and mayhem in video games, and there's no mention of Sam and Max? They destroyed the entire west coast of the USA, got Max elected President, and almost brought about the end of the world TWICE. And that's just to name a few.
*Finds a ticking time bomb in their inventory after the intro Sam: where should I put this bomb where it won't hurt anyone we know or care about? Max: Throw it out the window. There's no one but strangers out there. *does so, followed by an explosion Sam: I hope nobody was on that bus.
I feel like the buffalo extinction achievement was less a metaphor for the dying of the old west and more a representation of when we hunted the buffalo to the brink of extinction in order to starve out the native tribes that depended on them
Wow that Tony Hawk series took a really dark and bizarre turn... I had no idea skaters were that bad... Maybe it was a good thing that skateboarding was illegal in Norway from 1978 to 1989.
It's more like the last thing you have to unlock - once K.K. Slider visits, the entire game is now open. When I got him, I still hadn't fully upgraded my house, nor had I filled all ten housing plots, but they and every single other in-game option were now laid bare.
I am watching this solely to confirm that YOU PUT UNDERTALE IN HERE. Yeah, there’s a happy ending, but you can’t even get that till you complete it as a still sad ending, and there are countless endings that that are just absolutely messed up.
Most of those planets were populated by eldritch abominations or genocidal pirates anyway. And given the state of Zebes in Super Metroid, she obviously didn't do that good a job in the original.
All Gears of war games come to mind. Whether it be using the hammer of dawn on your own people or filling the hive full of water leaving them no choice but to surface and kill. Always works out well in that universe.
Hey! Speak for yourselves! I disarmed that bomb practically the moment I entered Megaton, and just because I was dishonored, doesn't mean I was a dishonorable person. The zombies totally weren't my fault, though, I swear...
No "Shadow of the colossus"? Or that's for the "X worlds we totally effed up" list? Also another suggestion - Prince of Persia (2008), but I'm not sure if we left it more messed up, or just reset the "messed up" level.
Dont forget bloodborne Where you kill Rom, a boss who was hiding the blood moon and giant mind fraying great ones all around the city thus driving any sane person left mad. Then you find Ebreietas. A nice passive great one just harmlessly mourning rom you know that same boss you killed. Who youll inevitable kill just to see whatll happen and use the alter of rom to revive a vampire queen after she was mulched by a zealot you led right to her. Oh and he killed himself already. Thinking hed finished his mentors lifes work and that noone would be...SUCH a DICK
Yharnam was already fucked by the time you get there. And Ebrietas wasn't grieving Rom, Ebrietas was held there by the Church and was the source of the old blood that caused Yharnam's citizens to turn into beasts. I'm not sure why you'd make the connection she was grieving Rom. Rom wasn't even a proper old god and used to be human.
Yes Rom was protecting the town from the unfathomable space horrors and the Mensis cultists, but unless you kill her things will just stay the way they are forever; and endless night of fangs and wailing. You didn't make THE bad choice when you killed kind and unthreatening Rom, you made A bad choice when there were no good ones. It's like the Yharnamite Girl quest or even the game's endings: inaction is probably the best of the outcomes, but it's not a good outcome by any means.
I agree Yharnam was practically already doomed by the time you arrive, but by Killing Rom you do just make things a whole lot worse than it already was! Also I must say Bloodborne is my favorite game of all time, so thank you for throwing this comment out there
The Neutral Ending in Undertale. Sure, the infamous kill-‘em-all route gets talked about the most and is the most obvious, but I think the Neutral run doesn’t get talked about enough. Regardless of whether or not you killed anybody, your first playthrough of Undertale will always be neutral due to the meddling of a certain foul flower. As a result, the six human SOULs escape, you have no choice but to leave the Underground after defeating Flowey, and get an epilogue where the characters tell you via voicemail the state of the Underground and their lives. If you don’t kill anybody, at least you left them full of hope and DETERMINATION to keep pushing forward and find a way out of their underground prison once and for all, and they’re all happy to have gotten to know you during your adventures, despite still being trapped under a mountain. If you DO kill someone, depending on who you kill, Undyne will be furious with you, Alphys might have disappeared, or maybe a dog is elected president. Regardless - nobody has been freed except you, which only drives your desire to try again and free everyone on a true pacifist run. Hey, at least you have a chance to try again.....unless you completed the route everyone’s obsessed with....in which the game will never forget what you did if you killed everyone....
On the one hand Rapture was already in a pretty bad state when you first got there in Bioshock, but by the time you left it was in an even worse state what with the inhabitants' corpses littering the streets, the city's Adam supply crippled due to the Little Sisters all being rescued (or, if you're a complete monster, harvested) and one hell of a power vacuum at the heart of the city as Andrew Ryan had a slight mishap with a gold club and Frank Fontaine getting dogpiled by a gang of angry Little Sisters that ultimately led to Sofia Lamb taking over for the events of Bioshock 2
And then of course, in Bioshock: infinite, you leave Columbia (Columbias?) in such a state that I presume it (they?) can't possibly recover from. And if you count what Elizabeth does after..... well, dear God....
I mean, in Saints Row the 4th you cause the complete destruction of Earth, sooooo... Also, literally any place Mike does a Hitman Mission. The modeling community of Paris will never be recover.
If you played the dlc, it turns out to be that it was just a movie and that humans and aliens coexist peacefully and Zinyak is actually pretty chill and was apprehensive to play a villain at first
We could have at least two full "commenter editions" to this list. -Terraria: Strip mine what you can to make stuff to unlock boss monsters who turn the world into corruption. Then strip mine the corruption. -New Vegas: Specifically, side with the Legion. Also, one can deploy a barrage of nuclear ICBMs in the Lonesome Road DLC if one chooses. -Just Cause series: Anytime a government is overthrown at the end of a game, it's going to leave the rest of the game world in an extremely chaotic place while the credits roll.
well in the Original Fallout beside all the evil you an do..you can liberal join the Masters mutant army in the game. So they will kill all memebers and your family in vault 13 that resist and then others into supermutants and the Master will rampage over moren then california and nevada. And at it best you perhaps know at that point that those supermutans are unable to make children. So your join a army of sterile Supermutants that want destroy mankind...only to die out the very same generation.
In Lonesome road don't you accidentally launch a nuke any? Sort of a 'push the button if you want to finish the DLC... no pressure... you DO want to finish the DLC, DON'T YOU!!?' sort of moral choice. Far Harbor had some good Grey Morality in the ending - cover up mass acts of evil... OR... expose the crime and let everyone die - but the main story for F4 sort of brushes all the destruction under the carpet and pretends it's all okay. End game in F4 is basically pick a side and screw over the other three. Even to rescue Nick (required part of the story) you need to murder your way past 20 to 30 of Fat Tony's goons. No real evidence is given that they were completely evil people, just, well, goons. But hey, kill them and loot, you have Nick to unlock as a companion! (for the record, I have 1200+ hours on F4. Finished the main story... ummm... once... Am I suggesting the side quests and general game play of the game are more enjoyable than the actually official plot? Ummm... YES! )
I was expecting Minecraft to be on the list. Nothing says strip mining, ecosystem destruction, and over-hunting like that game. Not to mention the craters made by TNT and the ransacking of villages!
In the PC version, all resources are practically infinite, even within a single map, and you're the only sentient being enjoying it. The villagers don't eat or even need to sleep, they can be kept in a glass box indefinitely for your convenience, and that's practically encouraged. They're coded more like vending machines than NPCs, and that's coming from someone who builds nice villages for them and tries to treat them like people. What im getting at is there is no illusion that you're ruining the environment for other people forever.
None of these compare to Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle. During that game you are forced to accidentally wipe out almost every sentient being on the planet. By the time you are finished with the game, there are only (I think) two remaining females left in existence, making repopulation an impossibility.
Age of Empires: no think about it You just built a wall cutting the land in half and then subsequently make 10 more walls cutting the other half of the land into smaller chunks while you deprive the other towns of resources, food, and wood. You monster. And you would do it again because your opponent can’t figure out how to stop your walls cause he’s a noob.
The Persians would never do such a thing! ...because it's more efficient for them to build a Town Centre next to yours and handily win the damage race.
And what's more, Oleg actually suggests that you hold on to the zombie gas, instead of destroying it, so that the Saints can weaponize zombies. Hasn't he ever played a Resident Evil game before?
Boston is only about 495 miles from D.C so depending on the size of the nuclear payload( based on the Fat Man with a potential yield of 21 kt) it might be possible to see the mushroom cloud.
In actuality, the Buffalo had been reduced to almost nothing 30 years before Red Dead Redemption. There were only 500 some by 1890 - those 20 in Red Dead would have been around 4% of all the Bison in the entire US. The dialogue about "Soon there won't be any left" was about 3 decades late, in-game.
