10 Pointless Video Game Endings You Unlocked Anyway

6: Morinth Kills You - Mass Effect 2

Mass Effect 2 Morinth
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I’m just going to say it, if you picked Morinth over Samara in Mass Effect 2 there’s no way you didn’t roll the dice on the whole ‘don’t bone her, she’ll kill you’ thing and give it a shot anyway.

This might be a pointless way to go for Commander Shepard in your heroic fight against the Reapers but if you’ve got a soft spot for psychopathic Asari with rare genetic disorders that cause them to kill their mates while hooking up, then you might have decided to kill off her mother and take her aboard instead. She tells you not to worry and you’ll totally be able to get with her and live but she’s absolutely lying and hooking up with this particular shipmate is a fast track to getting a Critical Mission Failure screen that ends your game.

Amusing, but not so helpful for the galactic cause.

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