So we kind of chose that on purpose as well.” Choosing a modern-day setting “It’s just like: ninja. It’s like, that’s sort of an interesting parallel. And that’s kind of like how PMCs operate now: They do all of the horrible shit that the Army doesn’t want to be held accountable for. They did all the dirty, dishonorable stuff that the samurai were above doing. “It’s kind of interesting - you look at the way those operate now and it’s almost analogous to how ninjas operated like during the 15th or 16th century. The difficulty comes out of that don’t block your progress through the game at all.” Designing the enemyĪbove: The PMC formerly known as Blackwater But it’s not like an enforced thing it’s more like a player choice thing. “In, you can actually get through the entire game without killing anybody as well. “I really liked the way that Thief approached all their difficulty settings, where when you pick the harder difficulties, there’s just more stuff that you need to do. To the point where, we don’t have this, but in Thief like on the higher difficulty settings, you just couldn’t kill anybody. “There aren’t easy, medium, hard difficulty settings, because when you can kind of one-shot everybody in the game, it’s not like there are values you can easily tune to be like, ‘This guy is gonna get more hit points when you stab him,'” Anderson said. Join gaming leaders live this October 25-26 in San Francisco to examine the next big opportunities within the gaming industry.

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