Broken mechanics! (Good and bad)
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Have you heard of the star wars galaxies emulator -its back to the version before sony got there handas on it -Zipa said:
And cover in alpha protocol so many times when my character wouldn't go into cover or he wouldn't leave cover when I wanted him to
Worst Explosions: Call of Duty MW2 without a doubt.
One thing is certain about this game, it's explosions are completely inconsistant. Everyone knows that all it takes is one guy with Danger Close Perk and a Noob Tube to end the game. Not to mention the fact that the explosions tend to be inconsistant. Sometimes people survive while standing on them, sometimes, people die when as far away as possible. Also, sometimes, just flat out no warning is given for certain explosions.
Best Explosions: Battlefield/Halo
One thing is certain, explosions in these games are consistant. The idea is simple, the farther away you are, the less impact a grenade will have on you. And there distances are fairly well done while still giving an opportunity for players to recover from them.
One thing is certain about this game, it's explosions are completely inconsistant. Everyone knows that all it takes is one guy with Danger Close Perk and a Noob Tube to end the game. Not to mention the fact that the explosions tend to be inconsistant. Sometimes people survive while standing on them, sometimes, people die when as far away as possible. Also, sometimes, just flat out no warning is given for certain explosions.
Best Explosions: Battlefield/Halo
One thing is certain, explosions in these games are consistant. The idea is simple, the farther away you are, the less impact a grenade will have on you. And there distances are fairly well done while still giving an opportunity for players to recover from them.
Summoner, one of the launch titles for the PS2, was sublimely broken in its mechanics, both good and bad.
Bad:
-The titular summoning was almost useless, gimping your main character's stats when in-use.
-Chain attacks were pointless given the game's mostly real-time combat.
-The speed and damage output ratings for weapons were inaccurate to the point of uselessness, as the former basically did nothing, and the latter didn't account for the fact that the majority of enemies are weak towards blunt attacks and strong against swords. Making swords...almost useless, doing less damage than a simple kick most of the time.
Good:
-You could enter a menu while casting a spell which would cause the spell to immediately trigger, so you can spam AOE/healing spells as needed.
-Rock-stupid enemy AI lets you cast Blizzard/Wall of Fire spells on unaware enemies and watch them stand there freezing/burning to death.
-The trip skill causes knocked down humanoid enemies to take basically 2000% damage from Backstab attacks, allowing your thief to one-shot most enemies and bosses in the game (including the second form of the final boss).
Bad:
-The titular summoning was almost useless, gimping your main character's stats when in-use.
-Chain attacks were pointless given the game's mostly real-time combat.
-The speed and damage output ratings for weapons were inaccurate to the point of uselessness, as the former basically did nothing, and the latter didn't account for the fact that the majority of enemies are weak towards blunt attacks and strong against swords. Making swords...almost useless, doing less damage than a simple kick most of the time.
Good:
-You could enter a menu while casting a spell which would cause the spell to immediately trigger, so you can spam AOE/healing spells as needed.
-Rock-stupid enemy AI lets you cast Blizzard/Wall of Fire spells on unaware enemies and watch them stand there freezing/burning to death.
-The trip skill causes knocked down humanoid enemies to take basically 2000% damage from Backstab attacks, allowing your thief to one-shot most enemies and bosses in the game (including the second form of the final boss).
The fun part about fighting games is the fact that the entire combo system of most 2D fighters (being able to cancel normal moves into special/super moves) resulted from a glitch in Street Fighter 2. The lead developer knew about it, but didn't bother fixing it because it was "too difficult to use so it didn't matter".RobfromtheGulag said:
The rest is history.
What platform do you play them on? Because I regularly hit the things in front of me doing stuff like that.Itsthatguy said:
I'd have to disagree actually. Maybe if all you ever do is spam rockets from a distance it would be better, but even then, losing the damage output of the fourth rocket is just plain bad. Moreover, rocket jumping becomes a whole lot less useful when you only have two shots left afterwards, and for the most part, the speed isn't a big issue. 40% faster travel speed is nice for trying to direct hit a target in a narrow time window, but the direct hit is better in that case, and the regular rocket launcher is better for controlling space since it can fire more rockets before reloading.yuval152 said:
Honestly, I almost never use the Liberty Launcher because the speed increase simply doesn't benefit my play style enough to make up for losing a rocket. If I want a fast traveling rocket, I'm going to use the direct hit every time.
As for mechanics I consider broken, the targeting in Resident Evil 4 and 5 are broken if you ask me. The laser sight your supposed to use only shows up on enemies and destructible objects despite both games using real time environments. Which means that unless you happen to swing the cursor over an enemy, you'll be waving it around the screen trying to guess where it is every time you're forced to fight. It's made worse by the fact that the camera isn't always oriented over your characters shoulder the same way every time making it a pain to even try and get used to where it's usually pointing on the screen and simply aiming that way.
You do kind of get used to it as the game progresses, but you shouldn't have to. It could have easily been fixed by either having the laser sight appear on everything or at least centering the camera on where you aimed and providing the red dot there so you could more easily target. In RE4 it was annoying, but mistakes happen. Then they didn't bother fixing it in RE5 which actually kept me from buying it. Well, that and not being the biggest fan of RE4, aiming issues aside.
