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** In the same vein, a large percentage of [[Interactive Fiction]] games involve locked doors that must be unlocked or circumvented—you can't just break them down. Unless the developer has specifically allowed you to climb or attack bits of scenery, you usually get a default message saying you can't.
*** Lampshaded in ''Zork: Grand Inquisitor'': using a sword against most objects will result in Dalboz informing you, "Violence never solved anything. Well, not everything. Okay, not this thing!"
* In its defence, the fences are chest high and shootable in ''[[X Com|UFO Enemy Unknown]]''. At least the fences are chest high and shootable, but it is odd that your troopers are tough enough to hardly notice stepping off the roof of a two storey building but need a flying suit to get over a dry stone wall. And that the same happens with bushes that are knee-high or so (''and'' that they can be completely removed by a single rifle shot). Also you remember those dragon's teeth concrete blocks they used to slow down tanks in World War 2? In the near future you will be able to get a similar effect using a picket fence or a box of tomatoes. And it's even funnier when units spawn in a "cage":
{{quote|'''Let's Play''': There's a Chryssalid here that's completely stymied by a two foot tall hedge. It's totally boxed in! It's too dumb to jump over the hedge! }}
* ''[[Onimusha]]: Dawn of Dreams'' is littered with flagrant examples of this, but none more aggravating than a point where your characters are faced with a ladder that descends from the top of a ledge to two feet above ground level. The bottom rung is no further from the floor than the protagonist's knee, but he must still wait for another character to lower it the rest of the way before he can climb it.
* ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' 2008 has the ''Ledge of Instant Death''. Despite the Prince being an excellent acrobat, he can't jump down more than 2 meters. At some points, Elika catches the Prince even though his feet already touched the ground.
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