Things you absolutely can't stand in your favorite game genre!

I must vent out. :p Although I don't really have a "favorite", RPGs. What do I absolutely hate about some RPGs? I hate the parts where you can't control your main character, and the ****ers make you control all your other characters BUT your main character (and of course all those other characters suck ass compared to your main one). Then of course, you have to go on some tedious, drawn-out mission or quest to free him or her. Absolutely makes my head explode everytime, lol.

Games examples:

Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VIII
Knights of the Old Republic 2 (maybe the first, but I haven't played that in a couple years).

I could just honestly go without this annoyance and I hope it stops in future game titles.

lack of comedy in a gamePoshkidney

Probably what will happen in Fallout 3, compared to one and two anyhow.

Hi Fellas

I hate PC Racing games . These daysmost of them, withe exception of Flatout 2 and Trackmania are alltoo hardcore. Why can't there be a game like FORZA Motersport where you buy loads of real cars, do them up and smash them around real tracks, I mean just having plain fun rather than worrying about driving realisticly

I hate a mandatory checkpoint-save system with no quicksaves in my FPSes.

I hate unskippable cut-scenes and un-believably tough bosses in my RPGes.

I hate missing a curve and having to restart the race because of my lack of skill in my Racing games.

I hate crappy, tacked-on single-player campaigns in my RTSes.

No children in games anymore..

I remember in Fallout 2 ....setting the timer on some dynamite( emptying out my inventory except for the dynamite)and then letting those little beggars steal it from me..and then follow them around till they went BOOM!

Teach them to steal from me....ha ha ha !

Halo. I hate Halo and it's ignorant fanboy following

I hate Final Fantasy VII's ignorant fanboy following as well. I also hate both Cloud and Sephiroth

I must vent out. :p Although I don't really have a "favorite", RPGs. What do I absolutely hate about some RPGs? I hate the parts where you can't control your main character, and the ****ers make you control all your other characters BUT your main character (and of course all those other characters suck ass compared to your main one). Then of course, you have to go on some tedious, drawn-out mission or quest to free him or her. Absolutely makes my head explode everytime, lol.

Games examples:

Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VIII
Knights of the Old Republic 2 (maybe the first, but I haven't played that in a couple years).

I could just honestly go without this annoyance and I hope it stops in future game titles.

Skullheart

Hi Fellas

I hate PC Racing games . These daysmost of them, withe exception of Flatout 2 and Trackmania are alltoo hardcore. Why can't there be a game like FORZA Motersport where you buy loads of real cars, do them up and smash them around real tracks, I mean just having plain fun rather than worrying about driving realisticly

sgac

The mandatory checkpoint thing mentioned above really grinds my gears...even though it may be more realistic....it's a video game...and there's a life outside that may call me away for half an hour or so lol.

Not really the games fault but Team Killers...or games with no punishment system for tking...guys who just stand at a spawn point and kill you every time and they're ON YOUR TEAM. Ahhhh thats annoying.

I can't stand games where I can't skip cutscenes

I absolutely loathe games with awful camera systems.

I hate bad voice acting or characters whose lips don't match the words they are speaking.

FPS's that give you a great gun in the last level of a game.

RTS's that don't give me something new.

RPG's with dwarves, elves, wizards, and Warriors.

Games that last under 20 hours.

Games that last under 40 hours too come to think of it.

Knowing that the new crop of DX10 games will be laggy even on my 320 MB 8800 GTS OC and I will have to buy a new card less than a year after I bought this one for the games that shouldn't be laggy on it.

RPG's: 1. Final boss battles with multiple, ever increasingly powerful, personas of the same boss character. 2. Really long, drawn out magical spells that takes half a minute to draw forth comets from the sky to smash your enemy for... 40 pts of damage??!! 3. Those goddamn random encounters every 3 steps you take! I mean, come on, if you wanted to add more hours of play, do it intellegently and if you want to be able to give your characters opportunities for levelling up, give xp for doing intellegent stuff rather than just killing monsters!

FPS: killing a bad guy and not being able to take their weapons or ammo!!!!

I hate how the only place you'll find a real medieval setting is in strategy games. Action and RPG games always mix fantasy and magic like the Thief series. I'm pumped about the new Assassins Creed (who isn't?) but it concerns me greatly that there's some sort of mysticism surrounding the overall plot. Can't we just have a game to play a 1st person medieval assassin? The up and coming Pirates of the Burning Sea MMORPG has a pure historical setting in the 18th century, so why not more games like this? How many more WoW and LotR settings do we need?

