Video Game Decisions That Haunt You (Spoilers Present)

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**CthuluIsSpy**

Manchu wrote:
I regret serving Namira. ):

But I do it every playthrough. P:

How could you regret serving Namira?
Think of all the sweet Hannibal Lector impressions you could be doing

**Avatar 720**

I regret killing Legate Rikke. Whilst it was unavoidable due to her decision to fight against Stormcloak rule, I can't help but feel sorry that she could not be made to see reason.

That said, on my Empire character, I most certainly do not regret beheading Galmar at the very start of the fight against him and Ulfric, with my very first swing. It flew off and landed in one of the bowls on the table in the middle of the throne room.

**thenoobbomb**

Iur_tae_mont wrote:
The quest in Skyrim involving the Alikir.

No matter what way I do, I always feel like I did the wrong thing.

Since I'm roleplaying as a Thalmor, I killed the Aliker and then killed the redguard wife too.
Never have any of the two remain.
Never.
But aye, I sacrificed Lydia to the Daedra Gods too.
Sheogorath actually. With a sweetroll.

**CthuluIsSpy**

thenoobbomb wrote:
Iur_tae_mont wrote:
The quest in Skyrim involving the Alikir.

No matter what way I do, I always feel like I did the wrong thing.

Since I'm roleplaying as a Thalmor, I killed the Aliker and then killed the redguard wife too.
Never have any of the two remain.
Never.
But aye, I sacrificed Lydia to the Daedra Gods too.
Sheogorath actually. With a sweetroll.

Wabbajack?

**thenoobbomb**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
thenoobbomb wrote:
Iur_tae_mont wrote:
The quest in Skyrim involving the Alikir.

No matter what way I do, I always feel like I did the wrong thing.

Since I'm roleplaying as a Thalmor, I killed the Aliker and then killed the redguard wife too.
Never have any of the two remain.
Never.
But aye, I sacrificed Lydia to the Daedra Gods too.
Sheogorath actually. With a sweetroll.

Wabbajack?

No.
A very special weapon called a 'follower'

Automatically Appended Next Post:
I also threw around cabbages.

**CthuluIsSpy**

thenoobbomb wrote:
CthuluIsSpy wrote:
thenoobbomb wrote:
Iur_tae_mont wrote:
The quest in Skyrim involving the Alikir.

No matter what way I do, I always feel like I did the wrong thing.

Since I'm roleplaying as a Thalmor, I killed the Aliker and then killed the redguard wife too.
Never have any of the two remain.
Never.
But aye, I sacrificed Lydia to the Daedra Gods too.
Sheogorath actually. With a sweetroll.

Wabbajack?

No.
A very special weapon called a 'follower'

Automatically Appended Next Post:
I also threw around cabbages.

How did you turn Lydia into a sweetroll to give to Sheogorath then?

**thenoobbomb**

It was inside breezehome. I also threw in a copy of the lusty argonian maid by the way.

**CthuluIsSpy**

thenoobbomb wrote:
It was inside breezehome. I also threw in a copy of the lusty argonian maid by the way.

Oh, you mean you just pushed Lydia into that health hazard of a fire that some genius decided to install in the middle of the room.

**thenoobbomb**

Absolutely.

**The CF**

@everyone who responded to my previous post:

The thing is, she'd often wander away only to be back 20 minutes later, so I wasn't too worried. Until about 30 minutes later, when she still hadn't come back.
I'd always reload to let her live. But it was too late, my savefiles from before her death were overwritten. I felt so stupid.
I spent an hour dragging her around to find her a proper resting place for her final rest.
I was really quite attached to her.

**PredaKhaine**

I went home on skyrim. There was a man in the house, talking to my gamewife (Myoll the lioness). I butchered him in the alchemy cupboard, but the wife found him (no Idea how - it not like she tidies up or anything) and for some strange reason, wouldn't talk to me. I re-loaded my save. He is going to die again. Any suggestions? - Be as evil/inventive as possible - He's getting right on my nerves. He's ALWAYS in my house.

