Cryomancer
Arcane
Remember Khrorinis in Gothic 2? There are 7 ways to get into the city. During the trial of fire, there are also N ways to do the quests in G2, but some games insist in doing the opposite and forcing the player into a corridor. Some examples. NWN2 OC
During the OC(original campaign), you must defend your innocence in chapter 2 as you are being blamed for a tragedy. You can use lots of skills, but the game does not care about your PC class. For example, a Paladin could argue that if he was guilty, he would have lost his power, an evil necromancer specialized wizard would have a much harder time proving his innocence and after the trail, the end result is the same.
Other example of nonsensical railroad is in mmos, in WoW -> WotLK(which many considers the peak of WoW quality), playing in hellfire peninsula, an NPC asked me to kill an "elite" boss. Elite mobs are meant to be taken in a group, not alone, however, as an Affliction Warlock with a powerful voidwalker servant, I can using powerful shadow damage DoTs and my demoniac servants, kill elite mobs. And I killed him without using the item given to weaken him and the game din`t counted it as "enemy killed" cuz I had to use this item first. I din`t even tough about using the item cuz I already have soloed many elite quests. Screenshot bellow :
Thanks to it, I had to wait till he respawns again to kill him, this time weakning him. In NWN1 OC, there are a terrifying dragon which the game allows you to weaken but you can face him at his full power and using high level scrolls, he isn't hard.
So, any more examples of being railroaded in RPGs?
During the OC(original campaign), you must defend your innocence in chapter 2 as you are being blamed for a tragedy. You can use lots of skills, but the game does not care about your PC class. For example, a Paladin could argue that if he was guilty, he would have lost his power, an evil necromancer specialized wizard would have a much harder time proving his innocence and after the trail, the end result is the same.
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, there are also the typical "Resurrection magic doesn`t work in people who died in cutscenes" BS in the game and taking care of your keep or not makes little to no difference.Other example of nonsensical railroad is in mmos, in WoW -> WotLK(which many considers the peak of WoW quality), playing in hellfire peninsula, an NPC asked me to kill an "elite" boss. Elite mobs are meant to be taken in a group, not alone, however, as an Affliction Warlock with a powerful voidwalker servant, I can using powerful shadow damage DoTs and my demoniac servants, kill elite mobs. And I killed him without using the item given to weaken him and the game din`t counted it as "enemy killed" cuz I had to use this item first. I din`t even tough about using the item cuz I already have soloed many elite quests. Screenshot bellow :
Thanks to it, I had to wait till he respawns again to kill him, this time weakning him. In NWN1 OC, there are a terrifying dragon which the game allows you to weaken but you can face him at his full power and using high level scrolls, he isn't hard.
So, any more examples of being railroaded in RPGs?