RPG's with dwarves, elves, wizards, and Warriors.jazilla

what don't you like about them

i hate games that are not fun.

this applys to all genres.

I hate how the only place you'll find a real medieval setting is in strategy games. Action and RPG games always mix fantasy and magic like the Thief series. I'm pumped about the new Assassins Creed (who isn't?) but it concerns me greatly that there's some sort of mysticism surrounding the overall plot. Can't we just have a game to play a 1st person medieval assassin? The up and coming Pirates of the Burning Sea MMORPG has a pure historical setting in the 18th century, so why not more games like this? How many more WoW and LotR settings do we need?

Lord_Tigger

I agree with Tigger, there aren't a lot of big budget MMO's or Action RPG's that are completely realistic and I would like to see that also. Sooner or later, if it's not based on some previous thing, everything starts to look the same. You can kind of see it happening already. I wonder if the average gamer could take a group of enviro screenshots from WoW, Warhammer Online, Guild Wars, Neverwinter Nights etc and place the game title to the appropriate shot. I would really like a big budget, realistic setting MMO with real weapons and items...it might screw with the class system a bit but I think it would be interestin to meld classes like real life. Just off the top of my head there could be Knights, Priests (healers), Thiefs, Merchants, Yeoman...of course it all depends on the setting of the game. Having real-life landmarks and real-life events happen in game would be awesome. There could even be historical characters in-game. Wow...my mind is racing a mile a minute. Well...thats my two cents.

I hate that Dynasty Warriors has like 15 games that are all the same. DO SOMETHING NEW!

Oh, and I hate when RPG's don't let me customize my characters very much. And I hate RTS's that have horrible single player options.

Games that present a really great design/game play concept then give you just a taste of it... sucks.

RTS's that don't have building options. COH hit the spot with just the right balance.

RPG - when you lose a character either because they die in the story and are gone forever or even just lost or something stupid like in FF7 and they were your favorite/best. i just killed a guy and i can visualy see that he is holding an axe and sheild etc and when i loot him they arent there WTF!?. lack of customization or gear.

FPS - rediculusly overpowered or underpowered guns. bad multiplayer... lets face it multiplayer is one of the reasons why fps are so fun.

Racing - i just went 4657687980mp/h into a wall and not even a scratch?

For shooters, I hate some of the trends that I've seen in recent years. Namely taking some of the better parts from shooters that work, replicating them poorly and then not adding anything substantive to bridge those elements. Where I see this mainly occuring is in level design through small setpeices. Most of this seems to be for milking a small playable area as long as you can before making the player run down some small path to the next area to be milked. It's not exciting watching NPCs bounce over the wall while some guy on the comm tells you more baddies have just entered the area.

The other thing is obnoxious radio chatter. Unless you're going to use humor for teammate chatter, or you're UT using scripted trash talking, I'd rather NPCs stick to reporting information only a la Tom Clancy games. "Tango down" and that sort of thing.

I could name a bunch for RPGs, but my complaints generally center around a lot of the JRPG staples that have been around for years, like long unskippable cutscenes; long tedious boss fights (especially if there's no save point immediately before it); and other various techniques to corral the player into some direction/action the game designers want you to take. How is that even role-playing?

few things are annoying or lack in rpgs:

- in RPG console games playing as characters who look like children

- monsters that level up as you level up... Oblivion was annoying cause of this

- random battles

- crappy loot

- the lack of nudity. i want plenty, i need plenty

- crappy endings

[QUOTE="Skullheart"]

I must vent out. :p Although I don't really have a "favorite", RPGs. What do I absolutely hate about some RPGs? I hate the parts where you can't control your main character, and the ****ers make you control all your other characters BUT your main character (and of course all those other characters suck ass compared to your main one). Then of course, you have to go on some tedious, drawn-out mission or quest to free him or her. Absolutely makes my head explode everytime, lol.

Games examples:

Chrono Trigger
Final Fantasy VIII
Knights of the Old Republic 2 (maybe the first, but I haven't played that in a couple years).

I could just honestly go without this annoyance and I hope it stops in future game titles.

fs_metal

Lol truthfully, I had no use for Frog or Magus. I ended up using Crono Marle and Lucca in the end (and spammed the tripple tech on him, making him no challenge).

