/v/ - Video Games

Also, don't get me fucking started on forced equipment. It completely ruins the point of having equipment in the first place, have some sort of alchemy system where you build suits to withstand environmental/magic hazards that harm you instead, and various levels of strength from customs tailured equipment you have made.

Sure, it would be on rails still, but at the very least you'd get more satisfaction out of it.

>beat the easy tutorial boss

>a literal god comes in and kills you anyways

>>15398545

>LISA: The Painful handled this well, in my opinion.

>they're so horrendously overpowered that it's obvious you can't stand a chance right from the first turn.

Yeah, if you're a filthy casual.

why my peanus weenus, of course!

Similar to OP

>boss

>relatively tough to take down

>finish him with some effort

>he does the death animation

>your character raise sword to the sky and a beam pour from his crotch as "you win" screen appears

>cut to cinematic

>hit on the back of the head, pass out, enemies take you prisoner. Opponent distracts you and gets away. It was all worthless, everything's up in flames anyways fuck you

>Tactical RPG with mechs

>Enemy mook trying to attack, accuracy 37%

>I counter with an attack with accuracy 97%

>The mook hits AND CRITS! while I somehow miss

It could be my bad luck with RNG but seriously…the CPU could still hit you below 50% accuracy almost 75% of the time. While if you even dip below 80%? Good luck at hitting ANYTHING.

>rts mission

>defend the base for XX minutes until evac arrives

>set up interlocking defense of anti-infantry/tank/air units

>supply units to replenish ammo/repair damaged units

>arty to hit clusters of enemies

>defense is easy, basically just sitting back and watching my men rack up kills

>timer hits zero

>cutscene

>base is in shambles

>enemy units overrunning defenses

>commander unit evacs just seconds before bases falls completely

>2-D platforming game with focus on close-range combat

>enemies do damage by just touching you

Common, but I really love games that don't do this.

>get story quest

>"get here as fast as you can, the situation is urgent, there's not much time!"

>do a few sidequests first

>grind a couple levels

>explore for a while to find new weapons

>decide to start on that story quest after several in-game weeks

>"thanks for getting here so quickly, we really need your help"

>>15398612

This isn't so bad. What's really bad is when 9/10 times the quests are just pretend timers but then one of the quests has an actual timer, can't be re-attempted after failing it and lasts a coupld of in-game days so loading a previous save means potentially hours of play gone, if you even have a save that old left.

>>15398592

>game where split second timing can decide the outcome

>'use' key is contextual

>any time multiple actions are possible you're pretty much rolling the dice

>kill thousands of minions/henchmen

>can't kill evil boss because murder is wrong

>monster hunter world of buyer's remorse

>get roared into teostra supernova and can't sheathe in time

>i'm fucking dead unless the three bozos do something

>you can flashbang the Teostra to stop it from blowing up and make a huge opening

>all three of the randoms are running away

>desperately try to flash the monster myself

>get blown up

>they start yelling shit at me in Italian

It's even worse when you're stuck, and can see them failing to save you or use their fucking brains to their benefit. I fully understand that getting blow'd up was my own fault, but it still infuriates me that you save their asses five times a hunt, and they're too stupid to return the favor once.

I have been playing The Witcher 2 recently. It's a good game, at least when it finally lets you actually play it and do witcher stuff instead of being everyone's bitch boy.

> Walk behind person talking

This is like a cutscene, except I cannot skip it and I have to hold down W. I cannot believe that one day I would be begging for cutscenes to come back. Dammit, we spent 5000$ on modelling that ass of Triss, so you will sit down and stare at it for five minutes!

> Running disabled for dramatic reason

You can now only walk because apparently it would look weird to run in such an environment. If you put me in an environment where I cannot run, then maybe you should not put me in there in the first place. Make it a cutscene.

> QTEs

Enough said. If you like QTEs you are shit. You can turn off the QTEs in the cutscenes, but now it just looks awkward because you can exactly tell that something was removed. I think part of what drives me nuts about QTEs is that there is zero connection between what I am doing and what Geralt is doing. I'm mashing the attack button while Geralt is winding up a ballista, he is not repeatedly hitting it with his sword. The firstfighting minigame is even worse, there is zero connection between the prompts and the animations; I have no idea how pressing "up" translates to "kick enemy in the guts with your knee".

> Playing as other characters

You get to control other characters briefly during some moments. They suck, they cannot do signs, cannot run, cannot dodge, nothing. Just make it a cutscene and let me play my witcher.

> Dodge, dodge, dodge

Dodge rolls are basically "don't get hit buttons", any game that has a dodge roll will be balanced around you constantly spamming it. It will be impossible to play the game like a normal person, instead you have to roll around like an idiot.

> Do "X" to not die

You know the times when you have to do specifically one thing and everything else is an instant death? Especially if that one thing was never introduced and you have only one chance to get it right.

Fuck this shit. You could take a chainsaw to the game and start mercilessly cutting out stuff and you would only increase the quality of the game. If CD Projekt had not wasted all their time and money on this AAA modern shit they could have spent it on more fun witchering content.

>>15398829

Yeah, isn't it fun to pump points into stealth skills, only to find out that there are hardly any sneaking opportunities and that you miss out on half the experience points because you hardly ever kill anyone? Or how abount those persuasion or gambling skills? You might get to use them once or twice at most to progress through a quest.

>>15398524

>game forces you to play a specific way which is not fun

>devs update a game to patch out a "bug" that made the game fun

STOP PLAYING THE GAME THE WAY YOU WANT TO PLAY IT, PLAY IT HOW WE WANT YOU TO PLAY IT

>>15398583

You just described the main reason why I don't play stealth games and think they are bullshit.

>>15399259

You can save Zero

>scripted fight where you have to lose is basically a hard boss with ridiculous scaling across the fight where some attacks are impossible to dodge and others aren't

>if you take him too far he just instantly kills you with an impossible to dodge attack

Thank you for wasting all my potions retard

>>15399273

It's literally RNG no matter how many parts you collect, and you still have to use X for part of the game if you roll badly

>>15399287

You can just turn off the console and turn it back on. You can also just get X the ultimate armor since stages 1-3 can be cheesed easily with the falcon armor anyways

>Ghost through a whole level

>Lol cutscene, you're discovered like a little bitch, your achievements doesn't matter now try to escape you fucking retard

Fucking lazy shit. Why is my character more retarded and less capable in cutscenes than when i'm playing?

>>15399193

Remember how a certain game in 1994 had actual ballistic physics? It's funny how in twenty years game design has actually gotten more primitive.

>>15399433

I find that to be about as funny as getting prison raped by a pack of niggers.

>>15398524

>fight a boss that's supposed to beat you

>beat him instead by cheesing the mechanics

>game breaks, need to load an earlier save and lose

Even scripted shit is better than this

>Beat the boss because you have to do it to progress.

>Cutscene afterward makes you lose the fight anyway or it ends with a cutscene irrelevant to gameplay which makes the battle completely pointless.

I hate Xenoblade 2 sometimes.

>>15399193

Yeah, like that. I mean, how can you miss AT POINT BLANK range, man?

>>15399259

>Playing as Zero in X5

Why, anon? Do you hate the X4 armor that bad?

>Stealth game

>Game rewards you for non-lethal plays and penalize you for lethal plays

>Only 3-4 non-lethal weapons in game. The rest? Lethal weapons or co-op weapons that you will never use because you play solo

>Game throw "boss" battles where it's you against a vehicle and its support team of four men each and at higher levels, everyone either carries a shotgun that stuns you or everyone's packing rocket launchers

>Vehicle sometimes are clown car…and you only have about 12 extraction device and it's non-replenishable in mission AND vehicles only do damage to you (that bombs the chopper drop? The tank's cannon? Only damages you, not the mooks.)

