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[Dutchess]

Kaidan or Ashley in ME1. Whether or not to agree with the Dark Ritual in DAO. Sparing Loghain or not.

Whether to side with the vampire courtesans in The Witcher or side with the knight.

[Zeroth Angel]

Spoilers for both Alpha Protocol and The Witcher 2



Alpha Protocol.
Choosing to save hundreds of people or save on person. The choice went so quickly that I almost panicked.

The Witcher 2
The Henselt choice. I was just like Roche angry at him so I eventually made sure he was death and thus acted impulsive. I regretted that choice already seconds later.

Modifié par Wimbini, 14 décembre 2012 - 07:22 .

[Jaison1986]

Fallout new vegas

Destroying or sparing the brotherhood of steel. I didn't wanted to simply slaughter them since there were a few people in there that actually had good intentions, but I knew that they could endanger the life of the wastelanders if I just allowed them to do whatever they wanted.

[stonbw1]

For all the grief the games get (especially the latter games) Fable games have quite a lot of ethical quandries. At the beginning of Fable 3, there is a doozy of an ethical decision.

[happy_daiz]

Who to sacrifice to Boethiah in Skyrim. Dat Ebony Mail.

[Straw Nihilist]

 Ethical decision, what's that? Can I buy it on iTunes?

[Addai]

I seem to have the hardest time with decisions that deprive people of freedom. Slavery and freedom are trigger issues for me, I guess. So I would say, the main quest in Fallout 3 The Pitt gave me quite a hard time, and the decision on whether to preserve the anvil in A Paragon of Her Kind quest in DAO. I also had a hard time keeping my ghoul around in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Jaison1986 wrote...

Fallout new vegas

Destroying or sparing the brotherhood of steel. I didn't wanted to simply slaughter them since there were a few people in there that actually had good intentions, but I knew that they could endanger the life of the wastelanders if I just allowed them to do whatever they wanted.

This.
And Kicking Alistair in favour of Loghain
Also DA:O's ritual choices

[Naughty Bear]

Legatus Arianus wrote...

Jaison1986 wrote...

Fallout new vegas

Destroying or sparing the brotherhood of steel. I didn't wanted to simply slaughter them since there were a few people in there that actually had good intentions, but I knew that they could endanger the life of the wastelanders if I just allowed them to do whatever they wanted.

This.
And Kicking Alistair in favour of Loghain
Also DA:O's ritual choices

Why is it hard to pork Morrigan for your life?

[Swagger7]

Addai67 wrote...
So I would say, the main quest in Fallout 3 The Pitt gave me quite a hard time

You beat me to it!  That was far and away the hardest ethical decision in gaming that I can think of right now. 

Fallout 3 The Pitt Spoilers:

I went in there ready to wipe out the tyrant and then I realized that he was working on a cure for their disease, and that he seemed to have a much better chance of succeeding than the rebels.  Continued slavery with hope for a cure to a horrible unescapable disease, or the freedom to have one generation after another suffer and die?  It took me an entire day IRL to decide, and I eventually sided with the tyrant.  I just wish there was a way to call off the uprising that happened next.  I made sure not to shoot any slaves myself, except in self defense.  Of course, the Raiders still killed them.

Fallout NV spoilers:

On the other hand, I found the big ethical dilemma in Fallout NV to be rather easy.  My first instinct was to take over myself, so I could create a society that was morally superior to the NCR (more fair, more free, etc.).  Then I found out that Mr House was essentially immortal, and that his number one goal was to rebuild civilization and technology, and to built spacecraft to head out and explore.  My first thought was, "This dude is way more qualified than me to run the place.  Besides, even if I did better I'd still die eventually."  So, I loyally served Mr House and served to dampen some of his excesses as much as possible.

[Get Magna Carter]

The Pitt was one that bothered me too - I ended up choosing to leave the status quo unchanged to minimise personal guilt over it.

(On a sidenote - the mass effect 3 Hanar decision was difficult for the wrong reason - the guy trying to save the Hanar was attacked so I used the interrupt to save him so he could continue saving the Hanar believing the alternative was to let him die and doom the Hanar not realising that the interrupt here functioned differently to every other interrupt in the series)

[ReallyRue]

The first time I made the Rannoch choice in ME3. I didn't even know there *was* an option for peace at that point because it didn't come up (I messed up in ME2 by not going full paragon/renegade). So I was forced to choose between the quarians and geth. I agonised over it for a while, and chose the geth in the hopes that the quarians - at least some of them - might retreat. I won't post spoilers, but the conclusion was horrible and two of my favourite characters died. I was distraught for ages until I found out you can get peace, at which point I imported another character that could make it happen.

