Worst Video Game Cliches

General Discussion
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Drunken thread time:

ok, after playing video games for like 3 decades almost, there are some always present factors of games that piss me off. This is our thread to vent abou stupid shit that’st in every game/genre that makes us want to ragequit like a boss. Such as:

  1. invisible walls. You lazy fucking programmers, this should have died out with distance fog.

  2. invincible enemies. Fuck you I’m a beast, if I wanna kill Chpon whenever I meet him, I should.

  3. Stores charging me money/blowjobs/gold/gil for potions. It’s doomsday, I saved your miserable country/town/planet/city/sexy daughter. Why u making me pay full price to save all of existance?

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Losing all of your abilities after a short introduction level.

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  1. That’s the level designer’s fault not the programmer.
  2. Yeah those are bad, but can be funny when put on piracy protection.
  3. That is only on Rpgs that don’t allow you to make potions (or barter with enemies shout outs to megami tensei).
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for fighting games: The Negro who Punches you.

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There are so many to name. Seriously, the whole video game industry is a cliche at this point

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gamers blame programmers for everything smh

I guess pointless parts of maps grind my gears. I always search everything and exploring rooms/alleys that are completely empty gets annoying. At least throw some decorative easter egg item in there.

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  • Game’s that make me learn or buy the ability to dodge and/or parry. Why the fuck isn’t basic defensive maneuvers available to me from the start?

  • Developers that throw in RPG elements into their game and believe it will automatically give their game depth

  • Game’s with level scaling. When I spend X amount of time grinding my ass off I demand to be OP. I’m looking at you Oblivion.

  • Game’s that have enemies attack each other and stop once you show up. One of the things I fucking hated about Prototype. Infected and Blacklight dudes are killing other and then decide to team up once you get in their sights. Why even have this if I can’t pick up the scarps?

  • Regen Health. If my character don’t have the abilities of a spartan then he shouldn’t able to get all his health back by hiding behind a wall for 10 seconds.

  • Heavy scripted campaigns. This is a video game, I should be able to play however I damn well please. I don’t want to game to tell me I can’t do something because it’s off script. If a developer wants to have a tight leash on how I experience a story then they should do movies, books, comics or something.

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Bullets are made of putty and Knives are made of pain.

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Sound bytes/dialogue that adds nothing. That ish should’ve died with Duke Nukem.

Sent to the Internet with Smoke Signaltalk. Buy your matches and blanket in the Trading Outlet for $20 shipped. Firewood sold separately.

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You fellas meet the missus?

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Bitchy/whiny/moody spiky-haired characters in bland games.
There’s only so much I can take before I turn the game off.

Also black stereotypes.

And also what FPS’s have become lately. I remember when I actually enjoyed playing these; nowadays I avoid them.

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After you have completed your mighty quest to find the object that will save the known universe, it will either get lost, get stolen, or will not work.

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u finally finish that game it took u forever to make it happen, then u get a joke of ending.

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The only cliche’ or “trendy” thing I don’t like currently is the abundance of quick-time events. If something cool is about to possibly happen, I’d rather be in direct control of my character while it’s going on. It’s a lot more satisfying when that bad-ass moment is more directly based on what the player can do, as opposed to a scripted event where the game just tells you “hey, hit the A button right now”.

Oh yeah-- automatically scaled enemies, leveling up with you. I’m not sure how common that is, but it seems to remove the point of leveling up, imo. It makes sense if that’s relegated to one specific mode, like an “Insane Mode!” where the enemies will always be more powerful than the player character… but in the normal game, why is there “leveling up” if a common “bandit” or other cannon-fodder type enemy is going to be just as strong when you’re level 20 as he was when you were level 1? I think it makes more sense to scale the enemy “power level” to their location.

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“An ancient evil awakens”

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Splash screens. Fuck that garbage. Nobody gives a shit who published, produced, developed, or what engine, sound files, ect it has. I wanna play. Now.

I miss NES. Press power > select number of players > playing.

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I don’t care about whether something is a cliche and more about how well the cliche is pulled off.

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finding random diaries in the game. :bluu:

TLD fucking R

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That helicopter you are in?

It’s going to crash.

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I haven’t played any RPGs made in the last 200 years, but do they still do the trope where, after you complete your first mission, you come back to your home village and it’s been burned to the ground, for some reason? It was very popular in the 90s. You go out to buy a sandwich, you come back, EVERYTHING IS IN FLAMES.