>Get spotted once and you're stuck in combat. Carry all-non lethal weapons? Well, you're fucked since you need to damage the vehicle to force the commander out and you can't switch out gears mid-mission

>game is about creating a party and building them to work together

>the bonus boss is some retardedly overpowered bullshit that absolutely requires certain party builds, and parties that are well designed for everything else in the game are shit or outright unable to beat the bonus boss

All the Etrian Odyssey games do this. Congrats, you got to the end. Now you have to cannibalize your well designed party to use some gimmicky shit to burst down the boss in two turns because otherwise its retardedly overpowered skills will destroy any attempt at dealing with it. Its actions follow a set order, but hidden progress triggers make it essentially impossible to figure it out. Even if you use data mining to know what to defend against each turn (because if you defend against the wrong thing even once, it's a party wipe), it still has shit like "on this turn it uses either party-wipe electric attack or party-wipe fire attack". Your survival is entirely up to RNG, and even if you have two characters with the skills needed to block said attacks, only one can be active because using multiple ones makes the last overwrite the previous one.

>>15398524

It's especially egregious when you end up fighting that same boss later on in the 'proper' fight, and are now allowed to win, but your character isn't actually any stronger than before (fuck you, KOTOR).

>>15398829

Oh geez I didn't realize how much this pissed me off until now

>wrpg with skills/perks

>skill/perk consists of positive thing happens, positive thing is fairly overpowered

>but skill/perk also makes NEGATIVE THING HAPPEN OOOOH

>as if making one good and one bad adjustment to your character constitutes a form of balance

Older wrpgs did this shit all the time and its so lazy.

>>15399294

Any game where the player has the ability to dump points into a stat to effect an unlikely outcome should make account for that outcome being a possibility and not pull this kind of bullshit, much like switcheroo boss fights they end up undermining the whole endeavour.

>>15398538

Christ, Final faggotry 9 had some really ugly characters.They always had hands bigger thank mickey mouse after crystal treatment. Whoever did all the art for 9 should be tortured.

When you win a fight and the last move is instantly hijacked/retconned by the game to put the actors where *it* wants them rather than showing what actually happened/where they actually landed.

>>15399877

>plays a shitty nip RPG

Every time, always such low effort garbage

>game with a lot of build variety

>build up a party with strong synergies in order to maximize a playstyle

>breeze through the first half of the game

>second half has different types of enemies/different mechanics introduced or whatnot and your initial strategy is rendered void and obsolete in the second half

It's like building a team for an RPG based around fire damage and half the shit in the last half of the game is fucking fire immune for story reasons.

>>15399236

The Witcher 2 sucked for the reasons you listed. Also the "world" is pathetically small and there's pretty much nothing to do outside of following the main quest or doing mini-games. The first one was an above average game but it was still way better than 2.

>>15399761

So I tried playing the first Etrian Odyssey. Mapped the entirety of the first level, grinded out enough money to buy all the shop upgrades for my entire party, and then grinded some more to get to a point where killing the enemies on the first level was trivial. Went down to the second level and every encounter had enemies that 2 shot my tanky front row characters. Hell, I remember having a Bard? throwing out defense buffs and my party was still getting 2 shot. Did I miss something? Or did I just need to grind a shit load more levels before moving on? Are all the games in the series like that?

My favorite is when you have to win a fight to progress and the game still acts like the boss kicked your ass in the cut-scene after the fight.

>>15399917

Etrian Odyssey games are like that. You absolutely need to grind or else you won't get past a floor, let alone the floor's resident FOE. Either grind, or read a guide to learn that there's only one or two party compositions that work at all.

>>15398524

>mission's fail condition is being detected

>carefully navigate the completely horseshit level design

>reach the cutscene at the end of the level

<"haha you moron, we knew you were here all along!!!"

>mission states "catch guy" as the objective

<nope, you can't actually catch the guy, it's all scripted but we don't tell you because muh deep interactive cinematics meme and muh tense storytelling meme xDDD

It was somewhat tolerable during the Ezio trilogy but

FUCK EVERYTHING

about black flag, what a shitshow of a game.

>>15399695

I like Xenoblade 2, but good god that game is atrocious with "bosses you beat in battle but actually you get your ass handed to you".

Like the Morag fight at the end of Chapter 2, I did on NG+, and even though Rex was like still level 6 or something, Pyra still had her broken ass endgame weapons and a full affinity chart, so we just carved right through her like nothing. Cue cutscene that reveals that no, actually Morag is kicking your ass up and down the base and you only win by a last second asspull (in which "winning" means barely escaping by dropping a fucking tower on her).

>>15399825

The final boss of Octopath traveler felt like this. All the final bosses for the 8 stories were allegedly "level 45", but you can do most of them at a lower level. Then you reach the "final boss" (whose "dungeon" consists of a boss rush and nothing else) and he is like throwing out OHK AOE attacks for half his attacks on your party, even when they are leveled in the mid-50s. It doesn't help that there is only one area in the game that even has enemies above level 50, which means you are basically forced to grindout dogshit level enemies in order to even stand a chance against him.

>>15398572

>>15399106

Sounds terrible, what games were that?

>>15398587

In Wings of Liberty Blizzard had the decency to make some defence missions passable by just destroying the enemy bases. Too bad nobody will ever think about it again.

>>15398829

They didn't know what they were doing exactly either.

>>15398629

>>15398982

That's just leftist faggotry, this board even has a dedicated thread for this. People killed people all the time, isn't it interesting how killing killers became a wrong thing to do only in XXth century?

>>15399917

EO games are always harder at the beginning because your characters are shit. After a few levels they start growing into their roles and it gets much better. Also the first one is particularly hard and unbalanced, pretty much requiring that you abuse the bugged medic defensive buff. And if you don't know what you're doing, bring a tank. Not a landsknecht or something that people mistake for a tank for some reason, an actual tank (that means a protector in EO1). You don't need one but they make things easier, particularly for new players. The first two-three floors are particularly tough because your characters are useless newbies.

Don't listen to the retard in >>15399934. I consistently get overleveled in EO games simply by carefully exploring each floor, doing the bar quests and fighting each FOE type at least once. He's also completely wrong about the party composition, as you can get through them even with gimmicky shit parties. Making a good party makes you stronger, obviously, but that's why you have to use your brain during party creation. If you don't know what you're doing, here's a very simple way to do it: one tank, one healer or buffer that can also heal, one elemental attacker, one physical attacker and one to fill it out, probably a buffer (if you don't have one), another damage dealer or a class that debuffs and disables enemies. This will be able to handle anything except possibly the final bonus boss. You know, the most basic fucking RPG party you can think of.

>>15399953

JRPGs in particular are terrible about having OP as fuck final bosses. Like you can get through the area up to them fine and then get completely destroyed at the boss. Then you have faggots talking about how you never need to grind in these games which is just a total lie. I get making the final battle a challenge but a lot of these games are just about the numbers so there isn't much you can do.

>>15399969

>In Wings of Liberty Blizzard had the decency to make some defence missions passable by just destroying the enemy bases. Too bad nobody will ever think about it again.

I'm fairly certain that actually is a fairly commonplace winning condition. At least Dow:Dark Crusade had a similar mission, where you were supposed to take and hold certain objectives until a timer ran out.

Taking the enemy (Eldar) base was difficult because the latter was absolutely priming with heavy artillery which raped both infantry and tanks alike, but if you played as the Imperial Guard, you could use spam Earthshaker round onto the enemy structures to destroy them.

The game still played the same ending cutscene at any rate.

>>15399896

But I don't, dumbass. Try again.

>>15398524

>Wouldn't it be more believable if the story continued a different route if you got beaten, and took an alternate approach if you won?

Yes, but that would constitute more work on the devs' part, and my guess is that people - especially dev teams who work for big corporations and on a limited budget with time constraints - don't want to put in any more effort than they have to in order to keep their plot moving.

>lorefags

Let's leave them out of it, lorefags are a cancer on any community.

>Things that irritate you

When there are multiple layers of RNG. This is especially egregious in MMOs, and it usually involves an item with a specific chance to drop is locked behind an enemy that only has a specific chance to spawn, which will only appear during a certain time of day, and can only be defeated by using a specific skillset that must be acquired from a quest that is locked behind a certain level requirement.

Fuck you, it's not worth it, too much arbitration. Why? because they usually want you to just pay for the special item in question, and they begrudgingly give you a free alternative.

>Mass Effect

>any party member that reach 0 HP goes comatose

>can be revived instantly with resources, or at the end of combat

>Shepard reaches 0HP

>dies instantly

>>15400019

Supposedly, in the new MH, drop rates are inversely tied to your weapon usage. So if you specialize in one class of weapon, you're much less likely to see upgrades for it. This is based entirely on an overheard conversation, someone tell me I'm wrong because that sounds like total bullshit for a dev to do.

>>15398559

Well ain't that some fuckin bullshit.

I hate the data miners as they take the mystery out of games.

>>15400021

FONV has multiple faggots

>>15399939

Black flag was an awful asscreed game like they all are, but it was a neato pirate game, mostly because the genre is desolate.

>>15399158

Etrian Odyssey has terrible postgame.

EO1 forced you to have protector/medic or else you're fucked. Postgame bosses are 'learn the pattern through 15 deaths' kind of bosses.

EO2 introduces an incredibly fun looking class, the Beast. However, his most important passive is bugged and makes him worthless. Introduces Gunner, the class that makes Alchemists useless AND nerfs Alchemists. Again, post game is a chore and end boss is just a weird pattern of attacks that one shot your party if you aren't prepared to receive them. Also, game is so bugged that even if you beat the postgame, you get no reward at all and the game goes on as if you hadn't beaten it.

I'm still burned out with that game so I don't even want to touch EO3, 4 and 5.

>>15398556

>"we have to collect those magical artifacts to save the world!"

>the bad guys WILL steal them right after you do

>no way around it

>>15400082

You're right about that, the only thing going for it is the ship combat and the pirate fights, but that's pretty much it, and it honestly doesn't hold a candle to the way those are set up in asscreed 3. Even if scripted for the most part, the ship combat in AC3 had you actually bothering to properly line up and having to chose between fire at will or concentrated fire, it also featured different types of cannon ammo.

It wasn't the best but it certainly showed potential, only for it to be simplified in black flag (only one ammo type, cannons fire in only one way, swivel that becomes "press button to aimbot", etc.), and you're also right, AC was in a strong decline but it was still somewhat tolerable, then black flag hits and holy shit I hate that game so fucking much, good thing that it made me drop the francise forever seeing how irredeemable it has become.

>>15399708

Playing as Zero in the opening stage is canon. The ending requires his buster to be operational.

>>15399244

I hate playing games that are actively being patched. If it's so full of bugs they should have fixed it before release. If the bugs make the game unplayable? Fine, patch it but I don't care much for 'rebalancing' issues where you take one way to play the game and nerf it because reddit complains it's too OP.

>>15399958

Lot's of self-hatred there, might wanna drink some tea, sweetie!

>>15400096

3 and 5 are considered the best in the series with 4 being stupid easy. 3 has much better balance with the classes like the Beast Tamer makes beasts that do different things like bind legs, AOE confusion attack (this is absurdly broken and makes most encounters a joke once leveled up properly), and other status effects. You can make summons as long as you have the slots to do so. You can make a retarded summoning team via healer, ninja, beat tamer, and protector if you wanted to. Also some skills in the early games aren't bugged but wrongly translated by ATLUS. Later games don't suffer from this I believe.

>>15399990

Treasure of the Rudras had a neato final boss. NPCs told you that she was weak to wind element but the entire dungeon you had to traverse to meet her was full of wind-elemental monsters. They were beneath her. Also, she's the only boss of the game that has a skill to remove buff/debuffs. The game doesn't tell you what it did but the way you get wrecked after she uses it makes it easy to figure out and in the end she wins. Her entire plot is fulfilled.

>>15400189

>Also some skills in the early games aren't bugged but wrongly translated by ATLUS. Later games don't suffer from this I believe.

You're telling me the Beast's Loyalty is working as intended? The Beast passively gets a 70(?)% chance of intercepting any attack but uses the target's resistance instead of his own to calculate the damage received. If he takes a hit for a squishy class he's done for. Also, it does not take buffs into account. And you need to max out Loyalty to get the Beast's most powerful multi-hit.

>companions get special abilities that the player doesn't have access too

>the 2nd coolest ability is on the tumblr character

Fuck you Larian, Lohse is annoying as shit but maddening song is super fun. Why is this the only way to frenzy enemies? Whats worse is the custom character's ability is super boring and you can play as the other characters, so the most mechanically fun way to play makes it so you don't get to make your own character. At least they let me make Lohse and Sebille not look like trash, but their voices and dialogue cannot be saved.

>>15399325

I thought it was pretty well justified in Demon's Souls, they made the boss quite difficult to anyone who wasn't used to the game, I would bet that maybe 2% of players beat it on their first try. Then you get rewarded with a bunch of free shit but have to die anyways because the entire plot relies on you being dead.

>>15400062

So does real life, calm your tits. You can kill them too and the game makes no moral judgments on you.

>>15398524

>I fucking hate when games pull this bullshit.

It's better than the alternative where such "story scripted" outcomes are not properly telegraphed and you end up wasting shit-tons of resources and making things more difficult in the followup areas if the game is being particularly dickish on what you think is just an usually tough boss fight. Or, boss fights which will Game Over if you die before certain arbitrary battle conditions are met - forcing you to win in order to force you to lose.

What you're describing is a clearly telegraphed story loss, and yeah while bullshit, should be easy enough to see coming and allow you to just take a dive and get it over with quickly so you can be ready for the next stage/area.

>>15399917

> The Witcher 2 sucked for the reasons you listed. Also the "world" is pathetically small and there's pretty much nothing to do outside of following the main quest or doing mini-games. The first one was an above average game but it was still way better than 2.

What about Witcher 3? Is it the same plus le open-world meme, or is it more of a game?

>>15399761

Speaking of EO:

> Quest: bring some shit to the inkeeper

> Listen up, guild PooInLoo: I need two pieces of bashit, the turds of bullshit and one dogshit.

> Did you write it down? Because I'm not repeating it and it won't show in your quest log because I hate you.

Whose idea was it that I need pen and paper to play a handheld game? This like this and >>15399761 really killed my enthusiasm for the games.

Excessive RNG, especially in places it doesn't belong. Crafting in Freedom Wars is a textbook example of this.

>MMO tier drop rates for materials

>weapons have random variance that determines whether it's going to be good or a piece of shit after upgrades

>weapons have random rarity that determines how many abilities like damage up, increased magazine capacity, ect. you can put on

>if you luck out and get high rarity, "late bloomer" weapon, you must now put on the abilities

>this is completely random every time, so no matter how many good things you get on, every attempt means it could all be replaced with negative traits like damage down or decreased mag capacity next try

Never before has a single part of a game completely ruined the experience for me, but crafting in Freedom Wars did the trick.

>>15400711

Later games do fix it by both letting you check it and marking quest-required item. Though you could always cancel the quest and restart it with no penalty to have them repeat the dialogue. Not perfect but it did allow you to see what they needed again.

>Whose idea was it that I need pen and paper to play a handheld game?

Probably a deliberate choice since it was supposed to be a callback to old RPGs. And you didn't need a pen and paper since the game allows you to write notes, though with an annoying character limit because shitty nip runes use less spaces in exchange for being utterly retarded in every other way.

