When playing a stealth game, do you knock people out or kill them?

[TaySan]

I'm playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and I just kill everyone. :D No mercy to my enemies! though I don't think it makes much of a difference in that game. What do you guys normally do when given the option?

Edit damn auto correcting again :( stealth

 

[chandoog]

As much Non lethal as possible on the first try, fully lethal if/when replaying.

 

[Indelible]

I kill them and loot their corpse, the most fun option.

 

[Polyh3dron]

i form babby when steal thing

 

[Poppy]

just put a basket over their head

or murder them in violent horrific ways i guess! all about my mood!

 

[DontHateTheBacon]

I'm playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and I just kill everyone. :D No mercy to my enemies! though I don't think it makes much of a difference in that game. What do you guys normally do when given the option?

Edit damn auto correcting again :( stealth

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The smiley face in this post really broke me. I can't stop laughing.

I try my best to not kill anyone I don't have to!

 

[zma1013]

Oh... this is about games. Nevermind.

 

[Ravelle]

I stealth until I get spotted, then it's murdering time.

 

[Dreamboum]

Non-lethal first and then I play around if I replay the game

 

[Doctor_Thomas]

Try to avoid killing. Incapacitate or sneak by....

But MGS also makes a rampage fun on subsequent playthroughs.

COMBAT HIGH

 

[Video Games Are Dumb]

Any game that gives me a non lethal option is what I go for. If someone dies, I reload a save.

I remember playing the entirety of Dishonored 2 without so much as a single kill. So in my second playthrough I tried more violent tactics and...whew...that game sure earns it's M rating. I found it genuinely shocking how much stuff I missed. Yet, I wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Htown]

what kind of casual has to interact with enemies in a stealth game instead of just sneaking past them? smh

Spoiler

non-lethal when possible

 

[aerie]

I go non-lethal whenever possible, it is often more challenging and rewarding.

 

[Brick]

I go non-lethal until I'm found out, then nothing can stop my bloodlust.

 

[PucePikmin]

Kill them. I'm not good enough with stealth to have any outstanding liabilities that might wake up mid-mission.

 

[Canucked]

depends on how annoying I find the stealth.

AC games I can do it. MGS, just kill people.

 

[Nightfall]

Finished every MGS non-lethal. For other games I try to do it but don't stress myself if it gets too hard.

 

[Kalentan]

The original thread title looked really bad out of context lol.

But always non-lethal.

 

[stumblebee]

In Dishonored 1, I did a non-lethal playthrough where I KO'ed people in my path. Of course, up next was body disposal, so I did what I thought was logical at the time and dumped the, still alive, bodies in some water.

Boy oh boy was I ever embarrassed when I saw that I had some kills on my record because I forgot that people can drown.

 

[L Thammy]

i'm not going to tell you what i do because i don't want you to catch me

 

[Garrod Ran]

my experience is best described with

 

[ByWatterson]

Depends on whether one or the other consumes ammo. Whichever is more efficient as to ammunition, that's my method.

 

[captainmal01]

If there's a viable non-lethal option in a game, I'll always take it.

 

[jelly]

I knock them out and collect the bodies, put them in a safe place.

 

[Goldenroad]

It just depends. I'm not going to go out of my way in Hitman, for example, most of the time, to find a non-lethal weapon if I've got something like a throwing star that will just do the same job. But if I've just got a can of soup, I guess they're getting knocked out with a can of soup.

 

[Mandos]

Does knocking them out but leaving them in life threatening situations they might not escape count as non lethal? It's not my fault they fell into the alligator pit or active volcano

 

[Hentailover]

If I can, I prefer to not touch em at all, but some games are just not designed like that. To me, the most satisfying way to do stealth is so that nobody even realized you were there. And guard finding a corpse, or somebody waking up with a headache, would immeiately be like "somebody been here". No, I want it to be a "they noticed something missing like 5 days later" kinda situation

 

[Garrod Ran]

Does knocking them out but leaving them in life threatening situations they might not escape count as non lethal? It's not my fault they fell into the alligator pit or active volcano

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ah yes, the Batman Question

 

[Deleted member 35631]

I'm playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey and I just kill everyone. :D No mercy to my enemies! though I don't think it makes much of a difference in that game. What do you guys normally do when given the option?

Edit damn auto correcting again :( stealth

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I just finished playing Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and it's completely useless not to kill them, and life it's easier if you do.

In other games, I just do whatever is easier, although I found out that in many games you can "cheese" it by killing someone, then they see it and approach the dead body so you kill him too, then another approaches and just repeat.

 

[Jimnymebob]

I forget the emblem name on MGS4, but lethal stealth is my go to. I think it was tarantula maybe?
I did go fairly non lethal on MGSV though, due to corpses not being useful on Mother Base lol.

 

[Cokie Bear]

I am the foxiest of the hounds.

 

[RaySpencer]

Non lethal when possible.

There is enough games I play about murdering everything in sight, so I like to take advantage of the stealth.

 

[sirap]

Non-lethal if it matters.

 

[GymWolf86]

if they wake up after a while and i don't have penalties, i usually go for the kill.

 

[Richietto]

Depends on how they looked at me.

 

[Mentalist]

I try to do non-lethal, unless they've done something that's clearly morally reprehensible.

For example, I'm generally non-lethal in Deus Ex: Human Revolution. But when I come back to the Alice Pods and see what happened, I tend to pull out the armblades and murder every single Belltower op there, even though I could easily ghost my way out.

 

[Menchin]

Murder is always the best solution for any problem

 

[Denamitea]

I almost always will try to play non leathily if given the option. I like the added moral dilemma that it gives the experience and I like it when it comes with the added difficulty of the possibility of enemies waking back up before you finish in an area.

I loved playing non leathily in MGSV for instance. The open ended nature of the gameplay and level design really made it exciting to plan out all of your moves/ options in case one of the guards you knocked out wakes back up.

 

[McNum]

Preferably none of the above, but non-lethal if I have to. Lethal is a last resort.

Being a ghost is where the real fun lies. The thing you were guarding is now missing/the person you were protecting is now dead, but nobody saw a thing? Perfect!

 

[Eugene's Axe]

Non lethal if I have the option.

 

[W17LY]

I prefer to kill them, but some games punish killing against just knocking so... They lead you to a non lethal way.

 

[tarman76]

My favorite perk is the one that auto loots people as I kil them.

 

[Software Update]

I knock them out and then kill them either by shooting them so they don't wake up or throwing their bodies over a ledge. This sounds really bad now that I type it out.

if there are gameplay penalties for killing then I'll stick to nonlethal.

 

[dancingphlower]

I try non-lethal, but if they start shooting me, well, they asked for it lol.

 

[Milennia]

Try to knock out, get caught, kill

 

[SturokBGD]

I was non-lethal when I was young and full of life, now I just wish everyone was dead.

 

[Drayco21]

It depends on the character I'm playing. Agent 47 should be good enough to only kill his target and then vanish without a trace, so that's how I play Hitman. I play Adam Jensen as if he were a super hero and go full nonlethal. Big Boss grows into a pretty awful person with no regard for those around him, so his MGS games will leave a trail of bodies behind him.

 

[Thiago]

Non-lethal if there's consequences for killing.

 

[astro]

Depends on tbe lore.

If they're dangerous horrible people in-lore, they die.

If they're simply guards or not tied to some kind of heinous plot, they get a KO.

 

[SwampBastard]

I just started playing ACO myself a couple weeks ago and have been assassinating the shit out of everyone. How does knocking someone out work? I assume they get revived if another NPC finds them?