10 Video Game Moments Where You Were Screwed Either Way

2. Mass Effect - Ashley Or Kaiden

Mass Effect makes another appearance on this list but it’s for good reason as the choice between saving Ashley or Kaiden late in ME1 is a classic example of a game telling the player they’re screwed either way. There’s just no way to save them both and this decision affects which of the two will appear during the rest of the series so it’s a pretty big deal.

Less of a deal if you already had it out for Ashley the space racist or Kaiden the moody revamp of Knights of the Old Republic’s Carth Onassi. But still, dropping one of your main squadmates only to continue the series for two more full games was a pretty crazy move at the time and plenty of players felt super trapped in the decision where they couldn’t save both.