15 Hardest Choices in Gaming

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7 – Mass Effect 3 – Geth or the Quarians,

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  • Ignoring its rather glaring faults, this decision stood out as an engaging aspect of the game.
  • If you played your cards right throughout the entire game you don’t have to choose which race will be wiped out, but not everyone made those choices.
  • Not only are you choosing between two entire races, but you also have a figure head, a personal and emotional attachment in the way of a squad character behind each choice.
  • If you like both Legion and Tali it’s incredibly difficult to choose between them.

6 – The Witcher 2 – Iorveth or Roche,

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  • The Witcher 2 is full of choices that matter much more than the majority of games out there, including any Bioware game and the pinnacle of all of these choices is the decision to side with Iorveth or Roche.
  • It’s hard to know just how big the consequences are for this choice at the time, I mean most decisions don’t completely change about half of the game’s story and gameplay, yet this one does.
  • However, even when you take out that factor it’s still a hard decision to make, you either choose the person that helped you escape from jail, or the person who has been wronged by the world.
  • On top of that, both people have ingrained prejudices that are completely understandable, neither one is more righteous than the other.

5 – Bastion -The Ending,

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  • Bastion was a phenomenal indie game, one of the best there is and the ending choice is no small contribution to this fact.
  • All through the game you wander through the non-Euclidian wasteland of the land you once called home, you face hardships and go through hell to save what little you can.
  • And then at the end you’re faced with a choice, undo the calamity and face the risk of it all happening again, or moving on, leaving the dead behind.

4 – Metal Gear Solid 1 – The Torture Scene,

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  • This choice is a combination of actual physicality and storyline, Ocelot is torturing you for information and the way you resist the torture is by button mashing like there’s no tomorrow.
  • If you give up the information Meryl will die, if you don’t she’ll live, but it’s not that easy.
  • No one actually enjoys hammering away at a controller button as quick as possible, for some of us it physically hurts to do so, thus making the player want to give in, in a very real sense.

3 – Heavy Rain – Kill the Drug Dealer or Not,

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  • Drug dealers aren’t exactly the pinnacle of humanity, but even still they’re just people trying to make it through life like the rest of us and the drug dealer in this situation is one that has kids and family just like the main character.
  • So when you’re given the choice to murder him in order for a chance of saving your in-game son it’s not exactly easy, I mean if you took the poison in the previous round or a previous playthrough you also know that not everything in this situation is real.
  • But you do know that killing the drug dealer won’t be fake, you know that act of murder is real, which just makes this decision that much harder to make.

2 – inFAMOUS – Save the Doctors or your Girlfriend,

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  • This is a decision much like the one in Fable 2, but it’s more personal than that, you have a choice to save a group of doctors who could help treat, prevent and cure the plague that is going through the city, or to save your girlfriend.
  • So basically this is a choice of saving the city, or saving the one closest to you, not an easy choice to make if you want to be a decent human being.
  • This choice is later cheapened by the fact that no matter which choice you make your girlfriend will die, but that doesn’t make the actual decision any easier if you didn’t already know this beforehand.

1 – Telltale’s The Walking Dead – Pretty Much the Whole Deal

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  • Telltale has nailed the art of making hard decisions, where almost every integral choice you make is one where there’s no ultimate right and wrong.
  • Sure you could argue that saving a young child is better than saving a young adult, but in reality, when both of them are good people with families that will miss them it’s tough to do.
  • Not only that, but they put a very short timer on the decision so that you don’t have the time to look up what decision does what, making it almost impossible to cheat like most other video game decisions, thus making them the hardest choices to make in video games.

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