7 Hardest Decisions in Games That Made No Difference in the End 

Meaningless decision? 99% of games with character customization, you spend an hour getting the perfect face and they're covered in armour 2 minutes later

"He turns into a zombie. OH DAMN. Should've gone with the other one- OH DAMN." LMAO CRYING

The decision in wolfenstein is actually big if you ask me, while it doesn't really change any main gameplay it changes every cut scene that character features in & any dialog they say

HEY BULBASAUR HAS FEELINGS YOU KNOW PLUS...he's my favorite

Bulbasaur is for losing battles? You can win the first 2 badges with him easily and Lt Surge with his electric types can't do you proper damage. Charmander? Useless during the first 2 gyms and nothing special in the 3rd. Squirtle? Great against Brock, nothing special against Misty and a disappoinment against Surge. Get your grass type hate away from here.

not in the list: EVERY DECISION IN LIFE IN IS STRANGE

Ironically that "creepy stalker" was a good Samaritan just trying to save you.

Haha spoilers for Pokemon go? That's the funniest thing I heard all day.

I have a Gastly that I named Rick Gastly he never lets me down

The other meaningless decision in Pokemon Go is which team you're on; no matter what you choose (Valour, Instinct, or Mystic), someone is going to spout hate speech about your team.

2:55 "Bulbasaur because you like losing pokemon battles?" No. The first two gyms on Pokemon Red/ Blue are Rock (Brock) and Water (Misty). I dont see how'd you'd lose to these two if u started with bulbasaur.

The hardest decision I've ever had to make is choosing a cereal brand at the beginning of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch

How doesn't it shock me that Telltale game is here.

Actually Picking the Bird Brooch makes Elizabeth find more Healing and restoration items, whereas picking the Cage makes her find more ammunitions...

"Maybe he's just a helpful passerby with loads of upper-body strength who just wants to pull you to safety!" Spoilers: This is actually what he was; he was genuinely trying to help and had no intention of harming them.

Say what you want about bulbasaur, you ain't gonna do crap when you're asleep and losing hp from leech seed.

You just earned my sub, fucking finally a list show that lists what they're spoiling BEFORE they spoil it

Pretty much every choice in a Telltale game has zero effect on the future. Once you make a few plot point decisions then you're set on a certain path and the small things like who to save and what to say have little to no purpose because certain things are going to happen regardless of whatever you choice

the Bulbasaur bash hurt me The amount of people defending Bulbasaur in the comments healed me

You mean basically every decision in every Telltale game?

I disagree about Wolfenstein. Sure the changes from the decision are minor, but they do last the whole game and changes in pickups could theoretically make the difference between life an death for some players.

Until Dawn had an interesting plot to say the least. Basically "ITS A PRANK BRO", sprinkled with some mystical beasts.

Saying "Yes" or "No" to Yuri's question of if you love her. She will laugh maniacally and stab herself to death either way.

There's quite a few decisions in Life is Strange that don't seem to make much difference. One of the major ones in my opinion is when you have to choose between Giving Chloe, hooked up to life support, an overdose of morphine, or refuse to do so. The very next thing you do after making that choice is go back in time and prevent any of those events from happening.

"Because you like losing pokemon battles." XD

i love tell tale games, but none of the choices in any of their games make any difference in the out come of all their games, still i'm a sucker for their story telling games.

The bioshock thing is an easter egg. the two images are one piece of an old classic Thumatrope toy. when spun it creates the image of a caged bird

Bioshock Infinite's message was that nothing you do matters anyway. *None* of its choices made any difference. Throwing the baseball at the interracial couple or the speaker or not at all, the bird or the cage, even heads or tails in a coin flip - that was deliberate and a major point of the game.

Pokemon go and spoilers are words that shouldn't be in the same sentence

I love how Tell Tale games are so prevalent in this video despite how they are sold on the premise of your choices mattering. My favorite thing is seeing a playthrough where do make the least amount of voices either by remaining silent or letting the timer run out and seeing the game just pull you along with its characters speaking for you.

My experience with telltale games is that none of the choices matter. You can literally stop a villain's origin story from happening in the Batman one and they still become a villain anyway

It's pretty surreal watching the clips form Saints Row in 2018 and thinking " What are you talking about? That purple monster looks like he would make a very wise and competent president."

Okay... is it bad that I researched this whole video to see how many times that facial hair switches?

8: Making your character, Fallout 4 HOW MANY SCAAAAAAAARS?!?!

And if I chose to do nothing at the end, a third option presents itself ten seconds later.

It's not surprising to see multiple Telltale games on the same list - after all, they just keep making the same game over and over again with different skins

Every Mass Effect decision for the ending of 3. Do you want the red, blue or green explosion?

I like that you imply Bulbasaur loses battles despite being the best choice of first gen

Keith David has been voicing Julius; the somewhat mentor of "The Boss" in Saints Row since the beginning. Him voicing himself is not as obscure as it is just the game breaking the fourth wall.

To be honest I dont get why everyone hops on the "I hate Bulbasaur" bandwagon. Sure he is not too strong against charizard, but honestly he is great for most of the game.

*cough* all of life is strange *cough* I mean what who said that what

I feel like that Wolfenstein one actually is not overly pointless. It does effect events down the road, and gameplay to a degree. No matter how small there are notable differences.

(Insert bulbasaur is actully amazing and highly underrated comment here)

The Until Dawn decision actually does have an impact on the story later down the line, it's just not an immediate result. That's kind what the game means by mentioning the butterfly affect at every corner.

Chose bulbasaur if you like losing huh? What are the first two gyms types again?

i thougt they were going to talk about the teams in pokemon go

wait do you know bulbasuar is the best starter in pokemon red and blue

Shoots fired at bulbasaur

I like telltale but their choices make zero difference

I can't believe you mentioned Shepard's hair but not the ending of ME3! What kind of drugs are you on OxBox! Oh wait. Jane's drugs.

The hardest decision for Pokémon go was picking ur faction, mystic instinct and valor

The new South Park video game "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" Also has this type of mechanic. Where (spoiler alert) You have to choose which of your parents to murder so you can go on to the next level. You can't cheat and use your own DNA to simulate theirs, and even ripping off the mother's arm (Which should be able to be at least covered with some type of linen to hold in her blood) winds up with her dying. Yet none of this heart breaking decision matters because you eventually go back in time and reset everything, so none of it ever happened. It's like being given one middle finger at being forced to make this choice, and then another, larger, middle finger for it not mattering.

spoilers for Pokemon go. seriously?

Make fun of Bulbasaur all you want but I've never lost a battle playing with him and his evolutions so

“Or Bulbasaur because you like losing battles” Really just roasted my boi Bulbasaur like that-

That Wolfenstein one was pretty meaningful by videogame standards. It changes the NPCs around you, the perks you get, and that robot at the end (haven’t played it). Less meaningful choices: Every romance option in every BioWare and Bethesda title. Your choice at the end of Mass Effect 3. Choosing not to continue at the beginning of any number of games that ultimately force you to continue anyway.

"Or bulbasaur, because you like losing pokemon battles!" that was the best thing I've ever heard *wipes away tears* squirtle ftw

You choose Bulbasaur if you wanted an advantage against the first three gyms 9_9

"I love you" "You will always be my best friend"

"Bulbasaur because you like losing pokemon battles " LMAO

Hey, OG Bulbassaur was OP as hell. leech seed and razor leaf were deadly even against fire types.

Bioshock Spoilers: So here's the point of the brooch, and it's exactly what you touched on, and the significance is revealed there in that exact moment you commented on and said it might have been a mistake. It absolutely is not, and it's essential to the story, it IS the story, actually. The game is about a relationship, but the truth is that's all a mask for the real story about Parallel Universe Theory, and in that moment on the boat you are being told what's about to happen because you are with a completely different Elizabeth from a completely different timeline, only identifiable to you if you noticed that the brooch you gave her actually isn't the one you selected. It's not your Elizabeth, or not the Elizabeth that you have spent your game with. She's a product of different decisions creating alternate, divergent pathways. It's a teaser to the big reveal approaching the end of the story, that through every door in every lighthouse is a different outcome because one different decision was made somewhere in the line of decisions. It's actually monumentally bound to the entire theme of the game, that you made a choice, and that choice, while to you seems to be absolutely insignificant in every single way, created an alternate reality in which a parallel Booker picked a cage instead of a bird, with an infinite number of other different decisions on a divergent path in reality at every other turn of the game. And that's what brings you to the end, from your perspective something that was meaningless has actually created this path for you, this outcome you're living when there were an infinite number of other outcomes, and there you are sitting on a boat with a different Elizabeth teaching you this, all those different choices, different outcomes, and some of those divergent paths coming together to stop you from ever taking the baptism. But in the end, what she fails to see due to... well call it what you want, bias, blind drive to stop Comstock, missing the bigger picture, whatever you want, is that when she herself decides to kill you, another time line is created in which she decides not to, and nothing changes at all. That is the weight of that choice. It is nothing to you, but could be everything to the alternate reality you create alongside the choice. You picked the bird. But you also created a world in which you picked the cage. And that is true of every single thing you ever did in the entire game.

Liked for Charmander pun names, well done!

