Criticize Something You Love

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Warcraft 3 - Campaign game-play is dull

Papa Nurgle - Can be too awesome a guy sometimes "Immortality AND the plague? You shouldn't have! :smile:"

Hearts of Iron 3 - Was in an unacceptable state at launch (I got lucky and didn't hit many problems), and allows you to automate an overwhelming amount of the game-play

Planetside 2 - The static bases make it feel like nothing is happening, just a change in management at your local supermarket

MGQ - Hora Hora

Final Fantasy Online - Forced story quests

 

[FirstNameLastName]

GTA 5: Why oh why did they make it so you can no longer get out of your car without turning off the engine? Well, there is a work around, but it's cumbersome and pointless in most situations, since it's basically an exploit. It wouldn't be so bad if they hadn't already perfected it in GTA 4, where you press the button to get out of your car, and hold it down to turn off the engine before getting out. It's not like there's any technical reason why the car can't be running without you inside it, since, as I said, there's already a cumbersome and inconvenient way to reliably do it. They just didn't bother to add it into the controls. For such a large game that has been released long ago on other consoles, you'd think they would have patched it in by now, but no, they can't be bothered.
Having to restart your car every damn time you get out clashes horribly with the damage system that makes the car progressively harder to start the more damaged it is.
If they had to remove our choice, then they could have made it so the engine is never turned off. Sure, it's not nearly as good as having both options like in GTA 4, but it's not nearly as bad as the current design either. If we only have one option, give us that, since turning off the engine really only has cosmetic/roleplaying uses, not actual gameplay uses.
There are so many situations where I need to get out of the car briefly, before getting back in, such as police chases, robberies and armoured car raids, yet the current design pretty much ruins any chance of a quick getaway.

It just boggles my mind that A mod is required for something so trivial that they already perfected.

 

[Selucia]

Kotor 2 - A refreshing star wars game which did not try to milk the OT nostalgia unlike pretty much every game since my only gripe is peragus is boring after the initial mystery making other playthroughs a chore to get through it all. That and the exiles weird force bond power.

Total war Rome 2 - Campaign map is dull and lacks any detail or strategic benefit making it a dull march from one city to another.

Dawn of war 2 series - Why oh why did they have to turn this into CoH lite.

Dragons age Inquisition - Crappy filler quests and large areas devoid of any meaningful purpose such as that huge fort in the hinterlands why can't i capture that dam thing.

 

[runic knight]

Fallout NV - Why do your perks very from "this is kinda useful in select situations" to "why would I ever waste a valuable point for more nukacola recipes?!?".

Windwaker - Sea travel... just the whole design there.

Most MMO - fuck RNG, the grindy quests and the countless pay-2-win functions introduced into countless mmo

Minecraft - Why no furniture yet? Tired of staircase chairs and couches.

 

[RedRockRun]

The Simpsons: It's been shit for at least a decade.

South Park: I'm tired of every new episode having to be topical.

The Elder Scrolls: Once I've beaten a game two or three times, mods don't even make it much fun anymore.

The Beatles: So apparently all we need to do is end war and love each other. It's just THAT easy! You guys are such heroes.

Valve: It feels like a lifetime since they've released a new game, and I couldn't give less of a shit about CS:GO.

The Witcher: Geralt represents every holier-than-thou, enlightened and arrogant type. He ought to be a university professor.

Porn: Unrealistic bullshit than I'll never get to experience.

Mexican Food: It's so hard to find good Mexican food, and authentic Mexican food that's ethnically Mexican probably wouldn't even be to my tastes.

PC Gaming: I know so little about software and hardware, that if something goes wrong, I feel dead in the water.

Friends: They always let me down in one way or another. I've had too many sleepless nights filled with anxiety over what people think of me as well.

Soda: It's slowly killing me.

Dogs: They get old and die. It's not worth the emotional investment.

America: We've stopped moving forward. If we had another Nazi Germany or Soviet Union to fight, scientific research would surely put us on Martian colonies within a few years. Without something spurring us forward, it's like all the imagination gets lost.

Warhammer: I'm too shy to meet people and actually play the game.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Madoka Magica- When it hints at certain historical figures being magical girls. That's just... wierd. Animation at times isn't great.

Tokyo Jihen / Shiina Ringo- The fact that their stuff aren't available outside of Japan. The fact that they aren't more famous outside of Japan.

Ghost Stories- Watching it NOT dubbed.

Monogatari Series- Some of the more fetish-y parts are a bit distracting and at times unnecessarily creepy. Also a bit slow, with not a whole lot happening in some episodes. Best binge-watched.

Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo- The fact that MAL has it at a 5.90.

Gen Urobuchi- STOP HAVING OTHER PEOPLE WRITE YOUR STUFF AND WRITE THEM YOURSELF, YOU FUCK!

 

[The White Hunter]

Final Fantasy XIV, between the lazy encounter design and vertical gear progression, the expansion brought quite a lot of substance that has yet to be fully taken advantage of. The lack of a proper patch in several months is also a big issue in terms of having actual things to do in the game.

The fact there has been fuck all to do since about 3 weeks after the patch except slam your face into overtuned raids speaks volumes about the way the game is headed tbh. Not to mention the vast gulf between all the other content and said raids. That aren't raids. They're boss fights. Except the glorified trash pack.

 

[The White Hunter]

Games

FFXIV Stop making every fight the same and every dungeon the same. Also, stop having obnoxiously tight enrage timers on incredibly mechanical fights, also let us use our CC to speed run better if we want to, let us play how we want. Try to make things more varied and interesting, and for gods sake amp up the difficulty a bit during levelling and stuff so people hit 60 with half an idea of what the hell to do. No, it's not ok for that Dragoon to be doing 200 dps in fucking raids at level 60, but it's the developers fault for never putting anything challenging anywhere then buckling within a few weeks when the official forum bursts with crybabies over how "the story instance is to hard I pay my $6 a month to play pushing only 2 buttons waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah nerf it hold my hand senpai".

You were doing so well to.

Metal Gear Solid 3 Fuck you Sorrow and your convuluted shitfest of a fight.

Shovel Knight Difficulty curve is a rollercoaster and the music could be better.

Anime:

One Piece Why is the animation so shit and why does every fucking chapter need a full episode even if nothing happens?

Naruto About halfway through Shippuuden power scale goes out the window everything gets pulled right out the authors ass and it's pretty much a trainwreck from then on.

Fairy Tail Too much fanservice, also Jura vs Laxus should've flattened the city not been a damn boxing match.

Baccano! Baccano! tell me, do tell me, why are you so flawless and wonderful? Why is your dub of such magnificent quality that all others shall forever kneel in shame before you?

Baccano! is here because everything else is bad after it.

 

[springheeljack]

Lily Allen
I always liked your distinctive voice ever since I heard you on that song you did with Common way back in 2007
Why did you have to ruin your newest album by autotuning all of your tracks
That doesn't make it good! That makes it bad!

 

[The White Hunter]

FFXIV Stop making every fight the same and every dungeon the same. Also, stop having obnoxiously tight enrage timers on incredibly mechanical fights, also let us use our CC to speed run better if we want to, let us play how we want. Try to make things more varied and interesting, and for gods sake amp up the difficulty a bit during levelling and stuff so people hit 60 with half an idea of what the hell to do. No, it's not ok for that Dragoon to be doing 200 dps in fucking raids at level 60, but it's the developers fault for never putting anything challenging anywhere then buckling within a few weeks when the official forum bursts with crybabies over how "the story instance is to hard I pay my $6 a month to play pushing only 2 buttons waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah nerf it hold my hand senpai".

You were doing so well to.

I wish there were more interesting fights than a circular arena with some mechanics thrown in, when we do get an interesting one (Steps of Faith) people complain about it because they can't read tool tips and cry for a nerf, despite it not actually being all that difficult. Not to mention the final trial was pathetically easy (even the Ultima Weapon at the end of 2.0 was challenging at the appropriate gear level)

There is a difference between playing casually and not having any grasp on how your class works. I'm patient with new/bad players as well.

Also, in addition to my original post, I thought up some more.

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Overworld exploration is a pain in the ass, being very darkly lit and it being hard to navigate, not to mention all the random encounters (mitigated with Estoma Sword, but you have to go into the menu and activate it constantly) Not to mention flipping through menu's can be super slow and tedious, with every demon that levels up on my team wanting to give me a bloody life stone or change a skill, adding more stuff to flick through.

Spoiler: I mean come on!

Gee, thanks!

Final Fantasy IX: Impressing 100 Noble's is fucking bullshit!

Skyrim: Being a mage is awkward, since you have to go through your favourite menu to pick every spell every time, generally this involves summoning a creature, shielding yourself then selecting your offensive magic, then you have to go to healing when hurt and back to offensive, it wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so tedious at times.

Fallout New Vegas: I played it on 360, it crashed a fucking lot, t

They left it in a broken state and unless you play on PC, are shit out of luck.

Fuck those last 2 nobles.

Also Fallout 3 doesnt run on PC's from past like 2006.

also yes, learn to play your class, the game could do a better job teaching it to you though. People play it as an FF not an MMO and in most FF games you can mash X to win.

