Forcing you to fight a meat-tank of HP when they aren't even hard...so I guess my complaint is mind numbing padding.
Game mechanics you absolutely detest
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Given how that seems to be what all of the Final Mix games seem to have alongside more story-related content, especially in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix, I know I'm going to hate Jiminy's Journal even more... But, you're right, at least all you have to do in 2 is find the recipe and go from there [usually] instead of having to synthesize other items before you can synthesize the item you wanted to synthesize in the first place... (on top on finding rare items in a somewhat "unorthodox" way than usual in Final Mix...)TerranV said:
Regenerating health paired with cover shooting drives me insane. The two mechanics are at total odds with one another.0takuMetalhead said:
It's a much better incentive to use cover if I have a health bar and getting hit makes it deplete permanently until I get a health pack, especially if they're in short supply. The enemy AI in those games usually pop their heads up every couple seconds too and have hitscan bullets. It's awful. Awful awful awful. There is almost nothing worse than a bad cover shooter.
When they're designed well they're good fun, but there are so many bad examples and the market is saturated with them.
I've just dived into Civ 4 recently and was forcefully reminded why I stopped playing Civ games: the stacks. Oh, and also the no-retreat do-or-die based on wonky rules combat; more often than not (seemingly) one unit emerges unscathed after utterly annihilating the other. Especially annoying is that dozens of units in a massive stack appear to graphically be no more than a single scout.
If there's one thing I liked about Civ 5 more than it's predecessors is that it zealously (maybe overzealously?) fixed the stacks. A vast army sprawls appropriately. Even back in Alpha Centauri big stacks were penalized with collateral damage if an attacker won against the top unit or bombarded the group.
Paradox games have infinitely superior combat: units get worn down over time and can be withdrawn or forced to retreat, whereupon they can be merged into one another or resupplied with men. Overlarge stacks suffer attrition in bad, ruined, or simply over-foraged terrain. I'd love to see this adopted for a tile-based Civ game. I like Civ games beside the combat.
If there's one thing I liked about Civ 5 more than it's predecessors is that it zealously (maybe overzealously?) fixed the stacks. A vast army sprawls appropriately. Even back in Alpha Centauri big stacks were penalized with collateral damage if an attacker won against the top unit or bombarded the group.
Paradox games have infinitely superior combat: units get worn down over time and can be withdrawn or forced to retreat, whereupon they can be merged into one another or resupplied with men. Overlarge stacks suffer attrition in bad, ruined, or simply over-foraged terrain. I'd love to see this adopted for a tile-based Civ game. I like Civ games beside the combat.
I think the one that bothers me the most is "Don't get detected" stealth missions (assassin's creed is rife with them). I know they make more sense than being detected and just being able to continue a mission but mechanically they're awful. In a Metal Gear Solid game for example if you get spotted you can run and try to find another place to hide or you can fight your way out. This can lead to some tense hiding or some cool action gameplay. In an Assassin's Creed stealth mission if you get detected, restart. It's especially frustrating because it leads to situations where even if you manage to take down someone who notices you before he can raise an alarm, you still have to restart.
Mouse acceleration (IF I'M PLAYING IT ON A FUCKING PC, WHY ACCELERATE IT YOU ASSHOLES?!), escort missions (nobody likes them, why do they do that?), out of nowhere QTEs (Uncharted, what the fuck?), stealth missions in non-stealth games (Jedi Outcast, what the fuck?), walking on beams in games controlled with the analog stick (God of War, what the fuck?), infrequent checkpoints and lack of manual saving, unskippable tutorials, "PRESS X TO CONTINUE" pop-ups (WHY?! YOU CAN JUST PUT IT ANYWHERE ON THE SCREEN AND DON'T TAKE CONTROL AWAY FROM ME), unskippable cutscenes, unpausable cutscenes, checkpoint before unskippable cutscene before boss, over the shoulder camera in third-person games (it looks retarded and doesn't add ANYTHING, why do they do that?), BLOODY SCREEN SO REAL and regenerating health.
I absolutely despite gimmicky bullshit modes in fighting games (looking at YOU, Namco). What do I mean by "gimmicky bullshit"? I mean using the game mechanics in ways that they aren't meant to be used, such as fighting game controls for a beat-'em-up mode (Tekken Force and Scenario Campaign), or putting in conditions for specific fights instead of just letting you fight (Edge Master mode in Soul Blade/Edge, Weapon Master mode in SC II).
What makes these worse are that they are the only ways to unlock stuff rather than just playing the arcade mode. I also hate the fact that in Tekken Tag 1 AND Tekken Tag 2, you only get one ending based on who beat Unknown at the end, instead of giving you two endings based on the characters you chose. It pads the game too long and makes the tag mechanic somewhat pointlessly frustrating from a single-player standpoint.
Speaking of pointlessly frustrating, fuck blue shells and their equivalents in other kart games. The only thing they do is make people salty when they have a legit win. Also, why does the AI use an item when you're practically right next to the finish line and they're so far behind that they're going to lose anyway? It just wastes time.
What makes these worse are that they are the only ways to unlock stuff rather than just playing the arcade mode. I also hate the fact that in Tekken Tag 1 AND Tekken Tag 2, you only get one ending based on who beat Unknown at the end, instead of giving you two endings based on the characters you chose. It pads the game too long and makes the tag mechanic somewhat pointlessly frustrating from a single-player standpoint.
Speaking of pointlessly frustrating, fuck blue shells and their equivalents in other kart games. The only thing they do is make people salty when they have a legit win. Also, why does the AI use an item when you're practically right next to the finish line and they're so far behind that they're going to lose anyway? It just wastes time.