20 Gaming Moments That Insulted Your Intelligence
19. The Forced Sacrifice - Fallout 3
Much as Fallout 3 is held up as one of the greatest action-RPGs of all time, and for good reason, anyone who played it on launch will never forget how pathetically Bethesda attempted to shoehorn a sacrifice dilemma into the end of the game.
The original ending forced players to choose a character to enter an irradiated control room to activate a water purifier, in turn sacrificing their life for the greater good.
You've got two choices here - either lay your own life down or get the Brotherhood of Steel's Sarah Lyons to do it.
Except, many players swiftly realised that their mutant companion Fawkes, who can withstand radiation sans-harm, could surely just enter the control room and save the day without anyone having to die.
If you bring this up to Fawkes, though, he'll claim that he doesn't want to interfere with your "destiny," ensuring you're forced to kill off somebody in order to save the day.
It was an extremely braindead way to try and raise the dramatic stakes, and fans complained vocally enough that Bethesda released a "fix" in the game's Broken Steel DLC six months later, allowing you to pick Fawkes or any other radiation-immune companion instead.