Current Events > What videogame mechanic you really hate.. besides escort missions

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ultimate reaver posted...

Horror game segments that mainly revolve around running from things through scripted chase scenes. Trial and error bs

I died a lot of times in Evil Within 1 to that hallway where you have to run from crushing ceilings while avoiding those mines that tie up your legs. Probably because the whole game up to that point was classic third-person, but now it's isometric and you're running diagonally towards a corner of the screen.

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Ill also add games giving me a prompt to lower the difficulty because I died like twice.

Buckle up game, because Im about to die about 90 more times before barely getting past this part.

Collat posted...

Ill also add games giving me a prompt to lower the difficulty because I died like twice.

Buckle up game, because Im about to die about 90 more times before barely getting past this part.

I hated the chicken hat in mgsv. It's already insulting for a game suggesting you play easy. Worse when it mocks you for it.

Also having to die x amount of times to unlock easy mode. If I wanna play on easy dont make me go through extra steps to do it

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Nathaniel2018 posted...

When I hear QTE, shenmue comes to mind

Before even Shenmue there was Dragon's Lair.

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When it comes to unlocking Easy Mode, nothing is dumber than what they did in Pokemon White.

You have to beat the game first.

Then you can unlock Easy Mode.... for another cartridge.

Like the fuck Gamefreak?

(I mean, it's not like you need an easy mode for Pokemon... but this was also the only way to unlock Hard mode.)


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Easy Mode Mockery is a kick in the nads, yeah.

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HylianFox posted...

Easy Mode Mockery is a kick in the nads, yeah.

Oh yeah I hated as a kid street fighter 2 (at least one version of it) wouldnt show ending unless on a certian difficulty or higher. Would say congratulations now try a harder difficulty.

I'm sorry but street fighter 2 is legit hard compared to most modern fighters and I wasn't that good as a kid to boot. I barely got good enough to see those endings.

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HylianFox posted...

Easy Mode Mockery is a kick in the nads, yeah.

I hated how Castlevania 64 forced you to play hard mode to reach the end.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

Before even Shenmue there was Dragon's Lair.

Dragon's Lair is nothing but QTE. That's vastly more tolerable than a flashing X prompt unexpectedly appearing in the middle of a cutscene.

Slayerblade11 posted...

Quick Time events

Unskippable cutscenes

Forced stealth

Dying

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Weapon durability.

*swings sword 4 times*
*breaks*

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mooreandrew58 posted...

Oh yeah I hated as a kid street fighter 2 (at least one version of it) wouldnt show ending unless on a certian difficulty or higher. Would say congratulations now try a harder difficulty.

I'm sorry but street fighter 2 is legit hard compared to most modern fighters and I wasn't that good as a kid to boot. I barely got good enough to see those endings.

I can kind of understand if you're playing on the lowest difficulty and they want you to play on Normal to get the ending, but those games that demand you play on the highest difficult to get to the end are brutal.

At least some games make their mockery funny.

https://youtu.be/u0DagHVOapU

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WizardPowers posted...

Stealth is a good pick. It's so trash in every game

Woops they saw me. Better just hide for 5 seconds then they'll completely forget about me

I'm making tons of noise but they don't care because they can't see me

I'm walking right next to them but they only have a 30 degree cone of vision so ha ha

They see I've killed like half their guards but they will stay on the same predetermined route

I can silent take down every enemy just by choking them. Somehow

It's the worst

I dig the stealth in the Arkham games precisely because enemies start acting really erratic if they've already seen your handiwork.

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Escort missions also fetch quests and back tracking like in jedi fallen order and no fast travel fuck all that

RchHomieQuanChi posted...

I dig the stealth in the Arkham games precisely because enemies start acting really erratic if they've already seen your handiwork.

Stealth plays a role in the gameplay. People mean like GTA having a sneaking mission or something similar

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Weapon durability.

*swings sword 4 times*
*breaks*

https://youtu.be/gN-cI_0Wb9Q

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mooreandrew58 posted...

I hated the chicken hat in mgsv. It's already insulting for a game suggesting you play easy. Worse when it mocks you for it.

