Generally Accepted Gaming Facts

[Plucky]

In general
- If an object floats and glitters, it must be a collectible or power up.
- The Final Fantasy series taking a drastic change with games after X has been a mixed blessing.

Nintendo
- Despite Mario 2 originally not being a Mario game (in Japan atleast) it introduced a wider cast of enemies and even expanded existing characters abilities in the game's universe. (Luigi jumping higher/lesser traction than Mario, Peach floating, ect)
- Nintendo's outsourcing has mostly been positive with newly created and renewed IPs. (Paper Mario, Metroid Prime, M&L, Oracle of/Minish Cap)
- That there needs to be a new Star Fox game that is played in a traditional style.

 

[Raptorianxd]

-If one of the major enemies of the game is female, chances are she'll fall in love with you.
-If a character is extremely awesome, chances are he'll betray you.
-If All of your characters will be young(14-19), except for that one character who is 30, who relentlessly calls himself old.
-If you can't tell whether a character is a boy or a girl, chances are it's a androgynous male.
-If you start the level facing one way, ALWAYS turn around. There's something good behind you.

-Raptor, out.

 

[fundude365]

Holy crap I can't believe I'm the first one to post this!!

no, no, you are not

Nobody likes a pedant Let me rephrase then I can't believe I'm the first to post this in this thread.

 

[LightningBanks]

There is no cow level.

I loled

Also, blizzard will always take at least 3 years to release a game after they announce its existence

 

[Talal Provides]

It doesn't matter where or when the game takes place, at one point or another, you're gonna wind up in a winter wonderland.

 

[olfelix]

There will be a spider boss.
Garrus will ask you to come back later.
Jill will "OPEN THAT DOOR".

 

[Torrasque]

AI make terrible drivers, terrible fighters, terrible sneakers, terrible UNLESS they are against you.
"that should be enough" is never enough, no matter what it is.
Double-tap all things undead.
Headshots > all.
Friendly fire is hilarious.
The more quiet a character is, the more badass they are.
The size/weight of a weapon has absolutely no bearing on actual physics.
Bandages/sleep heals EVERYTHING.
It takes a full 2 seconds to leave any vehicle.
You will be lucky more often than actually being skilled.

 

[Torrasque]

Trees are fricking invincible to bullets, laser guns, plasma bursts, and FIRE.

And vehicles, and rockets, and giant zombies of death, and planet incinerating lazers, and the Lich King...
We should all wear bark, fuck kevlar.

 

[mjc0961]

There will never be a good 3D pokemon game.

OBJECTION! There have already been two. Sadly, all we got on Wii was Battle Revolution.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

When in a fighting game getting your enemy NPC to low health they then pull out all the stops rendering you into failsville.

NPC allies are virtually useless in most games these days only serving as scenery.

 

[EHKOS]

Pokemon will always be a good on handhelds. The Twelfth Gen will feature digimon because nobody will remember them.

Lucas Arts will keep making games, and they will mostly be good. A few will suck terribly, and a few will be bland.

 

[bulldogftw]

The xbox 360 has made enough money to buy the galaxy

 

[Talal Provides]

We cannot, under any circumstances, allow there to be another John Romero. The stakes are too high now, there's too much money involved in games, another John Romero would be cataclysmic.

 

[Shadow-Phoenix]

We cannot, under any circumstances, allow there to be another John Romero. The stakes are too high now, there's too much money involved in games, another John Romero would be cataclysmic.

It would mean the end of life itself.

 

[eastinfecter]

Spoiler: Awesome game idea

We cannot, under any circumstances, allow there to be another John Romero. The stakes are too high now, there's too much money involved in games, another John Romero would be cataclysmic.

It would mean the end of life itself.

Seriously, think about it... Romeronator.

There is no cow level.

I loled

Also, blizzard will always take at least 3 years to release a game after they announce its existence

...and after 4 years of waiting they will have great amazing cinematics.

OT: Life is red. Mana is blue. Moon is sheep. Ghost is...taboo.

 

[Twuk]

QTEs suck.
Escort quests suck.
and finally, bad controls are not an acceptable substitute for actual difficulty.

This^. Also, people will always claim that being forced to run away is more horrifying in horror games, despite the fact that humans can't outrun any of our natural predators, and we evolved to kill them with spears instead-meaning your chances of outrunning a demonic creature are even lower than your chances of killing it-which in turn means that being able to outrun a demon monster thing hurts immersion.

This made me burst out laughing. Very true to the both of you. This brings to my mind the early Resident Evil games. They had their moments where I jumped a little, but most of the time I was scared because I didn't know how to run forward.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

A lot of people hate halo and I'll never understand why but I'll feel ashamed of it
Movie games = BAD
RTS should stay on PC
somehow Nintendo gets to spam it's old frachises and could probably buy a small country because of it

 

[badgersprite]

All wounds, no matter how severe, can be instantly fixed by a good night's rest.

 

[DragonBorn96]

Video game protaganists are allergic to swimming and water, unless your Ezio, or Rico Rodriguez the son of Zeus and a hispanic window-cleaner

 

[fnlrpa]

Knee high fences will always stop you