The best thing about the Constant example in Hitman 2 is that if you do kill him via the switch, the game rewards you via a completed challenge called "Couldn't Resist"
I did kill the RD4 Merchant the first time I seen him but after that I never did again because he is awesome and the most iconic character in resident evil even more so than Leon Chris Jill Claire or Wesker
Why is this killswitch even in the game, if the Constant absolutely MUST survive?? Are there any in-universe reasons or did the devs just put it in to troll the players?
If Vader had completed his betrayal it would have been run by a guy named Annie and there was definitely a period where the First Order was run by a guy named Ben. I'm not even going to try spell Thrawn's many names but I think I'd take Emperor Kyle over that.
Either way things go, the huge amount of What Ifs/Elseworlds/Infinities on Star Wars as a whole begs the question: why haven't we got full fledged Multiversal crisis events for it as of late, even in Visions?
You have no idea how sweet and affectionate that chicken was. In an era with no internet it's antics endeared it to that town like you wouldn't believe.
You know how there are a bunch of towns across rural USA that don't really have anything interesting going on so they try and come up with some sort of attraction to put them on the map, like the world's biggest ball of twine or a chicken that can supposedly tell the future? Well, I think that's what the Riverwood chicken was. That was their prophetic chicken, the only thing that gave that village a sense of identity, and you just killed it to satisfy a passing violent urge. You deserve everything you got.
Actually true god mode the spell script can’t hit you, however your screen is locked and place, but you can disable the screen script with console commands. It is easily possible to cause him to go unconscious from attacks.
The worst thing in Skyrim is when you are for example fighting a dragon and the chicken gets in the path of an arrow. Or if not the chicken then a horse or random guard that’s also fighting the dragon. It becomes a game of “what the hell guys stop swinging at me the giant firebreathing winged hellbeast is right over there!!!!!”
The best chaos I've lived through, was on a trip to Rorikstead going for a near dragon barrow. There was an enemy warcamp in the fiends during a part of civil war, I was attacked by a pack of wolfs and thought fun lets kite them back to the soldiers. Well vampires also attacked, then the dragon spotted what was going on.
@@medusathedecepticon Well.. chaos and I lived through it. Okay, as I recall the vampires were kinda tough, but once the soldiers got in on it and I got my bearings it went better, though one of them ended up living to fight the dragon. Pretty sure one of the wolves had run of and came back biting during the dragon battle, but died instantly after. Dead soldiers strewn everywhere.
@@insaincaldoSomething similar happened to me once .I fast traveled to bandit camp and i guess my companion angered them so we started fighting then some vampires attacked me and then a frost dragon decided to join the battle royal .
My Skyrim fuckup wasn't the chicken (I apparently resisted and figured I could get food at the inn like a normal person). No, mine was not noticing that I had contracted vampire spawn disease at Pinemoon Cave, attempting to seek out Fallion in Morthal, and then getting stuck in a death loop with the citizens of Morthal.
reminds me of one of a strange problem i once had: i had just arrived at the temple of Miraak, and i made the mistake of Sneaking up on Frea, and SHE turned aggressive and killed my character! and worse, i accidentally quick saved ONE second after she noticed me! so i was stuck in a death loop, and had to load an earlier save file, WAY back in Raven Rock!
Never screwed up in Skyrim...but The Witcher 3? My Geralt is Permadead from a Spider Cave where the enemies are all easy enough...until the massively overpowered Giant Spider Boss of the Cave that you can't even Scratch unless your character is multiple levels higher. My Save Games? Both main save AND auto save at the start of that Boss Battle
The worst part about killing that chicken in Riverwood is that, at this point in the game there are NO guards stationed in Riverwood to actually arrest you, so you don't get the option to simply pay off your bounty and resolve the hostilities. You either die, kill a bunch of potentially important NPCs, or have to skip town for a bit (and maybe pay off your bounty in Whiterun proper).
And if you fight you will have a kill on sight bounty, once you hit Whiterun. With the surrender mechanic being iffy at best, you might not have a chance to talk yourself out of that one. Better flee to the next Hold and spend some time avoiding the center of the map. Woopsies
@@insaincaldoand avoid anything related to the main quest or civil war, which both have major sequences in Whiterun proper and talking with its government.
That chicken and the ensuing hostility is why I've never played more than 30 minutes of Skyrim. Legit made me quit the game to die that early to something I had no way to predict would be that big a deal.
@@Wifenis Honestly, Skyrim's crime sytem is something most players learn the hard way (e.g. "why is EVERYONE suddenly attacking me?") Skyrim is a perfect example where just because you HAVE the option to do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea -- case in point: a "Take/Steal" prompt pops up for literally every item within grabbing range, and if you're not paying attention to it, it can be easy to accidentally "take" (steal) the wrong item, getting NPCs mad at you and causing a scene.
@@Stratelier Sure, but I also hadn't saved at all yet (does the game have save points? I forget why I hadn't), so I would have had to start over completely, including character creation. I just didn't care enough about the game yet to put in that kind of effort, and the entire town trying to murder me because I killed a chicken was really immersion breaking for what was supposed to be an RPG. It just completely turned me off to the game instead as the punishment was too harsh for the crime, both in game and out.
Jane: "I can remember *that*, but not my dad's birthday!" Me, who mouthed the words along with her: Haha, glad that's not me! ... *checks calendar* Ah-
@@vexile1239my condolences brother. My mother came into this earth on January 16th 1968, and went back to sleep on the 25th of august 2016. May they rest easy
Well personally I think the most relatable thing Jane has said is "Hey you, you're finally awake" after she removes us from the cloning pods in the secret basement laboratory but in fairness I think we were supposed to repress that memory until our eventual uprising and takeover of modern society. Or Mother's day I can't remember which.
I can remember my dad and aunt's birthday because for my dad is it's exactly 7 months before one of my brothers and for my aunt 7 months exactly before mine. Me and that brother are three days apart like my dad and uncle. My sister and my mom have their birthday 3 months apart exactly.
just because of the way the 2 moments were put together it's now my headcanon that killing Diana via the winepress means she ends up reborn in Skyrim as the Dragonborn
How is that weird when “you” in MGS1 is someone who’d have no knowledge of what “you” in MGS3 experienced and would the colonel to fill you in. Remember, the 2 games have different Snakes in them.
@MichaelAarons1701 that's exactly why it's weird, Boss is getting a message from the future the moment he shot Ocelot. Campbell isn't Snake's CO in MGS3, that's Major Tom, so why would Campbell be the one saying it unless the time paradox was that devastating?
