Follow TV Tropes

Following

History EngineeredHeroics / VideoGames

Go To

OR

Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', this is the plan of the BigBad. [[spoiler:The BigBadTriumvirate of General Ketheric Thorm, Lord Gortash, and Orin the Red planned to TakeOverTheWorld by having Gortash [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the titular city]], then protect it in a FalseFlagOperation from Thorm's undead army and Orin's legion of {{Serial Killer}}s. Once the plan starts to go OffTheRails thanks to your party tearing through Ketheric and his forces, as well as Gortash realizing his associates planned to backstab him all along, Gortash tries to cut a deal with your party, the ''real'' heroes of the story.]]

to:

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', this is the plan of the BigBad. [[spoiler:The BigBadTriumvirate of General Ketheric Thorm, Lord Gortash, and Orin the Red planned to TakeOverTheWorld by having Gortash [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the titular city]], then protect it in a FalseFlagOperation from Thorm's undead army and Orin's legion of {{Serial Killer}}s. Once the plan starts to go OffTheRails thanks to your party tearing through Ketheric and his forces, as well as Gortash [[WeAreStrugglingTogether realizing his associates planned to backstab him all along, along]], Gortash [[WeCanRuleTogether tries to cut a deal with your party, party]], the ''real'' heroes of the story.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', this is the plan of the BigBad. [[spoiler:The BigBadTriumvirate of General Ketheric Thorm, Lord Gortash, and Orin the Red planned to TakeOverTheWorld by having Gortash [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the titular city]], then protect it in a FalseFlagOperation from Thorm's undead army and Orin's legion of SerialKillers. Once the plan starts to go OffTheRails thanks to your party tearing through Ketheric and his forces, as well as Gortash realizing his associates planned to backstab him all along, Gortash tries to cut a deal with your party, the ''real'' heroes of the story.]]

to:

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'', this is the plan of the BigBad. [[spoiler:The BigBadTriumvirate of General Ketheric Thorm, Lord Gortash, and Orin the Red planned to TakeOverTheWorld by having Gortash [[TyrantTakesTheHelm take over the titular city]], then protect it in a FalseFlagOperation from Thorm's undead army and Orin's legion of SerialKillers.{{Serial Killer}}s. Once the plan starts to go OffTheRails thanks to your party tearing through Ketheric and his forces, as well as Gortash realizing his associates planned to backstab him all along, Gortash tries to cut a deal with your party, the ''real'' heroes of the story.]]
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None

Added DiffLines:

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has this as a game mechanic:
** If you save a village from a Pillager raid, you'll be lauded as a hero for a while and given freebies and discounts. The only way to trigger a raid is to kill a Pillager captain, get the "[[MarkedToDie Bad Omen]]" status, and then go into a village -- Pillagers ''will'' attack villagers on their own but won't raid their villages unless you visit the village with Bad Omen, and you can either let it wear off or remove it by drinking milk, so the only reason to "save" a village from a raid is to start one deliberately and then "save" them for some freebies, a Totem of Undying or two, and the achievement. What a hero.
** If you cure a zombified villager, you'll get [[IOweYouMyLife permanent discounts for life]] from that villager. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from trapping that villager, luring a zombie to him to turn him, and then "saving" him to get these discounts.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None


* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': The Alchemist's Guild, fearing its power would dwindle as the Industrial Revolution replaced magic with science, plotted to summon an army of demons to the human world and then banish them, in order to show the world there were dangers that only they could deal with. It backfired spectacularly, as they summoned more demons at once than they could control and the human world turned into HellOnEarth.

to:

* ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'': The Alchemist's Guild, fearing its power would dwindle as the Industrial Revolution replaced magic with science, plotted to summon an army of demons to the human world and then banish them, in order to show the world there were dangers that only they could deal with. It backfired spectacularly, [[EvilIsNotAToy as they summoned more demons at once than which they could control not control]] and the human world England turned into HellOnEarth.

Top