LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL xD

Every game with an escort mission.. i ask you! WHY!? can't begin to say how many game overs i got because of Ashley in Resident Evil 4. >:C

LEON!!!!!!!

Not nice! DX

Most of that game is one big damn escort mission...whenever Ashley gets taken away and Leon is on his own again, I'm happy until I realize that the annoying bitch will just come back...

Just hit the mute button. It will be your Lord and Savior

yeah don't we hate them all

XD oh how i know this feeling all too well, had to reload a skyrim save 12 times cause the dumb ai kept walking in front of my swings >..<

This is so true in nearly every videogame XD escort mission

TV tropes: escorting suicidal chipmunks.

or escorting leroy jenkens. :3

Bloody heavies!


"doctor is charged. Heavy runs to door way. Is ignorant of demoman right in from of them. Doc is also charged. Next thing they know the screen has gone read while looking at the disembodied legs, and hearing the demoman say "oh they will have to glue you back to gether, IN HE'LL"


So it's more like this

READY... HEAVYY... DEAD!



I know this because I'm that demoman!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39DJZ0Qoyss

How bad are escort missions? True test of how annoying something is: Go on Google or youtube and do a search for "Top 10 best [insert video game trope here]." No matter what it is, somebody will have tried to make that list. . . .

Except escort missions. Nobody's made that list yet.

Look up top ten worst Cliches by joshscorcher...

Scratch that top 15 worst clichés, by joshscorcher

Already saw it. In fact, I explicitly watched it before posting that comment so I could check a bunch of them.

And yes, I did find lists for most of them. I have found a "top ten water levels" list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeNZlWD-U0

AUG has no foregrip in the 3rd panel...?

you my friend, are sharp

I love my AUG's, know em inside and out!

yeah, I actually forgot to draw the vertical foregrip

The only escort mission I can think of that's okay, is the escort segments in mass effect 3 multiplayer matches. where you have to activate and escort a drone to a pick up location. the good thing about it is that you dont' have to baby the thing you're escort. and all you have to do is to be near it. and it can't die.

THen there are the ones from Prince of Perisa Sands of Time.

OKay, I've never played prince of persia, so I wouldn't really know about some. XD pretty much any game that has you do an escort, but not have to protect their ass is good. because if the guy you're protecting is invincable, then that makes them the best. I guess then you can included games like Oblivion and skyrim, because then the character you're escorting becomes a quest character and there for, unkillable.

also when you end up doing this mission and at the end of it he dies in a scripted event *rips hair out

Escort missions are easily the most frustrating gameplay mechanic of all. Are there good Escort Missions? Sure! Igo, Prince of Persia sands of time...that's 2. OUT OF A LOT! Escort missions are always let down by terrible set up, horendious difficulty balance, and unbearable pacing. on top of protecting yourself, you have to protect someone else and that someone else is usually a freaking idiot. and I don't just mean AI most of the time the people you are trying to protect are simply unbearable to be around. Jak 2 is filled to the brim with Escort missions and all of them not fun. they all involve you protecting an NPC while they accomplish a task. "no no take your time, not doing anything important here, killing things almost dying, no rush nope!" And inglorious developer logic 2Kgames decided that the absolute worst part about Bioshock where you escort the little sister while she gathered ADAM for you should be implemented TEN TIMES OVER in the sequel. instead of just killing the big daddy, you defend the girl from waves of splicers while she playfully and lack of urgency, extracts ADAM. alternately once you kill the big daddy, you can choose harvest and that's it...they re making the evil option look very good right now...

LEON!

Ok to be fair the mechanics behind the Ashley missions in RE4 were relatively flawless, but they are left nauseatingly terrible since Ashley herself is more irritating than NAVI! Thanks to how often she yells at you I PRONOUNCE THE MUTE BUTTON AS MY LORD AND SAVIOR!

Long story short, ESCORT MISSIONS Are the worst game cliché ever.

About RE4: If you can deal with Ashley's annoying calls to you, and play the game again, Be sure to choose the gangster costume for Leon. It gives Ashley heavy armor, and the Los Illuminados and villagers can't take her away without falling down because the armor is too heavy.

For online players? It's not ALWAYS their fault....

If he is an NPC then forget what I just said.

The best games get around escort missions by making the guy you're escorting do something for you, like heal you or such.

Or at the very least make it satisfying to complete the mission.

A clear example of why we hate escort missions in video games

"F***ing escort mission. He keeps dying and running out of ammo, money and salts." -Elizabeth

ah resident evil 4 third run through to play where your "escort" through out it is in a heavy suit of armor cant be kidnapped and can take an RPG to the face and not die.... good times good times >.> what she had it coming useless char in a game

EVERY GOD-DAMN TIME

God I know your pain the a.i is always so freaking stupied

Heck, in DDO there is an entire RAID based on an escort mission.

ho wow, is A really like that?

So true X'''D

"Let's just make an escourt mission to where the guy your protecting doesn't have fragile bone syndrome" Said no developer ever

Damn straight.

The only way such an escort mission can be in any way fun is if the co-op version makes a player play the escort. At least even the most idiotic player is still generally more competent than the average AI.

o HELL YEA.

I have a ps1 game where the escort missions were enjoyable except when the game cliched and there was a floating ak 47 that blow him away and I tried everything I could to kill it

This guy makes Ashly from RE4 seem easy to save.

All of a sudden I'm thinking of pokemon mystery dungeon games, the entire story mode of most of those games is, in essence, an escort mission. (some post-game missions, too(DARK CRATER IS EVIL, DOUBLE ESCORT+BOSS BATTLE WITH MULTIPLE FOES=SUICIDE!))

escort mission aren't that hard or annoying once you used to them unless your dealing with gta 4 escort mission half the time they get stuck or don't move at all.

Oh don't worry there is worse