Current Events > What's a recurring theme you've noticed in games that drives you insane?

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I've either got the worst luck or I've noticed an increase in input reading because I've had so many shots wasted in games where the split second I pull the trigger, the enemy moves or dodges with insane precision.

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Forced walking sections

Instead of skippable cutscenes or optional dialogue/text you get long ass sequence where you press forward and your character slowly walks while they blab on about shit no one cares about

Every Triple A Game does it now and its maddening. Especially on repeat playthroughs

Why the fuck does Kratos need to slow walk bitch moan like a little girl for 17 minutes every 45 minutes in a fucking God of War game?

that's bad storytelling and bad game design

I can beat entire Genesis games in the time it takes to play all the forced walking sections in modern games.
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Stealth sections in otherwise non-stealth games.

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I thought the flopix title was talking about music themes, and I was going to say Bubble Bobble.

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Stealth sections in otherwise non-stealth games.

Which are instant game over if spotted

And really fucking slow.

The missions in Days Gone were soooooooooooo boring
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Games that punish you for good play

CTR nitro, and RE2Remake come to mind

Drrobotniks posted...

Games that punish you for good play

CTR nitro, and RE2Remake come to mind

How does RE2remake punish you for good play?

You mean the adaptive difficulty?
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As a perfectionist, anything with less than a 1% chance of appearing, including Easter eggs.
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Gurifisu posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

Forced walking sections.

MabusIncarnate posted...

Stealth sections in otherwise non-stealth games.

GiftedACIII posted...

As a perfectionist, anything with less than a 1% chance of appearing, including Easter eggs.

All of those, plus games that require massive amounts of grinding.

Copy_X_Mk_ll posted...

open worlds that dont serve the actual moment to moment gameplay

What do you mean exactly?

like an open world that would be better served being shown linearly?

Open world games bloated with filler fetch quests to lengthen gameplay- Assassins Creed Odyssey, Mass Effect Andromeda, Technomancer, Tales of Xillia 2, Mad Max, Assassins Creed 1

Amnesia.

Open world gamrs getting bigger but not deeper

I'd rather the next gta or elder scrolls be 3x smaller than the previous title but with 3x as much to do.

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limited time events. preorder specials, christmas exclusives, etc. if I miss out on something because I bought in 3 months after launch, or took a week off, fuck you.

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Medussa posted...

limited time events. preorder specials, christmas exclusives, etc. if I miss out on something because I bought in 3 months after launch, or took a week off, fuck you.

Oh yeah, this is one is definitely the worst.
This single-handedly makes me justify the use of cheating devices.
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• original female characters have bland faces (and bulging biceps)
• returning female characters from '80s, '90s, or 2000s games have short hair and stern looks fixed upon their faces

I don't care if my post smells of Cheetos breath, attractive women are part of the appeal.

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Gurifisu posted...

This I think is taking things a bit personally and if it's the game I'm thinking of is a pretty severe misinterpretation

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FortuneCookie posted...

* original female characters have bland faces (and bulging biceps)
* returning female characters from '80s, '90s, or 2000s games have short hair and stern looks fixed upon their faces

I don't care if my post smells of Cheetos breath, attractive women are part of the appeal.

Yikes

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On a side note, I'm not against having women who aren't attractive. I'm just annoyed by how programmers go absolutely out of their way to create hambeasts or to minimize the appeal of preexisting female characters.

I actually like the inclusion of the occasional heavyset female character or female Dolph Lundgren type. But when people pat themselves on the back for "fixing" characters, or treat you like some kind of an asshole for wanting to see a pretty face, that grinds my gears.

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Anyway to seriously address the topic

Inventory management

Floating numbers

Unnecessarily large numbers to represent health/xp/magic

Grinding

Uninteresting overworlds

Stealth/escort sections in games that aren't built around those things

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Games that punish you for good play

CTR nitro

https://www.reddit.com/r/crashteamracing/comments/c3yclh/ai_has_industrial_strength_rubber_banding_even_on/

it gets interesting later on in the thread where this claim is exposed as false.

edit: at least on medium.
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Not enough depth. Too much catering to the "hurr I only have 5 minutes" crowd.

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Doom_Art posted...

Anyway to seriously address the topic

Oh, I'm sorry. A bit of repetitive gameplay is a deal-breaker, but the lack of eye candy is not a valid complaint?

Video games are baseline about instant gratification. You collect that coin because it represents accumulating wealth. You murder fictional opponents because it lets you vent bloodlust. You rescue the princess or pick up the hooker because it scratches another kind of itch.

With the exception of Mario, who is more like a cartoon mascot than a normal human being, I can't think of too many male protagonists who don't represent the male ideal. Why then is it wrong to have idealized female characters?

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At least back in the day, having to talk to practically all the npcs for tips if you didnt have a guide at the moment.

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Can

We

PLEASE

stop saving the world

The world, the world, always the world. You know what, maybe it would have been interesting for once for this to have just been a simple little thing. We started by climbing a mountain. Why couldn't we finish that way? But oh no the evil Galactimo Corporation had to turn the mountain into a mountain of plutonaritanium so we had to blow it up to save the dang world again.

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FortuneCookie posted...

I don't care if my post smells of Cheetos breath, attractive women are part of the appeal.

Tagged as Cheeto breath.

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Pancake posted...

edit: at least on medium.

It may have been patched by now, but near release

players reported racing online, and scoring in high places, and earning very few coins

whereas in lower places, you'd make more coins than people who won the race

So in the most literal sense, you were punished for good play

Crafting, especially when the game makes you figure it out on your own. I'm looking at you Fallout 4 and Dragon Age:Inquisition. With Fallout at least 90% of building was optional, DA:I probably half my party went through the game with their starting weapons because I couldn't find what I needed to make them new stuff. And even when I made something better for my lead it wasn't much of an improvement, like instead of taking 20 hits to kill an enemy it now takes 19.
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bigtiggie23 posted...

Crafting, especially when the game makes you figure it out on your own. I'm looking at you Fallout 4 and Dragon Age:Inquisition. With Fallout at least 90% of building was optional, DA:I probably half my party went through the game with their starting weapons because I couldn't find what I needed to make them new stuff. And even when I made something better for my lead it wasn't much of an improvement, like instead of taking 20 hits to kill an enemy it now takes 19.

I don't remember having any issues crafting stuff in Inquisition

FortuneCookie posted...

Oh, I'm sorry. A bit of repetitive gameplay is a deal-breaker, but the lack of eye candy is not a valid complaint?

Video games are baseline about instant gratification. You collect that coin because it represents accumulating wealth. You murder fictional opponents because it lets you vent bloodlust. You rescue the princess or pick up the hooker because it scratches another kind of itch.

With the exception of Mario, who is more like a cartoon mascot than a normal human being, I can't think of too many male protagonists who don't represent the male ideal. Why then is it wrong to have idealized female characters?

Um

The "seriously" commented was directed towards myself since I had spent the other few posts ITT complaining about specific posts and not the topic itself.

But also you raise a good point. GTFO with this dumb complaint

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Giant compasses, GPS automaps, and quest markers with delineated paths that literally tell you exactly where to go to do something.