Been playing through as my Jedi Guardian, and a bit frustrated with some of my moral choices. I know that light side options generally have the same sort of direction and path, but I'm a bit annoyed that I get less points just for certain actions. E.G

 

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The moral choice after you fight Power Guard Galen had me confused, told him there was still hope left and when he asked me to kill him I said I wouldn't execute him and that it wasn't the right thing to do. Then I find out that asking him to fight the Sith was the apparent "lighter" choice, even though I didn't thnnk it was right, almost taking advantage of his state.

 

I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on this, all replies welcome

This game has problems with its allocation of dark and light side points.

I, too have a Guardian, but the Rep Light Side choices were mostly straight forward and easy to follow, even if you don't really agree with them all the time.

Dark Side is worse. You get Light Side points for really bad stuff. Example:

 

 

 

It seems every dark side user has to be a rampaging, mass murdering lunatic. Dark Side choices often reek of insanity

Thanks for the reply, appreciate it, and I agree that this is one of the flaws of an otherwise great game. Seems that on some of these parts the writers may have had a bad day at the office. And you have piqued my interest into trying out the Sith, even just to see these parts. Will be continuing my Guardian though.

As a sith, you get lightside points for not slaughtering people, slaughter being the norm. I can't remember the exact alternatives in the mentioned inquisitor choice, but it's usually a lighter shade of gray thing, but often mitigates another kind of harm. For instance, in that choice,

 

 

With the mentioned jedi choice, you're giving a hopeless man purpose and desire to keep on fighting the good fight. The alternative is to risk him taking his own life if you don't.

Edited December 28, 2012 by errant_knight

Thanks for the reply. I understand your viewpoint, however differing perspectives will mean there will always be a clash over this sort of choice. I saw it as almost exploitation, Galen had gone through enough and I wanted him to go sit this one out while I dealt with the Sith threat and we tried to find a way to reverse what had happened. It didn't feel right to ask him to keep fighting and I certainly wasn't going to execute the man. I wanted to be the one with the responsibility, and that option didn't sit right to me.

 

 

 

Yeah, it's a matter of perspective, because in the example from the agent story given, I was very pleased with that choice. To my agent,

I wish there were four or five choices, rather than three, which would allow for more variation, but that would have increased the expense of the voice acting a great deal, so I get why there aren't. That's the trade-off that occurs in a voice acted game, but the acting is so very good in this one, I can accept it. Admittedly, in terms of my characters, they got it right more often than they didn't.

Edited December 28, 2012 by errant_knight

Helping the two Jedi lovers on Tython hide their relationship? I can understand getting darkside points for it, but going the whole way through gets you 100, which is more than I've got for cold-blooded murder.

 

And I don't understand why you get DS points on Ord Mantell for returning the stolen medicine to the army, thereby saving people who were about to die if you didn't.

And I don't understand why you get DS points on Ord Mantell for returning the stolen medicine to the army, thereby saving people who were about to die if you didn't.

 

That's probably the most ridiculous allocation of DS points in the whole game though.