For example, at the Battle of Bruma Gate in TES4, the town guards get their asses handed to them while you do all the actual work, or in the campaign of almost every shooter game, how come YOU have to do all the work while your teammates struggle with like the smallest bit of resistance?

Anyone want to list up any games where having teammates actually help?

Here's mine:

  1. Mount & Blade

  2. Star Wars: Battlefront

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Well I rather do things by myself than have to sit around waiting for my allies to kill everyone as in MW3

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Enlist the allies from WaW then. So useless, and the amount of grenades thrown in veteran by enemies was ridiculous.

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black iron tarkus

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And Solaire of Motherfucking Astora.

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Tarkus? THIS tarkus?

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I think OP is looking for allies that do not suck :P

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Oh my bad I missed that line :p

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Can't be the best at everything & can't always avoid being the worst.
Honestly, it's odd how people get frustrated at how much their team sucks because in reality, you're only as good as your opponents aren't. Getting a 5 KDR against noobs? Must be fun; but that KDR's going to drop down to 1 if you play against people of equal skill.

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I'm talking about single-player games here

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Oh because then you wouldn't feel like a badass? :D

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Mass effect. They shoot, they use abilites, they reload, use cover... But do they kill anybody ever by themselves?

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What do you expect if you don't issue orders? People are absurdly prone to brainfarts and shortsighted. That's why some of the quicker thinking are in command - to space a bit while others freak out locked in present/past, stay focused and sort things out by not letting them get themselves killed but kill those other guys. I personally hate allies in the (generally older?) games (that's not to say I don't enjoy quite a few of them) where you can't tell them to calm the fuck down and move reasonably, reacting to your actions and taking hints instead of wading into the thick of it, getting gunned down because you couldn't even keep up or was doing something else entirely, and prompting "VITAL CHARACTER DIED! MISSION FAILED, U MAD?"

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They do kill someone occasionally, especially spider-man wannabees geth. They also distract enemies and their biotic and engineering powers incapacitate enemies and make fights easier.

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dota 2

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I've had the bots in Left For Dead do better than an acual human player. That's why I usually dont join public servers.

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They are good at killing things... Not so good at helping you stay alive at times though.

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There is a mod for that.

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I'll have to look into that.

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Simply put, the human element cannot simply be replaced by AI. It can be programmed that one set is stronger than another, though a positive outcome is reliant on player intervention.

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Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

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Mount and Blade? My allies in that are endlessly incompetent. I have to do everything or else we just lose all of the time.

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So you're telling me... you can defeat a King's army all by yourself without the help of your troops...

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I think he's talking about the actual characters. The troops are not allies per se - there's a certain point when they become too many to be considered anything but an RTS element

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Because I'm the one sucking dicks.

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Dota 2.
yeah, I feel my team is composed of monkeys bashing a keyboard, sometimes.

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If the AI did all the work for you, then it wouldn't be much of a game. You'd be just a spectator.

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I'm not asking them to do all the work, I'm asking them to be more useful, look at Star Wars Battlefront, they're getting shit done, but at the same time they need your help to secure a victory

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because your not playing competitive counter-strike..then your allies would be just a little more helpful :)

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To instill a sense of power in you? Or shoddy AI.

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Stop playing with bots or npcs

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Ok, I see you have Borderlands and TWD, let's just remove all the NPCs from those games, what do we have left? Some stupid empty ass game where there's nothing to fucking do

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  • Spec Ops The Line

  • Rainbow Six Vegas 1 & 2

Believe me, they help out in those games.

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Try to play Red Orchestra. For two or three first levels I'd been playing I got to kill like five enemies, the rest were killed by my allies. I don't even know how many there were, just that I was making my way towards the village, or the railroad station, or whatever I was supposed to be liberating, and then I was victorious.

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I'll never forget that one game Tales of Destiny what's his name was so bad ass at kicking your butt mind you that you had 2 other people with you, but as soon as he joins up it's like he de-leveled and un-skilled himself.

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Brothers in Arms

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Fable?

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