13743c No.16636541
I started playing Valkyria Chronicles recently and have been enjoying it for the most part. But the complete lack of any way to skip enemy turns or speed up the battle has really knocked my enthusiasm down several notches. You can't even minimize the window because it stops the game until you have it open again. Makes a battle that should be maybe 15 minutes and turn it into a 45 minute affair, I have maybe 4 hours of actual progression according to the save file, but it feels like it's been 9.
What small things ruin games you otherwise would enjoy?
a203f5 No.16636553
clunky and roundabout Inventory and save slot management.
204aa7 No.16636568
>go to shop
>want to buy items
>can't buy in bulk, have to individually purchase each item
78df8f No.16636596
>>16636541
>Best girl dies
13743c No.16636615
>>16636568
>cannot flag items as junk to be sold enmass
>add massive amounts of junk that serves no purpose but to sell, cluttering inventory
>1 million types of different weapons and armor that you find everywhere that are only incrementally better stat wise and offer no actual changes in gameplay
At least in the Witcher 3 the weight limit is such that you can just grab anything and not worry about being forced to go to a merchant every trip. But damn I hate the weapon systems like that, I'd rather they just give 15 types of swords that you can gradually upgrade to give an actual incentive to using a certain weapon instead of having to check every sword to see if its 1 damage better than the one you have now. Same shit in the original mass effect, but they went to far simplifying that.
Forgot this one too
>sprint is a constant hold, not a toggle
2b3643 No.16636619
>>16636541
>But the complete lack of any way to skip enemy turns or speed up the battle
That's a problem with many turn based games.
Luckily, you're on PC.
Fire up Cheat Engine, Target the game's process then set up a key to trigger speedhack to something like 1.5, 2x or 3x speed.
Be wary that this may fuck up some stuff in the game (VC is already pretty messed up with gunfire rate being tied to FPS), use with moderation and at your own risk.
(Of course, if you're using an emulator it's better to use its internal speed tools)
To me what ruins games is the ability to fucking save the game anywhere and whenever. The main character becomes pretty much an invincible time wizard that can cheese any and all challenges.
When a game features autosaving and doesn't force you to load whenever you die is when the games get real immersive and smooth to me.
Also, female main characters in eroge is cancer. It's baffling how a good 95% of eroge features female main characters and the eroticism is getting your character raped when you fail.
8c1f99 No.16636638
I hate it when devs make the humanoid enemies much bigger than you just to make them look more menacing or, when it's a game with mainly melee combat, to make sure that they have absurd range with their attacks, and since they're obviously much stronger than you, this also means that their attacks do 6 gorillion damage when they connect. They also do this in part to make it so you die in only a few hits because "But anon it makes sense since you're fighting giants!" If I want to feel like a faggot fighting against the poz in every aspect of life then I'd just go outside.
103e94 No.16636660
>headshot an enemy
<he screams
I BLEW YOUR BRAINS ALL OVER THE PLACE, YOU ARE SCIENTIFICALLY INCAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING, LET ALONE SCREAM IN AGONY HOLY SHIT HOW HARD IS FOR DEVS TO ADD SOME NIGGER CODE LINE AT THE END LIKE
IF HEADSHOT:
SCREAM=='FALSE'
or
>a little arrow or knife stab to the legs insta-kills an enemy
IT LOOKS RETARDED EVERY TIME IN EVERY GAME
a69e74 No.16636737
>female protagonist
>pixel graphics
>roguelike
>crafting
>survival sim
>soulslike
Patiently waiting by the river for the corpse of 2010s gaming to float by.
9e299c No.16636768
>>16636541
Just spam scouts summoning scouts summoning scouts and capture the flag turn 1
You can do that even on that "destroy the tank before it blows up the car" mission if you go with the one scout that have a shotgun and get high rolls.
You will retry this shitty strategy about 10 times but it will still be faster and safer than otherwise.
There are only a small handful of missions where it does not work.
And the game is actually ruined by the shitty writing where EVERY SINGLE FUCKING THING IS SOLVED BY THE LOVE OF SHITTY GRASS
d1539b No.16636774
I don't know about the gameplay but the story is shit. This game is one of the few times the anime actually does the story better.
cd3572 No.16636836
>>16636541
Having the Ara not romanceable or be a tragic character who dies.
Also any RPG where every 2 steps a battle starts
9e299c No.16636850
>VC4 on 66% discount
>oh sounds like a nice deal
>requires DENUVO
Yoohoohoo and a bottle of rum
6f8bdf No.16636879
>>16636737
>female protagonist
For me it's the opposite in a sense or atleast used to. When the fem protags were still badass chicks like Kate Archer, Bloodrayne, Femshep etc i found up myself asking the question of
>"Why should i play with Mr Buffmcgruff boring as fuck marine when i could play as the hot badass chick with dat ass to ogle at?"
Now idgaf as long as the character is interesting and fun to play which it sadly almost never is no matter what it's gender is in modern vidyas.
ba2acb No.16636889
DRM
Click-to-move controls
Unskippable cutscenes
cd3572 No.16636892
>>16636855
That needs to be edited with Tifa's official FFVII art vs FFVII:Re model
c4d6c4 No.16636896
>>16636892
Have you seen the new dissidia Tifa?
cd3572 No.16636902
>>16636896
I haven't and they're better than the remake rack.
5c9b1b No.16636904
>>16636896
Still too small
13743c No.16636921
>Aim AP tank shell at enemy mooks head.
>3 shots to kill
6fc4fc No.16636937
>>16636541
3 and 4 have speed options, 2 probably does but I forget it that's definitely the case.
>>16636768
at least welkin is a nature autist, the dude in 4 (can't even remember his name even though I've played game for 12 hours) is a wind autist. thankfully in that game there has been less talk about the oppressed je- I mean, the darcsens.
cd3572 No.16636939
>>16636904
Yeah. Still needs to make more cleavage in the middle
7613de No.16636947
I hate characters like Gex and Dead Rising 4's Frank West who won't stop spewing unfunny jokes every few seconds. Nonstop.
ed1a53 No.16636989
>ww2 game
>swastika censored
>game has guns
>game devs are retarded, and don't know how guns work, elementary mistakes that would make the gun unable to fire irl, wrong caliber, retarded, impractical additions and attachments, given to a group tha would never, ever own that gun ect,
if you can't get guns right, set the game in the fantasy setting and be done with it. if you're not going to make a proper ww2 game, just set the game in a fictional universe, and be done with it, not sure why people fuck up somethig so simple so often
c3a036 No.16637011
>item decay
No, it does not add depth. No, it does not add strategy. No, it does not add realism. All it does is put a timer on how long you can have fun before you're forced to return to wherever you can get your shit fixed.
784695 No.16637019
>buy some starting gear in an RPG
>that steel sword upgrade to an iron sword was a hefty investment
>1/4 into the first dungeon you find a steel sword in a chest
>completely invalidating your preperations
ed1a53 No.16637066
>>16637022
make a seperate version for germans and ruskies, then. fuck em, let em get cucked, if that's their thing, leave me out of it
4e36e7 No.16637106
>just want to play the game
<endless small things that prevent you from actually playing the game that amount to more time spent not playing the game than if you could just play the game unhindered
c3a036 No.16637136
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>>16637019
Yeah, the slightest experience with JRPGs will teach you not to bother gearing up before a new dungeon.
15d3a1 No.16637171
>>16637136
>>16637019
This shit right here is why in old-school games, the non-magic gear you can buy at the 1st Level is already top of the line, and magic shit is just a perk.
bf98be No.16637215
>Kill a monster in an RPG
>He drops loot that he could not possibly have been carrying, because he doesn't have pockets
>Kill a small monster
>He drops loot that is physically larger that he is
Fuck this shit. I'm out.
