Given the number of potential choices, it wouldn't be an unfair assumption that at least that percentage of players went back on a second playthrough to do all their second-favorite options (I did). It's not an uncommon thing, as the writing in the best RPGs offers players variety and wildly differing paths. You have to allow about 1-2% for players who have probably already completed their first playthrough and are going back to see what the "alternative" options are. That's a consensus even the geth would be proud of, and there's no way it happened by accident. Similarly skewed stats include: 94% of players kept Wrex alive during the Virmire mission in Mass Effect, 96% of players chose to cure the genophage rather than sabotage it in Mass Effect 3, and 80% of players made peace between the Quarians and the Geth when given the option. However, you do have the option of allowing Tali to be exiled - but, according to BioWare, only 4% of players could bring themselves to let that happen. Any of these choices will accomplish the job and earn Tali's loyalty. Players who follow all the steps of her loyalty mission have the option of using either a Paragon or Renegade choice to talk the Quarian Admiralty Board out of persecuting Tali, or even the neutral option of rallying the crowd. Perhaps, when it comes down to it, gamers are just not going to commit genocide even when given the justification.įor a more personal example, Tali's loyalty mission in Mass Effect 2 is one of the most heartbreaking in the game, as she is on the verge of being exiled by the Quarian people and may never see her home again.
While there is a chance many Mass Effect veterans spared her because they knew she'd be a valuable ally later in the game, that doesn't seem sufficient explanation for that kind of unanimity. It's a hard choice, right? Well, apparently not, as 93% of players chose to let the queen go.
The queen is completely at Shepard's mercy and, even though she makes a case for why she should live, accepts that Shepard would be justified in killing her. As an example, one of the most momentous choices in the first Mass Effect game is whether to spare or kill the rachni queen, the last remaining progenitor of a race that once nearly wiped out galactic civilization.
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