impossible game moments

[Copter400]

In regards to the whole helmet-headshot thing: a helmet isn't designed to protect you; it's purpose is to slow down the bullet enough to stop it from making your face go all splodey. That way, when they find your corpse, they'll know who you were. That's probably not the official reason though.

HL2 is chock-a-block full of impossible things. I'm trying to figure out how to make a never-ending ammo box. Also, how can the sleek hunter-chopper carry so many mines?

 

[Broken Blade]

Well, I basically throw out "impossible" when I'm playing a video game. I know that this crap is just insane, but I'm a little insane too. And I like the impossible part: I know it's not real, so it's not like I'm searching for realism in a game where a furry something-or-other has twenty weapons and twenty gadgets wearing nanotech-powered armor and able to absorb nanotech from his fallen enemies to boost his abilities. But if you want impossible?

A year ago, I'm playing Final Fantasy XII for the first time, and heading out into the wilderness to defeat a walking tomato (Which I'm perfectly okay with). And I realize I can't jump.

Right?

I don't care how effeminate Vaan is, he is the main character in a fantasy video game, and he should be able to jump at least a little bit! Basch is a former soldier and captain: he should be able to jump. Balthier is a pirate: he should be able to jump. Fran is a humanoid bunny rabbit: she should be able to jump. They all should, it's insane that they can't. If I could jump, all those freaking pterodactyl birds would be dead in a heartbeat, but NNNOOOOO!! I have to whip out a bow or use a magic spell to beat those farking things? Doggammit!

Sorry, rant over.

 

[Dr Faust]

I was awful fond of the unrealism of Crackdown jumping. Kind of the opposite of the RPG thing. And also, the most fun part of the game (besides the Halo 3 beta).

Thanks, propertyofcobra, for the snopes link.

 

[PurpleRain]

HL2 is chock-a-block full of impossible things. I'm trying to figure out how to make a never-ending ammo box. Also, how can the sleek hunter-chopper carry so many mines?

All explained by science to complecated to understand.

Stranglehold has one I like. Your guns never need reloading, they just have huge clips of ammo. The assult rifle holds 100 bullets. But if you decied to spin around and shoot or shoot really fast, you go invincible and suddenly the guns stop using bullets from your inventory. I guess this can be explained once more with science.

 

[Nerdfury]

What about with the fact that in every FPS, when you look down you have no legs.

Why do none of these generic brown-haired protagonists have legs?

 

[FoolKiller]

...
also haystacks in assassins creed. I can jump off a 50 story building with incredible accuracy into a minuscule hay stack below and am perfectly fine. Further more no one seems to care. BUT if I get out of said haystack all of a sudden everybody's all up in arms wonder what I'm doing.
DID ANYONE NOTICE THE SWAN DIVE OF DEATH? NO.
that guy should have been in the Olympics, screw holy wars.

I would have to disagree about the haystack. That was a deliberate gameplay element for the sole purpose of having a leap of faith. Granted it was awkward but it served a purpose.

My big problem with Assassin's Creed is the bums. I am minding my own business stealthily killing some people and walking away. A random bum punches me and i bump into a girl with a vase. All of a sudden 6 guys with scimitars are attacking me. Two questions:
How was this my fault?
How come the bum only ever punches me and not some random person?

 

[GenHellspawn]

HL2 is chock-a-block full of impossible things. I'm trying to figure out how to make a never-ending ammo box. Also, how can the sleek hunter-chopper carry so many mines?

All explained by science to complecated to understand.

Stranglehold has one I like. Your guns never need reloading, they just have huge clips of ammo. The assult rifle holds 100 bullets. But if you decied to spin around and shoot or shoot really fast, you go invincible and suddenly the guns stop using bullets from your inventory. I guess this can be explained once more with science.

Same thing with Unreal Tournament, granted, it is in the future.

 

[Kukakkau]

The old game The Lost World: Jurassic Park was impossible to beat the 3rd level onwards even cheating for all levels and apparently running side on into a plant with a point on top hurts you

Also call of duty 4 in noticed whenever you are in a helicopter and look straight down you can see the seat you are sitting on but no legs.

