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| - Escort Mission is the newest episode (#?) of Foamy, published on December 9, 2009. In this episode Germaine is playing a Zombie-themed video game and complaining about missions where you are required to escort women who are portrayed as helpless, being scared and stupid enough to run into hordes (likely parodying Dead Rising). She also complains about the slim physiques of the avatars. Foamy then berates her as usual on her lack of employment, distasteful hobbies and overweightedness.
- The Escort Mission. The bane of gamers everywhere, alongside the Timed Mission and Luck-Based Mission. Escort Missions are just that: you have to babysit an NPC, keeping them alive through one or more challenges without getting killed or seriously hurt, or sometimes even touched. This wouldn't be so bad, except that 98% of the time, the NPC you have to protect is gifted with all the common sense of an inbred, suicidal gerbil. They die from minimal damage, run ahead into danger before you can clear it, step into your line of fire, and otherwise act Too Dumb to Live. Even worse, escort missions frequently have long, boring stretches of time where nothing happens in between the NPC trying their damnedest to get skewered. Missions not formally meant to be Escort Missions sometimes become them,
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| - Escort Mission is the newest episode (#?) of Foamy, published on December 9, 2009. In this episode Germaine is playing a Zombie-themed video game and complaining about missions where you are required to escort women who are portrayed as helpless, being scared and stupid enough to run into hordes (likely parodying Dead Rising). She also complains about the slim physiques of the avatars. Foamy then berates her as usual on her lack of employment, distasteful hobbies and overweightedness.
- The Escort Mission. The bane of gamers everywhere, alongside the Timed Mission and Luck-Based Mission. Escort Missions are just that: you have to babysit an NPC, keeping them alive through one or more challenges without getting killed or seriously hurt, or sometimes even touched. This wouldn't be so bad, except that 98% of the time, the NPC you have to protect is gifted with all the common sense of an inbred, suicidal gerbil. They die from minimal damage, run ahead into danger before you can clear it, step into your line of fire, and otherwise act Too Dumb to Live. Even worse, escort missions frequently have long, boring stretches of time where nothing happens in between the NPC trying their damnedest to get skewered. Missions not formally meant to be Escort Missions sometimes become them, when you're saddled with aggressive but stupid NPCs whose survival is one of your victory conditions. Either way they're a sure way to ramp up the frustration level and make a game Nintendo Hard. Only very rarely are Escort Missions done well, and when they are, it can be amazing. One way to make them less annoying is to give the NPC some combat ability of their own. For example, whole sections of Resident Evil 4 are Escort Missions, but since the AI is exceptional all-around in that game, it's just a slightly added challenge instead of a cue to start breaking things in rage. Alternately, you can give the NPCs Gameplay Ally Immortality, but that tends to lead to You Call That a Wound?. Escort Missions are typically found in First Person Shooters, Third Person Shooters and flight simulator style games, as well as some styles of RPG. They also exist outside of games, where they're used as plot devices, yielding a Live Action Escort Mission, where The Load takes the place of the NPC. If the NPC you're supposed to protect has a bad habit of running into your line of fire or trying to take on foes stronger than he/she is, then you have to deal with a Leeroy Jenkins. If your charge is stationary, it is a Protection Mission, which may be easier. See also Hero Must Survive. Examples of Escort Mission include:
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