[spdustin]

Bioshock was the first to make me uncomfortable with a choice. Do I harvest the Little Sister, and get more powerful? Or do I "rescue her", which itself looks a bit like torture at first, and send her off in a place that is filled with psychopaths who'd want to kill her anyway.

Later in the series, when I experienced what it's like to BE a Little Sister, it almost made me regret "rescuing them" before, because the way they see the world as a Little Sister is quite beautiful, and they did serve a profound purpose.

The final choice seems to be a moral absolute, but it was a deeply unsettling choice, for me, to make, and to revisit again later.

[tsotha]

It's not really a choice, because in the end you get more powerful by not harvesting the Little Sisters. The only reason to do it is to see the evil ending cut scene.

[Dylan16807]

And you get that world-conquering evil cut scene for even a single slip. Immediately you are irredeemable.

[tsotha]

Heh. I didn't realize that. When I'm evil I don't do it by half measures.

[spdustin]

Would you kindly not spoil the game too much.

(See what I did there?)

[Dylan16807]

I'm amused by the joke, but I don't consider it a spoiler to explain how one bad act ever leads to the uber-evil ending that has no connection to the rest of the game. It's just pointing out that the claimed 'moral choices with consequences' feature is a farce.

[spdustin]

I didn't know that until, you know, the end.