Things that instantly kill your interest in a game

[WaffleCopters]

MMO.

Yup, that's it. I hate MMO's, and when people try to recommend that Borderlands become an MMO in my presence, hell is going to break loose.

First off, i agree with borderlands would be terrible as a MMO... seriously...


And second off THERE IS WAY TOO MANY GODDAM MMOs. i dont know whether it is DUE to WoW but i swear ever since WoW came out and went REALLY well (in the "earned blizzard over 100 million a month" way) the increase in MMOs became exponential...

what was wrong with just normal RPGs...?

 

[Serenity Fallen]

Biggest turn off for me is actually in-game, and not on the advertising. Forced, unskippable tutorials and insufferable Exposition Fairies. Especially when they continue hours into the game, long after I should have finished with the need for explanations.

Example? That stupid Jiminy Cricket wannabe who killed Okami for me... after several hours of play he was still showing up to yank control of my game away from me, force me to scroll through text boxes of solutions I'd already thought of and then, on top of all that, he'd insult me for having not having solved the puzzle sooner!

And don't get me started on Phantom Hourglass... *shudder*

In short, I don't like games that don't trust me, as if I'm going to accidentally poke my eyes out with the controller or something if I'm left alone too long.

 

[laggyteabag]

A couple more things that dont put me off, but make me why why its there -

A female character is almost always skinny with big boobs.
The blood on the screen looks more like slightly tinted red water than blood.
In most RPGs the first enemy that you encounter are the dreaded giant rats.
Why men almost always have big muscles, have a deep voice and sound like batman.
Armour for women characters is almost always intended to be revealing, instead of looking like armour.
Most of the time generic races are used, Human, Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Goblin, Troll ect.

 

[DeathStreamer]

A couple more things that dont put me off, but make me why why its there -

A female character is almost always skinny with big boobs.
The blood on the screen looks more like slightly tinted red water than blood.
In most RPGs the first enemy that you encounter are the dreaded giant rats.
Why men almost always have big muscles, have a deep voice and sound like batman.
Armour for women characters is almost always intended to be revealing, instead of looking like armour.
Most of the time generic races are used, Human, Elf, Dwarf, Orc, Goblin, Troll ect.

Ummm, how old are you, because the answer to those questions are incredibly simple, and should be obvious to MOST of the common populace that are at my age or older (I am 16). If my questioning of your current age offends you more than I intended, then I apologise.

1. Because skinny women with big boobies are what people want to see
2. This is either to do with censorship problems or lack of effort into the blood effects
3. Because rats, or whatever you start of fighting, have to both appear and physically BE weak, but a normal small rat or cokroach would just be stupid wouldn't it?
4. Because one of the things that can tie people to like a character is wanting to be like them. Most men dream of being muscular and intimidating.
5. This coincides with #1, people want to see as much of a woman as possible without it needing to be censored.
6. I don't have a solid answer for this other than a lack of creativity among the developers of modern-day games. Maybe because they are classic races and pose the most interest?

 

[Gunner 51]

Spoiler

Up until I played Deus Ex, if I saw the publisher was Squeenix - I'd give that game a very wide berth. I still feel the same way about anything by Capcom, too. I guess I'm just not fond of Japanese games. They're a little too strange for my tastes.

But gameplay wise - the escort mission. The minute I hear "please escort..." I roll my eyes.

If you haven't done all of Sarah Oakheart's escort quests in LOTRO, you don't know how bad they can get.

Spoiler

and to make it worse, later on you realize she's and evil queen of darkness type who could have squashed any of the foes that had "captured" her.

So, that means you skipped on Just Cause 2?! *GASP*

My main turn-off when considering to buy a game is very probably the price-to-content ratio. If a game offers way too little content for the price I'd be paying it for, I'll not buy it. I'm especially looking at you, Call of Duty. Making people pay 59.99 ON FUCKING PC is preposterous.
And then there's the usual DRM question...

Looking forward to Quantum Conundrum?

OT: If a reviewer mentions the word "repetitive" then I've lost interest. A mechanic should only be used a few times or spread out so it doesn't get worn out. If a game only has a few ideas, then it should be shorter in length. MMO's are too grindy and the "social" side is the only thing that seems to hold it together.Fighting games can't hold my interest as a single player experience. RTS's are something that I struggle with and can't help but feel that you need to memorise hotkeys, number of resource gatherers and set building orders and any time spent deviating will be the difference. That said, even if you master an RTS, you generally play the same maps and similar strategies over and over, but I respect it for its depth.

Trial and error gameplay should be avoided, but if a game does have it, then the player shouldn't be punished for it.

Games should provide a logical and fair challange. A game without challenge would make me zone out and feel like im just moving from one cutscene to the next. I prefer gameplay over story, but to each their own.

@JaceArveduin: I've seen some pretty hairy escort missions too. Though if you've ever played G-police or Resident Evil 2, those escort missions will have you tearing your hair out.

@James Crook: I can't blame you for being turned off by a high price - low content game. The CoD games like you said are bad for this, but I think Mirror's Edge really took the prize home for this. Which was a shame because if the rumours are true, there was a lot more to the game than what made it onto disk.

@DavidM4: I'll admit a little repetition is a good thing in a game. It shows you have worked out a winning strategy to the game you are playing. Trial and error gaming can be annoying - having played Sniper: Ghost Warrior. But it's not as annoying if the load times are mercifully quick.

