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by Fortinbras 10/10/2008, 11:58pm PDT |
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This stuck out in my mind most fiercely with Mercenaries 1. The last level is a goddamn boring fucking crawl up a mountainside with no helicopters and only two tanks for your back-up (and they burn out very quickly). If you were lucky enough to snag a scout helicopter from one of the gazillion patrol spawns that showed up whenever you moved a few inches, you could complete the mission within about 3 minutes. It's the worst part of the game because of their decision to suddenly pull the sandbox out from under you and it shows. With all the other missions, if they are seriously kicking me in the nuts, I can go fuck off halfway across the map and come back with some heavy firepower that perhaps the mission designer wasn't expecting me to use.
Sandbox games give you an out if you're willing to do a little legwork. Linear action games don't, you either cheat or you figure out the intended solution. |
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You know what I call GTA-style "open world" games? by Mischief Maker 10/10/2008, 10:24pm PDT 
Re: You know what I call GTA-style "open world" games? by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/10/2008, 10:58pm PDT
ok it's linear in the sense that by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/10/2008, 11:18pm PDT
Except that you have to do missions the way the game wants you to in a linear ve by Fortinbras 10/10/2008, 11:58pm PDT
The last mission in GTAIII took me about 50 tries because I kept doing it wrong. by Jerry Whorebach 10/11/2008, 12:34am PDT
Are you a bad enough dude to shoot the Grimace? by Fortinbras 10/11/2008, 12:55am PDT
the whole game is linear because the last mission is hard.... that's stupid NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/11/2008, 1:18am PDT
like I already said in my post you know what I'm not gonna repeat it NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/11/2008, 1:17am PDT
I wasn't responding to you! (ICJ FIX THIS FORUM HOW THE FUCK CAN JSOH POST WHEN NT by Fortinbras 10/11/2008, 1:23am PDT
Did you EVEN play Fallout? by Jerry Whorebach 10/11/2008, 1:29am PDT
Klamath -> San Fransisco -> Navarre -> The Den by Fortinbras 10/11/2008, 2:30am PDT
that's pretty linear, like mercs 2 NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/11/2008, 2:31am PDT
just because you have freedom of movement and multiple choices doesn't make the by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/11/2008, 2:37am PDT
stupid and wrong NT by Worm 10/10/2008, 11:44pm PDT
Okay, your post broke Jsoh's brain (more), that's cool, but ... by Worm 10/11/2008, 5:04am PDT
Thanks for clearing that up for yourself wromg. NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 10/11/2008, 5:07am PDT
the germs that infest his basement of skank have a hive mind... sometimes NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/11/2008, 5:15am PDT
SHOULDA KNOWN, I SHOULDA FUCKIN KNOWN NT by Worm Flips his Keyboard 10/11/2008, 5:17am PDT
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