Nick, she gave you back swearing and plays videogames with you. Cut her some slack, it isn’t like she’s going to bang Tip again if he’s all atwitter about Artie.
Cut the Helicopter some slack, The woman he’s interested in Didn’t even realize they were on a date. And Now she is sharing a hotel Room with tip. How would you feel?
He doesn’t have a claim to her. If he wants to go on a date with her, he needs to verbalize that. To her. Otherwise it’s /not a date/. Do I ship Nick and Ginny? Yes. Is Nick causing his own problems right now? Yes. I feel for him, it sucks not to be able to say what you feel, but he’s being incredibly immature, sorry.
I can think of better counter-examples. [i]Oblivion[/i] has at least one escort mission that I remember, but quest-critical NPC’s can’t die, so even though the escortee acts suicidal, he just gets knocked unconscious a lot, and doesn’t cause you to fail. [i]Afterfall: InSanity[/i] had escort missions, but the enemy AI was (with one brief exception) too stupid to attack the escortees, so they weren’t any worse than the rest of the game.
But, yes, escort missions are typically nuisances (the beginning of Meat Circus in [i]Psychonauts[/i] was just horrible). It is better when the AI is escorting you. Sheriff Breaker kicked ass in [i]Alan Wake[/i].
And it’s not always the escortee that’s in endangered by incompetent AI. I remember learning the hard way in Morrowind that you do not want to stand between you’re lightning bolt-wielding buddy AI and their target if you don’t like electrocution.
Elizabeth was more an AI sidekick…escort missions require you to actually do some work, whereas ‘liz just took care of herself and threw money at you (which is why Alyx in Half Life 2/episodes doesn’t count either). The only true escort mission I can remember in gaming that wasn’t insanely annoying was that security guard needed to get through a locked door in Half Life (“Stand Back!……hello!”), who was both armed and only had to travel a short distance. And even that was sucky and mostly pointless.
And once again, wordpress decides “Hey, user! I’m just gonna chuck that reply you were writing to a comment at the bottom of the page and say it’s not a reply at all, kay?”. That was supposed to be a reply to Paul.
Nick and GLaDOS? A gamer and a tester? They have similar senses of humor, but between his pacifism and her . . . well, just her, I’m not sure if that would be a match made in Heaven or the other direction.
The sad face being made by the helicopter detailing is perfect.
So glad I am rereading this. I would never have noticed that otherwise.
Nick, she gave you back swearing and plays videogames with you. Cut her some slack, it isn’t like she’s going to bang Tip again if he’s all atwitter about Artie.
Cut the Helicopter some slack, The woman he’s interested in Didn’t even realize they were on a date. And Now she is sharing a hotel Room with tip. How would you feel?
Could be worse — they could be skipping the hotel room and staying in him….
He doesn’t have a claim to her. If he wants to go on a date with her, he needs to verbalize that. To her. Otherwise it’s /not a date/. Do I ship Nick and Ginny? Yes. Is Nick causing his own problems right now? Yes. I feel for him, it sucks not to be able to say what you feel, but he’s being incredibly immature, sorry.
Escort missions always suck. Nick’s a gamer, he should know that.
Not always. Bioshock Infinite wasn’t bad. Although one could argue that it was Elizabeth escorting you, so maybe from her perspective it was.
Paul, the stuff with Elizabeth isn’t an escort mission, she’s a farming bot in escort missions clothing
I can think of better counter-examples. [i]Oblivion[/i] has at least one escort mission that I remember, but quest-critical NPC’s can’t die, so even though the escortee acts suicidal, he just gets knocked unconscious a lot, and doesn’t cause you to fail. [i]Afterfall: InSanity[/i] had escort missions, but the enemy AI was (with one brief exception) too stupid to attack the escortees, so they weren’t any worse than the rest of the game.
But, yes, escort missions are typically nuisances (the beginning of Meat Circus in [i]Psychonauts[/i] was just horrible). It is better when the AI is escorting you. Sheriff Breaker kicked ass in [i]Alan Wake[/i].
Let’s just pretend I remembered to use HTML and not BBCode there.
And it’s not always the escortee that’s in endangered by incompetent AI. I remember learning the hard way in Morrowind that you do not want to stand between you’re lightning bolt-wielding buddy AI and their target if you don’t like electrocution.
let’s not forget Jedi Outcast, with that monkey-trucking R5 droid. ugh.
Of course, Jedi Outcast also had the mission with Kyle Katarn, who if anything was escorting you.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s worried about, if you know what I mean
Yes Nick you did. Bad Nick Bad.
Elizabeth was more an AI sidekick…escort missions require you to actually do some work, whereas ‘liz just took care of herself and threw money at you (which is why Alyx in Half Life 2/episodes doesn’t count either). The only true escort mission I can remember in gaming that wasn’t insanely annoying was that security guard needed to get through a locked door in Half Life (“Stand Back!……hello!”), who was both armed and only had to travel a short distance. And even that was sucky and mostly pointless.
And once again, wordpress decides “Hey, user! I’m just gonna chuck that reply you were writing to a comment at the bottom of the page and say it’s not a reply at all, kay?”. That was supposed to be a reply to Paul.
Why am I suddenly imagining Nick rescuing GladOS from “Impending Smashed Topatoes Freefall” and finally finding his soulmate…???
mnem
You know you’d save Caroline…
Nick and GLaDOS? A gamer and a tester? They have similar senses of humor, but between his pacifism and her . . . well, just her, I’m not sure if that would be a match made in Heaven or the other direction.
Plenty of room for humour, whichever way ti goes.
Nah, the end of Bioshock 2 is the ideal ‘Escort Mission.’ That game had lots of flaws, but my god I loved that bit.
Nonsense. GLaDOS is already married. To SCIENCE!.
I could slap Nick right now, if his hull wouldn’t hurt my hand.
Worse things have happened to you in this comic strip, so go ahead.
Ok, point. Add “and if I still had my hands attached” to that. 🙂
Oh, right… that IS what Nick looks like…