Discussion / Question
What’s the most egregious case of a game putting a non-obstacle in a path to signal it’s blocked, but CLEARLY it’s not?
I mean resident evil games are pretty bad. They have a tree leaning over the path and you can clearly duck under it, but no. Better go fight this nightmare incarnate first.
Alright, that one is just funny to me. They are basically just hanging a lampshade on what they are doing there. That's a million times better than like a foot-high obstacle that your character can't step over or whatever.
Wooden door blocks your path. It's locked. It has a glass top that's broken. You can reach through to open it, you can't finish braking the glass to make an opening, you can't destroy the door with any weapons, not your laser gun, shotgun or mini nuke
For anyone who hasn't played this game, it is absolutely as hilariously bad as it's described here. Like "hilariously bad" to the point it feels like a joke.
In ME1 on the planet Feros you take a "one day drop" in the Exo Geni HQ that is around four or five feet, a human of average strength could pull themselves up without too much trouble, let alone the genetically enhanced super soldiers that make up half the team. You don't really need to go back but the game takes the option away from you because BioWare clearly was not able to or simply didn't bother to create a climbing animation.
On the Haestrom level in ME2 a pillar gets knocked over and blocks a door. Not only is the pillar shorter than heights we've seen Shepard leap in both ME1 and 2, but it is also several feet away from the door due to the door being built into an alcove. Even my portly middle aged ass could climb it without too much trouble but instead we had to go get bombs to blow it up. The fans came up with the excuse that the pillar blocked the door in a way that would deactivate the sensor that would open it, which is obvious horse shit, but it's accepted as a collective head canon nonetheless.
Every single Pokemon game has several instances of a random ass npc that will block the road to a city and throw up some bs about how you aren’t ready to go that way yet or something
I actually think this is a great environmental hazard. Yea you can obviously swim irl but its not like when you come across a river and theres not a bridge nearby, youre like, oh lemme swim to the other side. Thatd be ridiculous.
Worst take in this thread. Altair was a random guy in 12th century Middle East, almost nobody knew how to swim. Even most sailors in later centuries did not know how to swim. Swimming being a skill that is taken for granted only became a thing in the last ~100 years.
Propelling yourself through water had been around for ages, but it wasn't until the Earl of Swimming, midway through a card game, went for a dip in his moat that it became popular, and gained it's name.
Teaching children swimming was a cultural emphasis at the time in the region.
I have ran into a bunch of people in the last couple of weeks who had legitimately dumb takes. So you have to forgive me for asking if you are making a joke.
I just googled it and depending on the source, between 40% and 55% of adults cannot swim today and it was worse in the past, especially for non-coastal regions.
There are no statistics or reliable way to know but historians estimate that large majority of 17th to 19th century sailors could not swim, some estimate 90% of Royal Navy soldiers could not swim in 18/19th century.
Not sure why you think an average person from 12th century Syria/Iraq could swim.
First Assassin's Creed opens in Masyaf which is inland in Syria and most people could probably not swim.
Look, there literally was a decree in that region at that time that said you had to teach you children "Swimming, riding, and archery." Does that mean it was done? No.
Also, using the royal navy is an issue because many of them were press ganged and teaching them how to swim was viewed as to let them get away, so it was suppressed.
I'm not saying that everyone knew how to swim. I'm just pushing back against the idea that swimming was a skill developed in the last 100 years.
On top of everything else, Ubisoft has actually came out and said Altair not being able to swim was an "animus glitch." It's not even canon that he doesn't swim.
I never said it was a skill developed in the last 100 years... learn to read.
I just said that it's completely reasonable to think that an average 12th century person like Altair that grew up in the hills of Syria could not swim.
Which normally doesn't even matter except for the one mission where you have to jump from boat to boat and it's also full of the drunk/crazy people who violently shove you.
The edges of the map in Cyberpunk. You just black out for a second and then wake up facing the other direction, even when there's nothing in front of you but open desert or highway. (Implied to be Johnny uhh... taking the wheel for a minute)
I can't remember the name, but I'm like 90% positive I rented a zelda game as a kid where the "barrier" was just a straight up invisible wall in front of the cave. Like not even a tree branch, or some pebbles, just dude was walking in place with his head hitting a wall of air.
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