Poll: Best Mass Effect Moral Conundrum

[fdbluth]

Title is self-explanatory as always. Please note that by "best", I mean the choice that you had to mull over for a while, one that truly made you think of what YOU would have done, what the consequences would be, and what others would do in the same situation, rather than thinking what's more beneficial to the gameplay in terms of paragon/renegade points or such.

There were some morality choices that I didn't add, like Zaeed's loyalty mission, because there wasn't room. If you think of another, feel free to write-in options.

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

Ashley vs Kaidan. Although my female adept was romancing Kaidan, giving up Ashley pretty much meant giving up my soldier.

 

[Cheesus333]

The Geth mission prompted a lot more thought for me because it touched on a lot more than its surface suggested, i.e. free will versus biological lives which were at stake.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

To me it was Save Ashley? Or Kaidan? Well, I had romanced Kaidan so I just saved him. Ashely was kinda a ***** to me >_>

 

[jakko12345]

Well I was playing as a paragon, so most of my moral choices were dictated as such. But the only one that really wasn't was Ashley or Kaiden. I'd grown fairly attached to both of them, but chose the kill Ashley on the grounds of her being a complete up-herself *****. That sure showed her a lesson in passively pissing me off (Feelsgoodman)

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Definately the Geth mission. You're either killing them or essentially brain-washing them.

Neither of them take the moral high ground.

 

[AceAngel]

Ace: They kinda had a certain pattern. Killing something will get you Renegade points, while saving/sacrifice (both S-starting-slithering-soloing words) will get your Paragon points. So yeah, real conundrum right there...

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Angel: Well, I wouldn't know...almost all of them made me think the second play through, after I found out of the import to next game function...

Luigi: Aww, I was always nice to everyone...they deserve to live, even if they're a bunch of normal mapped and textures polygons, set in a Cartesian space with XYZ axis and had materials applied to them.

 

[rokkolpo]

Definately the Geth mission. You're either killing them or essentially brain-washing them.

Neither of them take the moral high ground.

I didn't play the game, so let me ask:
What was your decision and how long did you ponder on it?

Because I am extremely interested now. xD

 

[Ryuu Akamatsu]

I think it's better to destroy the geth rather than rewrite them. What you're doing is exactly the same thing as the Reapers do if you rewrite them and who knows what would happen to the Geth after the Heretics resynched with them.

 

[GiantRaven]

The Geth mission simply because I couldn't mull over it for a while. I can't fathom picking the re-write option since I find it such a heinous thing to do that I had to destroy them.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Definately the Geth mission. You're either killing them or essentially brain-washing them.

Neither of them take the moral high ground.

I didn't play the game, so let me ask:
What was your decision and how long did you ponder on it?

Because I am extremely interested now. xD

Not that long, maybe 30 seconds, but it's definately not as clear cut a paragon/renegade choice as most of the other missions.

I have both a renegade and paragon Shepard, so I was gonna do the evil/good choice respectively, but I actually thought about them first.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

Honestly I love Mass Effect, but it just wasn't engrossing enough for any of the decisions to need mulling over.

 

[MasterChief892039]

I never felt any sort of moral conundrum playing Mass Effect. Your choice is dictated by whether you prefer to pick a blue track of dialogue or a red track, not by what you personally think is the right option.

 

[Murais]

The Krogan in general are the best moral conundrum in Mass Effect, IMO. The genophage is an immoral, extreme, and repressing imposition on the basic rights and freedoms of the Krogan people. On the other hand, it might be the only thing keeping Krogan clans from wiping out the galaxy due to a cultural heritage towards violence and conquest.

Oh so difficult. I love Wrex, but man, his friends don't play nice.

 

[ZombieHunter]

Are you fricking kidding me? The only real choice I faced was the Collector base. I'm a hardcore paragon, foregoing any renegade action, no matter how easy it would make things, but this was a real problem for me. Yeah, this monstrosity was made to create Reapers, but can we use its tech? Do I really trust giving it over to the Illusive Man? Kaiden/Ashley was not a moral choice, Rachni was easy, Geth was easy, you need more allies! This was troubling to me, more than any other decision by far.

 

[Xeldrak]

My Vanguard was romacing Ashley...but reciting Walt Whitman in bed? That was her death-sentence...

 

[Hauer]

Genophage. Wrex is my favourite ME character and that was easily the choice that made me think about it the most.

 

[themyrmidon]

Re-writing or destroying the heretics, the age-old battle of destruction of soul vs destruction of being.

 

[Irridium]

I'd say the Geth one.

Brainwash sentient beings, or destroy them. Damn that was a toughie.

The saving/destroying the base could have been a good one. But Bioware painted it as a completely and utterly bad option. Which I thought was stupid.