What Choices Have You NOT Made In Games?

[Auron225]

Bioshock - I have never killed a Big Daddy. Yeah...I got clobbered a lot.... but I just couldn't do it. These guys did no crime other than look out for these little girls and it's heart breaking for me to attack them. Kill them. And then see the Little Sisters weep for the only friend they have ever had.
I aint a fucking monster and I aint doing that!

So you left all the Big Daddies and Little Sisters to keep on doing their harvesting? I'm not sure I'd consider that the moral option. The Big Daddies may as well be machines at that point. They aren't capable of conscious thought, aside from "protect little sister", what was done to them to make them Big Daddies was horrifying and they're beyond saving. Frankly, I'd consider it kinder to put them out of their misery - at least then you can also actually save the sisters.

Also, how did you get through that game without harvesting or saving ANY of the sisters?? You must of had to have been VERY selective with your upgrades!

 

[Chester Rabbit]

Bioshock - I have never killed a Big Daddy. Yeah...I got clobbered a lot.... but I just couldn't do it. These guys did no crime other than look out for these little girls and it's heart breaking for me to attack them. Kill them. And then see the Little Sisters weep for the only friend they have ever had.
I aint a fucking monster and I aint doing that!

So you left all the Big Daddies and Little Sisters to keep on doing their harvesting? I'm not sure I'd consider that the moral option. The Big Daddies may as well be machines at that point. They aren't capable of conscious thought, aside from "protect little sister", what was done to them to make them Big Daddies was horrifying and they're beyond saving. Frankly, I'd consider it kinder to put them out of their misery - at least then you can also actually save the sisters.

Also, how did you get through that game without harvesting or saving ANY of the sisters?? You must of had to have been VERY selective with your upgrades!

I agree, it's like leaving a dying animal to suffer. You're doing yourself the favor, not them.

Bioshock - I have never killed a Big Daddy. Yeah...I got clobbered a lot.... but I just couldn't do it. These guys did no crime other than look out for these little girls and it's heart breaking for me to attack them. Kill them. And then see the Little Sisters weep for the only friend they have ever had.

So you left all the Big Daddies and Little Sisters to keep on doing their harvesting? I'm not sure I'd consider that the moral option. The Big Daddies may as well be machines at that point. They aren't capable of conscious thought, aside from "protect little sister", what was done to them to make them Big Daddies was horrifying and they're beyond saving. Frankly, I'd consider it kinder to put them out of their misery - at least then you can also actually save the sisters.

Also, how did you get through that game without harvesting or saving ANY of the sisters?? You must of had to have been VERY selective with your upgrades!

Lol Okay fine I am a selfish monster. May my empathy damn me to hell.

And Upgrades? uuuh I remember getting different types of ammo finding different plasmids and yeah I had a very limited slot selection. Oh and I died...a-freaking lot!

 

[cryogeist]

I have never done the "walk away" endings in Dark Souls 1&2.
And as a general rule I never go for the obviously pure evil choices.

 

[balladbird]

I never do the evil path options. There's just no escapism for me in being an asshole, I guess. If there's one thing my Witcher 3 playthrough has shown me it's that I could probably stand to be less empathetic and more assholish... I've actually caused a small handful of terrible events to come about because of my desire to help those in need. XD


One exception to the evil path thing, though, now that I think about it: In fallout 3 I agreed to nuke megaton. Thanks to Solf J. Kimblee, I have a weakness in my heart for eloquently-spoken villains in nice suits... so I just couldn't say no to Mr. Burke.

 

[Elfgore]

I will never let Wrex go down either, because I love that mofo. In additional, I'll never do an evil playthrough of Mass Effect.

I will also never beat Fallout: New Vegas with Mr.House... just because I'm far too lazy to. Not because of some disagreement.

 

[RJ 17]

Wow, seems like almost every post has some mention of "I'm not going to be evil/the villain/a murdering psychopath."

Looks like we've got a bunch of goody-goodies on the forums. :3

 

[sage42]

I won't say I've never gone the evil path, cause I have, a few times. Dark Side in KoTOR 2 was a blast, because it let you be smug evil instead of just Stupid Evil. Plus neat Dialog choices with a few other characters, especially the Jedi Masters.