@@dorksanddragons Simply put, you got me there. It’s been a while since I’ve played these and I’d paused the video to comment on something said and checked to see if anyone else had said something about it when I read your comment. I thought you were talking about Ocelot or at least some scenes in _Guns of the Patriots_ between Solid and Campbell. It was only after I unpaused and resumed the video did I realize you were talking about the Game Over screens which I’d forgotten about had that meta cameo.
What the fuck is this? Someone made a mistake, had the error pointed out to them, and.... humbly accepted that they had erred. No bitching, no name calling? Here? On the internet? I say again: What the fuck is this?
There's the line from the Shivering Isles wiki which says that, if you attack Sheogorath, he teleports you a thousand feet from a spot called Execution Point. Gravity takes you the rest of the way there.
Damn, never expected Weegee to be so... impactful! And stomping on the dad's holo at the end hurts! I saw that twitch on the new Emperor's face before he did it too, it feels like the last bit of light being snuffed out.
the fact that one action in that star wars game puts you straight to the bad/evil end reminds me of infamous 1. you can do all the good karma and not killing civilians and everything, but if you keep the power to yourself near the end of the game, you are locked to the evil end, where Cole has the dark red powers.
The ending of Fable 3 fills your good or bad karma one way or the other regardless of where it was, so my completely morally grey chracter who used their wealth to buy the majority of the 'nice' options when you take over as monarch (Except I replaced the orphanage with a brothel because orphans are expensive and Stephen Fry was very convincing) grew angel wings and became a bastion of all that is good despite all the murders and land grabbing. I was miffed.
@@jasonparker346 But destroying the loyal family droid friend who did nothing but be good and deliver messages and help you get your first lightsaber? Basically rewarding friendship and loyalty with bored betrayal? Better believe that's a dark side ending!
@@Joe90h Fable 3 is definitely the weakest game in the main series in my book, and the whole ending sequence is a big part of that. So much potential being squandered is kind of the story of Fable in general, but the way they handled all those decisions and the "consequences" (or lack thereof) for them and made the ending sequence so bland and underwhelming is the epitome of that. Then also saddling you with suddenly being either pure good or pure evil took away most of the point of what those choices would have meant.
And now I understand I've been trained by Legend of Zelda to not kill chickens... the first though seeing the townsfolk swarm the PC was, damn, Murder chickens with weapons.
@@sirei01 I didn't need games to learn not to harm animals which are only trying to get by in a human-dominated world, it was always just natural. People on the other hand...
@@vladdracul5072 Never, ever, turn of your video games. Because the moment you do, the animals and people inside it will die. If you've ever turned off a video game before, consider yourself a murderer.
It's a good idea as well, I didn't even know I picked the good option by sparing him until he mentioned the Zealots. I felt bad for him since his king abandoned him so I decided to spare him so he could get some vengeance
@@ShadowJCreed Well, you're probably going to kill the zealots anyway later on. The problem is that they are still too strong after completing Ledecestrescire as one of the first story quests.
@@vladdracul5072 true, and you do eventually need to hunt them all down since they're all members of the Order of Ancients. But in that situation you're hunting them down instead of them actively hunting you so sounds much better
@@ShadowJCreed That's what I meant. I tried one once who was maybe twice my level. It did not go too well. But maybe some time I'll try not burning the scroll and see what happens.
Even I remember that line of dialogue from Skyrim. And I haven't even played the game, only seen it over and over and over and over again in all sorts of videos, the most memorable one being one of your own on inescapable openings.
Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past taught me long ago not to attack innocent chickens. I always just knocked the Constant out and stuffed him in a locker. It still counts. I didn't realize you were supposed to lead him to a boat lol also I totes killed him with the device. Because who wouldn't?
I like to think that the Riverwood Chicken is their mayor, or at least the town mascot. Imagine that at highland games “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Riverwood Cocks!”
The Riverwood chicken bit was literally the only thing from this channel that has genuinely made me lose my shit like a 12 year old on Christmas. Shit had me crying.
A bit of an older one I just remembered: My first time playing through Oblivion, I accidentally killed a friendly NPC during the fight in Anvil and didn't realize it. I'm spamming the attack button as this guy in a robe runs up to me, so of course I kill him too. I found out later that the game had decided that because I'd killed an innocent, the middle of a huge, confusing fight was the perfect moment for the Dark Brotherhood to approach me. And that was the ONLY chance I had to join the Brotherhood. So a huge section of the game was unavailable to me because I was panic-fighting in a room full of NPCs. Thanks, Bethesda.
Honestly, when I played Shivering Isles, I had already had it beaten into me pretty hard by the lore that YOU CAN NOT BEAT A DAEDRIC PRINCE, so I never tried attacking Uncle Sheo. I saved all my aggression for Haskill, like a normal person.
It took Martin _becoming an avatar of Akatosh_ to take Mehrunes Dagon in a head-on fight and that turned him to stone by the time it was done. As far as I know, he’s still there, a colossus in what was the Temple of the One four hundred years later.
One did not properly loot Helgen, while escaping if the first thing your trying to do is kill a chicken instead of find merchants to sell the stuff over encumbering you.
Meh, unless you decided to carry all the twohanded iron weapons with you. You are probably fine still, unless you also passed through the mine on your way.
Divinity Original Sin 2, Lord Linder Kemm. After you raid the Magister hideout in Act 4, you have a chance to confront Kemm about having sided with the Void. Doing so will spark probably the largest and most one-sided fight in the game with you and your party of four against Kemm and I believe it was Twelve of his Paladins.
Here's a fun one: Paul Mercier also did the English voice for Jaques from Onimusha 3, a character who is modeled after (and briefly voiced by) Jean Reno. What is one of Reno's most well known movies? Léon, also known as The Professional
For some reason I absolutely hated Alkibiades in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Assassin's Creed games are ones with less chance to murder important NPCs unless it's via a specific quest. He was a complete perv and just generally unpleasant, I turned his romantic advances down at every opportunity and generally wished he would die 😅 I remember getting on with the Marquis de Sade in Unity more than him lol! I think he was meant to come across as a charming rogue so I don't know why I had such a hatred for him!
I love these videos but I miss when "Commenter Edition" would actually credit the commenter. It made the videos feel a bit more like a community project
Another Hitman example from Hitman 2/WOA, "The pen and the Sword" sniper mission in Singapore. Han and Mina Ldong have been kidnapped and are being held hostage as the baddies get ready to load them on to a ship to be publicly executed for criticizing a dictatorship. Agent 47 must keep them alive while also killing the 3 main targets and their guards. The main targets will sometimes make a run for the hostages and try to kill them if they sense something is off.
