Little things in games that make you mad.
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I hate it when some games take you into the action for a moment, you get a feel for it, and have fun with it, when suddenly a five-minute cutscene pops up.
This isn't helped when the characters in the game are totally unlikeable. On that note, I also grit my teeth whenever a game tries to make me care about characters I don't identify with, or can't even pick him/her out from a list of other characters. (Usually combat games)
I get sick of enemies being terrorists, PMC's, Russians, or Nazis. Even when they've become zombies. There's plenty of creativity to be found in making enemies- take Minecraft for example. Along with fairly standard Skeletons, Zombies, and Spiders, there's green, four-legged, exploding monsters with permanent scowls on their faces.
I'll just make a list instead.
1) Constant, long, BORING cutscenes
2) Unlikeable characters
3) Enemies being America's hit list (Terrorists, Russians, etc.)
4) Poor attempts at humor
5) Attempting to disguise itself as good through the power of BREASTS
6) Hard-to-use controls
7) Non-hilarious glitches (i.e. VM HAS CRASHED, not ragdolls being flipped about)
8) Being a Gears of War or Wii game clone. INNOVATION PEOPLE. Not making more armored soldiers lumbering about, or 'HD-ing' previous family games by the Wii.
This isn't helped when the characters in the game are totally unlikeable. On that note, I also grit my teeth whenever a game tries to make me care about characters I don't identify with, or can't even pick him/her out from a list of other characters. (Usually combat games)
I get sick of enemies being terrorists, PMC's, Russians, or Nazis. Even when they've become zombies. There's plenty of creativity to be found in making enemies- take Minecraft for example. Along with fairly standard Skeletons, Zombies, and Spiders, there's green, four-legged, exploding monsters with permanent scowls on their faces.
I'll just make a list instead.
1) Constant, long, BORING cutscenes
2) Unlikeable characters
3) Enemies being America's hit list (Terrorists, Russians, etc.)
4) Poor attempts at humor
5) Attempting to disguise itself as good through the power of BREASTS
6) Hard-to-use controls
7) Non-hilarious glitches (i.e. VM HAS CRASHED, not ragdolls being flipped about)
8) Being a Gears of War or Wii game clone. INNOVATION PEOPLE. Not making more armored soldiers lumbering about, or 'HD-ing' previous family games by the Wii.
QTEs in the middle of cutscenes.
Really, QTEs may be lame in general, but if it's part of gameplay it isn't too bad.
I'm either supposed to watch a cutscene, or be ready to press buttons. Which is it? Seriously.
Especially if it's the "press button not to die" type.
Really, QTEs may be lame in general, but if it's part of gameplay it isn't too bad.
I'm either supposed to watch a cutscene, or be ready to press buttons. Which is it? Seriously.
Especially if it's the "press button not to die" type.
1) Completely unlikable characters in RPGs. It doesn't matter so much in other genre's but an RPG where you hate your own character is doing something wrong. And can someone make some love interest that isn't just some dudes wet dream?
2) Enemies with ridiculous amounts of health for no discernible reason other than to pad out gameplay by making you fight loads of them. I swear if you'd have taken the number of rockets you fire at striders throughout half life 2 and just fired them directly at the citadel it'd have saved a whole lot of hassle.
3) Those people who call themselves fans but by most other standards would be considered religious zealots. The one's who you dare not disagree with incase they mob you later with their brainwashed mates. I'm looking at you, Valve fans.
2) Enemies with ridiculous amounts of health for no discernible reason other than to pad out gameplay by making you fight loads of them. I swear if you'd have taken the number of rockets you fire at striders throughout half life 2 and just fired them directly at the citadel it'd have saved a whole lot of hassle.
3) Those people who call themselves fans but by most other standards would be considered religious zealots. The one's who you dare not disagree with incase they mob you later with their brainwashed mates. I'm looking at you, Valve fans.
You should definetly stay away from Bulletstorm.Matt225distraction said:
OT: I really really really hate it when a game throws Quick Time Events at you whenever it feels like it.
I hate games where the environment and the game play mechanics don't mesh well and the result is you can't quite tell where it's ok to stand or jump to, or when the "background" of the game is too similar to the game environment you have to interact with.
That kind of poor design is just so annoying.
That kind of poor design is just so annoying.
"Hey the game we just made is a total Modern Warfare clone, but to make it seem more different were going to shuffle the controls around a bit. Oh, and we'll make it impossible to change it back to the settings that people are actually used to and have been proven to work well"
This is weird because the game that really stands out here is Medal Of Honor, which I actually thought was the best Modern Warfare clone since Modern Warfare itself, which is as much as I was hoping for at least. I certainly like it better overall than MW2 and Black Ops. But I just got so pissed off whenever I tried to knife an enemy and instead chucked a grenade in their face from point blank range and had to leg it.
This is weird because the game that really stands out here is Medal Of Honor, which I actually thought was the best Modern Warfare clone since Modern Warfare itself, which is as much as I was hoping for at least. I certainly like it better overall than MW2 and Black Ops. But I just got so pissed off whenever I tried to knife an enemy and instead chucked a grenade in their face from point blank range and had to leg it.
Exploration in most games.
Massive open scenery as far as the eye can see and all we get is a tiny lil path to travel on with 2 ft walls or logs you cant just step over and wander off into the distance.
Also marked climb and jump points. "Hey look that ledge has some moss on it. must be where i have to jump and grab... wow look at those random stones sticking out of the wall, must be where i climb"
Massive open scenery as far as the eye can see and all we get is a tiny lil path to travel on with 2 ft walls or logs you cant just step over and wander off into the distance.
Also marked climb and jump points. "Hey look that ledge has some moss on it. must be where i have to jump and grab... wow look at those random stones sticking out of the wall, must be where i climb"