Poll: What's worse? Forced stealth or escort missions?

[CrashBang]

Escort missions are always terrible with the single exception of Resident Evil 4 (amazing game) but the stealth genre is one of my favourites so putting a stealth mission into other genres here and there doesn't bother me much, even if it's not very well executed

 

[Codemaster]

Sneaking is fine, but escorting is the biggest pain in the #$% I have every had to deal with.

 

[tjarne]

Depends on the ai of the game. If it's bad then escort, I hate keeping someone without any sense of self preservation alive. But then again if the game doesn't support sneaking that is horrible aswell. Hard to pick the lesser evil.

 

[Feste the Jester]

While forced stealth when it doesn't belong can be bad. Escort missions can be even worse. With terrible AI that practically commit suicide, not throwing my controller through the TV has been a exercise in patience.

 

[CloakedOne]

Escort missions, no contest. I want to worry about ME and that's it. Bioshock 2, to my relief, said that they were doing escort missions basically but the Little Sisters actually can't get hurt or anything, only interrupted. That almost makes up for it.

 

[The Night Shade]

Escort missions by far just look at GTA

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I'm too awesome at stealth to hate it. I always dread escort missions because most of the time the person i'm guarding tends to be attracted to bullets and evil kidnappers.

 

[Ickorus]

Escort missions.

I've genuinely had the VIP walk off a cliff in one game.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

Actually if paced well forced stealth can just feel like a natrual part of the game. Batman Arkham Aslylum works it in very well since trying to not use stealth against hoards of gun toating gaurds will turn you into Bat Swiss Cheese. On the other hand escort missions I have never seen done well since one it always forces the player to look after an NPC for some time, protecting both you and him/her from danger, and having a gun put to my head to save who ever it is does not make me endear them to me. Even in games that have all other side missions being well written and extremely well paced, like Fallout 3, any escort missions are always annoying tib bits that more often then not end up with the player murdering the "helpless" indivdual half way through.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Escort missions are definitely the worst in my case.

NPC's that you are supposed to keep alive just run in front of you while you are trying to defend them and get themselves killed is retarded.

 

[UnwishedGunz]

ill tell you whats worse...

timed stelthed escort missions

 

[KaiRai]

Escort missions. Forced stealth is usually accompanied by brutal but quiet deaths. Escort missions are usually accompanied by broken controllers, claims of impossibility and dickishness on the producer's part, and a foot shaped hole through the TV.

 

[GrinningManiac]

THe one "not so important" thing that irked me about Escorting missions was that they never got the damn speed of the Escort right

They'd always jog after you, bump into you, stop, wait for you to walk a little bit more, jog after you, bump into you, stop, wait for you to walk a little bit more, jog after you, bump into you, stop, wait for you to walk a little bit more, jog after you, bump into you, stop, wait for you to walk a little bit more, jog after you, bump into you, stop, wait for you to walk a little bit more, jog after you, bump into you, stop, wait for you to walk a little bit more, jog after you...

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

Surprised we've come this far with no mention of Ashley Graham.

Neither one is inherently worse than the other, it's all about execution. RE4 had a well thought out escort system, where the other character actively helped you protect her; most games (WoW is especially bad about this) just have them move at an arbitrary pace and maybe sit down for a break once or twice, with absolutely no regard for the presence of enemies or features of the environment. Mixing in stealth is fine too, as long as it either gives you the tools to remain completely unseen or gives you enough leeway to get spotted a few times and still clear the event.

 

[interspark]

stealth is fun and exciting! but theres NOTHING worse than cautiously tiptoeing through dark wood forest and having the traders youre protecting blindly walk into the metaphorical, waiting jaws of a mob of bandits YOU IDIOT!!! XO

 

[Liberaliter]

Escort missions, all the time. I love stealth - even if it is a shoddy tack on.

 

[MetalheadParkey]

I LOVE FPS!!!!

...... lol

 

[Nylis]

Escort missions by far. Especially when the person you're escorting doesn't seem to have the will to live.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Escort missions, definitely. Bad pathing, shoddy AI, ridiculously low HP... The horror!