I ended up putting that on by accident. Reset the game after I realized it.

At least it would be funny to see in cutscenes I guess.

Thought of another one

Your character is capable of performing absurd acrobatic feats in cutscenes, but has to find a way to get onto a ledge that's 3 feet above their head.

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Umbreon posted...

I can kind of understand if you're playing on the lowest difficulty and they want you to play on Normal to get the ending, but those games that demand you play on the highest difficult to get to the end are brutal.

At least some games make their mockery funny.

https://youtu.be/u0DagHVOapU

It sucks in general to bar someone from accessing all content just cause they play on easy. Like if you wanna force people to git gud. Dont even include easy mode

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Thought of another one

Your character is capable of performing absurd acrobatic feats in cutscenes, but has to find a way to get onto a ledge that's 3 feet above their head.

Similarly, if you're escorting someone, they won't be capable of even jumping a simple gap like you can, so they'll run off to find a path to you.

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I hate when story heavy games put grindy sections at the end when you are just trying to see the ending.

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Also when you have AI controlled teammates and they are fucking dumb as shit and get killed or downed or jus flat out suck ass like in battlefield 4 man that ai was anus

I hate that people have gotten so serious about themselves that they cant even handle getting fun poked at them about playing on easy mode

dark souls really fucked some people up

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Games not allowing you to grind. Especially when there's a lot to unlock but you have limited opportunities to build points to get stuff. I'm looking at you Street Fighter V. I know Capcom did it that way because they wanted real money but if I want to do Cammy's easy survival track 50 times to earn fight money I should have that option.
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Rubber band mode. You make the other racer crash, but then hes instantly two inches from your rear bumper. That doesnt make the game more fun; it makes it frustrating to give the AI opponent an advantage that you dont have. If you crash, youre out of the race, so why should your opponent get this?

The same thing can be applied to non-racing games, too. Basically the game punishing you for doing too well. If I got this level of skill, I deserve to be able to destroy the game, especially if Im not playing in an online server.

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Pretty much most that was listed in the topic already.

I also hate overpowered perks that make no sense. Ill use Skyrim as an example. When you level up sneak so much that you can fire an arrow into an enemy thats 15 feet away only for them to say Huh? What was that? Must have been the wind. As they have an arrow sticking out of their ass while you stand out in the middle of broad daylight. God thats so stupid.

locking content behind new game+ is really stupid
just let me play on hard mode, do all the quests, play with these settings, and whatever

ultimate reaver posted...

I hate that people have gotten so serious about themselves that they cant even handle getting fun poked at them about playing on easy mode

dark souls really fucked some people up

I hate content being locked. Mgsv chicken hat wouldnt bother me if it didnt show up in cutscenes. I only needed it to beat the final mission the first time. I was able to beat it without once I upgraded some gear and got more practice. Difficulty of the final mission was a fucking huge difficulty spike

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b_hamnite posted...

* Playing a RPG and all the chests you come across are locked and you won't have a Rogue on the team (unless you made your character one) for a good long while. (Looking at you Dragon Age series)

Said chest are also in a location you can never go back to or de spawn if you can go back.


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The Catgirl Fondler posted...

Fishing minigames.

Literally no such thing as a good one.

Idk if anyone mentioned it ITT but I enjoyed the fishing in Twilight Princess

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Magic starts off strong only to find out it sucks in late game after investing heavily in it. Looks at skyrim.

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Shmups where you have to press the button for each shot you fire. Just knackers your keyboard / controller that much quicker.

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SergeantGander posted...

Idk if anyone mentioned it ITT but I enjoyed the fishing in Twilight Princess

You probably like fishing in general

Breaker posted...

When a boss summons common enemies. Always seemed like a cheap way to add difficulty because they couldn't be bothered to actually spend time making the boss fight difficult on it's own.

It's super fucking helpful if you're based on kills.

Like a Necromancer in a one-on-one is at a bit of a disadvantage without bodies.

@Breaker

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limited lives

Atralis posted...

Honestly if you want to know what mechanics suck about a game look at what mechanics people go out of their way to mod out regularly on the PC for that game.

clothes are my least favourite mechanic

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Fishing was the best part of FF15
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Fast day night cycles.

