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RED BARRELS
Ah, red barrels. Where would we be without you? A staple of the video gaming medium as old as time. This is perhaps the most overtly obvious example of games literally handing opportunities to players for doing massive damage, for being an absolute badass for that one glorious moment. More often than not, red barrels (or any other explosive object) are strategically placed in locations where, if the player hits them, the resulting explosion’s blast radius will end up killing (or at least damaging) a lot of enemies.
