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Emily Don't Burn :(

posted 12 years ago by Camel13
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You want to know what really ticks me off about this otherwise excellant game? You can kill most of your allies in the framing levels at the pub in the early stages of the game, and yeah, it prompts a "game over" screen just a couple seconds later. I admit, it doesn't really serve any purpose unless you just feel like going postal on your bossy bosses ;) and sometimes it's just fun to watch stuck-up pendleton running around on fire.

But the annoying part is that you can kill everyone but Emily! Trying to kill her doesn't even prompt a "game over"! What's up with that? The worst part is how extra annoying she becomes when you try to kill her. You can stand right in front of her and shoot her in the face, and not only does she survive without flinching, but then she says something annoying like "Was that you, Corvo?" What is she? Crown princess of the friggin obvious? :p

"Feeling Stupid? I know I am!" - Homer J. Simpson

[–] andyfreakindawson 12 years ago

seriously? you get upset because you want to kill a kid in a video game and can't? i guess maybe you need to do like the one guy did for Mass Effect 3 and take them to court to get your wish. who knows, you might even find some other bored psychopaths to take up your cause.

[–] Camel13 12 years ago

As silly as it sounds I can kind of sympathize with that guy (BTW, I'd never heard of that story before you mentioned it). Mass Effect was an amazing series... that was ruined by it's last 10 minutes. It deserved SO much better than the awful endings it got.

But back to the topic at hand, my gripe isn't really that you can't kill Emily. If that's what you want to see, you can pretty much accomplish that just by letting the admiral throw her off the top of the tower at the end of the game. My gripe is that the game lets you kill all your other allies (even though it prompts a "game over"), but the only "ally" it doesn't work for is Emily. Hell, you can't even piss her off by jumping on her head like you can with all the other good guys. If the game made all your allies immune to your weapons (as so many other games do), I could understand that and would be completely cool with that. But for some reason you've got this one single ally that's immune to your attacks, when all the other aren't. And as luck would have it, the one ally you can't whack just happens to be the most annoying one! Seriously? Of all the allys that get immunity in this game, it has to be the one who is most tempting to kneecap? And then to make it worse they actually have her react by making the most freaking obvious commentaries about what your doing.

And no, I'm nowhere near pissed enough that I'd take a company to court over this. Dishonored is a great game and all games, even the best, have their flaws. This one wasn't even the worst of Dishonored. It's just a minor gripe that irritated me, and I felt like venting.

"Feeling Stupid? I know I am!" - Homer J. Simpson

[–] antonio-rojas2016 11 years ago

That's gamers for you; they want options, even if those options are stupid as hell. "I can't do whatever I want in a video game wth!!!!! I should be able to kill anyone I want." Really dumb thing to complain about.

[–] sth128 10 years ago

I think it's to do with game ratings or some such. You cannot show sequence in games where a minor comes to harm as direct action from the player with ill intent.

I vaguely recall another game (Skyrim I think) where this became an issue after modders added the ability to kill children characters.

In any case you didn't really have to wait till that level to murder your "allies" for lulz. You can do it right after escaping from jail. I did it just to see what happens and was plenty surprised that the developers actually programmed the game to allow friendly fire.

You also get a "game over" if you jump in the bath with Calista. She can't bare (I mean bear) anyone knowing that she bathes with her dress and heels on... LOL