How sociopathic is your video game?

[feotakahari]

 Bad guy A is about to brutally murder innocent victim B. You intervene to fight A and save B. How prepared were the developers for the idea that someone might try this?

Dishonored 2: you get an achievement for your heroism.

Shadow Tactics: B hides inside a nearby building. In gameplay terms, it's the same as if they'd died. (Neverwinter Nights does this too, but you at least get a boost to the ol' karma meter.)

Splinter Cell: you interrupt the scene. A will keep hunting for you and won't go after B again. B will just sit there forever, because he wasn't programmed under the assumption he would ever have to acknowledge your existence.

Thief 3: A and B are both coded as your enemies, so they'll work together to beat you up.

Comments

[entanglingbriars]

Planescape: Torment: as soon as you attack A he kills B before fighting you to the death.

[feotakahari]

Neverwinter Nights did that sometimes too, only my character was so stupidly overpowered that he could kill A before A got off the single attack necessary to kill B, so B just repeated the same line of dialogue over and over while waiting for someone to kill him.