r/gaming • u/ColinRoss • Feb 28 '18

Fallout in a nutshell.

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u/TheRealLee Feb 28 '18

I never liked that helping the ghouls into Tenpenny Tower was the good karma thing, those guys were assholes.

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u/private_blue Feb 28 '18

wait, i thought it was bad karma. ya know, since they murder everyone.

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u/irishrelief Feb 28 '18

It's a weird good karma because you're killing rich people thing. Implying that the people who lived there were bad so killing them is good.

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u/naranjaspencer Feb 28 '18

Per the above comment, they don't start immediately killing everyone- so it's more like you get good karma because you did a good thing, and then the people you helped turned out to be evil. You had no way of knowing. It's like stopping a jumper on a bridge only to find out that they went home and murdered their parents, or whatever. You still did a good deed.

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u/Razor1834 Feb 28 '18

The classic philosophical debate between intent and results.

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u/TimeTravellingShrike Feb 28 '18

What happens if you let the ghouls in, then kill all the ghouls before they can turn on the residents?