IRL Choice: Save Ben or Sacrifice Him for the group
You're Lee in the Bell tower at Crawford which do you do?
Save Ben from the Belltower or sacrifice him
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You're Lee in the Bell tower at Crawford which do you do?
Save Ben from the Belltower or sacrifice him
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I honestly don't think I would live with myself if I were to actually drop Ben, so I would save him
As dumb as Been is and as much as he fucked up, there isn't any malice in his actions. He means well, he just consistently makes poor decisions. That would make it very, very hard to essentially murder him, even if I thought it was what's best for the group. I killed all of the St. John's and frankly enjoyed it because a) it was the best thing for the survival of the group and b) the malice and depravity behind their actions completely justified killing them. Ben lacks this second quality, and even though that son of a bitch got Carley, Duck, and Katijaa killed, he wasn't an active threat to anyone in the group at the time. I also doubted that he would get anyone else killed: I thought that it was more likely that he would redeem himself instead.
You don't have to murder Ben if you feel that he's a danger to the group. If you decide you don't want Ben in your group anymore, you could just pull him up then kick him out of the group rather than drop him several stories off a bell-tower, snapping his spine in half in the process then leaving him to a slow and agonizing death of getting eaten by walkers. Never did understand the mentality of actively killing someone who has good intentions but fucks up, when you could just send him off on his own and at least give him a fighting chance. This way you get him out of your hair AND you don't have a murder on your conscious. It's a win-win.
Save him definitely. I find it hard to take Lee seriously as a guardian/protecter of a child if he's deliberately dropping another to his death.
I would go nuts if I knew that I could save another human being and I didn't even try. Such things haunt people forever.
In real life would I intentionally let a teenager I have a grip of fall to their gruesome death.
No.
I thought most folks made choices in this game with real life in mind. I saved Ben in game and thus I would like to think I'd do the same in reality.
Well I didn't even shoot the walker that grabbed him I just sat there and the rope broke and he fell. I did it on purpose. You know my "gun could be jammed."
In real life I don't think I'd be able to pull the kid up. Dude was tall as hell and I doubt I'd be able to do it even if I wanted to
Yeah, that is an issue with the choice that thankfully Season 1's writing was able to overcome. Season 2 on the otherhand...
Oh fuck that: that happened to me on my second playthrough!
You bastard.
If you can save someone, you do it. Unless there is a justifiable reason not to. Making a few honest mistakes out of a fear most of us would feel isn't a justifiable reason.
It's not about sacrificing, really. I'd let him die, I never even got to the part where Lee's holding him by the hand. Not so much because I hate Ben, but he's too dangerous. He had good intentions, he was afraid, and weak. However his recklessness combined with all the aforementioned traits is a very deadly mix. He made far too many bad decisions that resulted in disasters or potential disasters. Such as the death of Carley, Duck, and almost Clementine. I just refused to give him anymore chances, I'd be like that irl too.
Ehh.... Ben's like a college student, it's a little different from Clementine who was 9 years old at the time. It's a good thing it was a choice though..
Save him...definitely.
Even though Ben was a massive annoyance, I wouldn't have dropped him in the tower. But I sure as hell would've exiled him as soon as we were save.
I saved him. I still had a hope for him ☺
In the game, I had Lee pull him up, but if I were me and not Lee? He would've fell to his death in that belltower. I wouldn't be capable of pulling him up, and if I didn't let him go we'd both go down.
I would save him actually. Like others said , not saving someone while you have the chance to could haunt you forever..
I'd make an attempt to save him but with my noodle arms I would end up dropping him out of exhaustion. Or I'd be so weak Ben's weight would drag me off with him lol.
As much as I hated Ben's actions in episode 4, I couldn't feel like I wanted to let someone die when they just admitted their mistakes. Why did Telltale want us to hate him much more by making him take the hatchet from door resulting walkers overunning Crawford? Wasn't him leaving Clementine behind enough?
Pointless waste of a life. Save him
The fact that you'd do that in real life legit scares me and makes me grateful that the likelihood of this type of situation ever happening is slim to none.
If I could, I'd save him. I'm not letting anyone die. (Barring them being truly evil)
I would pull him up like i did in my original playthrough. Clem wouldn't have liked me dropping him and Ben fucked up but didn't deserve to die. If he had done it on purpose then that that's a different matter though...
Yes, that's why I hate Gabe. Gabe threw me under the bus and he doesn't admit his mistake.
double post, wtf?
I don't think that applies to everyone. I could drop Hitler or other monsters and would feel proud for the rest of my life.
Actually, he does if you talk to him in the junkyard and when you're pushing the truck. He's less apologetic in the second instance, mind you, but it's still referenced.
Pretty much the only thing of worth to come out of that stupid scene beyond one or two lines from Tripp and Eleanor.
What would I do? I'd pull the kid up because I would hope my first instinct would be to help another person.
In game though I prefer the scene where Kenny saves Christa over the one where he shoots Ben in the alley. So sorry Ben, you're dying most of the time.
When you really think about it, Ben was willing to sacrifice himself for the group anyways. He had to have felt guilty for what happened earlier that season considering that HE was the one who made the mistake that got one of the other group members killed. He had to LIVE with that mistake. As sad as it would've been, I probably would've done it, if anything, just to honor HIS wishes and to spare him the pain. It's called MERCY.
Yeah I know. Ben did some terrible mistakes, but it was only because he was a coward and he is just a teenager who still can't stand up for himself. Except for that one time at episode four.
Letting him die a painful death is mercy. Wut?
Ikr, not like he broke both his legs and was then bitten by atleast 5 walkers, oh and because nobody destroyed his brain he actually became a walker, very mercifull indeed.