Game Design The Importance Of Game Mechanics Lim Bioshock
One of the reasons that most moral choice systems can fall flat is that mechanically there is no substantive difference. Take the much vaunted moral choice in Bioshock. You are given the moral decision to either kill the Little Sisters and extract the Adam from them, or to free them and feel better about yourself. Ideally, the difference between these two decisions would substantially affect gameplay. The “evil” decision would be easier and the “good” decision would be the harder one....