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Strider102 posted...

"Oh yes, The Tower of Fate. You need the Staff of Truth to open the door, which I just so happen to have!"

"Can we borrow it?"

"Well...I suppose I could lend it to you but, first you must do something for me. My grandson is sick and I need nectar from the rare Firelily Flower that grows on Mount blahblahetc. If you bring the flower to me I'll give you the Staff."

"Ok, we'll head over there now!"

"Oh, wait. I forgot to mention there is a huge ice block blocking the path up the mountain."

"Oh, that's no problem. We can melt it with a fire spell."

"I'm afraid that's not possible. The ice block can only be melted with the Dagger of Flame."

"Oh, ok. Where's the Dagger of Flame?"

"I used to know, but unfortunately old age has affected my memory. I am sorry."

"Alright. Maybe we could just find an alternate pa-"

"No no, you need the dagger."

and then when you find the dagger.....

*Returns to Granpa*
Grandpa says: "With MY help that was easy"

Like bitch.....you did nothing.

A great powerful evil that could only be sealed away by the world's top armies and mages, can be completely destroyed by 4 young people who have fought together a few weeks.
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Damage sponge enemies that shrug off your attacks.

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Fetch quests god breath of fire 2 is bad when i was playing it a few weeks ago and i quit due to the annoy amount of it ugh
and let's not even get started with the notorious water levels in any game heck was their ever a game that did it right

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Rika_Furude posted...

Long tutorials that arent entertaining

And tutorials that force you to take certain actions (fire emblem for GBA as an example, dictates what spaces you move to, what items you use, who you attack etc quite often)

Achievements and especially system notifications doing popupa and shit.
Sony can fuck right off with their popup during cutscenes that says "recording is restricted" or whatever. Thats probably actually illegal, not to mention how immersion breaking it is

Xbox does it too, it just doesn't tell you it's doing it.

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It used to be that videogames were too difficult and often times unfair. I feel like now the inverse is true.

Most games are far too easy and tone down the intensity to cater to less experienced players. This of course bottlenecks difficulty for more seasoned players.

I generally dislike any sort of extended handholding in games. Signposting is one thing but some games do everything short of beating the damn game for you.

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gguirao posted...

Escort quests where the people being escorted try to rush the enemy.

Or worse, the NPC you are meant to escort out of danger is leagues more powerful than you, or the mobs you are fighting.

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Playing FFVII Remake and the pop up tutorial boxes are more annoying than achievements.

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DevsBro posted...

When the final boss is disproportionately difficult. Sure, the final boss should be the hardest part, and it's even ok to be off the difficulty curve a bit. But if I died twice in the rest of the game, I shouldn't be dying fifty times against the FB.

Romancing Saga 3... couldnt beat the final boss. Still annoyed by that.

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When your character has known someone/something for a long time, but then someone/something new arrives that appeals to them, and they trust/believe in that thing or person, and disregard your protests

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Sections where you have to wait for an NPC or NPCs with unskippable dialogue to finish talking before you can move on to the next area.

gunplagirl posted...

"hit the enemy with this item so you actually can harm the boss, but it is super hard to land that item on the boss"
At least in kingdom hearts it's just extra stun time when herc hits the boss, so you can still win without him. But then you have those ones where you have to get to like, a turret and hit a flying enemy to bring them to the ground for a bit to pummel them but they are hard to aim since they fire so slowly. Or have them caught in an exploding barrel radius that you throw and it has a timer to blow up after you throw it.

Ironic you mention Hercules because you have to do just that when you fight him

Noumas posted...

Ironic you mention Hercules because you have to do just that when you fight him

Shit I forgot that about him. Gdi.

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