Baby sitting. I wouldn't hate it if developers learned how to make cooperative AI. Alyx Vance is competent, but it isn't an escort mission so much as having a helper who progresses the story.
Poll: What do you hate more
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I hate flashlights, because unlike the others which merely annoy me, dark sections of a game where I am forced to use my flashlight make me instinctively furrow my brow like crazy to improve sight.
The furrowing of brow actually gives me a headache. When something is annoying to the point of health problems, there is no choice.
The furrowing of brow actually gives me a headache. When something is annoying to the point of health problems, there is no choice.
Grinding. Without question. I'd put up with a mission that contained all the aspects of the other options so long as I could avoid grinding. Grinding isn't a poor gameplay design choice because it isn't even gameplay. In most cases, it's just endlessly repeating the same menial task over and over just to achieve some arbitrary increase in some value. Whether that value be rank, level, monetary amount, or some other pointless thing. Wait a second...where have I heard of this before? Oh, that's right, it's called work. Usually the last thing someone wants to do with their free time.
Timed missions. I hate seeing a timer up top it forces you to use trial and error gaming over coming up with a well planned solution to a problem and working past it. The worst is seeing this in a RTS game because I really like to build up an impenetrable fortress and grow my army in peace then slowly and methodically pick off the opponents. Timers toss all of that out the window and rush everything I want to do it sucks the fun right out of it. I have yet to see a game that wouldn't be improved by removing the timer
Babysitting was a very close second but the one that that spared it my vote was the babysitting missions in Saint's Row 2 where the AI behaved somewhat intelligently, defended themselves when possible, had a decent amount of health and can be revived by you unless blown to bits (which was rare).
Babysitting was a very close second but the one that that spared it my vote was the babysitting missions in Saint's Row 2 where the AI behaved somewhat intelligently, defended themselves when possible, had a decent amount of health and can be revived by you unless blown to bits (which was rare).
I hate timed missions. I despise them. A 1000 painfull deaths on the designer/programer who put it in a game. Especially for no good reason.
Torn between baby-sitting and grinding. Both are absolutely retarded. No one should be able to look at either in their own game and say, "Nah, that won't piss anyone off."
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I totally can't just say one here.
Baby sitting ones are hellspawn with bad AI,
Flashlight things literally scare me (I get really into games, I get more adrenaline and testerone from competitive games than from sports),
Driving sections I can usually find a work around, but Mass Effect for PC needs to create an actually driveable vehicle, the Xbox Mako would follow your targeting reticule in zoom mode so you could actually drive (plus you could aim up and down in zoom. Fancy!)
Grinding on the Pre-Searing Charr in Guild Wars is really fun actually...
Timed Missions are only evil when I can't beat them.
Babysitting is probably the worst there though with this all written out.
(I like Tower defense games, I play a lot of Zelda so I'm used to keys, and waiting in the lobby can always be stopped by entering a single player game (for those of us without friends, it's not so bad))
I totally can't just say one here.
Baby sitting ones are hellspawn with bad AI,
Flashlight things literally scare me (I get really into games, I get more adrenaline and testerone from competitive games than from sports),
Driving sections I can usually find a work around, but Mass Effect for PC needs to create an actually driveable vehicle, the Xbox Mako would follow your targeting reticule in zoom mode so you could actually drive (plus you could aim up and down in zoom. Fancy!)
Grinding on the Pre-Searing Charr in Guild Wars is really fun actually...
Timed Missions are only evil when I can't beat them.
Babysitting is probably the worst there though with this all written out.
(I like Tower defense games, I play a lot of Zelda so I'm used to keys, and waiting in the lobby can always be stopped by entering a single player game (for those of us without friends, it's not so bad))
Grinding. If I wanted to engage in repetitive meaningless tasks for minimal rewards I would go back to working in foodservice, and have money and new coworker friends to show for my efforts, instead of "money" that won't buy me ramen and no friends because I sit in my room playing WOW all day. Though I don't recall ever having leveled up while waiting tables, one point to WOW.
All killer, no filler gaming industry! Its not that complicated.
All killer, no filler gaming industry! Its not that complicated.
Grinding can be fun if you do it on the right games. In Fallout 3 I used to hunt Deathclaws to help me lvel up. It was challenging and fun and yet it was basically doing the same thing over and over. *spot deathclaw, cripple deathclaw leg, finish deathclaw*
Of the other things escort missions, especially when the character you're escorting is defenseless. Emma from MGS 2 comes to mind. To complicate that she didn't just follow you, you had to hold her hand. In a way I was kinda glad when Vamp knifed her.
Of the other things escort missions, especially when the character you're escorting is defenseless. Emma from MGS 2 comes to mind. To complicate that she didn't just follow you, you had to hold her hand. In a way I was kinda glad when Vamp knifed her.
