I wonder why barrels are used so often in video games. Seriously. The usage in barrels has increased ten-fold in the recent years. Furthermore, these aren't your typical containers filled with well-aged whiskey and the like. No, these are shoddy, flimsy, and downright fragile.
It's perplexing.
It's also confusing to know that after the hero (or heroine, for you Title Niners) disintegrates one of these lousy barrels, it contains a box of ammunition or a few gold pieces.
Who put these here, the enemies? What zombie tells another zombie, "Hey, before we eat this human's brain and clean his insides out with pruning shears, let me put this medicinal herb in that balsa wood barrel over by the glowing save point."?
I cannot picture the walking undead placing useful items in a barrel, items that can kill you no less, carefully putting the lid on with some sort of rubber mallet or tree branch and leave it in out in the open. Think about it, brainless automatons. The hero will find that barrel, use the shotgun shells on your carcass. It just is not very beneficial to the enemy, that's all.
If I was a zombie, and thank heavens I am not, I would more than likely use the barrels laying around (did I mention the surplus of these barrels?!?) and put in rotting meat, perhaps an arm or a dead animal to snack on later. And I would surely not leave that container in plain sight, either. I would have devised a plan of barrel placement along with a map and probably some sort of translative key.
The zombies are setting themselves up for failure, which is a sad yet honest reality.
How about the barrels that allow gorillas to save their game, blast off across the level, turn into other animals, and even let them play Bonus games? Seems pretty impractical to me.
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