Poll: Best Mass Effect Moral Conundrum
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The rachni queen was no trouble at all for me. The second she asked to be freed i wanted to do that.loc978 said:
The Geth Heretics was also less of a problem for me. Yes I brainwashed them so the followed the rest of the geth again. Why did i do that. When the geth became sentient the Quarian wre using them as worker/slaves mostly they wanted more then that. In the end the Geth won. Now there comes a reaper promising them something. Some Geth believe that (in end end start to worship the reaper(old gods) what gets the reaper very annoyed). So in the end the heretic Geth end up as more or less fighting slaves for the reapers. The one thing they fought for against the Quarians they forfeited when joining the reapers.
Most trouble for me was the reaper/collector's base
Destroy/Rewrite the Geth?
The only thing you're doing is reverting them to their original state- Saren corrupted them.
I'm personally all about the Ashley/Kaiden choice.
Sure, Kaiden was useless/stupid but having to let him die seriously pissed me off. I'd restarted the whole mission just to get the persuasion skill required to save Rex, then iJust have to let Kaiden die?
The only thing you're doing is reverting them to their original state- Saren corrupted them.
I'm personally all about the Ashley/Kaiden choice.
Sure, Kaiden was useless/stupid but having to let him die seriously pissed me off. I'd restarted the whole mission just to get the persuasion skill required to save Rex, then iJust have to let Kaiden die?
I had the same initial reaction, but then had a niggling little doubt claw its way up to the surface.D Moness said:
What if she's lying? What are the possible repercussions?
Even assuming she's not... what if, despite her best intentions, her children expand beyond her control and the Rachni wars happen again?
...In the end, I pushed the doubt back down, not wanting to be party to finishing the genocide that the Krogan started.
...but that doubt is still there...
Save Destroy Reaper Base both had something to gain and lose and its the choice that I most feel will effect ether choice with both a distinct positive and negative later on.
Worst is Mordith/Samara, I can't think of a single logical reason to take the sex death serial killer that you have to lie to your whole crew about over someone of equal power that has already proven trustworthy.
Worst is Mordith/Samara, I can't think of a single logical reason to take the sex death serial killer that you have to lie to your whole crew about over someone of equal power that has already proven trustworthy.
Well it depends whether you have one as your love interest. If you pick that one, it's a selfish choice of letting one person die because you're boning the other, but if you don't then you have to live with the guilt that you killed your lover.Sharalon said:
I dunno... I liked them all, don't know which is my fav. They all had their comedic moments, kinda like playing god without being insanely powerful. That being said I have 4 characters: 2 male, 2 female, with each one having paragon and the other renegade. Although I'll admit that I never gave it much thought, because I thought it wouldn't really matter(most games just brush it aside like it never happened when a sequel comes out). I'm glad the second game showed that they do.
Thats what I thought too, less about "What is right and wrong in this situation" and more "Whom are you planning on boneing". Or maybe that was just me.Sharalon said:
I voted Geneophage. I was a Paragon on my first playthrough, so I voted to keep it, but i'm still torn. It could really go either way if the Krogan had opportunity to expand again, and there would be an unbelievable amount of hate to the other species.
I really liked how ME1 seemed to be arguing anti geneophage with Wrex having the strongest opinion, and ME2 had Mordin making his points (It was a nice touch how he freely admitted the other species culpability in causing the problem, and he didn't have any genuine hate for the Krogan).
Save/Destroy the Rachni. On the one hand, i didn't want to be responsible for genocide, on the other, have you seen how tough they are to defeat? Btw, saving Ash/Kaiden was the easiest. Ash was obviously a racist (Well, racist against Asari) and she was getting in the way of me and Liara.
My problem is i do not wanna be responsible for the extinction of any species if it is avoidable. Yes they are potentially a very dangerous species(so is the krogan) but why judge(and sentence to death) a sentient being for something that happened before it was even born. I believe in second chances.loc978 said:
i think they kinda ruined the whole thing by having paragon or renegade points awarded for each decision, i mean how is it morally ambiguous if you clearly say, this will give you good points and this bad. otherwise id have to say the geth heretic decision in the second one, followed closely by ash/kaidan and then save or not save the council (I actually let the pompous assholes die first time around and in the second game i saved them so they'd reinstate me)
I thought that the decision wether you should keep or destroy the Collector base was a pretty hard decision. Keeping it would surely help alot in fighting the Reapers when they come, and you know they are coming, but you dont know what the illusive man really will use it for. Destroying the base would surely make it alot harder to defeat the reapers, but you wouldnt sacrifice the soul of the human race. That was definitly the hardest decision for me to make, because you know there is going to be a third game, and you know the decisions you make in ME2 will have an impact in ME3.
I'd say the Reaper base at the end of Mass Effect 2 made me think for the longest. However, the difficulty of the choice is due to the unknown repercussions which will presumably shape Mass Effect 3.
I mean, all things considered it's much better to save the facility, and yet for some reason they made that a moral decision when there was no believably good excuse not to keep the facility. Supposedly it's now in the hands of Cerberus, but Shepherd knows where it is, and undoubtedly the Systems Alliance has the power to take control of it. Just all round a dumb idea. But the choice is perplexing.
I mean, all things considered it's much better to save the facility, and yet for some reason they made that a moral decision when there was no believably good excuse not to keep the facility. Supposedly it's now in the hands of Cerberus, but Shepherd knows where it is, and undoubtedly the Systems Alliance has the power to take control of it. Just all round a dumb idea. But the choice is perplexing.
For me, going against the awesome elusive man (who really, is just Martin Sheen in his early 50s, let's be honest, that's why he's so awesome). Wow, only 4th most hardest choice.
There are heaps of great decisions in the poll, but most of them I was just 'yep, easy choice'.
1. Save Rachni
2. Save Ashley (Kaiden is just annoying, never used him)
3. Abandon the council, this one doesn't really seem like one to mull over, I just thought, if I do that, then something else might be neglected, so 'there's no time!'.
4. Always Dissuade Garrus.
5. Rewrite. It's amazing how big a deal people made of this (it was even mentioned in an Extra Credit episode, go look it up, it's pretty good analysis)
6. Save genophage work (it has been about a year now, but I think saving it was the one that would help cure the genophage, which ever one seemed to do that at the time, which I'm guessing was 'Save').
7. Don't even remember, probably save Samara, she sounds like the good one.
So 8. Really annoyed me, since I could either go 'With IM and Renegade' or 'Against IM and Paragon'. Unless I'm wrong and the decision to destroy or not is just a choice, what do others think?
There are heaps of great decisions in the poll, but most of them I was just 'yep, easy choice'.
1. Save Rachni
2. Save Ashley (Kaiden is just annoying, never used him)
3. Abandon the council, this one doesn't really seem like one to mull over, I just thought, if I do that, then something else might be neglected, so 'there's no time!'.
4. Always Dissuade Garrus.
5. Rewrite. It's amazing how big a deal people made of this (it was even mentioned in an Extra Credit episode, go look it up, it's pretty good analysis)
6. Save genophage work (it has been about a year now, but I think saving it was the one that would help cure the genophage, which ever one seemed to do that at the time, which I'm guessing was 'Save').
7. Don't even remember, probably save Samara, she sounds like the good one.
So 8. Really annoyed me, since I could either go 'With IM and Renegade' or 'Against IM and Paragon'. Unless I'm wrong and the decision to destroy or not is just a choice, what do others think?