‘60 hours in and just about to reach balders gate!’ Ok speed runner!

Assassin's Creed Odyssey was another; that plague family that everybody on the island wanted to kill. If you spared them and go back later, you find out they went on to infect the whole island and everybody died.

In red dead redemption there's a side quest where an npc asks for a bunch of feathers, and possibly some other things. They're all over the place and takes a while to get, but the payoff is great. He builds wings and jumps off the cliff and plummets to his death immediately. Worth it!

It's worth noting with Yenna that she's like, the last person on the list of characters that Orin will kidnap, she's basically there to make sure that Orin has *someone* to nap just in case all her other options (your companions) aren't available because they're either dead or in your party. And even if Yenne does get kidnapped, you can still save her (though not her cat, sadly), assuming you don't both the skill checks to do so. Also, if Yenna doesn't get kidnapped, she will actually cook for you. You can buy soup from her in camp. Another example of characters that get screwed by you doing the right thing is Arabella's parents, who give you a locket that lets you cast Dancing Lights as a reward for saving their kid. However, the very next place you find Arabella is a place where you literally die if you don't have a light source, and her parents are dead.

How about Witcher 3? "No im not going to let this tree devil out to cause mayhem, wait..where did the kids go?"

The ghost of a dead woman in Witcher 3. If you didn't figure out that she was a plague bringer before giving her a wonderful reunion with her still living boyfriend, congrats! You've unleashed a plague upon the town

Fallout: New Vegas lets you accidentally get an outpost full of innocent doctors (and their bodyguards) slaughtered by the Brotherhood of Steel if you try to help Veronica in her companion quest by letting her try to join the Followers of the Apocalypse (arguably the most benevolent faction in the entire Fallout series) after she becomes disillusioned with the Brotherhood's (downright suicidal) isolationism. The Brotherhood, paranoid that Veronica had shared Brotherhood secrets with them (she hadn't), kills them all, and then tries to kill her, as well as you for helping her.

“I’m sure he’s doing his best!” Well, to be fair, that particular hanar was indoctrinated and was trying to disable the planetary defenses for the hanar home world so the reapers could invade it, so I think calling him a big stupid jellyfish was more than warranted 😂

One thing that tricked me in that 'Tenpenny Tower' quest on my first playthrough is that one of Three Dog's lines is making a case to Tenpenny to let the ghouls live there, thus further leading the player to believe that letting the ghouls move in is the 'morally correct' option.

That Yenna thing escalated incredibly fast

In the Outer Worlds, there's a character on Byzantium, I don't remember her name but she wants you to help her make clothing out of monster parts. If you help her gather what she needs, at the end of the quest she's been killed by Byzantium security guards.

I don't know if I would count "hiring hot-air balloon under false pretenses so you can't scout a state prison in preparation for breaking out a felon" as the right thing (except for loyalty's sake), but I guess to each his own.

In Windwaker, Mila and her father are wealthy snobs until she gets kidnapped and her dad pays Tetra everything to rescue her; by the time you have rescued her, they've become a poor family. On the other hand, Maggie and her father are poor until she also gets kidnapped. When you rescue her, she returns with Skull Necklaces which make her family rich instead. But she is still unhappy, because now she is in love with a Moblin.

Roy Philips enraged me like nothing else, back in the day. I had worked very hard to get them into that tower, and when I came back, much later, I was horrified. Obviously murdered and fully dismembered Roy with a shotgun. After that, his followers turn hostile, even if you sneak-attacked him to death. Wish I could've brought the nuke over from Megaton and more definitively ended the Tenpenny Tower saga.

Witcher 3, siding with the Crones, or releasing the spirit in the Tree. Both results in innocent people getting killed; either the children eaten by the Crones, or an entire village wiped out by the Spirit and the Baron's wife dying.

In Dragon Age Origins one of the Dalish in the Brecilian forest will ask you to look for his wife. If you do, she's become a werewolf and forces you to kill her after speaking with her. Worse, the forest section can end with the werewolf-curse being broken, so she would have been fine.

