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[sflufan]

Morality: not just for RPGs anymore!

http://m.kotaku.com/5814871/source-new-rainbow-6-might-be-the-most-innovative-shooter-in-years

 

[soultron]

So by branching paths do they mean blue print planning phase is back?

That would be rad.

Spoiler

Kill me now.

 

[Gravijah]

DO I SHOOT THE HOSTAGE OR DO I SHOOT THE BAD GUY

 

[V_Ben]

This doesn't feel like a leak. It feels like Ubisoft showed Kotaku the game, and told them they could leak it.

 

[Typographenia]

Wait, a morality system that makes you replay a level differently warrants the title of "most innovative shooter in years?" Okay.

I guess it's good news for rainbox 6 fans so they'll have something to look forward to.

 

[Stumpokapow]

you shot ding chavez

lose 5 paladin points

 

[badcrumble]

Oh good, I love morality systems, especially the ones where the game announces in brilliant lights and sirens that you are MAKING AN IMPORTANT CHOICE RIGHT NOW

 

[Mindlog]

I just read the thread title and started laughing.

 

[firehawk12]

LT to hug, RT to headshot.

Hot.

 

[JaseC]

Thanks to Ubisoft's E3 presenter, I can't help but read 'Tom Clancy' as 'Tom Calancy'.

 

[Raide]

Just make it a Tactical FPS. Morality system is fine as long as you actually have planning out tactics. If its just re-skinned Vegas, I am not interested.

 

[Baha]

What the fuck is this shit?

 

[MetatronM]

Why?

 

[Vigilance]

NOPE

 

[vocab]

Hopefully we see more awesome kinect stuff for this innovative and ground breaking morality system that will change the worlddddddddddd

 

[BattleMonkey]

Really don't see how you would put a morality system into a R6 game. Suddenly its not instant game over for mowing down hostages and civilians? They putting in shitty rpg dialogue sequences?

 

[Chinner]

All of these morality choices are shit anyway thanks to Mass Effect. It's so boring; good choice gets good reaction, bad choice gets bad reaction - either way the player is jerked off into feeling awesome.

 

[Wario64]

Better with Kinect

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

Are you kidding? This doesn't work in the context of the world or the franchise at all. They take orders and carry them out with precision. There's no room for Bioware decision making.

 

[The Lamonster]

yeah no thanks

 

[MCD]

CONVICTION

 

[MarshMellow96]

I hope it includes the option to follow or disregard orders. They'd better not go too far and make any female soldiers follow them, lest it become another Other M.

 

[soultron]

DO I SHOOT THE HOSTAGE OR DO I SHOOT THE BAD GUY

Pop quiz, hotshot. What do you do?

I... err... I don't kn--

YOU SHOOT THE HOSTAGE, GREENHORN!

 

[soultron]

Rappelling upside down with Kinect is gonna be SWEET, BRAH.

 

[JWong]

LT to hug, RT to headshot.

Hot.

Hug

Headshot

 

[TemplaerDude]

As long as this is properly implemented into the game and not just a "PRESS A TO STAB BITCH, PRESS X TO NOT STAB BITCH" load of crap, this could be kind of cool.

 

[Raide]

Rappelling upside down with Kinect is gonna be SWEET, BRAH.

GO GO GO! *hand signals*

 

[Teknopathetic]

Damn this generation.

 

[vocab]

you shot ding chavez

lose 5 paladin points

NOOO DING.

 

[MDSLKTR]

So by branching paths do they mean blue print planning phase is back?

That would be rad.

Spoiler

Kill me now.

 

[Ponti]

Who gives a shit about morality in a tactical FPS? Come on now. I couldn't care if Jimmy McPixel here is having a bad day and is thinking of his lovely Pixel wife as he plummets to a shadery pixellated death from a pixel bridge. Just bring back multiple teams and planning, that's what Rainbow Six needs.

Who am I kidding, this'll turn into another generic FPS with a cover system and some stupid gimmicky 'morality'. Bleh.

 

[Vyrance]

Well, at least they're consistent in ruining how great Rainbow Six once was.

 

[Wario64]

How do we extend single player game length? Lock out half the levels to force another replay!

 

[soultron]

NOOO DING.

He was a true American hero.

Oh, no -- wait a second -- he's alive again at the next checkpoint! Hurray!

 

[Tesseract]

if you kill the hostage, the hostage dies. if you save the hostage, the hostage lives.

TOM CLANCY.

 

[Geek]

This doesn't feel like a leak. It feels like Ubisoft showed Kotaku the game, and told them they could leak it.

Nooooooooope.

 

[badcrumble]

To be fair, they should let Tom Clancy write the morality system. That man's got a sick, deranged sense of right and wrong, so it'd be pretty funny at least.

 

[MisterNugNug]

So they watched some episodes of 24 and thought they'd add torture into the series?

 

[Sethos]

You let Marcel live, yay!

 

[Ellis Kim]

...When did the Rainbow Six series lose sight of themselves? Am I wrong to be nostalgic for the planning map stuff?

Why is there a morality system? Unless its something where your end-level score is lower for fucking up somewhere (i.e. friendly fire), then that's one thing, but do they intend to implement a straight-up RPG decision making system?

 

[AlmostMilk]

So I am assuming it will be somewhat the same as how Mass Effect does it. If they do it right then it could be pretty cool.

 

[Mama Robotnik]

DO I SHOOT THE HOSTAGE OR DO I SHOOT THE BAD GUY

The perfect summation of video game morality.

 

[BattleMonkey]

...When did the Rainbow Six series lose sight of themselves?

Rainbow Six 3 for consoles. After that it kept going downhill

 

[Haunted]

...

This is so absurd and maddening at the same time, I can't even think of a punchline.

 

[Teknopathetic]

"...When did the Rainbow Six series lose sight of themselves?"


When shooters became about set pieces, perks, and cover systems.

 

[raphier]

DO I SHOOT THE HOSTAGE OR DO I SHOOT THE BAD GUY

OMG so revolutional, I already have difficulty to choose!

 

[soultron]

Rainbow Six 3 for consoles. After that it kept going downhill

Looking back now, those weren't even that bad.

Lockdown was where it started to get really bad.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

If it's a situation like, you can choose to breach a room with explosives and maybe lose a few hostages in the process, or breach a room with flashbangs and put yourself in danger from wild enemy fire (and you are graded accordingly), that's the only kind of morality I'd like to see in a Rainbow Six game. Anything deeper and I don't give a fuck, no one cares about the deep emotional roller coaster that your protagonist is riding on.

So I am assuming it will be somewhat the same as how Mass Effect does it. If they do it right then it could be pretty cool.

Can't think of any situation where'd you send in a Rainbow team to talk it out with the tangos.

 

[Horns]

Not sure why, but I thought I was looking at GTA IV for a moment.

 

[Ignis Fatuus]

If it's a situation like, you can choose to breach a room with explosives and maybe lose a few hostages in the process, or breach a room with flashbangs and put yourself in danger from wild enemy fire (and you are graded accordingly), that's the only kind of morality I'd like to see in a Rainbow Six game.

Or magic colored text which lets you do both.