What's the most merciful thing your video game character ever did?

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

What's the most merciful thing your video game character ever did?

Obviously it has to be your own action not some automatically triggered cutscene event and no saving the galaxy doesn't count, because that's in your own interest.

Long version:
We all had our share of fun when played our RPGs as assh*les. Psychopathic massmurdering "for the lulz" is an available option in many games. But what about acts of mercy? Situations where you had pity and spared someone. Little things far away from sidequests and the like. Tell me of your greatest acts of mercy and your most merciful deeds inside your rotten mass-murdering rampage of your greatest evil badass you have ever played.

 

[ShasOMiKael]

That is one of the hardest questions ever asked... The time when... Nope... Oh, that one time i... Nope... Ummm...

Not killing the hot female drow? Does that count?

I'm counting D&D as a game to make this easier...

 

[Delsana]

I saved the kid on a huge evil playthrough in a game once... Dragon Age on that one I think. I can never get the guts to kill him.

 

[MajWound]

In The Suffering I ran into a guy locked in a padded cell with his arms and legs cut off. He was just flopping around in there like a fresh tuna so I shot him in the head.

 

[Al-Bundy-da-G]

New Vegas, sometime back in August. Came across some bandits on my way back to the strip, tables been calling my name for a while. They were attacking a merchant purely out of amusement i suppose. Naturally the ideal solution was to let the bandits kill him, then return the favor and take inventory of their personal effects. Then I recognized the merchant. The same one whose pocket I picked earlier that day. Four rounds rang from my rifle and the bandits fell. Having righted my previous wrong I continued on my way. Back to Vegas.

Now go back and read it in Clint Eastwood's voice.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

Got a bunch of fallout 3 and New Vegas stories that fit this thread but in Fable 3 I had to do some evil and have tax rates for all my properties at there highest but I was able to fund all the good deeds and keep all my promises (except I outlawed drinking, drinking bad). I saved everybody and once the battle was over i reduced taxes to there lowest setting for all my properties. Cool angel wings compliment my shining armour and crown so nicely.

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

I saved the kid on a huge evil playthrough in a game once... Dragon Age on that one I think. I can never get the guts to kill him.

Which one? I remember giving the kid from Lothering a whole silver coin after I murdered that merchant for a gold coin (a whole f*cking sovereign) in front of the kid.

In The Suffering I ran into a guy locked in a padded cell with his arms and legs cut off. He was just flopping around in there like a fresh tuna so I shot him in the head.

While I see your point, that's doesn't seem so merciful. At least give him a cigarette or a final wanker or something.

[...] Having righted my previous wrong I continued on my way. Back to Vegas.[...]

Yeah this is what I meant! That's nice! I didn't thought of Clint East Wood, though. My mental image was more like Tuco Benedicto Pacífico Juan María Ramírez, also known as The Ugly. The Bandit that is a true badass but nice but a complete assh*le as well.

[...]

Well, sorry but I think saving the universe doesn't count. Oh and in Fable 3 the Angle Wings where just nonsense. I killed 60% of the population by neglecting the threat entirely and hoarding all the money myself. I could have spent two times the Army needed to protect my subjects but I spent not one single gold coin for those morons. Guess what? I got the Angle Wings as well, because the remaing population of Albion loved me.

 

[MajWound]

In The Suffering I ran into a guy locked in a padded cell with his arms and legs cut off. He was just flopping around in there like a fresh tuna so I shot him in the head.

While I see your point, that's doesn't seem so merciful. At least give him a cigarette or a final wanker or something.

Sorry. It's only the MOST merciful thing I've done in a game. I suddenly realized that this speaks volumes about me, as a person.

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

When I didn't decide to nuke a town.

Which I already did 3 times before in previous playthroughs.

If I might inquire, which game was it? Plenty of Nukes out there actually...

I play with no mercy.

And you are sure like 100% positive that in your merciless play you never actually made a mistake an by chance spared someone you could have killed? You are human after all which implies that you could be prone to errors once in a while. I'm not implying anything, but maybe you forgot to kill someone because your attention was drawn elsewhere.

 

[Dango]

I try to run away from most of my encounters in Fallout 3...

 

[teqrevisited]

Probably handing out purified water so that I could once again go thieving with no backlash from the community.

That or finishing off the ill-fated citizens of Nipton, CA, who were left out to dry by the legion. Or, if your definition of mercy is willing to look the other way for a minute and cover its ears, beating Benny to death as he hangs from the bit of wood that I ordered him to for the satisfaction of having him half-crucified and then the pleasure of ripping the limbs off of his corpse one by one.

Smarmy git's lucky I didn't leave him there.

 

[x-machina]

Good question, you just made me realize what a heartless bastard I am. Even in "good" play throughs I never show any kind of mercy if it isn't tied into the plot or a sidequest.

The only times I have ever been merciful was if it was part of a quest and I was going to rewarded. (Examples: gifts for being good in Bioshock or "Paragon points" in Mass Effect)

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I saved the kid on a huge evil playthrough in a game once... Dragon Age on that one I think. I can never get the guts to kill him.

The one who's possessed, Arl Eamon's? I've killed him a bunch of times as his mother BEGS me to stop. So I guess that wouldn't get me much credit in this thread...

So...uh...most merciful thing...Well, there were all of those helpless NPCs in Fable, 2 and, 3 that I haven't murdered I guess. Some of them being my wives/ husbands. Better than nothing I guess.

 

[Riddle78]

In New Vegas,I'm usually the sort of guy that takes anything of use that isn't nailed down,and kills for the thrill of it... Every single crucified person I come across I kill with a single headshot. It's better than letting them die the slow way.

 

[Grottnikk]

In Fallout 2, I paid that old woman's rent so she wouldn't have to leave her farm.

In Morrowind I let the old assassin master just step down rather than kill him to take his place.

In Fallout 3, my first character stepped into the radiation-filled chamber to turn off the power, thus saving the entire Capital Wasteland.

In Bloodlines, I let the thin blooded guy who was breaking the Masquerade laws run away instead of executing him.

 

[EHKOS]

New Vegas, sometime back in August. Came across some bandits on my way back to the strip, tables been calling my name for a while. They were attacking a merchant purely out of amusement i suppose. Naturally the ideal solution was to let the bandits kill him, then return the favor and take inventory of their personal effects. Then I recognized the merchant. The same one whose pocket I picked earlier that day. Four rounds rang from my rifle and the bandits fell. Having righted my previous wrong I continued on my way. Back to Vegas.

Now go back and read it in Clint Eastwood's voice.

I didn't need to, it was written very well.

OT:I'll show mercy most of the time. It's only when they've done something terrible or they've made me angry that I'll toast them. If they cower and try to run I always let them escape.