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The no death idea dumped?

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The no death idea dumped?

I was reading an interview with PM and he said that having no death, just scars has been dumped.

I ask about the scars that your character will gain over time, a feature he discussed at last year's E3. Molyneux says he wanted to do something where a character can lose a fight and not die, but still suffer consequences: All the bad guys gang up and beat the **** out of you after you're bested, and your avatar gets scarred.
It was a very intriguing idea, but Molyneux says it's gone now. Testers were turning the game off and restarting from their last save rather than have their avatar be permanently scarred. "I had to retreat on that," he says. "They emulated the very thing I was trying to avoid."
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Read the whole interview here
 
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They have kept certain situations where your character can become scarred but given you a choice involving it instead. So im guessing that you will be able to die now instead of being beaten up and scarred.
 
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i have an idea, in stead of dying. why not just be knocked out, and ur character wakes up in the same area several hours later, and u have some of ur money gone?
 
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Rhadiel;177228 said:
i have an idea, in stead of dying. why not just be knocked out, and ur character wakes up in the same area several hours later, and u have some of ur money gone?
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Kind of GTA style where you wake up at a hospital with some of your money gone?
 
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Dark Drakan;177229 said:
Kind of GTA style where you wake up at a hospital with some of your money gone?
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yeah basically, but ur in the same spot u were when u got knocked out. like the bad guys just left you there. or like if u get attacked by bandits, they'll bring u back to their camp and hold you hostage. same for hobbes and other humanoid creatures
 
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That would be a whole new door to open when it comes to everyone having a different story, because im sick of those situations where Im fighting someone or thing and theres a cutscene before it dies and it has to happen a certain way, and if I die theres only one way to progress, I think it would be cool to not die and start over. For instance if in fable TLC, I was fighting the White Balverine and died(But there was that nifty knockout feature) and woke up the village might be wrecked or destroyed or people hurt or different things developed.
 
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If you could be held hostage, then maybe there is a quest where you have to be captured, then take out the bandits/hobbes from the inside. Awesome.
 
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I can't really see what they can do apart from having the character actually die and you having to start from the last save game.
 
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rep 4 u, I would'nt want scarring and dying over and over. I'd be one to start over. I can't enjoy a game, that I'm scared so early in a game. If you die, you'd have to start over anyway. The way you look effects, the game around you.Comments, etc.:unsure:
 
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Steampunk;177245 said:
That would be a whole new door to open when it comes to everyone having a different story, because im sick of those situations where Im fighting someone or thing and theres a cutscene before it dies and it has to happen a certain way, and if I die theres only one way to progress, I think it would be cool to not die and start over. For instance if in fable TLC, I was fighting the White Balverine and died(But there was that nifty knockout feature) and woke up the village might be wrecked or destroyed or people hurt or different things developed.
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Branching stories are always a good idea for if you die against story driven enemies or bosses. As you said, if you died then you should wake up and see everyone killed because you couldnt defeat the boss etc and people should ridicule you for it. However if you die by something like a Hobbe it wouldnt really be feasible to branch anything from that or every random bandit you come across so death would have to be the only option there.
 
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They should make it so when you are defeated a villager then drags you back to the nearest town. (thats what they said they would do for Fable 1) :D
 
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I was going to suggest Zamamee's idea.
 
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originally i liked the scaring idea and i do still but i always thought there would be a way to remove them... if there is no way to remove them then no i dont think i would enjoy the game as much... youre supposed to be a hero not a freak... though it would be a great emotional high for eveyone around you to hate you and think your ugly and then your dog show so much love to you... oh well
 
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NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! They should just keep it the way it was cuz no matter what they do people are just gonna turn it off and reload the last save. People always find ways around stuff like that they should keep it the way it was gonna be cuz if they take it out it ruins it for all the honest gamers that dont try to cheat the game!
 
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I loved scarring in Fable, it made your hero actually looked like an experienced warrior rather than some helpless little princess. I wish they would just keep the scars and stop tending to all the whiners :getlost:.
 
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Goretex;177648 said:
I loved scarring in Fable, it made your hero actually looked like an experienced warrior rather than some helpless little princess. I wish they would just keep the scars and stop tending to all the whiners :getlost:.
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I totally agree scars look awsome.
 
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they should just keep it the way it was gonna be. no matter what they do there will always be little twerps that try to cheat the game. and if they take out the no death thing where you get scared that just ruins it for all the people who really care about the game. peter said he wanted people to care about dieng, but if you make people care, people will turn the game off when they die. but some people wont so just leave it please!
 
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Yeah, some people actually care about the realism, and so wont cheat it.
 
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Scars or not, I don`t really like the no death system. GTA style knockouts seem like a reasonable idea.
 
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