 

[happyninja42]

Also Fallout 3 doesnt run on PC's from past like 2006.

FO 3 runs just fine on my 1 year old computer.

OT: FO 3: The plot is pretty lame, and the original ending was beyond silly, before they fixed it with that DLC.

Babylon 5: The acting could get cheezy at times, and the CGI for some of the sequences really hasn't held up well. The space battle shots I think are pretty good, but the interior CGI they used for the space station itself could be....horrible at times.

 

[The White Hunter]

Also Fallout 3 doesnt run on PC's from past like 2006.

FO 3 runs just fine on my 1 year old computer.

OT: FO 3: The plot is pretty lame, and the original ending was beyond silly, before they fixed it with that DLC.

Babylon 5: The acting could get cheezy at times, and the CGI for some of the sequences really hasn't held up well. The space battle shots I think are pretty good, but the interior CGI they used for the space station itself could be....horrible at times.

Tell me how because on mine it crashes in somewhere between 30 seconds and 15 minutes every time I try and no amount of tweaking fixes it. What sort of CPU/GOU combo? How? Because I really want to play it but it just dies every last time.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I may be a little late for this entry but one for the record, starting with MGSV;
No, not the typical complaint of certain attires, but more of the voice acting of Emmerich or maybe Ocelot, Haz, paz, dunno, I can never tell. Whoever it is that feels the need to pester me during missions.
At first, the voice acting was endearing (a generous word for now)bad...but after repeated sessions, it takes on other forms such as sarcsam or creepiness. Like seriously, Sir Emmelot, I know I don't have go out of my way to disrupt communications, you tell me every. Fucking. Time. You sarcastic ****. Try doing this yourself!
Then there are the child prisoner rescue missions where the bad acting makes his "grrr, look at them, making me worry like that," sound like the hauntingly empty attempts at conveying parental love by a psychopathic parent to avoid looking bad when someone else finds their half-starved, bruised kid rifling through their bin.
I shiver everytime he utters those words.
Was MGS writing/V-A always this bad?
I was too young/unsober at the time, to tell.

 

[Gyrick]

This thread looks like fun! Time to dive in

Games

Final Fantasy 4: This is my favorite game of all time, but I recognize there are many other games in the series, or just in general, that have better (more fleshed out) gameplay, stories and characters.

Final Fantasy 6: I love this game, but I felt well over half the playable cast served little to no purpose to the main plot. Frankly, the cast should've been cut in half.

Final Fantasy Tacitcs: This game is one of the most fun games I've ever played; I just wish the story wasn't, in my opinion, "terrible."

Chrono Trigger: Again, love this game, but Crono is a very boring character. Yes I realize he's a "silent protagonist," but a lot of what he does is very reactionary and/or dependent on the suggestions and orders of other characters.

Mega Man II: Another one of my favorites, but that "wall" boss in Wily's Castle is just stupidly unfair.

Shovel Knight: Love Shovel Knight mode, but Plague Knight is too hard to control.

Sims Series: I like the concept of all the expansions, but it's pretty clear that they've turned into a fairly shameless cash-grab.

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Television (specifically animation)

Family Guy: I stopped liking the show somewhere around the time the main punch-lines seemed to be "abuse is hilarious."

Rick and Morty: This has recently become one of my new favorite shows, and this is a pure nit-pick, but I don't care for the stylistic choice for the characters' iris shapes.

South Park: The show is still funny, but it got a bit to topical for my tastes.

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I criticize because I care~

 

[springheeljack]

going to down a rabbit whole but growing up my favorite cartoon was "Ranma 1/2", when that was a thing in the 90s. I accept now that its pretty unwatchable. I couldn't even tell you what I liked about it, it was just hilarious to me.

Lily Allen
I always liked your distinctive voice ever since I heard you on that song you did with Common way back in 2007
Why did you have to ruin your newest album by autotuning all of your tracks
That doesn't make it good! That makes it bad!

I'm not a lilly allen fan but this is generally one of my favorite songs so I wanted to share(yes Im one of those mashup people)

It was a pretty good mashup but I just prefer the original instrumentation


Oh in the Galaxy Angel series of Visual Novels that I adore I was on more than one occasion really pissed off by how dense Tact Mayers acted especially in Eternal Lovers. It made me want to strangle him. So many times he said the wrong thing or was completely oblivious to a problem one of the girls he was with was facing.
Oh and I didn't like how the game had such a hard time dealing with Mints telepathy that they kept trying to find was in which she would loose her powers in some way. I guess telepaths are just hard characters to write about