10 Video Game NPCs Who Could've Solved EVERYTHING (But Didn't)

10. Fawkes - Fallout 3

The original version of Fallout 3 climaxed on an absolute damp squib, popcorn fart of an ending, with players forced to choose who will enter the irradiated control room and activate a water purifier, saving the local populace albeit at the cost of their own life.

You're given two options - sacrifice yourself or send Sarah Lyons into the control room instead. And yet, this flatly ignores the fact that one of your close companions, Fawkes, is radiation-immune and could easily perform the task by himself without anyone having to die.

If you bring this up to him before making your decision, though, he'll fob you off with the obvious bulls**t excuse that he doesn't want to get in the way of your destiny or whatever, even if it means your death.

It's tough not to watch this play out and assume that Bethesda failed to account for Fawkes while devising this final dilemma, yet following the vocal and justified fan outcry, the Broken Steel DLC finally allowed players to let Fawkes and other radiation-immune companions get their hands dirty instead.