Obviously escort missions are a crime against game design at the best of times, but this is an especially egregious offender because of the unpredictable nature of JC3s physics sandbox. Also, because the game designers hate you, you need to protect two vehicles--one on the ground and one in the air--from the combined assault of various tanks, jeeps, attack helicopters and missile battery emplacements. It's exactly the type of mission I despise and the nature of this makes it the worst example of such so

Whoever decided the fourth mission in should be an irritating-beyond-all-belief escort mission can get to fucking fuck. I lost eight or nine times in a row because the truck I was protecting got wedged into an impromptu road block of multiple bad guys, while I desperately attempted to protect it without being tossed miles away by an errant explosion, fighting the controls to get back. Eventually, it just randomly succeeded when the truck casually drove around the road block on the 10th attempt. I didn't do anything different.

I played JC2 on easy, and felt the game well-suited to this; it becomes an overpowered romp. It's a game that doesn't know how to be challenging without getting irritating IMO. I am most annoyed that JC3 doesn't have difficulty levels.

ICO is an alright game and it's basically one long escort mission. It's good despite that, not because of it though.

JC3 is hateful for this. From this very page:

Good time for a page break.

The thing about ico is that it was designed entirely around being an escorts quest. Most escort missions don't have this focus.

See also: shitty stealth sections in games with no well realised stealth system.

I like splosions.

Can't really articulate why but its just a bit meh-ish. The missions are less fun, and the aiming is less intuitive. But lovely lovely splosions.

This makes no sense, as the prequels are ace.

Anyone who thinks different is broken and an infidel.

There is literally nothing else to JC.

I did prefer 2, though. This one feels a bit off in comparison... Can't really articulate why but its just a bit meh-ish. The missions are less fun, and the aiming is less intuitive. But lovely lovely splosions.

Why would you put up with mediocre crap, though, even if there's some bits that remind you of something great...

Oh.

If I hadn't virtually rolled my eyes at you there, would you have bothered to come through with that genuinely constructive post? And, if not, why not? I ask out of genuine curiosity.

honest answer is I'm posting on a tablet and that drives me towards short posts as I hate typing with these ducking things. If I was on a laptop I'd be typing something linger. Simple as that really.

Also you scare me

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do you have a bookmark file for everyone for "if he says x, I have y"? You obsessive bastard

Edit - also they ARE empirically ace.

honest answer is I'm posting on a tablet and that drives me towards short posts as I hate typing with these ducking things. If I was on a laptop I'd be typing something linger. Simple as that really.

Do you have to, do you have to, do you have to...

Right? "On the tallest building" my arse