Is having invincible NPC's that just get downed and come

I'll take it over "babysit the hopeless retard or you have to start over" any day

>>389427138
It's leagues better than dealing with shitty self-destructive AI

>>389427648
>>389427727
Why not just avoid having AI partners then?

>>389427648
>I'll take it over "babysit the hopeless retard or you have to start over" any day
This.
If I much prefer when an NPC can die, but they can also actually defend themselves or at least act semi-intelligently
>Dragons Dogma
>Need to escourt that fucking trader through multiple extremely dangerous zones
>Chimera, Cyclops, Bandits, Harpies, whatever the fuck else can attack you; this fucking retard just stands in the middle of the battlefield
I'm pretty sure there were monsters that you had to pass that could kill him in one hit.

>>389427847
I can't control what developers put in a game

>>389427878
Forgot to add that, that situation was the worst of both worlds and was absolutely infuriating.

>>389427847
eh for story elements or even if it's just to change up the gameplay

>>389427138
Depends. If they exist for a good reason and they fit right in the gameplay than they‘re fine.

The laziest mechanic I‘ve seen is probably ‘enemy variation‘ where the developers just slap a different color scheme on the same mob, give them more health and shit and call them new enemies.

>>389427727
>the saints row 2 mission where you have to protect donnie as he takes 45 minutes to plant bombs on some cars

>>389427138
They're better than the fucking bullet sponge Reavers that's for damn sure.

>>389427138
You just need to blast them into chunky kibbles. We're talking about Quake, right?

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>>389428315
>Screwing up means you have to restart the entire mission.
And people say that one Ronin mission was annoying.

>>389428747
Quite literally spent three hours on it once with a drunk friend both griefing eachother killing him. We still didn't finish it and just stopped playing.

What's really wonderful are escort missions where the AI is scripted to prioritize what you're supposed to be defending over you. With shit like that it's like the AI is designed specifically to troll you, throwing out any illusion of self preservation for the sole purpose of fucking you over and pissing you off by making you have to reload a previous save or checkpoint

>>389427878
Like the scientist in shadow of Chernobyl, who can and will bust a cap on anyone who gets near him

>>389427138
that is what a shitter would say

Give the friendly NPC you have to escort a ton of health, so only bad players would have them die.

>>389427138
The mechanic is fine in Siren. Even though it's frustrating a bit it actually adds to the difficulty making you have to plan a lot more thoroughly.

>>389427648
>>389427727
I actually gave up trying to beat the last mission of Infected for the PSP. You have to defend a single retard that runs around randomly from hoards of zombies coming toward him from different directions. The frustration was not worth whatever sense of satisfaction I would have gotten from succeeding.