>win the fight easily

>lose in the cutscene

fuck this shit

>major event in game has a substantial impact on the world map

>defeating the final boss theoretically restores the world to as it was before

>several optional bosses with one in the final dungeon with a massive reward

>no completion save to reap those rewards and bonuses

>no way to claim those rewards without loading up final save and backtracking through the final dungeon

>no way to return to the world you had been exploring for 98% of the game

Skies of Arcadia Legends

Still a great game, but that left a bad taste.

>FOV stuck at 70 or less

>Forced Mouse Acceleration

>Framerate capped to 30

>Modern Game that doesn't work without community fixes

>Can't rebind keys

>Can't change resolutions

>Alt-tabbing crashes the game

>Forced to be online for singleplayer sections

It's as if most games are programmed by incompetent retards nowadays who don't believe in even half assed UIs.

>>15400295

Pretty sure the majority of the faggots in FNV were unkillable and/or companions. I know Gannon and Veronica are.

And real life is boring and shit, what kind of stupid fucking logic is this, I want video games not real life you flaming cocksucker

>>15399708

>Yeah, like that. I mean, how can you miss AT POINT BLANK range, man?

I imagine it'd be the enemy's reflexes to dodge the gun at point blank hollywood shit style, but the way the gif shows is completely retarded

>>15400021

>wanting homosexuals to exist anywhere that isn't on fire

>>15398581

>beat up the wedding planners

>follow the kidnapped bride to the moon

>put on a fancy white tuxedo

>burst into the church and beat up the would-be groom/rapist

>bride steals your spaceship and fucks off without you

I never thought the ending of a Mario game could make me feel such anger.

>>15399898

>game only has one save file slot

I never thought what used to be a hardware limitation could become a jewish scheme

>>15401558

"Democracy. Democracy."

t. Not-KevinSpacey

>>15401558

this is something that's on my mind whenever they do this, the thing about video games and animated features is that you immediately identify the character as the character, there's nothing else to see them as save for maybe the voice actor, but with movies you'll see the actors name a lot more than the characters name and often find yourself saying "oh yeah [actor] did pretty good in that one" when talking about the character. This isn't to discredit acting at all but the way movies promote themselves you jut put another layer of separation between the viewer and the character

Mother fucking ffxii

>Best spear in the game

>Unlocked by NOT opening certain chests which you will only know if you follow a guide

>If you open the chest containing it wearing a certain piece of equipment you dont get it

>Best bow in the game

>Spawns in an invisible chest with a 1% spawn rate

>the invisible chest has a 1% chance to contain the bow

>>15401262

You're thinking of fo3 my dude, everyone in NV was killable, even companions if you enabled hardcore mode

>game has all the systems needed to be considered a proper RPG

>they lowball the difficulty so bad it might as well be a cinematic shooter for all the difference it makes

yeah, fuck KOTOR.

>unskippable cutscenes no wait I've got something even worse

>unskippable walk-and-talk scenes

>>15401387

Well that's the great thing about New Vegas anon none of the NPCs are essential so if you wanna kill all the fags all you have to do is actually do it.

>>15402300

Why not just have no faggots and solve the problem entirely?

>>15398545

LISA is supposed to be unfair anyway, but I still think those two fights are bullshit.

>Buzzo is a total asshole to you, as usual

>KICK YOURSELF ON THE NUTS AS BUZZO SAYS

>OR GIVE HIM YOUR LUNCH MONEY (considering you don't lose equipped items from this option, I don't get why many people don't pick it)

>Or the badass "Enough. I will kill you myself right here"

>Choosing that one is an instant game over, even if you happen to have the extremely specific team to kill him and enough luck not to succumb to the RNG on first turn

>Even if nothing points up to Buzzo being THAT overpowered

>Even if you use the combat system to its fullest to kill that cheating Mary Sue bastard, you get a shitty one liner and an unexplainable game over screen

I guess Dingaling didn't expect people to get lucky enough to survive the initial blow via evasion, or people exploiting the poison state (gotta say the game handled status effects very well) to reduce his absurd life pool, and/or survive the required 10 turns via stun and blind abuse, so he didn't do much for that part of the game. Still, a pretty frustrating oversight.

>>15402324

What you don't want to kill fags?

>>15402332

No, I'd rather they spend money hiring decent writers and actually making a game rather than wasting time with poz.

Video games in general

>>15402331

There's actually a QoL mod out there that allows you to bypass Buzzo if your party is OP from grinding enough at the wrestling area. It also allows you to ass other stuff, like fix a bug that prevents some party members from having joy addiction when they were initially meant to.

>>15398629

For some of these games you can go in and replace the opening logo movies with whatever you want.

I use a blank black screen that's a fraction of a second long. I'd upload it normally, but 8chan doesn't support .bik extensions so I have to link to a Mega.

https://mega.nz/#!B74n3aIZ!UjWvfPOMQcIZAsLxdfnAwcLLnxM67KqFjK7HcU9gU1k

>every NPC treats you like a piece of shit until you "prove yourself," even though you save their lives/kill their enemies/get items for them over and over

That reminds me of the Coerthas quests in Final Fantasy 14

>Highly dogmatic and xenophobic society that has been at war with dragons and their worshipers for years who are adept at casting illusion magic to hide themselves.

Okay this makes sense then why everything I do isn't enough, as annoying as it is.

>Culmination of the questline shows the Inquisitor, who has been running around accusing people of heresy on circumstantial evidence was an impostor and the real Inquisitor was dead.

>The important detail is that the man he was pretending to be was fresh from the holy city and had his official documents detailing him, his position, etc still on his corpse.

>This highly dogmatic and xenophobic society just let a stranger walk in and tell them to put a bunch of innocent people to death and did it without batting an eye.

The most infuriating thing is the writing team just needed to make the impostor take the documents, but still be foolish enough to not dispose of the real Inquisitor's corpse. It was at the bottom of a deep canyon so it's not like it would be blatantly foolish to do so.

>this is supposed to be a puzzle/detective work game

>enjoy the game and the detective work/investigation

>get to the part where they have a trial over the whole case

>what, you think this is the part where you actually rack your brain and utilize the facts and evidence you gathered throughout the investigation to win the trial?

>HAHA NO HERE ARE OUR FINE SELECTION OF ALMOST IRRELEVANT MINI FUCKING GAMES WITH TIMERS TO SOLVE THE TRIAL

>>15402437

What game is that? Layton?

>>15402447

Sounds like the Phoenix Wright/ Proffessor Layton crossover.

>>15402447

Sounds more like Danganronpa considering he mentioned timed mini-games during the trial.

>>15402489

Any game with the Bard class?

>>15402489

I’ll be a little more specific, there is no reason to pick Red Mage besides when your doing a “one of a kind” or “single party member” meme challenge run.

>>15402511

And really…Twincast is really good if you know what you're doing.

>>15402511

In FF1, red mages are almost always superior to white mages. They get all the useful healing spells, plus black magic and better weapons.

>>15402536

And in later games, Twincast and the Tactics game gives the Red Mage Half MP (Which works wonders in FFTA-2 where everyone starts with 0 MP)

>>15402480

Ye it's fucking DGR. I drop that shit right after the first fucking trial thing.

>any game that implements character progression / leveling up

>all cool powers, skills and perks are locked behind a lot of leveling up or cost a lot of money

>when you can finally obtain them you've already done all sidequests and you're almost at the end of the game

>barely any chance to actually use them / take advantage of them

I hate games that pull this bullshit. And even worse when,

>game doesn't have a new game+

>>15402585

I loved that KotOR let you do pretty much an entire planet at max level as long as you did side quests before then. It was really nice to be able to run around as basically a demigod.