I'm surprised that, as British people, you're against the idea of strip mining islands in order to beautify your home. That was, like, the entirety of your 18th Century.
Oh god - let's not forget the disarmingly-titled "Spec Ops - The LIne" which pulled you in with a heroic mission, sandy gunfights and rock n' roll, before turning straight-up Heart of Darkness. First questioning your own perception, then deepening your character's psychosis, pitching your own teammates against you, and tricking you into bombing civilians en masse. The worse of the two endings sees you supplanting the semi-mythical antagonist Konrad/Kurtz, and murdering a company of your own American countrymen.
Command & Conquer 3 Tiberium Wars: Even though the world is already pretty messed up with alien Tiberium, you can make it worse not once, but twice! Firing an ion cannon on Temple Prime in Sarajevo in the middle of the game, causing a liquid Tiberium explosion, turning all of Eastern Europe into an irradiated Red Zone that no humans can live in (and summoning the alien Scrin to invade), and at the end of the game if you do what Lando Calrissian, er, Redmond Boyle tells you to in the final mission and detonate a GDI Tiberium bomb on the last alien tower, you cause another, even bigger explosion that leave tens of millions more dead.
Probably not going to be a popular comment, but you’re agreeing with J Jonah Jameson that all the problems of New York are Spider-Man’s fault? Also buffalos aren’t extinct. Not that I agree with the waste and slaughter of them, but I just thought I’d point that out.
dark_lunar_dragon Kingpin was partially right. People did try to fill the void left by him being arrested. But that doesn’t mean that Spider-Man was wrong to take him down, nor were the police who arrested him. Enforcing the law with sometimes have consequences, but that doesn’t mean a criminal as vicious and brutal as the Kingpin should never be arrested and called to account for what he did. The rules apply to everyone, and they should be applied equally.
Remember Morrowind? A game where the way you get "player homes" was buy seeing a house you liked, then killing the owners. Plus you could just go around insulting peole until they attacked you and then watch the guards kill them.
Alternatively if/when you abandon your AC town, leaving Isabelle alone to deal with a town overgrown with weeds and shops without their primary if not only source of income.
You guys completely forgot G’eth. Between Port Fairwind’s furniture going underwater, Bumble and Dob’s skeleton armies, Ladsenkalden’s demise and Egbert involuntarily contributing to a Dragonborn clone army, I’m surprised the Oxventurer’s Guild doesn’t have a 1 million gold bounty on their heads.
I will not have this Tom Nook slander. The raccoon gives out interest free loans with no deadlines so people can start their new lives. He trained 2 unrelated raccoon kids to become independent store owners. At one point in the series, he would literally buy anything you sold him to, and now his apprentices do the same. He just wants to teach people how to make their own money and pay their debts, even if he looks like the bad guy. Tom Nook is the best of us.
You know, I agreed at first, Tom seemed like a really nice guy. Then I realized he was just luring me into a false sense of security when he started charging me more than the cost of my first loan for the privilege of finding new customers for him.
How about Dragon Quest builders, some times I would build a beautiful, multi leveled city, other times I just built rooms filled with junk to meet the achievements. Plus, you could blast your way through a mountain, leave craters in place of forests, fill in lakes with sand... all kinds of fun. Or, Stardew Valley, after making millions on the farm, you no longer need to plant crops. Now lets see what I can do to mess with the people in town, like plant trees in their path, or breed slimes in their homes.
One thing I didn't get about wiping out the buffalo in Red Dead, the American Bison isn't extinct, sure the wild ones are almost exclusively in national parks but that's for their safety and ours. Moose are one of the deadliest animals in North America due to car accidents. Imagine if the bigger meaner bison was just as common?
I don't know if these count but just about every Forerunner construct in the Halo series, Chief destroys 2 versions of Installation 04 and damages The Ark, the Arbiter allows the Flood to swarm Installation 05 and High Charity (one button prompt is all it takes) the Spirit of Fire destroys the shield world in Halo Wars and the Infinity gets involved in a battle that ends with their enemies sending Requiem into a star.
Dishonored is pretty clear on how a high body count leads to the effects you mention. More bodies = more food for rats = more rats = more plague, which the rats are carriers of. Not that this is reflected with great fidelity in the gameplay, as disintegrating the bodies doesn't make a difference. Nor can you stymie the plague by killing rats you encounter. Not sure what happens if you get spotted a lot, which also contributes to chaos, but don't kill anyone.
