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*** That was actually a glitch. The programmers missed that event flag, IIRC.

** On Virmire, ''everyone'' wears their starting equipment when they aren't in your party. (Liara doesn't even wear any armor, just the clothes you found her in on Therum.) When you reach the salarian base, you'll be left to run around alone for a while, and at this point, even the two teammates who were with you will suddenly change into their starting equipment.

* Possible in ''KingdomHeartsII''. It's possible to either skip [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloweentown]] or [[{{Disney/Aladin}} Agrabah]]. However, after a certain point, you have to go back and do one or the other again. When you go in, the cutscenes will remain unchanged. [[spoiler:So, even though you know now where Riku and King Mickey are, Sora is still yammering on endlessly about looking for them.]]

* Possible in KingdomHeartsII. It's possible to either skip [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloweentown]] or [[{{Disney/Aladin}} Agrabah]]. However, after a certain point, you have to go back and do one or the other again. When you go in, the cutscenes will remain unchanged. [[spoiler:So, even though you know now where Riku and King Mickey are, Sora is still yammering on endlessly about looking for them.]]
* In DeadRising2, it doesn't matter if you win by a landslide in the opening scene of Terror Is Reality, the antagonists will still make frequent remarks about your humiliating defeat throughout the game.

* In ''{{Psychonauts}}'', if you get arrested during the {{Milkman Conspiracy}} level, one of the questions the [[{{MIB}} G-Man]] asks is "Why did you punch that little girl?" I'm not sure if he also asks that if you don't, but it wouldn't be surprising if the game [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential assumes you did]]...
** Actually it doesn't. The game is context sensitive in this case.

* An odd example occurs in [[TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of a New World]], where Emil will always use a sword that you can only obtain halfway through the game.
** All the characters in TalesOfSymphonia only use a certain weapon in scenes (often the one they had when they first joined you), even if you have their InfinityPlusOneSword. The only exceptions are Lloyd, who uses generic steel swords, and Sheena, who uses the Spell Card (her weakest weapon, which isn't even obtainable until after you have much stronger weapons).

* The final battle of ''LegacyofKain: Soul Reaver'' ends with Kain, beaten and bloodied, fleeing Raziel into the past. The sequel's opening cutscene retells the confrontation, except Kain bats Razzy away effortlessly before calmly stepping through the chronoplast portal.

* Possible in KingdomHeartsII. It's possible to either skip [[TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Halloweentown]] or [[{{Aladin}} Agrabah]]. However, after a certain point, you have to go back and do one or the other again. When you go in, the cutscenes will remain unchanged. [[spoiler:So, even though you know now where Riku and King Mickey are, Sora is still yammering on endlessly about looking for them.]]

** In ''MetalGearSolid 3'', there's a cut-scene where, based on your actions in the previous section, Snake will either say "I had to kill them all" or "I snuck past them successfully", which has some very odd ways of discriminating between the two. For instance, if you tranquilize one guard and knock another unconscious, you ''still'' get "I had to kill them all". Even though you ''didn't''...
** Again in ''[=MGS2=]'', there are a couple of occasions where Raiden is shown firing at people with the [=SOCOM=], but the sound of the gunshots will still be loud even if you have a suppressor equipped. One notable example is equipping the M9 (a tranquilizer gun that always has a suppressor equipped) before the first fight with Vamp.
** This extends annoyingly into the gameplay in ''MetalGearSolid 4''. You only have 5 slots for weapon quick-selection. If you swap your Operator or M4 Custom out of these, then one of the game's many, many cutscenes will equip Snake with one of them, and remove other guns from your quick-select slots to make room for it.

* On the final mission of the original ''{{Starcraft}}'' campaigns, you could kill every single Zerg on the map except for the Overmind, then completely close in on it with 400 troops for a final victory... only to have Tassadar say that your side's taken heavy damage and that he needs to [[HeroicSacrifice end it once and for all]]. The final cutscene will still be full of Zerg, either way...

