10 Video Game Choices That Seem Important (But Are Actually POINTLESS)
2. No Cancer Or No World Hunger - Saints Row IV
Saints Row games are filled with comical decisions like choosing if you want to use a zombie virus to recruit undead homies, or whether you'd prefer to "punch a dickhead" or "punch a dick in the head."
Despite their nonsensical nature, however, most of these choices come with genuine, gameplay-changing rewards and penalties, like unlocking new characters or losing them forever.
So what does Saints Row IV do? It presents you with one of the greatest choices one could make in the modern world and turns it into a pointless tutorial.
Right at the start of the game, your newly elected president Saint is approached by their second-in-command, Keith David, with a choice—as their first decree, they can either stop world hunger or find a cure for cancer.
Now, the decision feels like the most impactful (if not obviously exaggerated) good deed you can make that could potentially change the whole world in a major way.
However, not only does neither choice provide any bonuses, whichever policy you pick is instantly nullified by the alien invasion that happens a few minutes after the intro.
Typical politicians! Never delivering on their promises!