Red Faction/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]]: The Major League Gaming Playlist in ''Guerrilla''. No Health Packs. No Remote Charges. No Rail Driver. No Handicapping. No Proximity Mines. No Vision Packs. {{spoiler|[[Super Smash Brothers|Fox Only. Final Destination.]]}}

* [[Complete Monster]]: The EDF officers in ''Guerrilla'' are varying shades of it. It's justified [[Fridge Brilliance|if you think about it]]: They're fighting for the very survival of their civilization, and are getting more and more desperate as their hold on Mars gets less and less secure.

** Captain Halvar [[Meaningful Name|Gunnarsen]] was responsible for the deaths of over ''300'' miners in Chryse (we are not given many details, however), and attempts to trap workers during a protest in one of the industrial zones with a message over a PA system. They expect a peaceful protest, but he's given his troops orders to open fire.

** General Bertram Roth is an incompetent liar if the Voice of Mars is to be believed, and is constantly assuring the citizens that, even as the Faction tears it's way towards the mass accelerator on Mount Vogel, the Red Faction is a crippled organization that is on it's last legs and in it's final death throes.

* [[Memetic Mutation]]: [http://redfaction.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Toots Mr. Toots.]

* [[Rooting for The Empire]]: The Earth Defense Force occasionally gets this. Partly because their brutality is so insanely overplayed that it skips [[Complete Monster]] territory and just becomes implausibly hilarious, and partly because they get [[Evil Is Cool|cool uniforms]].

* [[That One Sidequest]]: Ever wonder why Oasis is the most-requested sector for Demolition Master walkthroughs? Getting the pro time on one Demolition Master there involves demolishing a watchtower by hitting it with a batted exploding barrel. You have, at most, two shots before the pro time elapses and both of them need to have the precision of guided missiles to actually knock the tower down. With no consistent way to control the variables, especially the flight path and direction of the barrels, this is a nigh impossible [[Luck Based Mission]]. Combined with the fact it takes more than twice as long to reset it as it does to fail it and you have an ideal recipe for frustration.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: In Armageddon, the concept of the Nanoforge is wonderfully realised in gameplay, but the plot almost entirely neglects it. The focus is entirely on the painfully unoriginal [[Bug War]] concept instead. The Nanoforge is literally the most scientifically advanced and ridiculously useful devise in the whole of creation, yet the Faction lets Darius run around with it. A power struggle between the new government, Darius and the cultists all over the [[MacGuffin|Nanoforge]] and it's seemingly [[Applied Phlebotinum|limitless power]] would have made for a much more compelling plot. It would also have been more in keeping with the primary theme of the series: government oppression and civil war.

* [[Tough Act to Follow]]: You could argue that the popular ''Guerilla'' would be setting up any sequel for a disappointment, but frankly, considering ''Armageddon'' was the polar opposite of its predecessor in terms of game design this was probably not the way to endear fans.

 

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