Horror games in general that don't allow you to fight back or defend yourself in any type of way. I tend to avoid because it becomes annoying when you're just fighting regular, but deranged humans. The only exception is Clock Tower. You can at least have some temporary defenses or one time item uses that will get you out of a jam.
I understand if the character isn't skilled enough to use a gun effectively, but when you can't even kick a normal human being in the face in self-defense, it's just stupid.
Can you kick someone in the face? If so, I'm impressed, that's a lot of flexibility.
That's one of the reasons the RE2 remake worked so well for me. You are a trained cop (at least for Leon, haven't done Claire's story yet), but a rookie, so while you can handle a gun, it's not nearly at military training level, easily. Headshots? Yeah, those will work if you can pull it off, but I found kneecapping to be a much more viable option for me.
Shooting a gun is easier than effectively kicking someone in the face.
Civilian with some fire arms training she learned from her brother, Chris, but never shot anyone before RE2 happened.
So again, makes sense that she knows how to handle a gun, but isn't a marksman in terms of gameplay. Nice.
RE3R does of a reversal that screws this up. Jill and Carlos can't used self-defense items (even though Jill used them in RE1R just fine), even though the former has years of experience as a SWAT officer, and Carlos is a military mercenary. To balance the fact Jill has a dodge, and Carlos has a parry punch, but all Capcom had to do was make SD items less powerful or fewer in numbers. Thankfully, there are items you can unlock in RE3R's shop that can make dodging/parrying easier, but it still things and makes no sense for two characters with more experience than a rookie cop and a civilian with small weapons training.
I think that that's kind of a myth about souls games, something only perpetuated by people who never played them and dive in head-long and so on. What it's more like is that until you understand how to play and how you build and equip your char you die a bunch and then it clicks and you barely die any at all. It's super common in those games to beat the latter half of bosses with barely any deaths. Even in Sekiro which people think of as the hardest, there comes a point where you're just a ninja god and nothing can touch you basically and you need to fight the optional secret boss to get a good challenge again. Like there's legit videos of people who understand the system making 1-shotting compilations where they beat every boss in a single hit. I think someone made such a compilation while using a lvl 1 character too. These games are much more about knowledge and comprehension than just dying over and over.
Me too. I think a certain problem I have with a lot of typical anime-style visuals is that they seem quite... infantile. Teen-centric, often cutesy-twee, stupid oversized floppy hair, etc.
They have to look crazy cool, sexy, and stylish! What were you expecting a military style, a buzz cut or shaved head in a fantasy RPG?!
I expect nothing.
I am a live and let live kind of guy when it comes to most anime designs. I do have my limits, but I'm not gonna cry about every single design. Not trying to criticize, but all you're doing is looking for "realism". Your own choice and taste, of course. Though you're not gonna find it in a majority of these fantasy rpgs from Japan.
No, I'm not looking for realism. I've already explicitly said so when I said "the "reasons" aren't serious, they're just excuses to express how much I hate those hairstyles". I hate those hairstyles, and it's just amusing to make up any reason why they are shit.