That bit on the walking dead absolutely killed me!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Bulbasaur statistically the strongest Kanto starter? He has the advantage in 4 of the gyms, and only struggles when you hit the elite 4 (let's face it, what starter didn't have a bad time with them), Koga and Blaine towards the end (unaffected by most of Koga's arsenal from the Gen 3 remakes onward). Charmander is the one you pick to lose Pokemon. He gets destroyed by Brock, Misty, Surge, Sabrina, Giovanni and 3/4ths of the Elite 4. He's only strong against the grass gym mid game. By then you can have a flying type (even spearow/fearow) go to town on poor Erica without having to deal with the early and late. game struggles. Based on typing and stats alone, Bulbasaur kicks ass in Kanto. Now if we we talking Johto...well...sorry Chikorita. Sorry about that. Just had to get that off my chest.

I don't know how you choose any decision in pokemon as the most useless. In most games you aren't even allowed to say no, even though they give you the option to.

Hardest decision I've ever had to make in a video game was during Mass Effect Andromeda. There were some specific story missions that required picking one of two routes. Two of these 'routes' had me walking away from my console and game for nearly an hour while I debated, paced, panicked and even anxious cried over what I was going to do, and how big of an effect that choice would later have.

Love you guys and I don't own an Xbox One - which is why it took me a while to start watching your channel. But you guys talk about Pokémon and Until Dawn on here. Pretty cool.

Illusion of choice is sometimes more valuable then meaningful choice. If you replay the games, sure you may be disappointed with the result, but more gamers will never know the choice was not important and we as gamers like it when games provide us with real choices (even if the results are cheated a little bit). In the old Pokemon games, you don't even know it's a hard choice and instead are stuck with whatever you pick unless someone tells you before you play to be careful.

I like how they said picking the grass type is bad even though venusaur is better then both charizard and blastoise.

For me, the hardest decision with no real difference was in Life is Strange Episode 4: Dark Room... to kill or to not kill Chloe Very hard, very emotional and absolutely no difference for the rest of the game... 2nd one was in the same game at the very end, safe Chloe or Arcadia Bay! Made a little difference, but a tragedy anyways

"Not by random deers".... do you also say "sheeps" and "fishes" too?

"Or pick Bulbasaur because you like losing pokemon battles?" Maybe someone should tell Jane how stupidly good Bulbasaur was in Gen 1, since you can easily use him to clear every single gym and the Elite Four with ONLY him.

I'm sorry but the line said at 8:00 has to be the worst voice acting in video game history

In Fire Emblem Awakening you have to make the choice of sacrificing Chrom’s sister Emmryn or handing over the precious family treasure the fire emblem. Not that it matters though, Emmryn ends up sacrificing herself anyways.

This cracked me up....a lot 😂😂 this is my humour all over

SPOILERS for Pokemon GO?! have I missed the whole plot?!

The decision in Bioshock Infinite is intentionally meaningless. "Constants and variables..."

You just got youreself a new subscriber

Haven’t played the game but the last one sounds like it actually does change how you can play the game from then on considering certain actions become easier based upon what you choose.

Spoiler alert what about Fallout 4, where no matter which faction you choose your son will die anyway ...

Anyone else notice at the end he had a beard

Andy's various "oh damn!"s remain hilarious six years later.

Loved the Charmander nicknames

As a true Pokémon fan myself, I facepalmed when she said that I would lose if I picked Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur is the best starter to pick in gen 1, and to all of you who say that Bulbasaur sucks, then you must have used Sunkern in your team in gen 2 and not evolve it.

I don't know about anyone else but bulbasaur was and still is my favorite starter pokemon

i think it was worth mentioning that in Telltales game of thrones it also changes the song in Episode 2 slightly, making it one of the more noticeable series of choices in the game

Every choice in the War Within quest in Warframe. Each decision turns you either towards the Sun alignment, or the Moon alignment, or is Neutral. Each question gives you a moral dilemma about how you would act in the situation, with minimal information, and has no effect on gameplay whatsoever. It usually took me at least a minute for each of the dozen or so choices, which, in the end, didn't matter at all.

Huh, thought you were going with the "Cut off Lee's arm or naw"

sorry but every choice in the walking dead were usless save luke nope still dead,save nick nah he only had one extra line then dies, help christa she gets stabbed in the ass really no difference in the choices

That diss to two n a half men was a instant like for me lol

Interesting note, the broach of the cage matches a key that booker left in the box at the beginning of the game when he gets his gun, note, and photo

in infamouse one you can choose to save trish or save 10 doctors but either way trish still dies, its bs

Pokemon Starter? Always choose fire, I do.

What about the final case in Ace Attorney 2? You have the choice between throwing an innocent person under the bus to save your friend or admitting that your client is guilty and let her be killed. But right before you can tell the court your decision, there's a surprise witness!

"Scottish robots sound brilliant!" "Let me die." Hahahaa

lol I knew the SR IV choice would be in here. I knew it would mean nothing, but I was actually puzzling at that one for a good 20 seconds.

More like every decision in life is strange. Nothing mattered

I love how Mike made a Public Enemy Reference

the first entry reminds me of proZD's skit on game decisions that don't matter "king dragon sends his regards"