Worst examples of nonsensical railroading.

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Every game has some form of shit railroading.

 

[HeroMarine]

I was gonna post about that fucking door in NWN2 OC but OP more or less had it covered.

 

[Cryomancer]

Every game has some form of shit railroading.

Wrong. Mount & Blade has ZERO.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

Every game has some form of shit railroading.

Wrong. Mount & Blade has ZERO.

As opposed to your mom who gets railed a lot I bet.

 

[Desiderius]

 

[Norfleet]

And now, the cleric attendants must rest. The other 100 people waiting outside, please wait until tomorrow..."

Hey, that's how it works in Papers Please. So now I'm picturing a fantasy version of Papers Please where you use your various detection spells to determine who gets in and who doesn't based on a combination of non-magical interrogation and spells.

 

[Tony]

Lionheart was decently open until it completely changes and you are put on rails as a surprise twist.

 

[Daemongar]

And now, the cleric attendants must rest. The other 100 people waiting outside, please wait until tomorrow..."

Hey, that's how it works in Papers Please. So now I'm picturing a fantasy version of Papers Please where you use your various detection spells to determine who gets in and who doesn't based on a combination of non-magical interrogation

That would be an interesting dynamic. Really. Picture Papers Please or a standard mystery game but your character gets a series of D&D based type spells. You question folks, but not just relying on magic and such. You also may have to use your spells/question/intuition to look for saboteurs on your own side.

Player has stats that affect # of spells, spell strength, spell length, spell success, etc. You try to knit together a story via what you learn as you go along and what spell you choose to select at each time - branching based on proper choices or missteps.

Not like some crappy Hillsfar or Disco Elysium, but more like Papers Please or such.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And now, the cleric attendants must rest. The other 100 people waiting outside, please wait until tomorrow..."

Hey, that's how it works in Papers Please. So now I'm picturing a fantasy version of Papers Please where you use your various detection spells to determine who gets in and who doesn't based on a combination of non-magical interrogation

That would be an interesting dynamic. Really. Picture Papers Please or a standard mystery game but your character gets a series of D&D based type spells. You question folks, but not just relying on magic and such. You also may have to use your spells/question/intuition to look for saboteurs on your own side.

Player has stats that affect # of spells, spell strength, spell length, spell success, etc. You try to knit together a story via what you learn as you go along and what spell you choose to select at each time - branching based on proper choices or missteps.

Not like some crappy Hillsfar or Disco Elysium, but more like Papers Please or such.

Somewhat like The Magister and also probably this Esotericc Ebb game.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

And now, the cleric attendants must rest. The other 100 people waiting outside, please wait until tomorrow..."

Hey, that's how it works in Papers Please. So now I'm picturing a fantasy version of Papers Please where you use your various detection spells to determine who gets in and who doesn't based on a combination of non-magical interrogation

That would be an interesting dynamic. Really. Picture Papers Please or a standard mystery game but your character gets a series of D&D based type spells. You question folks, but not just relying on magic and such. You also may have to use your spells/question/intuition to look for saboteurs on your own side.

Player has stats that affect # of spells, spell strength, spell length, spell success, etc. You try to knit together a story via what you learn as you go along and what spell you choose to select at each time - branching based on proper choices or missteps.

Not like some crappy Hillsfar or Disco Elysium, but more like Papers Please or such.

Somewhat like The Magister and also probably this Esotericc Ebb game.

And also The Maimed God saga for nwn 2(?)