Trash your favourite game

[Sir Boss]

Mass Effect 1 & 2
the cover system was terrible compared to the Gears system
T'was easy to drown in the dialogue

Dragon Age: Origins
Dwarves without Scottish Accents *twitch*

Team Fortress 2
Item Drop randomizer "ooooh a Flare Gun, goes great with the other six"
a limit on the amount of items you can receive

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Stop teleporting, damnit! (Naruto Ultimate Ninja Heroe's Substitution Jutsu)

 

[Jelly ^.^]

Yoshi's Island is a formulaic, unchallenging kiddie game with bright, unrealistic visuals.

 

[Cogwheel]

Planescape: Torment has a clunky interface and terrible party A.I. Also, the combat simply isn't fun, no matter what class you play as. Which is bad as it becomes increasing common as the game goes on.

Ah. Beat me to it, though I'd simply shorten it to complaining about the sheer amount of combat later on. Looking at you, Curst.

Also, that is not, technically, combat. It's an excuse to spam Mechanus Cannon, the bestest spell of all time.

 

[putowtin]

KotOR II,

What the hell happened to the story? Darth Traya tells me what happens to everyone... the end?
What!?!

Still love the game tho!

 

[Karhukonna]

Breath of Fire III.

I can't figure out a single bad thing about this game, no matter what. The fishing could've been more fun and complex, but that's about it. And they improved it in BoF IV.

Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter.

You're literally given a one-hit-kill move at the beginning of the game, and while it does increase the D-gauge (which once filled causes a game over) it can easily be used to dispatch all of the games bosses in a single hit, as long as you use it sparingly outside of bossfights.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

Samurai Warriors 2: Needed more button mashing in my opinion...no actually I'm going to cheat slightly and insult its expansion (xbox combined the two into one game when you bought the expansion).

The expansion brought in all those characters I hate from KOEI games i.e the take-one-trait-and-exaggerate-it ones. There was a gender ambiguous man who was an attempt to have a confused gay character which failed miserably and was mildly offensive, a girl who could do no damage whatsoever and brought shame to the good female characters by swooning left and right, an overwight man with an annoying voice who just wanted to play Kemari and some cross dressing bloke that used a sitar as a weapon.

I thought I'd be the only one trashing Samurai Warriors 2 in this thread!
But yeah, I that stupid survival mode/castle crap was unbelievably tedious and boring. And it could definitely do with some better looking environments.

I however, actually thought Kojiro Sasaki was awesome in Xtreme Legends, assuming that's the mildly offensive gender confused stereotype you were just talking about. He's nowhere near as offensive as Zhang He from Dynasty Warriors, in any case.

 

[BlackSaint09]

All the cut scenes tend to hog up all the fun.
Its difficult to play for most people.
Its got a tendency to get repetitive.
It can get boring.
Devil May cry 3 and 4

 

[Wintermoot]

HL:S has terrible graphics even though it was supposed to be a remake (for some reason I prefer the original HL above 2)
also Gabe Newell is a troll with the adding of baxes that you need money for to open up

 

[Blurration]

I made an account just for this thread.

This is a game with literally, no fucking graphics. Everything is represented by obscure and hard to read, monospaced ASCII chars.
The story is absolutely horrible, to be honest there is no god damn story. You are just thrown in a randomly generated world.
Your sole motivation is to lead a band of non trained, neanderthalic dwarves from wilderness to a civilization in a timespan of months of real time, only to get your citizens slaughtered and have your work thrown to the bin in seconds by an archdemon, or even worse, a band of goblins.

btw

...

PERMADEATH.

is a *****.

The learning curve is -belive me- vertical. There is no tutorial. The best "lets play" is done by a guy with irish accent.
There is a bug with materials and a bad quality tin trap can hold the migthiest of the overlords of hell.
I have 4gigs of RAM and the loading times are longer than in any currentgen 3D game (I remind you...a console, ascii game)
The game leads to both mirth and frustration.


Dwarf Fortress...Game of the Year. Every Year.

 

[NerfedFalcon]

The battling in Mother 3 is boring, repetitive, and too difficult if you can't beat Fury of the Storm on Expert++.

 

[Scorched_Cascade]

Samurai Warriors 2: Needed more button mashing in my opinion...no actually I'm going to cheat slightly and insult its expansion (xbox combined the two into one game when you bought the expansion).

The expansion brought in all those characters I hate from KOEI games i.e the take-one-trait-and-exaggerate-it ones. There was a gender ambiguous man who was an attempt to have a confused gay character which failed miserably and was mildly offensive, a girl who could do no damage whatsoever and brought shame to the good female characters by swooning left and right, an overwight man with an annoying voice who just wanted to play Kemari and some cross dressing bloke that used a sitar as a weapon.

I thought I'd be the only one trashing Samurai Warriors 2 in this thread!
But yeah, I that stupid survival mode/castle crap was unbelievably tedious and boring. And it could definitely do with some better looking environments.

I however, actually thought Kojiro Sasaki was awesome in Xtreme Legends, assuming that's the mildly offensive gender confused stereotype you were just talking about. He's nowhere near as offensive as Zhang He from Dynasty Warriors, in any case.

Yeah I think it was Kojiro Sasaki the one with white face paint that talks about dying all the time and tries to kill Mushashi Miyamoto every chance he gets only to realise that he in fact loves him. I'm just a little annoyed that the only character I liked from the expansion was Toshiie and maybe Shibata(?) I thought we had gotten away without the Dynasty Warrior trait exaggeration.

Zhang He is actually an Eunuch so I'm okay with his hormone imbalance thing he has going on. Slightly rambling but: as for Ranmaru Mori I had no idea was a guy or that he was sleeping with Nobunaga as well as Nōhime till one of the characters referenced it. He is gender ambiguous to the extreme.