In Dragon Age Inquisition, when you go to Crestwood you can encounter an Elf being protected by two Grey Wardens. When you talk to her, she tells you something along the lines of wanting to join the order of the Grey Wardens. There's a dialogue option you can choose that encourages her to join the Grey Wardens. Further down the quest in which The Inquisition is trying to prevent Corypheus from manipulating the Grey Wardens, you'll find that the same Elf you talked to in Crestwood will become a sacrifice by Warden-Commander Clarel. One of the few small choices that caught me off guard and bit me in my ass moments.

Also with Hyetta, she's not even alive. She's some spirit that has possessed that corpse of Irinia... So it gets more twisted and sad really. Weather she knows this or not at first. It's true.

Bloodborne, enough said (Alright, for me specifically the little girl in Yharnam. If you try to send her to Oedon Chapel she will get killed by a pig. Same if you are honest about her parents demise. Sending her to Iosefka gets her experimented on. I decided the right thing for me to do is to ignore her, leaving her to go mad just like the rest of Yharnam - ah, right, such a thing as a good ending is a rare occurrence in a FromSoftware game)

Add Heather from Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines. Doing the 'right thing' to save her life, will lead to her death unless you take specific actions otherwise.

My first play through Yenna wasn't kidnapped. It was La'zel. Yenna and her cat are still safely tucked away in my camp.

For Alien: Isolation, I would've suggested Dr Kuhlman. While he guides you in the infirmary, by helping him effect an escape plan, he is then doomed as the titular xenomorph hugs him through a darkened doorway. If you're also brave enough, you can even come back to this area with an upgrade for the access tuner to see how the xenomorph managed to get into the room behind Kuhlman and see a busted open grated floor vent.

There is a side quest in Nier Automata where you are trying to help an android figure out how their friend died. But as you do the quest you figure out the quest giver was the person who killed said friend and the quest giver is an extermination android. They are designed to get close to someone, become friends with them until given the order to kill them. When you help them remember they go a bit crazy and curse you out for restoring the memories they had deleted, and talk about how they are sick that they have had to do this process multiple times before breaking down in a mix of laughter and crying. It is probably one of the most disturbing side quests in the game and you could have left the lady be happier by not doing the quest.

"Do the right thing" he said as he Spiked Lee...

Honestly, I think there'd be a shorter list of From Software NPC who don't end up meeting a tragic fate via your "help." Onion Knight and Lapp from DS3, for example

Oblivion - The Gray Prince. You try to do a solid for the surprisingly agreeable and well spoken half-Orc Grand Champion of the Arena in TES IV: Oblivion by finding proof of his noble lineage only, surprise, he's actually half vampire. This shocking revelation causes him to lose the will to fight, after which you can easily obtain the title of the Grand Champion from him with no further risk. You don't have to do this quest though, and can fight him normally. I mean, 'Innocent' is slightly generous, given he's Grand Champion and all, a position that you have to kill a bunch of people to obtain, but most of them are volunteers seeking riches and glory (and the ones that aren't are criminals slated for execution). So, kind of innocent?

Hot air balloons would have been about as new to Aurthur as airplanes are to us. The first manned hot air ballon flights were happening in the early 1780s, right around the time of the revolutionary war.

So my response to this video is to find a way to keep the cat, not the orphan, alive (orphan is just a bonus). And while finding the answer it dawned on me: I’m not alone in wanting this fictional cat to live. Thousands of people have looked this up before me. All you cat ppl gamers: I see you and I love you 😂

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. You do the right thing by waking up the Wind Fish... o and everyone you meet at the game stop existing. Ouch.

Yenna’s fate is the easiest to avoid since you just have to have one of 4 possible kidnapping victims waiting at camp to be captured. As for the dice roll, as long as you kill Gortash first and become an assassin of bhaal, you won’t need to do a dice roll check. Even if you don’t do that, go into her room before confronting her and cast speak with the dead on her mother which will give you a dialogue option to distract her from the kidnapped victim without a dice roll requirement.

KOTOR2 was the first time my young self was faced with philosophical dillemas, the beggar when you arrive to Nar Shadaa... Damn you Kreia!!!

Mass Effect 3. Telling Kelly to do the selfless thing and help the refugees gets her a bullet in the head.

