Reply #122: I watched the whole sequence earlier [View All]

[Occulus]

This is a really hard mission to swallow, but not in the way most people here are claiming.

The mission puts you, a "good guy", standing by the side of some really, really bad people to infiltrate their organization. The slaughter in the mission- and a slaughter is the only thing it can possibly be called- is intended to get the bad guys to accept you into their organization. This is a very, very dirty intelligence op, and I don't think anyone who plays it ends up being particularly happy about what they did- especially given the mission's ending, which I won't spoil here.

The thing is, this entire sequence could easily be part of an action thriller film. It's horrifying and brutal, but in the context of the overall story, it does in fact have a place. As far as I can determine, the actions your character takes in this scene, while certainly barbaric, are actually necessary in the context of the story.

As to how far a story can go, that's up to the author. Even Les Miserables is brutal in some places.