Have you tried mercenary mode from the expansion? 100% that with all the swords is tedious as hell.

 

[Sedweiler]

Baldur's Gate 2 has an outdated UI, and the learning curve for anyone who isn't familiar with D&D is high. While there are many party members to choose from, you will have to have Jan Jansen, unless you're yourself a rogue, since he is the only one you can properly develop as a rogue. Some sidequests are bland and forgettable.

 

[Kaanyr Vhok]

Pool of Radiance

Its a has been. Nobody has heard of it. The Infinity engine games did the D&D thing better. The gameplay is dated. It had amateurish bugs, the real sequel Curse of the Azure Bonds wasn't as good as it and the fake sequel PoR 2 trash.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

Samurai Warriors 2: Needed more button mashing in my opinion...no actually I'm going to cheat slightly and insult its expansion (xbox combined the two into one game when you bought the expansion).

The expansion brought in all those characters I hate from KOEI games i.e the take-one-trait-and-exaggerate-it ones. There was a gender ambiguous man who was an attempt to have a confused gay character which failed miserably and was mildly offensive, a girl who could do no damage whatsoever and brought shame to the good female characters by swooning left and right, an overwight man with an annoying voice who just wanted to play Kemari and some cross dressing bloke that used a sitar as a weapon.

I thought I'd be the only one trashing Samurai Warriors 2 in this thread!
But yeah, I that stupid survival mode/castle crap was unbelievably tedious and boring. And it could definitely do with some better looking environments.

I however, actually thought Kojiro Sasaki was awesome in Xtreme Legends, assuming that's the mildly offensive gender confused stereotype you were just talking about. He's nowhere near as offensive as Zhang He from Dynasty Warriors, in any case.

Yeah I think it was Kojiro Sasaki the one with white face paint that talks about dying all the time and tries to kill Mushashi Miyamoto every chance he gets only to realise that he in fact loves him. I'm just a little annoyed that the only character I liked from the expansion was Toshiie and maybe Shibata(?) I thought we had gotten away without the Dynasty Warrior trait exaggeration.

Zhang He is actually an Eunuch so I'm okay with his hormone imbalance thing he has going on. Slightly rambling but: as for Ranmaru Mori I had no idea was a guy or that he was sleeping with Nobunaga as well as Nōhime till one of the characters referenced it. He is gender ambiguous to the extreme.

Have you tried mercenary mode from the expansion? 100% that with all the swords is tedious as hell.

Yeah, Dynasty Warriors does do a bit of character exaggeration. Xu Zhu, for instance, his personality can just be described as "fat". That is literally his only defining feature. And yeah, I wasn't sure about the whole Ranmaru Mori gender thing either, but apparently, according to the bastion of integrity that is Wikipedia, the Ranmaru/Nobunaga sleeping together actually has some historical basis. I don't believe there's any historical basis to Kojiro Sasaki being a chalk-white death obsessed freak, however, unless they just skimmed over that bit when I was researching Japanese history.

I do remember mercenary mode being incredibly tedious, but I briefly played SW3 at a friends house the other day, and they've replaced it with this Murasame Castle mode, which actually seems pretty cool.

 

[Infesord]

Left 4 Dead 2:

Okay... I contemplated a lot of things I kinda hated about it, but damnit the 2 biggest things that gripe me are pretty minor. One of them has nothing to do with gameplay, and the other isn't necessarily the games fault.

1: How come in the Developer Commentary, they have a Biography section for Nick (my favorite character thank god) but they don't do one for the other 3? Now either I missed it, or the guys at Valve dropped the ball on this one. They did bios for all the 4 survivors in Left 4 Dead 1.

2: Whats up with all the modded servers these days? I'd LIKE to just join in a game already in progress, but half the time its modded servers/maps where you don't have to reload or have to worry about ammo, super-jump, low gravity, do extra damage, e.t.c. I wish I could filter all them out, but I can't (or at least i don't know how other than joining a lobby and asking if the thing is going to be "modded").

Otherwise... I'd be really hard pressed to find faults with Left 4 Dead 2... maybe I can think of some more later if I actually play it for a bit.

 

[AlternatePFG]

Wind Waker.

Too much sailing. It's pretty damn easy I guess.

I kinda liked the sailing though, I'll admit that it is tedious sometimes.

 

[Gonsol]

Mass Effect 2, I wanted Legion earlier damn it!

 

[The Wykydtron]

Wait i need to find something bad about the Ace Attorney series?

Ok, sometimes the evidence you needed to present was unclear, in the sense that you've figured out the contradiction but there are about 3 seperate pieces of evidence that could be what the game is looking for. E.g. it wants you to present the note mentioning the scarf rather than the scarf itself.

And Mia's Objection! Sucked

[sub]And the amount of yaoi fanart is painful[/sub]

 

[Epslion.Bear]

Morrowind had a realistic but ultimately IMMENSELY IRRITATING stamina system. When Tribunal came along, it was used as a testing ground for Oblivion's enclosed cities mechanic, which makes it practically pure evil. Oh, and... Cliff Racers...

Also, it was missing two great houses and a whole landmass, and the original graphics were not great. Some spells were largely useless and the fact that polearms were not attached to any classes meant nobody ever used them, despite the fact that they were cool.

Though not as much as Oblivion, it had a lot of bugs and you'd be lucky if it told you what caused its latest CTD. Oh, and no manual blocking.

Cliff Racers were created by Dargoth Ur JUST to piss off the neverine I think

Dont get me started on the fatigue system
and the "Your weapon has no effect" on Daedra... grr