Face McShooty from Borderlands 2 comes to my mind. You help him, but you also shoot him in the face, but at least he was happy about it.

Was the episode filmed in reverse? Or am I absolutely in love with Janes 'MOOD' T-shirt XDXDXD

Herbert the stalker, innocent? The guy who keeps breaking into her room to record her sleeping? The guy who steals her hair? The guy who keeps finding new ways to contact her ECHO despite her blocking him? Innocent? Pull the other one.

I was expecting Assassins Creed Odyssey, where you have option to either spare or kill a family that have a desease, and includes kids as well. And, Spoiler alert: If you spare the family, their desease spreads and becomes a large plague that almost completely dooms Athenas.

Chocolat in Tales of Symphonia. Our mishandling of our role as the good guys got first her grandmother, then her mother killed (and obliterated her hometown for good measure). There's even a sidequest to reflect on what you've done through not knowing better.

T.K. Baha in the first Borderlands game. Mostly keeps to himself until you go out of your way doing multiple missions to help him out, inevitably drawing attention to him by a band of Psychos, who murder him just as a message to you

I always felt so bad about the hot air balloonist.

The thing about Yenna is that she's nice because her parents educated her so. This means they were probably kind too and its possible to imagine they did get the disease by helping sick people, as she says her mother knew some herbs to help with the symptoms.

Saying the people of tenpenny are 'innocent' is a bit of a stretch, ngl.

+6 intimidation, Prudence? Blimey.

Also, the entirety of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Lara has never had so much blood on her hands

As a crowning irony to Tenpenny Tower, if you kill the richly deserving Roy after he massacres the residents, you lose karma. It was the one "evil" act of my good playthrough. I'm okay with that.

Witcher 3 in the first area, when you're convinced to give the girl a witchers concoction because there's a chance it will help her survive, but that definitely does not go well

In Guardian Tales World 4, one of the missions starts with a family who spends life savings to go to paradise. You meet up with them, but have lost the tickets that you find. You can use the tickets to go in yourself or give them to the family so they can go in. If you gave them back when you get in you show up to watch the parents get murdered.

In Neverwinter Nights, there is a quest in a spooky mansion within a village trapped in a hellish time bubble. Awaiting your judgement are two brothers, one which murdered a bunch of children, and the other who convinced him to do it in order to obtain a powerful artifact from a demon. You can side with either brother, which will condemn the other to punishment and release the village from the time bubble. But the "correct" option is to keep the time bubble in place, as that's the only way to punish the demon, who is the real guilty party in the whole affair. Doing so, however, condemns the brothers and the village to remain in the time bubble indefinitely, forgotten by time and unable to ever leave.

Having not played Borderlands 2, I was briefly wrongfooted by the mention of a Captain Scarlet. I'm presuming that's not the one who knows the Mysterons' game, and things they plan

Scarlett’s voice actor is the same as Lilith. And Tannis. That’s talent.

Every Soulsborne NPC

Fallout 3 taught me that you don't need to pursue every quest to have an enjoyable, and significantly less depressing, play through. So, in most of my FO3 play troughs I just sort of ignored the whole ghoul/Tenpenny tower thing with my characters being blissfully unaware of those issues. Had enough to worry about anyway, what with all the people with foreign accents running around and what not....

Orin's VA is so perfect. Captured that deranged absolutely messed up murderess vibe

However, you can prevent Yenna's (or whichever companion was abducted by Orin) fate if you sneak into Orin's room and cast 'Speak to the Dead' on her mother's corpse. You find out that not only was Orin the product of incest (Saverok - her grandfather - is her father) but that Saverok, who Orin idolizes, planned to have Orin sacrificed to Bhaal (Orin just killed Helena before that happened). If you confront Orin with this revelation, she forgets entirely about her would be sacrificial lamb and focuses her attention entirely on the player and their party.

What about the times they doomed us. I once collected a debt for a friend next thing im dying of TB.

Encountering Orin was so unrealistic, especially that one with Yenna. That maniac should've been met with a haymaker the moment she was back in her original skin.

As a side note, even if you don’t let Yenna come to your camp, Orin will still kidnap her if none of the kidnappable companions are available.

The “more flying lead than a tornado in a pencil factory“ was bloody brilliant! I’m gonna borrow that.

I never finished Yenna's quest because she glitched and disappeared suddenly, then returned just as suddenly so she and her cat were safe forever.

Yenna looks exactly like a friend i had in high school so it kinda tore me up

Tales of Symphonia! in the first hour of playing, you save a sweet old lady named Marble from some evil guards. This leads to her being turned into a monster and you fighting her the next day, getting banished from the village, and getting the attention of the BBEG not knowing you were another character's Achilles Heel. Later you accidentally ruin the rest of Marble's family by 'doing good'. Seriously, you need to play this game!

Minthara's response to Yenna's sob story always makes me laugh

Does Jane's shirt say "MOOD?" That's got me laughing!

Hooooo boy. Speaking of Fromsoft, Gascoigne's whole family in Bloodborne. The only one you can claim innocence on is Gascoigne's wife. Gascoigne had already lost the plot and killed her by the time you got there. Then you rock up to a beast possessed Gascoigne and have to kill him. You find his wife's body nearby and take her broach back to their first daughter. First daughter is obviously heartbroken, but when she recovers, she becomes determined to survive, and asks you for a safe refuge. You tell her about the chapel you've been sending survivors to. Next time you pop into the chapel, she's not there. So you go to her house only to find the SECOND sister asking you where the first went. You retrace the path the first sister would have taken. You find that she was barely 20 feet from salvation. The first sister was caught, killed, and devoured by a giant pig. You butcher it, recovering a bloodstained, formerly white ribbon the first daughter wore in her hair. When you deliver the news and the ribbon to the second sister, she breaks completely. The next time you visit, she has jumped from her house into the pit below. The only thing on her is that same ribbon, now snow white. If you had never talked to the first daughter, the second would have arrived and they would have huddled together till morning. They would have lived.

However, inheriting the Frenzied Flame is also the only way to save Malena's life so there is that. If you want to still get the good ending you can get rid of the frenzied flame after killing the fire giant.

man!! In witcher 3 the choice between tree spirit and orphans still haunts me !

It's easy enough to save whomever Orin kidnaps, though... Attack her instead of talking, lol 😭

So there is a guy in fallout 4 code name Patriot that help synts to escape. And we use him to contact a synth with the intention to make a massive rescue operation. But that quickly became a full armed revolution against the Institute , we never told him about this. After completing the nuclear option with the Railroad, rescuing the synth and blowing up the Institute. Two days when you go check Railroad Headquarters , you find his body in the center and they give you his suside note. He committed suicide because his whole family die during the attack to the Institute. That really shocked me.

Ori and the Will Of The Wisps where you help that guy find his family... tears man

Hyetta may very well be Shabriri taking on the guise of a woman who was killed earlier in the game, tricking you into triggering the game's Frenzied Flame ending. Trying to "do the right thing" and help Boc, however...

OK, great list and video and etc. etc.--but where to I find Jane's MOOD shirt?!?

Very thought provoking quests, really. I love such quests.

In my evil playthrough of bg3 I bullied Yenna hoping she wouldn't come to camp and when she still came to camp I kicked her to the curb thinking that I could have someone else get taken but instead she slept on the streets and still got nabbed by Orin and I think that was one of the worst moments of feeling like garbage I had while trying to achievement hunt that game T_T

I was expecting the Elden Ring section to be Boc, considering what happens when you help him with what he wants.

I saved Yenna by doing the best thing possible: not long resting for nearly 9 hours of gameplay. Because I found Orin posing as a camp teammate, Yenna and Grub were perfectly safe!

Lightseeker Hyetta isn't real, though. She's a manifestation of The Three Fingers, and she requires a dead body to animate herself. Hyetta doesn't exist in the world unless you first clear Castle Mourne, causing the death of Irina.

7 NPCs you accidentally saved while trying to get rid of them

Not sure if it fits because it wraps from one game to another, but the canonical ending of Prince of Persia: Warrior Within has you leaving with Kaileena, the Empress of Time... and then she gets taken out at the very beginning of Two Thrones.

