How evil can you be?

[Jackbrick]

In Skyrim/Oblivion for example if an NPC is annoying me I can have them killed. I can feed on NPCs as a vampire in both games.

From what I've seen choices seem to be very restricted and I can't be a monster. Like what if I want to be the bad guy?

[Noop]

You cant attack anybody unless you talk to them and the dialogue has an option to attack.

[dustin1280]

You can't kill any NPCs you want, they have to actually attack you or have dialog that starts an attack.

In terms of quest results, as a general rule of thumb most big quests have both a kill option and a save option. So you can be fairly murderous in many quests.

To my knowledge you won't see any ultra evil things in this game though.
No sacrificing your party members for power
Destroying a town for loot, etc...

[Jackbrick]

Messaggio originale di Noop:

You cant attack anybody unless you talk to them and the dialogue has an option to attack.

That's kind of boring. In video games like this I've killed someone simply for having a nice suit of armor or cool looking weapon, before taking it for myself.

[dustin1280]

Messaggio originale di Jackbrick:

Messaggio originale di Noop:

You cant attack anybody unless you talk to them and the dialogue has an option to attack.

That's kind of boring. In video games like this I've killed someone simply for having a nice suit of armor or cool looking weapon, before taking it for myself.

Yeah this games NPCs are REALLY bad, here is a writeup I made for it:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2457220/discussions/0/523083613234821796/

[Dreaming Prince]

Messaggio originale di Jackbrick:

How evil can you be? Like what if I want to be the bad guy?

the worst you can do is stating your opinion about the game on the forum i guess.

[Jackbrick]

Messaggio originale di dustin1280:

Messaggio originale di Jackbrick:

That's kind of boring. In video games like this I've killed someone simply for having a nice suit of armor or cool looking weapon, before taking it for myself.

Yeah this games NPCs are REALLY bad, here is a writeup I made for it:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2457220/discussions/0/523083613234821796/

What can you become truly demonically evil? The same scale of this? You can become the Lord of Murder at the end of this game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KpbtGhm8s

[Tea Lady]

I am not super far but I did something so ♥♥♥♥♥♥ that it pissed off one of my companions so much I thought he would leave.

You can't just be a serial killer because you are a character with a job, like Shepard from Mass Effect. You do get way more choices about who you are as a character but you can't just free form it.

I think it's really freaking great, especially coming off finishing PoE 1 and 2 back to back.

I know rpg gamers can get really picky about what they want in a game so if you need murdering everyone to be an option you will be disappointed, but it's not like that was an option in either of the previous Pillars games.

[floppydk]

They put in too many BIPOCBGT npcs to allow the players to attack npcs

[patrick68794]

You can't just be a murderous psychopath because this simply isn't that type of game. Also in both Oblivion and Skyrim there are numerous NPCs that can't ever be killed without modding the games.

You can make some very evil choices in this game that do have lasting impacts though, more-so than in either Oblivion or Skyrim.

[terminalinsanity]

Messaggio originale di Noop:

You cant attack anybody unless you talk to them and the dialogue has an option to attack.

is this real? yikes

[patrick68794]

Messaggio originale di terminalinsanity:

Messaggio originale di Noop:

You cant attack anybody unless you talk to them and the dialogue has an option to attack.

is this real? yikes:duranceleft::duranceright:

It's not a sandbox RPG.

[starkmaddness]

Not only can you not be evil, you will actually get lectured for killing a literal murderer. The game seriously wants you to spare murderers. You can kill a hundred nameless humans on the way to that murderer, but that is fine.

[patrick68794]

Messaggio originale di starkmaddness:

Not only can you not be evil, you will actually get lectured for killing a literal murderer. The game seriously wants you to spare murderers. You can kill a hundred nameless humans on the way to that murderer, but that is fine.

Incorrect. You can be very evil and in a lot of instances your companions will actually be perfectly on board with you killing people. Like Ilora for instance. You can kill her at the very beginning of the game and all Garryk says is "glad we didn't take the chance" when referring to leaving her alive.

[Tegridy Farms]

Messaggio originale di starkmaddness:

Not only can you not be evil, you will actually get lectured for killing a literal murderer. The game seriously wants you to spare murderers. You can kill a hundred nameless humans on the way to that murderer, but that is fine.

Ah so they tried to copy off of The Last of Us 2's story. Stunning and brave.

[BigRowdy]

I saw a video where you can hack the NPC's with a weapon all day and it does nothing. Fully telling you the NPC's are just props.