I think that it would be a good idea to be able to demorilize your enemies to the state that they are literally begging for thier life
Let me explain

You take on a group of 3 or more bandits or other human enemies, the last enemy (or 2 if a large amount of enemies) remaining drop or place thier weapons on the floor and beg for thier life by saying things like 'please, have mercy' or 'let me live and you'll never see me again'. Of course they wouldnt just stand there and say that they would maybe cower down a bit.

I say human enemies because I find it hard to imagine a troll, giant or any other creature doing this

yay or nay?



If you have any thoughts on how to improve this idea or if you have any objections, just comment below and I could put it into the original post if I think it would work well

Yes, if you are being attacked by 5 bandits and you kill 4 almost effortlessly, the last one should beg for his life/ get scared and run away.

Thats exactly what im going for

It would add another dimension to the potential of the RAI concept; as long as the bandit in this scenario won't simply cower a bit or run away, then pick up his weapon and go all 'hahaha, you move like a pregnant cow' again. I was somewhat irritated with such behaviour in Fallout New Vegas as it had me chasing down the cowering enemies because they'd simply attack again after a short while.

So I'm all for such additional behaviour, provided they won't doubleback on their cowering/fleeing after a minute and resume the chase like nothing happened

Sure why not. Maybe interacting with them would give you a couple of options

Good: Let them go.

Neutral: Take their equipment/Gold.
Make them fight for you. (they wouldnt be too strong)

Evil: Slaughter them, we know you want to.

Its a great idea, other games have this as well like Halo. If you decimate a squad in Halo the grunts will start scattering off. Its a good feeling.

and it only makes sense to add this. not only is it a good idea but it should be implemented. It would be very realistic and adds to immersion.

ALSO if you're a well known destroyer of dragons, and you hit a simple peasant, he should just cower and await death. He should be scared of you and not even hope for a chance to live if you are trying to kill him

Well in OB some do tend to run away when they have no chance of killing you.

I really like this idea. I think it would be awesome if you then see the guy you let live later in the game and even be able to talk to him and see if he was scared straight.

LOL like a bandit that turned his life around. He gets an honest job as a lumberjack and he's getting married in frostfall.

Exactly!

Great idea dude, this must be done!

That sure *would* give new definition to RAI where all your actions can have consequences. Just like the part where murdering someone might get relatives after you for revenge as Bethesda has stated, sparing a bandit might provide the bandit with a new goal in life as he signs up for guard duty in a nearby town to atone for his wickedness (after serving his sentence as criminal scum!).

This would be awesome. You could totally have bounty-hunter quests and such. The quest variety would be much greater.

This is the first poll I've seen where everybody said 'Yes.' Nice job

I think the key to this phenomena was that he included "even if it's not implemented in the game" to the poll question

I see what you mean, It would be annoying if they did that. Im sure bethesda would be able to think up something to prevent that from happening

Agreeing with Feltzy. Kudos on the 100% positive feedback.

Very good ideas.

awww we jinxed it... some hater voted no.

OF course the King of Shu would curse us

Man i cant beeive someone voted no... someone better speak up why -.-

I kinda agree with you but what should happen is that after u spare a bandit and u take his armor or what everr, that u could run in to him again and he has his name should say (spared) bandit. And maybe if u spare him again then maybe he accomponies u?

This is a good idea, but i like this idea better :

if they can do it right yes

If they are dumb they attempt to run, if they are smart they'll beg for mercy and offer anything in return for their lives.... sounds good to me!

Edit: how about making it depend on their Intelligence what they will do? If they have a good intelligence they can figure after seeing you fight a bit how fast you run and then the higher the intelligence level the more gracefully they will beg. could also tell if you can shoot them with a ranged weapon or spell if they run

lets say anyone below 40 int would run. anyone with 40+ int would consider your speed before running and then start crying loudly for mercy, 50+ they would also consider ranged capabilities before running and otherwise do the same but also drop their weapons to make it clear to you they aren't fighting any more. anyone with 60+ int would drop their weapons, back up slowly and then cower their heads and shout once for forgiveness. 70+ they would drop their weapons, back up a bit and kneel down on both their knees with their heads down (in a similar manner as the japanese do it) and stay calm while begging for their lives.


something like that?

then if you meet someone with 40+ int and you've killed everyone who is still willing to fight, you will get dialogue options to bark at them or you can just walk away.

Then we could also make a mix of this, if 3 or more people with 50+ int get together and stop wanting to fight. one may shout "Run! he's a monster!" (something among those lines) and the 3 would all run in opposite directions thus making the player unable to kill every one of them.