In Which We Complain About Escort Missions

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Permalink Reply by Marcellus on June 17, 2008 at 2:38pm

rainbow six vegas was like that. It allowed you to make the person STAY in a certain place so you can go off killing people. As long as I can command them, I'm fine.

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Permalink Reply by Travis Touchdown on June 17, 2008 at 7:49pm

The only game that tackled escort missions and did it well was Resident Evil 4. You didn't end up starting the game over every other time just because Ashley got carried off or was killed by zombies.
Still, escort missions have to go. They just provide a cheap-ass way of getting you killed or sending you back to a checkpoint.

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Permalink Reply by Harms on June 17, 2008 at 10:28pm

I have a high dislike towards escort missions.

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Permalink Reply by Jefferoo on June 18, 2008 at 4:08pm

Yeah escort missions are the worse, I would happy pass Ashley in Resident Evil 4 my handgun so that she could shoot herself in the head and save me the trouble and prance around in a kilt thwacking stereotypes.

Wait that got horribly off-tangent. CURSES

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Permalink Reply by corey vire on June 18, 2008 at 5:30pm

only if the person your escorting can help fight. other than that I think they program them in retard on purpose.

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Permalink Reply by SketchedLilly on June 19, 2008 at 3:14pm

What was that puzzle game that was nothing but a giant escort mission? The player character was a kid with a horned viking hat and you had to tote around a girl with long white hair....

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Permalink Reply by Travis Touchdown on June 19, 2008 at 3:47pm

I believe you mean ICO, and I think the horns were part of his head.

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Permalink Reply by SketchedLilly on June 19, 2008 at 7:50pm

That's right...I played that for one hour several years ago and have heard nothing of it since.

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Permalink Reply by AceofOpus on June 19, 2008 at 9:34pm

Well that's because the developers are not really doing anything, except well the greatness (in my opinion) that was Shadow of the Colossus. That game was good, I think ICO was probably the only time I ever liked escort missions (since the game was one big one and it was good). I think the company is coming out with another game soon which in turn will be awesome and since its produced by Sony Entertainment will be PS3 exclusive :(

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Permalink Reply by SketchedLilly on June 19, 2008 at 11:38pm

I loved SotC!

Unfortunatly, I could only go so far as the blockbuster by my place had only one copy, and it was glitched. The map dissapeared in the Minotaur fight the only time I managed to get down there so I had no idea where walls and objects were. The rest of the time, my dude simply froze while everything else worked. could zoom the camera around him and everything.

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Permalink Reply by AceofOpus on June 19, 2008 at 9:34pm

They were part of his head.

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Permalink Reply by ChocolatePretzel on June 20, 2008 at 10:14am

The escort mission that sticks out in my mind most is in The Bouncer where you had to escort Dominique, complete with her tiny health bar through the Mikado building making sure she didn't get hit by giant robots.

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