10 Video Game Heroes That Accidentally Doomed Everyone
5. The Lone Wanderer - Fallout 3
The Fallout series has always been known for its murky morality, so it should come as no surprise that when a quest gives you the option of doing something unambiguously good, there’s good reason to be suspicious.
Arriving at the luxurious Tenpenny Tower, the protagonist the Lone Wanderer finds ghoul Roy Phillips insisting that he and his gang be allowed to move in. Money isn’t the problem, as has Roy plenty of it. No, instead the racist human residents are less than thrilled at the idea of ghoul neighbours, leaving the door firmly shut in Roy’s face.
The player has a number of options, from simply killing the residents, to dealing with the residents’ pest problem by exterminating the ghouls. But you can also take the long, arduous high road by negotiating a truce between the two sides, allowing the ghouls to move in and live peacefully alongside the humans.
But this is Fallout, not Care Bears. The peace holds, for a while. Then the Wanderer returns only to find the humans slaughtered, victims of a disagreement that led Roy to, as he put it, ‘take out the trash.’
No good deed, it seems, goes unpunished.