>chromatic aberration or lens flare in a first person game

Those things occur because of the glass lenses in cameras, so unless I'm playing as a robot or looking at everything with a camera there's no reason I should have to deal with either lens flare or chromatic aberration.

>stat-based damage in games that use real firearms or other weapons

I don't give a shit how much later in the game I acquired it or what color quality it is, the .40 S&W glock I just looted should not do ten times as much damage as my .308 DMR.

>game boasts about having multiple ways to accomplish goals but heavily or exclusively rewards one way over the other.

Sure you could use all of your powers (most of which hurt people) and all of your equipment) most of which hurts people) and just murder your way through a game about revenge "Revenge solves everything." is the tagline on all of the game's advertising for God's sake, but you'll only get the best ending if you don't kill anyone

>game has a morality system but it's poorly implemented or its portrayal of right and wrong is questionable

The two examples of this that always stick out in my head are Watch Dogs

>your primary means of making money is to hack people's bank accounts with your phone and rob them blind

>every time you scan someone's phone you get some little tidbit about them

>Scan some random old lady and see she's been diagnosed with super cancer or some shit

>swipe $4k from her bank account anyways

>no bad guy points

>press the wrong context sensitive button in a coffee shop and accidentally rob them for $20

>bad guy points

and TOR

>finish the main jedi wizard questline on tattooine

>turns out some asshole's been using ancient dark side secrets to make sand people super soldiers

>you get a choice for what to do with the knowledge you've uncovered

>taking it so you can make your own dark super soldiers is a dark side choice

>turning it over to the jedi council for research and study, giving them knowledge necessary to defend the innocent from such a threat in the future is a dark side choice

>destroying all evidence and records, ensuring the jedi will be unprepared for this sort of thing in the future and creating ignorance is the only light side choice

The jedi value knowledge and wisdom and would have the sense to know that there's no such thing as evil knowledge, simply good and evil applications for knowledge, yet only book burning and ignorance gets you jedi points.

>>15398556

>game tries to set you up for a twist

>if you are even vaguely familiar with the setting you see the twist coming before they even start hinting at it

Anyone who knows anything about Batman knew who the arkham knight was going to be the instant someone said the name "Jason."

>>15398524

What games did this?

in lufia 2 I think you fight gades when you're supposed to lose early on but if you're a bad enough nigger, you can actually beat 'em and it lets you win.

>>15403053

Qt

>You two have come so far

>But now you must KILL YOUR PARTNER

>Do this thing to progress the plot

>lol you did the thing?

>Oh God, I'm in so much misery. Please kill me.

>Killing is wrong, Anon! What the fuck?

>>15400711

>What about Witcher 3? Is it the same plus le open-world meme, or is it more of a game?

it's certainly better than the second game it's even pretty good

>>15403258

>Witcher 3

>Good

Fuck outta here cuckchan

>>15398524

In a few Dragon Ball Z games there are battles you're supposed to lose, because that's how the story goes in the anime, but if you actually manage to win despite the enemy being vastly overleveled, you unlock What If scenarios as alternate paths.

>>15399022

To be fair, there are explanations for this. The simpler one is that he mellowed out a bit and tried harder to stop killing after Robin showed up, even though he kicked Tony Zucco (the guy who killed Robin's parents) in the head so hard that he broke his neck and killed him in Robin's first appearance. But that's pretty much the second or third time he ever killed, and one of the last times, too. The more important but autistic explanation is that all of that only happened to the Batman of Earth-Two, and all the appearances of Batman since some point around the mid-1950s are a completely different guy from a different universe, Earth-One. Earth-One Batman never killed.

>>15399061

>playing online games

>>15400021

>implying Bethesda being SJWs hasn't always been the most obvious thing in the world

>every enemy is piss easy and (if an RPG) ten levels below you

>the area boss is impossibly difficult and (if an RPG) ten levels above you

>>15401387

>15401387

You can kill all NPCs in New Vegas. Nothing is stopping you.

The important point is the game is not shoving an agenda down your throat. A character just happened to not be straight. Just like many people in real life. That's it. If anything it makes the game more realistic. But it's not trying to pander to sjws or cater. It was done tactfully.

>>15398581

Odyssey is the worst 3D Mario, I'm still mad.

>>15401513

This man gets it.

>>15401513

Why do you hate replayability?

>>15404598

Sexuality should almost never come up in most video game settings to begin with. But gays in media always have to make it known who they like to bone, while everyone else is getting to work and doing their jobs.

>>15405205

repetition is the opposite of replayability

>>15405232

Extra difficulty settings (as long as they aren't just damage modifiers) add new ways to play like Halo 2 which changes the enemy types you encounter.

>>15405212

It was never any big deal in FNV, you could play the entire game without ever knowing that Arcade or Veronica are gay. The only other times you will know if an NPC is a fag is if you actually pick the fag perk and choose the special fag dialogue options. And if you go through all that trouble and are still butt flustered about it, that kind of makes you a fag.

>>15405114

>get a load of this cuckchan faggot

I know, right? I'm feeding him (You)s right now.

>>15405114

>he likes witcher 3 despite it's shitty combat

>>15398581

>>15401528

>man puts a whole bunch of work in

>man gets nothing from it

>cockblocked by beta bowser

Everything about the ending was fucking gay.

>>15402437

I'm so glad Ace Attorney never fell for this meme and even the latest entry is still full-on spot-the-bullshit gameplay

>>15399917

EO1 is unbalanced as fuck, instead of investing in a protector and someone who can throw buffs you can simply hire a cute medic loli and invest in the caduceus skill, which due to sloppy programming/straight up not giving a fuck reduces damage by 90%, completely shitting on the difficulty.

If you want to play a EO game start with IV, it's the most balanced one aka all the classes are useful, V throws this out of the window though, dual wielding rabbit girls outclass the fuck out of every other potential damage dealer, but IMO it is stil the better game.

>>15405284

>he likes witcher 3 despite it's shitty combat

Yes, a game can have shitty combat and still be a good RPG.

>>15406338

Or, a game can have good combat while still being a good rpg. They're not mutually exclusive, you know. You can have your cake and eat it, too.

>>15404189

I remember when Budokai Tenkaichi 2 did that where you were supposed to lose in some fights but if you did win, you get to go to the What-If saga story (actually did like the one where Raditz got amnesia and became a good guy….and sacrificed himself by ramming Vegeta and Nappa's ship)

>>15406387

I never implied that wasn't the case

>>15406338

>witcher 3

>a good rpg

Nah.

>>15406650

Whatever genre you want to call it, I had fun with it.

>>15406722

>contrarian hipster

Here, you are the contrarian. Go back to Reddit or cuckchan will you?

>>15406665

So you have shit taste? That still doesn't make it a good game.

>>15406856

I enjoyed it much like a good book. The writing and acting was solid, and the combat was decent, and quite satisfying on several monster fights where you had to change things up. Characterization was plentiful and worldbuilding was satisfactory, so I actually gave a shit what happened, which is a lot more than I can say for other games. You can say the things I'm praising are mostly "not gameplay," but they are a component of the medium and worthy of praise. Toussaint and Kaer Morhen are fucking gorgeous, too.

I am irritated by a lack of cyberpunk2077 release date.

>>15399856

Even though people say FF9 is one of the best in the franchise I can't get into it because of the atrocious character designs. I can't spend 30+ hours looking at the retarded stepchildren of popple people.

>>15406968

>combat was decent

No it wasn't, fuck right off back to the AC threads. Holding down a block button and just waiting for enemies to hit it is not good combat. Roll spamming gameplay is not indicative of good combat.

>component of the medium

Oh you're from Reddit.

>>15407005

>Holding down a block button

Gets you stabbed in the back.

