impossible game moments

[Dectilon]

"I just ask myself, why did they write it like that? Why make the story inconsitant with the game? They could have come up with other ways to do the whole scene, but they chose one that didn't make sense."

Well, that holds true for any game really. In-game, the boss can take 10453456 bullets to the head before he dies. In cut-scenes it takes a single bullet to the gut to kill anyone.

I see it as the "game" bit being something of a parable for the actual struggle that took place. I mean, you obviously wouldn't survive being shot in the head, but even in "realistic" shooters you're almost never limited by being damaged.

My analysis is that it's more of a mental shield breaking down sort-of-thing. Say, in a sword-fighting game. Obviously you lose if you're cut, so I see the hits you take as the enemy starting to break through your defenses, not actually hitting you ^^

 

[Fvantom]

In just about any MMORPG, how is it that looting rats can produce a sword, shield, piece of armor, just about anything you can think of, and how is it that the same armor that can fit a gnome (going into WoW here) can fit a tauren?

elastic plate armor?

 

[Niccolo]

Well, you're referring to a bash with a gun butt from someone strong enough to flip over a vehicle. I imagine with that much driving force behind it even a Furby or plush Pokemon would cause significant harm.

Yeah, but isn't your character supposed to be that strong also? But are we talking about flipping a vehicle back over or flipping it over from standard position or flipping it as in sending it flying into the air? Because the former is probably something a moderately athletic person can due (from the shape of a car being rounded some and unstable when on it's top or side).

Moderately athletic people can't flip over tanks. And to flip over a car alone would take them several minutes; MC does it in a matter of seconds... one-handed.
The suit of armour he wears can still be penetrated by bullets, so it's reasonable to assume that pile-driving the butt of a gun into his back will transmit through to his spinal cord and shatter it.
BUT AND HOWEVER, the whole thing IS a load of cock-and-bull, as someone about... five? 8? posts up pointed out.

 

[sammyfreak]

How the TF2 spy can disguise himself as a Heavy with a makeup kit in only a few seconds.

How Commander Shepard has time to MMO his way past twentysome plants doing irrelevant sidequest while racing against Saren to save the universe.

Why your guildmates in Assassins Creed wont give you crucial information if you dont collect flags for them or kill people who want you dead, they even add times limits for reasons like "my back hurts". Also why the hell do the crazy people only disturb me and NOBODY FRIKKIN ELSE.

 

[Anarchemitis]

I've found my share of glitches and secret spots in Battlefront. *Fiddling with Mouse* Heh heh heh...

 

[PurpleRain]

In Oblivion I pulled a Clamour out of a small coin pot. I imagined since my character was a mage that I could pull things like a rabbit out of a hat. Still, producing a huge arse sword out of a tiny pot is quite a feat.

 

[Ichigo777]

How should I say this... Um Through The Fire And Flames on Guitar Hero 3 on Expert? My god man it's like running a marathon and you realise it's just for some stupid gold plated medal.

 

[gunkata]

I can't believe no one pointed out this impossiblity yet.

In any sort of modern shooter that has the main character with teamates (GOW, Mass Effect) you can simply heal team members with a button press or tap on the shoulder, and they're good to go. But the minute you die, well game friggin' OVER!

It's not like that this would comprise gameplay, Kane & Lynch had teamates that would heal you if you died but if this happened too many times you'd OD and permaneatly die, and I didn't find it destroyed the difficulty at all.

But then again the game mechanics made getting headshots impossible and the henchmen had the "bullet absorbing" qulaity of 50 Cent

 

[fastforward]

freaking golden eye fire. It goes through walls...WALLS! which are of course perfectly fine afterwards.

also haystacks in assassins creed. I can jump off a 50 story building with incredible accuracy into a minuscule hay stack below and am perfectly fine. Further more no one seems to care. BUT if I get out of said haystack all of a sudden everybody's all up in arms wonder what I'm doing.
DID ANYONE NOTICE THE SWAN DIVE OF DEATH? NO.
that guy should have been in the Olympics, screw holy wars.

 

[Enemy_Combatant]

"Another visitor...stay awhile...stay FOREVER!"
Seeing the title drove me to post that..forgive me.

Impossible moments? Any game in which the player falls as little as 3 feet and dies from a collapse of his/her balsa wood-like spinal column.

 

[SimpleReally]

MGS3: dont you love being able to perform major surgery in the middle of boss fights while they wait for you before resuming the battle?

Counter strike: if you kill a terrorist and he drops the bomb, why the hell cant you pick it up and get rid of it or something

Final Fantasy 12: i just reached this pharos lighthouse, had to fight a monster guarding the entrance, then had to do tons of complex puzzles in order to activate the elevator and go up, fighting 2 more guardians along the way, and once at the top, i find 2 bad guys there waiting for me, i have no idea how they got there, and since they had business of their own i find it weird that both parties arrived at the exact same time

 

[Dr Faust]

My analysis is that it's more of a mental shield breaking down sort-of-thing. Say, in a sword-fighting game. Obviously you lose if you're cut, so I see the hits you take as the enemy starting to break through your defenses, not actually hitting you ^^

Do you mean to say that he was metaphorically impaled? Or are you implying a state of "readiness" that can lessen an impact? I'm sure someone else here has heard the old legend that Houdini could take an expected punch to the torso in stride, but was done in by an unexpected punch to the diaphragm (messed up his breathing just before a stunt and he drowned). Maybe, in a world where magic is real, the most potent defense is to mentally prepare for it. A battle of wills, manifested in the physical plane.

This would also explain the Halo "assassinations."

How come a headshot is an instant kill in almost every FPS now despite the contunual presence of these things that soldiers wear called helmets.

