Eva and I played through Detroit: Become Human.

[conuly]

And we got the very best ending through judicious use of walkthroughs at the later stages.

There are three player characters you switch between, Connor, Kara, and Markus. Early in the game, Connor can choose to save or not save a fish, and then slightly later you can choose to approach a dog and then have Connor choose to pet it or not.

You can also see which percentage of players made the same choices you did, and I have to say, the percentage that pet the dog is shockingly low. We spent the whole game wondering aloud what sort of player would make this awful choice or that awful choice, before concluding that obviously these are the same players who didn't pet the dog.

What sort of player chooses not to save Hank, or to shoot the poor escaping sexbots? What sort of player decides to shoot a fleeing human in the back? What sort of player, I'm sorry, decides to abandon Alice in Android Auschwitz to save their own skin!?

Somebody who doesn't pet the dog, that's who.

Comments

[dewline]

Sounds like an ideal sociopathy-diagnostic.

[conuly]

Seriously, especially that last one. It's bad enough that the game offers you the option to ignore instead of hug after finding out her little secret. (WHAT SORT OF PERSON...?)

[okojosan]

A friend of mine played Detroit: Become Human and streamed it for me. I'm pretty sure he saved the fish and petted the dog. :D

[conuly]

As any decent person would do.

(Well, that's the thing - when the game starts, Connor isn't a person, is he? And I guess if you're a total asshole he'll stay a machine forever.)