20 Gaming Moments That Insulted Your Intelligence

7. "Cut Off Their Limbs" - Dead Space

One of the core tenets of survival horror masterpiece Dead Space is its emphasis on "strategic dismemberment" - that is, defeating necromorphs not by shooting them in the head but targeting and removing their limbs.

It's a whole ton of fun, but early in the original game developer Visceral Games makes great pains to bash you over the head with this gameplay principle by quite literally writing it in blood on the wall and then bombarding you with a battery of messages reiterating the strategy.

We got it the first time - we're good.

Now in total fairness to Visceral, excessively hand-holding moments like this are usually due to the dev team discovering during play-testing that a mechanic isn't as obvious as it seems, but even so, it's literally scrawled in unmissable gore right at the start of the game.

If you can't figure it out after that, it's basically on you.