Take Skyrim running from riverwood to whiterun is about maybe 2 miles, but because of the day night cycle it takes like 12 or more hours of the day to get there, This means my character has a running speed 2 miles in 12 hours which I think would be 1/6 a mile per hour running speed.

Honestly it makes me feel like this guy is my character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeKg4IutSI


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Games that punish you for playing well

Re2 remake does it, although that game is good

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Oh yeah, the thing I hate the most thats common in one of my favorite series, Super Robot Wars: no way to replay stages/free stages. You usually have to either fail a stage to play it again. I think one or two games in the series had some levels that you could just mess around and grind to your hearts content, but for the most part you had to always keep moving forward.

This sucked big time for two big reasons:

• Some units had very specific recruitment conditions, and since you couldnt replay the level, if you fucked up, theyre gone for good
• Some units just join really late. I remember in one of the games you would get Lancelot Albion (Code Geass) on like the second or third to the last stage, so the best thing you could do was keep a save file right before that stage. Otherwise you would have to go through almost the entire game to use it again for such a short time <_<

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Vladimir posted...

Pretty much most that was listed in the topic already.

I also hate overpowered perks that make no sense. Ill use Skyrim as an example. When you level up sneak so much that you can fire an arrow into an enemy thats 15 feet away only for them to say Huh? What was that? Must have been the wind. As they have an arrow sticking out of their ass while you stand out in the middle of broad daylight. God thats so stupid.

https://youtu.be/oLWEqrLQZ6U

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Oh, being able to drop items, but having a "magnetized" pickup radius so it just goes right back in your inventory immediately. It's a problem in Stardew Valley (where basically every player is going to use a magnetized ring) and in Cozy Grove when the backpack bugs start showing up. But at least CG only does it for that one bug type and it explains that the bugs just do that, plus they can be either tossed in the ocean or burned at your campfire for one coin each.

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Speaking of dropping items, I hate when you cant just temporarily drop something to make room for a consumable item that youll use immediately, then pick the first item back up. Or just use that consumable item directly without it needing to go into your inventory :<

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RchHomieQuanChi posted...

Your character is capable of performing absurd acrobatic feats in cutscenes, but has to find a way to get onto a ledge that's 3 feet above their head.

Cutscene Hyper-competence is almost as annoying as Cutscene Incompetence... >_>

Tsukasa1891 posted...

Magic starts off strong only to find out it sucks in late game after investing heavily in it. Looks at skyrim.

ugh, I hate it when magic is underpowered.
like, what's the point in casting a fireball spell when it's no better than hitting the enemy with a stick

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kirbymuncher posted...

clothes are my least favourite mechanic

ayyyyy

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JaleelWhite posted...

Can we be fair though? The beginning of RE4 is the worst part.

I (and I believe most people) disagree with this one. RE4 remains great up until the island, where the quality dips a bit IMO. The Village might be the best section atmosphere-wise.

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One that gets under my skin are "trophies" and "achievements" that are nothing but obvious filler meant to pad out the game.

Like "Press (A) 5 Million Times" or "Complete the Game While Crab-Walking" or some shit

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HylianFox posted...

One that gets under my skin are "trophies" and "achievements" that are nothing but obvious filler meant to pad out the game.

Like "Press (A) 5 Million Times" or "Complete the Game While Crab-Walking" or some shit

That shit is only annoying to trophy hunters. Trophy looks too hard annoying or boring? Fuck it. But sometimes they have trophies that compel to do things I normally wouldnt in a game.

I can count on one hand probably the amount of games I got all trophies or achievements.

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mooreandrew58 posted...

That shit is only annoying to trophy hunters. Trophy looks too hard annoying or boring? Fuck it. But sometimes they have trophies that compel to do things I normally wouldnt in a game.

I can count on one hand probably the amount of games I got all trophies or achievements.

Ironically, if there's one thing I loved about 'The Stanley Parable', it's that ALL the achievements are like this. The game's narrator even mocks you for attempting them.

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Shotguns becoming glorified confetti cannons after ten feet.

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