History Quotes / KarmaMeter

->''"There are only two endings, a good one and a bad one, and the extreme contrast between them is rather jarring. In the good ending you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom. In the bad ending you're a hybrid of Hitler and [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] whose very piss is pure liquid malevolence. I'm tired of games that claim to give you choice but [[NoPointsForNeutrality it only really comes down to]] either Mother Teresa or [[EatsBabies baby eating]]. I'm just saying that a little middle ground would be nice [[[RefugeInAudacity shows a picture of]] [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Mother Teresa eating a baby]]]."''

-> SAVE KITTY — '''OR''' — CANNIBALIZE YOUTHS

-> Look, if you have two equally viable, equally difficult solutions to a problem, say: humanely suffocating your dying wife with a pillow or slowly cutting through to her femoral artery with a cheese grater, then the evil option ([[CaptainObvious which if you're having trouble keeping up is the second one]]) is [[StupidEvil just irrational]], and you can't relate to a character whose actions don't make any fucking sense!
-->--'''Ben "[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]" Croshaw''', reviewing ''VideoGame/{{Infamous 2}}''

-->--'''[[Webcomic/PennyArcade Tycho Brahe]]''', on inFamous.

-> ''"Real choices, the kind you get in real life where the consequences completely change the trajectory of every event that follows, will never be practical in video games. It costs enough to program a full-length game that will keep you entertained throughout. They're not going to program the equivalent of 10 or 20 games just to give you a whole bunch of branching paths that 90 percent of gamers will never see since they'll only play through once."''\\
-- '''[[http://www.cracked.com/article/190_5-plot-devices-that-make-good-video-games-suck/ 5 Plot Devices That Make Good Video Games Suck]]''', ''[[Website/{{Cracked}} Cracked.com]]''

-> SAVE KITTY -- '''OR''' -- CANNIBALIZE YOUTHS

'''Scientist:''' "Like right now. You have the choice to shoot me, or -- get this -- to '''not''' shoot me. Think about that for one second."\\

->''"So, just to keep track of this, random attack on innocent citizens: not evil at all, [[ThouShallNotKill as long as they don't die]]; killing a cop who's shooting at you, well, you are Satan's best buddy!"''

->''"There are only two endings, a good one and a bad one, and the extreme contrast between them is rather jarring. In the good ending you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom. In the bad ending you're a hybrid of Hitler and [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] whose very piss is pure liquid malevolence. I'm tired of games that claim to give you choice but it only really comes down to either Mother Teresa or [[EatsBabies baby eating]]. I'm just saying that a little middle ground would be nice [[[RefugeInAudacity shows a picture of]] [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Mother Teresa eating a baby]]]."''

->"So, just to keep track of this, random attack on innocent citizens: not evil at all, [[ThouShallNotKill as long as they don't die]]; killing a cop who's shooting at you, well, you are Satan's best buddy!"

->''"There are only two endings, a good one and a bad one, and the extreme contrast between them is rather jarring. In the good ending you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom. In the bad ending you're a hybrid of Hitler and [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Skeletor]] whose very piss is pure liquid malevolence. I'm tired of games that claim to give you choice but it only really comes down to either Mother Teresa or [[EatsBabies baby eating]]. I'm just saying that a little middle ground would be nice [shows a picture of [[RefugeInAudacity Mother Teresa eating a baby]]]."''

->''"There are only two endings, a good one and a bad one. In the good ending you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom. In the bad ending you're a hybrid of Hitler and Skeletor whose very piss is pure liquid malevolence. I'm tired of games that claim to give you choice but it only really comes down to either Mother Teresa or [[EatsBabies baby eating]]. I'm just saying that a little middle ground would be nice [shows a picture of [[RefugeInAudacity Mother Teresa eating a baby]]]."''

-->--'''[[PennyArcade Tycho Brahe]]''', on inFamous.

-- '''5 Plot Devices That Make Good Video Games Suck''', ''[[Website/{{Cracked}} Cracked.com]]''

-->--'''Ben "[[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]" Croshaw''', reviewing ''VideoGame/BioShock''

-->--'''Ben "[[WebOriginal/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]" Croshaw''', reviewing ''VideoGame/BioShock''

-- '''5 Plot Devices That Make Good Video Games Suck''', ''[[{{Cracked}} Cracked.com]]''

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-->--'''Ben "[[ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee]]" Croshaw''', reviewing ''BioShock''

->''"There are only two endings, a good one and a bad one. In the good ending you're a virtuous flower child with love and a smile for all the shiny-coated beasts of God's kingdom. In the bad ending you're a hybrid of Hitler and Skeletor whose very piss is pure liquid malevolence. I'm tired of games that claim to give you choice but it only really comes down to either Mother Teresa or baby eating. I'm just saying that a little middle ground would be nice [shows a picture of Mother Teresa eating a baby]."''

'''Scientist:''' "Like right now. You have the choice to shoot me, or - get this - to '''not''' shoot me. Think about that for one second."\\

-->--A ''DeusEx: Invisible War'' fancomic

->''"It seems as though the floodgates are beginning to creak open on inFamous, including the revelation of "Karma Moments" - a tracked morality system with effects on player progression. It wasn't meant to be funny, but for some reason we found it very funny, because like many mechanisms of this kind your choices tend to come down to being an omnibenevolent supercherub or the Goddamned devil."''