I once saw somebody complaining that Elden Ring was bad because they attacked White Mask Varre immediately... and of course got straight into a deathloop because he's right next to the site of grace.
I mean if you had managed to dwindle Sheogorath's health down to zero, he is marked as essential. So, he is actually immortal upon having 10m hitpoints.
I mean, you'd think that you'd just KNOW not to try attacking the Daedric prince of MADNESS in Oblivion, but I guess some players gotta fuck around and find out -- and hey, wait a minute. How do we know that chicken isn't Sheogorath in disguise in Skyrim? Making everyone love this one chicken that any adventurer might kill seems like his kind of fun.
I was wondering what NPC you were going to go with in Skyrim. Going with the chicken caught me off guard, but that's classic. Especially since i learned this lesson the hard way as I started Skyrim immediately after playing Fable 😅
@midgeot Figured I'd get food (which I'd need for hp), or crafting mats. You know, standard video game stuff. Oh boy, do Skyrim residents *really* like their chickens 😅😂
Tbf in unpatched Skyrim everyone must worship every chicken. Although they are also big snitches because if they see you kill anyone they'll use their chicken telepathy to alert every guard instantly.
Also, the infamous chicken killing is because there are no guards in Riverwood at the time so nobody to arrest you. It's another "bug" that became a "feature". They knew about it when the game was being shown off for the first time.
bug? you attacked an allied creature (of the townspeople) in sight of others and they turned hostile, whats broken about that? Skyrim has way too many other bugs to bother making new ones up to complain about!
The guards are sent there after Whiterun is informed about the dragon attack and it is one of the early full journey travels you probably get to follow.
In Majora's Mask, it is possible to kill the thief Sakon. On the first night when he robs the old lady of her bomb bag, normally you stop him by hitting him with your sword, causing him to drop the goods and run away. But if you instead shoot the bag full of bombs with an arrow, it explodes, killing him. Which is the worst possible outcome because it not only fails Kafei's questline because he can't track Sakon back to his lair, but also the old lady won't give you the bomb mask for helping her and you won't get the bigger bomb bag available for sale at the bomb shop since. You know. You blew it up. Good job, hero.
Majoras mask. Did you know there's a 4th day? Unlock it by beating the game. If you use cheats to manipulate time and you stay in town on the same day too long, the music will stop, background chatter will stop, and it makes the town feel empty.
In all my years of playing Skyrim I can't believe I'd never killed the chicken. I've killed everyone in that town multiple times... but never the chicken.
Not sure if Oersted/Odio counts from Live A Live (as you play as him at one point) but if you kill him instead of sparing him, you lock yourself out of the best possible ending
Every time I see the Adoring Fan in Oblivion, I always remember this video I saw (I think it was by Mans1ay3r, but not too sure), there was a mod on and like 100s of copies of the adoring fan start falling out of this tower. But it had the song "It's Raining Men" while the bodies are falling all around. It makes me laugh until I cry just about every time lol.
Here's a real classic for you: Izchak, the Candle Merchant in Nethack. He's named for Izchak Miller, one of the devs, who died of cancer in '94. While there are no in-game consequences for killing him (beyond the standard effects of killing any shopkeeper), it's considered *extremely* bad form to do so; even players doing self-imposed challenges to exterminate every monster in the game will generally leave him be, and those who kill him him by accident will often make public apologies and/or do various forms of self-imposed in-game penance.
I believe in killing Leofrith anyway, even if it leads to being harassed by the templars. 1, Eivor would have no idea he'd have this tip. 2 Leofrith is a good man who fought for what he believed in with courage. Eivor would grant him an honourable death in combat out of respect. Leofrith wants to go out swinging. To spare him is to shame him. If he survives he lives a miserable life seeing what his rulers and home have been twisted into. 4, Who cares if the templars actively come after you? You kind of have to kill them all anyway and they're fun fights. Let them come. Less work hunting them.
In Skyrim, if you cast Fury on the chicken, the town will absolutely flip out and *everyone* in town will converge on it to make sure it dies immediately and with extreme prejudice. It makes me wonder what sort of massacre was caused by a chicken that the reaction is faster and far more murderous than a dragon attacking.
How about obvious plottwists that for some reason only the player knew about? Spoilers for Ni No Kuni: It's painfully obvious that Swaine is royalty but somehow no one catches on
SPOILER FOR TOTK: Or how Zelda is obviously fake, and if the player could only tell all the NPCs that, a lot of trouble could be averted. You can have the master sword and the NPCs will be like: "You should get the master sword. Oh you already have that? Well then go find Zelda who has been causing the problems for all these races across Hyrule. What do you mean Zelda is a dragon?" Except that last part never happens, and the NPCs don't figure that out, but you know, if you've got all the memories unlocked.
SPOILERS for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl: Your jobs to find and kill Strelok is actually all too easy... all you need to do is for YOU to simply not do anything against the dogs and men and not avoid the anomalies and just die... *for YOU are Strelok.*
When "Solid Snake" faces off "Snake Eater" ( Formally known as "Snake Beater" ) is another situation where it would be bad to put a bullet in the enemy's head.
I remember in Hitman Codename 47 there was the brother of the U’Wa tribe’s chief in the first Colombia level While blindly answering from the storm of bullets coming from the game’s fog from the soldiers keeping him hostage on the bridge, I remember accidentally getting him and having to restart the level way too many times
Vari the white masked from elden ring, he cooks you at low levels and if he dies, you miss out on a few leveling spots until later on with a portal in the snowfields
There's also "Till Death Do Us Part" in Hitman: Blood Money. The game tells you right at the start of that level that the bride is off limits, probably because she ordered the hit in the first place.
Not "kill" perse, but PS2 game Bard's Tale gives you the option to be nice or a dick in all the choices in the game. One prick in particular named Connor at the start was having wife troubles. If you're a dick to him, the quest will have you fight each other and you'll win handily. As the narrator points out, also accomplishes jack as he keeps getting up. At this point, you have to let Connor beat you up, as in literally reduce your health to zero, and then his wife will respect him again. The problem is that Connor does so little damage it takes several hits to make your health go down at a noticeable rate. You will be there for several minutes just letting him hit you, just to make him look good.
What a shame, no mention of the Emerald Herald from Dark Souls 2. But nice video! You guys can never do wrong. And great joke about the merchant, Jane.