You're giving helmets too much credit. At least, they can't usually stop a rifle round. Especially around WWII. I used to have an old WWII helmet with two bullet holes in it... one going in, and one going out. From what I've read, a modern helmet will stop a handgun round at a distance, but anything more is iffy.

In any sort of modern shooter that has the main character with teamates (GOW, Mass Effect) you can simply heal team members with a button press or tap on the shoulder, and they're good to go. But the minute you die, well game friggin' OVER!

This same thing happened in the RPG, Persona III. In the game, you can have a party of four people, but you only directly control the protagonist. You could revive your teammates, your teammates could revive each other, but if you go down, its GAME OVER goodbye last hour and a half. That drove me up a wall once or twice.

 

[Saskwach]

How come a headshot is an instant kill in almost every FPS now despite the contunual presence of these things that soldiers wear called helmets. While on the other hand the average soldier even without body armour seems to be able to take about ten SMG bullets to the torso and just shrug it off and keep going without so much as a decrease in walking speed or aiming ability.

New-fangled military helmets might be different (I still doubt it) but I'm pretty sure most helmets don't stop bullets. From my understanding helmets are only there for glancing blows, some shrapnel and blunt force.
Your second point is right though.
Edit: Beaten. Curse you Dr Faust.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'm sure someone else here has heard the old legend that Houdini could take an expected punch to the torso in stride, but was done in by an unexpected punch to the diaphragm (messed up his breathing just before a stunt and he drowned).

That's not too far off. Houdini was being painted by a student (PR stunt) and the student's friend was there. The friend asked Houdini if it was true that Houdini could take a punch to the gut without pain, and Houini answered yes. The friend asked if he could try, and Houdini said sure. The guy, unaware that Houdini had to flex, punched him immediately, several times. It caused the appendicitis that killed him a few days later.

- J

 

[misfit278]

definatly mile high club on call of duty 4, took me 4 hours

Also on rayman:the great escape when you had to defeat that pirate dude while on the flying ting (i was 8 at the time but it stoppped me ever going back to that game :'[ )

 

[Nerdfury]

What about Mario? This guy goes about doing mushrooms, breaking up structures, stomping on the backs of turtles and setting the wildlife on fire. And he's a plumber who can somehow jump his own height!

And bosses - how often do you see bad guys launch into long diatribes where the hero (or anti-hero) stands there and listens until they stop and pull whatever trick/mojo they like and the boss fight starts. Why not just shoot them while they walk back and forth talking? Or how many of them do these fancy-pants 'power up' moves where they spin about and gesticulate and scream and flex and change appearances? SHOOT THEM THEN!

How is it that Gordon Freeman, a scientist, can somehow run and jump and avoid death from a million people while wearing a heavy HEV suit? And where did he get his military training?

How many of the bastards in Assassin's Creed lose their damned flags? Why do they need flags? Are these flags so important that the information you need is sufficient leverage? Why not join forces to look for them together? And why did they lose them in a convenient line?

Why is it in Oblivion that you can lay waste to thousands of people and not have someone bat an eye, but as soon as you pick up a wooden spoon while visiting someone or at the local tavern you suddenly get the local fuzz bashing down your door and demanding a fine? How are you supposed to eat if you can't borrow one of the many forks on the table?

And why dd Archmage Travan even let my dark elf babe into the Mages' Guild? Her best spell is a weak fireball, not counting the powers from local rocks. Surely he might have noticed during her internship that she spent most of her time running about with armor and a sword and never really did well with magic. And never attended a single class, and all she did was steal stuff and sell it. And yet he trusted her with his innermost sanctum and power over the Guild?

On that note, why do people see some random new girl wanderng about town and feel the need to ask her help with their trusted needs? Why not ask the local guards if they can spare someone to help find their lost kid?

 

[propertyofcobra]

I'm sure someone else here has heard the old legend that Houdini could take an expected punch to the torso in stride, but was done in by an unexpected punch to the diaphragm (messed up his breathing just before a stunt and he drowned).

That's not too far off. Houdini was being painted by a student (PR stunt) and the student's friend was there. The friend asked Houdini if it was true that Houdini could take a punch to the gut without pain, and Houini answered yes. The friend asked if he could try, and Houdini said sure. The guy, unaware that Houdini had to flex, punched him immediately, several times. It caused the appendicitis that killed him a few days later.

- J

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/houdini.asp

Snopes.com for the win.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I'm sure someone else here has heard the old legend that Houdini could take an expected punch to the torso in stride, but was done in by an unexpected punch to the diaphragm (messed up his breathing just before a stunt and he drowned).

That's not too far off. Houdini was being painted by a student (PR stunt) and the student's friend was there. The friend asked Houdini if it was true that Houdini could take a punch to the gut without pain, and Houini answered yes. The friend asked if he could try, and Houdini said sure. The guy, unaware that Houdini had to flex, punched him immediately, several times. It caused the appendicitis that killed him a few days later.

- J

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/houdini.asp

Snopes.com for the win.

Interesting. I'll have to change the bit about "caused", though everything else seems to match up okay. Namely that there was a guy who hit him pretty much just like I described, and that the blows may have hastened his death. I suppose the fact that he would've had appendicitis anyway (if he wasn't suffering from it before the attack) technically negates the story as "false" but it's still awfully coincidental.

Don't just read the bit that says False at the top. Read the whole thing.

- J

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

You should look closer. It said that it may have hastened it only because he mistook the appendicitis pains for residual pain from the punches, not as a direct cause of the punches.

 

[tiredinnuendo]

I don't see your point. I noted right at the beginning of my post that the appendicitis wasn't caused by the blows (which was news to me, back in school I did a report on this and back then it was accepted that the blows were the cause). Are you agreeing with me in disguise or something?

- J