oddities you have noticed in games
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ive always loved this one. the greatest enemy in videgames are locked doors. you might have a rocket launcher with unlimited ammo but somehow each time you fire that rocket at the stupid door, it will never go down. you still gotta find that one key to open said door.
also, knee high gates your character could probably jump over with no real diffulty.
characters being able to jump 3 times their hight like nothing.
in a lot of older ones carrying probably over 5000 tons worth of equipment not slowing you down one bit.
in most fps games, your own fists tend to be a better weapon then your pistol.
in cutscenes your guy has a gun yet they feel the need to punch/kick the enemy (i understand why but from a pratical sense its stupid)
in some fps's, you can run just as fast, if not faster, then a jeep.
in some games, it only takes one person to drive a tank (it takes many)
in some games, certain moves make the character imortal while they perform said move.
also, knee high gates your character could probably jump over with no real diffulty.
characters being able to jump 3 times their hight like nothing.
in a lot of older ones carrying probably over 5000 tons worth of equipment not slowing you down one bit.
in most fps games, your own fists tend to be a better weapon then your pistol.
in cutscenes your guy has a gun yet they feel the need to punch/kick the enemy (i understand why but from a pratical sense its stupid)
in some fps's, you can run just as fast, if not faster, then a jeep.
in some games, it only takes one person to drive a tank (it takes many)
in some games, certain moves make the character imortal while they perform said move.
I love how in some FPS, you can shoot somone in the foot a sufficient amount of times and they will die... Also in some FPS, mainly those with self-regenerating health, you can shoot somone in the head as many times as you want (provided you wait 5-10 seconds), and yet a knife in the leg is deadly.
Nobody mentioned the gaping hole right through the center of the head Hitman often gets (in his first game at least), while still running around like nothing's happened?
I find it funny how in games like GTA, Saints Row and really any game with non-hostile/civilian NPC's, you can walk around with anything ranging from a baseball bat to the BFG 9000 in your hands, and everyone just carries on with what they're doing. Yet you get into a car and you smack a lamp post with it and people run for their lives.
When my little sister played Animal Crossing, she gave a fish to the owl museum owner. It looked like he shoved the fish in his rectum as well...it was disturbing. Or I am a bad person.TheNecroswanson said:In OoT, Link shoves special items up his rectum. Does that count?
Edit: This may not be an oddity, but Red Steel bothered me with its sword fighting. I can understand having to use a blade at the beginning, where (to the best of my memory, anyways) you either don't have a gun or have very little ammo for it.
I cannot understand sword fighting a guy when you have a shotgun, though. Yet, every time someone came to me with a sword, I would drop / put away my shotgun and draw mine...it bothered me so much I actually stopped playing the game.
In Persona 3, if the main character dies it's game over. Yet whenever another character died the character was just unconcious until you died. It's like the AI is too dumb to do anything without you. It would have been better if they revived you or escaped the battle if it was a normal battle.
Why out of all the quick and agile creatures on this planet Sega chose a hedgehog as the one that travels at super sonic speed.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the never-ending water world from Super Mario - NES. Also that most obnoxious thing from nearly every Megaman game before he went to tactics where enemies regenerate the instant you turn your back. D: "I just killed you!" (Kirby likes to do that too, except not with the awesome stuff like UFO power. -_-)
And since we've got the OoT microscope out... remember the velcro sheath? It's just stuck on his back. With love and magic. Which they fixed in MM and screwed up again for WW, and then for TP they fixed it again but gave him this graphically nice but otherwise (I'm sorry in advance, I love the phrase) "pants-on-head-retarded" spinny-put-my-sword-away move that doesn't correspond at ALL with where his sheath is actually located. Goofiness.
And since we've got the OoT microscope out... remember the velcro sheath? It's just stuck on his back. With love and magic. Which they fixed in MM and screwed up again for WW, and then for TP they fixed it again but gave him this graphically nice but otherwise (I'm sorry in advance, I love the phrase) "pants-on-head-retarded" spinny-put-my-sword-away move that doesn't correspond at ALL with where his sheath is actually located. Goofiness.
That applies to many games. Like in left 4 dead, to carry 150 shotgun shells would require a large bag weighing probably 50 pounds or more, and where do all the pistol mags come from? Their bungholes?Spudgun Man said:
A 200 shell box of 12 gauge 8 1/3 oz shot doesn't weigh THAT much, and actually doesn't take that much space up. I buy one or two every time I go skeet shooting. Makes you wonder... when does your character take the time to fill fresh magazines anyway...Hunde Des Krieg said:
But for my WTF is why even to this day is it that whenever you kill something you can't take all it's junk. Bethesda is the only company that truly uses the "take whatever the guy has" mindset from boss type dudes to scrub trash baddies. In most FPS games you can take weapons/ammo, and in some RPGs you get scripted specific loot, but neither is to the level that bethesda does it.
OH YEAH! I remember! Apologies for my half-assed-ness. I remember I finished that quest when I was really ill and meant to go to see queens of the stone age the next day. My attention span was gone because... well I was determined to get better and not miss the gig. Now everything is right.HydraZulu said: