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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5006439" data-attributes="member: 54707">There's something to be said for this. In my opinion the give-away though is when you recognize someone who knows how to kill, and is unafraid to kill (if necessary).Men who know exactly how to kill, and are unafraid to kill present a different kind of (I'm not really sure of the word I'm searching for, but maybe...) demeanor, especially in any situation where it looks like killing might actually be called for.And of course there is also the difference between those who kill because killing protects them and others, and those who kill because they are vicious and simply enjoy killing (and I've met my share of these kinda guys).But yes, when you've hung around men like that long enough (men who have to kill, or who enjoy killing), or have had to do this yourself, you feel or sense or understand the difference between those who know killing and those who don't.It's something you come to know through personal experience, and by being close to things like that, and a game has a very hard time conveying this because game killing is so cheap and artificial and portrays no real sense of the danger, risk, and other psychological and physiological aspects of killing. (Killing changes the way you feel and how your body acts and reacts, and I'd say even how you psychologically and physically present yourselves to others if you feel it might be necessary to kill someone or something.)As far as the game goes though I usually try to display powerful NPCs in relation to other factors (after all nobody except for a small minority of criminals and terrorists and insane men go around jacked up and ready to kill at all times, it's far too exhausting a state to be in for extended periods of time, and most of those who are sport and dedicated murderers don't tend to live all that long relatively speaking, unless they hide their murdering like a serial killer, and these people don't appear powerful, they appear ordinary or harmless most of the time), such as rank, position in civil government or organization, etc.Most forms of power require ambition, and that tends to display itself in organizational power and influence. Another aspect though, as intangible in some ways as the killing demeanor is "leadership."So leadership capabilities are good indications of real or potential power.This made me laugh because in many games it is true.I'd say the opposite is true in real life though. The more powerful and dangerous a man really is, the more reluctant he is to say exactly how so, and to what degree.Because you can't really be dangerous if everybody can already predict exactly what you might do. However dangerous criminals operate in the "look at what a vicious bad-ass I am way," because much of their authority and psychological power is reputation and fear-based. They don't want to be considered un-readably dangerous as much as crazily and unpredictably violent.Otherwise truly dangerous men rarely speak about how dangerous they are, they just prove it when absolutely necessary. And they rarely like it when others speak about how dangerous they are (unless they have a specific intention or objective in mind).</blockquote>

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