ITT video game conventions that don't make any sense

1) Being able to roll uphill
2) Reloading a magazine after shooting one bullet

 

3) Adventure game inventories

 

4) Double-jumping (do you just fart in midair or what?)

 

5)Dying from 3 shots to the foot.
6)Being just as quick, nimble, effective and deadly on 1% health as on 100% health. In fact, the whole numbered health system in general. There is no wounded, you are either ALIVE or DEAD.

 

7) Enemies can take multiple bullets to the face but die with one or two melee hits.

 

8) Bottomless pits in random locations
9) Death via head stomp.

Also
3a) Carrying 10 weapons at once and 300 round of ammo for each.

 

10) Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence

 

11) Shield generators with the off button/power source on the outside of the evil lair!
12) The old RPG tradition of lining up and taking it in turns to bat each other around the head with a sword untill somebody passes out.
13) Wafer thin walls of concrete being able to withstand heavy duty explosives and high calibre ammunition.

 

14) Instantly drowning whenever falling in water.

 

8) Bottomless pits in random locations

Yeah - SW Bounty Hunter had quite a few of those. I managed to find an unintended one in the Prison Break-in level as well!

 

15) Being able to enter a moving car instantly, by hitting the button at the right timing as it passes you.

 

16) Lining up iron sights so that they're right in front of your face.

 

Eating random crap you find on the floor in a war zone to gain health

 

That one's annoyed me so many times.

18) Enemy snipers that use highly visible laser pointers

 

Came in here to say this.

 

19) rolling dice in the background to determine success or failure and damage.

 

20) RPG enemies kind enough to wait for your summon animation to complete instead of just, ya know... killing you.

 

21) Mobs of enemies surrounding you then charging one at a time (I'm looking at you Assassin's Creed, though it's hardly the only offender.)

22) Falling from unlimited height is fine so long as you land in water.

 

23.) Cutscene vulnerability/ stupidity (I think it also has a Trope)

 

I'd like to add piles of hay and leaves to that as well.

24) Being the most badass warrior but still being inexplicably impeded by mundane things such as chain link fences and locked doors.

 

^ So true.

So many times in RPGs I'm defeated by locked doors or chests even though I'm wielding a frickin battle-axe.

 

I saw an awesome example of that when playing through Gears of War 2; you kill a brumak on a bridge and Marcus is like "it's blocking the bridge, we'll have to find another way" despite there being human sized gaps either side of it.

 

26) ANYTHING explodes if you shoot it (I think this only applies to GoldenEye...)