It’s even stupider when the game railroads you into it. If I left a trail of bodies in my wake then obviously I intend to kill the main baddie too.
Fuck games that make you let the baddie go.
If I left a trail of bodies in my wake then obviously I intend to kill the main baddie too.
Fuck games that make you let the baddie go.
I think one of the reasons people like FNV so much is kinda this. If you want to, you can tell the final boss to go away. Or you can kill them. I made a character that was speech focused. I didn’t want to reassure the end boss that “oh, logistics is hard, don’t worry, my faction will collapse eventually because of logistics” and I got to cave their head in.
Contrast Deus Ex: Human Revolution, where you’re railroaded into a conversation with the final bad guy, and the entire fucking time I’m just fixated on how I’m going to shoot him in the face the instant the dialog tree ends.
That’s kind of a lot of conversations with bosses in Deus Ex tbh. Notable exception being the terrorist leader in the first game where by the end of it you’re like wait actually he has a point
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The first game is one of the cases where it makes sense, cause you’re playing as a guy with a very lenient policy on murdering
The ending of the first one is just so terribly bad.
It makes the entire game worthless. They could have just stayed at home and the ending would have been exactly the same.
Nah, if they stayed at home a lot of people wouldn’t have been hard murdered
Wait, who let’s who go in TLOU?
Theyre talking about the second one
Oh, well that made perfect sense.
Yeah honestly the whole time I was like stoooop fightingggg
And like, literally one of the core themes of that game was the cycle of violence, how self-destructive it is, and breaking that cycle.
But if you kill him you’ll be just like him.
The protagonist and the villain are both top 1%ers with class consciousness.
This exactly lol. Like bombing thousands of civilians and then decrying “political violence”.
Or libs saying ‘but we cant punish fascists!’
Far cry 4 was unbelievably frustrating with this “mechanic” a rocket launcher of 50cal round to the face means you don’t get to fuck me in a cutscene… The game disagreed.
Yeah downscaling your power level for a cut scene is stupid too. Lotta times in games I’m just like “this is 6 mercs, I could have taken them easy”
MGS is also guilty of it
Kojima gets a pass from me because I want to go on whatever wild ride he feels like telling
Okay but have you considered something something Nanomachines something something Metal Gear something something Patriots something something Otacon pissing himself.
Yup i hate this stupid trope so fucking much. It’s just being so obnoxiously hypocritical in order to deliver that another over generalized stupid notion: revenge bad
But don’t you see? Just because the greedy capitalist killed millions doesn’t mean you can kill him.
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Not just the henchmen, but the henchwomen, and the henchchildren.
Hench Lives Matter!
Won’t you think about the goons?
Take out the henchcats and henchdogs too. Don’t want them going feral.
What about the henchboss?
Here’s to Smitty!
Related: Leaving the bad guy injured or “probably dead”
Cut the head off and make sure they’re for-real dead.
Or you know, check like a pulse.
Too many “aha but i secretly can slow my heart rate!” tricks. Cut off the head. Granted, the plot could still pull some “it was a clone” nonsense.
Have you ever cut off anyone’s head? Without the proper equipment it is serious work.
Wolfenstein new order. Chick gets her head caved in by a mech, still comes back just as agile and obnoxious as ever, with no apparent effects other than being slightly uglier.
TBF she’s a Nazi so her head was empty to start with
Followed by TNC wherein Blaszco
Spoiler
is beheaded
and continues to be a supersoldier thereafter.
I love these games
What do you define as the proper equipment? Can do it with pocket knife if you’re dedicated.
Partial credit goes a long way toward the general goal.
Yeah, maybe just slit their neck WIDE open. Or, if you’ve got the ammo, unload a magazine into their skull.
Someone has been watching CW’s Arrow.
Like, Oliver, those henchem you shot with arrows, and your sidekicks shot with bullets are dead. Your friends are actively begging you to kill their leader who has threatened the entire city like 6 times now. Just kill him too, no one cares, they will probably build you a statue.
Is it just some cheap plot device, though? Now the big bad can escape from prison or whatever and find new plebs for Arrowman to kill and we’ll all have a big ol’ happy happy
Well, the henchmen usually wears masks or helmets so we and the protagonist don’t humanize them.
Exactly, the random goons in games are designed to be without humanity and to fade into the background as much as possible.
Imagine if instead of dying quick and going immediately still and silent, random goons crawled around on the floor for two minutes in absolute agony after you shoot them like “Oh God there’s so much blood! I don’t want to die!”
Would totally change the tone of the game.
“I have 4 kids and my wife has cancer! This was the only available job in this economy! I had 3 PHDs! Would you at least go to my house and give this letter to my #coughing blood# wife?”
[Sure, buddy] [I’ll do everything I can to make sure they’re safe] [How do you think I got this address, mate?]
I would absolutely play this game. Lol
Hey now sometimes they also wear masks to save on game resources. Like with Fallout NV where the Legion has so masked guys is because the game would shit itself if it didn’t.
Also I want that second one, best im probably gonna get is watching a dementia patient crawl around with a blown off leg in Rimworld.
Aang be like:
Aang doesn’t kill anyone, though. It’s an important part of his character for the entire series.
Yeah. In universe his personal human body count is zero. Out of universe, there’s no way the water spirit merging didn’t kill hundreds of fire nation sailors, but as far as the story itself is concerned, aang didn’t actually kill anyone.
https://screenrant.com/avatar-last-airbender-aang-killed-people-pacifist/
I think it’s pretty well established that he doesn’t personally have control of his actions in the avatar state, at least at that point in the story. He doesn’t even know how it works. Thats a pretty major plot point. Combine that with him also being merged with the twin spirit of the one that was just killed, and justifying an argument of “but what about all those soldiers” really just falls flat.
I’d say the closest he came to killing of his own volition was when the sandbenders stole Appa… and he still didn’t pull the trigger.
Externalities are a hell of a drug.
That was the moon spirit channeling through him. Different situation.
When I was young I thought the ending was the coolest thing ever because taking a person’s elemental bending away is like ripping your entire being away. Like stripping a billionaire of all of their assets and cash. Horrible blow to their ego, lifetime of suffering, etc.
But now that I’m older, Aang should have just killed the bastard. The fight was hella cool tho.
Amazing how, as you got older, your opinions got more basic and animalistic.
Kids really are incredible.
There are good reasons to not leaving Ozai alive that a child wouldn’t factor in but an adult would. Namely a revanchistic coup against Zuko to reinstate either Ozai or Azula and restore the Fire Nation empire, while Azula was redeemable in theory Ozai wasn’t, my source for that last bit being that he is voiced by Mark Hamill.
Point is that leaving him alive while idealistic and honestly pretty gnarly also leaves loose ends.
Caillou looking centrist loser 😶
It makes sense for him as he is the equivalent of a Buddhist monk. They follow the virtue of no harm. Same way he is vegetarian in the story.
The color of this kid’s clothes makes me hear the text in Winnie the Pooh’s voice and I can’t stop laughing.
Fr, I was always thinking, " NO, MC You DUMBASS, HE’S THE EVIL ONE." No but the one henchmen, yah Fuck him an all his hommies. That’s what y’all get for not being ‘important’ I guess, smh
Protags who do this would normally also spare henchmen who were incapacitated or surrendered, right? Those 7,455 henchmen who died all went down swinging. Accepting the villain’s surrender is only notable because for some reason all of their underlings were fanatics who fought to the death.
[New Vegas] I know it’s how Joshua Grahm heals in the end, but it always felt weird sparing that one guy at the end of Honest Hearts after actually genociding his whole tribe. (Joshua’s words, not mine)
I remember waiting for a twist when wonder woman was plowing through all those allied forces just to spare the nazi at the end??