 

[captaincabbage]

i know i'm probably gonna get alot of crap for this but i'm not really into rpg's what makes matters worse is alot of cool idea's have been wasted on them

Fair enough man, it's just not your cup of tea. I wouldn't say certain ideas were "wasted" on them tho, which ideas are you talking about?

OT: When the box says: "Genre-defying action!" on it, you instantly know it's just another shooter with a bloody slo-mo mechanic.

 

[Jfswift]

If game mechanics are clumsy like with the puzzle mode on Catherine (and cheap, you barely have enough time to do the last puzzle and only if you memorized the route up there). Oh and that annoying bell sound when you reach the plateau in between the challenges.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Anything that requires me to think too much. Example would be RTSs and RPGs.
I like shooters and certain racing games because they involve one puzzel each; shooters, use gun on man and racing; pass everyone else and win...simple.

Captcha: Nexact Works

 

[Quellist]

Characters that look more like childrens toys than people (for example see Xenosaga)

 

[Coldster]

Japanese-style anime usually turns me off a game. That doesn't mean I hate all games like that, it just means that I don't usually buy them (or even like them). I love Kingdom Hearts but thats about it for those kind of games.

Excuse me, but... is there a NON-Japanese anime? I mean other than Korean/Chinese ones?

Actually yes there is, and you know it too. They usually go by the name of cartoons. Have you ever seen Teen Titans? That is a perfect example of American Anime. So is the 80s Transformers and Xiaolin Showdown. Look them up if you haven't seen them, then you'll understand what I mean.

 

[Killertje]

Anything with sports or racing that doesn't involve blowing up my enemies with rocket launchers as an alternative to winning the normal way.

 

[zombieeater6000]

Lack of local coop in a lot of games from the current gen
Graphics whoring i'd rather game play over graphics any day
Motion controls
Pricing(Aus)$120 for a game on release
Just to name a few

 

[The Mighty Pepper]

Nazis

 

[Wintermute_]

Turn based combat. Anyone here remember a game by the name of Lost Odyssey? I doubt you do. One of the most amazing trailers for a game I've ever seen, interesting premise. I eagerly bought up the 4 disc title, and as I preped for the supposedly astounding opening battle...

turn based combat. No quicker way to kill excitement and produce repetitive boring gameplay.

Couldn't disagree more. Lost Odyssey is one of my favourite games... but to buy a game which actively advertises that it's made by the original developers of Final Fantasy and harkens back to the old PSOne/SNES games, and not expecting turn based combat. Did you even read the box before buying it?

I'll concede, I probably should have researched it a bit more before making a purchase. But the trailer implied that the fluid combat I saw would be in gameplay. I got turnbased combat.
Doesn't change the fact that turnbased is, IMHO, an annoyingly boring system. And god knows that Lost Odyssey certainly didn't save itself in the story departed, art department, or at all really...

 

[CleverCover]

When playing a game, I noticed I'm much more favorable to lots of colors. Taste the RAINBOW!
That all grey, brown, black shit usually means I won't buy it.

Which means many games my friends adore, I won't buy because it's usually all dark and gritty and...eww.

 

[subfield]

Okay..your example has to be trolling >>
Neir is NOT Black and white. At the best its Black and Grey.

I wouldn't know because like the title of the topic says, as soon as I saw that projectile-loss-of-meal worthy start, I lost interest and stopped playing about 1 hour in.

 

[Bryan Thompson]

Escort missions, they just ruin the game for me.

 

[RPQ]

D. L. C.

 

[Rex Fallout]

Bioshock isn't "Rapture: The Game". Infinite has the same dystopian-style setting, the RPG style weapon/ability customisations, giant mechanical horrors and crowds of psychopathic madmen. That sounds a lot like Bioshock to me, and I actually like the new direction the series is taking.

Really? Because the way I see it you were never playing through the stories of Jack or Delta. You were playing through the history of Rapture. You were experiencing a city unlike any other. Now suddenly there is ANOTHER city? Ah suddenly Rapture is no longer unique, What? There are things exactly like plasmids in that city in the sky? Ok so now ADAM is no longer unique. What you have to get into that city and then escape? Wait a tick... this is Bioshock copy and pasted... again. Believe what you want. Buy the game if you want, I won't attempt to stop you. I will not dive in front of the door to Gamestop as you pull up and scream, "NOOOO DON'T DO IT!!!!" I just refuse to feed the man that had once upon a time been my hero who so casually copies and pastes the same story not once. But twice and then attempts to shovel it back out at me as, 'Original'. I might be a little more accepting of it if they hadn't named it Bioshock, and instead had named it something new. By naming it bioshock they sully the name, and ruin the franchise for me.

Have fun buying generic crap! And I honestly, and I am serious, I honestly mean that from the bottom of my heart. Because if that is all it takes to bring you happiness, who am I to argue with you? Me on the other hand? Well casually throwing away a great story of Rapture just to move on to another special town? It just isn't enough for me.

 

[MrFluffy-X]

i know i'm probably gonna get alot of crap for this but i'm not really into rpg's what makes matters worse is alot of cool idea's have been wasted on them

but...but...you have pikachu as your avatar!

Anyway: if it uses the phrase "family fun"
If the trailer states "NOT IN-GAME FOOTAGE"
If on the Box-art there are reviews giving it 8 out of 10 from gamemaster (they know nothing, they usually give any big up-coming game a 10 so if they give a game an 8 then it must be terrible).