It might sound as soft as a box of wet kittens, but no other moral game choice has affected me like that before, and before I realised there could be peace, I was considering not playing the game again. I still haven't finished that first playthrough.

Modifié par ReallyRue, 15 décembre 2012 - 08:38 .

[Get Magna Carter]

One difficult moral dilemma I had in Dragon Age 2
Do I grant mercy and spare the life of a mass murderer who just started a civil war?
or
Do I execute my only healer (at that point) making the next few fights much tougher?
(I chose option 2...only just made it to the docks to be reunited with Bethany)

[Nerevar-as]

^ I did the most stupid thing there. I spared Anders, so Sebastian went away, and then kicked anders out of the group because I didn´t want to ever see him again. So in the end I lost both characters instead of one.

[stephee]

Legatus Arianus wrote...

KOTOR II (yesterday).. I was so sad that I had to force that droid technician to give me his permition and leave him to die by exchange, because I didn't have enough money to pay his debt.

Yeah .. then I realized I can smuggle some things (darkside points) and gain some credits to do that.  Some Republic forces died during those missions! lulz

Did you know that you can go back to the ithorians and get the money from them to pay the droid technician?



i think the most difficult choice i remember was in ME2 where you are choosing whether to rewrite the Geth or destroy them.

[StrawberryViking]

For me the hardest decision I have had to make is the Bhelen vs Harrowmont decision in DA:O, to the point that every time I have to make the decision in the playthrough I still have to sit down and seriously think this through.

Do I endorse a kin-slaying usurping douchebag who despite all this is very progressive and erases the caste system and increases interaction with the surface, the cost being a dictatorship, who if he loses he attempts a coup, and if he wins he executes the opponent that gracefully accepts defeat?

Or do I endorse a kind-hearted, loyal and honorable Ned Stark-esque man, who wants to keep the status-quo at the cost of the suffering of all the casteless and the economic collapose of Orzammar? A man who gracefully accepts his loss and is all too accepting of his death sentence?

I always have a bitter taste in my mouth every time I make this decision, but the worst was when I played the dwarf noble and I chose Bhelen. The shock on his face was tangible when I decided to support him.

[DarkDragon777]

You're kidding me, right?

[horacethegrey]

Agreed on the Bhelen/Harrowmont dilemma in Origins. Twas a hard choice to make.

For me, it has to be the Royal Blood quest in The Witcher 2.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

Do I let the angry peasants of Vergen have their way with Prince Stennis, thus ensuring a mob rule mentality that dooms the nobility of Aedirn?

Or do I let him live? Despite the fact that he may be guilty of poisoning Saskia, but having him live ensures Aedirn has a ruler that will keep the peace?

[legion999]

New Vegas: Hard Luck Blues choosing to save some trapped vault dwellers or saving a farm. A relatively minor side quest but it was a tough choice.

[Swagger7]

legion999 wrote...

New Vegas: Hard Luck Blues choosing to save some trapped vault dwellers or saving a farm. A relatively minor side quest but it was a tough choice.

SPOILERS:

You know if you help the farmers they eventually give up anyway?  The NCR expects then to provide too much harvest for too little water.  I always helped the Vault Dweelers anyway.  Farmers can move elsewhere.  It's not worth letting trapped people die just to keep farming.

[Endurium]

Not sure I ever suffered a dilemma in making a game choice. Now, when the game removes choice from the equation (Anders DA2) I get a bit excited...

Modifié par Endurium, 17 décembre 2012 - 06:55 .

[Dave of Canada]

Most decisions in The Walking Dead but I came to accept them afterward when confronted with the ramifications about them.

I'd still say I struggle to order Alistair's execution in Origins.

Becoming a god in NWN2: MOTB.

[mickey111]

I don't consider any decision to be ethically difficult in a game because none of it is real. What is real is "shotgun vs sniper rifle: which should I use and why". When I make a decision the first question I can think of is "what's in it for me?". That been said, I've spent a fair chunk of my time deciding who I want to take along for each mission in Biowares games. Generally chose to cave kaidan on virmire because he has a much greater range of skills than Ash. I've spent many hours in games like New Vegas (with the difficulty increasing project nevada mod) deciding whether or not I want to ditch the trusty shotgun for some new type of gun which could be useful some time in future.