10 Secret Ways You Can Turn Bad Video Game Endings Into Good Ones

10. A (Mostly) Bloodless Stalemate - Fallout 4

Fallout 4's story relies heavily on the conflict between the four major factions in the game, and the ending forces you to pick a side to fight for and destroy all of their competition in the process.

Pretty much every final mission in the game culminates with you eliminating the other factions, including any friends and companions you had there. However, there is a secret "path of least resistance" route that has you eliminate only one faction, and funnily enough, it happens when you mess up doing the proper endings.

If you side with the Minutemen and then get thrown out of the Institute before you finish spying on them, the game will bump you straight into the final confrontation with the Commonwealth's boogeymen, skipping the all-out conflict between the factions in Bunker Hill and letting you end the game in a peaceful stalemate, where the Brotherhood, the Railroad, and the Minuteman can coexist without fighting.

This ending is the only way to keep most of your companions alive, even if they work for opposing factions, so if you don't want to make any tough choices, remember to be an awful spy that messes up their job.