...actually, I killed Magus ;D

My favourite genre used to be RTSs easily, but these days, I'm really enjoying my FPSs.

My gripe with RTSs is that for the most part, the races are kept far too similar. That's the reason why Starcraft and Dawn of War are such great RTSs, because each race is almost completely different (with the exception of Space Marines and Chaos in DoW).
RTSs also have a bad habit of attracting serial rushers online, which (the way I play) isn't very fun, because either you succeed, and you win, or you fail, and then you're screwed.
One last thing that I'm really sad not to have seen in RTSs is the "team melee" option in Starcraft multiplayer, where several players can control the same army, which really makes it interesting, and forces the teams to work together (as well as eliminating BSing (backstabbing))

My gripe with FPSs is not that they're all too similar, which I find most people complain about. The thing I don't like in FPSs is the repetitiveness of the games themselves. What I mean is that with the exception of a couple of games, you usually end up with most of the good weapons within the first hour of playing, and for the rest of the storyline, all you do is come up against the same guys over and over again, but in a different setting. That's the reason why I really like the idea of having bosses and minibosses in games (like Painkiller, Gears of War or Ninja Gaiden Black (for Xbox)).
My second whinge about FPSs is the online. I bought HL2 with the intention of playing online, but got so bored of it for a couple of reasons:
1. Way too few maps. Or if the game does actually have plenty of maps, online players usually stick to only 2 or 3 of their 'favourite' maps, which adds to the repetitiveness of the whole experience.
2. Bots/hacks/cheats - these have absolutely destroyed many-a-FPS
3. Team play is never focussed upon much. That's one main reason why I love playing Call of Duty 2 at LANs, because of the teamplay.

My favourite genre used to be RTSs easily, but these days, I'm really enjoying my FPSs.

My gripe with RTSs is that for the most part, the races are kept far too similar. That's the reason why Starcraft and Dawn of War are such great RTSs, because each race is almost completely different (with the exception of Space Marines and Chaos in DoW).
RTSs also have a bad habit of attracting serial rushers online, which (the way I play) isn't very fun, because either you succeed, and you win, or you fail, and then you're screwed.
One last thing that I'm really sad not to have seen in RTSs is the "team melee" option in Starcraft multiplayer, where several players can control the same army, which really makes it interesting, and forces the teams to work together (as well as eliminating BSing (backstabbing))

My gripe with FPSs is not that they're all too similar, which I find most people complain about. The thing I don't like in FPSs is the repetitiveness of the games themselves. What I mean is that with the exception of a couple of games, you usually end up with most of the good weapons within the first hour of playing, and for the rest of the storyline, all you do is come up against the same guys over and over again, but in a different setting. That's the reason why I really like the idea of having bosses and minibosses in games (like Painkiller, Gears of War or Ninja Gaiden Black (for Xbox)).
My second whinge about FPSs is the online. I bought HL2 with the intention of playing online, but got so bored of it for a couple of reasons:
1. Way too few maps. Or if the game does actually have plenty of maps, online players usually stick to only 2 or 3 of their 'favourite' maps, which adds to the repetitiveness of the whole experience.
2. Bots/hacks/cheats - these have absolutely destroyed many-a-FPS
3. Team play is never focussed upon much. That's one main reason why I love playing Call of Duty 2 at LANs, because of the teamplay.

Smudge_Smill

Yeah, I'm actually getting tired of FPS titles now myself. However, I will still continue to play them in faith that one or two future titles will be revolutionary. All first person shooters really need is some innovative, immersive storylines that you can just jump right into.

I hate Halo and anyone who likes Halo.

I hate it in FPS games when you get full health after hiding for 5 secs, takes away to fun of trying to make it to the next medkit with 5hp left.