To be fair. In borderlands every character you play as is basically a grave robbing sociopath who would likely have delivered the bomb anyway if we were told it was a bomb. Hell all of them in 2 were willing to help handsome jack out until he tried to kill them

0:10 Mike clearly hasn't met that Hanar again in Mass Effect 3. Don't worry Mike, he really was just a Big Stupid Jellyfish

A bit like the Asscreed entry, in Kotor whether you do the right, the evil or no-thing your very presence dooms the entire planet you start on, Taris

Hyetta gets what she deserves for stealing Irenas body just like how Shibriri stole Yuras. So I feel no guilt for letting her burn and giving me a seal for my troubles

OX making a video without an Elden Ring or Baldur's Gate 3 entry? Literally impossible.

You could fill a video like this with RDR characters, really. The guy you help fly a plane off a cliff, the guy you help go west where he dies of exposure, Luisa, the inventor you help make a patricidal robotic man...

Not sure if Axel belongs on this list. In all the other games here, you get the option of whether to help the NPC or not, but in Alien: Isolation, you don't get a choice. And it's not really YOUR fault Axel gets killed, that's just how Xenomorphs DO.

Jasper and family in Dragon's Dogma. You get a quest where you're asked to evict this family. You can choose to give them enough money to buy the property from the greedy landlord who gave you the quest in the first place. This completes the quest and the family thanks you for standing up to the little guy, like the hero you're supposed to be. Problem is... The part of the city where their house is collapses during the endgame, killing them. This is confirmed if you instead make them move (You can give them money to cover moving expenses). After the city collapses, you can find the family in the still-standing part, where they'll tell you that their old house had collapsed and they surely would have died if they were still living there.

I wanna know who signed off on the title "finger maiden" and the deity "the two fingers" sounds like something is being implied🤔

Say whatever you want - I would burn Baldur’s Gate to the ground if it meant keeping Yenna’s cat safe. Also potentially doomed: Barcus Wroot. If, like me, you don’t pay attention to what lever you pull in a certain windmill, then his storyline is cut dramatically, tragically short.

Playing Dark Souls for the first time. I just got the Firelink Shrine maiden killed because I tried to help Knight Lautrec.

No mention of Witcher 3? That game has so many events that qualify for this list that it could be it's own episode.

There's gotta be at least five Skyrim quests that could fit this list, right? Pieces of the Past? The Forsworn Conspiracy? Unearthed?

I imagine there is more than one individual from any of the Witcher games that would fit comfortably in this list.

This is why some NPCs refer to you as a "hell-per" behind your back. :D

In Dragon's Dogma 2, the merchant Isaac really wants a certain magic tome to improve the life of his family. If you actually bring it to him (and don't instead give him a useless forgery) he winds up ending the life of his family.

This is how I realized Yenna is Anney backwards. She was still alive & fine at my camp by the end of my BG3 run though, whereas Orin was none of the three

Baldur's Gate has a running gag with cat quests: in the very first game you could find a dead cat near a waterfall and OF COURSE there's a quest nearby when a little girl's ghost is searching for miss Kitty... then in Icewind Dale 2, which runs on the same engine, you have a traditional "defeat the rats" RPG staple quest, and you can find another dead cat, IIRC reusing the same graphics. If you pick it up, using videogame logic, the owner berates you for logging a dead cat around like a madman.

My first thought when I saw the title had to be Eltrys from The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim. Poor guy just wanted some answers, but you poking around ended with him poked all around by a Markarth guard's sword.

If you do the Hanar Diplomat quest in ME3 without Kasumi being present, taking the Paragon interrupt to save Bau with result in Kajjae falling to the Reapers. Congratulations! You just saved one salarian Spectre and doomed millions of hanar and hundreds of thousands of drell.

Bloodborne has to be on the list because most NPC’s suffer a horrible fate if you even talk to them.

Epic Mickey 2 A Friend In Deed sidequest: you meet Metairie and Bertrand who both lost their home. You end up getting only one deed to a house and have to decide who to give it to leaving the other homeless.

Ahem, a homeless orphan girl who has nothing in the world but her cat and *her own paring knife.*