4a9a8c No.16637283
>>16636541
Use cheatengine retard.
I mean good work on realising that games are too slow now do what everyone else does and speed them up.
215d9f No.16637297
>>16636879
too bad nowadays your only choice in anything with a budget larger than a piggy bank is between Gruff McMilitary (or Gruff Fatherton) and Ellen Paige
>>16637019
this shit really pisses me off.
01aafb No.16637543
>rpg
>has racist/prejudice character
>can't side with him or help him for your own selfish goals
>dialogue only lets you condemn his actions no matter your alignment
WHEN WILL THE JEWS LET THE HOLOCAUST GO?
6fc4fc No.16637638
>>16637311
It's like VC1 except it takes some of the updates from the psp games (sniper as its own class, ATV, single CP cost for tank, enemy turn speedup option, brown squad members that you never use) and adds a low HP, low AP class that can bomb shit halfway across the map with an arc high enough to get over most buildings.
pretty gud, but it already loads slow enough as is (literal 5 second pauses when hitting next on dialogue so that the next line can load) so you might wanna yar har fiddle dee dee.
a462aa No.16637662
>>16637638
Sniper was a class in VC1. Are you thinking of scouts and their ability to pretty much act like snipers?
06e7b3 No.16637664
99b02c No.16637675
>>16637543
>We'll never get a mass effect series where you help Cerberus raise humanity up above the wannabe united nations aliens
>You'll never curb stomp the league of nations in space, then curb stomp the greater threat that justified their shitty existence
Instead you have to run errands for literally everyone because every faction is so fucking retarded they need to be babysat throughout the game. Despite Cerberus being the only one who seems to have their shit together, they turn around at the last second and betray humanity, killing the entire premise of their existence.
6f8bdf No.16637778
>>16637675
That's not just a small thing but a fucking huge.
The 3rd game could've actually been tolerable had they kept Cerbs as it was before and just threw Reaper husks'n shit at you instead of Cerb-mooks everywhere.
Though there'd still be _that_ ending to fix
646d53 No.16637804
>>16636896
Will never understand the asshurt about this, her tits aren't as big but there still decent. She still makes my dick rock hard maybe its because I like ass and thighs, I don't know. Nice midriff to.
646d53 No.16637813
>>16637022
Germany recently made it to where video games can have swaztikas though.
2af508 No.16637823
>>16636619
>not enjoying being a grill and fucking everything that moves
Gay nigger from outer space.
82ef59 No.16637833
3rd person movement controls that are unresponsive. This is the biggest reason I've dropped garbage like gta and red dead and Witcher 3. The whole "make your character stumble around for 0.5 seconds" every time you want to move or change direction really pisses me off. Basically any AAA third person game plays like complete crap because a virtual collection of polygons shouldn't be able to turn on a dime for some reason. I literally don't give a damn about walking realistically in a video game. It's one of the most autistic focuses for realism in video games and it makes no sense because it makes games objectively less fun and more frustrating to play when I have to watch my retard character pivot around for three seconds before finally running around.
2af508 No.16637843
>>16637215
Does it trigger you when you carry cottages in your pocket in FF games?
cd3572 No.16637921
>>16637215
>Cut a monsters tail off
>break a monsters horn
>don't get "Monster's Tail" or "Monster's Horn" item in the game
<Welp. Guess I have to fight it 1000 more times
1390b3 No.16638086
>>16636879
>Mr Buffmcgruff boring
Even the worst written male lead in 2000's video games are still 1-2 dimensional, with 2010's female mc's you are lucky if you don't get a full blown cookie cutter sjw mary sue.
1390b3 No.16638127
>>16637804
Its because it was the only major popular game where the one of the main female characters had huge tits. I swear to god, the most under-represented and never used character in every game nowadays are girls with huge tits. Nevermind AAA, you would never get that shit to fly, that's why so many anons are pissed to shit. Its no wonder she is still hot without them, she is an attractive character, but the devs took out a huge portion of what she was in the original. Its like taking a character that used a wheelchair and making him walk again in the remake, but because huge tits are only loved by toxic masculine guys who only want them to jack off to them 24/7, no one will say a word. Its fucking ridiculous, and not some conspiracy either, the devs literally were planning to put it in but the ethics committee stopped it since it would piss off any cunt with breast envy. Its a damn shame, and sure as hell not the only thing cut from the original by such ethics committee, and I wished more people in general realized that.
b56763 No.16638129
>work for jewish empire
>Can't play as a real heman and impregnate cow tits
>game ends and you kill her even in shit tier DLC
fuck this series and you're a nigger.
4b24e8 No.16638255
Putting things or entrances just slightly out of reach, but gameplay wise it's just meant to show you it's there.
Fuck that shit. I take this as a spit to my face. The level designer should have placed these things so it's obvious we need to advance in the story, don't make it seem like we suck and aren't playing the game right. I fucking hated this shit in pokemon especially.
f17de9 No.16644162
Games with skill builds or deck building, but then the final boss is designed to completely hard counter all but 1 specific build. It's just awful
60daeb No.16644766
>>16636596
The fact she is still getting figures and other weeb merchandise even now years after the game and being from a niche series says a lot.
78df8f No.16644861
>>16644766
Crymaria getting a happy ending was an apology letter to everyone who loves Selvaria.
It's still not good enough imo especially since that happened in a game where a 2 mission dlc about the Valkyur was more interesting than the main game.
1a034f No.16644907
>Game can be difficult, requires strategy and preparation
>Fail
>Can reload but all your items are gone
>Have to farm/grind money to reacquire said items so you can try again
6179ea No.16644908
Why, my peenus weenus of course!
Ha ha ha ha!
ccecca No.16645236
I also love Valkyria Chronicles but one thing that stands the fuck out is the stupid beach episodes. I bought the game for the good story and gameplay.
This is war, get that cringy fucking fanservice out of here. I'll fall in love with my squad when they're killing my enemies and making me proud.
Japanese people needs to stop being a bunch of fucking degenerate.
89c608 No.16645272
>>16645236
Go play shitty western games if you want super serious no fun allowed stories.
0699db No.16645315
>>16636541
>But the complete lack of any way to skip enemy turns
its really not THAT bad
>>16636596
whats up with that damn IP and killing all big titties girls?
931152 No.16645382
>>16645277
>if you buzzword buzzword that buzzword im a buzzword buzzword
2b2aac No.16645428
>>16636737
Gotta agree with all this. Only other thing I could add is 2D side scrolling. I get that indie development is expensive but a game that's just another nostalgic side scroller should be an ancient meme at this point. Not the norm of what indie games are on the PC market.
89ef65 No.16645438
>>16645382
>every insult I don't like is a buzzword
25bdad No.16645446
>>16645277
The only good thing westerners can make is either hyper serious stories about how our society is turning to shit
Cyberpunk 2077
Or bleak depressing stories that showcase the duality of man,
Spec Ops: The Line
Or just shit stories.
Basically everything else.
>>16645382
It's technically true though, don't argue with Vsauce, he's a scientist.
c4bb6b No.16654308
>>16645236
>This is war, get that cringy fucking fanservice out of here
FUCK YOU. I love this game for it's cliches and cringe. For all those stereotypical characters. It was great. I wouldn't want next one, if there will be, any other way. Still sad about Raz tho.
aaf233 No.16654326
>>16645236
> I bought the game for the good story and gameplay.
It doesn't really have either of those though.
04f9b0 No.16654376
>>16636541
A bunch of them.
