Video game decisions that you regret?

First off, this is not a complaint thread about video games that you regret buying. What this is about are the games that let you decide what happens at certain points in the story, and when you regretted those decisions.

There will be spoilers in this thread.

First off, I'll pick an example from a recent game: Deus Ex Human Revolution. In the first mission, I didn't rescue the hostages in the Sarif building, and when we returned from completing the mission, Malik let me have it, which made me regret passing that objective up. But then she talked sympathetically with Jensen about the attack on the lab at the start of the story, which made me feel a little better.

Pritchard, on the other hand, seemed disappointed, or jealous, that the situation was otherwise solved peaceably.

In Fall Out 3, I only nuked Megaton City once just to see the explosion and the aftermath, I immediately reloaded the game to retcon the decision though.

I pretty much always feel kinda bad killing random, innocent NP Cs (or teammates, like in Halo 1), unless they piss me off...

in deus ex, when i slaughtered the base in the 2nd mission.

but i only regretted it after JC was dumb enough to brag about it to a veteran who was tired of pointless killing.

in dragon age origins, when i sided with harrowmont.

but only when i found out bhelan was a good king, and harrowmont was not.

Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask Of The Betrayer: taking a quest-giver's claim that a certain character is a villain at face value. Guess I just didn't expect NWN2 to pull a fast one on me in regards to moral issues.

edited 16th Sep '11 6:37:28 PM by Fluid

getting rex the fiends dogs brain in new vegas

as a diehard dog lover it was sad seeing rex abandon the king to be with the fiends

Playing through Devil Survivor Overclocked for the first time, and I messed up and ended up letting Mari and Keisuke die.

In Oblivion, I completed the Arena questline a certain way; the way where your opponent learns that his father was a vampire or something and completely loses the will to fight, allowing you to have an easy final match. Yeah, I completed the questline, but it was a dirty way of doing it. I can't remember if I reloaded or not...

Killing Shaheed in Saudi Arabia in Alpha Protocol. Sure, it was hilarious, but it locked me out of what I consider to be the second best ending.

Choosing Udina for the Council in Mass Effect 2 just to see what would happen. What an asshole.

Siding with the Cult of Andraste in Dragon Age Origins. Admittably, this was an "evil" playthrough, but the reward is crappy, doing so costs you one of the most useful party members, and the ending slideshow doesn't properly register what happened.

Completing the Genoharadan quests on a Light Side playthrough of the first Knights Of The Old Republic. I wasn't able to remax out my Light Side bar until the endgame and while the rewards were good, they are far from necessary to create an overpowered character*

edited 16th Sep '11 6:55:44 PM by lrrose

Playing through Immortal Defense. Pretty much everything after the 3rd campaign on I regretted, and quite a bit of the stuff before that. And it's an entirely linear game, but the writing was so fantastic that it really impacted me emotionally.

Buying Titan's Quest and the expansion so I could play with my steam friends.

I thought I'd be more interested but I couldn't get hooked...and then they stopped playing a week later.

Despite playing Neutral or Chaotic Good, I have made a few regrettable decisions in Dragon Age...

The one that stung the worst in Origins was choosing not to execute Loghain. I didn't think that Alistair would be happy as a king, so I pursued a different path. The cost? His friendship (or possibly more) with my Warden. Then I read the tropes page for the game and lo and behold, it says that Alistair made a much better king than anyone would have guessed.

Then, I took my brother along into the Deep Roads in Dragon Age II...

I regret my inability to stay away from guides for RPGs for more than a few hours because I don't want to regret any decisions I make.

KOTOR: On my first playthrough I didn't realize Juhani was recruitable, so I killed her. On an optimization level, I regretted trying to make the PC a rifle-user. Switching to a lightsaber after pumping my rifle skills for 75% of the game and having Strength 10 still worked out better than what I'd been doing.

Origins: I regretted listening to Isolde's warning that Connor wouldn't remain passive if I tried to get help from the Circle. Result? One furious Alistair and -34 approval in total. I also regretted putting Harrowmont on the throne (doubly so because I meant to crown the progressive candidate, but I forgot which was which). Then on my latest playthrough (city elf), I thought there was an option to convince Vaughan to give me the forty sovereigns in advance and then kill him then and there anyway. I agree to take the money and next thing I know I'm outside his estate with Shianni still in there and Sorin asking me if we done goofed. Instant reload. Also, romancing Alistair on the run where I go for the Redeemer achievement? Not a good idea.

Mass Effect 2: During the Suicide Mission I regretted not sparing anyone to escort the crew back to the Normandy.

Geneforge 4, mission to retrieve two runaway slaves that have fallen in with a demented cult. One of them was forced to run away by the other one, and gladly returns. The other one wants to stay with the cultists (who don't seem to have a very good survival rate), but can be talked into returning to her owner. When he gives you your reward, he mentions offhandedly that he had to kill her for her disobedience.

Please see the first post - this thread is not for games you regret buying.

For my part, I regret using my starting characters rather than hiring generics in the right classes in my current FFTA 2 playthrough, though I'm not suffering too much as a result.

Not attempting the Biggoron's Sword quest.

The section of the Biggoron's Sword sidequest where you had to get from Zora's Domain to Lake Hylia in like 2 or 3 minutes or so made me quit the original for a while out of frustration, so I didn't mind not bothering with it on my 3DS version playthrough. I might do it when I play Master Quest though.

I found that really easy - you just need to have Epona right by the door so you can climb on her immediately.

Only one I can think of, I gave Varric the shard of the lyrium idol in his personal quest in DAII. That would go badly, and he's too much of a bro to screw over, so I reloaded.

Spoiling the plot of Persona 3 for myself before playing it. Catherine, too. And Persona 4. And...

Not saving at the first time you fight Sniper Wolf.

I end up spoiling the plot of everything, if not beforehand, then before I finish it, too...mostly because I'm really bad at avoiding spoilers.

Fallout 3. Let Roy slaughter Tenpenny Tower. I had already assassinated the guy who would allow the peaceful ending, so it was the only choice left. I didn't know that one shot would matter so much, that point-blank explosion of blood marked *you've gained Good karma!*

I didn't have the heart to keep playing after that.

@Cotton Wolf: That's funny, I thought that was the right thing to do.

Giving Varric a piece of an idol that's known to drive those that possess it mad? That seems like a good idea to you?