But back on topic - does anyone ever feel bad for killing tramps/randoms etc while you wander round on skyrim?
I'm not being haunted by major characters deaths, but the little people I've stepped on.
For example
I met a man outside a cave. He had a gammy leg and said his cave had been invaded by spiders. I killed the spiders. Then he only gave me about 5p for my trouble. To amuse myself, I wore his clothes on the way home.

Spoiler:

**LordofHats**

PredaKhaine wrote:
I went home on skyrim. There was a man in the house, talking to my gamewife (Myoll the lioness). I butchered him in the alchemy cupboard, but the wife found him (no Idea how - it not like she tidies up or anything) and for some strange reason, wouldn't talk to me. I re-loaded my save. He is going to die again. Any suggestions? - Be as evil/inventive as possible - He's getting right on my nerves. He's ALWAYS in my house.

This is Aerin who you should remember as Mjoll's ever faithful companion from Riften (he saved her life) and is always with her. No matter where Mjoll goes he follows be it to your house or even to the Blades should you recruit Mjoll as a member (he dies insanely fast cause he'll follow her to a dragon fight has no armor and level caps at 10). As far as I know there's no way to be rid of him. Might be a mod for it idk.

Here you go: "Stop Being a Creepy Stalker Aerin" the Mod

**PredaKhaine**

I don't remember him - I had a large gap between plays. But I did get myself to level 41 on space marine.

Thanks for the link, but I'm on PS3

I might just kill them both. I'm sure they are having an affair

**Dr H**

PredaKhaine wrote:
I went home on skyrim. There was a man in the house, talking to my gamewife (Myoll the lioness). I butchered him in the alchemy cupboard, but the wife found him (no Idea how - it not like she tidies up or anything) and for some strange reason, wouldn't talk to me. I re-loaded my save. He is going to die again. Any suggestions? - Be as evil/inventive as possible - He's getting right on my nerves. He's ALWAYS in my house.

But back on topic - does anyone ever feel bad for killing tramps/randoms etc while you wander round on skyrim?
I'm not being haunted by major characters deaths, but the little people I've stepped on.
For example
I met a man outside a cave. He had a gammy leg and said his cave had been invaded by spiders. I killed the spiders. Then he only gave me about 5p for my trouble. To amuse myself, I wore his clothes on the way home.

Spoiler:

I actually do feel slightly bad for beheading him, but it serves him right for being tight/skint.

That man is a close personal friend of Mjoll. He saved her life. I'm pretty sure he makes his way back to Riften once a day. If you follow him (don't take Mjoll with you) and wait until you're well clear of Whiterun and then you can kill him in the wilderness and she never finds out. I'm sure that's what I did when I married Mjoll.

As for little people, I do feel bad about killing them so I tend not to. I'll pick their pockets instead, they should feel lucky to be alive. And if they have a key to a house, I'll find the house and clear it out (you can find some interesting things like that).

Going back to the Lydia thing. I never got that attached to her. Her job is to defend my home and the tons of stuff I have collected there. I usually take Aranea Ienith as a follower as she casts spells and so stays out my way and I don't kill her by accident.
The main trouble I find with followers is them stepping on traps just as you are half way through them. I spend a great deal of time leading them carefully around pressure plates etc...

The worst follwer I had was Illia. She was fine until I did the companions quest and she automatically left my service. She then proceeded to wander off and get lost with all the stuff I had her carrying. I eventually found her (days later) swimming in a lake in the middle of nowhere. I retrieved her, took all my stuff back and killed her for stealing my stuff.
I then felt bad about killing her and laid her out next to the lake on the grass as if she was sunbathing. I came across her later on and thought to myself "maybe I shouldn't have killed her".

**PredaKhaine**

You've married Mjoll too?! The hussy!

**Dr H**

PredaKhaine wrote:
You've married Mjoll too?! The hussy!

Lol. You can add to that lesbian and a fur fetish...
One of my incarnations did. Not the first though. My first was Ysolda, she's a good wife.

**Conrad Turner**

The one that haunts me at the moment is probably because I have just started playing ME3 and Ash is such a hotty.

So I feel like a real heel having bedded Miranda in ME2 when Ash just wouldn't talk to me. Bet that's going to bite me in the ass any time now!