>Character is intrinsically locked to your account, meaning that once you edit it the first time that's it, you can't play as another / modify it / play with weaker or different shit unless you fork over extra money
>Console multiplayer game does not have local play (fuck you Eyes of Heaven)
>non cosmetic microtransactions in a single player game (even if you can complete a game without them)
>daily login goals that just pad out indeterminately a game's length
But by far my greatest annoyance with games is not even related directly to them.
It's when a niche game comes out and you're really passionate about it because you can see all its good and bad sides, so you desperately try to get your pals or acquaintances to play it (with you as it usually has been the case for multiplayer games), even going as far as to give your copy or offering to buy it for them, then all of a sudden after a while you've given up on it they all come flocking because some faggot e-celeb made it popular and they just can't get enough of it and want to play with you. Fuck them. I would not give them the time of day when they would do this. As petty as it is, denying myself the enjoyment of having someone to play with felt a hundred times better than dealing with little shits like them.
1bdd59 No.16655219
>>16654308
I didn't say anything about the changing the characters, I actually like the different personalities and character flaws.
I just fucking hate the beach episode/ swimsuit wearing feller missions.
That beach episode shouldn't have been nowhere near the mission when my nigga Isara gets fucking killed?
ed24c2 No.16655811
>chance apon wandering merchant
>see him selling his wares at a high mark up
>gun him down due to his semetic pricing
>only his clothes, a few bucks, and a few knick knacks on his corpse
Where the fuck was he keeping his shop inventory
also
>wait behind cover as a nigger mag dumps like 3 times in a row without jamming or malfunctioning
>cap him
>5 rounds and his gun is a few strips of duct tape away from falling into pieces
99b02c No.16656543
>>16655811
>First set
Artificial difficulty in stalker involving this kind of thing bugs me a lot. I wish there were other ways to make the game more difficult than giving everything but you 2 ok bullets and 3 broken bullets and a almost trashed gun.
5f5d4a No.16656553
>>16645236
What fanservice are you even talking about?
77f495 No.16656714
>you are the (((chosen))) one fortold by the prophecy
I don't know what kind of person enjoys these stories but it immediately makes me not care and I just start mashing through dialogue and cutscenes.
>>16636896
FLAT
513584 No.16656785
>>16637136
>not keeping elixirs as trophies
>SELLING ELIXIRS FOR PETTY COIN
WOMEN WERE A MISTAKE EVEN IN 2D
2068f1 No.16656797
Unresponsive or obnoxious UI with too many animations or too much wasted space. Recent Total War games are a great example with the overwrought campaign map. Quake Champions made me quit during open beta because I calculated that I was spending 3 minutes in the menu for every 15 minute match, going as fast as possible.
8766c2 No.16657102
>>16637019
Fuck yes this, especially when you're going in blind and don't know what the game is like for rewards so you carefully grind and thieve and sell to get what looks like a passable set of gear just to sell half of it immediately. Peak faggotry is when you find some shit on the way to the first mission.
8766c2 No.16657115
>>16637136
Might have to watch his now.
3a4ce4 No.16657158
>>16644861
**but she ends up with a nigger*
3a4ce4 No.16657160
a2c96c No.16657179
-When there is a forced protagonist, especially when it was previously create a character in the series.
-When they add in skirts but make a black void under the skirt, instead of some type of panties
-when they force high heels on characters, especially protagonists or main characters. Fighting in high heels is fucking retarded.
-Extreme linearity in the plotline or progression. I prefer some variability, if nothing else.
39769f No.16657235
>>16657179
>Fighting in high heels is fucking retarded.
Women fighting at all is retarded, you might as well go the full mile and make them attractive.
a2c96c No.16657250
>>16657235
No, women fighting is alright, insofar as fantasy is concerned, but fighting in high heels stretches believably to the point where you start questioning the universe. Especially while wielding heavy weapons and in armor, as well as going on long voyages.
83b899 No.16657272
>>16636541
>die in a level
>have to watch unskippable cutscene again before I can play again
That shit drives me mad.
>find powerful looking gun
>blast nameless mook #17 in the face with it
>just kind of shrugs it off and continues doing his thing
Nothing kills my shooting satisfaction faster than realizing all my weapons are peashooters or that basic enemy hp is at damage sponge levels.
>game is based in some historical/realistic setting
>devs go out of their way to add in random unrealistic shit that has no reason to be there beyond following gaming trends or pandering to faggots/minorities
This alone can make me avoid games completely.
22f4e7 No.16657336
Games that have more story than gameplay.
dd6f88 No.16657682
>>16657250
Nah m8 I'm going to have to agree with the other guy. Women exist to look pretty. If they fail at that then they should be replaced with a superior male.
dd6f88 No.16657684
>>16645236
I'm not sure which I prefer. Sjws or people like you.
084481 No.16657700
>>16636541
I have a few.
>modern games that don't recognize Mouse4
>game has pixel graphics
>16-bit/32-bit color palette
>but uses 8-bit chiptune shit
>see an enemy with a cool looking gun
>kill that enemy, he drops that cool looking gun
>i pick up that cool looking gun
>it just adds to my ammo pool for my boring gun
>load the game
>sit through 2 minutes of logos and splash screens
>main menu
>SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION
I'm sure there's more but those are some little ones that I consistently see and it pisses me off every fucking time.
33acc0 No.16657710
>>16637066
>>16637022
Fun fact, that's how it used to be until devs and publishers became the laziest of niggers. Make one uncensored version for countries with freedom and make a censored version for cucked countries.
22ad64 No.16657712
>>16657250
I kinda have to agree with the other guy. When you have women engaged in physical combat, I'm already in "Oh so this is high fantasy" mode. They can wear whatever they want at that point and I wouldn't bat an eye. I consider Baldur's Gate and Dragon's Crown to be on the same level of realism, despite the difference in aesthetic.
f04ac6 No.16657716
>play Valkyria chronicles
>aim at the head of the enemy blank range
>miss because there's a miss chance
Then why the FUCK do you force me to aim at the enemy if it's nothing but a bureucracy pretend-gameplay that is ultimately just a chore when just selecting enemy unit to attack would've been the same and faster? if you're gonna make it an action tactical game then let the aiming matter, otherwise remove it.
24d9b8 No.16657738
>modern game doesn't recognize hat switch
>can't use D-pad as a result
24d9b8 No.16657742
>>16637022
In Germany's case they could always sell games with the swastika, but the law prevents them from having the games in the open in a store. The customer has to ask for the title by name if it contains nazi imagery
254dc4 No.16657749
>>16657742
>sell games with the swastika
pretty sure that shit was always banned because MUH NAZIS, shit on display was usually for 18+ material that required a locked off section back then.
344987 No.16658025
>game has x99 item species limit
>some items run out really quick
>can't set it to auto-buy, need to open the fucking shop, go to the item, and hit buy every time
Bonus points if the item count increases at a constant interval instead of accelerating, doesn't let you increase by 10's, and doesn't wrap around if you hit down. Extra points if it only recognizes taps to choose the amount. Even more bonus points if you have to buy them 1 by 1.
>RPG with lengthy battle transitions and animations (3 minutes for a fucking turn)
>no way to speed it up or disable animations
Bonus points if battle BGM loop is fucking short (~50 seconds). This game actually exists
>game has level caps
>only way to increase level cap is to revert back to lower level, locking you out of progressing until you grind back up
Bonus points if the process only raises cap by a few levels, so you have to do it multiple times. Extra points if you also have to grind up and sacrifice another character to do it. Same game as above
>dungeon crawler
>can take limited amount of steps (fuel). have limited inventory space so you can't take 99 fuel packs
>dungeon generator can generate unwinnable dungeons, making your success depend on RNG (next floor entrance being close)
Same game as above
>game has content locked behind accessory/physical paywall
Bonus points if it never released in your region. Toys to life shit, Legendz GBA games. Also same game as above did you guess it yet?
