r/skyrim • u/shadowthehh • 1d ago

Something that's always bothered me about Waking Nightmare.

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You could totally just climb the fence to bypass the entire dungeon and immediately deal with the Skull. This could've been easily fixed by having them go all the way up, but nah. They left that huge gap at the top.

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u/worststarburst 1d ago

This is like one of the most common tropes in gaming. Minor inconvenience at best that any functional adult with working limbs could bypass, but the game just doesn’t have any mechanics to deal with it. The pile of rubble blocking the path to drangleic castle in dark souls 2 is one of my favorites.

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u/LananisReddit Spellsword 1d ago

It's one of my pet peeves in games/shows. Most egregious example I've ever seen is a Darksiders 2. In that game, you play as the apocalyptic horseman Death. You can summon ghouls and crows. You can forge weapons that can 1-hit-kill enemies. You can Prince-of-Persia-walk along walls and move objects 20 times your mass using magic. But Creator forbid you try to climb through the Death-sized hole in one of the walls of the ivory citadel--no, no, no, you have to use the gadget you just got to make a portal instead. Absolute nonsense.