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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Perestroika posted:

Yeah, that trips me up as well. It starts you out by giving you all those subtle hacking tools and having you sneak around all opponents at first, making you feel like a low-key, budget batman. Then the game tells you to buy a fully automatic assault rifle and sets you to storm some company's office building, helpfully pointing out "those guards you're about to murder are like PMCs or some poo poo, they have it coming". Most of the time the game doesn't even bother to track whether you nonlethally subdue somebody or just shoot them in the face.

At this point I'm basically going with the interpretation that the protagonist is just a full-blown terrorist who just happens to target criminals most of the time.

Same thing with a convoy mission where you have to stop some illegal organ donors driving across the city.
There are two targets, but in a convoy of six or seven cars. So 7 guys with guns basically.
The instructions are to 'knock down' the targets.
Are you allowed to kill them with guns? No.
Are you allowed to drive over them, knock them down? No.
Are you allowed to kill everyone else in the convoy? Yes.

The only way to complete this is to try to kill all the extra guys in the convey, and then fly tackle the two targets so you baton knock them down, for some hosed up reason they have to remain alive at the end.
While they are shooting at you at the same time from two positions so you can't ensure you have proper cover all the time.
It's loving retardly annoying.

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happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Bit of a stupid thing and totally my own problem, but the only thing I hate about BL2 Presequel is all the Australian accents.
Sure it was made in Aus but a whole loving moon in the future does not need everyone to have the same accent.

And Pickle's designer and voice actor needs to die.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
Steam does achievements well of games, it shows you how many others got it.
And you can order them on your own profile of how rare they are.

Atm, my rarest achievement is Saints Row 3 'You're My Hero!'. Only 0.83% of all players have this.

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

FactsAreUseless posted:

If you got far enough in Spirit Tracks to get to the flute, you got farther than I did. I quit when the first thing the game has you do is a combination stealth/escort mission with insta-fail if you're seen.

Spirit Tracks came out in 2009.

Is that the water bit?
I really got into Spirit Tracks, I think got pretty far into it, until I came to some dungeon location where you have to time it pixel perfect or insta dead.
Mind is a bit hazy, but its a stretch of water where you have to blow yourself across, while avoiding multiple arrows that shoot over. Hit once, knocked into the water, and start from the start again.
Drove me mad that one, quit the game forever after that bullshit.

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