8cf533 No.16658044
>>16658025
b-but digimon is better than pokemon
5f0bc4 No.16658058
>>16637804
Her tits are still big. They're just real person big (especially by Asian standards), as opposed to cartoon proportion big. This is more a consequence of the switch to more realistic proportions than anything else. You can debate whether that was a good idea, or if they should have just adapted the original game's concept art in gud grafix.
89c608 No.16658073
>>16657250
You sound like one of those retards defending the Tifa change because >muh realism
315a40 No.16658094
>>16637921
It is viable to assume that the parts just got too damaged/shredded by combat to be useful when you don't get the drop,I haven't seen any game actually convey this in a non retarded way however.
ab54e6 No.16658096
>>16645236
>I bought the game for the good story
Hahaha.
cd3572 No.16658104
>>16658094
If there was a way to cut it off "cleanly" then I would accept that answer but at this point in time it's some RNG bullshit.
5cc7f9 No.16658128
RPGs padding their game time with forced grinding.
Also, that issue got fixed in the sequels, OP.
8cf533 No.16658160
>>16658094
It's viable to assume that they are too damaged if you break them in battle. Instead, in this kind of game you usually must break them for a chance to see them drop at all, and if you leave them intact then you'll never see them after the monster is dead.
5cc7f9 No.16658178
>>16657716
What are you talking about?
The shots are not hitscans, they need to connect to the enemy and the aiming circle tells you how accurate your soldier is.
You can kill 2 or more enemies in one attack if you position yourself well enough.
75fd4f No.16658217
>>16658128
Still better than level-scaling that makes being powerful absolutely meaningless.
5cc7f9 No.16658245
>>16658217
I can agree with that.
344987 No.16658451
>>16658044
>b-but digimon is better
It could have been, but they blew it by adding shit like the above. Digimon World X takes the cake by adding having retared requirements for unlocks, like 'end dungeon with 1 HP'. btw it has to be by combat, damaging yourself at the end aginst spikes doesn't count.
>pokemon
The only games I enjoyed were spin-offs (e.g. PMD, Panel de Pon Puzzle League, Rumble). The mainline games never made any sense to me (10-year old kids roaming the world alone? wild fight-loving critters jumping kids from grass because they want to join them so they can fight more, to the point of unconsciousness? kids going up against criminal gangs/cults? kids training eldritch creatures with world-ending powers with no one batting an eye?). Speaking of Pokemon, that reminds me of other shit that really put me off:
>game setting has very flimsy explanations for setting that completely shatter suspension of disbelief (see paragraph above)
>game is split in 2 (or more) versions, each with exclusive stuff, making it 1 game for the price of 2 (or more) if you want everything
>game has real-life event-based or time-limited content/unlocks
>>16658128
>RPGs padding their game time with forced grinding.
As long as you can game the system by being smart (e.g. find ways/spots to powerlevel quickly, make up for low lv with good gear/abilities/status effects, find broken strats to do low level runs, loopholes to speed up/bypass grinding), I don't see much of an issue. I see mindless grinding (i.e. overleveling to get ahead) as just bruteforcing through a game. You're trading real-life hours for lowered difficulty, with the ultimate reward being game journalist mode (max lv/stats).
The problem is when the a game has Korean MMO-tier grinding, or a fucktarded system like Digimon World 2's which I described above. Also fuck level-scaling as >>166528217 said.
37c826 No.16659034
>>16637823
>wanting to be fucked by the big manly dicks
>not the gayest fucking thing ever
Gross.
22ad64 No.16659695
>>16645446
There was once a time, long ago, when people with white skin and round eyes enjoyed lighthearted entertainment which wasn't for children.
4ce11c No.16662903
Games complaints thread?
>play Stalker
>wants to stash ammo
>can't just click once on ammo icons, type a certain number and press enter, have to click it repeatedly instead
>can't just drop the stash-bag and all its content while over-encumbered
In other games
>low amount of available save slots
>can't change character's appearance in RPGs like how Saints' Row 3 could
>long, unskippable intro splash screens
>FUCKING RNGS
bc7b67 No.16664294
Single-player games that have activities that you can only do once a day.
Real life day, as in you have to wait 24 hours to do that activity again.
I'm playing Yo Kai Watch 3 right now, and while the gatcha-system is annoying, I don't mind as much if you could actually use the Crank-a-Kai more than once per day.
This stuff is already extremely luck based, but then the developers make it even more of a hassle by giving you only one shot every 24 hours?
Pic related is the worst about it, I've been trying to recruit him for almost a month now and there is absolutely nothing I can do about it, but to be patient.
ed2477 No.16664395
These are the best girls in VC. Say something nice about them.
1030f6 No.16664414
>>16636541
>your autosave file has been corrupted/lost
>save file is located in C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Fuck\you\very\much\assholes\
Just shove the save file into the game files on PCs. What the fuck is wrong with game developing nowadays?
4a6802 No.16664457
>>16664414
All of my hate. ALL OF IT. Especially when screenshots are in a different folder. Fuck, nowadays you pretty much have to do a god damn search engine query to figure out where the screenshot and save folders are. And when you uninstall the game, the screenshots/save files aren't deleted.
5fc434 No.16664465
>>16664395
Alicia deserves better than Welkin's immasculate ass.
7ef34e No.16664482
>>16664457
>And when you uninstall the game, the screenshots/save files aren't deleted.
That's kinda the point. Whether or not it's a good one stands on another piece of paper.
79f6f6 No.16664496
>want to play something like twilight princess
>The first several hours are slow and boring
>No way to skip to the part where you are actually having fun
I have given up on replaying many old games for this reason. My attention span as an adult has dropped off a cliff, compared to what I had as a child.
6ff8cc No.16664577
>>16664496
>shortening attention spans
>dropping games because you can't stay focused
I don't understand how this happens.
Then again, I am guilty of stopping some games about halfway through and picking something else up instead although I usually come back and finish what I began. Sometimes years later.
I think that's because I pour too much time into it at once and clear most of the game in 2 or 3 sittings (like 6+ hours per session) and burn out.
So maybe that's your problem?
485985 No.16664581
>>16636541
What's the best fetish of them all and why is it armpits?
1d900d No.16664583
>>16662903
>long, unskippable intro splash screens
How about 10+ unskippable crediting screens to the companies and engines involved every time you boot up?
511562 No.16664647
>if you pick up a quest item before starting said quest, the quest breaks
Can't remember when I had this shit happen to me, some shitty RPG, but I'm standing in front of an NPC, I got the shit he wanted right there because it seemed interesting and I picked it up earlier.
He won't take it. Nope, gotta go fetch it.
>drop it then pick it up
>quest stage sucessfull, now go hand it over!
Fuck you.
And then devs try to be smart and "fix" it:
>quest item doesn't spawn unless you start the quest
No, seriously fuck you. This shit pisses me off. I'm already passing the ruins of DemonRape, I know there's shit here for another quest, let me fucking take it. Just make it a weird interesting item that draws attention but I don't know what it's for yet.
That reminds me:
>quest NPC wants item
>item was in a dungeon you already looted
>item is not diferent from other identical items
>you sold it along with other loot to a merchant 2 hours ago
Fuck you, Morrowind. I love the game, but this shit sends me into a burning rage and Balmora pays the price in blood.
Not once, not twice, but three times in the same save.
>I want this emerald
>no, not that identical one, that specific one, with the same name, weight and value
>I want that necklace
>Yeah, I know it's exactly equal to the other 3 you're carrying, but did you notice it doesn't stack in your inventory? That means it's special! Would be a shame if you sold it to a respawning shop!
>Did you see my sword?
>The one in the back of a barrel, named "Iron Sword" like all the others?
