oddities you have noticed in games

[Ultress]

Yuri in Tales of Vesperia is throwing his Sheath all over the place,does he get a new one each time or does he just take the time to find it each time

He does not have one. He just has the rope tied at the handle. I think only about half the swords of sheaths.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl-izhRLyP8&feature=related


he does have sheaths for swords as seen in the video link,so where do they go?

 

[Sgt Doom]

There are enough explanations for it, but don't you find it odd that...after all the barrels you have exploded by shooting at them, your enemies wouldn't get the trick. Of course there are exceptions, like Half Life 2, where the combine overdo that tactic a little (route canal)

Despite being aware of their explosive potential, the Combine still see fit to use them as cover for some reason.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

(Spoiler...a bit)





Prince of Persia 2008

You fight the God of Darkness and his minions. You kick the crap outta 'em, imprison them back into the tree, and all is happy except that your partner(Elika) is dead. So what do you do: Do you walk away for the good of mankind or release all the forces of evil(again) and start the apocalypse just to get her back to life. Make a wild guess what the Prince decided to do.

Seriously, it's kinda pointless to do all that crap if at the end you...well undo everything you do

Ah but the Prince is smart. He knows that if he'd walked away he wouldn't have been able to release a profitable add-on which continues his story.

On the subject of Prince of Persia (2008), does Persia or princedom actually have anything to do with the story?

When is the add-on coming out I forgot(I know there's Google by the way)
I suppose no. Maybe the prince is a prince but he just does not know it yet?

 

[ceeqanguel]

I have the mother of all nightmarishly weird things in games.
From the very first Dragon Warrior on the NES.

1\4 into the game you are finally able to save the princess and carry her back to the castle. The king congratulates you and offers you the princess in marriage.

"Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" Now what happens when you say NO?
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO
"But you must! Will you marry my daughter? yes\no?" NO I DON'T WANNA MARRY YOUR BUTT-UGLY HELL SPAWN!

 

[Sombra Negra]

The Heavy Weapons Guy in Team Fortress 2 has ENORMOUS bullets strapped to his chest that couldn't fit in his minigun or shotgun. What the hell does he use them for?

Edit:

The bullets couldn't even come out of the minigun's barrel. The shell casings in-game are also quite a lot smaller than the ones on his chest. Does he stab people with the frickin' shots?

 

[Kodlak]

Health regeneration... always gets me.

 

[Sombra Negra]

Another thing is that in many FPS-style games, you can shoot somebody twice in the body and they'll still be standing, but shoot them in the foot once more after that and they die. What's up with that?

 

[mattttherman3]

In Fallout 3, there seems to be more intact teddy bears than books. I find that odd.

 

[The-Big-D]

Where do these characters put all there weapons?

Many game characters can carry an assortment of large weapons at there disposal but where the hell do they put them all? They dont have that much space up there ass surely!

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Games are meant to be odd, they would be no fun if they weren't...

How about the oddness of Marcus regenerating his bullet wounds by waiting a few seconds or Gordon Freeman replenishing his health by walking on a health pack, or the raiders in Fallout 3 taking half a magazine into thier heads before they die, or Mario not realising that the princess is probably trying to drop him a hint by getting 'kidnapped' all the time...

There. You're participating by naming things... was that hard?

Excuse me?

 

[SmartIdiot]

In Oblivion acquiring the cowl of the gray fox has strange(albeit beneficial) effects. You wear it and everyone wants your head for a reward. You can get into a fight with one of the city guard, hell you can even kill a few. Then you take it off, in front of all witnesses, and yield. No one wants to kill you. What?

It was pretty handy finishing off the Dark Brotherhood anyway...

 

[Redphienix]

how in halo-halo3 on legendary a grunt can kill you faster than you can kill it without a headshot.

 

[ROBGOBLIN]

The way that every single person in THe GTA universeis able to carry the equivelent amount of ammunition, guns and bullet wounds to fill a large carpark without breaking a sweat.

They also have the ability to pull four foot rocket launchers from nowhere, and can change weapons without moving a muscle. Youve gotta love em.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

The Heavy Weapons Guy in Team Fortress 2 has ENORMOUS bullets strapped to his chest that couldn't fit in his minigun or shotgun. What the hell does he use them for?

The bullets couldn't even come out of the minigun's barrel. The shell casings in-game are also quite a lot smaller than the ones on his chest. Does he stab people with the frickin' shots?

They're actually crayons. Orange is the Heavy's favourite colour.

 

[Lucane]

Something ive noticed in all games, but usually which cant be avoided, is clipping graphics. Such to say, this occurs alot in Soul calibur 4. Sigfried and Nightmares armor couldnt go through all that toe-to-toe combat without catching on eachother at least once, and those swords are only effective in certain areas of the blade. A lot of the times (Not neccisarily SC4) I see a character running up stairs, but the reality is the stairs are just a ramp with some polygons attached. This problem was fixed in GTA, but no other game to date that I've seen has that. Another curiosity is WHERE THE HELL DOES CLOUD KEEP HIS SWORD? Its however many feet long, and you dont see him running around with it on all the time. WoW has the same problem, but with Inventory management. Where are you keeping all those bags? Armor in a game rarely shows, you can equip "bronze grieves of strength" in infinite undiscovery, but the guy still has his normal boots on. Whats up?

Kingdom Hearts as well take stairs reallisticly ... I want to say Assassian's Creed does as well but not 100% on that right now.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I like how in Fallout 3 you don't die after having a missile launched straight into your face and you can fix the damage by taking drugs

 

[vivadelkitty]

In FFX, I can't kill an enemy with Auron's enormous sword, but when Wakka lobs a rubber ball with a spike on it, it kills said enemy. It's all in the wrist, I guess.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

When is the Prince of Persia add-on coming out I forgot

This Thursday.

I'll probably get it regardless of the cost, though the fact that one of the bronze trophies is "finish the epilogue in under an hour" doesn't fill me with confidence. Apparently the platforming sections will be more challenging... we can only hope.

If there is no combat it should be fun, or maybe if you only have to fight the bosses once...