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[Ainem Enamas]

in HL2 there's weapon durability
(let us be fucking led by the Holy Trinity

 

[KyoZz]

This:

In any game.

 

[killatopak]

microtransactions.

You know shit was made for the whales.

 

[Baemono]

Non-skippable tutorials
the "We just need to walk across the street" and it takes 1 hour and 75 detours to get there

 

[Cakeboxer]

Too many cinematics/cutscenes when you can just walk or do nothing.

 

[deriks]

Too many cinematics/cutscenes when you can just walk or do nothing.

So the last few games from Kojima

 

[calistan]

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!

 

[Labadal]

Level scaling

 

[MrRibeye]

(let us be fucking led by the Holy Trinity

Stop cursing bro, walk as He walked

 

[ShaiKhulud1989]

Timer

 

[Ainem Enamas]

So the last few games from Kojima

I'm playing Phantom Pain, and it's like a movie. Greatly made cutscenes, but it's a game

 

[rodrigolfp]

Aim assist in anything. Ruined .

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Stop cursing bro, walk as He walked

The word 'fucking' suited for that sentence, sometimes you need stronger words

 

[Ainem Enamas]

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

 

[PeteBull]

Durability/gear getting destroyed over time with no way to repair it.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Time limits.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Durability/gear getting destroyed over time with no way to repair it.

I'm playing TOTK and i actually enjoy weapon durability, it adds to your strategy how carefully you need to play the game

 

[Sabejita]

 

[bbeach123]

level-5 games : no difficulty setting .

Fromsoft game : have difficulty setting.

 

[TintoConCasera]

I'd love to see a mod for Sekiro that replaces all the parry sounds with farts.

Game ruined? Maybe. Maybe not.

 

[executor]

Free-to-play. Could ruin everything..

 

[Jack Videogames]

The Five Unholy Words

 

[Griffon]

in HL2 there's weapon durability
(let us be fucking led by the Holy Trinity

Just to be pedantic, HL2 already has a similar mechanic were weapons become useless if you use them too much, it's called ammunition.

 

[Magic Carpet]

A compass in Borderlands instead of a minimap.

 

[Vlodril]

As others have said time limits. Hate them. Let me play with my own pace.

 

[SomeNorseGuy]

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

Spoiler: Holy Trinity?

 

[Duchess]

Unskippable cutscenes. Especially before a really tough segment / boss.

 

[LokusAbriss]

Furries

 

[Audiophile]

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.

 

[Hashassin]

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.

 

[Aion002]

Furries

This.

I have a huge aversion to anthropomorphic animals, since I was a kid I hated characters like bugs bunny and sonic.

 

[ReyBrujo]

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.

 

[dDoc]

Investors. Remove them from the equation, and gaming will be better off.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

Just to be pedantic, HL2 already has a similar mechanic were weapons become useless if you use them too much, it's called ammunition.

Yea, but if gravity gun or crowbar has durability

 

[The Mad Draklor]

Cringey "Marvel" dialogue.

 

[Ainem Enamas]

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.

That's usually in story driven games, that are trying to appeal to movie watchers

 

[Ainem Enamas]

This.

I have a huge aversion to anthropomorphic animals, since I was a kid I hated characters like bugs bunny and sonic.

Gaming needs AAAA Bugs Bunny game

 

[RoboFu]

 

[mopspear]

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.

 

[winjer]

Mouse acceleration.

 

[PlayStaytion]

Gambling.

 

[Zacfoldor]

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

 

[JustaStupidBoulder]

Forced walking segments.

But it lasts the entire game.

When the NPC walks faster than you do but slower than you run...

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

Escort missions where you fail if they take damage or die

 

[sigmaZ]

X as the menu button

 

[Londo]

Motion controls

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.

 

[JohnSpartanLee]

Adaptive difficulty

 

[AndrewRyan]

Slow walking. If my thumb is sore from holding down the damn sprint button the entire game (*cough* *rockstar*) the walking is too slow.

 

[Killjoy-NL]

Xbox management to any game.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

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