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Muckraker Posts: 297 Joined: 31 Oct 2006     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1788 Joined: 20 Dec 2007    | *looks at avatar and username* Yeah, I'm definitely going to get shot a lot...maybe I'll be some boss or something since I am El Arab "DE MAGNIFICO".... |
Beat Writer  Posts: 209 Joined: 20 Mar 2008  | I would be one of the HL2 snipers, minus the inability to throw back grenades. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3353 Joined: 2 Dec 2007    | Redshirt... yeap, definatly redshirt. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 61 Joined: 5 Feb 2008  | i would be one of those static quest giving pri**s from world of warcraft. Even if no one wants to do my quests i can at least met up with some girl form Sweden. i do know someone who has married someone they met off WOW |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 101 Joined: 14 Apr 2008 | I'd be one of those agonisingly annoying escort quest NPCs who runs away from every enemy without looking where I'm going. The only reason I don't do that anyway in online gaming is because of respawning. Three cheers for cowardice! |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 387 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 | I would be an assistant NPC that shoots in all the wrong directions. |
Muckraker  Posts: 255 Joined: 13 Jan 2008  |
Redshirts for life! "And Yan-Yan to complete the away mission." Aw crap... |
Genetically Different  Posts: 463 Joined: 26 Dec 2007  | A lightgun game NPC: *jumping out of a cupboard and waving arms frantically* |
Beat Writer Posts: 218 Joined: 14 Feb 2008 | Some optional boss 10x stronger than last boss and you are requiered to do an annoying fetch quest to get a crystal, needed to be inseted at an altar to make some holy energy, to prevent me from fully recovering all my hp eatch turn. Or ill just be one of those rare really useful companion characters. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1502 Joined: 5 Dec 2007  | Gnoll Nr 49 |
Paperboy  Posts: 25 Joined: 28 Feb 2008 | I'd be one of the heads of the Mage's Guild. (In Obliivon, of course.) ;-) |
Anonymous Source Posts: 2 Joined: 17 Apr 2008 | Id be the wingman that gets captured and needs rescuing every 2 missions or so. And while being rescued, i would provide "witty" banter such as yelling "hey that was my kill!" while actually being miles away picking my nose. |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 2 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 | The Hyrule Castle Guard that forces you to start over in Ocarina of Time. Only there would be 50 more with me in the vicinity. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 133 Joined: 15 Feb 2008 | i'd be a sword for hire, you know, one of the ones that helps you with the enemies, but randomly disappears when you enter a boss fight |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 669 Joined: 8 Apr 2008   | I'd either be an NPC who starts a fetch quest where you have to fetch something for the person you have to fetch something for to get the thing you have to fetch for the person who has the thing you need to fetch for me... ...or an NPC walking down the street that you can't talk to, hurt, move, or interact with in any way whatsoever. |
Paperboy  Posts: 47 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | I'd be the NPC that is actually helpful in combat but I make characters hate me with my sarcastic you saved my life but I still hate you attitude. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 70 Joined: 9 Nov 2007 | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 124 Joined: 7 Nov 2007 | The scientist NPC who tries to warn you that they and their colleagues have accidentally unleashed zombies in the area, only to be killed mid-sentence by either an aforementioned zombie or a falling object. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2458 Joined: 25 Jan 2008   | As an NPC I'd want to be a Mr Johnson for Ares Macrotech or Saeder Krupp in the Shadowrun 'verse. |
Paperboy Posts: 28 Joined: 7 Oct 2007 | I have seven words for you. "There are many guards at the castle." |
Paperboy  Posts: 41 Joined: 30 Jan 2008 | I'd be the buggy Npc that crashes your game :) |
Anonymous Source  Posts: 7 Joined: 17 Apr 2008 | The shop owner who is slow-witted enough to let the hero steal from him but also has some sort of super-magic that kills the hero in the blink of an eye if he ever comes back. Yeah, the shopkeep from one of the Gameboy Zelda games. ..If he could kill Link in a heartbeat..why was he not 1) Out being the bloody hero or 2) Hired by the evil people? :P |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1574 Joined: 4 Nov 2007  | I've never actually seen such an NPC, but I'd be the one that opposes everything suggested by the player because GODDAMN IT I hate to be "played". |
Muckraker Posts: 297 Joined: 31 Oct 2006 |
HAHA some great replies here. How about the G-Man? How great would that be. Walk around with my briefcase, doing random subtle things to help/fuck over the player, laughing and being creepy...teleporting, stopping time... |
Paperboy Posts: 17 Joined: 11 Mar 2008 | I'd live in a hidden cabin in the forest, and if you managed to find me and talk to me, all I would say is my name. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 65 Joined: 14 Nov 2007 | Token black guy that dies saving the hero. **cries** |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 58 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 | Hm... I'd WANT to be an important character to the plot who survives the whole story... but I'd probably be a nameless character in some Baldur's Gate expansion who says the same thing over and over. |
Paperboy  Posts: 34 Joined: 27 Mar 2008 | Passed out drunk in a bar. Or Homeless man passed out drunk in the ally. Or Guard whom you get around by giving him booze so he can pass out drunk in the hallway. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 511 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | I'd be something like the Turks: officially working for the bad guys, but really just ambling around the world helping/hindering and wreaking havoc and chaos. Mercaneries. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2667 Joined: 23 Dec 2007 | The guy that is doing the mission you're doing, 100 meters ahead of you, buying/bribing/stealing things to make sure you can only do this or that. I buy all the missile launcher ammo from that vendor guy so you have to kill someone else to get some. And I bribe doors so that they only open when you get the key, instead of just blowing a hole in them. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 141 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 | Take this medkit! Take this medkit! ... Cover me, while I reload. ... ... Take this medkit! |
Paperboy  Posts: 15 Joined: 8 Apr 2008 | I'd be the male love interest who in the name of all that is cliched either get killed half way through the story or, and by or I mean most definitely, be taken hostage/prisoner by the big bad of the game and be converted to the side of evil to give the Heroine a choice between either killing me or attempting to persuade me back to the side of good with the power of love. Or I would be the party member that has for nearly the entirety of the story been working for the BBEG and proceeds to appear to betray the Hero/Heroine to him but really perform a heroic sacrifice at the last moment to save them. Or possibly be the voice in the head of the Hero/Heroine who attempts to bring them about to his way of looking while hitting on anything with two legs we come across. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 155 Joined: 25 Mar 2008 | I want to be the vendor that buys fucking everything. Some broadsword you found? Check. Murloc eyes? Keep 'em coming. Your soul? ...well, why not. I don't really have a use for it, but since you're here I don't think you're getting much use out of it. But when you stop and think, that NPC is richer than anyone could ever dream to be... |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 505 Joined: 13 Nov 2007 | I think I'd make a nifty Companion Cube. |
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In GamersWithJobs' last podcast, they had a hilarious email question:
What if you were an NPC in a game? What kind of NPC would you be?
Amongst the answers were...the NPC you gotta escort...a vendor that sells bongs...the NPC that tells you his life story before giving you a lame-ass quest. Check out that podcast - it's hilarious as usual.
Personally, I'd love to be the Resident Evil 4 merchant. Just chillin' in my shack, somehow not getting killed while Leon is barely staying alive, with that awesomely chill music playing in the background.