>No? Well, then let me just clutter your Journal with a quest you can't finish now, ahah!
Go eat a dick sandwich.
89c608 No.16664744
>>16664395
Not even close. Selvaria and Marina are best girls.
>>16664414
The point is that it's easier to backup your saves. You just have to backup the Documents and Appdata folders instead of looking through every single install folder.
The real assholes are the ones who put the save files somewhere more obscure like the niggers in pic related.
646015 No.16664799
>>16645236
I can tell you've never actually played it redditspacer, there's two in the whole series and they last less than three minutes.
000000 No.16680536
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16664395
wrong ones anon
0bba6f No.16680565
>>16637019
The only way this becomes acceptable is if the Steel Sword has some sort of branching path upgrade. So having more than one isn't such a bad feeling.
0ae434 No.16680571
>>16645236
Even *M*A*S*H* had a beach episode, lighten up!
89c608 No.16681497
>>16680775
What is even the point of a strategy game with such a tiny map?
a59b99 No.16681542
>>16680775
VC2 was such a waste of time. How is 3 better?
bd8a91 No.16681551
>>16681497
I don't think it's tiny, there's less empty space than the other Valkyria Chronicles games and that map is just one area of the field. Having multiple areas also nerfs tactics like scout rushing an objective.
b61f7d No.16682986
>Valkyria Chronicles 4
>Ceasefire ensures Empire keeps all their territory including the subjugated nations like the Nord Republic, the Kingdom of Fhirald and the entire more than a 3rd of the Federation that they conquered, but hey at least we didn't use nukes; peace at any cost amirite?
>Valkyria Chronicles 2
>Set 2 years after 4 and the war between Federation and Empire is back in full swing. The 20 million soldiers that died in operation Northern Cross as well as countless partisans and Darscens in Imperial territory along with Raz and Christel died for literally nothing.
"Nukes bad mmkay" - Japan
000000 No.16683164
>>16682986
Getting rid VC2 fixes everything.
>Biological weapons only!
748d52 No.16683224
>game has a forced tutorial
>game has a forced tutorial for every new save
ba50d2 No.16683286
Terraria:
If you get better armor than iron shit the game becomes a walk in the park, if you go to expert mode then every armor below the best one are garbage, then again I could do some try hard shit to beat the bosses but then the game becomes a grind for rare items and building fucking arenas for a single boss
b311e9 No.16683287
Games that don't take being alt tabbed well.
I get extremely anxious if I receive a message that I am unable to check, so I often alt tab out of games. If a game crashes or something after being alt-tabbed, I'll probably stop playing it after a while.
748d52 No.16683293
>>16683286
Terraria: a big grind.
d1a297 No.16683299
>>16683287
Haven't encountered anything like that in a while. Have you tried making your own boarderless windowed mode? Almost every game has a windowed mode, and there's a nice little program called boarderless gaming that will turn any windowed game into a false-fullscreen one.
b311e9 No.16683310
>>16683299
It's mostly a problem with older games, I will check out that program though.
8b3352 No.16683312
>>16683287
>I get extremely anxious if I receive a message that I am unable to check
You're suffering from clinical technology addiction. Get psychiatric help immediately from someone trained in the Jungian school of thought.
>Games that don't take being alt tabbed well.
Borderless Gaming fixes most of that. Old games will crash for no fucking reason at all, usually from alt-tabbing, so there's not much you can do there because Microsoft STILL DOESN'T HAVE A UNIFIED FULL SCREEN FRAMEWORK BUILT INTO WINDOWS LIKE EVERY OTHER OS MANUFACTURER HAS HAD FOR TWENTY FUCKING YEARS.
83b899 No.16683334
Forgot one.
>at title screen
>says press start button to continue
>pressing any button other than start still continues to the main menu
ebbc0c No.16683341
>>16683334
My keyboard doesn't have a "start" button you fucking mong.
89c608 No.16683360
>>16683334
How does that ruin a game? The start button is usually harder to reach than the other buttons, so it's handy to be able to press something else.
83b899 No.16683419
>>16683341
>dumbass can't figure out I'm talking about console games
Of course it doesn't retard. On PC it would be something like press ENTER or some other keyboard/mouse button.
>>16683360
>how does that ruin
It is dumb and I admit it bothers me for equally dumb reasons. Has me mildly annoyed before I even start the game and I can't help it. Just why bother saying press (specific button) when you can press anything to continue anyway. I agree with what you said about ease of use, but I would just like it more if they say press any button to continue instead. Which a lot of games actually do.
c4bb6b No.16684068
>>16682986
>Raz and Christel died for literally nothing
02927e No.16684088
>>16681497
I thought the same, but the multiple map system actually worked better in 2 and 3 than the single large map in 1.
Just play it.
>>16681542
They fixed everything.
>>16683419
So autism?
1390b3 No.16684289
>>16658073
>muh realism
Its not even realistic is the fucking kicker. Its like everyone that says that believe there are no women with big tits in the real world. Hell, one of if not the least shown types of characters in modern video games are chicks with big tits. Its like every game dev believes that big tits don't exist, or that its just "horny men fan service, yikes" even though there are plenty of ripped handsome men in games but no one complains about chicks getting off on that or how its "unrealistic". Its complete fucking insanity and just another sign of how pozzed the industry is.
b61f7d No.16684512
>>16683164
>Getting rid VC2 fixes everything.
Except for the part where where the Empire keeps all their territory including the subjugated nations like the Nord Republic, the Kingdom of Fhirald and the entire more than a 3rd of the Federation that they conquered, meaning you sold out the 20 million dead soldiers and partisans along with multiple entire countries for a peace that is in every single possible way an Imperial victory. Nuking the half abandoned Imperial capital was both the moral and logical choice, but the Jap brain is damaged when it comes to nukes; they'd see nothing wrong with killing millions of innocent people with conventional weapons, but killing a few with a nuke to stop a war is the ultimate evil to them.
000000 No.16686917
>>16683164
>>16683164
Maybe if the actual military weren't such cucks and used the momentum from 3 and 1 to counter-invade we'd at least see some hope for an intermarium situation.
It's not like the empire had many valkyrurs left anyway.
000000 No.16686918
>>16686917
>>16684512
I blame the broken captcha
13743c No.16687944
>sniper keeps avoid shots by lying down
>run a shock trooper point blank
>aim at his boots so once he goes down it'll hit him
>misses
>throw grenade at at him
>doesn't kill him
89c608 No.16687978
>>16687944
Aim at the back of their head and they can't dodge, dummy.
81f4f0 No.16688016
>>16686917
>used the momentum from 3 and 1 to counter-invade
Gallia's constitution forbids them from legally stepping on foreign soil.
Of course, that didn't stop the Nameless, but they were all going to die and went without official support anyway.
>>16687944
>fucking up a puzzle shooter this much
bd8a91 No.16688209
>>16687944
>>16687978
>not sending in scouts to allah ackbar the enemy encampment
000000 No.16692357
>>16688016
>Gallia's constitution forbids them from legally stepping on foreign soil.
Then what the fuck do diplomats do? bring their own guns? does this mean they have absolutely no navy
What about that stupid PMC from 4?
So if the enemy just stays right outside their borders and shells them to rubble they just go nu-uh muh rules?
Not even the swiss are that autistic.
1f21c4 No.16692589
Does EDF5 make you run around and manually pick up all the item drops? I hate that shit.
f8acc9 No.16692638
>do something minor in the game that doesn't really change anything, nor affects any other characters
>it locks off quests/an ending/you from getting a certain item etc..
Why?
aaf233 No.16692652
>>16692589
Yes, though you have a much larger pick up radius now.
2c1842 No.16692684
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
Does it count if the game isn't even out yet?
