Ooh I like those ideas. I like them alot. Funny looking pics it is then! :D

Plus if it looks like captcha, a lot of people won't be able to read the bloody thing

Noooooo! No more locked door.....err CAPTCHAS!

This sounds good and bad all at once. I'm glad no one here is dyslexic, for example, or redeeming codes would get mighty interesting.

Of course. I was just saying that I don't think an emotional breakdown would be out of the question in such a situation.

Exactly my point! But why, after coming up with such a situation, did they do everything in their power to make this decision as easy and sanitized as possible? Would it not have made more sense to let the player have a little taste of what his decision meant? The answer is of course: They didn't want to go to far and upset the player in any way. This is a video game, after all.
Also, while I obviously don't know for sure, I'm convinced the voice actors did exactly what was required of them.

One final point. The whole emotional breakdown thing wasn't actually what I was getting at in the original post. I guess it's the nature of internet discussions that we always end up with the extremes. It's one possible outcome from an extensive list of possibilities.
Why not have Kaidan/Ashley die in Shepard's arms? Why not let them obey their orders, but have them break up contact without another word? Why not have them react very differently from each other? What I'm getting at is, in my opinion Bioware did a cop out and in in the process diminished a potentially very interesting scene.

I don't think I have ever heard anyone claiming such a story exists. I certainly know of none.

Right, this is the BG2 thread, everyone take your masses and your ages and especially your damn Knights from a certain republic and feck right off! That's right, feck off! We must all bask in the glory that is BG2. Bask I say, bask! Before I shoot you all!

Hmm, so you're proposing that I could torment people with it? To make them work for it and strive to understand it only to find out that someone else has already beaten them to it? That's evil and twisted and mean!

I like it.

And it'd be doubly fitting if the code was for planescape torment. Also true understanding is in the effort, not in the reward.

Its a spiritual journey

That will drive people bonkers!

I did think of suggesting a word jumble structure but thought it was a bit too mean, Now though...

G T R 3 Y S
J Y 3 1 D G
L E M 0 1 F
P Z A 5 5 1
1 X H 9 R T
I 1 0 O H 8

Think of trying to unscramble a set of 4 digit codes from that, especially if they can go horizontal, vertical, diagonal or the reverse of each direction. You may well NEED a script for it just to go through all the combinations

Especially to our dyslexic goggers........they wouldn't even see the order correctly.

That is truly diabolical! I'm tempted to try it just to see if anyone ever manages to do it, though it probably would just go to someone with a script. Still, it's very tempting just to see the kind of responses I'd get...

Yeah. A level 1 party walks into a room with a level-infinity demi-lich. Oh, the suspense! Will our heroes snatch victory from the jaws of defeat? ;)