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Stealing from shops
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By birthright,a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
By birthright,a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
In some RPGs you can steal from shops. The Fallout games and the Elder Scrolls games are the main ones I can think of. Usually it's not worth bothering because the devs coded the shop inventory to exist independent of the shopkeeper, but sometimes, like in Fallout 2 at NCR, you can get away with stealing a lot of really cool stuff. In Morrowind and Oblivion it was usually not worth your time because shops only carried the most basic of weapons and armor, but robbing alchemists and jewelers was sometimes profitable.
I can't really think of any other games that allow this except for Link's Awakening, but there have got to be more games with fun to be had by grand larceny. Let's hear your stories and examples.
I can't really think of any other games that allow this except for Link's Awakening, but there have got to be more games with fun to be had by grand larceny. Let's hear your stories and examples.
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I like how if you returned the shopkeeper would murder you with lightning
You should be saving everyone, shopkeeper! You can call down fucking lightning! I only have this shitty feather!
In this one town in Fable, I used to lead the shop keeper away form his store to a barn, get him shit faced and then run back and rob his store blind!
It made me mad that in order to complete the photo album, you had to steal something from the shop, but then if you stole and came back you'd be killed, thus unable to get the super secret "no deaths" ending. Not that there was much to it, but still.
I lamented heavily over this dilemma when doing my LP of the game. Also the bow only cost 980 Rupees if I recall correctly.
Eh close enough, enough to pretty much empty a full wallet. The point is what the hell is goddamn Zeus doing shopkeeping when there's an island to save.
Oh yeah, in arcanum where you could follow the shopkeeper as he goes to bed, then advance time so you could steal him blind
The whole thing is breaking in and stealing shit.
It's also awesome.
"I have the finest merchandise!"
"No you don't, I fenced every last bit of it."
Given the detail the game had in general, I would have figured they'd have the store shut down or something.
Like the little innocent looking kitty who magically transforms into a HUGE panther, pounces on you and licks you raw... then the sheriff arrives and throws you in jail.
That's part of OOO. It adds a lot of nice things to steal in the upper-class houses too.
There are also independant mods that did that.
Stealing Jewels from houses was so legit.
The well one was the best. Sneak into target house, get key, unlock well, get goods.
Best part was how clever they hid the keys.
But basically it was a pretty crappy RPG (I loved it at the time), and you could steal from the few shops that actually existed.
My first playthrough I stole one of the best swords in the game from the warrior's guildshop in the first like, thirty minutes. Never had to switch swords again.
I don't think you are taking this as literally as I say. It was an obsession.
I robbed every house, and stole anything that pretty much wasn't pewter kitchenware or cheap books. I stole the food for alchemy. I stole the nice shit for money. I stole other stuff just to steal it, and throw it away later.
I need more games that let me steal like that.
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Followed promptly by buying a ship, sailing to Buccaneer's Den and gambling/whoring my fortune away.
I was around 10 years old.
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Oh yes, come morning i would drag the corpses of the bankers to the great King Lord British and have them ressurected so they could go back to work and exchange my bars and nuggets for coin. Oddly the city populace never thought it out of place that i was dragging bloody corpses to the castle.
Back in the original hack, I was so impressed with myself for figuring out that you could dig your way out of the shop if they had a wand of digging (tunneling?). I imagine that doesn't work anymore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kqy9hxhUxK0&feature=related
That said, it really pisses me off when a game let you steal shit from shopkeepers, but killing them results in the inventory disappearing suddenly (as often happens in Fallout)
AFAIK the only game which did stealing from shops well.
If you wanted to steal anything in Oblivion all you have to do was "physics" it out of view of the shopkeep.
I liked stealing in Ultima 8: Pagan though. But that's only because of the incredible zeal and overkill the guards have for the player stealing even the smallest things. Their solution to everything is to explode criminals into a billion pieces with a fireball.
Wait untill the dead of night and go on a mass crime spree. No Spoon or Cup is safe. Then fence it all. Challenges like breaking into the Guards tower made it well fun.
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