>Roll spamming gameplay

Is inefficient and takes forever against humans. Time the sidesteps and blocks rather than cheesing to have a good time.

I said the combat was "decent," not 'great.' And I stand by that.

>>15406968

>I enjoyed it therefore it is good

Nah.

>The writing and acting is solid

Debatable. The constant inclusion of stronk independent womyn is questionable, especially Ciri who is a fucking terrible character, but the wild hunt was incredibly bland and boring as shit, and the attempts at the end of the game to make it seem as if your decisions actually mattered was bad. The majority of the games quests suffer from being incredibly boring and ultimately meaningless as well.

>Combat was decent

No, it was fucking terrible. Witcher combat was never good but 3's was the most egregiously bad of them all.

>Characterization was plentiful

And bad

>Worldbuilding was satisfactory

Most of the worldbuilding comes from previous entries in the series rather than how you interact with things in the witcher 3. While this is fine since it's a sequel, what there is in the game is questionable at best, and it translates very, very poorly to gameplay, what with city guards who can take a hundred blows from a Witcher. And what are these 'Other games'? You're not giving a comparison, you're just vaguely gesturing at nothing that's actually substantial.

>You can say the things I'm praising are mostly "not gameplay,"

It's not can say, they aren't. None of what you've tried to praise is relevant to gameplay except the monster fights, which you're still wrong about.

>Component of the medium

The sauce can be really good, but if the pasta is covered in mold and feces it'd still be a terrible meal.

>>15407005

>stabbed in the back

Lol never happens, just dodge and never worry about aiming where you block like in more competent action games.

>>15407035

>Debatable.

I was referring to the side quests and DLC's. The main campaign is meh, true.

>No, it was fucking terrible.

I still disagree on this. See above.

>And bad

Wrong.

>Most of the worldbuilding comes from previous entries in the series

>While this is fine

It is.

>what with city guards who can take a hundred blows

Because it's not a true RPG; this is akin to not being able to murder your squadmates in FEAR. Kinda bullshit, but no significant impact on quality.

>It's not can say, they aren't.

But they're still good, and liking the game for them is still valid.

Anyways, this thread is derailed enough.

>>15407077

>I was referring to the side quests and DLC's

Those are pretty shitty too. Blood and Wine wasn't terrible, even if it is just DLC, but it's not enough to be good.

>I still disagree

Repeating yourself and contradicting the actual game is not an argument.

>Wrong

Nah, I'm not. Most of the characters are terrible.

>It is.

Yes, but the game itself doesn't provide it. It's not a point in its favor. And what it does try to provide is fucking horrible.

>Because it's not a true RPG

And because it's a bad game. Rather than simply prevent you from murdering the city guards because you aren't supposed to, just make them ridiculously high level to the point where you have to wonder why the hell you're fighting monsters when superman over there is standing near the campfire.

>But they're still good

Not really.

>Liking the game for them is still valid

Like whatever you want, but it's still a shit game.

>>15407370

>Like whatever you want

>REEE DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO LIKE!!!!!

Cuckchan reveals itself yet again.

>>15406998

>>15399856

This is some terrible taste.

>play KotOR

>at that point im captured on Malak ship

>escape and face Malak

>rape hip in one maybe two rounds

>literally stuns me and through plot convenience cannot reach me (even tough my attribute to force resistance and force powers is so high Malak is my bitch in force)

>unnecessarily long animations for benign shit

Collecting tracks in MHW is a fucking pain with this shit; I'm glad GU is out now.

>>15398574

>enemies have more health, weaker enemy qualities are gone AND they regenerate health

>you take more damage

fucking why

Xenonauts night missions.

>>15401987

how do i ingrish

>YOU NEED TO DO THIS RIGHT AWAY

>THERE'S NO TIME

>X IS IN DANGER GET TO THEM RIGHT NOW

>RUN THROUGH THIS COLLAPSING BUILDING

>in all of these scenarios there's no reason not to dawdle indefinately

>>15400209

>she wins. Her entire plot is fulfilled

Honestly a really nice twist, especially for a 4th gen game. I like antagonists who are genuinely good, and not by the edgelord meme definition. Tales of Phantasia has something similar but the villain just insisted on being a cunt the whole time, while in Rudras it's vital that you think the gods are evil so you grow strong enough.

<shit I hate

>screen effects that slow everything down and make it look worse, but you can't turn them off

>2D camera movement that isn't pixel perfect

>crippling "upgrades" (EO series jacks up TP cost, Sands of Destruction fucks you both ways with separate power/cost tracks that give you worse values than starting if you try for both of them)

>we have a physics engine! It does nothing!

>mirrors don't work

I absolutely detest when games do the "cut-scene/corridor walk/cut-scene" club sandwich bullshit.

> enter a room "here we are, the boss room, are we ready?!"

> watch the cut-scene, cut-scene ends

< walk to the next room

> next cut-scene is triggered

> "hey where's the BBEG?"

> watch cut-scene, cut-scene ends

< walk four more steps back the way we came

> another cut-scene

> "haha, ambushed! you fell into my trap!"

Just do the whole thing in one big cut-scene, don't stop and start gameplay only to allow me to walk to the end of a corridor just to keep triggering events.

>>15403145

I think on of the Unreal games on the XboxHUEG made you kill off your team at the end to win, by that point I genuinely had grown attached to them, so I felt absolutely terrible by the last one.

>>15400021

Do you work for Boondog?

>>15406387

Can you name one though?

>>15407035

>No, it was fucking terrible. Witcher combat was never good but 3's was the most egregiously bad of them all.

Did you even play 1?

>>15408213

In a way, it's because the first cutscene is "supposed" to introduce the BBEG, you open the door, watch the cutscene and control is given back, you relax a little, looks like there's a puzzle or something to continue if it's a dead end, or you find a key to another door somewhere else, so you go to leave the room and THEN you get the cutscene and you feel almost relieved because now you know that this is it and you don't have to waste resources going through extra minions to get to the BBEG.

>rpg where stats and abilities all have ridiculously vague descriptions.

>No respec

>"We decided not to add respecing because fuck you :^) "

>>15400096

3 was pretty good though, it had boats.

>>15398524

Cobalt.

>>15405212

except there are romances in different mediums with straight people 99% of the time. if 1% that only if you, as the player wish to dig info or fanservice about, put the effort to unlock it, you cannot get mad about it. It's just pandering to the 1% in a 1% matter.

I'm not talking about sjws, or a gay parade, or bioware, it's one secondary character that you can miss, skip, or won't even use. Does that mean the entire game is branded as SJW gay agenda? come on now.

FUCKING MARK

Irritates me. Especially when he locks and deletes the cyclegreen thread after defending and giving advice on how to avoid dox (what a sympathizer, you fag) to said transsexual redditor who fucked up posting here last night.

One of the best threads in recent memory - deleted.

Thanks Mark.

>>15409405

Mark just locked it, Cobalt deleted it before it could be archived because Cobalt fucking sucks and needs to be removed.

>>15409408

Ya know, even fucking Poole allowed top-tier funny shit to continue even if it didn't follow the rules. Mark is such a good boy he won't even bend his own rules just a bit. It's not like it was a 10 thread massive hunt, thread wasn't even half way.

I saved screenshots all the way to the lock and will cut and paste it all together as one large picture later today. Too mad to do so right now. Gonna play games instead.

>>15406729

>here you are the contrarian

Hold the fuck up, nearly every rpg tier list posted on /v/ has TW3 on atleast good-tier. You're full of shit.

>>15409434

>>15409405

Hold on a moment, what?

What did you guys do to me while I was sleeping?

>>15409419

He was allowing it before some guy stepped in and said he should lock it. I don't mind if he needs to lock quality threads because of the rules, but he needs to get rid of cobalt. Almost every problem I've seen can be traced back to him.

