Honestly it seems like the biggest draw for playing DiD is to have stories about how ridiculous, funny, and/or tragic your eventual death was.

Dead is dead.

I don't know what is hard to understand about that.

Okay, He gets he is playing DiD...

It was a simple question people, you don't have to get so bloody serious about the affair. Joke question, Funny experience...

http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1291778-the-skyrim-dead-is-dead-thread-iii/


House rules say otherwise.....

If you're making an exception for accidental deaths...

Dead is dead! It's a damn shame but what can you do? Accidents happen.

I think your DID powers are in serious danger of being revoked just for starting this thread. This isn't veganism, you don't get three strikes.

Death is death, after all.

Gee that's funny, I don't remember asking you to.

...and I'm gone again.

Your dog killed you; that's it.

In DID, death doesn't count if you, the player, killed your character out of distraction: telephone, someone bursting into your room, coughing fit, sneezing, falling asleep, etc this kind of things.

I'd call it a bug/glitch.

The game has ridiculous rules when it comes to player mass vs other mass contests. Want to test it? Find a butterfly and try to run through it. It will literally stop you. I've been shoved aside by a glow bug before. NPCs like Lydia are as entrenched as trees if you want to shove one out of the way.

It's a believable death. If I'm standing on the edge of a cliff looking down, and all of a sudden a large dog jumped up on me from behind (as my medium-sized dog does all the time when I walk in the door and am busy putting my coat away, taking the mail to the table, etc etc)....then yes, I can absolutely see that knocking me off balance enough to cause me to stumble and fall.

That's not a glitch. It's not a bug that the dog bumps into you. It's not a bug that the dog causes you to fall. I don't think any of us really care what the OP does, and he already said he's going to keep playing. But stop trying to tell us all how dogs would behave in real life, and declaring that them doing anything except following you and sitting still is "glitched AI".

I'd say compare it to real life

If you were standing on the edge of a waterfall and your dog ran into you. Could you reload?

When you're setting up follow packages for NPCs and creatures, there's a field that controls follow distance. I don't know about other dogs because I haven't used them, but Barbas obviously has his follow distance set to 0, clearly an oversight on the part of the developers. An AI glitch.

hahaha at fist I thought that you meant that a real dog made you push forward on the controller xD!

I wouldn't count it if I were you... maybe thats because I would never play DiD?

Yeah you died. Start again.

If the following happens I do not count it as a legit death.

Game crashes
Death from a rolling cabbage and the like. (stuff that could not by any means hurt you by roling slowly into your leg xD) - Glitch
game is left running while someting pops up screen.

These things would not be happening if it was "IRL" and i use that term lightly as it is a fantasy game. If a cabbage should roll against my leg irl i would survive. most likely not if a bear ate my face


If you were not flewn off in a very unnatural way or raggdolled away I would count it legit.

I agree with the "glitches don't count crowd". If your playing this DiD, you have to have a good idea of what to expect from the game, it's true, but no one, anywhere, any time, under any circumstance, can prepare for game glitches. It is possible to get from Markarth to Riften without being touched by your dog (rare, but possible) so that if said glitch happens for the first time and kills you, you are totally unprepared for the unprepareable.
A death that you could have concievably prepare for must count as a death, but the unthinkable (from rational game preparedness) resulting from a bug in the programming of code in line 3,675,392 is taking even DiD a bit to far.
Unless you programmed the event and are looking for, and expecting this bug to occur, it is an inconcievable event, and therefore, a legitimately reloadable death.

Skyrim doesn't prevent reloads on death, so comparing the play to games that do borders on the psychotic.

Also, if you have a terrier that can unbalance you, you are definitely NOT the adventuring, dragon-slaying type and would not be a candidate for even the least of Skyrim's creatable characters. Hence, also a psychotic rationalization to count this character's death.

Of course, opinions are like armpits, everyone has them and they all stink. But opinions were asked for and this is mine.

I hate Barbas. I tried taking him to the axe but all he did was nudge at me, and sent my companion to her death once. Pretty funny though. There was a door trap i was trying to walk around and Barbas knocked me towards it and boom, poor Janessa. But meh, she was ugly.

Use some deodorant.

If this is a glitch, then my bulldog is glitchy as hell.

I love the real life comparrisons....

I think anyone who gets hit by their dog IRL near a cliff edge would be able to throw your weight back to prevent from falling off...

something you can't do in the game (they should just map a button for that right? )

I've actually been on a cliff edge and had a dumb noisy dog come up and push his head between my knees to looks down shoving me forward a lil bit...

guess what... I'm not dead.

I completely agree with this statement, I mean picture the walls of Minas Tirith in LotR: RotK, Grond comes rolling up there and BAM. Suddenly half the soldiers of Minas Tirith turn into an impact scene from a 60's TV show and fall off the walls... I don't think so! Your a full grown man... In heavy steel... Jumping on Dragon Snouts to deliver unbridled punishment, a curious dog is easily likend to a butterfly landing on your shield.