games with sequences where you're taken captive but no one bothers to confiscate the insane amount of weapons you're carrying

aw shucks im in jail again with nothing but my sniper rifle, frag grenades, chainsword, power axe, shotgun, bolter, pistol, dark eldar bdsm daggers, and several dozen flamethrowers

how am i ever gonna get myself out of this mess

Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Illbleed
Illbleed
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
Bloodborne
Bloodborne
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
"rocks and food is weapons to gollum"
Grandia
Grandia
Chrono Trigger
Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VII
Hollow Knight
Hollow Knight

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4 months ago

potential companion list:

games with sequences where you're taken captive and someone bothers to confiscate the insane amount of weapons you're carrying but puts it in an unguarded, unlocked box 5 feet away from where you're being held

4 months ago

Tomb Raider 3 is one of the only games with one of the fiercest troll equivalents:

games where you're taken captive and your weapons are actually confiscated and gone forever and if you do this level later in the game you are kind of fucked for the final levels.
Ocarina of time

4 months ago

@gruel
love to see a code veronica grade softlock

@NOWITSREYNTIME17
added

4 months ago

Wind waker...?

4 months ago

Illbleed during the Toy Hunter level has this.

4 months ago

@moschidae
replace that ??? with more confident punctuation and i'm down to add it

@weatherby
added!

4 months ago

WIND WAKER.
wind waker works the same as oot, its just near the beginning of the game rather than the end so you dont have many tools to your disposal

4 months ago

Dark Souls. You respawn in a cage after encountering Seath. I haven’t played Bloodborne yet, but I heard it did the same thing.

4 months ago

@EldestBrisingr
added both (pretty sure you're right about bloodborne)
yeah theyre right about bloodborne

4 months ago

One of my least favourite tropes in games. It's dumb as hell.

4 months ago

@purdon
I feel you, it's extremely dopey

@NOWITSREYNTIME17
thank you for your service toward making this list better
No prob 👍

4 months ago

actually in gollum 2023 they put him in various jails but they let him keep all his rocks and food which is weapons to gollum i think

4 months ago

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4 months ago

oh Grandia does this, when you go rescue the little forest dude and get jailed yourself

4 months ago

@AWACS_Lucio
added! :)

4 months ago

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4 months ago

i never got to hear about the plane. details.
I thought of this list when I got to the prison sequence just now in this game but chrono trigger has one

4 months ago

@NOWITSREYNTIME17
added! that's a good one I completely forgot about

3 months ago

rogue trader graduates off the list with the latest patch:
"It is no longer possible to take items from the cargo while being in [spoiler]

3 months ago

Final Fantasy VII

3 months ago

@rowan1312
thank you, added :)

3 months ago

This happens in Hollow Knight, more specifically Beast's Den in Deepnest. Granted you have less 'equipment' in HK, but they leave you with your sword and some tangible abilities post-capture.

3 months ago

@Consciovs
I think that counts toward the spirit of the list. adding it!


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