>game looks fun and has a great aesthetic
>what little of the soundtrack is available at the moment is still stellar
<one of the characters uses "neutral" pronouns so the story mode is confirmed to be faggot shit
At least I can probably pirate the soundtrack eventually.
4a6802 No.16692777
>>16644162
Was it Icewind Dale 1 or 2 with the Golems that are immune to all but a few weapons as the last boss? And to iterate on that: games with only 1 controllable character, where you can create a skill build, but entire areas are designed to completely fuck over specific builds. FUCK YOU MAGGOT LAIR. FUCK YOU NWN'S VERSION OF MEPHISTOPHELES. FUCK DIVINITY ORIGINAL SIN LAST BOSS BEING LIGHTNING IMMUNE.
a523ee No.16692807
>>16636541
Sound design. Nothing kills my enjoyment of a game faster than the standard canned Pistol Shot Sound #2, or Recycled Pain Sound Effect From Goldeneye or whatever
6b49c3 No.16693001
>>16692357
I haven't played 4 yet, so I don't know what it adds.
The point is that they can't invade another country for the purpose of conquest, but I'm pretty sure self-defence would be fine.
The better question is why they signed something so dumb in the first place.
>>16692777
>IWD1
I still haven't beaten him.
That is so stupid, nothing does any damage and traps keep being triggered.
000000 No.16693176
>>16693001
It isn't conquest since they didn't declare the war, just fucking call it a military administrative zone until peace talks like normal countries. No reason to be so autistic about it.
Even switzerland can counter invade too if some idiot declared on them.
b61f7d No.16693310
>>16693176
The Gallian Army can invade wherever the fuck they want, the Gallian Militia is an entirely different organisation. The militia has tight constitutional controls stopping it from being used in an offfensive war or a civil war because it's based on forced conscription and pushing it too far could cause upheval against the government, especially considering it was written before the ragnite revolution. The militia's constitutional role is a pretty major plot point in VC1 and 2, I'm surprised you missed it.
5702f0 No.16693376
Unskippable bullshit that you have to watch on subsequent playthroughs. Because of it I won't play certain games, such as Borderlands. Bloodborne gets a disrespectful nod too, because when co-oping you're forced to watch stupid boss intros unless every player agrees to skip. There are obnoxious assholes who make everyone sit for 3 minutes watching the werewolf chopping heads off, or she-bitch transforming into a giant werewolf.
c7cee9 No.16693621
In VC, they made the Darscen dark-blue haired nigs look like pure good victims and the Valkyrur sound like douchebags even though the Valkyrur overmen needed the ragnite to survive and the Darscens were most likely being dipshits. Plus, the Valkyrur enabled great development in alternative Europe. Fuck those navy blue haired pieces of shit. Mass exile them to a small island and call that island Niggheim.
Also, the Empire did nothing wrong besides appoint deranged commanders. As for gameplay, scouts were a bit overpowered.
cc6afa No.16693847
>Game makes someone out to be a blatant traitor throughout the entire game
>Game pulls a last second asspull where it turns out that while they were the traitor, they only defected at the very ending of the game and that all those moments where it felt like they were snitching on the gang were all coincidental
>Game adds in a character with a lot of potential for interesting character growth and interactions, does absolutely nothing with them and then kills them off out of nowhere
>Having good karma makes the enemies drop better loot
>Game kills off characters abruptly because "it's realistic" while having characters that should've died half a dozen times continue to live with the heaviest plot armor I've ever seen
>Can't run in the home base area or interact with your weapons
>Characters can have you do stuff with them, but you can't have characters come with you to do anything
I could write a fucking novel with all the shit RDR2 pulls that I cannot stand.
89c608 No.16693905
>>16693847
>RDR2
>cuckchan image
You have to go back.
5702f0 No.16694195
>>16693905
>Dragon Ball Z is a cuckchan image
You know what mate? You can suck a fat one.
31e8bb No.16694215
>>16694195
What are filenames Alex?
e6d545 No.16694519
>>16636541
>quest markers
Instant drop. Any game that has a feature this incredibly casual is abhorrent and complete garbage.
f04ac6 No.16694542
Otakubait fanservice pandering
like OP's images.
301512 No.16695040
>>16694215
Hey dumbass; click the (u) next to the filename
2899a4 No.16695072
89c608 No.16695160
>>16695040
The number of digits is different between here and cuckchan, retard.
000000 No.16696154
>>16693310
>Maybe if the actual military weren't such cucks
>>16693621
>a race of hard working, industrious and innnovative people who literally did nothing wrong
>gets shit on by literally god's chosen faggots
>natural affinity with engineering and technical things
>discriminated for being "destructive" or "disastrous"
They aren't kikes anon, they're germans.
Guess whose flag is mostly white and blue
But then again,
>arguing for redistribution of resources
>shilling for the union
>muh progress
>>>/reddit/
>>16695072
fag
02da4d No.16696161
>>16696154
faggot cuck bitch.
39f340 No.16696231
>>16696154
The hatred of Darcsens was very poorly done.
It's really a shame because it had potential, but the writer has a very shallow grasp of discrimination and why it happens.
076ab7 No.16696253
>countering enemy attacks locks you into long, drawn-out animations you can't get out of
>there are enemies that can hit you mid-counter because instead of invincibility frames, they decided enemies should just stop attacking
>and the game makes it out to be your fault you tried to not fail
>sniper has a laser to represent where his line of sight is
>but unlike literally every other enemy in the game he can see you even when you're nowhere near his line of sight, the laser just snaps onto you for no reason even though you're nowhere near where he was looking
>the game gives enemies abilities you will never have access to, including overwatch
>meaning if you accidentally walk into their 'fuck you' circle, which sometimes doesn't show up, they get a free guaranteed hit on you
>not a chance to hit you like in other games
>a guaranteed hit that also goes through the game's equivalent of armor
c5aafb No.16696285
>no rebindable controls
This is why emulators will always be superior.
>games put checkpoints hours apart
This is why I can't stand Platinum's games.
bd503b No.16696349
>sniper fires tracer rounds/has visible lazer sights/lens glare
>everyone in the war fires tracers
000000 No.16696507
>>16696231
On the other hand you could enjoy the magnificent coincidence in this reversal and turn the entire europan lore on it's head.
I hated everything past chapter 4 anyway.
Fuck the feds, fuck the empire and especially fuck the rampant weaponized magical kike girls.
I just wanted Switzerland to win ww2.
13743c No.16696692
>>16664395
imagine being this wrong
317370 No.16698481
>>16636660
>IF HEADSHOT:
> SCREAM=='FALSE'
This is incorrect in every programming language I know
13743c No.16698952
>play chapter 11 or whatever
>okay they add a small tank, cool
>proceed to introduce it in a mission where all you can do with your tank is launch smoke rounds or and shoot a stationary tank
>no use for the light tank
>can't even bring it along one of the narrow paths
8766c2 No.16699073
>>16664294
>Yo Kai Watch 3
alter the system clock?
341d01 No.16699079
>>16683312
Interesting program I will check it out for my Gothic 1 playthrough.
However you did trigger my tism.
>psychiatric
>Jung
The fuck.
Jung shit all over psychiatrists cause they were medic fags that tried to learn about the psyche like they did about the body, meaning through simple memorization of symptoms and (((cures))).
You are right about anon needed some help from jungians but those would be psychologists or psychoanalyst.
8766c2 No.16699085
The classic is the unskippable drawn out cutscene right before some shit where you're probably going to die 10 times before you snag it. Bonus points if it's some cunty boss talking shit over and over.
e2aead No.16699238
>>16636638
Sounds like you need to stop being a little bitch and git gud.
