Punching somebody in the back of the head is twenty times more fatal than the most powerful handgun round. In fact, any melee weapon is more dangerous than any handheld ranged weapon.
Giant robots can only be destroyed by two things:
a) One person with a rocket launcher. (In fact, the more giant robots there are facing this single person, the more likely he is to destroy them all.)
b) Another giant robot.
Ancient prophecies are always true.
Federal employees and serving military personnel may be killed with impunity if they impede your progress {and they will}, with no investigation or legal repercussions, civil or criminal, later. This applies even if they are not party to The Conspiracy and are merely trying to apprehend a heavily armed felon responsible for countless violent kiilings and the destruction of any number of vehicles and buildings.
About midway through the game, you will inevitably be captured, stripped of your weapons and equipment, and thrown into a cell: however, there is always a secret unguarded exit, and everything you lost can be found dispersed throughout the same building complex in which you were incarcerated - have you tried the kitchen?
Becoming a Jedi only requires you to pass a multi-choice test with 5 questions: the answers are “peace”, “knowledge”, “serenity”, “harmony” and “the Force”. Becoming a Sith is slightly more exacting, as after the multi-choice there’s a “True or False” question.
Shields just get in the way when you’re trying to destroy a descending horde of aliens.
You can change direction in mid air, after jumping.
To be an architect in Rhode Island, you must be clinically insane.
For those not in the know, City of Heroes is set in Paragon City, Rhode Island.
If you come across a room full of ammunition and/or health in your travels, be afraid. Something big is just around the corner.
If something seems to too easy, it’s a trap.
Security cameras, while cool, are usally fairly useless. The bad guys usally won’t notice if you’ve destroyed one(NOLF is the exception) and they often only show you places you’ve already been.
You can perform at full capacity as long as you have a small amount of health left(as little as one HP). If you lose that small amount, you go from Healthy to dead instantly.
Earth is composed of several layers of floating islands, all broken up and strewn with presents, and the most annoying people. You can fall from one level, to any other level, and bounce to your feet, but if you stay underwater for any more then three seconds, your toast.
You can often get the history, capabilities and specifications on any held item by ‘examining’ it.
Small furry animals are capable of fueling malicious animal shaped robots.
The eggman has enough money and motivation to build a deathstar, but not enough sense to buy an uzi.
No matter how close to oblivion the world is, the hero still has to pay full price.
The King will never give you anyhthing useful even though you did save his daughter/wife/hampster. Maybe he’ll build a bridge for you, but he won’t give you a boat.
Even when you’re trying to save the world, people will insist on making you play a minigame to get what you need to save it.
The world population consists of a few cities and villages, with not more than two or three dozen people in each.
Coolness = effectiveness; dull, utilitarian weapons are the weakest.
Despite all the land outside of cities being overrun with monsters, the cities won’t starve to death.
Miniguns have no recoil.
When faced with a mansion infested with monsters, always split up and explore alone.
Soft metals (gold, silver) make great weapons.
If somebody offers you some goddamn tea you’d better sit your ass down and drink it.
If somebody runs you through with a long-ass sword while in “battle” mode you only faint. If somebody runs you through with a long-ass sword while in “real-life” mode, nothing to do but drop you in a lake while your theme plays.
Soft metals (gold, silver) make great weapons.
If somebody offers you some goddamn tea you’d better sit your ass down and drink it.
If somebody runs you through with a long-ass sword while in “battle” mode you only faint. If somebody runs you through with a long-ass sword while in “real-life” mode, nothing to do but drop you in a lake while your theme plays.
When you save your career-victim princess, you will only get the most perfunctory of thanks. Maybe she and that large hulking villain have something going on…
If you are the slim, green-clad brother of a plumber, you suck. And your jumping looks ridiculous.
Don’t trust your family. They will either get kidnapped, betray you, or lead you into a horrifying world of rotting flesh, hell-spawned creatures, and stuttering dialogue.
The villagers only have a limited number of things to say to you. And they say them over and over and over…
Show this to the old woman.
My princess is probably in another castle.