Assassain's creed has so many. recently trying to assassinate the execution guy i walked off a 2 foot high platform INSTANTLY i was recognised as an assassain. also trying to get the first target a beggar was in my way and i couldnt push past her so i ran ONE step to the side and they know my identity... why bother hiding your face with the hood if the slightest movement makes them draw swords on you?

PGR3- i rammed a guy at 90mph side on at the back on his car he kept going in a straight line and i instantly stopped moving. later in the same race at 20mph a guy at the same speed clips my car and i end up doing a 180

Halo 3 as a big a dissappointment as it was. apparently 6 bullets and a melee attack from the assault rifle does more damage than 30 assault rifle bullets.Also the transforming flood enemies whenever they turned into the beefy melee form they hold up their hand and become bullet proof but a good rifle butt to the head does the trick.

OK impossibility in games is probably needed to make the game actually possible to play through but some things are just dumb

 

[Thanq]

In Deus Ex, freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann and his freakin' invincibility. On easy mode, just to prove a point to a mate, I took on Gunther Hermann and he took 20 GEP gun (rocket launchers capable of destroying tank size robots)shots and he still persisted in surviving. Oh hell, I emptied every bullet in my entire inventory on him and he didn't have a scratch on him. So I had to restart the game and basically ghost every mission so I had enough bullets to kill freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann.

dammit, that guy gets on my nerves. Oh, and that leader of one of the triads in Hong Kong, I shot him the 1st time with a GEP gun and took out all his bodyguards with one shot, and then fired another 19 at him and then he still managed to kill me! Why the F*** does he need bodyguards then!?

 

[Autoboy]

In Jedi academy I found myself not being able to get passed a simple sequence of clicking a button and running really fast threw a force field thing?.. Took me at least 2 hours to try and work out what to do? was not amused

 

[ReepNeep]

You're giving helmets too much credit. At least, they can't usually stop a rifle round. Especially around WWII. I used to have an old WWII helmet with two bullet holes in it... one going in, and one going out. From what I've read, a modern helmet will stop a handgun round at a distance, but anything more is iffy.

You may be giving them too much credit as well. Helmets issued with heavy body armor to SWAT style units can do that. Standard military helmets are only proof against fragments and schrapnel. The helmet that the US military uses with it's Interceptor body armor for instance cant stop a 9x18mm Makarov bullet at 50 meters. And that is a pretty weak handgun cartridge.

 

[Haliwali]

Where the Hell are all the kids in Oblivion? And Morrowind? Born under the sign of the condom...

 

[The Potato Lord]

Impossible moments....I've got a few

In Dead Rising you can take aas many gallons of orange juice as you want from the Cloumbian(?)Roastmasters and there is never any less. That same orange juice canalso be held for as long as you want and never goes bad.oh yea it also heals zombie-munched flesh instantly upon chugging.

Almost all FPS's do this but shotguns' effective ranges end at about 6 feet and beyond that they do about as much damage as a spitwad.

CoD4-in One Shot, One Kill after performing a coordinated assination with a planned escape vehicle, said vehicle only has enough fuel to stop for 30 seconds! didn't they plan anything at all?

Crackdown-You can have your personality loaded into pre-leveled clones but they still make you work for useful upgrades to do THIER work and they only put one agent out at a time when they have hundreds avaliable.

Halo(any of them)- When you realize that you can flip tanks over with no physical labor and no move ment at all really and no one ever seems to notice.

 

[L4Y Duke]

In Deus Ex, freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann and his freakin' invincibility. On easy mode, just to prove a point to a mate, I took on Gunther Hermann and he took 20 GEP gun (rocket launchers capable of destroying tank size robots)shots and he still persisted in surviving. Oh hell, I emptied every bullet in my entire inventory on him and he didn't have a scratch on him. So I had to restart the game and basically ghost every mission so I had enough bullets to kill freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann.

Wow, really? I killed Gunther without any hassle at all. Then again, I did tell the doctor guy to stay behind, and he came up to me in Paris and told me the phrase that I could say to Gunther to blow him up immediately.

 

[Nerdfury]

Where the Hell are all the kids in Oblivion? And Morrowind? Born under the sign of the condom...

