Hardest Moral Choice you had to make in a game?

[Korten12]

I was just playing Fallout New Vegas when it asked me this on a side-quest:

You can destroy the reactor, which would lead to the NCR farm not being irradiated and the plants grow and people can get food. At the cost of death of the people in the vault.

Or

You can fix the reactor, keep the farm irradiated and die, but save the lives of people in the vault.

Neither choice gives Karma.

I picked the above one (more lives then just a few) but it took me awhile to decide. It was very welcoming to my Fallout experience.

So what was your hardest Moral Choice you had to make?

 

[Rawne1980]

Megaton in Fallout 3.

Moira Brown irritates the shit out of me but she sells good stuff ...... to blow up or not to blow up.

 

[wolf thing]

the end of dues ex, both side had good and bad points and in kotor 2 when you are in the sith cave on korriban, its got a few of them and the whole experience ends in getting dark side points

 

[jakko12345]

The moral choice that actually took the most time for me to decide was a moment in GTA 4 when you finally encounter the man who caused the death of Niko's family and friends when he was a child in Serbia. Niko had been hunting for him the whole game, but when you encounter him, his life is absolute shit. He's poor, in debt and has no friends or family, and I actually didn't kill him. I felt his life was shit enough as it is; better to let him suffer for what he did than to end it quickly

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

The end of infamous 2.

Spoiler: MAJOR ENDING SPOILERS

you basically have to choose between killing all humans to save the conduits (people with superpowers such as Cole) or kill all the conduits and yourself to save the puny humans.

 

[The Pinray]

Spoiler Alert?

I just finished Dragon Age II. The finale for that story was absolutely phenomenal. The decision whether or not to kill Anders or risk Sebastion's armies is gut-wrenching. Anders was a good friend but did a terrible thing. But that final choice between Templars and Mages is also very weighty. All in all just a powerful finale.

So yeah, the choice between killing Anders and letting him live was the hardest choice in recent memory.

 

[Richardplex]

Do I help smuggle a weapons mod to be delivered to an angry krogan bounty hunter for a giant jellyfish, or do I not, or do I take it for myself, or do I report it? No joke, half an hour spent on that decision, 250 credit reward. I RP instead of playing as myself, so moral decisions are the decision of them, and help me develop their character. Small things like smuggling and piracy and the character's view on them often take me longer than big things, like saving lives. My decision? ran away and didn't interfere, which was the correct decision for my character.

Also,

Spoiler: Mass Effect 2

Mordin Solus' mission on the genophage took me half an hour as well, and I still haven't solved it. I keep changing my mind, keep debating. I think I chose to keep the data, just in case, ala the easy way out.

 

[joiny]

A house divided in ME2. Sorry for having the same opinion as extra credits.

 

[drummond13]

For me it was the "save your girlfriend or save a half dozen doctors" choice in Infamous 1.

I chose the girl. Whoops.

 

[Stammer]

Mass Effect, choosing whether I wanted to save Alenko or Williams.

One of the best decisions in the game, since it didn't affect your paragon or renegade scores or, really, a whole lot to carry over.

EDIT: Nothing in ME2 really had me wracking my brain. Everything was either a no-brainer or you could charm/intimidate your way out of a situation.

 

[Kushan101]

The end of infamous 2.

Spoiler: MAJOR ENDING SPOILERS

you basically have to choose between killing all humans to save the conduits (people with superpowers such as Cole) or kill all the conduits and yourself to save the puny humans.

Gah! You beat me to it good sir.

 

[Elidan1012]

The Witcher 2. It's pretty much made of moral dilemmas.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I'm not sure what the hardest one for me was...So I'll jsut put this one up.

Spoiler: INFAMOUS 2 ENDING

Kill myself, a possible love interest and anyone unlucky enough to me born with the gene in order to MAYBE, just MAYBE cure the plague...Or condemn humanity by using a method that is guaranteed to save the conduits....

VERY hard choice. But I went for the heroic one. I had no time to find a third option, so if I didn't do it, all of humanity's blood would have been on my hands.

the end of dues ex, both side had good and bad points

Yeah. in the end I...

Spoiler: MEGA SPOILERS FOR DEUS EX 1

I fused with The Helios AI. It seemed like the most insane idea in the world...but the other choices would be
1) to plunge the world into a new dark age which would totally screw over humanity at worst, and be a temporary fix at best.
or 2) To hand the world over to ANOTHER group of humans who would rule form the shadows. ...Yeah, that doesn't work.

Plus, I knew the AI was a mishmash of AIs. One was made to silently protect innocents from terrorism and oppression, and the other was made to rule carefully and in an orderly way. Throw my own human compassion into the mix, and it might just be possible to create a being that had the power to rule the world, an unbreakable directive to protect the people in it, and the compassion to understand those people. Risky as hell, but with so much potential.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

For me it was the "save your girlfriend or save a half dozen doctors" choice in Infamous 1.

I chose the girl. Whoops.

I did that too. I have no regrets.

If I was presented with that choice in real life, I would have done the same. I am still human, modsbannit. I can't allow someone I love to die to help a bunch of other people.

 

[Spirultima]

Mine is for Mass Effect 1 for when you had a choice to let either

Spoiler

Ashley

or

Spoiler

Kaidan

die. That one took me a while. I hated them both but wasn't sure who I hated more.

 

[vxicepickxv]

Megaton in Fallout 3.

Moira Brown irritates the shit out of me but she sells good stuff ...... to blow up or not to blow up.

Spoiler

Bad news buddy, Moira survives as a ghoul

 

[HT_Black]

Pretty much all of Alpha Protocol, the latter half of FNV (Took a whole 40 hours for me to decide), and the majority of The Witcher 2. Had to apply some real logic for those, tell you what.

 

[ChaosBorne]

basically choosing who to side with in fallout new-vegas, my first character basically had been all over the place, doing quest for every faction, up until the point of no return and i literally could not decide who i should support, took me 2 days to finally take the NCR's side, mostly that was because of Boone though couldn't get myself to seperate from my sniper buddy.

thing is when you get down to it, all sides have their good points and their bad points, no side is "clean" they've all done rather terrible things, Caesar slightly worse then NCR but they just work so much better that i found it hard to just discount them, yes they kept slaves etc. but all the people you talk to who actually live under his rule say there are no raiders in his lands people are safe, they have plenty of supplies, sure they lack certain freedoms but to survive in the fallout universe you'll have to make some sacrifices after all. NCR wasn't exactly an innocent party either, you have something they want and they will simply annex you whether you agree with it or not, also they were trying to do too many things at the same time, spreading themselves out too thin and thus weakening the stability of the region they controlled, drug abuse, raiders, gambling, prostitution etc. all were rampant problems in the NCR. House, well he was kind of an ass but his plans for the region were more about keeping the status quo intact and in the end would probably have a big pay off though it would have meant that nothing noteworthy would change in the near future and people would suffer heavely because of the war between NCR and the legion.

so yeah i found that to be a particularly difficult decision to make, mostly because i could actualyl sympathise with all parties, which i feel just goe to show what superb writing went into the game, while yes Caesar was the slightly more "evil" choice House the "neutral" choice and the NCR the "good" choice they never felt so stereotypically clear-cut.