Favourite escort missions.

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NONE. There is no such thing as a good escort mission. In analogy form: Finding a good escort mission is like finding a ten-legged super monkey dinosaur.

 

[Beartrucci]

]NONE. There is no such thing as a good escort mission. In analogy form: Finding a good escort mission is like finding a ten-legged super monkey dinosaur.

Challenge accepted.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

Just Cause 2 does them pretty well. There's the obvious "protect the technician" missions, but I enjoyed the very first real mission that places you on the roof of a car as the person you are trying to protect drives.

That's when I first found the "grapple hook a car in pursuit and then the road in front of it" trick. Oh god. So awesome.

I like to latch guys on motorcycles to the ones in heavier vehicles. That way they drag their poor biker buddies down the road at high speeds to his grisly doom as a mile-long smear.

Man, I love that game.

 

[tomtom94]

Worst: Blade II sewer level. Argh that sucks ye olde bollocks.

Best: The Hooded Man mission from Timesplitters: Future Perfect. Basically, you have to snipe assassins and monsters to save your past self. I think that counts as an escort mission.
(It's a damn hard one though).

 

[King of the Sandbox]

Best: The Hooded Man mission from Timesplitters: Future Perfect. Basically, you have to snipe assassins and monsters to save your past self. I think that counts as an escort mission.
(It's a damn hard one though).

Yeah, that mission blew my mind. I was all, "ZUh-WHAaa?!?"

 

[Jolly Madness]

Escorting Alyx in Half-Life 2 wasn't too bad actually. Though I hate quests without an escort mission, but with the general description "If this guy dies at any time, game over"

 

[manaman]

Escort missions are never fun. So let me tell you about the worst ones.

Morrowind. Everyone has such a raging love-on for that game that nobody ever bothers to mention that other characters move at the breakneck speed of a <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tfsL9Kq8R8>three toed sloth trying to cross a road. Which is a tiny bit faster then your character moves when you first get of the boat.

I don't know how many times I lost a character in a remote part of the map and had to backtrack, hoping beyond hope that I would run into the character and not have to restart from the last save I had where they where near me. These searches usually ended with the little blurb that the threads of prophecy have been broken.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

The few escort missions in GUN were, IMO, quite enjoyable. Not too long, once you'd got the rhythm of it not too hard, and the person you were escorting could actually take a bit of punishment, meaning you could screw up.

 

[GundamSentinel]

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I love your avatar.

OT: There is an Armored Core: For Answer mission where you have to protect a moving convoy. The opposition is mostly laughable, so I loved boosting around the landscape picking off missile emplacements.

Assassin's Creed 2 had one where you have to protect a wounded Lorenzo de Medici as he runs home. Was not too difficult and fun stabbing people in the back.

 

[Camembert]

Escort missions are never fun. So let me tell you about the worst ones.

Morrowind. Everyone has such a raging love-on for that game that nobody ever bothers to mention that other characters move at the breakneck speed of a <url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tfsL9Kq8R8>three toed sloth trying to cross a road. Which is a tiny bit faster then your character moves when you first get of the boat.

I don't know how many times I lost a character in a remote part of the map and had to backtrack, hoping beyond hope that I would run into the character and not have to restart from the last save I had where they where near me. These searches usually ended with the little blurb that the threads of prophecy have been broken.

Every time I tried an escort mission on Morrowind, my escort would end up disappearing somewhere. I only managed to get one NPC to their destination without them ditching me halfway there. I would go really slowly, keeping an eye on them, and then suddenly *poof!* they'd be gone.

I'm not the type to go straight to a destination, though, so maybe they simply tired of my procrastinating.

 

[Dragon_of_red]

I like the one from Time Splitters 1, just for the fact that you have to escort a suck, a human size duck, who quacks and everything, heh, good times.

 

[NIHILHATE]

It's not too bad on those rare occaisions in Dead Rising when you can just give them a piggyback, but other than that... I can't think of any.

 

[ThePantomimeThief]

Earthworm Jim had an amazing one with Peter Puppy in. But so damn annoying.

Also, one of the few I actually enjoyed: Interstate '76 had some nice levels where you had to protect convoys. I've never felt more like Mad Max.