Combining Emotioneering Techniques

If he doesn't answer the question, even if you point your rifle at him, will you kill him? Well, maybe most gamers would. However, if the game designer:

• Dressed the old man in rags

• Placed his dead wife in the scene, behind him in his ruined house (we'd have to ensure the player knows it's his wife)

then you, the player, might both feel annoyed with him and feel sorry for him.