8 Times First-Person Perspective Made It Ultra Harrowing

First-person perspective enhances your immersion, letting you experience your character's adventures from right behind their simulated eyeballs. It unfortunately also means seeing through their eyes when they get set on fire, whacked in the groin, or surgery. Consider the worst moments we've had to endure in first person, if you dare, and subscribe:
About halfway through old-school shooter Quake 4, for instance, you get first-person captured and sent to the deeply unsanitary Strogg Medical Facility. It's less of a hospital and more of a fleshy factory for making more Strogg soldiers: a Borg-style mishmash of salvaged body parts, cybernetic doohickies and anger management issues.
Endured from a first-person view while you're strapped down on the Strogg Medical Facility production line, the process of Stroggification clearly focuses on being as unnecessarily long and painful as possible.
You'd think having your legs chopped off with a rusty sawblade was bad enough without also being stabbed in the gentleman's area with a giant needle for no adequately explained purpose. This would be a lot less traumatic seen from across the room, videogame, seriously.
Is it more or less harrowing than having the flesh burnt off your hands in Bioshock Infinite, or draping yourself with the limbs of your dead countrymen in Homefront's mass grave sequence? Or Outlast 2's axe to the groin? Who can say? Not us.
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