It’s a video game where there’s a mission in which you have to destroy a missile silo. But the silo tracks you and fires a missile right at your location every several seconds. It makes a loud boom sound in the distance every time it fires. And it stops firing once you get to a close enough distance.
I’m pretty sure it’s an open world game, perhaps a bit like Just Cause? This might be some Mandela effect shit because I’m not even 100% sure this game exists.
There’s part of an area in Half Life: Opposing Force that has something like this. You later end up using the cannon yourself to open up the path forward.
You could also be thinking about a couple of parts of the original Half-Life as there are a couple of times with mortar fire (including the ability to use them yourself at one point), and there’s definitely at least one rocket launch silo in the game.
Depending on how strong your recollection or how muddled your memories these could be a match.
Nellis AFB in Fallout New Vegas functions pretty much how you are saying.
The Boomers in New Vegas? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9IAY7XBRd0&t=120s
Classic quest! But no, it’s not that :)
An old james bond game
Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction maybe?
You could try !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com
Oh dang, this rings a bell!!!
Any idea of what year you first encountered this game? Also what console it might have been on?
My mind first jumped to Siphon Filter, but I didn’t find footage of a silo that launches missiles at you.
You sure it’s not just one of the Just Cause games?
I’ve played them all and I don’t remember this mission, although I’m open to it being one of them lol
I have only played 3 I think hut this does sound a lot like Just cause to me. Looking forward to finding out if it actually is
I’ve only finished one of them, but it does seem like it could be one of the missions from Just Cause 4. Unfortunately I have a horrible memory.
What era - early/mid/late 80s/90s/00s ?
What hardware - arcade/nes/pc?
Its definitely not a retro game. PlayStation/Xbox/PC, probably no more than 20 years old
People today think ps1 is retro.
Im 10000 years old.
People today think ps3 is retro
JFC
Perhaps Metal Gear Solid V ? Or some sonic game ?
Now that I think about it, those series have more in common than I expected.
First person? Top down?
No, those aren’t the name. I’ll know it when I see it, so keep trying.
He’s asking what style of game.
Just having fun. My comment only makes sense at face value if I’m the OP or an alt account.
The question was: Is it a first-person shooter, or one where the environment is seen from the above, as if from a bird’s eye.
Someguy3 did not mean to suggest those might be names for the game :)
They mean viewpoint. Was it a first person camera game, were you seeing your character top down, was it a side scrolling platformer, etc.
Something similar was in one of the last Serious Sam games.
Just Cause 2 has a mission, where someone launches 3 rockets (or satellites?). You destroy 2 on foot, but the third one launches, then you have to steal a jet plane and destroy that rocket before it reaches the orbit. Pretty cool mission.
But it does not match the rest of your description.
There might be a mission in one of the Gears of Wars like this. It sounds vaguely familiar.
Everspace has silos like that, but many games have stuff that is similar. We definitely need a bit more info here. Also, like @iamthetot@sh.itjust.works said, !TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com is the correct community for that.
