tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-08-27:1711987 feotakahari feotakahari 2022-11-17T21:49:50Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-08-27:1711987:450087 2022-11-17T21:49:50Z 2022-11-17T21:49:50Z public 0 In honor of Splinter Cell temporarily being free: remember that one mission where you have to kidnap a government official who’s leaking information, and then it turns out that of course he’s not a traitor, he has a mental illness that compels him to hoard information, and the server where he hoarded it wasn’t secure? Isn’t that such a microcosm of Tom Clancy?<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=feotakahari&ditemid=450087" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2012-08-27:1711987:54389 2019-03-18T05:54:50Z 2019-03-18T05:54:50Z public 2 &nbsp;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?<br /><br />Dishonored 2: you get an achievement for your heroism.<br /><br />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.)<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Thief 3: A and B are both coded as your enemies, so they'll work together to beat you up.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=feotakahari&ditemid=54389" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments