Many games talk about moral choices in there games. Black and White but then they promise us to have some gray choices. This usually turns out to be false and there still white and black. But some games really do have those few choices there are gray but are to far inbetween. I put my heart and soul into playing video games and get deeply involved with each charcter and there relationships by putting myself in there shoes. A few games that come to mind and there situations are Heavy Rain, Infamous, Bioshock, Fallout 3, and Mass Effect.
Heavy Rain i was deeply involved with all the charcters. There a scene in the game were you have to kill a man in order to save your sons life. as the gun fight ensues in the apartment the man you have to kill runs out of ammo and starts begging for his life. he shows you a picture of his two children and the fact that your in there room. Do you kill the man and get closer to saving your child, and leave two kids with out a father. Or do you show mercy and risk the life of your son. I had no hesitation in this moral choice. I would do anything to save someone i love and if it was my child i will do anything. i would condem millions for people I love. I pulled the trigger as right away
Infamous straight forward game with moral choices of being either good or bad. late in the game it throws you a curve ball. your Girl friend is hanging from a building and on the other building the life of six doctors who can save many lives. sounds like that scene from spiderman where the goblin gives him a choice but he maages to save both. this is not the same and you can only save one. again six lives for one. Two wrongs dont make a right but two negatives make a positive. that being said life isn't math and theres no way to measure human life. I went for my girlfriend as i would in real life. when you finally get there it was a trick. you saved one person and still condemed six people along with your girl friend.
Bioshock, when i played this game it was on hard and i didnt care about achivement points and stuff like that. When you first find a little sister i remeber having to choices harvest or save. i Walked slowly to her in a serial killer kind of way, not to scare her but to think. im playing on hard i could use some power like right now. but i decided to suffer to save her and all the little sister. i evetually realized that this makes you stronger. win win i guess. i sleep better at night and my character becomes stronger.
Fallout 3 i played it morally good the first time but theres one part i always do evil and thats at tenpeeny tower. i don't like being lied to or doing hard work for someone to betray me. i helped the gouls only for them to kill everyone in the tower. now i kill them every time with the weapon of choice being a falmethrower. I also like to work for the slavers but the people who i make slaves are bad people anyways like raiders and enclave soliders.
Mass effect lots of moral choices but the best one was in the dlc Brinning down the sky. you fight a group of Batarian terrorist and when you finally get to the boss he says im walking out of here and if you try and stop me ill kill the hostages. its funny how he thought that would work on me. i Told him to go ahead but hes next. after the gun fight i shot him twice then arrested him. justice served.
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