Top 20 Most Difficult Decisions in Video Games

what to do what to do welcome to watchmojo.com ache in a videogame these decisions must be choices that the player is forced to make so false choices and decisions that the game ends up making for you will not count you were a specter you were sworn to defend the galaxy then you broke that vow to save yourself number 20 your starter pokemon pokemon red and blue it's an age-old question who do you pick as your starting pokemon this debate has been raging for ages mostly because it boils down to personal preference do you go the fire route and choose adorable little Charmander do you douse fire with water and pick squirtle or do you go with grass and choose Bulbasaur who you pick depends largely on how you want to play the game well that and how cute you find the respective Pokemon to be this choice to find who you were as a child and led to many an argument number 19 Mira's fate Game of Thrones a holdfast in the north can only help this being telltale and this being a video game based on the Game of Thrones world it was quite obvious that there were going to be some hard decisions to make one of the playable characters is Meera Forester who is taken to King's Landing while serving as the handmaiden to Margaery Tyrell at the end of the game you are left with a horrifying choice marry Lord Morgan and sacrifice Tom or face execution so you either marry the man you despised who threatened your life and who took away your power not to mention sacrificing Tom or you die yay no one said Game of Thrones was Chipper [Music] number 18 edge water or botanical lab the outer worlds go down to the geothermal plant reroute power from the botanical district over to us once their power shut down you can have their regulator and be along on your way the toughest choice in the outer worlds comes at the very beginning when you're forced to side with edged water or the botanical lab Edgewater is a total hellhole that is run entirely by a mega corporation is played with deserters and literal plague and is filled with slaves who live in appalling conditions the botanical lab is run by Edgewater deserters who are able to grow their own food by stealing dead bodies from a graveyard to use as fertilizer your ship needs power and in order to get it you need to steal power from either the entire town of Edgewater or the deserters in the botanical lab this choice largely depends on your morals you sympathize with those under oppression or the ones living independently under nefarious means maybe one day Edgewater will have a garden where that cannery once stood you ain't exactly a stranger anymore number 17 Batman or Alfred Batman the tell-tale series then again this wouldn't be the first time I found my courage in a single malt courage for what saying goodbye I'm leaving Bruce once again we have another telltale game and once again we have a really tough decision at the end of season 2 alfred suffers a crisis of faith and decides to leave Batman's employ fearing that their vigilantism is only making things worse then you have the choice to let Alfred go or give up being Batman if you let Alfred go he regrettably bids you farewell and returns to the United Kingdom if you decide to give up being Batman you well you give up being Batman you're choosing between companionship and justice and it's not an easy choice to make I will always be Batman and that will never change I know number 16 Jennifer or Tris The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt consider it a token of our trust now let's begin and behave which er fans will forever remain split on yennefer and tris yennefer of vengerberg has romantic ties to Geralt and is a mother figure to ciri Triss Merigold or marigold the fearless is a close friend of Geralt and held ciri at Kara Morin do you like Jennifer's strong and sometimes belligerent independence and ice-cold personality or do you prefer Trish's sweeter disposition and more traditional heroic tendencies what do you think about Tris taking advantage of Geralt amnesia is yennefer heartless and cold or just a powerful mama bear these are just some of the questions you'll have to grapple with throughout the witcher 3 and know you can't choose both ah well well ladies did quite a number on you number 15 the drug dealer heavy rain take it easy man keep cool Quantic Dream and David cage are well known for their story-driven and choice based video games and heavy rain is arguably the greatest of them all in the games of shark trial Ethan is commanded to kill drug dealer Brad silver in order to save his own son however Brad chose Ethan a picture of his two daughters Sarah and Cindy in a last-ditch attempt to play on Ethan sympathy children he's my girl see guess what Sarah how it works is entirely up to you you can either spare Brad and lose out on the Cologne your son's location or murder Brad to private daughters of a father and score a clue it's a philosophical conundrum for the ages and a brilliant thought experiment in desperation I'm a father too but I have no choice number 14 Kaden or Ashley mass effect the mass effect series is widely known for containing some tough and emotional choices and the first mass effect game contained a doozy with the bomb about to explode you have the choice of saving either Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams choosing Ashley makes for a better story and more satisfying character development but choosing Caden is a good idea if you lack in tech and biotics it's kind of a weak choice in retrospect at least compared to some of the later choices you'll have to make throughout the series but this was really tough at the time we just leave him down there Alenko knew the risks going in he gave his life to save the rest of us number 13 the factions fallout 4 I've lived my life within these walls dedicated to science like every other member of the Institute throughout fallout 4 you'll have the option of joining different factions each faction has their own objectives and belief systems and choosing between them depends on how you want to approach your character and story the Minutemen just want to live peacefully and will side with whoever helps them out the Brotherhood of Steel are a violent faction intent on adhering to pre-war tech and wiping out the since the railroad believes in synth rights and autonomy the Institute are regarded as mysterious villains but aim to restore humanity through scientific advancement fallout 4 asks you what and who to value in times of apocalyptic distress war never changes number 12 Bushido or nor Fire Emblem fates this way [Music] Faith's opens with a killer choice right out the gate the game demands that you choose between your blood relatives of ashido or your foster family of Noir and it's not like one side is inherently evil and the other inherently good nope they are both supportive and loving making your choice all the more difficult once you make your choice the losing family labels you a traitor and you are forced to do battle with them choosing between family is never an easy option especially when it results in violence I see number 11 vault 34 Fallout New Vegas new vegas is a brilliant Fallout game aside from the myriad technical issues and vault 34 remains one of the toughest moral dilemmas in the entire series the gist is that vol 34 is leaking radiation destroying crops and starving the citizens of the wasteland you are tasked with stopping the leak and saving the day the only problem is that vault 34 is still filled with