>>15409481

>police report.

I've said some really fucking dumb shit. I'm not going to file a police report because people laughed at it.

>>15409382

Romance is for fags, even if it's "straight" romance.

>>15402151

>bosses are consistently immune to all status effects

>having trouble with a boss, look it up online

>weak to paralysis, nothing in-game hints at it

>>15407924

>You have no time!

>It turns out there's no timer and you can't run-and-gun through the area because you will get killed.

>>15409594

>You have no time!

>Forced walking segment when you're almost at the thing you need to do.

>>15409483

Oh, hey, you're back. Are you still taking HRT? We could use your testimony on the witness stand.

>>15409481

Rule 1. No spamming, flooding, raiding, or botting. Do not call for, advocate, post, or link to dox. /v/ is not your personal army.

https://8ch.net/v/rules.html

>>15408190

>I see you too hated the ending of Assassin's Creed 2.

Ezio didn't say killing was wrong, just that he was done with it. Hint: he keeps killing in the latter games.

Besides, that's not the reason the AC2 ending sucked. It sucked because it committed the mortal sin of storytelling: "I ain't gotta explain shit, ayylmaos did it!"

>>15398556

That's doesn't even have to involve twists. Any game where you're railroaded into doing something stupid can go fuck themselves.

>>15398556

You are Revan

>>15409787

He locked the thread as a compromise because while it violated the rules, it was good. BO should have final say as to what goes and he was allowing this to be.

>>15409878

Game is even better when you know the twist IMO

>>15409483

Well, at least you have that going for you. Mark is a pathetic sack of shit.

>sprint is limited in any way at all whatsoever

>jump cancels your sprint

>can't crouch after jumping

>game with weapon limit wants you to use certain weapons at certain times when you've been saving ammo for the best one

>game doesn't let you change music and sfx volume separately

>game doesn't let you rebind the fuckign chat key

>KEY is already assigned to OTHERKEY. Would you like to replace it?

>Can't assign KEY, already assigned to OTHER FUNCTION

>ranged attacks automatically aim at enemies and objects instead of just where you aim so you can't hit a specific target in a crowd of enemies

>can't tell which option you've selected in a yes/no prompt

>game has morality

>objectively the correct option is evil and there is no way to tell until it's too late make onderon great again

>>15398629

>can't turn off mouse acceleration

UN FUCKING PLAYABLE

>>15403257

>silent 2 second webm

just make it fucking smaller

>>15407370

I could use this argument for criticism of Undertale and Rick and Morty

>>15409405

>lolthreads are anchored

>still hasn't banned 4am threads

>disabled name field but not avatar flag

>>15411059

>>KEY is already assigned to OTHERKEY. Would you like to replace it?

How is that bad? This is immensely helpful when rebinding in complex games.

>>15398524

>"you're weak [anon], it's going to beat us, I don't know how long we can do this"

>but we're at full health, you dumb skank

>boss does some bullshit story linked attack and we all faint

>"Anon, I knew we weren't strong enough..!!"

Fuck, they could at least make the boss do a couple really strong attacks BEFORE they mention how weak you are. Or actually make the boss strong so he fucks your shit up immediately.

>Wouldn't it be more believable if the story continued a different route if you got beaten, and took an alternate approach if you won?

Depending on how early a game branches, the amount of work can add up to basically writing two different games. Game centered around this kind of thing are always short, and end up making you milk out all the paths to get a true ending anyways.

>>15411074

It's a bain in the ass when you 're rebinding a lot of keys at once, like if the game has retarded defaults or if you're going from wasd to esdf

>>15410914

I completely forgot Bioware added Raiden to Mass Effect 3.

>>15411150

FLAC and WAVPack are both extremely simple to stream and filter, so there's actually no advantage to uncompressed. In fact, uncompressed audio impacts performance because it takes up so much memory (unless you're streaming it from the drive, which fucks your load times).

>>15398589

Not just health, but also speed. Have you ever over-leveled in Oblivion? Late game wild life like bears moves at a blinding pace.

>>15405212

>Sexuality should almost never come up in most video game settings to begin with.

This needs tattooing backwards onto the foreheads of every rainbowhead devs pet

>rpg

>the edgy/bad/evil party member starts complaining

>"Why do we have to help the poor/whatever? We don't even get paid."

BECAUSE THAT'S HOW WE GET EXP AND THUS CAN KILL MORE BETTER YOU SO IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE YOU DUMB FUCK

>>15411190

FLAC uses less battery than mp3.

>>15412944

I mean, I don't even know why is he even complaining. Not like helping the poor /whatever involves slaying enemy and looting them or anything.

>>15402597

>game has NG+

>you think you're about to do the tutorial again then you get gangraped by the three musketeers

That was my favorite part of Dark Souls 2. But I didn't enjoy it very much afterwards

>>15411059

>game has a sprint key that does nothing except make you run faster, meaning there is no reason to not hold it, and theres no toggle sprint function

>better yet just remove sprint, make everyone run faster and if you insist make them slower while aiming and shooting

Muh realism is where I draw the line for this, if you are too wishy washy and retarded to make your sprint have a function beyond "goes fast," you need to restart your game design because why the FUCK would anyone want to go slow? You need to at least place a penalty on accuracy or something coming out of it. Being able to instantly use your gun out of sprint makes not being able to shoot while sprinting moot.

>sci-fi games/movies/novels written by people with an extremely poor sense of scale

>enormous mechs weigh around 100 tons

>m1 abrams tank weighs over 60 tons

>send only 20k people on a one way trip to colonize a whole galaxy

>massachusetts had more people than that in 1660

>fight civil war across an entire galaxy with an army of 3 million people

>united states armed forces has over 1 million active personnel

>Start new game

>Die before saving

>Need to load a save to retry but the game didn't make one

>Have to start a new file and go through the intro all over again

This is the worst first impression you can give, yet I see it so often.

>Weapon is not reloaded because even though the mag is in, you still have to watch the dumb little flourish

>Canceling the reload here means you have to do it again

>>15416032

If you're dying that quick into the game you probably deserve having your time wasted for being retarded.

>>15416567

I think he means like he's just dicking around and learning the mechanics, but underestimates an early challenge that catches him off guard and such

>>15399313

>have control taken from you

>>15416567

It's usually happened because I assume a save file isn't the only way you can retry. Majority of games can still put you somewhere even if there's no save. But then I get 15 minutes in, die, and there's no file so I can just go fuck myself. Like just let me make one at the start so I know it's important.

>>15403161

>quake 2

Continuing with 4, the first battle with the Macron. Exactly what OP outlined above.

>>15416530

>all games need to be sims

I can get the mirrored models and such but the later stuff is basically "no fun allowed" tier.

Catch-up:

>be in 1st position

>THAT one opponent who's faster than others and keep up with me

>be in last position

>THAT opponent is still faster despite being in 1st position

>>15417084

>All games need to be sims

M8 all that's needed is for devs to not be fucking lazy for 80% of my complaints, and having touched a gun for the others.

>>15417541

All I'm saying that realistic projectile models aren't necessary. There are plenty of games where the guns don't behave realistically but still have fun and engaging combat. I'm not saying that plenty of games aren't lazy, there should be some effort put into it but not being realistic != not putting effort into it/ not fun.

WW2

>lack of uniform/skin variety among common enemies (gee, can't wait for another game where there's the same four grey-uniformed models for Germans: Guy with helmet, guy with field hat, officer and guy with helmet but he has his sleeves rolled up).

>unnecessary vehicle sequences where you drive some basic, slow hunk of shit tank and then never play it again.

>level unlock rather than a points unlock system for multiplayer.