P.S. Galdos, I got through with Thane alive in ME2 most times I played, just make sure you completed his loyalty mission and then it depends on who you choose to do what.

**Galdos**

Conrad Turner wrote:
The one that haunts me at the moment is probably because I have just started playing ME3 and Ash is such a hotty.

So I feel like a real heel having bedded Miranda in ME2 when Ash just wouldn't talk to me. Bet that's going to bite me in the ass any time now!

P.S. Galdos, I got through with Thane alive in ME2 most times I played, just make sure you completed his loyalty mission and then it depends on who you choose to do what.

Oh.... um. Finish the game and reply back to me later...

Ya I never lost Thane in ME2, I dont suffer any casulties in ME2, its kind of easy to do. Like you said, just do the loyalty missions and use common sense.

I was loyal to Ashley in my playthrough so I never had an issue (much to the confusion of my friends. They couldnt understand why i wouldnt sleep with Miranda/Tali) It all depends on what you say to her. In my playthrough she immediately replied apologizing for how aggressive she was on Horizon and said she wish me the best.

**Alfndrate**

Allowing the Geth to live in Mass Effect 3... I thought what I was choosing would be a harmonious choice, netting me more people for my fight against the reapers...

I'm still haunted by that choice :( I cried...

**Galdos**

Alfndrate wrote:
Allowing the Geth to live in Mass Effect 3... I thought what I was choosing would be a harmonious choice, netting me more people for my fight against the reapers...

I'm still haunted by that choice :( I cried...

My friend had this happened to him also. I was so confused, I was able to convince them to work together and I was talking with him about it and he was like "Ya I lost all of the Qurians... I fethed up"

Oh well lol, Im glad I never made that mistake

**Asherian Command**

LordofHats wrote:
I just had a conversation with my friends about creepy things that happen in video games and it eventually became a talk about really messed up decisions that can be made in video games that will haunt you for the rest of your life.

1. (Mass Effect) Who Lives? Kaden or Ashley? Really. This one will haunt you through two sequels and for those of us who were there 5 years. I honestly can't think of a better example because it literally follows you through the series even after having to figure out which of the two you hated the least and didn't mind letting die when both are viable candidates (/joke).

2. (Knights of the Old Republic) Going dark side in the end. Between all the insane horrible things you can do this one is pretty mess up as far as decisions can go.

3. (Dragon Age: Origins) Killing the Arl's son. I have a friend who jumped right at this. He just killed the kid and we have never let him live it down so this one is a little more personal for him because we still bring up how he killed the child

4. (Skyrim) Killing Parthenax. This one was a huge middle finger to anyone who actually liked both Delphine AND Parthenax (me) and was then forced into a position of having to choose which of them you preferred not dying/kicking you out of their club. Also a mention to the Civil War storyline which is kind of a mind screw between the racists revolutionary and the crumbling imperial power.

5. (Pokemon Red and Blue) Picking Charmander. Cause the first two gyms are gonna make you their , especially the first one.

6. (XCOM: Enemy Unknown) For all those times you sent a soldier forward only to see them get gunned down by over watch fire from an enemy you didn't even know was there. Praise to the Iron Men on this one.

HM (League of Legends). Face checking. Don't do it because your team sure as hell won't let you live it down

Who else has some?

I find your missing of the that infamous scene in Specs Ops the line when you...

Spoiler:

**Conrad Turner**

Galdos wrote:
Alfndrate wrote:
Allowing the Geth to live in Mass Effect 3... I thought what I was choosing would be a harmonious choice, netting me more people for my fight against the reapers...

I'm still haunted by that choice :( I cried...

My friend had this happened to him also. I was so confused, I was able to convince them to work together and I was talking with him about it and he was like "Ya I lost all of the Qurians... I fethed up"

Oh well lol, Im glad I never made that mistake

My playthrough happened the other way round. I lost the Geth and saved the Quarians. I think it was down to not having had a high enough enough paragon rating to have used the paragon option after both their loyalty missions back in ME2. Other than that, I think I did pretty well. I got back with Ash, had something happen with Liara, and saved just about everyone else. Still consider it a major failure not to have brought peace to all the races before the end though.

Now I can't wait to go through again with some of my other characters and try some different choices.