Current Events > You gotta love video game logic sometimes.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

Whack a can of Spam with a hammer.

I don't think my dad would let me get away with this, that dude loves spam
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mooreandrew58 posted...

HylianFox posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

To be fair that armor probably weighs half a ton.

I was referring to "super drowning skills" in general

and armor that weights that much isn't very practical

My point being hed sink like a stone. Just like anyone wearing heavy armor or being a literal walking armory like a gta character.

AFAIK, a dead Spartan floats like a cork in water.
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Sonic the Hedgehog cannot swim.

Real Hedgehogs can swim.
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SerperiorThanU posted...

Able to defeat towering monsters that can destroy buildings, whole cities, worlds. Can't bust down a locked door.

Kratos is weak to thin metal bars.
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(In 2D RPGs and adventure games)
All roads, buildings, and boundaries are aligned perfectly with north south east and west. No structure or path is diagonal to those axes.
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manmouse posted...

(In 2D RPGs and adventure games)
All roads, buildings, and boundaries are aligned perfectly with north south east and west. No structure or path is diagonal to those axes.

Earthbound isnt. And honestly its not bad but it makes you understand that its just easier doing north south east west for paths.
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manmouse posted...

(In 2D RPGs and adventure games)
All roads, buildings, and boundaries are aligned perfectly with north south east and west. No structure or path is diagonal to those axes.

Also every door is on the south wall. It's like a law or something.
That's why any door that is on a north wall usually has valuables on the other side, because it's completely hidden and the only way to find it is to feel around for it.

You bump into the top of a building trying to walk behind it.
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CapnMuffin posted...

SerperiorThanU posted...

Able to defeat towering monsters that can destroy buildings, whole cities, worlds. Can't bust down a locked door.

Kratos is weak to thin metal bars.

What i hate even more is iron bars but your characters is clearly thin enough to squeeze through but nope cant do that.
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my personal fave is "insurmountable waist high fence", where there's an obstacle you could easily climb or even jump over and yet the game refuses to allow it
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HylianFox posted...

my personal fave is "insurmountable waist high fence", where there's an obstacle you could easily climb or even jump over and yet the game refuses to allow it

The heroes dont wanna tresspass. But no proble.s going into someones house and looting everything. It was almost off putting to me on lost Odyssey that npcs in houses very often told you to take whatever you want.
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manmouse posted...

(In 2D RPGs and adventure games)
All roads, buildings, and boundaries are aligned perfectly with north south east and west. No structure or path is diagonal to those axes.

In fairness, sometimes there's a loading screen or even just a blackout when you enter a town, so for all you know maybe up on the screen is Northwest.
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seriously, I've played games where your character can get stuck on tiny tufts of grass no higher than their foot
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What I love is when you enter secret sealed dungeons that have been sealed forever, and some of the first things you will find are fresh food or parts of modern weapons.
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Foppe posted...

What I love is when you enter secret sealed dungeons that have been sealed forever, and some of the first things you will find are fresh food or parts of modern weapons.

...and functional lighting, somehow.

Foppe posted...

What I love is when you enter secret sealed dungeons that have been sealed forever, and some of the first things you will find are fresh food or parts of modern weapons.

Or gun toting human enemies
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Foppe posted...

What I love is when you enter secret sealed dungeons that have been sealed forever, and some of the first things you will find are fresh food or parts of modern weapons.

...and functional lighting, somehow.

>ancient sealed dungeon no-one has entered for thousands of years
>lit torches on the wall
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I wanna contribute to this thread but I can't really think of something that hasn't been pointed out yet.
I guess I'll go for some low hanging fruit

>start to fight random monsters
>take turns attacking each other
>swings sword from afar, enemy somehow gets cut
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HylianFox posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Foppe posted...

What I love is when you enter secret sealed dungeons that have been sealed forever, and some of the first things you will find are fresh food or parts of modern weapons.

...and functional lighting, somehow.

>ancient sealed dungeon no-one has entered for thousands of years
>lit torches on the wall

And all ancient devices still work and have not eroded with age.
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sauceje posted...

I wanna contribute to this thread but I can't really think of something that hasn't been pointed out yet.
I guess I'll go for some low hanging fruit

>start to fight random monsters
>take turns attacking each other
>swings sword from afar, enemy somehow gets cut

Skies of Arcadia does the sword beam approach for long-range melee attacks
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sauceje posted...

I wanna contribute to this thread but I can't really think of something that hasn't been pointed out yet.
I guess I'll go for some low hanging fruit

>start to fight random monsters
>take turns attacking each other
>swings sword from afar, enemy somehow gets cut

One of thr primary reasons I prefer action based combat system even though I love jrpgs. 13 at least made it look cool. None of that stand in a straight line run forward attack then right back into place in that line.
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I want traditional turn based RPGs to have much more animation during battles to make them look more exciting.

- Character 1 attacks enemy 1
- Character 2 attacks enemy 1
- Enemy 2 attacks character 1

Thats how it is normally.

- Characters 1 & 2 attack enemy 1 simultaneously
- Enemy 2 goes to attack character 2, but character 1 pushes character 2 out the way and character 1 gets hit

It wouldnt be like that all the time, there would be different animations in how a battle plays out, although attacking simultaneously would be the new standard. It would take less time between menu commands than each character and enemy attacking each other in turn. Damage done and status effects would still happen in the same order as they would have done in the old games.
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lightwarrior78 posted...