But there are at least two things I can never do. Harvest the Little Sisters from Bioshock and Not give Tali a Hug on the fleet. Refusing to do either just breaks my heart :'(

 

[Spider RedNight]

The only time I've sided with the mages in Dragon Age: Origins was to get the achievement. I have very little appreciation for mages (also Cullen's a templar so) and I didn't really care if they weren't happy with my decision-making skills.

In the TTG Walking Dead game, I will never choose an option that requires me to be needlessly cruel to Clem. It's just not in my DNA

 

[FPLOON]

I didn't choose the Green path...

Other than that, I didn't go right and ended up on a lower, slower platform... Never doing that shit again... Cost way too much time...

 

[Lord Garnaat]

I'll have to say the same as many other people here, and tell you that I don't play evil characters. Ever. In any game where I am given a choice as to my actions, I always, always side with the good guys and try to help and save as many people as possible. Completing a quest and finding out that someone died unnecessarily is enough to make me restart that quest. In Fallout, I was always the pro-NCR messiah, in Skyrim I was the paragon knight errant that righted all wrongs and defended the Empire, in Bastion I decided to forgive and save a friends rather than lose him, and in Bioshock I freed every Little Sister I found. I just don't have the heart to do anything else.

Oh, and for Mass Effect, I cannot see myself picking any ending that isn't "Red." The "Destroy" ending is the only right one, so far as I'm concerned.

 

[DementedSheep]

I joined the stormcloaks as a high elf just for the lulz.

On topic: any choice that results in you not getting/killing a party member unless it one where you have a limited number and they conflict so getting one puts you at odds with other anyway. Just can't do it. I don't want to lose them as an option for combat or all the content associated with them, RP be damned.

Generally (not as a rule though) I don't pick the outright evil options. Not because I have to play a here but a lot them you have to be both stupid and psychotic to do the evil options because you shoot yourself in the foot aswell. In addition to that often the evil options are quest dead ends or "reward" you by letting you skip parts of quests (which is less content) or making it easier (I like a challenge and I like defence missions) which is a negative to me.

 

[CaitSeith]

I didn't stop Mordin in Mass Effect 3.

Spoiler

I was (supposedly) playing renegade Shepard, and I was planing to stop the cure of the genophage. But when I was supposed to shoot Mordin on the back as he walked to the elevator; I just couldn't...

 

[Ihateregistering1]

This should be obvious based on this thread, but SPOILER EVERYTHING

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-I've probably played through Baldur's Gate II 3 times, and every time I've gone with the Viconia romance. To me, she's easily the most interesting of all the potential love interests and definitely the most interesting female character.

-Sort of in the same boat, but in Dragon Age: Origins, I'll only do the Morrigan romance. In addition to the fact that, like Viconia, she's easily the most interesting romance and female character, with the "Witch Hunt" DLC it feels like that is the 'canon' romance to the overall Dragon Age storyline.

-I will never, ever, ever sacrifice Morte in Planescape: Torment. I would never be able to forgive myself. Also in that game, as far as I'm concerned the Annah romance is the only real romance.

-I will always side with the pro-augmentation folks in Deus Ex.

-I'll always play as a Sith in the KOTOR games. The Jedi are so freakin' boring. Give me red lightsabers, lightning hands, and choking fools through a videophone any day of the week.

 

[ecoho]

I didn't stop Mordin in Mass Effect 3.

Spoiler

I was (supposedly) playing renegade Shepard, and I was planing to stop the cure of the genophage. But when I was supposed to shoot Mordin on the back as he walked to the elevator; I just couldn't...

I don't think anyone can do it without a lot of alcohol......

so yeah this and I can never defile the sacred ashes in DA:O.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

Not exactly in-game, but I'm not ever going to finish the first Crash Banidcoot.
I don't hop down memory lane too often so even playing it would be a stretch but I watched my dad beat it when I was five or six and I simply couldn't at that age; I could beat 2 and 3, just not 1.
My dad doesn't play games anymore and I don't really want to take that away, you know?

Captcha: I have fallen

You have no sense of honor, Captcha.

 

[Kyrian007]

I can never join Caesar's Legion in New Vegas. That was written in cement the first time I reached Nipton.

