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Silly video game tropes
- Thread starter Phediuk
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We all know this is going there eventually, so I'll take the hit and just link it directly: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameTropes
This is the worlds strongest weapon and you only get to use it for 2 fights, game over. Credits. Curtains.
OP
OP
and you can just reload your save from 2 minutes beforehand to see the other ending.
i need to enter this area, but there's a 2'' high curb in my way, and i need magic boots to jump up on it
Uncharted 2 is a major one, I don't think it counts but you can also be a real hypocrite in the Mass Effect series if you're inconsistent with the moral system.
In a similar vein:
• This is the worlds strongest weapon but it's actually worse than the wooden paddle you just found on the street corner. You'll never use it.
"Excuse me NPC, do you know where the person I have to meet is, I have an appointment."
"Well yes player, I do know that, but before you go, allow me to regale you the entire history of this world and the current racial tensions ongoing."
"Uh, that doesn't seem-"
"-I remember it all began a long time ago, back when I was a small child my father thought in the war, where he met my mother..."
"Well yes player, I do know that, but before you go, allow me to regale you the entire history of this world and the current racial tensions ongoing."
"Uh, that doesn't seem-"
"-I remember it all began a long time ago, back when I was a small child my father thought in the war, where he met my mother..."
You go inside an ancient ruin that was built in medieval times if not older, using old ass technology and you solve puzzles where you manipulate light beams and somehow that creates energy to open/move doors and objects made of stone that probably weigh several tons.
Well, it would make sense that after you use the world's strongest weapon on a couple of people, the rest would immediately surrender. :)
Running down a corridor in a cinematic game, in a crumbling building. Rocks fall right in front of you and block the path. However there's always a convinient narrow alleyway/stairwell, just to the right or left, and your companion says "I think we should go this way"!
Hey, that elcor on the Citadel really needed that original edition of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In fallout I can carry nuclear weapons but if my bobby pin breaks in a lock I can never open it.
This one is always the worst.
It's this, or the broken door on Fallout 3 that needed like 100 in lockpicking to open.
Attempt 1
"Go away!"
Attempt 2
"I said go away!"
Attempt 3
"Fine, here" *hands item*
Attempt 4
"Go away!"
Attempt 5
"Go away!"
Attempt 6
"Go away!"
Attempt 7
"Go away!"
Attempt 8
"Go away!"
Attempt 9
"Go away!"
Attempt 10
"Persistent, aren't you?!" *hands over new item*
Attempt 12
"Go away!"
Attempt 13
"Go away!"
Attempt 14
"Go away!"
Attempt 15
"Go away!"
Attempt 16
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 17
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 18
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 19
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 20
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 21
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 22
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 23
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
"Go away!"
Attempt 2
"I said go away!"
Attempt 3
"Fine, here" *hands item*
Attempt 4
"Go away!"
Attempt 5
"Go away!"
Attempt 6
"Go away!"
Attempt 7
"Go away!"
Attempt 8
"Go away!"
Attempt 9
"Go away!"
Attempt 10
"Persistent, aren't you?!" *hands over new item*
Attempt 12
"Go away!"
Attempt 13
"Go away!"
Attempt 14
"Go away!"
Attempt 15
"Go away!"
Attempt 16
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 17
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 18
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 19
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 20
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 21
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 22
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
Attempt 23
"Please Go away! You got me to say something different."
"It took us a unique mythical artefact and numerous riddles from ancient journals, but we finally opened the entrance to the impenetrable temple that no one's set foot in for over a thousand years."
*torches are lit*
*perfectly maintained mechanisms*
*various types of guns and ammo scattered across the rooms*
*villainous factor's already here and ahead of you somehow, in spite of them fighting you for the artefact and journal because they couldn't enter without it*
*upon shooting the leader of the villain's faction*
"This place is crumbling, we need to get out fast!"
*torches are lit*
*perfectly maintained mechanisms*
*various types of guns and ammo scattered across the rooms*
*villainous factor's already here and ahead of you somehow, in spite of them fighting you for the artefact and journal because they couldn't enter without it*
*upon shooting the leader of the villain's faction*
"This place is crumbling, we need to get out fast!"
You have managed to defeat the boss without taking any damage but a cutscene plays and you are defeated anyway.
An NPC punches you while a police officer just watches right next to you. Punch back and suddenly the whole town's law enforcement knows exactly what you did, where you are and are determined to take your life.
Fully intact ladder? Climbable. Ladder with a few bottom rungs missing or bent? Nope, got to find a way around.
Everyone agrees you are the chosen one, the savior of the world. Merchants will still refuse to give you a discount and certain NPCs won't let you pass.
You are walking in a forest wearing legendary armor anda massive sword that can cleave mountains in two. A group of bandits armed with rusted knives attack you.
An NPC punches you while a police officer just watches right next to you. Punch back and suddenly the whole town's law enforcement knows exactly what you did, where you are and are determined to take your life.
Fully intact ladder? Climbable. Ladder with a few bottom rungs missing or bent? Nope, got to find a way around.
Everyone agrees you are the chosen one, the savior of the world. Merchants will still refuse to give you a discount and certain NPCs won't let you pass.
You are walking in a forest wearing legendary armor anda massive sword that can cleave mountains in two. A group of bandits armed with rusted knives attack you.
Just don't turn your back on a loaded gun in a cutscene and you'll be ok. It got so bad at one point a new game in the series subtly pokes fun at it in the coolest way possible.
Experience points. Killing things makes you stronger and stronger (apparently by feeding on enemies' souls or something -- although it's never really explained) to the point that you're a god-like being that's capable of killing other god-like beings, even though you're just a normal kid.
But if you lose to the boss, you don't get the cutscene; you just get game over.
RPG typical NPC talk: "Who's in charge here?" "What can you tell me about this area?" when the hero talks to a random NPC. Imagine this in real life...
Okay, this is fine. What I find annoying though: healing potions get you from 1 to 100 hp, or even revive people. Cutscene starts, someone dies or is about to, nothing you or anyone could do. I remember Dragon Age 2 in particular for this.
Mass Effect 3: Earth's about to be destroyed. Shepard goes clubbing. Or: any other RPG that offers side quests while also try to express urgent, time limited matters.
Games where enemies take 100 bullets/strikes but you die after five.
Okay, this is fine. What I find annoying though: healing potions get you from 1 to 100 hp, or even revive people. Cutscene starts, someone dies or is about to, nothing you or anyone could do. I remember Dragon Age 2 in particular for this.
Mass Effect 3: Earth's about to be destroyed. Shepard goes clubbing. Or: any other RPG that offers side quests while also try to express urgent, time limited matters.
Games where enemies take 100 bullets/strikes but you die after five.
This fucker has been trying to kill me all game and has hurt and killed numerous others in the process, instead of killing them I'll instead get them to change their ways by speaking to them.