my hot take is that the reason npcs don't do stuff like that is that if they actually implemented basic infantry tactics they would be too difficult for one person to defeat solo
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Replying to @perdricof @loudpenitent and
the wlf: "okay, we only move in tight groups of four, team 1 will sit in cover and wait for her to pop her head out while we move to a superior position. nobody charge in by themselves. keep it frosty and we'll all go home today." ellie: "....shit."
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Hell, I'm less asking for "basic infantry tactics" than "if you want me to see my enemies as people whose deaths have emotional weight, have them be as or more interested in surviving a fight, even wounded, as in killing me."
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Replying to @loudpenitent @perdricof and
And I'm *still* bothered by how every stealth kill in this game is executing a prisoner explicitly after Ellie tells them not to struggle, like that's just kinda fucked. and yet there's nothing else you can do to them. Can't disarm them, can't injure them, can't try to KO them.
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I mean you can let them go, they just all try to kill you if you do This notably happens as a character moment with PlayStation Vita girl, Ellie really wasn't going to kill her
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @loudpenitent and
I take Ellie's saying "shut up, shut the fuck up" as actually being part of her process of dehumanizing them herself. It only starts after you hit the kill button, she's expressing contempt for them
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Oh yeah this is totally a thing You hear about murderers' sublimated guilt coming out as *irritation* Someone struggling and screaming for help and they're just like "Shut the fuck up already Jesus Christ"
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Yeah that's exactly what Ellie is doing She doesn't want to hear them beg for their lives
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
for the same reason, she'll say things like "f*cker" or "eat sh*t" after killing them, both in this game and in TLOU1, and as the player I even find that relieves *my* anxiety over killing NPCs incidentally, I learned a lot of French curse words by playing TLOU1 in French
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Replying to @patiencemosher @BootlegGirl and
come to think of it, it's quite revealing of character that Ellie consistently says these things and Joel never does (and I don't think Abby does either?)
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Joel and Abby are much more similar to each other in many ways than either one is to Ellie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
Right I mean Joel for all his intense violence is the one who tells Ellie in the first game "okay, I think you've hacked Nathan Drake's face enough, no seriously get off him"
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
right, because Ellie does not have the same comfort using violence instrumentally that Joel and Abby do; she's not really a soldier in any sense They are obviously driven by emotion too, esp. Abby, but not to the extent Ellie is
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