9 Mistakes Every Player Makes in Open World Video Games

ANGERING A BUNCH OF NPCs

Gamers have an innate tendency to be mean to NPCs, but most of the time, we’re just doing it to push the boundaries of the game, to see how it and its systems react to what we’re doing. Sometimes, though, the game reacts in ways you couldn’t have expected, and your seemingly innocuous actions end up incurring the wrath of every NPC around you. Remember Riverwood in Skyrim? Remember entering the town and attacking the chicken close to the entrance just to see what happens? Remember how the entire town went berserk when you did that and decided that you had to pay for your abhorrent crimes with your life? That’s a pleasant memory, isn’t it?