Bankers start with more money than Farmers, but get fewer bonus points. It is apparently impossible to carry more than 200 pounds of meat back to my wagon on a given day. I have died of typhoid.
Trapping a monster in a bubble and letting them escape will make them mad. Popping the bubble will make the monster turn into fruit.
Almost all monsters are vulnerable to whip damage! Even stone and metal ones.
Don’t even bother to help any of the fuckers on Taris, cuz that metal-jawed asshole is just going to blow the whole damn planet away anyway.
Dwarfs had just better watch the hell out for lightning shooters. Probably would be best if they didn’t stand in a group, either.
If you go into a dark place with no light source, you have two moves. Tops.
Bo Jackson was the best football player ever. Throughout his career he almost single handedly won every game in every season he ever played. He was the fastest player ever to grace the field and was rarely tackled. Even if the defense read the offensive play perfectly, Bo would escape, often with a touchdown. Bo was so good, he eventually was banned from ever playing football again, and any coach who put him on the roster received a stiff (and well deserved) punch in the arm.
Quarter-Circle + Punch.
Success is not the best revenge. The best revenge is killing your enemy, and then standing over his corpse and waiting for him to wake up so you can kill him again.
Nitpick: it wasn’t a Death Star style explosion; he only razed the surface with a mass bombardment, so presumably the Undercity dwellers made it OK. Even if you sold them out for 100 credits {Hey, Dark Side points is Dark Side points - it’s the principle, not the money} and they never got to the Promised Land.
Strolling into anyone’s home or business and casually ransacking their possessions is a handy way of getting credits, medpacs and assorted useful or saleable items, and carries no physical threat, legal repercussions, or moral ramifications. Unless they’re Sandpeople…
Wingmen are utterly useless. In some cases, they are an active hinderance. Only rarely are you allowed to shoot down your wingman yourself, but when you do, there are no consequences. You even get to say a few respectful words at his funeral. (Anyone know this game?)
The little dagger you had at the beginning of the game was actually more powerful than the lightsaber you had at the end of the game. (This was a bug.)
Stray away from the mysterious pale girl for too long, and the big black horny guys will go after her.
Certain athletes can hold their breath underwater for five minutes at a time, even when asleep.
Certain styles of tackling can cause the one being tackled to fall asleep – or be poisoned.
Taiko drums are in fact sentient beings that enjoy being beaten. (Masochists.)
The King is a mean drunk.
The King is also a lazy bastard (making his son clean up his mistakes for him).
The switch that controls the door is often in a room on the opposite end of the floor from said door.
The average fighter jet can carry a loadout of almost 100 missiles at a time.
more later…
All of your bases have been captured by Engrish speaking cyborgs.(Why can’t they be Cockney cyborgs for once, just to be original?)
The President of the United States is protected by an elite security force and one of the most powerful militares on the planet. That being said, he can easily be kidnapped by Ninjas and if that happens, only the two baddest dudes can rescue him.
Sounds like Strike Commander. If you shot down your wingman though, your insurance company would get pissed, so it might not be the game.
Enemy soldiers stay put in one spot until you get close to them.
your enemies have the ability to instantly transport themselves to anywhere, but for some reason never do this to escape.
Cloning is prevalent among enemy soldiers and monsters.
Gold coins are common currency everywhere.
Law enforcement officers don’t take any notice of you, even if you’re carrying a machine gun and running through a crowded street, unless you actually shoot someone.
No, sorry, that wasn’t it. The game I’m thinking of is a couple of years older, I think…
Anyway:
The reward for finishing the epic quest is that you get to do it again, only this time in an alternate dimension where all of the major locations have been moved around.
Falling on the floor and throwing a childish tantrum can actually cause damage to your opponent.
Changing your outfit alters your entire skill set.
The enemy’s final base/superweapon installation/etc. always has a vital component that can only be reached by flying your jet aircraft through some sort of lengthy tunnel. (Is that even possible?)
The bad guy’s castle’s structural integrity field is tied into the bad guy’s vitality.
Dive bombing in a Stuka is freakin’ hard!
A pterodactyl is invulnerable, but for its mouth.
Avoid Spikes.