Gaming tropes that need to change or end!

One gaming trope I often think about is the overarching convoluted plot in JRPGs with a million final boss variations you have to fight until you fight the real final boss lol. Also, often in those cases you can’t save and have to fight them one after another. But I love my JRPGs, so maybe we can just tweak them to be more interesting and less formulaic?

How about you, SW? What gaming tropes should change or end in your opinion?

Don’t really think gaming tropes are bad on their own per se. Some games do them better then others. It all depends on how they are implemented.

Designing games around micro-transactions and excessive monetization.

Having to walk through crawl spaces, mud, or slow heavy doors to mask loading times.

@Zero_epyon: why would just rather prefer actually loading screens??

My pick would definitely be crafting in rpgs… outside of a few select games I am sick and tired of hoarding every little thing you find with you, just for the off chance that you will need it in a recipe 3 chapters later!!! I mean who haven’t tried finding the recipe for the sword of ultimate doom, just to realize that you need 3 rat whiskers ( which haven’t dropped from mobs the last 20 levels) and a piece of dry wood that you haven’t seen since chapter 1….

dark souls etc games... that have bad lvl/ game mechanics to make it hard. seeing programing real a.i. to make it challenging is very very hard.

With the new consoles, I'm hoping developers can take advantage of the SSDs and design their games around their fast transfer speeds. The only reason those crawl spaces exist is that they're designed around regular HDDs. It drove me nuts while playing Ragnarok.

I refer to my Tomb Raider comment...

For all the creators' attempts at making these games cinematic, they don't actually understand movies at all. Do they think a good film director doesn't want the viewer to feel a sense of danger for the character as they walk along a ledge or whatever? The kind of automation, magnetic walking and invisible walls protecting the player nowadays are completely antithetical to what a movie scene with that same scenario tries to convey. Canned animations of the character squeezing between two walls again and again just make the thing feel more artificial and make you feel less like the adventurer in that movie you like, because of how the control is taken away from you.

Automated gameplay, adding fluff to make a game longer, and not trust the player to be able to do basic things are some very annoying things a lot of games do.

Frustrating design like control taken away from player. Exposition walk and talk or worst hours long movie.

Lazy design like QTE. Random generated item and prop placement. Random level generation.

I’d say quick time events, microtransactions and crafting/upgrading equipment and skill trees. The last one can be fun if kept to a minimum, but when you have to level up your gear, skills and character and constantly craft more stuff it just gets to be a chore and tiresome.

Microsoft obsession with live service games and micro transactions

Having to buy multiple pieces of hardware to play games when there are way more inclusive ways to bring people content and remain profitable.

Down with proprietary hardware!

This. Easy.

Anything woke. No changing it. Just end that shit.

JRPG = tropes. When anyone that is not a weeb mentions the awfulness of JRPGs tropey game design, characters, pacing, and dialogue, the critiques are tossed under the rug. So, I hope nothing changes with JRPGs.😈

At least many developers are moving away from being exclusive and more inclusive. It is driving some folks NUTS.😂

A requirement in RPGs to grind as a way to make characters stronger or more effective against boss characters.

The gacha feature to obtain new characters or items.

Taking too long to get into the game action via walking cinematics. Though an extreme example, Doom Eternal is how you start a game, balls to the wall.

Cinematic walking.

Same fucking answer everytime, but it is that.