Never Again

Spoiler

I also have ALWAYS killed those soldiers as they leave Nipton, and gone directly over to rescue the slaves. On my first playthru of NV between those fights and getting ambushed in that valley west of there I limped into Novac on broken legs with broken weapons and armor with my heaviest ammo depleted and no explosives left. Every character I've ran thru since has done the same, but always with much better success.

And in Skyrim, I'll completely avoid the civil war entirely. I finished it with a character that had already beaten the main quest, and that hour or so was the most boring hour I've spent in Skyrim. I didn't even save it after. And I have not used that character since anyway. You can't avoid it completely, you do have to attend that stupid meeting to hammer out that treaty. But 15 minutes of that beats doing the whole civil war questline. Oh, and those bandits running the dogfighting ring in the Rift... I've always made sure they are eaten by their own dogs. Even if I have to keep raising the dogs from the dead and paralyzing the bandits...

They get eaten by their own dogs. That's just how that story ends.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I have never done the "walk away" endings in Dark Souls 1&2.
And as a general rule I never go for the obviously pure evil choices.

Never played DkS 2 so I don't know how it differes from 1, but the walk away ending isn't evil. If anything,

Spoiler

rekindling the fire is the evil choice as you perpetuate the lies and suffering for the humans for no benefit to anyone.

Anyway for me there's the Bioshock's Little Sisters, I just can't harvest them; Bioshock 2, the main NPCs, I never kill them; Dishonoured, I haven't killed anyone yet (although I'm curious to see what happens in a high chaos run). Apart from that, I've done everything else, if only to see how it plays out.

 

[DementedSheep]

I have never done the "walk away" endings in Dark Souls 1&2.
And as a general rule I never go for the obviously pure evil choices.

Never played DkS 2 so I don't know how it differes from 1, but the walk away ending isn't evil. If anything,

Spoiler

rekindling the fire is the evil choice as you perpetuate the lies and suffering for the humans for no benefit to anyone.

Spoiler

No benefit to anyone? You prolong the age for fire. Yeah you were lied to an manipulated by the gods but you would be a fool to trust Kaathe. If the fires go out you bring in age of Dark and it's never explained what the consequence of that would be. Supposedly humans would be top dog and you would rule the world but if what became of Oolacile is any indication that isn't actually a good thing either.
This:

dose not look appealing.

 

[Dornedas]

Mass Effect 2 - I have never changed my major choices. So I have never had Jack, or Jacob or Mordin make it out of that game alive and I'll never see them in ME3

What choices did you make to kill all 3 of them. I'm curious.

I have to join the chorus of heroes in this thread and admit that I will most likely never do an evil play-through of a game or make evil choices.
Except a few Renegade Shepard moments like pushing that one mercenary down the skyscraper. But that's not exactly evil.

But to be more precise: One thing I can never do is kill someone after he has surrendered. Not even the Nazis in Metro Last Light.
But you know: Exceptions prove the rule. And my exception to this rule is the boss of Halbech in Alpha Protocol. And the Illusive Man would probably be another exception but he always does it himself.

So I guess you could say that I have never made the choice to let him live.

Something more specific: At the end of Witcher 2 I always make the choice to save Triss. Doesn't matter which path I'm on, Triss is more important.

Can't really think of anything else right now that doesn't fit in the good/bad distinction.

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

I have never done the "walk away" endings in Dark Souls 1&2.
And as a general rule I never go for the obviously pure evil choices.

Never played DkS 2 so I don't know how it differes from 1, but the walk away ending isn't evil. If anything,

Spoiler

rekindling the fire is the evil choice as you perpetuate the lies and suffering for the humans for no benefit to anyone.

Spoiler

No benefit to anyone? You prolong the age for fire. Yeah you were lied to an manipulated by the gods but you would be a fool to trust Kaathe. If the fires go out you bring in age of Dark and it's never explained what the consequence of that would be. Supposedly humans would be top dog and you would rule the world but if what became of Oolacile is any indication that isn't actually a good thing either.
This:

dose not look appealing.

That's not necessarily the only option. But

Spoiler

rekindling the fires ensures that the human race will go extinct eventually, with all of them turning hollow.

To each their own, but I prefer the dark ending. Think of it as a revolution.