people and stopping the leak would guarantee their deaths you can choose to rescue the inhabitants but this means continued radiation and more intense famine or you can choose to seal the radiation effectively saving the crops but dooming the vault dwellers now that's a moral dilemma if we've ever seen one number 10 choose the dictator Far Cry 4 amita needs to go it's the will of Kira it's the only way it is back here at for more bloodshed the fourth Far Cry game sees you helping the Golden Path overthrow the regime of pagan min there are two important members of the Golden Path soval and Amita sub all wants to conserve karate tradition whereas Amita wants to modernize and bring them into the future if you side with su ball he turns carrot into a bloodthirsty theocracy and cleanses the area by killing dissenters was that forgiveness when you butchered your brothers and sisters you committed crimes against the gods themselves if you side with Amita she turns karate into a totalitarian drug state that conscripts children warriors and murders Bhadra either way both you and karate lose this is a good thing your children will help cannot become a better place number nine love sacrifice or wealth fable - it is a selfless gift your only reward will be the gratitude of Albian love those dearest to you even your faithful dog will be restored to life fable 2 ends with a three-way choice two of them are quite difficult Teresa grants you one of three wishes love sacrifice and wealth for sacrifice you resurrect thousands of people who are killed making the tattered spire but you never see your family again for love your family and dog are resurrected in exchange for the thousands of innocent lives and wealth is 1 million gold coins ok the money choice is kind of silly but still do you want to be remembered as a hero who selflessly resurrected thousands of lives or do you want happiness with your family it's the ultimate battle between selflessness and selfishness and it makes for a true character defining moment number 8 colonel Lambert Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell double agent let me introduce you to our latest problem Jai mikonam inside the compound what is more important to you friendship or duty these are the questions that double agent asks when presenting you with a Lambert conundrum an undercover Fisher is ordered to shoot Colonel Lambert doing so will obviously kill a friend who will maintain your secret position within John Brown's army sparing Lambert and shooting Washington will obviously spare your friend but reveal you as a traitor what is it that you value are you willing to blow the entire mission to spare a single life it's these type of tough moral dilemmas that make spy fiction so tense and exciting [Music] number seven blame and extraction SpecOps the line it was your fault that's what you believe then shoot me too no one ever does Walker grapples with his own conscience after realizing that he created Conrad in an effort to deflect his guilt you are then faced with numerous choices you can live with your atrocities and remain forever shell-shocked and traumatized or you can commit suicide so be it five should you stay alive Walker requests extraction and you are left with yet another choice captain Walker we are here to help but first I need you to lay down your weapon you can choose to relinquish your weapon and embrace rescue or you can fully embrace your evil side become Conrad and attack the convoy how do you react to your blatant war crimes and fatal atrocities how do you view Walker's potential suicide how you choose largely depends on how you view the characters and themes of the story gentlemen welcome to Dubai number six the freedom March Detroit become human we came here to demonstrate peacefully while playing as Marcus you accrued numerous androids to take part in the freedom march however this assembly draws the attention of law enforcement who order you to stop and disperse you are then faced with three options take a stand attack the police or run away if you take a stand numerous androids will die maybe even Marcus but you will gain massive respect from the public attacking the police will obviously cause the public to turn on the androids and choosing to run away it will brand you a coward and the police will fire on the crowd anyway there's no easy way out here and androids will die no matter what you do [Music] number five Chloe or Arcadia Bay life is strange max this is the only way life is strange is another exercise in selfishness and it asks big questions about how far you are willing to go to save the one you love the ending presents you as max with two difficult choices each with widely different outcomes you could use that photo to change everything right back to when you took that picture you can bow to fate go back in time and allow Chloe to be killed by Nathan effectively reinstating the status quo or you can give the finger to both fate and Arcadia Bay and allow the storm to decimate the town will you sacrifice thousands of innocent lives to save one or would you make the ultimate selfless sacrifice by allowing your love to die [Music] number four mankind's fate deus ex there are three endings to Deus Ex and all of them are equally unpleasant the first is the benevolent dictator which sees JC fusing with Helios and ruling earth as an absolute god new Dark Age requires you to initiate the meltdown effectively freeing the world from the Illuminati but initiating a complete technological blackout the third title the invisible hand requires you to trigger the infusion control switch and allow the Illuminati to rule the world the only Indians suggest insinuated do you want to become a computer and rule with omniscient power allow the Illuminati to flourish unopposed or regress civilization yes those are your only options you see why this was so difficult [Music] number three deal or revenge grand theft auto for grand theft auto 4 was a major total departure from Vice City and San Andreas and this was made abundantly clear in its ending to set up the ending Jimi pelourinho asks Nico to help with a lucrative heroin deal in exchange Jaime will pay Miko $250,000 the only problem is that Nico must work with his nemesis Dmitri rascal off do you listen to Roman and make the deal in the hopes of a happier and more prosperous life or do you make things personal and kill Dmitri no matter what you do the results are catastrophic with a certain loved one getting the bullet it's a damned if you do damned if you don't scenario there are no happy endings in Grand Theft Auto 4 number 2 guest or Quarian Mass Effect 3 you want to upload the Reaper code that would make the gift as smart as when the Reaper was controlling them yes but with free will remember how we said that the Mass Effect series contain more difficult decisions than Caden and Ashley yeah this is what we were talking about at the end of priority ranek you are left with the choice to either allow the upload or stop Legion if you allow the upload the Quarian race goes extinct with the destruction of the migrant fleet in turn Holly will commit suicide if you choose to stop Legion the Quarian bombardment will annihilate the Geth there is an option to save both races but this requires a complex set of instructions for the player to follow including choices transferred from Mass Effect 2 it's not easy choosing which race to make extinct imagine that does this unit yes yes 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Published: Sun May 10 2020