Toughest decision you've faced in a game

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Weather to go left or right in my rail shooters.

 

[Kyrian007]

How about one for Borderlands. (or any other game where you get slightly and slightly better weapons and armor every few minutes) I always agonize over whether or not to buy that next better weapon. I always (and I know it's a gamers rule) find a better one the very next time out. Why even visit shops in games like that?

 

[Zaldin]

Funnily enough it was in Bioshock 2, when you're given the choice of killing the chap in the jar (his name escapes me) or letting him live. It was quite shocking how many different sides there were to the moral dilemma, and took quite a while to make a decision.

This one really had me thinking though, since letting him live was the 'good' decision, but I truly don't see how. Because how is letting someone live on a life of pain in any way good when they have asked you themselves to kill them? Isn't that the truly bad decision?

Was letting him live the good decision? I never figured that one out. Apparently it doesn't matter considering I got the best ending anyway.

I think it was, not quite sure though, because it did seemed awfully strange to me =|.

Yes, it was the "Good Choice" Though from what i recall that Scenario was supposed to be different, but they changed it. Executive Meddling i think.

Silly executives, how is letting someone live in pain ever the good option <_<.

 

[DigitalSushi]

"Should I shoot him in the head, or in the testicles?", thats pretty much the hard decisions I face.

weather or not to destroy megaton in Fallout 3, I decided not to but then accidentally destroyed Tennpenny tower.

I can't bring myself to destroying Megaton. Tenpenny Tower on the other hand, I enjoyed picking then apart in a variety of ways.

Also, your avatar is mesmerizing.

Whether or not I should buy a certain upgrade over another...

she's a PC elitist! run!

Sorry, I used to have that problem, but I always upgrade peripherals first, gotta have comfy keyboard and mouse (oh and good speakers).

Although my keyboard got stolen, who the hell breaks into someones home and leaves the TV but steals the keyboard.

 

[DarkHourPrince]

My starter Pokemon, class, etc. That choice sticks with you for the next few dozen hours. It determines how you fight for the whole game.

Agreed.

I saved and then went back to see what happened if you killed Ryoji in Persona 3 and the delivery guy in Persona 4 (whose name currently eludes me..) It's not a matter of choice, per say, as it is curiosity.

 

[Ickorus]

In Assassin's creed (both of them actually), my toughest decision was weather or not to brutally murder the damn beggars or to simply ignore them.
Usually I murdered them, simply because they are so annoying.

I beat them up and threw them in the water.

 

[Wyes]

Believe it or not, picking between

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Francis or Derrick

in GTA IV. On one hand,

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Derrick seems to be losing his mind and should probably be put out of his misery, however he's not a traitor to his family and comparatively 'innocent' compared to other characters. On the other hand, Francis is willing to have his brother killed to protect his own reputation and is a douchebag, yet he's also in a position to do good and seems to have the intention of doing so

.

 

[imaloony]

Who to take for my final team in Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening. They were all so likable, and just awesome in general.

In the end, I took Oghren, Velanna, and Nathanial. This turned out to be the right choice, as I sided with The Architect and let him live, and I later checked and it turned out that the other three characters (Anders, Justice, and Sigrun) were all opposed to this choice, and had I sided with him, I believe both Justice and Sigrun would have attacked me if I had failed to persuade them, and Anders would have disapproved.

 

[berault]

Should I euthanise my Companion Cube?

It's so cute, I can't just kill it like that!

Pretty much mine, I couldn't just kill the damn thing! it helped me through a whole entire level!

 

[Drakmeire]

"Should I shoot him in the head, or in the testicles?", thats pretty much the hard decisions I face.

weather or not to destroy megaton in Fallout 3, I decided not to but then accidentally destroyed Tennpenny tower.

I can't bring myself to destroying Megaton. Tenpenny Tower on the other hand, I enjoyed picking then apart in a variety of ways.

Also, your avatar is mesmerizing.

Thank you, I do find myself getting some pretty bad motion sickness from staring at it though.
DANCE WATER DANCE!!!

 

[DigitalSushi]

Lol. I meant in game upgrades. ;P

Oh right, after I told everyone my sob story about the keyboard!

Yeah I'm the same, the first play through of Deus Ex was painful for me
"what if IronLung isn't as good as the marketing pamphlet says it is?"

 

[Spineyguy]

Should I euthanise my Companion Cube?

It's so cute, I can't just kill it like that!

Pretty much mine, I couldn't just kill the damn thing! it helped me through a whole entire level!

I tried to carry it through the disintegration field thingy. I was mentally scarred.

 

[Shakespeario]

I'm terrible with names so when I have to name a character or vehicle or anything in a video game I second guess myself for a few minutes. In game decisions go with how I've been playing the game. Who or what is the most important thing to my character and how or will it be effected by my actions here?

The fact that this thread exists is a monument to the 'art of games'

 

[DemonicVixen]

In any of the Sims game... Should i kill my sim or not?? lol

 

[TheMonkeySlayer]

In Heavy Rain, choosing whether or not to...

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Shoot the drug dealer.

 

[Magnatek]

Hoo boy...I can easily say this as "Who to sacrifice against Camus?" in Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. He had the best Spear in the game, and he could kill all of my units in one hit, though I couldn't one-shot him. So, I ended up losing Cain, my Cavalier and brought Camus down next with Caeda. I got the spear, but I lost one of my top three units.

 

[e2density]

Whether or not to stop playing because I have to sleep.

Pfft. Sleep is for casual gamers.

 

[RicoADF]

There are a lot of gams where you have to make choices that affect the outcome of the games. Sometimes it's minor, sometimes it inolves thousands of lives. So I ask you escapst to remeber the toughest decision you've had to make in a game and as a bonus question, do you regret it?

My example was in Mass effect 2.

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At the end of mordin's loyalty mission you're faced with a choice about what to do with the genophage reseach. I chose to hold onto the research but not to immediatily go figuring out a cure. I sometimes wonder if I should've just cured the Krogan genophage, but at least it's safer this way.

In Wing Commander 4, you get to choose how to respond and the story arcs accordingly (same with 3). A particular incident where I chose to attack a certain target and the character Catscratch was killed because of it really hit me and I regretted it, but that turned the game from good to bloody awesome, because my choice made a difference to the story, good or bad.