78df8f No.16699309
>>16657158
>Walz
>literally a /fit/ aryan man with a bit of a tan possibly due to being in the sun a lot
>A nigger
Why am I replying to a post from 15 days ago?
873b77 No.16699312
>>16699309
This isn't facebook, people will read both posts.
And chances are he might as well.
f0adc6 No.16699940
>>16699312
Where's the shitter cap, "omg u replied to a tweet from a week ago fucking stalker"
dcb060 No.16699984
I never played any Valkyria Chronicles games but i know the setting and basic stuff, i just wanna know what happened with selvaria, she is like an edgy villain sephiroth-like boss.
89c608 No.16699999
>>16699984
She was devoted to some loser prince and allahu akbar'd herself for him. Waste of good tits.
dcb060 No.16700017
>>16699999
>prince
They cant decide if the empire is like the germans or the russians (even if all the towns have the same rural german architecture), lets pretend her planet needed her.
also lets see the >>16700000 get.
e2aead No.16700044
>>16637664
No take backsies.
313fa0 No.16700097
>>16637011
This is retarded, it's like a "hey don't you have too much fun OK".
fdf44e No.16700102
>>16700011
Impressive. Very nice.
e2aead No.16700125
>>16654376
>>Character is intrinsically locked to your account, meaning that once you edit it the first time that's it, you can't play as another / modify it / play with weaker or different shit unless you fork over extra money
That can summarized as "microtransactions".
7900e3 No.16700190
>>16636855
>>16699999
Never playing. Fuck that shit.
e2aead No.16700207
>>16664457
>And when you uninstall the game, the screenshots/save files aren't deleted.
>>16664482
>That's kinda the point.
Any decent uninstaller asks you whether you want to delete save data as well.
>>16664581
A man of taste.
>>16693376
>because when co-oping you're forced to watch stupid boss intros unless every player agrees to skip.
I think that only applies to the host, and that only applies if it's the first time the host is fighting the boss.
>>16694519
Even Yakuza?
e2aead No.16700209
>>16700207
>Forgot spoiler
05f6c1 No.16700232
RPGs that pad their dialogue with endless screeds of slice of life small talk.
f04ac6 No.16700262
>>16700232
I fucking hate this trope
bb4ecb No.16700274
I hate negotiating with demons in smt games. Even if you give those ungrateful little shits what they want, THERE'S STILL a chance that they'll be a bitch and run off with your money.
e2aead No.16700279
>>16700274
Isn't their agreeableness effected most greatly by luck or level, and then choices you make have a more minor effect on it?
05f6c1 No.16700310
>>16700274
>Nocturne
>Not the most realistic demonic pilpul simulator ever made
Slowly he began to hate them.
68048b No.16700383
>>16700274
That's why they fixed it in smt4 so hitting end negotiations has a 100% success rate.
000000 No.16700411
>>16700017
Glorious.
>>16700232
I wouldn't mind it if it wasn't pure padding, since a good writer can fit a lot in those small moments.
d62c60 No.16700420
>>16700279
It's all numbers, it's easier to recruit in SMT1 by just pumping points into INT, Luck gives you different conversations. Demon conversation makes more sense in 2 and SJ, 3 is pretty chaotic.
ab2f2a No.16700422
>>16700232
I like personal moments between characters with what they did in SO3 and Tales games.
>have an JRPG with spaceships, warp technology, aliens, lazers, interplanetary politics, space wars
>all of it is in the background and you spend most of it in an medeval fantasy
I love this game but fuck me I can look back on this and realize where my hate for a lot of things in JRPGs and storytelling in general come from
Also
>A character being forced on you as a party member even though you don't want them
>permanently take up a slot that could have been used for someone else
Fuck Adray Lazbard
Also FFTA games are guilty of that too
b61f7d No.16700582
>>16700017
Not everything needs to be a direct WW2 analogy, back when VC threads were regular that was the thing that most infuriated me about discussion; some people just have an autistic need for everything to have a 1:1 analogy with real life or else how else could the story be an allegory? Because every story is an allegory now. Completely fucking insane. I feel like either narratives or people's conceptions of them have been funnelled over time into a cultural database of conventions and clichés, and that anything that even slightly deviates from obvious derivatives in pop culture or pop history is to some, perhaps most people, like looking at a colour that doesn't exist, they just try to describe it using colours they know.
003b0b No.16700877
>>16700274
Go out on the street and beg guys in suits for money. You could just as well get a dude tell you to fuck off as you could get a dude to give you 10 bucks and a hambaagaa. I'm not sure why you expect every single demon to have a deterministic reliable personality. You might as well just RP and pick which answer you like instead of trying to exclusively game it. I might also add that meeting someone's demands exactly as they want it in real life is a good way to tell them you're a fucking patsy and easy as hell to push around.
>>16700420
I replayed SJ recently and it definitely has a more reasonable system, each demon has a chance of still flipping their shit or liking what you say regardless, but their race and personality type has a big impact on their preferences towards answers which makes it a bit more logical. Frankly I like that demon negotiation isn't deterministic, it makes them seem more lively and it is a video game after all, if I only cared about stats and skills I'd just play a spreadsheet.
eeab06 No.16700888
>>16700886
Do you play military sims exclusively
e2aead No.16700936
>>16700422
>>all of it is in the background and you spend most of it in an medeval fantasy
Welcome to Star Ocean. This is every game.
000000 No.16703253
>>16700886
You talking about BF or CoD?
6392af No.16703385
>The character crouches before they jump
24b749 No.16703404
>>16637664
Underrated post.
abac50 No.16703444
>>16637664
Metal Gear Survive, you only get one save slot and have to pay $10 to get another… fuck Konami
abac50 No.16703447
>>16703445
They fucked over kojima
6fdb6d No.16707558
Are the darcsens jews? Is this a kike gayme?
1ca031 No.16707607
>>16699999
Quints don't lie. The massive faggot of a prince got off too easy for throwing her away. The VC4 DLC quest with her and Crymaria proves she's suffering from serious Stockholm syndrome from all the brainwashing and torture regiments as a kid. I think the anime goes more into it, but I never bothered watching it since it's supposedly mediocre.
>>16707558
VC1 was heavy with the analogy of Darcsen = Jews, including the racial discrimination and prison camps. Still there in VC4, but more relegated to a couple squad mate side stories. If there's any significant WW2 parallel in VC4, it involves the morality debate over nuking Japan.
89c608 No.16707624
>>16707607
>tfw you will never save and marry selvaria
0870a4 No.16707626
1. Dynamic Menus
2. Subversive agenda characters and dialogue
3. Historical Revisionism
4. Alternate History as a backdrop
5. J-pop
6. Steampunk
a1d49f No.16707637
Unskippable splash screens every time you start up the game. Close to being a deal breaker every time it happens.
c5aafb No.16707656
>>16636855
>fuck having a cute girl, I want a stronk edgy independent woman who don't need no man!
e2aead No.16707692
c5aafb No.16707703
>>16707692
>it's bait because I don't like it
Yeah, and Hitler was baiting the jews with his policies.
943552 No.16707708
>game has a rank system
>it's based on time/number of moves
>no way to boost yourself to a higher rank by killing everyone or special targets
Valkyria Chronicles is the worst for this making you use nothing but scouts if you want an A rank.
89ef65 No.16707713
>>16707626
>Alternate History as a backdrop
I assume you mean Harry Turtledove alternate history, not just a work claiming to be "historically authentic".
89c608 No.16707729
>>16707656
Uh, she's definitely not a strong independent woman. Did you even play VC?
3ac240 No.16707737
>>16707708
This so much. I was really enjoying the game up until I started experimenting with scouts and discovered how all missions without a gimmick can be cheesed in 1 or 2 turns with a single scout.
