7 Agonising Decisions With Secret Third Options

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  @EmperorSeth · 2 years ago

  Fallout 3 had one of the most infamous of these. The base game ended with "Kill yourself by radiation exposure," "kill your friend by radiation exposure," or "wait too long to decide and then everyone dies." It's only after you get the post-game DLC that the option "take the totally reasonable choice of letting one of your radiation-immune companions save everyone and NOT die of radiation exposure," became available. Though it also turned "kill yourself" to "take a long nap by radiation exposure," so it's a somewhat moot point.

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  @Alucard-A-La-Carte · 1 year ago

  The line "Once I'm a god, I'm sending you straight to Hell" is still ingrained on my brain because it was THE COOLEST line I'd ever heard spoken out loud as a kid when I first heard it. The fact that it was the "path to good ending" definitely left an impression too.

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• RY

  @ryanernst2071 · 2 years ago

  Ellen: how many other games have underground heliports? <br><br>Me on my 30th Skyrim playthrough: worth checking out

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  @LoriasGS · 2 years ago

  In Dragon Age Origins there&apos;s one to save Conner a possessed child. The 2 options you&apos;re presented are kill the child or sacrifice his mother in a blood magic ritual to enter the fade and get the demon out of his body.<br><br>Or if you ask if there&apos;s another way to enter the fade twice someone will mention you could just go to the mages tower and ask them for help. That way they both live and apparently it was fine to leave the possessed child alone for however long it took to get to the tower and back.

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  @NerdOManyThings · 2 years ago

  In Assassin&apos;s Creed: Odyssey there&apos;s a side quest called &quot;Dagger to the Heart&quot; where a gang is holding 2 people hostage, and asks you which shld be spared. You can pick either of them, or say that you refuse to choose. Unfortunately, refusing to pick just gets them both killed. However, if you had instead snuck up on the area from behind without getting close enough to trigger the cutscene, you can kill all the gang members with a bow and save them both (there&apos;s a special cutscene if you manage this, so the developers were prepared for it!)

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  @anarky1765 · 2 years ago

  There is another one of these in New Vegas. When you’re helping the doctor in Jacobstown work on a cure for Nightkin brain damage, your initial options are to either let him keep testing a Stealth Boy Mk II on Lily, the lovable grandmotherly Nightkin who can become your companion, to study its effects despite the likelihood of it totally rotting her brain, or tell him to stop his research, saving Lily but denying all Nightkin a cure. Or if your Science skill is high enough, you can give him an idea for an alternate, guilt-free substitute for a Nightkin brain to study, letting him complete his research and saving Lily.

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• ZA

  @ZackRToler · 2 years ago

  I like the Nomad ending of Cyberpunk2077 myself. Riding off away from Night City, with a newfound family, looking for a way to save your life. It&apos;s idealistic, but there&apos;s chance, and if I fail, I&apos;m surrounded by people that care. Not that there aren&apos;t people that don&apos;t care in Night City

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  @st.anselmsfire3547 · 2 years ago (edited)

  One other weird hidden option in Fallout New Vegas is that you can murder Vulpes Inculta the first time you meet him. The game actually replaces him with a guy named Alerio, who you can also kill on the spot. Alerio also has a replacement, and you can kill him, too. It&apos;s hilariously cathartic. <br>And, obviously, you can just massacre Cottonwood Cove when you get there.

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  @obiesenpai3869 · 2 years ago

  In Act 3 of Baldur&apos;s Gate 3, Wyll&apos;s patron Mizora lets him know that Gortash is going to kill his father after being crowned Archduke, and gives him a choice: sacrifice his father to break his pact, or stay in his pact to save his father. Since this decision occurs in a camp event, it seems like one of those decisions that has major implications for the rest of Wyll&apos;s arc...<br><br>Except you can just tell Mizora to break the pact, and then go to where Wyll&apos;s father is being held (the Iron Throne), throw some healing potions at him so that he doesn&apos;t die to a bunch of kamikaze crabs, and save both Wyll&apos;s dad and Wyll from his pact.

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• RO

  @RobinDragonryder · 2 years ago (edited)

  Mass Effect 3-saving both the Quarians and the Geth. So much prepwork over 2 games but SO worth it

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  @gorougz9682 · 2 years ago

  In Dark Souls 1 at some point you have to kill your best friend Solaire because he becomes possessed but if you join the Daughter of Chaos covenant you can enter the area where you fight him earlier than normal allowing you to kill the enemy that possesses him before he arrives in the area to avoid him going hollow and having to kill him

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  @lukas8670 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Ah, a sneaky Boarderlands burn barely a minute into the video. the movie must have been beyond awful.

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