Gaming irks

[Brad]

If I remember correctly, they entered a deadly sewer in The Last Of Us to avoid walking through some bushes.

I’ve yet to see IRL a hedge that I couldn’t get through. At the other end of the spectrum we have Skyrim horses that can scale a near vertical mountain.

[Asura]

There's that one in Batman Arkham where you can't go through a locked door which is hanging off its hinges. Though I think that one may have been a deliberate joke.

[Golgo]

When level designers put the character in front of an in game object thats so laughably small even a child could step over, or a gap big enough a 50 stone man could walk through, yet the big slim character can’t.

This is just lazy design in this day and age.

Good one. I sympathize with the designers, though. What can you do when your character is super-powered? I'm polishing off the last few collectibles in Doom and he can one-punch colossal demons into giblets now but can't punch through some broken office-glass to a 1-Up on the other side. Has to find the door.

[wakka]

I’ve yet to see IRL a hedge that I couldn’t get through.

We finally find out how Brad spends his weekends!

[Dogg Thang]

The thing that really bugged me about the one in The Last of Us is that the game is full of deadly creatures and this path over a small bush was one of the only times in the game you have direct line of sight to your destination and it’s totally clear. It was a short walk away. A nice little coastline stroll. But no, let’s take the deadly dark unknown sewers. Best case scenario you come out stinking of crap but, most likely, you end up very very dead. Who goes into sewers anyway? Why is this even a thing in games? When was the last time you went into a sewer?

[Digfox]

I’ve yet to see IRL a hedge that I couldn’t get through.

Get through that...

[Golgo]

Who goes into sewers anyway? Why is this even a thing in games? When was the last time you went into a sewer?

Or vents, while we're at it?

[Asura]

The thing that really bugged me about the one in The Last of Us is that the game is full of deadly creatures and this path over a small bush was one of the only times in the game you have direct line of sight to your destination and it’s totally clear. It was a short walk away. A nice little coastline stroll. But no, let’s take the deadly dark unknown sewers. Best case scenario you come out stinking of crap but, most likely, you end up very very dead. Who goes into sewers anyway? Why is this even a thing in games? When was the last time you went into a sewer?

It's like that bit of the Clerks cartoon when they have two doors, either a blank door or "The Maze of Death".

"Well that settles it, we'll take our chances in the maze."
"The Maze of Death?! What about the other door?"
"That door could be ANYTHING!"

[eastyy]

Get through that...

I bet he could....though i like to hedge my bets

[Brad]

Get through that...

Lol. The thing is though you bloody well could get through it. Particularly if the alternative was zombie infested sewers.

[wakka]

Brad Vs Hedge. I would watch the **** outta that.

[Cassius_Smoke]

Brute force and ignorance and I think anyone could get through any hedge.

[Brad]

Ellie: Let's go this way
Joel: A hedge blocks our path
Ellie: What? Er, ok. What about this way?
Joel: Decorative chain-link fence
Ellie:Well we can't go back
Joel: I know. We'll have to go through the radioactive, poisonous minefield

[wakka]

Game of the generation.

[gunrock]

If it had been hawthorns, fashioned into a thick hedge over many years selective pruning... then they'd get a pass. That stuff is almost as bad as barbed-wire.