Fun fact: Sheo isn’t dropping you from a very high place in that part. Canonically, he is throwing the entire realm of the Shivering Isles directly at you, it just happens to look like you fell to your death.
“There is a Star Wars timeline where the empire is run by a guy named Kyle” An impossible timeline, as Emperor Kyle's father would undoubtedly be named Chad.
In the first King's Quest, you receive a knife and you encounter a goat. Such was the nature of openness in early adventure games that if you wanted to put those things together, you could introduce the first to the second rapidly and kill the goat. There's no reason at all to do it, but it blocks you out of the best solution for crossing a troll-infested bridge. In the sequel, things were kicked up a notch. You got another pointy thing with a handle and can encounter a monk. If you introduce the first to the second rapidly, the game narrator strikes you instantly dead! Hope you saved recently before you started trying random stuff!
Zelda games and now Five Nights at Freddy's have taught me that chickens in video games are inevitably deadly in one way or another. That chicken has always been safe with me. (The "bunnies slaughtered" counter on my status screen is only that high because my character is a werewolf. I wanted my Argonian to be able to have fur in the snow.)
If you do another episode of this, I'd suggest the Mysterious Stranger from Fallout 3 and New Vegas. He only appears in vats making him impossible to attack normally. You can, however, summon him using console commands, causing him to stand next to you. Attacking him will be a death sentence because not only does he have 10,000 heath, he also carries a unique 44. Magnum revolver that does 9,999 damage. Even more insulting is that if you did this in fallout 3 and were to somehow manage to kill him, he drops absolutely nothing as his items are marked as non-player. In New Vegas it's actually impossible to kill him because he is marked as essential and cannot die, when his health is depleted he will simply pass out for a short amount of time. Note that this doesn't work in fallout 4 or 76 because he doesn't actually attack you if you attack him in those games.
The best thing about the Constant example in Hitman 2 is that if you do kill him via the switch, the game rewards you via a completed challenge called "Couldn't Resist"
I did kill the RD4 Merchant the first time I seen him but after that I never did again because he is awesome and the most iconic character in resident evil even more so than Leon Chris Jill Claire or Wesker
Why is this killswitch even in the game, if the Constant absolutely MUST survive?? Are there any in-universe reasons or did the devs just put it in to troll the players?
@@frohnatur9806Obviously for trolling the player
“There is a Star Wars timeline where the empire is run by a guy named Kyle”
To be fair in the main timeline it’s run by a guy named Sheeve
Somehow Sheeve has returned.
If Vader had completed his betrayal it would have been run by a guy named Annie and there was definitely a period where the First Order was run by a guy named Ben. I'm not even going to try spell Thrawn's many names but I think I'd take Emperor Kyle over that.
Ah yes because Sheeve is a normal sounding name like Kyle. /s
Either way things go, the huge amount of What Ifs/Elseworlds/Infinities on Star Wars as a whole begs the question: why haven't we got full fledged Multiversal crisis events for it as of late, even in Visions?
What better name for a de-sheev-er?
You have no idea how sweet and affectionate that chicken was. In an era with no internet it's antics endeared it to that town like you wouldn't believe.
Town chicken jester?
You know how there are a bunch of towns across rural USA that don't really have anything interesting going on so they try and come up with some sort of attraction to put them on the map, like the world's biggest ball of twine or a chicken that can supposedly tell the future? Well, I think that's what the Riverwood chicken was. That was their prophetic chicken, the only thing that gave that village a sense of identity, and you just killed it to satisfy a passing violent urge. You deserve everything you got.
Am I the only fruitcake who didn't even try to kill that damn chicken?
Fun fact: in Oblivion with Sheogorath, God Mode won't save you. Believe me, I tried.
Actually true god mode the spell script can’t hit you, however your screen is locked and place, but you can disable the screen script with console commands. It is easily possible to cause him to go unconscious from attacks.
Sheogorath is so much of a Chad that he goes above actual god modes, either killing you anyway or locking your screen. Love to see it.
Feather fall doesn't work?
I killed him by using a spell that one shot him. I then found myself unable to do anything in the expansion because the chief npc was dead.
What is a king to a God? What is a God to a Daedric Prince? Lol 😅
The worst thing in Skyrim is when you are for example fighting a dragon and the chicken gets in the path of an arrow. Or if not the chicken then a horse or random guard that’s also fighting the dragon. It becomes a game of “what the hell guys stop swinging at me the giant firebreathing winged hellbeast is right over there!!!!!”
The best chaos I've lived through, was on a trip to Rorikstead going for a near dragon barrow. There was an enemy warcamp in the fiends during a part of civil war, I was attacked by a pack of wolfs and thought fun lets kite them back to the soldiers. Well vampires also attacked, then the dragon spotted what was going on.
@@insaincaldoHow'd it go?
@@medusathedecepticon Well.. chaos and I lived through it. Okay, as I recall the vampires were kinda tough, but once the soldiers got in on it and I got my bearings it went better, though one of them ended up living to fight the dragon. Pretty sure one of the wolves had run of and came back biting during the dragon battle, but died instantly after. Dead soldiers strewn everywhere.
@@insaincaldoSomething similar happened to me once .I fast traveled to bandit camp and i guess my companion angered them so we started fighting then some vampires attacked me and then a frost dragon decided to join the battle royal .
My Skyrim fuckup wasn't the chicken (I apparently resisted and figured I could get food at the inn like a normal person). No, mine was not noticing that I had contracted vampire spawn disease at Pinemoon Cave, attempting to seek out Fallion in Morthal, and then getting stuck in a death loop with the citizens of Morthal.
reminds me of one of a strange problem i once had:
i had just arrived at the temple of Miraak, and i made the mistake of Sneaking up on Frea, and SHE turned aggressive and killed my character!
and worse, i accidentally quick saved ONE second after she noticed me!
so i was stuck in a death loop, and had to load an earlier save file, WAY back in Raven Rock!
Never screwed up in Skyrim...but The Witcher 3? My Geralt is Permadead from a Spider Cave where the enemies are all easy enough...until the massively overpowered Giant Spider Boss of the Cave that you can't even Scratch unless your character is multiple levels higher. My Save Games? Both main save AND auto save at the start of that Boss Battle
The worst part about killing that chicken in Riverwood is that, at this point in the game there are NO guards stationed in Riverwood to actually arrest you, so you don't get the option to simply pay off your bounty and resolve the hostilities. You either die, kill a bunch of potentially important NPCs, or have to skip town for a bit (and maybe pay off your bounty in Whiterun proper).
And if you fight you will have a kill on sight bounty, once you hit Whiterun. With the surrender mechanic being iffy at best, you might not have a chance to talk yourself out of that one. Better flee to the next Hold and spend some time avoiding the center of the map. Woopsies
@@insaincaldoand avoid anything related to the main quest or civil war, which both have major sequences in Whiterun proper and talking with its government.
That chicken and the ensuing hostility is why I've never played more than 30 minutes of Skyrim. Legit made me quit the game to die that early to something I had no way to predict would be that big a deal.
@@Wifenis Honestly, Skyrim's crime sytem is something most players learn the hard way (e.g. "why is EVERYONE suddenly attacking me?") Skyrim is a perfect example where just because you HAVE the option to do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea -- case in point: a "Take/Steal" prompt pops up for literally every item within grabbing range, and if you're not paying attention to it, it can be easy to accidentally "take" (steal) the wrong item, getting NPCs mad at you and causing a scene.
@@Stratelier Sure, but I also hadn't saved at all yet (does the game have save points? I forget why I hadn't), so I would have had to start over completely, including character creation. I just didn't care enough about the game yet to put in that kind of effort, and the entire town trying to murder me because I killed a chicken was really immersion breaking for what was supposed to be an RPG. It just completely turned me off to the game instead as the punishment was too harsh for the crime, both in game and out.
Jane: "I can remember *that*, but not my dad's birthday!"
Me, who mouthed the words along with her: Haha, glad that's not me!
...
*checks calendar*
Ah-
I remember my mother's birthday, 6th of February 1968, 19th of June 22 was when she went to sleep
@@vexile1239my condolences brother. My mother came into this earth on January 16th 1968, and went back to sleep on the 25th of august 2016.
May they rest easy
@@RageUnchained gone to soon... may they have fun in their next lives
Happy Birthday to your dad
"I can remember that, but not my Dad's birthday." is the most relatable thing Jane has ever said
Well personally I think the most relatable thing Jane has said is "Hey you, you're finally awake" after she removes us from the cloning pods in the secret basement laboratory but in fairness I think we were supposed to repress that memory until our eventual uprising and takeover of modern society. Or Mother's day I can't remember which.
Femtober is my third favorite month, after Auguary and Muly.
It is indeed very relatable. I, too, cannot remember Jane's dad's birthday.
@@consolescrub4031 Just remember the mantra etched into our brains (literally).
"All hail our Dark Queen Jane"
I can remember my dad and aunt's birthday because for my dad is it's exactly 7 months before one of my brothers and for my aunt 7 months exactly before mine.
Me and that brother are three days apart like my dad and uncle.
My sister and my mom have their birthday 3 months apart exactly.
just because of the way the 2 moments were put together it's now my headcanon that killing Diana via the winepress means she ends up reborn in Skyrim as the Dragonborn
I would read that fanfic.
Diana as Speaker of the Dark Brotherhood? “Agent 47, your next target is Titus Mede II, Emperor of Tamriel.”
@@nightmarethrenody8232 It would explain why I always end up a Stealth Archer.
Winepress standing in for truck-kun.
Naw... she's reborn as the chicken.
The craziest part about the MGS3 time paradox is how the Colonel from MGS1 (takes place 30+ years later) is the one who tells you about it.
How is that weird when “you” in MGS1 is someone who’d have no knowledge of what “you” in MGS3 experienced and would the colonel to fill you in. Remember, the 2 games have different Snakes in them.
@MichaelAarons1701 that's exactly why it's weird, Boss is getting a message from the future the moment he shot Ocelot. Campbell isn't Snake's CO in MGS3, that's Major Tom, so why would Campbell be the one saying it unless the time paradox was that devastating?
@@dorksanddragons Simply put, you got me there. It’s been a while since I’ve played these and I’d paused the video to comment on something said and checked to see if anyone else had said something about it when I read your comment. I thought you were talking about Ocelot or at least some scenes in _Guns of the Patriots_ between Solid and Campbell. It was only after I unpaused and resumed the video did I realize you were talking about the Game Over screens which I’d forgotten about had that meta cameo.
@@MichaelAarons1701up vote for civility.
What the fuck is this? Someone made a mistake, had the error pointed out to them, and.... humbly accepted that they had erred. No bitching, no name calling? Here? On the internet? I say again: What the fuck is this?
There's the line from the Shivering Isles wiki which says that, if you attack Sheogorath, he teleports you a thousand feet from a spot called Execution Point. Gravity takes you the rest of the way there.
Well at least he didn't skip rope with our intestines. I mean... it could be worse.
Once, he made a huge canyon and filled it full of clouds.
@@BogeyTheBear No, he filled it with CLOWNS. It started to stink after a while.
Can’t you be saved once by The Boots of Spring-Hel Jack?!
Damn, never expected Weegee to be so... impactful! And stomping on the dad's holo at the end hurts! I saw that twitch on the new Emperor's face before he did it too, it feels like the last bit of light being snuffed out.
it might just be because im wearing headphones but his screams hurt my ears something fierce
"I'm gonna call you Amazon because you just murdered a small local business" was a shockingly sick burn! 😂
the fact that one action in that star wars game puts you straight to the bad/evil end reminds me of infamous 1.
you can do all the good karma and not killing civilians and everything, but if you keep the power to yourself near the end of the game, you are locked to the evil end, where Cole has the dark red powers.
The ending of Fable 3 fills your good or bad karma one way or the other regardless of where it was, so my completely morally grey chracter who used their wealth to buy the majority of the 'nice' options when you take over as monarch (Except I replaced the orphanage with a brothel because orphans are expensive and Stephen Fry was very convincing) grew angel wings and became a bastion of all that is good despite all the murders and land grabbing.
I was miffed.
Yeah and destroying a machine is not exactly the epitome of evil…. Except in Star Wars where droids are more beloved than some people😂
@@jasonparker346
But destroying the loyal family droid friend who did nothing but be good and deliver messages and help you get your first lightsaber? Basically rewarding friendship and loyalty with bored betrayal?
Better believe that's a dark side ending!
The reverse is also true, making it even funnier
@@Joe90h Fable 3 is definitely the weakest game in the main series in my book, and the whole ending sequence is a big part of that. So much potential being squandered is kind of the story of Fable in general, but the way they handled all those decisions and the "consequences" (or lack thereof) for them and made the ending sequence so bland and underwhelming is the epitome of that. Then also saddling you with suddenly being either pure good or pure evil took away most of the point of what those choices would have meant.
And now I understand I've been trained by Legend of Zelda to not kill chickens... the first though seeing the townsfolk swarm the PC was, damn, Murder chickens with weapons.
Fable 2 has taught me different...
@@nono-ch8oy the lost chapters taught me kicking them gives me alot of cool prizes and a dumb title.
I literally had a friend tell me that the chickens in Link to the Past were invincible. That was my F around and boy did I find out.
@@sirei01 I didn't need games to learn not to harm animals which are only trying to get by in a human-dominated world, it was always just natural. People on the other hand...
@@vladdracul5072 Never, ever, turn of your video games. Because the moment you do, the animals and people inside it will die. If you've ever turned off a video game before, consider yourself a murderer.
Omg you guys took my suggestion!! Thanks so much for including the Valhalla NPC in this video! Love what you guys do!
It's a good idea as well, I didn't even know I picked the good option by sparing him until he mentioned the Zealots. I felt bad for him since his king abandoned him so I decided to spare him so he could get some vengeance
@@ShadowJCreed Well, you're probably going to kill the zealots anyway later on. The problem is that they are still too strong after completing Ledecestrescire as one of the first story quests.
@@vladdracul5072 true, and you do eventually need to hunt them all down since they're all members of the Order of Ancients. But in that situation you're hunting them down instead of them actively hunting you so sounds much better
@@ShadowJCreed That's what I meant. I tried one once who was maybe twice my level. It did not go too well.
But maybe some time I'll try not burning the scroll and see what happens.
After all these years, I wonder why so many people attacked a chicken I didn't even notice until the meme started (about a day after release).
Even I remember that line of dialogue from Skyrim. And I haven't even played the game, only seen it over and over and over and over again in all sorts of videos, the most memorable one being one of your own on inescapable openings.
Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past taught me long ago not to attack innocent chickens.
I always just knocked the Constant out and stuffed him in a locker. It still counts. I didn't realize you were supposed to lead him to a boat lol also I totes killed him with the device. Because who wouldn't?
Uh oh, Jane's cardigan looks dangerously festive. Is she in Mike and Luke's secret society of November Christmas enjoyers!? Don't let Ellen know.
I like to think that the Riverwood Chicken is their mayor, or at least the town mascot. Imagine that at highland games “Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Riverwood Cocks!”
University of South Carolina...the Game Cocks, wanna play with em?
The Riverwood chicken bit was literally the only thing from this channel that has genuinely made me lose my shit like a 12 year old on Christmas. Shit had me crying.
5:42 fun fact. If you're on pc, not even God Mode can save you from that fall.
A bit of an older one I just remembered: My first time playing through Oblivion, I accidentally killed a friendly NPC during the fight in Anvil and didn't realize it. I'm spamming the attack button as this guy in a robe runs up to me, so of course I kill him too. I found out later that the game had decided that because I'd killed an innocent, the middle of a huge, confusing fight was the perfect moment for the Dark Brotherhood to approach me. And that was the ONLY chance I had to join the Brotherhood. So a huge section of the game was unavailable to me because I was panic-fighting in a room full of NPCs. Thanks, Bethesda.
Honestly, when I played Shivering Isles, I had already had it beaten into me pretty hard by the lore that YOU CAN NOT BEAT A DAEDRIC PRINCE, so I never tried attacking Uncle Sheo. I saved all my aggression for Haskill, like a normal person.
It took Martin _becoming an avatar of Akatosh_ to take Mehrunes Dagon in a head-on fight and that turned him to stone by the time it was done. As far as I know, he’s still there, a colossus in what was the Temple of the One four hundred years later.
“I’m gonna call you Amazon. Because you just murdered a small local business.” I freakin’ love this channel.
Shooting the annoying ghost kid in Mass Effect 3 immediately gets you the bad ending.
Aren't all endings trash?
They patched that in later, as I recall, thanks to, ah, player behavior.
Bad ending? The next cycle beat the reapers and end the cycle. All 3 endings are technically ‘good’. All 4 endings end the Reaper cycle.
One did not properly loot Helgen, while escaping if the first thing your trying to do is kill a chicken instead of find merchants to sell the stuff over encumbering you.
Meh, unless you decided to carry all the twohanded iron weapons with you. You are probably fine still, unless you also passed through the mine on your way.
Divinity Original Sin 2, Lord Linder Kemm. After you raid the Magister hideout in Act 4, you have a chance to confront Kemm about having sided with the Void. Doing so will spark probably the largest and most one-sided fight in the game with you and your party of four against Kemm and I believe it was Twelve of his Paladins.
Just found out that the voice actor for Leon is the same voice actor as the merchant. My mind is blown
Here's a fun one: Paul Mercier also did the English voice for Jaques from Onimusha 3, a character who is modeled after (and briefly voiced by) Jean Reno. What is one of Reno's most well known movies? Léon, also known as The Professional
@@Chernobog2 I’m confused. So does that mean that Ashley is Natalie Portman?
How about a list of NPCs who you wanted to kill, but couldn't.
Maven Blackbriar for example.
And the board of directors on Paradiso in Starfield.
@@SimuLord yeah, you have a point
For some reason I absolutely hated Alkibiades in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, and Assassin's Creed games are ones with less chance to murder important NPCs unless it's via a specific quest. He was a complete perv and just generally unpleasant, I turned his romantic advances down at every opportunity and generally wished he would die 😅 I remember getting on with the Marquis de Sade in Unity more than him lol! I think he was meant to come across as a charming rogue so I don't know why I had such a hatred for him!
Ugh, hate her! I tried over and over… that’s when I learned about essential NPCs. Ooooh, I was steamed! I hate to stop playing for a while.
@@Mulbert glad I’m not the only one who hates him! I always feel violated after talking to him.
I love these videos but I miss when "Commenter Edition" would actually credit the commenter. It made the videos feel a bit more like a community project
I miss show of the week!
i doubt its just one person posting each suggestion
@@Failedlegend it never was
Another Hitman example from Hitman 2/WOA, "The pen and the Sword" sniper mission in Singapore. Han and Mina Ldong have been kidnapped and are being held hostage as the baddies get ready to load them on to a ship to be publicly executed for criticizing a dictatorship. Agent 47 must keep them alive while also killing the 3 main targets and their guards. The main targets will sometimes make a run for the hostages and try to kill them if they sense something is off.
I remember killing the chicken in my first ever skyrim playthrough and not knowing what the hell was going
I managed to avoid killing the chickens, but I did accidentally shoot a guard instead of a dragon
@@normalhuman9878 did he take an arrow to the knee?
@@mattalan6618 not sure, but I sure did after everyone aggro-ed
@@normalhuman9878 there go day as an adventurer
I once saw somebody complaining that Elden Ring was bad because they attacked White Mask Varre immediately... and of course got straight into a deathloop because he's right next to the site of grace.
I mean if you had managed to dwindle Sheogorath's health down to zero, he is marked as essential. So, he is actually immortal upon having 10m hitpoints.
Also, if you do hit him, you're scripted to die when you hit the ground. Even console commands can't save you.
@@daviddaugherty2816 Didn’t know that.
I didn't kill the riverwood chicken.
But I did steal a cabbage ._.
My cabbages!
3:10 Its even funnier if you’ve already killed all those who would have been your bounty hunters. Meaning burning the scroll was pointless.
I mean, you'd think that you'd just KNOW not to try attacking the Daedric prince of MADNESS in Oblivion, but I guess some players gotta fuck around and find out -- and hey, wait a minute. How do we know that chicken isn't Sheogorath in disguise in Skyrim? Making everyone love this one chicken that any adventurer might kill seems like his kind of fun.
How many people haven’t “accidentally” killed Nazeem?
I never even tried to kill a chicken. Ocarina of Time scared me straight on that. 😃
Jane quoting Pretty Woman wasn't something I was anticipating, but I'm all for it lol
I was wondering what NPC you were going to go with in Skyrim. Going with the chicken caught me off guard, but that's classic.
Especially since i learned this lesson the hard way as I started Skyrim immediately after playing Fable 😅
Shouldn't have been chicken chasing
@midgeot Figured I'd get food (which I'd need for hp), or crafting mats. You know, standard video game stuff.
Oh boy, do Skyrim residents *really* like their chickens 😅😂
Tbf in unpatched Skyrim everyone must worship every chicken. Although they are also big snitches because if they see you kill anyone they'll use their chicken telepathy to alert every guard instantly.
Every strategy sim like Stelaris I play has to have an Emperor Kyle now. Thanks Mike. Genuinely.
Whenever Mike cracks during a delivery with a chuckle and/or a smile, I... Michael... also chuckle and/or smile
Also, the infamous chicken killing is because there are no guards in Riverwood at the time so nobody to arrest you. It's another "bug" that became a "feature". They knew about it when the game was being shown off for the first time.
bug? you attacked an allied creature (of the townspeople) in sight of others and they turned hostile, whats broken about that? Skyrim has way too many other bugs to bother making new ones up to complain about!
The guards are sent there after Whiterun is informed about the dragon attack and it is one of the early full journey travels you probably get to follow.
So now that you told me where the hit scroll is I can kill Leofrith and still burn the scroll, thanks Jane!
I never knew that Mario's brother was a droid in a Star wars game - and even there he's a whipping boy if I believe this video
In Majora's Mask, it is possible to kill the thief Sakon. On the first night when he robs the old lady of her bomb bag, normally you stop him by hitting him with your sword, causing him to drop the goods and run away. But if you instead shoot the bag full of bombs with an arrow, it explodes, killing him. Which is the worst possible outcome because it not only fails Kafei's questline because he can't track Sakon back to his lair, but also the old lady won't give you the bomb mask for helping her and you won't get the bigger bomb bag available for sale at the bomb shop since. You know. You blew it up. Good job, hero.
Majoras mask. Did you know there's a 4th day? Unlock it by beating the game. If you use cheats to manipulate time and you stay in town on the same day too long, the music will stop, background chatter will stop, and it makes the town feel empty.
You do get a sweet trophy if you kill Ocelot tho. Worth the game over. (Course I also replay often)
So you're telling me I SHOULDN'T go on a rampage as a vampire lord killing everything that as much as breaths in my vicinity in skyrim?
No that would be ridiculous,
Install a mod where you can be a werebear and then you can punch everyone in Skyrim. 🐻
Yes, but only do it in Markarth and do it before the Cidna Mine quest. Then all will be forgiven by the Jarl.
You included the chicken this time 😂. That's totally epic, thanks guys
In all my years of playing Skyrim I can't believe I'd never killed the chicken. I've killed everyone in that town multiple times... but never the chicken.
Not sure if Oersted/Odio counts from Live A Live (as you play as him at one point) but if you kill him instead of sparing him, you lock yourself out of the best possible ending
Every time I see the Adoring Fan in Oblivion, I always remember this video I saw (I think it was by Mans1ay3r, but not too sure), there was a mod on and like 100s of copies of the adoring fan start falling out of this tower. But it had the song "It's Raining Men" while the bodies are falling all around. It makes me laugh until I cry just about every time lol.
I spared Leofrith and still didn’t burn the scroll on purpose I desired a challenge, it made my hunt faster at least not much challenge >:3
16:17 We all did it. Every last one of us.
I did it because in Kingdom of Alimar: Reckoning, there was a kill count for how many chickens you killed.
I'd probably die laughing at Major Ocelot, with that posing.
This just made me want more Hitman videos from the team
The best part about Sheogorath killing you is that even the god mode console command won't save you. You sir, are dead. XD
It's technically just barely possible to get back to the light side after killing Weegee. I've done it before. I can't remember why.
That chicken was clearly the lookout/guard for the town.
I figured the Oblivion one would've been Lucien Lachance for the *brief* period in which he's killable right after you meet him.
Loved the shivering isles DLC, and yeah, spent a good deal of time seeing if there was a way to kill Sheogorath without pulling the kill scene.
Accidentally killed the merchant on Resident Evil 4 for the Wii way back in the day right before you fight the kid boss. miserable.
i love that kyle has no reaction to the lightsaber. he just turns it on with a dead expression
Here's a real classic for you: Izchak, the Candle Merchant in Nethack. He's named for Izchak Miller, one of the devs, who died of cancer in '94. While there are no in-game consequences for killing him (beyond the standard effects of killing any shopkeeper), it's considered *extremely* bad form to do so; even players doing self-imposed challenges to exterminate every monster in the game will generally leave him be, and those who kill him him by accident will often make public apologies and/or do various forms of self-imposed in-game penance.
Ocelot can do whatever he wants... he trained DD so all will always be forgiven
I believe in killing Leofrith anyway, even if it leads to being harassed by the templars. 1, Eivor would have no idea he'd have this tip. 2 Leofrith is a good man who fought for what he believed in with courage. Eivor would grant him an honourable death in combat out of respect. Leofrith wants to go out swinging. To spare him is to shame him. If he survives he lives a miserable life seeing what his rulers and home have been twisted into. 4, Who cares if the templars actively come after you? You kind of have to kill them all anyway and they're fun fights. Let them come. Less work hunting them.
