I hate games that contain X

[Silva]

What element makes any game automatically abhorrent for you ?

For me its Zombies. I simply can't stand any zombie games, no matter how apparently good or even lavishly praised it is. I'll vomit if I try it. Tolkienesque fantasy comes a close second. I love actually fantastic games (like KoDP, Planescape, etc) but if I see some generic goody-goodie elfs boo-boo Orcs, I wanna crush it with the hate of 10.000 mujahedeens.

How about you, bros ?

 

[racofer]

QTEs

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

QTEs and characters who are invincible for no good reason (Bethesda is really guilty of the latter)

 

[TripJack]

women

 

[himmy]

I saw the thread title and was about to launch in a staunch defence of Sam and Max, Lords of Xulima and Crazy Taxi, before I realised you didn't meant the letter X.

 

[Saber-Scorpion]

anime.

 

[Ivan]

Water levels. When I was a kid the giant eel in Mario 64 ruined me.

Fuck: Banjo Kazooie's sharks, Majora's Mask's eels, Dark Souls' Hydras, Mario Galaxy's eels.


Also, I hate it when you solve a puzzle in a game and the game takes control away from you and shows you a cutscene of the path that you just opened (LIKE A FUCKING AUDIO CUE WASN'T ENOUGH looking at you Zelda, Metroid Prime)

 

[Silva]

Water levels. When I was a kid the giant eel in Mario 64 ruined me..

Oh boy I hear you. Took me a long time to go back and brave that eel in Mario 64. I think I would still tremble if I faced it today.

 

[Ivan]

Makes taking showers and applying shampoo difficult to this day.



One other thing, ENCUMBRANCE. Just give me a fucking inventory a la Deus Ex.

 

[felipepepe]

Develoeprs that are not called Tim Cain. :3

Ok, seriously, I hate games with level-scaling.

 

[Sranchammer]

Anything that is generic swords and shields, magic,

 

[Zombra]

Anything where the inventory system is a bigger pain in the ass than it absolutely has to be.

 

[Cassidy]

Sticky cover.

If a game mostly involves sticking behind invulnerable crates and popping moles, I don't give a fuck what other "merits" it has, for in my perspective, it will always be a popamole piece of shit for consoletards.

 

[oscar]

What element makes any game automatically abhorrent for you ?

For me its Zombies. I simply can't stand any zombie games, no matter how apparently good or even lavishly praised it is. I'll vomit if I try it. Tolkienesque fantasy comes a close second. I love actually fantastic games (like KoDP, Planescape, etc) but if I see some generic goody-goodie elfs boo-boo Orcs, I wanna crush it with the hate of 10.000 mujahedeens.

How about you, bros ?

On that note fantasy and historical settings with modern (or even worse, SJW) sensibilities what always coincides with a bland setting in general. I particularly like games that do the opposite i.e KoDP encouraging you to think like an Orlanthi chieftain with trying to apply 21st century common 'logic' often backfiring.

 

[pippin]

I agree, when it's all about zombies it's boring as hell. Don't mind general undead species, though. Skelletons are some sort of guilty pleasure of mine because Harryhausen feels.
Mechanically I hate puzzles that come out of the blue, are arbitrarily timed or present some sort of made up challenge which disrupt the whole feel of the game in question.

 

[Goat Vomit]

L1brul history tiem ranks pretty high up on the list of showstoppers for me.

The worst IMO must be unoptimized code and shitty game engines, nothing can put me off a game more than that. Retardo console devs who cannot into data compression are a plague too, have skipped games just because they simply were too big to be worth it.

 

[SCO]

Level scaled randomized loot, the lazy dev answer to filling their dungeons with crap to make it appear they have content. I'm speaking of you larian, to make a U7 you need more harmonious lore, especially geographic, attached to handplaced loot. If you want to randomize loot, if you fucking must, create a seed at the start of the game so chests don't change the fucking loot on reload.

 

[Raapys]

I don't like randomized loot much either, but I didn't find it to be a curse in Diablo2, which leads me to believe it's more about the implementation than the concept itself. As a concept I'd have to go with level-scaled whatever. Enemies, loot, etc., doesn't matter. Boring as fuck. Other than that it's mostly technical, like crappy camera/controls.

 

[hoverdog]

the words "bethesda" or "bioware" written in the "developer:" part

 

[warpig]

Quick Time fucking Events, I hate this stuff. Also linear level desing and "action movie" type structure in popamole shooters, too much scripting (that depends on the genre though), handholding, lack of variety of enemies, shitty "modern movie" forgettable music. Story wise: "americanism" us soldiers(or space marines styled after them) saving the day and SJW-ism(stronk wimyn with stupid feminist one liners, faggotry etc.), dumb "important message" type of stories etc.

 

[AN4RCHID]

Is there a name for that thing in Assassin's Creed and Twitcher where your control inputs won't take effect until the appropriate animation cycle is complete? Makes games nigh unplayable for me.

 

[warpig]

Oh yeah that thing is also annoying as fug, I don't think there's a name for it though.

 

[Norfleet]

What element makes any game automatically abhorrent for you ?

SPYWARE.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I'm not sure if there's any element/feature/setting that's truly bad, just not used properly.

 

[warpig]

Oh, and another thing: WoW style graphics.
ALSO: BUYING VIRTUAL STUFF WITH REAL MONEY, F2P etc, I would love to get my hands on the people who invented it, Auschwitz would be a picnic compared to what I would do to those greedy little shits.