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Gaige

Gaige

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I've been landed with a fuckton of these missions in an RPG I've recently played, and while one person in particular has decent AI during the many, many times she's in danger, the rest have terrible intelligence.

Basically, I have to escort these people left right and center, or to safety, every few missions, because it's a post apocalypse setting, and even one person dying means a big fat game over.

So what games have you played that have one or more escort missions in them, and what's your general opinion on them? :rage: If you haven't played a game with parts like this, how do you think you'd react to being given an objective like this.
 
Does Oblivion count? Escorting the "Emperor of Tamriel" while hordes of demons are hacking away at you both, on max difficulty no less.

Was brutal, even with the madness gear!
 
What game, Diar? :wacky: Fallout 3?

And I've recently played The Witcher, and in Chapter 1 there is an escort mission where you have to take this bargirl who likes to get freaky with everyone back to her Grandma's place that is halfway across the map, and along the way you're assaulted by hordes of demon hounds.

It wouldn't be a problem if the dumb bitch would, you know, run away from them but no...she actually takes out a knife and fights with you. Normally I'd appreciate the offer, but..hell, when you have shitty HP don't fight.

It also didn't help that the demon hounds only came out around these "shrines", and my character was prone to getting stuck on the walls of the shrine. And it also didn't help that the hounds came in groups of 4-6 and only targeted the dumb bar wench.

It seems like games put escort missions with shoddy AI and impossible odds just to fuck with you.
 
DeadRising 2 and RDR Undead Nightmare..

Both are long distances with many foes and monster on the way...its annoying! BS and too slowpaced..they take like forever,,srsly they should ban escort missions...
 
Well I have played games with escort missions and I wouldnt say they are totally nerve wrecking. Only when the damn guy falls behind or goes ahead too far and dies. Just cause 2 had escort missions and they were alright.. Nothing too terrible xD. I honestly dont find them THAT bad.. It is just sometimes there is an achievement for it and that becomes bad xD. I remember Midtown Madness III on xbox(first one) and that required you to escort people a lot in either Washington or Paris. I personally hated this Limousine Mission and Special agent mission where you have to pick up multiple people at once and then the time runs out if you aren't fast enough.
 
MagicMasher said:
What game, Diar? :wacky: Fallout 3?

And I've recently played The Witcher, and in Chapter 1 there is an escort mission where you have to take this bargirl who likes to get freaky with everyone back to her Grandma's place that is halfway across the map, and along the way you're assaulted by hordes of demon hounds.

It wouldn't be a problem if the dumb bitch would, you know, run away from them but no...she actually takes out a knife and fights with you. Normally I'd appreciate the offer, but..hell, when you have shitty HP don't fight.

It also didn't help that the demon hounds only came out around these "shrines", and my character was prone to getting stuck on the walls of the shrine. And it also didn't help that the hounds came in groups of 4-6 and only targeted the dumb bar wench.

It seems like games put escort missions with shoddy AI and impossible odds just to fuck with you.
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inorite?

It's like "I just wanna help!"

but you cant help but shout out "get the fuck here, now!"

Then, the AI dies.

WoW is worse though, the AI stops if you're too far ahead, and move way too slow.
 
Sometimes they're okay, sometimes they do my head in. In WoW for example if the silly person you're escorting goes ahead and pulls everything in sight towards them/you it can be a pain in the ass, other then that the only other annoying thing about them is how slow they move as mentioned before.
 
Few games are as brutal as Forbidden Siren in terms of the difficulty of escort missions. As a general rule of thumb, the slightest mistake is often punished with death - enemies can kill both you and the companion you're escorting in one or if you're lucky, two hits.
 
Kingdom Hearts has a few parts where you have to escort someone, although it's not very hard (the game's pretty easy as it is, but with these kinds of "missions", you can literally appear in front of your person to protect them from attacks. Sometimes you can even do a special double team attack).

In general, parts in a game where you have to make sure a civilian isn't killed is pretty annoying-here you are, some sup'd up character kicking ass left and right, actually able to take down the big boss if you want, but if wee little person get's killed, then the game's over? The hell? 8(
 
It waaas Devil Survivor Tyler. Each mission has a win and lose condition, and in any mission with a civ, it's "A civilian dies" as one of the lose conditions.

Now the first time I protected a civ, a major NPC, she was actually pretty good with the AI. It's a grid based SRPG, where actual combat starts when you attack an enemy adjacent to you, so it was just a matter of blocking off access to said civ. But then in a mission shortly later, the demons were right beside the civs...and the civs happened to be on the other end of the map. Oy. :rage: The first two civs were decently fast, moving towards the evacuation zone/the main characters, who could heal them while fending off the attackers. The third however, backs into a corner, and two demons trap and fry him like a barbecue. GAME OVER.
 
Nikki Grahame said:
It waaas Devil Survivor Tyler. Each mission has a win and lose condition, and in any mission with a civ, it's "A civilian dies" as one of the lose conditions.

Now the first time I protected a civ, a major NPC, she was actually pretty good with the AI. It's a grid based SRPG, where actual combat starts when you attack an enemy adjacent to you, so it was just a matter of blocking off access to said civ. But then in a mission shortly later, the demons were right beside the civs...and the civs happened to be on the other end of the map. Oy. :rage: The first two civs were decently fast, moving towards the evacuation zone/the main characters, who could heal them while fending off the attackers. The third however, backs into a corner, and two demons trap and fry him like a barbecue. GAME OVER.
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Oh my God, I hated protecting the civilians in Devil Survivor. :ffs: All my civilians were HERP DERPS and didn't run from the demons. :rage:
 
Any escort misson in WOW always had me angry. Especially with how slow the NPC would walk and attract danger. The worst was escorting that guy in the Barrens and he'd run off an attack any mob within sight <.<
 
Dead rising.

Oh my god. the escort missions here are Terrible. Especially when you rescue the Girl while the Convicts are out. You got ti Carry one or Hold hands with the other. I always get Bert,Jay and cindy. Cindy needs to be carried. and That girl from the Convitcs needs to be Dragged. Its so annoying. Especially since The girl dosent move unless dragged. and Cindy is slow as all hell.

So the Convicts end killing one. Its painful. I do love watching them die though. :wacky:
 
I hate escort missions. I don't care what games it's in. I fucking hate them. I want to find the bastard who originally created the concept and brutally whip him to death with a bike chain in front of his Goddamn children. I HATE ESCORT MISSIONS. They are never fun. EVER!!! Probably the one that pissed me off more than any other was protecting the first translator in God of War II on Titan mode. Holy shit. I actually went temporarily blind from rage. What I hate more than the average escort mission is when you're escorting someone who doesn't feel it even slightly necessary to defend themselves.
 
A few mech games i've played do this. The targets chunk easily and move slow too, so it's a pain in the ass keeping hoards of enemies off them. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, ZONE OF THE ENDERS 2. Stupid, stupid LEV's...
 
There is only one game I don't mind running escort mission on. Half-Life motherfucking 2. They did that shit right. The escorts had guns and helped your ass out while you escorted them to the train so they could escape City 17 before the Citadel blew the fuck up.

FUCK YEAH, HALF-LIFE 2: EPISODE 1

Seriously, everyone needs to go play some motherfucking Half-Life. :hmph:
 
I generally hate escort missions, even when the people I'm supposed to escort are armed and smart enough to fight back. The ones that are armed usually tend to run off and get themselves dead because they are crazy and try to kill everything, which pisses me off to no end. And the ones that are helpless usually just stand there while they are getting killed by the enemy, thus causing me rage fits and bouts of cursing at the TV.
 
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