What's the video game equivalent of "why didn't they just fly to Mordor?"

What's the video game equivalent of "why didn't they just fly to Mordor?"

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Metal Gear

Like why the fuck would you waste the time and money to a giant fucking robot to fire nukes? We already have mobile nuke and missile launchers that are easier to hide then a giant robot

Chrono trigger

Why didn't they just kill Lagos at the start

"Why didn't user just check the archive?"

Stop reposting

>Arkham Asylum

Why didn't batman just kill the Joker? Why is he such a fag? Batman is fucking lame as shit. I wish he'd be more badass like Deadpool

Probably "Why didn'tbthey use a phoenix down on aeris/aerith?"

Doesn't it let you kill Lavos at any point you can encounter him? Chrono Trigger is like the exact opposite of this, if you want to fly to Mordor you can do that the game will give you a different ending for it.

Why didnt Cursed One just climb over the fucking rubble?

You can attempt to fight Lavos at literally any point in the story after you learn about his existence.

The problem is that he's vastly overpowered for that point in the game, so the cast tries to prevent his "summoning" from occurring in the first place.

What's the video game equivalent of "seeing the same threads every day?"

Why didn't the no life losers do something besides browsing Sup Forums?

>current year
>people still believe in that stupid eagle theory despite the countless debunking on it
>mfw

Final Fantasy V tried that question with Galuf. Turns out that if it's plot-related, nothing's gonna work.

Only revives people that are knocked out

What game?

>hurr if they find out about my repost they're no life losers!

Why didn't OP just stopped sucking massive cocks?

>dude we can't fly the eagles to mordor
>oh shit, frodo and sam are in trouble! fly the eagles to mordor to save them NOW!

It's a plot hole, m8

Why didn't Caesar send some centurions with the Courier to see what he really did in the bunker?

Why can't you're mom stop sucking my dick?

Land-based mobile nuclear missile launcher that can traverse almost any terrain.

Also depends on what game/title/year its set it.

No it isn't. They didn't have the ring anymore.

The Eagles would be unstoppable if they had the ring, and they'd ask why they needed to fly 2 hobbits to Mordor, and Gandalf would have to tell them or they wouldn't do it.

It's the same reason they don't just give it to Gandalf or Galadriel in the first place.

In FF5, the group tried to revive Galuf with a Phoenix Down

this thread again

Why didn't Benny just shoot the courier multiple times in different locations?
Better yet, why didn't he use a knife to slit his throat?

Dark Souls 2. You kill four Great Ones to open a seal to the latter half of the game instead of just walking around this doorway or climbing a mildly steep hill.

But we already have them and they're a lot cheaper than a giant robot.

Why cant I stop sucking your moms dick

Dark Souls 2

The majority of your journey is killing the 4 big bads and using their souls just to open the door to the left of a pile of rubble

Because girlwood is awesome

Why didn't they just use wood

They had some special tech that allowed them to be untraceable when launching the missile. They also travelled exceptionally quickly compared to most missile launchers, could traverse nearly all terrains and on the battlefield were meant to be nigh undefeatable.

Basically the perfect weapon. A radar/sensor invisible nuke launcher that's incredible fast, durable and also acts as the ultimate battle vehicle.

It made a lot more sense in Metal Gear II when they said most of the world had disarmed their nuclear weapons, so the rush/importance of Metal Gear was a lot more severe. They retconned that almost immediately though.

There are land based nukes right now. And a plane can do a delivery better than any ground platform.

We flew a stealth bomber from the Midwest to fucking Korea just to demonstrate to the North we could, and we successfully dropped a fake play load without the North ever even knowing we were there until it hit the ground.

A giant robot could not do that.

DS2
Why didnt yoy just climb over the chest high rubble?

>Deadpool
Wanna know how I know you're from Reddit?

Rex could barely even shuffle across flat ground. Ray wasn't land-based, so it wasn't any better than a submarine.

That's not really a Frodo situation. If you shoot someone in the head you don't normally double check...

Still not as bad as Caesar suddenly going from being smart to clinically retarded, and brain tumours don't do that overnight.

What' s the Sup Forums equivalent of "why the fuck are you posting this again AGAIN"?

Why didn't Goku just kill Cell when he had the chance instead of putting his pre-teen son in an extreme amount of danger?

why didn't frodo listen to gandalf after he told them to fly after falling off the bridge?

>ICBM
>minimum range is 5500 kilometers

Yeah, nah, Metal Gear is stupid as hell.

Because Saiyans are inherently the cockiest people in the universe.