* Using GodMode in final battle of ''Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos'' does not protect you from having allies killed by scripted events, even if you destroy all of the undead.

* At the end of every ''{{Pokemon}}'' game, somebody will still say that you won because you treated your Pokemon with kindness and didn't just concentrate on pure power. They will still say this even if your Pokemon all have 0 happiness and you constantly ditched every Pokemon you had as soon as something higher levelled became available.
** Or refer to your Pokemon in the plural, even if you only ever carried one.

** Unlike some other [=NPCs=] who can sense your Pokemon's happiness, these people cannot really know how you treat your Pokemon. They only deduced so because you beat the crap out of them.
** Additionally, numerous trainers will remark that you two had a close battle, despite the fact that you can be dozens of levels higher and destroy each Pokemon in one turn with a super effective attack.
* ''ResidentEvil 4'' and ''5'''s cutscenes will always have the main characters wield the same handguns they started the game with, even if you've already sold them to buy better weapons.

* Similar to the ''Pokemon'' examples, [=NPCs=] in various ''{{Digimon}} World'' games will assume that your victories are thanks to your Digimon liking you. In fact, the final battle of ''DigimonWorld'' is fought [[spoiler: to determine whether friendship or slavery makes a better Digimon]]. While unhappy Digimon aren't as good at fighting as happy ones, it's not impossible to achieve these goals if your Digimon isn't particularly amused.

* The final battle of [[LegacyofKain Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver]] ends with Kain, beaten and bloodied, fleeing Raziel into the past. The sequel's opening cutscene retells the confrontation, except Kain bats Razzy away effortlessly before calmly stepping through the chronoplast portal.

** On Virmire, ''everyone'' wears their starting equipment when they aren't in your party. (Liara doesn't even wear any armor, just the clothes you found her in on Therum.) When you reach the salarian base, you'll be left to run around alone until you continue the attack, and at this point, even the two teammates who were with you will suddenly change into their real equipment.

* In Dead Rising 2, it doesn't matter if you win by a landslide in the opening scene of Terror Is Reality, the antagonists will still make frequent remarks about your humiliating defeat throughout the game.

* Sonic spends much of his missions in ''SonicTheHedgehog 2006'' saving Princess Elise, only to have her kidnapped in the next {{cutscene}}. While no one is looking. And it keeps happening. Played so straight, it becomes its own parody.

** Unlike some other NPCs who can sense your Pokemon's happiness, these people cannot really know how you treat your Pokemon. They only deduced so because you beat the crap out of them.

* Similar to the ''Pokemon'' examples, NPCs in various ''{{Digimon}} World'' games will assume that your victories are thanks to your Digimon liking you. In fact, the final battle of ''DigimonWorld'' is fought [[spoiler: to determine whether friendship or slavery makes a better Digimon]]. While unhappy Digimon aren't as good at fighting as happy ones, it's not impossible to achieve these goals if your Digimon isn't particularly amused.

** It likely would've helped if Raziel wasn't suffering from PlotInducedStupidity in the retelling and tried using the soul-devouring ghost sword he has permanently attached to his arm. You know, like he did the first time around.

* [[Dragon Age Origins]] can have problems with this, once, after killing a badguy with a finishing move that literally took off his head, I had to watch a cutscene of him pleading for his life with another villian...despite the fact that he was clearly headless in this cutscene. I don't know how he managed to talk, it was very impressive.

''{{Warcraft}} III'' has a similar mission, but there are no magically-spawning enemies, and if you destroy the enemy bases, the mission ends regardless of time; the cutscene always shows Uther and a bunch of Knights coming to the rescue, though, even if there wasn't a single Undead left on the map just a second ago.

* A minor example occurs in ''FireEmblem: The Sacred Stones'', where Ephraim will claim to have killed a certain boss "with his own hands", regardless of who you killed him with.