Add one (non-specific) thing to ruin a game

This:
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In any game.
 
Motion controls - e.g. Mario Odyssey (shake the console for special moves), 90% of the Wii library and everything ever released for Kinect.

Fuck motion controls!
 
I mostly wanted for you to add something to a single game, to ruin it, like in the OP, but it's still okay when you write as in general
 
I'd love to see a mod for Sekiro that replaces all the parry sounds with farts.

Game ruined? Maybe. Maybe not.
 
Fallout 4 - Being able to tell Preston Garvey to go fuck himself, side with the raiders or put a bullet in his head.

How could we experience Todd & Emils magnum opus of a story if we started off with that kind of player agency. No sir, only a token degree of player freedom for me please and thank you.

❤️Radiant Quests❤️

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Heavily-limited movement in certain areas (think the camp in RDR2).

It's one thing to shave a little top speed off, but slowing the player to an absolute crawl is incredibly annoying.
 
Forced walking segments.

But it lasts the entire game.

Edit: HEY! That emoji is negative, innit? Does that imply someone here likes forced walking segments?

Everyone, get your porches and titforks. We've got a turd in the punchbowl.
 
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Level caps.

Playing Tactics Ogre Reborn, you are capped at level 14, enemies are level 16, once they lift the cap and let you reach level 20 enemies are already level 22 so you are 6 levels behind and will get your butt spanked unless you "train" to grind your troops to your next cap so you can fight the stages, but then you spend the next 5-10 stages without getting any experience since you have already capped in the training area. Fuck this, as a dungeon crawler player let me grind my ass off. Now with the final boss and have no way of killing him because I choose the wrong story path and my option is basically start fresh from an old save and rethink my troops based on what I know now about the final boss.
 
Audiophile said:
Heavily-limited movement in certain areas (think the camp in RDR2).

It's one thing to shave a little top speed off, but slowing the player to an absolute crawl is incredibly annoying.
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That's usually in story driven games, that are trying to appeal to movie watchers
 
This bring up a bigger point. We should consider whether certain game mechanics that are a "given" to have are even necessary and beneficial to the enjoyment of the player. For example, if you're not playing a realistic shooter, you don't need to be reloading. Once they took it out of modern DOOM games, it got me thinking about this. We can look further back to Quake II and Quake 4. Quake II didn't have reloading but Quake 4 did. Your railgun now has an awful three(!) round magazine. Even if it didn't, that gun fires so slow that you could assume it was reloaded after every shot.
 
Unskippable cutscenes. This shit pisses me off just thinking about it. Do not make me watch a cutscene before I fight a boss, even if it is just the first time! I know you wasted a lot of time on that shit but if you left it out of the game completely nobody would care. Skip that shit on action games and just go straight to combat and your game will be better, I don't give a shit how cool you think your cutscene is or how much time you spend to make it Lies of P. Do not EVER force me to watch anything.

Think of Asmongold playing a boss. Now imagine there is no cutscene and it just goes straight to combat. Does he complain there is no cutscene? No. He PREFERS it I'm sure like most of us would. Fuck that cutscene. Just leave it out but DO NOT make me watch it. Make it optional if you must waste your time.

Slowing my walking down in order to show me something. Taking control from my character in general.

Unnecessary unskippable tutorials for what I can only assume are people who have never played a game in their life.

Woke shit. /groan
 
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Completely out of context but reading this triggered a memory from last week.

I was talking to a colleague and he tells me that he had to use the contact section of his bank app, but he couldn't break free from a vicious loop of stupid AI generated responses.
Then he calls a number from the bank website and the dude at the phone tells him to SHAKE its device when he got to a certain screen, because it will initiate a call from a "real person" within the app.

I wasn't believing it, but it was sadly true. In that screen there wasn't any indication whatsoever for this "feature", but when he shook its phone it magically appeared the phrase "we're finding help for you" and then the call would begin.

Why? The only thing I could think of it's because the bank is forced by law to give its customer a way to contact a real person, but to keep that department small and avoid thousands of calls they choose to hide that thing.

Unbelievable.
 
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