Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 179 - Beef Gate

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

One True Love
Disc-One Nuke
Lampshade Hanging
Difficult, but Awesome
Tier-Induced Scrappy
That One Level
Game-Breaker
Broken Base
Cliffhanger
Cruel and Unusual Death
Squishy Wizard
Magic Knight
Anti-Climax Boss
Torch the Franchise and Run
Lights Off, Somebody Dies
Grand Finale

The winner of yesterday's trope, Breather Level, was 100 Acre Wood (Kingdom Hearts), which got 3 votes.

Previous Winners: Day 151 Onwards
Despair Event Horizon - John Wick's dog is killed (John Wick)
A**hole Victim - Joffrey Baratheon (Game of Thrones)
Crutch Character - Marcus (Fire Emblem 7)
Your Soul is Mine - Maximillian Pegasus (Yu-Gi-Oh!) / Shang Tsung (Mortal Kombat) / Dementor's Kiss (Harry Potter)
Pop-Cultured Badass - Deadpool
Acquitted Too Late - Tom Robinson (To Kill a Mockingbird)
Lightning Bruiser - The Flash (DC Comics) / Bob Barker (Happy Gilmore)
Me's a Crowd - Naruto / Multiple Man (X-Men)
A Taste of Power - Samus (Metroid Series)
Shrinking Violet - Violet (The Incredibles)
Stone Wall - Shuckle (Pokemon)
One Scene Wonder - The Black Knight (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)
Magikarp Power - Magikarp (Pokemon) / Pawn (Chess)
Joke Character - Pichu (Super Smash Bros Melee) / Dan Hibiki (Street Fighter)
Lethal Joke Character - L-Block (GameFAQs Contests)
Stupid Statement Dance Mix - They're Taking the Hobbits to Isengard / All Your Base
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere - Necron (Final Fantasy IX)
Roaring Rampage of Revenge - The Punisher (Marvel Comics) / John Wick / The Bride (Kill Bill)
Glass Cannon (Redux) - Tracer (Overwatch) / Hypno Disc (Robot Wars) / Nightmare (Battlebots)
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome - Marie (The Bourne Supremacy)
Even the Girls Want Her - Lana Kane (Archer)
Even the Guys Want Him - Gaston (Beauty and the Beast) / Big Boss (Metal Gear Solid)
Mighty Glacier - Tohru (Jackie Chan Adventures)
Breather Boss - Morpha (Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) / Gi Nattak (Final Fantasy VII)
Big Bad Friend - Big Smoke (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
Launcher of a Thousand Ships - Nightwing (DC Comics)
Evil Cripple - Mr. Glass (Unbreakable)

Today's trope is Beef Gate. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeefGate

You can go wherever you want... but if you try to go anywhere out of order, the game will kill you.

Later areas are guarded by disproportionately powerful enemies that will beat you down for approaching them too early. As a player, you're supposed to recognize that as a sign that you should just come back later. With any luck, you'll be ready for those challenges by the time the game actually mentions them.

The good news is that if you're somehow miraculously able to pull it off early, via some sort of Outside-the-Box Tactic application of the Useless Useful Spell, clever strategy, or sheer luck, then you get to learn why there's nothing quite like enjoying amounts of experience and equipment drops that you probably weren't intended to have until fifteen hours later. It can also sometimes be fun to beat them for Sequence Breaking purposes, depending.

The other way to defeat a Beef Gate, of course, is Level Grinding in games that allow you to.

TL,DR: Technically you can go anywhere, but powerful enemies discourage from going to a certain area before you're supposed to.

Nominations:
Graveyards and Catacombs (Dark Souls)
The Feywood (Final Fantasy XII)
Lynchwood (Borderlands 2)

Automatic 4-star wanted level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)
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I agree with The Feywood. I couldn't even get there due to the Hellhounds.
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Cantlin (Dragon Warrior)
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I don't know about a specific location but I guess the entire map of Final Fantasy II was dumb like that?
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Snake5555555555 posted...

Automatic 4-star wanted level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)

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Automatic 4 star wanted level (San Andreas)
The bucket at the End of Time (Chrono Trigger)
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Leaving the mansion (Resident Evil)
Climbing the ladder from Gizamaluke's Grotto (FF9)
Leaving the mall (Dead Rising)

Fucking Deathclaws and Cazadores (Fallout New Vegas)
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_SecretSquirrel posted...

The bucket at the End of Time (Chrono Trigger)

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Rankings so far:
Automatic 4-star wanted level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) - 3 votes
The Feywood (Final Fantasy XII) - 2 votes
The bucket at the End of Time (Chrono Trigger) - 2 votes
Graveyards and Catacombs (Dark Souls)
Lynchwood (Borderlands 2)
Cantlin (Dragon Warrior)
The entire map (Final Fantasy II)
Leaving the mansion (Resident Evil)
Climbing the ladder from Gizamaluke's Grotto (FF9)
Leaving the mall (Dead Rising)
Deathclaws and Cazadores (Fallout New Vegas)

Snake5555555555 posted...

Automatic 4-star wanted level (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas)

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