I am just generally pissed at how the PC platform SEVERELY lacks some decent RPGs. The only notable ones currently is the Oblivion family of RPGs, the Final Fantasy 7 & 8 and the action RPGs like Dungeon Siege. I would like to see another engrossing RPG that delivers a supurb story, intense gameplay and gorgeous graphics and soundtrack. But am I asking too much?

lil.riceboy

I hate:

- lack of good plot & dialog be it spoken or text in games that have such a thing
- annoying voice acting... if youre going to do it do it 100% right or just use text
- Games with retarded AI. In 1st person games, this kills immersion completely
- unskippable cutscenes
- Spending all the dev money on eye candy rather than gameplay
- Linear RPG's... these are actually misnomers. A linear RPG is really an adventure game not an RPG
- Nippon Ichi and their pathetic money making schemes on tactic games... same game different box
- Related to the above, making a cheap sequal just to milk money from the popularity of the previous game rather than try to improve on or make a better game.
- Buggy games... too many lately have been unplayable out of box. This is unacceptable.
- Poor cameras
- Excessive copy protection. None of them work anyway so why make it hard on real customers?

RPGs -I hate how when I enter a cave all of the enemies are conveniently spaced apart and can't hear more than 20 metres away. Also, how enemies never actually try to run away from you. They might move like 10 feet away and then continue to attack, but they'll never leave the premises. Seriously, if you're the look out bandit, why are you trying to attack that bada$$ when you could run into the cave and get everyone to help you?

RPGs again - dialogue "trees" that always lead to the same conclusion.

FPS -How the first couple of levels are really sweet and full of cinematic action, but the rest (especially between the 1/3 and 3/4 marks) is fairly generic killing the enemygameplayand any plot is advanced via communications devices (comm, radio, etc.).

Action RPGs - How all the fights are of the stand beside him and swing variety. While blocks are calculated and such, the fights never look like 2 things reacting to each others' actions.

RPGs and FPS - HITPOINTS! Seriously, can we move on from this hitpoint system and go onto more brutal one hit kills, or body based damage. Just please, disguise the damn hitpoints/health bar.

(edit add) RTS - Braindead soldiers! Honestly, do I have to control every little detail for you? CoH did a good job of this, where they'll auto find cover and such. But, seriously, if you've been hit 50 times, can't you figure out to move out of the freaking fight! I know it's possible, I game released way back in the day called Warzone 2100 had the feature! Sure, micro has it's place in some games (thinking of SC and War3), but does every game need to leave it like that?

I hate action in adventure games, where have all the great adventure games gone :cry:SimpJee

Yea...broken sword was a cool adventure game...they dont really make em anymore, but there are a few decent ones still out there....let me know if you find em :lol:........:?

Well i cant stand the dumb tacked on single player in most rts and i cant stand the food cap in my favorite rts game warcraft 3.

"Who do u want me to kill?"

Someone mentioned overly tough boss fights already, but I would say more specifically overly tough boss fights that require some special trick to defeat that you can only discover by going to some cheat website and reading the walkthrough.

I seriously hate that every new RPG coming out (or announced) seems to be an "action-rpg". Are there any companies still making real role-playing games? This move towards mindless and dumbed-down click-fests has become very annoying. I'm tired of reinstalling games from 1998 just so I can get my RPG fix.-wildflower-

I always prefered Action RPGs to turn based. But now turn based have disapeared I'm actualy missing them. Infact I was about to instal KoTOR and play through that again.

I am just generally pissed at how the PC platform SEVERELY lacks some decent RPGs. The only notable ones currently is the Oblivion family of RPGs, the Final Fantasy 7 & 8 and the action RPGs like Dungeon Siege. I would like to see another engrossing RPG that delivers a supurb story, intense gameplay and gorgeous graphics and soundtrack. But am I asking too much?

lil.riceboy

lilriceboy

this goes for all genres:-

(1) unskippable cutscenes

(2) too much backtracking

(3) if there is too much repetitiveness ( like in a rpg same type of quests, in a fps same type of levels etc)

What really sticks in my craw is games that have not been optimized (Oblivion, STALKER. Don't make my PC feel older than it is, I can handle you two just fine!), or have bugs (KOTOR II, I have to download fan made fixes to not be permanently stuck?!), or don't work when they first come out and you have to wait month's to actually play it (Black & White 2, choppy beyond belief till they released a patch for Nvidia cards. Mafia, awesome game, but I got it when it came out and it wouldn't work, I had to wait a long time till they fixed that one).

Needless to say, I have figued out to not buy games till they have been reviewed by a reputable source, and no ones complaining about stuff going wrong.

I hate the fact that mmo's have taken over. What could of been great single player RPG open ended game settings have been turned into mmo grind fests, ie. Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, WarHammer, Conan..... These all could of been great games, now they are just annoying.