>over-focus on balance in multiplayer resulting in every side feeling like a mirror of the other or having no distinct features whatsoever (realistically portray the M1 Garand as having an advantage over bolt action rifles is most circumstances? Nah that means we'd have to come up with some interesting advantage for the Axis, let's just make the sights fucked and the reload slow as hell so it's balanced with the K98)

>Lack of big team anything, it's the largest war in human history and why the fuck is it just me and 15 other autists in a server.

>>15417612

Also can't believe I forgot this

>heavy machineguns and artillery pieces on the map are just unusable parts of the terrain there to look pretty.

>characters doesn't move a small fixed distance when quickly taping a key

>depending on how fast you press you could either move no where or way to fucking much

This pisses me off no matter what game does it.

>>15417572

Games that don't even pretend to be realistic and give you the silly stick straight up I'm good with. I enjoyed borderlands 1+2 and my top favourite game is enter the gungeon despite it calling it a clip reee. When a game tries to be epic and shows dumb shit like trying to shoot a rifle with the stock clearly above the shoulder or gives bullshit excuses is when my autism fucking flares.

>>15398524

>things that irritate you

Life

>can usually save and quit after a fight

>want to just finish a fight and go to sleep

>fight ends

>long string of cutscenes

>then another surprise fight

>then more fucking cutscenes

I don't care how interesting you think your shit is, the player shouldn't be forced to play really long stretches of your game without any way to save progress unless it is normal for the game.

>spend time in game trashing enemy army

>completely untouchable

>captured in a cutscene by a few mooks

this shit goes back as early as half life, and it's one of the reasons I just couldn't bring myself to like far cry 5. the gameplay is alright but the story is just fucking atrocious.

>>15419361

It's almost like the endings were changed last minute. Or they're just really bad. Probably the second one.

>>15419417

or both

>>15419425

played it with a friend who bought it, went full bomb throwing "fuck everything" anarchist, and got that ending. it just shows how poorly thought out the story was.

It really says something when they can't even make the fights you're supposed to die in difficult enough to kill you nowadays.

>>15398982

I have a similar one

>obvious evil villain gets away with it in all the endings because fuck you

>>15398982

Ain't that the truth?

>>15398524

Path of Exile got in on this shit as of 3.0.0. You have a fight where success is rewarded with getting your ass beat but someone swoops in to save you. Whatever moron wrote that plot needs to be fired, but PoE is likely only going to get worse, not better.

>>15399898

>>game only has one save file slot

Aye this shit blows. I agree there need to be better mechanics against save-reload shit but that ain't a decent solution.

>>forced walking

Fucking abomination.

>>15399925

>you can fuck yourself over if you don't pick this one 'correct way' of distributing your points, good luck ever getting far in the game

Nah, the real problem is when you can pick any combination of stats you want and it all works out the same.

>Who the fuck said Arcanum was a good game? Can't believe I'm putting up with this poorly designed shit.

Yeah critical fumbles are retarded design in Arcanum. Combat's pretty bad. There is definitely a ton of vastly different builds that can plow through the game in Arcanum though.

>>15405114

>shilling witcher 3

You blend right in, son.

>>15424474

>Path of Exile got in on this shit as of 3.0.0. You have a fight where success is rewarded with getting your ass beat but someone swoops in to save you. Whatever moron wrote that plot needs to be fired, but PoE is likely only going to get worse, not better.

Are you talking about the end of Act V? He doesn't beat your ass, he destroys the staff and the resulting explosion knocks out the both of you.

>metroidvanias with no map, or shitty map

There is nothing worse than running around the same areas over and over again looking for the one single area you didn't check that contains the goddamn next part of the fucking game.

>>15408190

>ending of ass creed 2

He was the pope, there would be no where for you to hide if you killed him. Just to be fair.

>>15407762

You're doing fine.

Goddamnit I'm sick of this "take two steps in between cut-scenes gameplay" bullshit.

DQ11 just did it to me.

I met a boss, watched a cut-scene, I killed a boss, got myself another cut-scene. Then I turned around to double back and get some treasure I may have missed, but was told no because I had to leave now and it pushed me toward the exit.

So I turn around to leave and it asks me if I want to leave?

Well I don't really have a fucking choice you cum-gargling front-hole-sniffer.

You put me in an arena, put invisible fucking walls around me, don't let me move around, make me watch cut-scenes, then force me to leave but make me go to the effort of taking two steps to do it to create some illusion of fucking gameplay.

If the transfer is mandatory have it happen in the goddamn cut-scene, and don't waste my time with more loading screens.

What a load of fucking shit.

Get a sequel; it's art-style is totally different… 2d->3D

Anything that pisses you off in puzzle games like say, Chip's Challenge?

>>15427078

I hate that bitch so much

>>15413787

Not being able to shoot while sprinting is kind of a big deal, because it means you can run OR shoot. Yes you can instantly stop running to shoot, but then you aren't running are you?

Meanwhile, "sprint" in every JRPG ever

>playing an JRPG

>get to the final boss at a reasonable high level

>suddenly the game levels you down to the level you were supposed to be

I love Valkyrie Profile 2, but that shit irritate me so much on my first playthrough

>>15435494

Almost forgot

>There's a major religion

>The pope is always secretly the bad guy. >ALWAYS.

It may have been a good twist the first time, but the nips are so unoriginal that they're playing the same trope over and over again because they want to be "woke" or some shit.

>>15398545

Tales of Destiny did exactly this, too. If you cheat or somehow just beat Leon in the early scripted fight, the game just ends and gives you a secret ending.

>>15428521

We're talking about a time period when politically-motivated mobs would ambush and beat popes to death, regularly.

>>15435494

>I'm such a random and cute girl! Don't you just love me! LOL cupcakes!

>"I know you've saved my life dozens of times, but I'm super fucking strong and could take you on so I'm going to treat you like trash and butt heads with you whenever possible."

Christ, those two points have just given me the worst flashback to the horrible sequel to this game I really liked.

>whole point of the original game is that the main character has reduced himself to a hardened, remorseless being that kills on sheer instinct - and has lost the most essential part of his humanity in doing so

>there's also the part where he commits a horrible, genocidal atrocity of war that no other human being may ever match in his world

>sequel introduces a token female character who exists solely to femdom the main character over ~how much better of a remorseless killer she is than him, teehee~

>that is, until the part of the story that demands she get captured and the main character rescue him - from then on she's suddenly there to be the perfect token damsel love interest

>because of course the sequel needs to have a love interest

Fuck Metro: Last Light so hard.

>>15435558

That's just how it is, the pope is antichrist in reality so its reflected in media.

Though it does annoy me when religion as a whole is made to be the villain in games.

>>15427760

Yooka Laylee

>>15398568

Recently I've replayed FFVII and I thought of that. I realized that the remake is an impossible job and probably even Squenix have realized it by now, that's why they're testing the waters with the episodic thing. It's also a reason of why the single player games we get today are soulless, drab open world games, they fool casuals into thinking that current games have great scope but it doesn't touch what couldn't be made before. Games like FFVII are simply impossible by today's standards, as long as the focus remain on graphical fidelity.

>>15450283

what could be made*

>>15435318

I never even noticed this and the final boss was a joke because I never used those stat boosting items, so when the final boss came around I just dumped them all on the main girl and she (fittingly) became an invincible god of destruction.

>>15399737

Peace Walker?

>>15435318

It was doubly worse for me because until that point i hadn't used a single light warrior (which meant i didn't know which attacks were best), alicia had no learnt skills (they transfer to valkryrie for the final fight) and my party through the entire game was 2 heavy warriors and 2 archers, i was easily doing over 20k damage per assault with my current setup and then for the final battle they leave me with a character that does 2k tops per turn, to top it off the final boss takes a tenth of the damage unless he's hit by said terrible character, so you have to either kill him with valkyrie or backtrack to the bonus dungeon to powerlevel and acquire bullshit equipment.