Do you kill NPCs
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I tend not to. I more often than not play "Always Lawful Good" type characters, so murdering NPCs just isn't cool. However, I plan to do an "evil" playthrough of New Vegas, so who knows? I very well may.
What do you mean "do I?" I kill game-controlled enemies all the time. heh.
Do I kill neutral NPCs? Sometimes, if they look at me funny or are wild animals, but not often.
Do I kill friendly NPCs? Depends on what good they do and whether or not I'm going for an "asshole" (aka "evil") run. But normally no, I don't. I like being good/paragon/light side, feels heroic. Sometimes I feel bad doing it, but the thought of seeing the "evil" ending keeps me focused.
Do I kill neutral NPCs? Sometimes, if they look at me funny or are wild animals, but not often.
Do I kill friendly NPCs? Depends on what good they do and whether or not I'm going for an "asshole" (aka "evil") run. But normally no, I don't. I like being good/paragon/light side, feels heroic. Sometimes I feel bad doing it, but the thought of seeing the "evil" ending keeps me focused.
Over and over! It's funny cause I just played a Caesars legion playthrough of fallout NV and every time someone saw me get into a fight with ncr rangers they wanted to fight me too. And then the military police in the strip wanted to fight me too. And when I fought back the robots attacked and now I'm hated in the strip.
It depends on who the NPC is. I can say that in Fallout 3, I killed slavers on sight, even ones that offered quests.
Well, normally no. But there are exceptions;
This one time in STALKER Oblivion Lost, I came back to Cordon from Lab X16 cause it's where my stash is, and Sidrovich actually gives you more money for high priced items than anyone else. Anyways, I needed some Medkits and went to my stash. To my horror, I found my stash near empty with only some random 9mm rounds that weren`t there before (insult to injury if you ask me). Some guy just swiped everything I had in there! I quickly ran around to everyone in the village and checking the trade menu.. Eventually I found him. He still had everything. Naturally instead of asking nicely for all my stuff back, I put a bullet in his brain. Then everyone else started shooting at me, cause they don`t know why I just executed this guy, they think I`m a prick. I regretfully had to murder them all...
I dragged there bodies to Nimble`s place and tossed`em in the basement. RIP brothers. Except that one guy of course, he`s a dick.
This one time in STALKER Oblivion Lost, I came back to Cordon from Lab X16 cause it's where my stash is, and Sidrovich actually gives you more money for high priced items than anyone else. Anyways, I needed some Medkits and went to my stash. To my horror, I found my stash near empty with only some random 9mm rounds that weren`t there before (insult to injury if you ask me). Some guy just swiped everything I had in there! I quickly ran around to everyone in the village and checking the trade menu.. Eventually I found him. He still had everything. Naturally instead of asking nicely for all my stuff back, I put a bullet in his brain. Then everyone else started shooting at me, cause they don`t know why I just executed this guy, they think I`m a prick. I regretfully had to murder them all...
I dragged there bodies to Nimble`s place and tossed`em in the basement. RIP brothers. Except that one guy of course, he`s a dick.
I do when I'm bored. Assassins Creed for example - the poison a guard and money on the floor ensures hilarity for hours.
It depends on several factors: how the playthrough is going, whether i've just saved before hand and it's a designated spree time before I reload, and whether the NPCs have earned it.
Last time I played Fallout 3, I thought that before I blew up Megaton, I'd kill everyone there that I could first... so I did, then blew it up. I also killed everyone on that bridge cos Lucy West's kid brother attacked me.
If the NPC isnt valuable in any way to me, as in isnt a shopkeeper or something, or sells something rubbish, or I can find a better alternative, then I may well kill them for a laugh. On Oblivion, I don't kill randomers all that often. Generally, in any game, I may kill an NPC with an innovative method. I never got too far into Fallout 3 because it was on my housemate's 360, but I wiped out all the people I could get away with either creatively or in a massively outnumbered shootout. I remember killing the ghoul who wanted to get into Tenpenny Towers by leaving a small stash of mines by his and his wife's beds, then shooting her with the BB gun so she got up and blew them both to shit.
For Oblivion, I made a frenzy/rally spell that, when cast on a homeless dude, and some other NPCs such as the adoring fan, it causes them to run off and attack people, which is pretty funny when you hit someone strong with it because then you get a lot of bodies to loot. The best place I've found to do this in is the Arcane University, so long as you can escape, because everyone killed is generic respawnable scholar or apprentice, and they often drop reasonable enchanted items which may be either useful or sellable
Last time I played Fallout 3, I thought that before I blew up Megaton, I'd kill everyone there that I could first... so I did, then blew it up. I also killed everyone on that bridge cos Lucy West's kid brother attacked me.
If the NPC isnt valuable in any way to me, as in isnt a shopkeeper or something, or sells something rubbish, or I can find a better alternative, then I may well kill them for a laugh. On Oblivion, I don't kill randomers all that often. Generally, in any game, I may kill an NPC with an innovative method. I never got too far into Fallout 3 because it was on my housemate's 360, but I wiped out all the people I could get away with either creatively or in a massively outnumbered shootout. I remember killing the ghoul who wanted to get into Tenpenny Towers by leaving a small stash of mines by his and his wife's beds, then shooting her with the BB gun so she got up and blew them both to shit.
For Oblivion, I made a frenzy/rally spell that, when cast on a homeless dude, and some other NPCs such as the adoring fan, it causes them to run off and attack people, which is pretty funny when you hit someone strong with it because then you get a lot of bodies to loot. The best place I've found to do this in is the Arcane University, so long as you can escape, because everyone killed is generic respawnable scholar or apprentice, and they often drop reasonable enchanted items which may be either useful or sellable
Depends on the game, the quests, the character, and if they respawn or not. For example, I will happily kill loads of people in GTA or Fable, but I wont in Oblivion or Fallout because I don't know if they are involved in a quest or not. Plus if the character I'm playing as is evil I probably will kill more people. Oh and if the NPC is very annoying I will kill them (stupid beggars/retards/bards in Assassins Creed). Plus in Oblivion, if I accidentally kill someone in my guild I'm gonna have to do some long-ass quest. If I really want to go on a killing spree in Oblivion I usually save before, and sometimes use the console to make myself overpowered, due to the levelled guards in the imperial city.
Sometimes I quick save and just kill everything just for entertainment purposes...
I'm not quite sure what a psychologist would say about that though.
I'm not quite sure what a psychologist would say about that though.