As much as I like DS2 it was goddamn filled with inane shit like that.

are you literally retard?


you're contradicting yourself

The "seal" is just a door. The PC could have walked around the rubble.

Manwe is a gay and also probably fucks chickens.

Your autism is flaring up. Metal Gear is just a really good nuke launcher that also happens to be great in coventional battle.

The main plot of the Metal Gear games involved rogue elements getting ahold of these weapons. The main point was that they had nukes. You'd know that if you actually had played the games, or didn't let your /k/ practikool autism get in the way.

>The main point was that they had nukes.
The main point was that they had nukes AND Metal Gears so nobody could stop them from using the nukes.

>huge-ass truck
>requires roads to move
>can be seen from fucking miles away
>implying satellites wouldn't spot them from the orbit
>implying helicopter wouldn't spot it from 10km
>fairly easy to disable, abovementioned helicopter could fire a missile from 10km away, this thing wouldn't know what hit it
Yeah, they are cheap, but they are a glasscannon. Metal Gear was meant to be able to traverse any terrain, be tough as nails and be able to defend itself.
Yes, there are problems with biped design, but remember this is a game. In real life we are still developing proper bipedal robots, in MG the technology is already there.

Oh yes, if you fire an ICBM 5000km from the target entire fucking world and dog will see this and will have enough time to react.
If you manage to get real close to the target the chances to shoot the nuclear missile down is dramatically lower.

>Implying that you can just fly into enemy territory without anyone sees you

>airplane altitude
>10 km
>ICBM altitude
>150-400 km

Nigga, you wouldn't even notice it. Even modern systems have trouble shooting down a single missile, let alone a goddamn MIRV.

Metal Gear is stupid. It's fun when put into a videogame but holy damn it's stupid.

Why do I see the same thread reposted again and again? Are you that lonely dude? You need to make a click bait thread to talk to people?

When did Goku have the chance? I thought he legitimately believed he couldn't defeat Cell and that only Gohan's true power could do the job.

Though I will call bullshit on Goku feeding a senzu bean to Cell before the fight with Gohan. That was just arrogant.

Metal Gear Solid V

>Quiet has TONS of valuable information on the villain you're trying to defeat
>Can't speak English or it'll kill everyone who hears it
>Can speak another language to a side character back at the base
>This character CAN speak english safely to anyone
>Doesn't just translate this DIRE information through him to save innocent lives and the Boss' safety

Fucking Kojima, you hack

The better question is why do they bother with Metal Gears when there's talk about a weapon to surpass Metal Gear in every game anyway?

It would have been even easier if she just wrote all that shit after changing sides.

The story really didn't matter in MGSV. The entire thing was pretty retarded but unlike the other games in the series it was mainly focused on gameplay instead of a movie-game hybrid.

Apparently in TS the MAD treaty has a loop hole that doesn't include a bipedal robot firing a nuke with a rail fun instead of a rocket.

Exactly

The story would have benefited so much by not having her in the game period

You can just straight up KILL her the moment you meet her and the story just carries on

That's how worthless she is. That's how much of a literary liability she is. Her actually living makes the story less credible than if you just pop her

Why didn't the radiation immune super mutant follower just activate the water purifier for you when asked to?

Galuf was an old man that basically burned out what little life he had left trying to save his party from what was essentially a mortal god. There certainly must be a point of no return, but Aerith was nowhere near that point.

itt a lot of people who didnt understand metal gear
>implying they arent pcfag bandwagoners who hopped on hype train after mgs5 demo

Mobile platform lessens the chance of preemptive strikes destroying your nukes, bipedal locomotion is goat at traversing rough terrain.

In Fallout 3, if your goal was to start project purity at any cost, why didn't you or dad simply gave the password to Autumn? That shit would have activated way sooner, it would be just a matter of taking control of it (remember, infecting the water was Eden's brilliant plan, not Autumn's).
And was there really THAT need for pure water? The only ones complaining about water were a few literal nobodies in front of each major town begging for it (imagine if the same happened to skyrim, the main quest was about the dragon wreaking havoc but you never actually saw any of it through the whole game, the only hints towards it were some dudes in front of each town claiming dragons destroyed their farm while asking for a potion to heal themselves)

>bipedal locomotion is goat at traversing rough terrain.

Wings says otherwise.

Phoenix downs only work in combat.

Jokes aside, they probably just don't work if they're not used within a very limited timespan or characters are merely knocked out in combat.

Bombers are big targets in the sky without cover.

The concept of Metal Gear itself is novel but it is mostly invalidated due there being clearly more advanced tech or supernatural forces all over the place.

