10 Bad Video Game Choices That Are Secretly The Best Option
When you choose to get lemons and life gives you lemonade anyway.
Video games allow you to make your own choices, but some are clearly better than others. Between saving the day and falling flat on your face, it’s obviously the former you’re going to choose. However, this is where some video games may surprise you.
Although a choice might be presented as an easy case of picking the good or the bad, choosing the less favorable option can turn out to have a better outcome in the long run.
It may seem like you’re shooting yourself in the foot at first, but as the story unfolds, you quickly realize you’ve made the right, if not the best, possible choice!
Whether it’s agreeing to let someone gauge out your eye, saying obscenities to an armed guard, or refusing to save an important character, the following choices don’t really seem appealing at first glance, but secretly, they are the correct answer to your conundrum. You just have to take a leap of faith, and they will surprise you with something amazing!
Of course, not every terrible choice comes with this kind of hidden benefit, so if you want to know when to make the worst choice possible, the following list should help you!
10. Don't Answer Johnny - Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk features several different endings that range from slightly depressing to full-on psychological torment.
The best ending out of all of them is probably the secret one where V decides to storm Arasaka all on their own, and funnily enough (in the gallows humor sort of way), it's unlocked by them pondering if they should commit suicide.
To pick the secret ending, V needs to not make a choice during the final discussion about storming Arasaka with Johnny. This will cause them to consider ending their lives, but if their friendship score with Johnny is high enough, the waiting will also unlock a second option where suicide turns into a suicide mission.
In this choice, V decides to solo the Arasaka forces and blow up the tower, or die in a blaze of glory. What makes this choice special is that the mission that follows is the only permadeath scenario in the game.
If you die, the game will instantly end and deem your attempt a failure, but if you make it to the end, you get the best ending possible, where V foils Arasaka's plans and all of their friends are still alive.
Now that's how you make lemonade out of lemons!