I killed everyone in future-detroit and no one seemed to care. And I was meticulous about it, too. Turns out those cops that roam the streets are surprisingly tough!
This after, in the intro mission, disarming the bomb, then shooting each of the hostages in the head. I also killed the swat people at the start of the level for their sweet sweet combat rifles.
I am currently working on hengsha, which is a bitch, because that place is FULL OF PEOPLE. Oh my goodness. The hive alone was absolutely ridiculous. I got slaughtered dozens of times before I managed to pull it off.
The little bar on the second floor. Silenced pistol everyone there; no one notices. Then take out the people on the balcony. After taking out a few, people notice. The screaming starts. And the ten billion security guards in the place all rush up to meet me. Lure the first few into the little nook, shotgun them. Then I see the rest sort of mulling around in the short corridor between the balcony and the bar. So, I take out my rocket launcher (because, if you are going for a total massacre play-through, you need the rocket launcher. And the combat rifle. And a pistol. And the sniper rifle. And--- yeah I had to upgrade my inventory to full pretty much immediately). Pop around the corner. Fire the rocket. Duck back around the corner, down a few beers to cure my wounds (massacre Jensen is alcoholic Jensen), use the flechette upgraded combat rifle to take out the survivors despite my drunken haze.
Anyway. I'm still working on it.
Oh, and this was before talking to hong. So after I got the quest to talk to him, I go back to the hive, wade through the sea of corpses, and talk to the guy who is happily tending bar to a dozen bullet-riddled security guards.
We do our little conversation. I pick the options like 'tell me or I shoot you' and he says
"Look around."-I oblige. Yup. That sure is a lot of dead guards. "The place is filled with guards. What you gonna do, kill all of them?" (Paraphrased)
Now, I may have a... unique sense of humour. But that right there... that is straight up comedy gold.
In Skyrim, I took on the entire garrison of Markarth and won.
Oh, yeah. I've done something like that.
I was playing stormcloaks (obviously). But mixing it up with the main quest. This was my first playthrough. Then this woman tells me I need to go to a party in... Solitude. Capital of the Imperial influence.
And my standing with the imperials is kill on sight.
Now, I didn't take on the entire garrison. For one, there are a number of unkillable dudes who will fight alongside them, so it would be impossible. For another, I'm fairly sure they just keep spawning more guards. But I did have to fight allll the guards at the gate. Then fight alll the guards just inside the gate. Then, still fighting the occasional guard, and one really annoying unkillable argonian fellow, look around for where I am actually supposed to be. Then, once I found the place, fight a few guards who were in there, as well as a steady stream pouring in from the street, then talk to the guy I was supposed to talk to, stopping the conversation every thirty seconds to kill the guard who has been wailing on me for the past fifteen, heal myself, and then resuming the conversation.
And then the guy asks me to give him my best armour and weapons, so I will have something to wear for this really important battle where you can't take any armour or weapons with you but they sneak some in.
I do not carry around a spare suit of armour.
So I had to take the piece-of-shit armour the guards wear, put that on, and then hand the guy my armour and weapons. Luckily I carry around a few spare weapons, or otherwise I would have been completely screwed (my guy was no mage). I then fought my way out of the city in shity guard armour.
All the while thinking to myself:
this party had better be the shit.Arrive at party. Party is worst part of game. Could have easily just massacred my way in here.
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It was an equal mix of annoying and hilarious.