• doors

    From T987654321@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 12 10:24:12 2021
    Why are doors in video games so annoying?

    Take fallout. You're a walking tank with a nuke thrower but you can bust down a 200 year old wood door? Or ES. You're a a battle mage sling fireballs everywhere but you can't blast a door?

    No; you have to play find the key or worse play a "mini-game" to try to pick the lock.

    The solutions is to give the player options. Shoot/blow the lock off with a suitable penalty of alerting all the NPCs in the area. Instead of a minigame base opening on the character (or party) relevant skill; if you have the prereq it opens if you
    don't it doesn't.

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  • From Mike S.@21:1/5 to qwrtz123@gmail.com on Wed Jan 13 14:21:23 2021
    On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:24:12 -0800 (PST), T987654321
    <qwrtz123@gmail.com> wrote:

    Why are doors in video games so annoying?

    When I played Wizardry 5 awhile back, I could not figure out how to
    open doors even though I played the earlier Wizardries without issue.

    Turns out you have to (k)ick them open.

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