I mean, why would you even need a Metal Gear if you have a virtually indistructable human torch, a powerful psychic that can move building sized objects with his mind and an army of parasitic X-men?

Although Big Boss did throw a Metal Gear with his bare hands.

Why didn't Overwatch just use massive EMP's to fight Omnics instead of establishing an army. They had the tech.

I wish there was a fantasy game that made a realistic approach to the ramifications of revival of the dead. You'd have companies that would raise the dead for money and "death" insurance and whatnot.

There's a lot of potential for a very interesting plot in there somewhere.

the real answer is that was the original plan but it was top secret with only gandalf knowing where they were truly headed. They would have turned north after going through moria to head to where the eagles live, but since he was lost in moria the rest of the party just went to lothlorien which was the most logical thing from their point of view.

Ray was capable of traveling on-land. While it certainly wasn't as durable as a Rex unit, what do you think could stop a rampaging Ray unit if it were to attack a port city? People don't exactly keep explosives stockpiled for such a thing.

It had a railgun, so you couldn't detect the launch

why did I suddenly keel over after entering in the code when I had already been standing in there for 2 minutes nonchalantly popping RadAways?

It is kind of bizarre and often the mark of bad writing.

In Baldur's Gate you can revive fallen comrades for a laughable amount of gold. This technically makes permanent death by accident non-existant and temples the most valuable and richest institutions in the world. Wars would simply be decided by who has the most capable clerics.

The third Earthsea book deals with that subject and why it's a really bad idea.

How, just how, is that supposed to make sense.

Instead of using extremely loud explosive propulsion it used silent magnetic forces to launch the missile

maybe the amount of gold they're charging in game is an issue but the thing is that's totally possible in the forgotten realms universe at higher levels. I've definitely read books that involve holy institutions reviving their warriors and priestesses who fall in battle. It doesn't make permadeath impossible in-universe though, if you get dismembered or dissolved by an ooze or something then you're out of luck, and people's souls can be obliterated entirely in extreme circumstances.

Bioshock Infinite

Why didn't they just use one of Eliabeth timespace tears to fuck off.

>I mean, why would you even need a Metal Gear if you have a virtually indistructable human torch, a powerful psychic that can move building sized objects with his mind and an army of parasitic X-men?
I dunno man, I think I'd want a Metal Gear so I can fight against all those.

The missile still needs to burn propellent in order to generate thrust. Launching a missile or bullet via magnetism is fully possible, Saddam actually tried to build one in the 90s if I remember correctly, but the ICBM still needs fuel.

Because giant bipedal dinosaur nuke robot has a higher power level than psychic/spooky human.

He couldn't defeat Cell himself, he wasn't strong enough, he said that at least once.

Why does Red and Blu have their bases set up a few miles from each other, and sometimes inside the very same building?

you ever wonder why we're here?

Because Metal Gear doesn't actually fire missiles. An important detail is that it fires a rail canon that launches nuclear warheads. Because they aren't missiles it allows MG to sneak through all sorts of international regulations.

They have to worry about collateral damage.

The vast majority of people in the TF2 universe are fucking idiots.

It explains it to you in the game. Have you even played MGS1?

In addition to the fact that it goes undetected under Ultraviolet Missile Approach Warning systems, it exploits a loophole in the anti-nuke treaties (in that the rules do not apply to things launched from a railgun, as things launched from a railgun are not ballistic). The latter is the key reason, as it gave them free reign to launch nukes at whoever they pleased.

Because Goku is literally retarded.

Correct answer.

This too.

Why didn't the twins tell them Grimoire Noir was a friendly book, so they'd merge together without a hitch and save humanity?

It's almost like the Metal Gear games are specifically about how bloated and pointless the military-industrial complex is.

In the West money was backed by water traders so I guess clean water was just that important. Tens of thousands of people die everyday from consumption of unclean water. Plus it was also about who controlls the purifier.

>as things launched from a railgun are not ballistic

There was never a point in the series where Goku was outright stronger than Cell. He gave it his all during the Cell Games but just could not beat him. It was probably one of the few fights he could fully enjoy with no regrets because he knew even if at his best he was unable to prevail that Gohan was stronger than him and could win it.

He wanted Gohan to surpass him. He wholeheartedly believed that his son was a battle junkie like him, because he is a bad father and a literal retard that was dropped on his head from the top of a cliff as a baby.

Piccolo scolds him for being retarded, if you recall.

None of metal gear solid 5 makes any sense whatsoever

He meant as opposed to missiles. No need to sperg out at one incorrect word.