Are there any words or phrases that will instantly turn you away from a game?

[anvi]

story driven is codename for bad gameplay

+1

 

[Beowulf]

Early Access

Procedural generation
Zombies

 

[Neki]

Modern, cinematic take on fantasy, almost movie-like

I keep an open mind.

Speaking of which, can anyone recommend a great dating sim? Haven't played a dating sim yet. Don't know Japanese.

http://tss.asenheim.org/
http://tss.asenheim.org/

 

[Jaesun]

RPG Game

 

[anvi]

Lol. RIP in peace.

 

[GuiltyofBeingTrite]

cover system with auto regenerating health

 

[Zorba the Hutt]

RPGWatch Editor's Choice

 

[anvi]

cover system with auto regenerating health

:/ Also known as godmode.

 

[pippin]

"a deep game with character customization, tons of replayabilty and deep moral choices"

99,5% of the time this is not true

 

[Somberlain]

"It pushes the medium forward"
"Citizen Kane of video games"

 

[AArmanFV]

Kojima
Old-school
Spiritual Successor
Good Story
It's so good (from any guy who I know that don't understand videogames)
Deep Game
Square-Enix
The majority of games in a list of "Top 10 game of all time" (with mixed genres of course, those "experts" comparing apples with pears )

 

[taxalot]

Empowering.

 

[taxalot]

How could I forget ?

These ones :

"PS4 exclusive
XONE exclusive
WII U exclusive
NDS exclusive"

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

"Immersive"

 

[octavius]

Transgender companion.

 

[Dwemer Puzzle Box]

"Bioware"

 

[AN4RCHID]

Early Access

Procedural generation
Zombies

This.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm sick of hearing about "living, breathing world", but pretty much any catchphrase can give out sleazy salesman talk. I hate it when they bring a developer out in a trailer and he starts yammering about "environmental storytelling", "cinematic experience", etc. Just watch any Dishonored II narrated demonstration video and listen to them hitting checkmarks in what they say.

 

[nomask7]

How did cinematic ever become a thing in video games? It's so much less immersive than just being allowed to play the damn game. If we're talking about dialogue, then I find that games that don't switch into some sort of a cutscene are a lot more immersive (Dark Souls does it right). Heck, just being allowed to read text bubbles like in old CRPGs is more immersive than the camera panning out and enacting a fucking movie scene in the middle of game.

 

[Somberlain]

Game developers and gamers are still insecure nerds and feel a need to be validated by older, more respected media.

 

[anvi]

I remember when being an "interactive movie" was all the rage with games like 7th Guest and Under a Killing Moon. I thought everyone got over it 25 years ago but it returned again, I think because millennials have never actually been to a cinema so it is super awesome for them.

p.s. I love how her arms have fewer polys than her boobs.

 

[octavius]

I wonder how many gigabytes modern games get bloated with just to have bouncing breasts when the female actors NPCs move?

 

[Gepeu]

"mature"

that's when you know it will be a cringe fest

 

[anvi]

I wonder how many gigabytes modern games get bloated with just to have bouncing breasts when the female actors NPCs move?

10gig per boob.

 

[octavius]

I wonder how many gigabytes modern games get bloated with just to have bouncing breasts when the female actors NPCs move?

10gig per boob.

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