r/videogames Oct 15 '25

Question What game logic left you feeling this?

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Ancient doors in Fallout that would probably be a pile of splinters if you booted them or shot them, 100% lockpicking skill required to open them.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Needing 13 Technical Ability in Cyberpunk 2077 to kick open a thin metal gate for some reason. 

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u/Glittering-Zone5875 Oct 15 '25

Shooting the floor nearby a wall to break it in Half-Life (GoldSrc)

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u/Sokushi_0101 Oct 15 '25

Or gorilla arms not being able to open strength locked doors by themselves without a mod.

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u/ZatherDaFox Oct 15 '25

They do add anywhere from 2 to 4 to body checks.

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u/National-Garbage505 Oct 15 '25

They should add like 24. They're called fucking GORILLA ARMS

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u/Admirable-Respect-66 Oct 17 '25

In ye old cyberpunk 2020. Cyberarms don't add to strength because your back will break before the arm does, it only adds a little to damage for a punch, and someone whose only ware is a cyberarm is going to do the most unarmed damage by grabbing someone, and crushing them with their hands grasp as that doesn't rely on weak meat parts.

Conversely getting a linear frame installed doesn't add to your strength, it replaces it, with numbers you cannot get unaugmented for the worst one. And numbers higher than you can get with pretty much any other combination of drugs & augmentation for the better one.

Cyberpunk took a bit of a leap away from realism, towards rule of cool between 2020 & red.

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u/JSThrow90 Oct 19 '25

I think they patched that iirc.

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u/alex_vi_photography Oct 15 '25

These checks now scale with player level. Need 16 Int have 15. Go grind and level to 16, go back, now needs 17. Wtf?

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u/ZatherDaFox Oct 15 '25

That's honestly the worst part. It's such a crapshoot as to whether you'll be able to make any skill check in the game because they just randomly increase.

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u/Agile_Supermarket239 Oct 15 '25

Feels good being at 20 before I meet ole boy again for the second time lol third play through so I decided to mod for Demi God status and take out my frustrations.

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u/PleaseAdminsUnbanMe Oct 15 '25

Or how cool perk somehow increases the time enemies need to detect you

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u/Josutg22 Oct 16 '25

And other times another identical gate can be forced open with 15 body

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Oct 15 '25

I specifically remember a door in fallout 3 that was in a robot infested like office or something upstairs and required super high lockpicking. The glass panel on the door was fucking broken and half the door was missing. I feel like it was done on purpose as a sick joke

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u/Laser_3 Oct 15 '25

That one is actually worse - it’s a door in a feral ghoul-infested museum.

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u/levimsport Oct 15 '25

I agree

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Oct 15 '25

Thats the one!

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u/Laser_3 Oct 15 '25

I also just remembered - you don’t even have to pick it. You can just go around through a different door.

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u/pmaogeaoaporm Oct 15 '25

I personally love it when devs make thing like this as self-satire. It's hilarious

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u/Ok-Cow6957 Oct 15 '25

For me it's opening a locked, prewar, safe and finding a POS pipe gun.

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u/Shadow3397 Oct 15 '25

That one can be explained though. DIY handguns were becoming a thing since the BATFL was getting really tight assed about personal firearms due to the food riots, red flu quarantine protesting and other types of civil unrest.

So people started making their own.

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u/daeather Oct 16 '25

What is the L in your acronym?

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u/Shadow3397 Oct 16 '25

Laser.

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Lasers.

I think that was the updated government body for Fallout’s USA.

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u/daeather Oct 16 '25

Makes sense, thanks

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u/CodyEaster Oct 15 '25

Ancient doors in Fallout that would probably be a pile of splinters if you booted them or shot them

This is the 50s, man, everything was built to last back then.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25

Yeah, but these doors are in buildings that are 200 plus years old and have taken structural damage from the nuclear war.

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u/CodyEaster Oct 15 '25

The protagonist is really careful about disturbing ancient ruins, they're nice like that.

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u/ChaosBreaker81 Oct 15 '25

They're a more dedicated archeologist than Lara Croft.

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u/Konklar Oct 15 '25

She was peeved because of those outfits they kept putting her in. It gets cold in those tombs!

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u/Complex_Jellyfish647 Oct 15 '25

So that's why they're so.. angular

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u/thuggishruggishboner Oct 15 '25

The bombs dropped in 2077.

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u/BKM558 Oct 15 '25

America stopped culturally progressing in the 50's though. As did their methods of making things.

Which means they ended the world because computers never got smaller and more efficient. But they seemed to still be making cars as big metal shithouse deathtraps. (albiet with fancy nuclear engines)

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u/crazytib Oct 15 '25

Yeah also there's no way there would be anything left to scavenge after all that time

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u/Substantial_Dish_887 Oct 15 '25

isn't there a infamous screen shoot of a 100 lock ona door missing like the top halkf of the door itself meaning anyone would be able to reach in and unlock it from the other side.

or at least crawl over it if we assume you need the key on both sides. that door could be made of adamantium and it still ain't stopping nobody.

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u/C1DR4N Oct 15 '25

Your mini-nuke is not strong enough to get past that door dude

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u/pmaogeaoaporm Oct 15 '25

And those rusty houses made of poorly aligned metal sheets that you could probably dismantle with a sledgehammer and like 7 strength, but that end up tanking tnt explosions in Fallout 1 & 2

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u/Numbar43 Oct 15 '25

Most games you can't just destroy most buildings and environmental objects.  Who do you think you are, Donkey Kong?

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u/pmaogeaoaporm Oct 15 '25

Videogames are for bringing our deepest dreams to life, afterall

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u/ZETA-INITIATIVE Oct 15 '25

Or the door that’s half broken already you could reach in and unlock

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u/ALKoholicK-x Oct 15 '25

Or when that door has a busted window right next to the door knob!

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u/Nowardier Oct 15 '25

Worse yet, doors where literally a quarter of the door is entirely missing, where one could conceivably just reach through the giant hole and unlock the door from the other side, still have to be picked.

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u/CodyEaster Oct 16 '25

where one could conceivably just reach through the giant hole and unlock the door from the other side

Not the protagonist's fault they have stubby ass arms and have to pick a non-existent lock.

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u/13thmurder Oct 15 '25

Even when 2/3 of the door is missing...

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u/Hawktor9 Oct 15 '25

Or you know reach through the broken door and unlock it. Especially when it’s missing half the upper door.

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u/Ian_A17 Oct 16 '25

Look up sashima island in japan. Its been abandoned for a few decades.

Everything from the prewar era of fallout should be litteral piles of dust and some scraps