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Do you usually kill all the NPCs you meet in RPGs?

Covenant

Savant
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Aug 3, 2017
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The likelihood of me killing NPCs increases with how powerful they are compared to the other enemies in the game. If the NPCs are potentially the hardest thing you'll face (such as Linaniil in ToME), then I'm outright forced to murder them.
 

Aemar

Arcane
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Asking this question for school
npc_grad.jpg


Are you from the NPC School?
 

Generic-Giant-Spider

Guest
The very first thing I did in BG1 many decades ago was wage war with the Candlekeep guards for a solid three hours before concluding I was doing something wrong and maybe I should start trying to talk to people instead of stabbing them with devastating backstab criticals.
 

InD_ImaginE

Arcane
Patron
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Aug 23, 2015
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Pathfinder: Wrath
Never done that and I find people that gauge reactivity by measure of THE MAIN QUEST SHOULD BE ABLE TO BE FINISHED EVEN THOUGH I MURDERED EVERYBODY to be incredibly dumb.

Sure it is nice when developer cares enough to do that but being butthurt because your are soft-locked out of a game for being murderous maniac is silly. If anything choice and consequence dictates that failing the main quest with no way to progress because you are being murderous hobo is actually a logical consequences of your action.
 

Wyatt_Derp

Arcane
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May 19, 2019
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Not unless I'm bored.

After you've beaten a game every paragon/renegade/chaotic neutral way possible, it's sometimes fun to just load up on high powered weaponry and murder-death-kill everything in sight. But even leveling everything pretending to have a pulse can get boring. In the end all you're left with is a quiet reminder that you were stomping around in a lifeless world from the start.

Then you have NPC respawns, which negates the goal and offers another reminder that even simulated mass murder has a glass ceiling.
 

Zibniyat

Arcane
Joined
Jun 22, 2014
Messages
6,536
Killing all NPCs makes for a barren lifeless world. And I have to sell loot to someone, hard to do it when everyone's dead.
 

Arulan

Cipher
Joined
Feb 13, 2014
Messages
313
No, but I enjoy having it as an option.
 

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