'But That Doesn't Make Sense...'

[WindKnight]

Just been playing armored core 4 (lovely game) and three of the missions take place at night where its 'so dark, its hard to get an optical lock'... so your weapons won't lock on until your virtually on top of them, and at times you can't even see the enemies unless a small amount of ambient light outlines them.

And all I could thin was 'Are you bloody stupid? this makes less sense than Doom 3 and no duct-tape!'

Your piloting a futuristic mecha that can fly if you tune it right, and packs laser canons, missiles, portable cannons and other high-tech gadgets in... and no-one thought to include IR or low-light cameras? and you cant get a lock-on by using your RADAR which is clearly showing blips representing your enemies? And how can it be too dark when one of them even has A Full Moon as park of its sky backdrop?

Most frustrating was that this (obviously) didn't affect your enemies, which in the hard mode of one mission just added a whole heap of fake difficulty as I had to kill three flying fortresses loading with enough weapons to kill me in seconds... and I had to get in their faces to be allowed to hit them.

 

[megapenguinx]

It's a video game, they can make up their own rules. I think it was just there to add dificulty and break up the monotony.

 

[Seydaman]

get night vision...

 

[WindKnight]

It's a video game, they can make up their own rules. I think it was just there to add dificulty and break up the monotony.

In the the last case though, the three flying fortresses are evil in their own right... the only way to kill them cleanly requires using weapons with very limited ammo and a lengthy charge up before firing. In other levels, one on their own could really make things tough for me... so making it so you had to walk down their throats to hit them was just a sadistic layer of unfair difficulty

 

[Flying-Emu]

Uh, what are we supposed to discuss?

 

[ohgodalex]

I think they call that "Fridge Logic."

Where you realize something doesn't make any goddamn sense.

I see what you did there, and I don't approve of it.

OT: Yes, that must've been hard. Discussion over.
How about that weather?

 

[quack35]

I guess the difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

 

[Chiefmon]

Blank-it Explanation: Look! Shiny Object! (Game designer runs)

 

[Evilbunny]

This thread is now about logical inconsistencies that bothered us during games.

In Dead Rising, it always bothered me that I could empty anywhere close to thirty rounds into a psychopath's head but still not do nearly as much damage as one slash from a small chainsaw.

 

[WindKnight]

Well, I was hoping people might also come up with their own examples of (really really) bad logic in games that made things unnecessarily tougher for the player.

 

[crooked_ferret]

In doom 3 I think it was an attempt to make the graphics seem better than they actually were by dousing everything in shadow.
Any game with fixed cameras I think fall into this category though. At some point in the game the camera will be placed in horrendous locations. I have seen this in so many games I am not going to bother listing them. Fixed cameras need to die, along with moral choice systems that only alternate between shining example of humanity and baby cannibalism.

 

[Inco]

Hmm.... i have to do a spoiler tag for this. Since its the dead end of the game.

Spoiler: Dead Space, spoiler overkill

At the End of dead space, where you have a boss battle against the hive mind. The Creature kills the that women who betrays you (i wanted that privilege) with a tentacle that could beat whales to death. So then it turns its sights to you, where instead of eating you or killing you, it proceeds to wrap its tentacle around the area and do battle with you. Then gives up and tries to eat you like halfway through the battle.

Also, If the re-incarnated body of your wife is on the shuttle which proceeds to then try and eat you before cutting out to black on the last cutscene. Then why didn't anyone notice it, like it would be pretty hard to miss that after a few trips by various people. Then again, it is possible that it was a hallucination (quoted by wiki).

 

[WendelI]

Ow i got one, Plasma beam in metroid prime is supposed to be pure heat energy yet it can only burn trough a non-metal compound (and ice <.<) What the hell. I was comfused as hell when the freaking scanner said "Iron and steel aloy" and shoot at it with the plasma and it didn't melt but as soon as i bombed it BANG! "Ding Dong Ding Don Ding DANG!"

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

The fact that the Vigoor Army in Ninja Gaiden seems to have made arrows in armor piercing and exploding varieties, despite the fact that they have machine guns, know they have machine guns, and use their machine guns rather than bows. Then they leave the arrows in open crates on the day that a ninja happens to be in town and chooses to tear through their base.

 

[Space Spoons]

Got one from The Force Unleashed. How come Starkiller is free to move about enemy starships and bases as though he owns them, but the stormtroopers that are supposed to be killing him can't even open unlocked doors? It doesn't sound like that big of a deal, but when enemies that will normally pursue you relentlessly stop dead in their just because a door shut in their faces, you've got a bit of a logic problem.

Doesn't really make the game harder. In fact, it makes it a whole hell of a lot easier at the higher difficulty levels, as you can clear difficult rooms one trooper at a time by simply opening the door, dragging an enemy out, then closing the door to fight uninterrupted.

 

[Worgen]

any rpg with life potions or magic that has a char dying and not being resed tho potion or magic

also ghosts, it kind of takes the point out of dying if your going to have a long winded funeral scene then have it be annoyingly obvious that the ghost of the dead is still around evesdropping on you IM LOOKING AT YOU LOST ODYSSEY!! takes tho whole point of dying away if they are just going to hang around watching your ass and it one person can do it then everyone would be doing it, damn over used story element

 

[Straitjacketeering]

In Turok I could be crouching with focused aim firing an smg in small bursts and all the bullets will fly in a scatter pattern yet those masked bastards can run with a minigun firing away and every single bullet will fly perfectly straight.