Poll: Jetpacks

[Squilookle]

Jetpacks are like Pineapple and Bacon. They improve whatever they are applied to.

Pinapple is one of the most foul and disgusting foods I've ever had the misfortune to taste.

But your girlfriend will thank you for eating it...

OT: No. Jetpacks don't always make things better. For example, compare the Jetpack in action in a game of Soldat here:
...with the grappling hook from Liero, one of the inspirations for Soldat:

 

[Firetaffer]

Jetpacks are like Pineapple and Bacon. They improve whatever they are applied to.

Pretty much this.

Except that

Bacon and ice cream doesn't taste too good D:<

 

[mrdude2010]

the game needs to be properly designed around the idea of jetpacks. the reason it's so useless in reach is that bungie never re-dveloped their maps to allow for the possiblity of jetpacks, or indeed any other armor ability. this is why the new ivory tower sucks so much, is because the new armor abilities turn it into a broken camp fest

 

[Athol]

JETPACKS!!!

 

[Vykrel]

hell yes, they do...

 

[ninetails593]

Having a jet pack wouldn't help at a funeral.

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

Spoiler: HachoO!

Sorry 'bout that. Had to get that out.

Now, What were you saying?

OT: Ok, Ok fine. I'll stop dicking around.
No, Jetpacks don't improve eveything. Co-op, maybe. But not Jetpacks.

 

[Knight Templar]

Flying in general is fun, why should the ability to fly at will be any less so?
I suppose it isn't exactly flying, not in the same way as a banshee or helicopter anyway, but it's usually a very prolonged jump.

Still fun.

 

[RoseCoveredCadaver]

What about the game Dark Void? In a game centered around the jetpack, there was massive potential, and no one can deny that there were some truly kick ass segments in the game.


The point being that jetpacks are awesome, but are simply implemented poorly in games. They do make everything better.

Even porn.

 

[Nyan Cat]

Jetpacks would be fun. Lots of fun. Just like in GTA: SA.

Having a jet pack wouldn't help at a funeral.

You could totally fly down with it when you deliver your eulogy. How is that not helpful?

 

[superbatranger]

Jetpacks are like Pineapple and Bacon. They improve whatever they are applied to.

Pinapple is one of the most foul and disgusting foods I've ever had the misfortune to taste.

Blasphemer!

OT: Jetpacks are great in games. In real life, not so much.

 

[Fishyash]

Jetpack in worms was epic.

You could fly over to someone, get a baseball bat out and smack them into water every single time.

 

[Wintermoot]

YES! its kinda like a physics rule

 

[Thaluikhain]

They had jetpacks which took a while to recharge in Giants: Citizens Kabuto, which were more like jump packs, I guess...flight is limited to a few seconds, before you have to wait a while longer before it's fully recharged.

It's very handy, and has implications for level design, but can be infuriating trying to reach the top of a hill that's just barely within your grasp.

But, proper flight would be game breaking...though SAM turrets in that game were nasty, instant kills or thereabouts (though you could use decoy flares), but only if you were above a certain height.

 

[StormShaun]

YES only to certain games, but things like dark void......uhuhuh gives jetpacks a bad name, zero gravity is fun too....

 

[Ghengis John]

In the virtual world jetpacks make everything better. In the real world jetpacks make everything more dangerous, unpredictable, and needlessly complicated. Jetpacks in the real world are impractical and have a better chance of transporting the user to the River Styx than anywhere else.

Screw your reality, let's jet! *Pulls the starter, Slams through the ceiling. Jetpack explodes. House catches on fire.*

I know everything you said is quite true. But you see, it changes nothing. I want one.

 

[irishstormtrooper]

They do make most things better.

Also I just have to say this,

Jetpacks are like Pineapple and Bacon. They improve whatever they are applied to.

A Pineapple-powered, jetpack made of bacon. Oh, the possibilities.

That would be bad, though. How could you eat the pineapples if they were powering the jetpack?
Answering the question, yes, jetpacks do make everything better.

 

[ninetails593]

Jetpacks would be fun. Lots of fun. Just like in GTA: SA.

Having a jet pack wouldn't help at a funeral.

You could totally fly down with it when you deliver your eulogy. How is that not helpful?

I'm pretty sure the people attending the funeral would want something a bit more serious.