Why are doors in video games so annoying?

Take fallout. You're a walking tank with a nuke thrower but you can bust down a 200 year old wood door? Or ES. You're a a battle mage sling fireballs everywhere but you can't blast a door?

No; you have to play find the key or worse play a "mini-game" to try to pick the lock.

The solutions is to give the player options. Shoot/blow the lock off with a suitable penalty of alerting all the NPCs in the area. Instead of a minigame base opening on the character (or party) relevant skill; if you have the prereq it opens if you
don't it doesn't.

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On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:24:12 -0800 (PST), T987654321
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Why are doors in video games so annoying?

When I played Wizardry 5 awhile back, I could not figure out how to
open doors even though I played the earlier Wizardries without issue.

Turns out you have to (k)ick them open.

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