This is actually a running joke in the game, with the character M'aiq the Liar touching on it where he says "M'aiq believes the children are our future. But he doesn't want them ruining all of our fun" to you.

Children were considered, but it was decided to not have them as then it would allow you to kill children, which besides being odd would also have people like Jack Thompson on Bethedesa's arse calling the game a 'child murder simulator.'

 

[Thanq]

In Deus Ex, freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann and his freakin' invincibility. On easy mode, just to prove a point to a mate, I took on Gunther Hermann and he took 20 GEP gun (rocket launchers capable of destroying tank size robots)shots and he still persisted in surviving. Oh hell, I emptied every bullet in my entire inventory on him and he didn't have a scratch on him. So I had to restart the game and basically ghost every mission so I had enough bullets to kill freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann.

Wow, really? I killed Gunther without any hassle at all. Then again, I did tell the doctor guy to stay behind, and he came up to me in Paris and told me the phrase that I could say to Gunther to blow him up immediately.

Aw well yeah, thats taking the easy way out. Really, I knew that. Hooonest. I asked the Doctor guy to go to Hong Kong, and now he may or may not find me later. I played the game before so I wanted to betray UNATCO as soon as possible and the easiest way was to kill Navarre and then later Hermann.

PS - I managed it too with a few more rockets

 

[ReepNeep]

In Deus Ex, freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann and his freakin' invincibility. On easy mode, just to prove a point to a mate, I took on Gunther Hermann and he took 20 GEP gun (rocket launchers capable of destroying tank size robots)shots and he still persisted in surviving. Oh hell, I emptied every bullet in my entire inventory on him and he didn't have a scratch on him. So I had to restart the game and basically ghost every mission so I had enough bullets to kill freakin' Gunther freakin' Hermann.

Wow, really? I killed Gunther without any hassle at all. Then again, I did tell the doctor guy to stay behind, and he came up to me in Paris and told me the phrase that I could say to Gunther to blow him up immediately.

Aw well yeah, thats taking the easy way out. Really, I knew that. Hooonest. I asked the Doctor guy to go to Hong Kong, and now he may or may not find me later. I played the game before so I wanted to betray UNATCO as soon as possible and the easiest way was to kill Navarre and then later Hermann.

PS - I managed it too with a few more rockets

Not sure what version you were playing. Ive killed him with the 10mm pistol before...

 

[GyroCaptain]

What about with the fact that in every FPS, when you look down you have no legs.

Why do none of these generic brown-haired protagonists have legs?

More and more often a game DOES feature legs which are visible, in the case of the Halo series both Halo 2 and 3 feature armored legs visible below. I seem to recall another game series that had them as well, so it's not something as rare as it once was. Of course, making a third-person shooter dodges the need for this nicely. The absence of legs is usually a holdover from the sprite-based style of gun arm animations or programmer laziness, since you have to do the same things as with the gun wielding arms a second time for the legs, you can't just use the model other players can see.

 

[ajbell]

I dislike the old "vital to the plot therefore indestructible" shtick. Most recent example I can think of is CoD4, where you take over the Russian base to try and capture some spod. I thought, "hmm, while I'm up here, I'll just put a couple of rounds in that Jeep's tyres in case he tries to escape". The tyres were, of course, made from that new fangled bullet-proof rubber, and said spod proceeded to lead us a merry chase in his Jeep. Grr.

(This is also linked to the non-physics-model-compliant racing opponent mentioned above. They're taking a set route and god help you if you try and stop them!)

 

[Cooper42]

The magic healing properties of food.

'Cos, yeah, like, when I get a bullet to the face, all I need is to gorge myself on bread, or to shove cans of meat down my gullet and I'm good to go...

Homeopaths eat your heart out...


Also: The inability of tanks to hurt infantry.
Sure, a shell slap bang into the middle of a group of 5 grenadiers isn't gonna send them flying...


Also: Ragdoll physics which are incredibly impressive, but only when the dead.
i.e: 1 shotgun to the face - not even a flinch - another to the face and Mr Combine goes flying back...
Don't get me started on rockets...