And I already hated the gimmicks for destroying my ability to use units and tactics that I liked so adding on how scouts entirely bypass "normal" gameplay I just dropped the game.
There's fun to be had. It's just a shame there is an objectively correct way to play the game that you are punished for not taking advantage of.
d1a297 No.16707739
>>16707708
>game has a rank system
That's all you needed to say really. It's always terrible. At best, it's superfluous. At worst, the game's "difficulty" is designed around inflating your score rather than actually overcoming the (non-existent) challenge the game offers.
904943 No.16707763
>>16636879
Male Shephard has much better delivery of dry humor. Femshep tries to hard so it comes off as insincere, which a lot of female VAs do probably without realizing it.
0870a4 No.16707902
>>16707708
>>16707737
>>16707739
You should all try Operation Darkness then, where the weight of your gear and weapon, the number of ammo come into play.
16fe92 No.16710094
>>16707708
The ranking isn't even important.
You can beat the whole game with level 1 classes and equipment (there was some JP madman who did that with VC1 but I can't find his videos now, there is someone who did it for VC4 though).
It's only really important to you the first time so you can prove to yourself that "you can do it," but it's only a puzzle you're solving in the end.
Just play it however you want and don't let the rankings bother you.
Enjoy the damn game, don't let the devs bash your head in with their nonsense.
a00765 No.16710124
>>16636541
>Equip item that gives +5% damage to melee
>Equip item that gives +15% damage to swords
>Equip item that gives +10% to all damage
>This comes at the cost of taking 50% more damage
>I should now do +30% damage in melee, with my sword
>I should now take 50% more damage in melee, with my sword
>Only do +6%
>Still take 50%
>Go online to figure out why my build sucks so hard
>Game is full of hidden nerfs and Orwellian game mechanics for "balance reasons"
>This isn't even an oversight, the devs specifically patched the game to work this way
Fuck you Dark Souls 3, fuck you so goddam hard you steaming pile of shit. I miss games like Morrowind or Heroes of Might and Magic 3 where, if you played your cards right and used the game mechanics cleverly, you could do some serious bullshit.
24676c No.16710169
>>16710124
DS3 still stacks multiplicatively +15%/+15% becomes 130% of base damage. (Its structure is shit and linear)
Also your greentext isn't referring to any DShit3 modifiers, what you describe IS bullshit however and somehow more extreme than normal diminishing returns.
24676c No.16710171
>>16710169
132% of base damage, how the fuck did my 2 become 0?
a00765 No.16710199
>>16710169
I was just giving an example using some easy numbers. I've played a lot of games that do this, DS3 was just one of the worst offenders in recent memory. I haven't played it in a while, but some bullshit I do remember it doing includes:
>Modifiers are radically different in PvP vs. PvE. The game never tells you this.
>Buffs like that Call of the Deep miracle, That Bloodlust pyromancy, and that Sunlight miracle have their effects absurdly minimized if their are any other players in your world
>Estoc was OP, had to be nerfed into oblivion
>Straight Swords are generally OP, had to be nerfed
>Fist weapons are OP for parrying, had to be nerfed
>Small shields are OP, had to be nerfed
>Carthus Curved Great Sword had to be nerfed 4 separate times.
>Buffs used on dual weapons had to be nerfed into oblivion
>Items/armor that effect Sorcery potency had to be nerfed
I know there's a lot more, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. The devs were absolutely desperate to keep you from having any fun with that game. Hell, even DS2, buggy unfinished mess that it was, was more balanced that this.
Also, quick sidenote, nothing to do with DS3:
>Game lets you build/ gives you a character based around debuffs and damage over time effects
>Every boss is 99% immune to all debuffs and damage over time effects.
e2aead No.16721403
>>16721222
But this encourages playing smart and discourages overleveling as a solution to tough enemies. Generally in the games this system is implemented in, you'd have decent stats by the end as long as were a grinding nigger and you'd have good stats if you played carefully. Pairing this system with random encounters that can't be escaped is gay though.
b0e9c1 No.16721470
>>16710199
>The devs were absolutely desperate to keep you from having any fun with that game.
No fucking kidding, i never got over them nerfing armor so hard it became useless. From fell for their own prepare to die bullshit and it ruined the series.
d367c1 No.16722169
>when you learn that all the grinding and hard work you put into the game (leveling up, getting better gear and items, etc) is only good for fighting the next boss (then having to grind even longer than last time for the next boss), or is pointless since the end game boss(es) don't even provide a challenge at that point (even worse when the game's story forces you to see your character(s) getting beat after stomping the boss' head in).
>the game constantly takes control away from you either for plot in general or to have the game do the badass moment for you (this killed the Yakuza games for me).
>unskippable cutscenes (or even a way to fast forward through them)
>most of the sequel just rehashes what made a previous installment successful
>game gives you choices on how to handle a situation, but either makes it pointless or the devs make one choice a "wrong" one and tries to make you feel bad for choosing it (even worse when the sequel forces one choice the canon one).
>features removed or simplified in a sequel for a "wider audience"
>all the shit plaguing modern games
On the plus side of all of this, it's helped me find what genres I enjoy (RTS/Tactics, classic FPS, beat 'em ups, classic games in general) and discover really good games I missed out on.
661799 No.16722232
>Game dev does the shotgun thing
c7cee9 No.16722258
They made the Darscens sound oh so innocent and made them have a tragic past while making the Valkyrur sound evil when they needed ragnite to live. It would have been better had the calamity been really committed by the Darscens.
Also, there was a glitch in the Steam version that caused my soldiers to fall through the map in one scenario when trying to talk down stairs.
The scouts were overpowered as a sidenote.
Oh and besides appointing deranged commanders, the Empire was doing nothing wrong. An Imperial campaign would have been great and had the Darscens been rounded up, they should be sent to a tiny prison island renamed "Niggheim" or "Niggland."
The game also seems to promote demonizing Germanic/Nordic people who are proud of who they are by continuing to make them and anyone who supports the ethno-linguistic group Proto-Indo-European sound awful.
cffbf0 No.16722468
>>16710199
>>16722169
>Pick a magic build to play through the game
>Die like a bitch until I learn how to dodge because I poured all my stats into magic, vitality and soaking hits is for pussies, I want to obliterate
>get real fucking good
>Magic does do less damage then melee, but as a ranged tradeoff I think that's fine
>Get to a boss late in the game
>80 FUCKING PERCENT MAGIC AND FIRE RESISTANCE
>Every boss after that has this absurd resistance
>In a game where respecs are limited
>Switch to a melee build after looking up notes so I don't get fucked
>COMPLETELY STEAMROLL
So the game has a casual build, it's 30 Strength/Dex with 40 Vitality, and stats just stop giving returns after a certain point, so you can't actually play a certain way, literally, because even with the best gear and spells and putting all your flasks into magic restoration so you can spam magic, you literally do plinky fucking damage to all bosses past a certain point and you do shit all in PVP for some reason. Why include magic at all?
Why include armor, either? it literally does basically nothing, and weapons are always more valuable.
You're literally better off stripping and running through the entirety of DS3 with a great club, that was a challange run in DS1 and DS2, in DS3 it's an optimal build.
7334de No.16722708
>>16722258
They did make the other side just as bad (if not worse in some aspects after what happens in 4). The side you play on in 1 is a country fighting to defend their homeland, only siding with the "allies" since they promised to not absorb them into their group (only to later try to kidnap the princess of your country to force the country to join them later on).
Considering they were trying to show the good and bad of both sides, I'm surprised they didn't do the same with the valkyrurs and darscens as well (though I'm sure SEGA would've angered certain (((groups))) if they did that).
b200b5 No.16722871
>>16707637
just delete the video files in the game folder anon