HylianFox posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

Foppe posted...

What I love is when you enter secret sealed dungeons that have been sealed forever, and some of the first things you will find are fresh food or parts of modern weapons.

...and functional lighting, somehow.

>ancient sealed dungeon no-one has entered for thousands of years
>lit torches on the wall

And all ancient devices still work and have not eroded with age.

And in some cases they contain big animals that have been extinct for million of years, which you of course kill because they guard some artefact.
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RescueBC posted...

Lmao
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Bass_X0 posted...

I want traditional turn based RPGs to have much more animation during battles to make them look more exciting.

- Character 1 attacks enemy 1
- Character 2 attacks enemy 1
- Enemy 2 attacks character 1

Thats how it is normally.

- Characters 1 & 2 attack enemy 1 simultaneously
- Enemy 2 goes to attack character 2, but character 1 pushes character 2 out the way and character 1 gets hit

It wouldnt be like that all the time, there would be different animations in how a battle plays out, although attacking simultaneously would be the new standard. It would take less time between menu commands than each character and enemy attacking each other in turn. Damage done and status effects would still happen in the same order as they would have done in the old games.

Suikoden sorta did this.

Of course, you had six party members so it was pretty much required lol.
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And to expand on RE logic...Barry somehow has infinite ammo for his magnum when he's shooting enemies on the ground, and Wesker carries around an infinite supply of his custom made shades in MvC3 for his taunt
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I mean look, if you put an egg into a pocket full of rifles, what do you think's gonna happen?
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Schwarz posted...

I mean look, if you put an egg into a pocket full of rifles, what do you think's gonna happen?

It'll go into the magic pocket dimension where all items are held perfectly still
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>carry 300 lb of weapons and armor, can run perfectly fine
>pick up a flower, suddenly you can only move extremely slow
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You can either fart on command for up to an infinite times in a row or you'll never fart at all.
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Darmik posted...

You can either fart on command for up to an infinite times in a row or you'll never fart at all.

"I'm trying to talk to this girl but all I'm doing is farting."
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sombra in overwatch hacking certain characters is so funny

Soldier 76: Oh no Sombra hacked me, I forgot how to run
Mcree: Got hacked, forgot how to roll
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When you find random meat or old fruit in a trash can on the decaying streets of a neglected city, and somehow its so healthy that it actually helps heal your body.
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manmouse posted...

When you find random meat or old fruit in a trash can on the decaying streets of a neglected city, and somehow its so healthy that it actually helps heal your body.

or finding perfectly good meat inside the walls (literally) of a demonic castle
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At least half of these posts are just repeats
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Alkaloid posted...

First floor of dungeon: fun maze full of rabbits, mice, and butterflies!

Second floor of dungeon: suddenly enormous deer that murder your party within three turns are around every third corner!

Oh, I know that game!

Etrian oddyssey?
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>Is a total badass who killed hundreds of goons.
>Can't climb a waist-high wall.
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At least half of these posts are just repeats
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Tag
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Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

You face someone in an RPG that has hundreds of thousands of health. You beat them, they join your team, they have 2000 health when on your team.

\_()_/

That's because you beat him and damaged him? Lol
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The main character always happens to live where the monsters on the world map are weakest.

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KainWind posted...

The main character always happens to live where the monsters on the world map are weakest.

Perhaps this is coincidence, or perhaps would-be adventurers from other towns simply don't last long enough to save the world.
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DevsBro posted...

KainWind posted...

The main character always happens to live where the monsters on the world map are weakest.

Perhaps this is coincidence, or perhaps would-be adventurers from other towns simply don't last long enough to save the world.

...that kinda make sense, every town got a team of heroes but only one town got weak enough enemies so the heroes survives...
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Foppe posted...

DevsBro posted...

KainWind posted...

The main character always happens to live where the monsters on the world map are weakest.

Perhaps this is coincidence, or perhaps would-be adventurers from other towns simply don't last long enough to save the world.

...that kinda make sense, every town got a team of heroes but only one town got weak enough enemies so the heroes survives...

It also dovetails nicely with the complaint upthread about shopkeepers charging adventurers out to save the world. Like yeah, everyone's going to save the world until they're monster food. Shopkeepers need to make a living too.
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Summarizer posted...

Foppe posted...

DevsBro posted...

KainWind posted...

The main character always happens to live where the monsters on the world map are weakest.

Perhaps this is coincidence, or perhaps would-be adventurers from other towns simply don't last long enough to save the world.

...that kinda make sense, every town got a team of heroes but only one town got weak enough enemies so the heroes survives...

It also dovetails nicely with the complaint upthread about shopkeepers charging adventurers out to save the world. Like yeah, everyone's going to save the world until they're monster food. Shopkeepers need to make a living too.

How do you prove that you are a hero?
I mean, sure, some games got different guilds that you can join, but what about most Final Fantasy titles?
Look at me, you have never seen me before and I carry this knife, thereby Im a hero that tries to save the world from an event that you have not heard about, thereby you must give me your best armor and weapons for free! would be so abused.
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Why is that guard bald and have a barcode at the back of his head?
I dunno, but let's not bother him unless he gets up close.
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*walks down the street of an Ameircan city carrying a Soviet-made rocket launcher; nobody bats an eye*
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