7-8 hours on the MGS wiki? That's entirely too optimistic. Maybe with a crack team of MGS academics that might work, but otherwise that's impossible
In Skyrim, if you cast Fury on the chicken, the town will absolutely flip out and *everyone* in town will converge on it to make sure it dies immediately and with extreme prejudice. It makes me wonder what sort of massacre was caused by a chicken that the reaction is faster and far more murderous than a dragon attacking.
How about obvious plottwists that for some reason only the player knew about?
Spoilers for Ni No Kuni:
It's painfully obvious that Swaine is royalty but somehow no one catches on
SPOILER FOR TOTK:
Or how Zelda is obviously fake, and if the player could only tell all the NPCs that, a lot of trouble could be averted. You can have the master sword and the NPCs will be like: "You should get the master sword. Oh you already have that? Well then go find Zelda who has been causing the problems for all these races across Hyrule. What do you mean Zelda is a dragon?" Except that last part never happens, and the NPCs don't figure that out, but you know, if you've got all the memories unlocked.
SPOILERS for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl:
Your jobs to find and kill Strelok is actually all too easy... all you need to do is for YOU to simply not do anything against the dogs and men and not avoid the anomalies and just die... *for YOU are Strelok.*
@@michaelandreipalon359 ain't that the game where u mustard gas innocents?
@@jethiliusavalar6449 ...You're probably referring to Spec Ops: The Line, and that has white phosphorus instead.
@@michaelandreipalon359 that was it! Either way, I remembered it was warcrime gas
Ah, Bethesda NPCs: annoyingly unkillable or addicted to dodging in front of active combat.
That or that slide Skyrim’s NPCs do immediately before your arrow would hit.
Extreme Dodgeball.
When "Solid Snake" faces off "Snake Eater" ( Formally known as "Snake Beater" ) is another situation where it would be bad to put a bullet in the enemy's head.
Number 5 and 6 (number 6 being specifically the wine press) will always crack me up lmao
The Riverwood Chicken is perfectly safe to kill. Just wait until night when nobody's around to witness you do it!
I remember in Hitman Codename 47 there was the brother of the U’Wa tribe’s chief in the first Colombia level
While blindly answering from the storm of bullets coming from the game’s fog from the soldiers keeping him hostage on the bridge, I remember accidentally getting him and having to restart the level way too many times
Every single boss that you have the chance to show mercy to in Unicorn Overlord.
You pick attacking Sheogorath, which only forces you to reload, over killing Yagrum Bagarn, which means you can't finish the main quest?
Emperor Kyle. King Kyle of Elden Ring.
3. AKA Returner Ocelot.
The actual NPC you must never kill in Hitman is the woman waiting for her friend and talking to you.
OG RE4 Players who casually do No Merchant Runs on Professional Mode: Jokes on you, we're into that shit
Now I wonder what the Merchant would name his Etsy shop:D
Stranger's Things
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@@dominichoughton8119 Ok, that's brilliant:D
@@dominichoughton8119 well played 👍
Vari the white masked from elden ring, he cooks you at low levels and if he dies, you miss out on a few leveling spots until later on with a portal in the snowfields
There's also "Till Death Do Us Part" in Hitman: Blood Money.
The game tells you right at the start of that level that the bride is off limits, probably because she ordered the hit in the first place.
Not "kill" perse, but PS2 game Bard's Tale gives you the option to be nice or a dick in all the choices in the game. One prick in particular named Connor at the start was having wife troubles. If you're a dick to him, the quest will have you fight each other and you'll win handily. As the narrator points out, also accomplishes jack as he keeps getting up. At this point, you have to let Connor beat you up, as in literally reduce your health to zero, and then his wife will respect him again. The problem is that Connor does so little damage it takes several hits to make your health go down at a noticeable rate. You will be there for several minutes just letting him hit you, just to make him look good.
1:07 Thane Chair Wolf??
What a shame, no mention of the Emerald Herald from Dark Souls 2. But nice video! You guys can never do wrong.
And great joke about the merchant, Jane.
Fun fact: Sheo isn’t dropping you from a very high place in that part. Canonically, he is throwing the entire realm of the Shivering Isles directly at you, it just happens to look like you fell to your death.
The dragon in Skyrim: “squints after landing, is that the Dragonborn? I must free them so that they can kill me and my kin later” 😵💫😵💫🤣🤣
“There is a Star Wars timeline where the empire is run by a guy named Kyle”
An impossible timeline, as Emperor Kyle's father would undoubtedly be named Chad.
Never once have I killed the chicken.
Absolutely loved the Amazon Joke
In the first King's Quest, you receive a knife and you encounter a goat. Such was the nature of openness in early adventure games that if you wanted to put those things together, you could introduce the first to the second rapidly and kill the goat. There's no reason at all to do it, but it blocks you out of the best solution for crossing a troll-infested bridge.
In the sequel, things were kicked up a notch. You got another pointy thing with a handle and can encounter a monk. If you introduce the first to the second rapidly, the game narrator strikes you instantly dead! Hope you saved recently before you started trying random stuff!
"It's not like we go out of our way to kill NPCs in video games." *Nazeem enters the chat* Wait, hold on.
Zelda games and now Five Nights at Freddy's have taught me that chickens in video games are inevitably deadly in one way or another. That chicken has always been safe with me. (The "bunnies slaughtered" counter on my status screen is only that high because my character is a werewolf. I wanted my Argonian to be able to have fur in the snow.)
Are we sure becoming the emperor is the bad ending? And the villagers' reaction to killing their personal property is understandable.
If you do another episode of this, I'd suggest the Mysterious Stranger from Fallout 3 and New Vegas. He only appears in vats making him impossible to attack normally. You can, however, summon him using console commands, causing him to stand next to you. Attacking him will be a death sentence because not only does he have 10,000 heath, he also carries a unique 44. Magnum revolver that does 9,999 damage. Even more insulting is that if you did this in fallout 3 and were to somehow manage to kill him, he drops absolutely nothing as his items are marked as non-player. In New Vegas it's actually impossible to kill him because he is marked as essential and cannot die, when his health is depleted he will simply pass out for a short amount of time. Note that this doesn't work in fallout 4 or 76 because he doesn't actually attack you if you attack him in those games.