Karma Meter: Difference between revisions

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Occasionally the Karma Meter isn't visible in the stats screen, making it difficult to assess grayer actions. May be paired with [[Video Game Caring Potential]] and/or [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]], making players more inclined to select one side.

Compare [[Relationship Values]] and [[Alliance Meter]]. See also [[Character Alignment]], [[Sanity Meter]], [[Last Second Karma Choice]] and [[~~Hundred-Percent~~ Heroism Rating]].

Compare [[Relationship Values]] and [[Alliance Meter]]. See also [[Character Alignment]], [[Sanity Meter]], [[Last Second Karma Choice]] and [[100% Heroism Rating]].

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** Believe us when we say that not killing every civilian in the game is [[Dronejam|harder than it sounds]].

** ''Jedi Academy'', meanwhile, ''seems'' to have a karma meter, based on what Force powers you pick—after each "upgrade" between chapters, Luke Skywalker muses on your future—but even if you go all [[Dark Side]], it comes down to a single choice -- {{spoiler|whether or not you decide to kill [[The Scrappy]]}}.

* In ''[[~~Bioshock~~]]'', if you manage to take down a Big Daddy that's guarding a Little Sister, you can chose to either kill the Little Sister, or "rescue" her by removing the symbiont that allows her to harvest ADAM. The first option earns you twice as much ADAM from each Little Sister, but the second option nets you occasional gifts from a benefactor who wants you to save them, in the form of ADAM and special plasmids. Whether you save or harvest Little Sisters also determines which of the [[Multiple Endings]] you get. This meter is terribly unforgiving: harvest just two of 21 Little Sisters and you earn the game's opprobrium.

* In ''[[BioShock (series)]]'', if you manage to take down a Big Daddy that's guarding a Little Sister, you can chose to either kill the Little Sister, or "rescue" her by removing the symbiont that allows her to harvest ADAM. The first option earns you twice as much ADAM from each Little Sister, but the second option nets you occasional gifts from a benefactor who wants you to save them, in the form of ADAM and special plasmids. Whether you save or harvest Little Sisters also determines which of the [[Multiple Endings]] you get. This meter is terribly unforgiving: harvest just two of 21 Little Sisters and you earn the game's opprobrium.

** Harvest? Try ''didn't save''! Have to rush out of an area because you suddenly find yourself with very little health, no medkits, and don't want to have to track back from that last vitachamber? Well you better not make a choice like that again, you horribly selfish monster... And that includes just not being able to find the last little <s>hideously mutated bitch with a freakish protector</s> sister in an area...

** There are two v/o files recorded for the bad ending in ''Bioshock''. Both have the exact same text, but the tone of voice is entirely different; if you only gave in to your lust for ADAM once, Dr. Tenenbaum sounds weary and resigned when describing your descent into evil, but if you've killed multiple Little Sisters she's filled with righteous fury at you.