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Pixel Thief  Posts: 429 Joined: 7 Jul 2008     | |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 119 Joined: 8 Jul 2009     | I see this a whole lot in games. Too much. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 894 Joined: 30 Dec 2008    | Ahaha, so true. Its also very stupid, happens way to often in games. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2630 Joined: 28 May 2009     | I don't want to think about that too much :( |
Muckraker  Posts: 302 Joined: 25 Mar 2009     | Hmmm. You know what? I never even really thought about stuff like this. Now that you mention it though, it really doesn't make much sense. Hehe. Donut filling... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1016 Joined: 21 May 2008     | Games get away with this quite often. I never really gave it any thought until you pointed it out just now. Great work as always, Shamus! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1821 Joined: 8 Oct 2008    | So you didn't want them beaten to death? HA! OOPS! Oh, I needed that today. Thanks Shamus. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1044 Joined: 22 Sep 2009  | haha th epolice should give clearer instructions! |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1520 Joined: 1 May 2009  | "Donut filling" tastes nice |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2134 Joined: 28 Apr 2008    | I thought I was the only one who noticed this. Anyway, at least now I know what to expect when I get the game. |
Time Lord  Posts: 10078 Joined: 13 Feb 2008    | As a good friend of mine is renowned for saying. "We investigated them...TO DEATH!" |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1721 Joined: 29 Aug 2009     | Wow. Champions online sounds fun but has too many plot holes. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 189 Joined: 4 Jul 2009     |
and costs something EDIT: that is you have to keep paying for it |
Copy Clerk Posts: 68 Joined: 27 Apr 2009   | True, thanks for not waking me want the game more this time. |
On the Record  Posts: 5161 Joined: 13 Dec 2008   | Heh. Vampire Donuts... Seriously though, you do see this in plenty of games. Especially those with superheroes and/or vigilantes. Hell, is there any point to the police actually investigating? Easiest thing to do would be to lie and say there's a huge investigation going on then sent Pants Man or whoever in to get the 'evidence'. Meanwhile, you spend the police budget from the 'investigation' on expensive holidays and cars and second homes in Mauritius. Then everyone's happy! Except the dead guys... |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 92 Joined: 17 Apr 2009     | Yeah, no doubt the case of most games these days! It would actually be kind of fun to uncover a syndicate if there was a game that could iniciate it properly! |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 8 Sep 2009    | Yeah, this is the one of the reasons I can't play themepark mmos anymore... |
Anonymous Source Posts: 5 Joined: 24 Jul 2009  | In City of Heroes, you didn't kill your targets, you *defeated* them. After they were down for the count, teleporters would (eventually) automatically take them to jail. Of course, some heroes defeated their targets by sticking swords and claws RIGHT THROUGH THEM, or shooting them with assault rifles, but those bad guys are tough, they can take it. I guess that they didn't feel like bothering with a similar concept for CO. |
Paperboy  Posts: 22 Joined: 4 Jan 2009  | Y'know, this happens in a lot of games that aren't MMO's too.. Your boss sends you on a mission for "evidence" and everyone who you have evidence on is a smoking corpse by the time you have it. You kind of have to wonder if they sent you on an assassination mission, and told you to pick up justification. |
Paperboy  Posts: 14 Joined: 19 Jun 2009   | Guilty! That's my solution for every mission. "Go here" "OK" I then kill everything in sight and if that doesn't complete the mission and they don't drop anything THEN I actually read the mission for further details "ooohhh I was supposed to escort them not kill them, lol" As they say, shoot first, ask questions later. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2055 Joined: 5 Jun 2009  |
Yes you can. I did it a couple of times - worked flawlessly. On a more serious note,
You can think you subdued them,or beaten them seriously but not fatally,or just murdered them outright. It all depends on whether you are shining Cape or dark and edgy vigilante. And by the way,the guys you snatched that laptop from could be only part of a gang. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1761 Joined: 3 Sep 2008   | Good point there. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 712 Joined: 13 Mar 2008   | Yes, donut filling. Human donut filling (Watchmen reference) |
Beat Writer  Posts: 145 Joined: 20 Mar 2009 | Doughnut filling? I see wut you did thar! But seriously, really funny comic. I'll probably get this for the 360 when it comes out. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1235 Joined: 25 Nov 2007    |
Ahh, comic-book logic. You are always worth the lawls. |
Anonymous Source Posts: 8 Joined: 26 Aug 2008 | Bit of a tangent, but reminds me of the quest chains in MMOs where you have to go into an enemy base and get some item from deep inside it. When you bring the item back, the next step is to defeat the enemy boss. That is, the enemy boss you already defeated to get to the item in question. I suppose you could sneak past them and pick up said item, then return to kill them, but that sounds like a lot of work just for plot continuity. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 136 Joined: 20 Nov 2008  | I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure that evidence is inadmissible in court. Fruit of the poisonous tree and stuff |
Copy Clerk Posts: 83 Joined: 26 Dec 2007  | It was a fine summer morning, the kind to make a man happy to be alive. And probably the man would have been happier to be alive. He was, in fact, dead. It would be hard to be deader without special training. "Well, now," said Sergeant Colon (Ankh-Morpork City Guard, Night Watch), consulting his notebook, "so far we have cause of death as a) being beaten with at least one blunt instrument b) being strangled with a string of sausages and c) being savaged by at least two animals with big sharp teeth. What do we do now, Nobby?" "Arrest the suspect, Sarge," said Corporal Nobbs, saluting smartly. "Suspect, Nobby?" "Him," said Nobby, prodding the corpse with his boot. "I call it highly suspicious, being dead like that. He's been drinking, too. We could do him for being dead and disorderly." Colon scratched his head. Arresting the corpse offered, of course, certain advantages. But... "I reckon," he said slowly, "that Captain Vimes'll want this one sorted out. You'd better bring it back to the Watch House, Nobby." |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2828 Joined: 28 May 2009    | Hahahahaha... so very, very true. I dislike when a game does this. But the missions themselves are always fun, so it evens out. |
Copy Clerk Posts: 93 Joined: 4 Feb 2008  |
Well thanks to the way some missions are handled in City; the 'evidence' is sometimes at a random position in a mission. Sometimes it works in your favour and it's the first item you come across and other times it's right at the back. And then sometimes you just get 'defeat-alls' where you beat all the guys up just because they're squatting in an empty warehouse. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 361 Joined: 3 Dec 2008   | Occasionally there are suggestions that the "corpses" aren't really dead but knocked out or something. For example, when you inoculate a "corpse" to cure it of a disease as a mission objective and it stands up and walks away. But yeah I would feel better handcuffing criminals, or tying them up, then killing them, like they did in Infamous. Zombies can bite the dust. For a death penalty in such a system when you "die" you could respawn as a prisoner and have to break out of a jail cell and "knock out" a couple of guards before returning to your quest. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 488 Joined: 29 Nov 2008 |
You can if they're Black Lanterns. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 101 Joined: 11 Aug 2009  | That's the classic superhero problem. In any normal society, taking the laws in their own hands would mean they would be hunted by the police who would want them to face trial. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4126 Joined: 23 Apr 2008   | Bwhahahaha, so true! And its not limited to these Super Hero games; alot of RPG's seem to have the same blind side ;) |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 720 Joined: 24 Mar 2009 |
Don't forget the donut budgeting. |
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Stolen Pixels #130: For Great Justice
You can't arrest a corpse.
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