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

[The Almighty Grigard]

Hmm, probably towards the end of The Bastion.

<spoiler=Plot and character spoilers for The Bastion>
At the half point in the game Zulf attacks Rucks and the monument, nearly destroying it. After that you go on a hunt for magic shards that repair the Bastion. After an attack from Zulfs people you venture into their homelands to bring home the final shard needed, slaying a multitude of Zulfs countrymen. Since it was Zulfs idea to invade the Bastion they blame him for causing The Kid to come to their homeland and they appear to kill Zulf.

You find his body while you are walking around with the biggest and baddest melee weapon in the game and you are given a choice: Carry on with your awesome battering ram or throw it away and walk weaponless while carrying Zulf's body to safety, even though he damaged the bastion and caused a major scale attack against it.

I just couldn't leave the poor bastard to bleed there so I didn't hesitate one second to pick up his body.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Playing Prototype, I was stalking an NPC... And let them go.

 

[darthotaku]

I try to play grand theft auto and commit as few crimes as possible. I mostly walk places and I don't shoot a lot of people. It make for a very different game when you're not slaugtering groups of people.

 

[sumanoskae]

Probably in Fallout 3 when I refused to destroy Megaton. This is negated somewhat by the subsequent massacre of Tenpenny Tower, smug, greedy, entitled, unscrupulous, racist bigots that they were.

 

[Voulan]

In FarCry 2, I used up all of my health syringes to "ease the passing" of one of your rescue-ready buddies. Apparently even though I got to her within seconds and applied five of them, she couldn't be saved. I reloaded and tried to do it again without her getting hurt, and though I managed to kill everyone in the area, she would suddenly fall down of her own volition and die no matter what I did to her.

Apparently she was meant to die there, though that didn't stop me using up all of my health syringes.

Other than that, I can't really think of many other selfless moments. Every action in every game is rewarded somehow.

 

[teebeeohh]

i never killed the Czerka guy on the surface of Telos in KOTOR2.
because that gives negative influence with the mechanic guy.

 

[DracusHawktalon]

I massacred Bowerstone Market. Now, if this sounds like a dickish move consider that I saved them from a rock bottom economy living in an utterly crap sack world. Oh, and then I bought all of the stores and ramped up the rent/prices.

 

[rohansoldier]

I also have saved both the rachni queen and the council in mass effect, but in my renegade playthrough I killed them both. I have also killed Wrex on Virmire on one playthrough but saved him in others.

In Bioshock I could never bring myself to harvest the Little Sisters in either game.

In Red Dead Redemption I always tried to save the civilians I saw being attacked as I rode around. I didn't always succeed, but I still get points for trying right?

I also rarely attacked other civilians, as rampages in that kind of game were much more fun in the old GTA games when you had the weapon, armour and riot cheats enabled.

 

[NinjaRock]

In KOTOR i repented my sins of being a sith lord and saved everyone from being slaves to the Sith and their evil war factory.

 

[Jak LesStrange]

Mine was probably resisting the urge to destroy an entire village worth of people who were annoying me in two games, From Dust and Doshin the Giant. In the first instance, One village kept building tributes to my gloriousness,but wouldn't accept any flowers and in the other, they wouuldn't shut up after I had built all of the villages and had made sure that they had perfect access routes between each of them, but still with the whining, so fire balls and lava all around I think.

 

[TacticalAssassin1]

In FarCry 2, I used up all of my health syringes to "ease the passing" of one of your rescue-ready buddies. Apparently even though I got to her within seconds and applied five of them, she couldn't be saved. I reloaded and tried to do it again without her getting hurt, and though I managed to kill everyone in the area, she would suddenly fall down of her own volition and die no matter what I did to her.

Apparently she was meant to die there, though that didn't stop me using up all of my health syringes.

Other than that, I can't really think of many other selfless moments. Every action in every game is rewarded somehow.

I remember when my favorite buddy died, I did all I could to save her but alas, it was not possible. After she died, I took her pistol as a memento of her friendship and cremated her with my molotovs. It was a sad time

 

[Aprilgold]

Mine was I installed a mod to let me kill the punks in Fallout 3, I got there and literally got to the point of firing, only to walk away. Hell, to make good measure, I saved every SINGLE slave and captured person in the wasteland.

Second was when I let a horde member go, I was a level 80 Dwarf and he was a Lvl 10 troll, he attackted me and I let him know 3 times not too, I then punched him a few times and let him go on his day.

Didn't do a bad thing in EITHER of the Infamous Games.

Every Time I robbed a guy in Fallout New Vegas I always put 20 caps into their cuboard or didn't take the caps, also left a sexy sleepwear, since I always wear Naughty Nightwear.

 

[Manji187]

In most cases "mercy" is either cold calculation (utilitarianism; seek them benefits) or just so damn easy it doesn't mean a thing.

I have probably never performed a genuine act of mercy in videogames. None that I can recall at least.

 

[Scyle]

Probably my most merciful moment was in Dark Souls with Pricilla the Half-Dragon in The Painted World.

I had heard from a reliable source that killing Pricilla would give me a ton of souls, as well as the means to make a really powerful weapon that would make the game a breeze. So I fought past monster crows and toxin filled zombies, getting poisoned too many times to count. Eventually I reached Pricilla, but after finally seeing her in person and listening to her politely ask me to just leave her alone I couldn't bring myself to kill her. So I just walked away and never looked back.

 

[thelastmccabe]

In Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines, I convinced my ghoul to go away and forget that she ever met me. It upset her a lot, but she would have ended up dead hanging around me. Other than that I was not a nice vampire at all. I just felt bad for her for some reason.

 

[Luke5515]

My Fallout 3 character saved all the people of Megaton from not getting shotgunned to death.
He did it with the power of self control.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I killed the surrendering Germans on Black Ops. They would have suffered far worse fates at the hands of my fellow Soviets in the Gulags.

 

[Magicmad5511]

All I really have for this is that in my first play through of Fable 3 I didn't slaughter every civilian.
I only killed those that died thanks to my merciless decisions to gain money that turned my kingdom into a wasteland.
For me that is mercy especially seeing as turning the kingdom into a wasteland was so I could save them from a massive primordial shadow monster.
I changed back later when I did an evil play. I commonly went on killing sprees.

 

[Rossmallo]

In WoW, I never kill any Alliance unless provoked, but as for a more specific example...

When Lucien Lachance came to recruit me, I stabbed him in the face.

Anyone whos played Oblivion should know EXACTLY how merciful that was to so many people.