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Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?
Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net>	Date: 9/7/06 6:07 a.m.
In Response To: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do? (Ross Mills [subnova]) : Remember the crazy marine in "343 Guilty Spark"? The one that : shoots you when you go through the door? : What were we meant to do with him? : We has just spent the entire game saving the marines, and not shooting them. : Now this one comes along and starts shooting us with a pistol! (Something : that had not happened before also) : Should I have just run past him? Hit him? Shot him? Thrown a grenade around : that corner? From a purely practical standpoint: One can only assume from his hostile stance towards the Chief that his mind has been so affected by what he has seen that he is no longer behaving in a sane and rational way. Once he begins firing at you, he cannot be made to stop (so long as you remain in view and he remains alive). The humane choice, obviously, would be to treat him as a casualty and get him medical attention. This is not an aspect of Halo gameplay; not for other categories of casualties, and not for this poor soul. Once he has fired upon you, return fire seems justified-- although it does waste a bullet, and if what you're after is his precious pistol ammo, whacking him saves one more. In all the times I've played that level, I only walked past and let him live once-- hoping to return to the spot after the Flood attacked to see what became of him. I honestly don't remember at this point whether I was unable to do so, or if the body was simply gone when I returned.

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Message Index

Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Ross Mills [subnova]	9/6/06 6:19 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Ciarán	9/6/06 6:43 a.m.
Lob a Plasma Grenade on him :P *NM*	Bluestone	9/6/06 6:45 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Ross Mills [subnova]	9/6/06 7:10 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Hawaiian Pig	9/6/06 7:30 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Grantix	9/6/06 7:37 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Speedhuntr	9/6/06 8:09 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Count Zero	9/6/06 9:51 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	vlad3163	9/6/06 10:13 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Vironex	9/7/06 12:43 a.m.
ESRB does rate games.	Narcogen	9/7/06 6:14 a.m.
Shotgun to the face?	Narcogen	9/7/06 6:12 a.m.
Re: Shotgun to the face?	Louis Wu	9/7/06 6:37 a.m.
Re: Shotgun to the face?	Narcogen	9/7/06 7:38 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	jester_343	9/8/06 10:14 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	serpx	9/6/06 8:09 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Rox	9/6/06 8:37 a.m.
Choice defines a person.	Peptuck	9/6/06 9:25 a.m.
I just shoot him. And I like it :)	Captain Spark	9/6/06 9:58 a.m.
Re: I just shoot him. And I like it :)	KoCKynVainn	9/6/06 10:16 a.m.
Re: Choice defines a person.	Narcogen	9/7/06 6:16 a.m.
Re: Choice defines a person.	Bodie	9/7/06 6:22 a.m.
Re: Choice defines a person.	Peptuck	9/7/06 8:45 a.m.
Re: Choice defines a person.	scarab	9/8/06 4:04 p.m.
Re: Choice defines a person.	Peptuck	9/8/06 4:13 p.m.
Re: Choice defines a person.	scarab	9/8/06 4:53 p.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Simpsons Rule	9/6/06 10:47 a.m.
Missing cutscene and carnivorous flood	Narcogen	9/7/06 6:22 a.m.
Re: Missing cutscene and carnivorous flood	ShortRoundMcfly	9/8/06 1:44 p.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	KP	9/6/06 12:36 p.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Raigns	9/6/06 2:49 p.m.
The first time I played it...	jester_343	9/6/06 2:49 p.m.
I never shot him :(	Jillybean	9/6/06 2:57 p.m.
You could mercifully...	Blackstar	9/6/06 4:22 p.m.
Re: You could mercifully...	Jillybean	9/6/06 5:30 p.m.
Re: You could mercifully...	jdogmoney	9/6/06 5:33 p.m.
Re: You could mercifully...	LoneRanger 2.5	9/6/06 9:48 p.m.
Re: You could mercifully...	Jillybean	9/7/06 6:35 a.m.
Re: You could mercifully...	Bodie	9/7/06 6:46 a.m.
According to Jaime...	Marty the Elder	9/6/06 8:53 p.m.
Re: According to Jaime...	vlad3163	9/6/06 10:31 p.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	The Freeloader	9/6/06 10:31 p.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	Narcogen	9/7/06 6:07 a.m.
Re: Game Design - What were we MEANT to do?	vlad3163	9/7/06 11:24 a.m.