GLOBAL BULLSHIT OF VIDEO GAMES

author=Corfaisus

author=Dudesoft
You know what's awesome? A game doesn't give you any water abilities, and you go fight a sand boss, then right as you engage the boss, a character in the party says, "Use water moves to harden it or we'll never win!"
Thanks a ton Forward-Think-alot.

I remember this sort of thing happened to me in Skies of Arcadia Legends when you get to the desert and you have to fight this big red mech and the best way to take him out is to use a harpoon gun that nobody tells you about until that battle (or maybe I just didn't spend enough time asking all NPCs about stuff). You're also more than welcome to save after the point where you're no longer able to buy the pieces you need to create that weapon and completely screw yourself out of a file.

What you're talking about is impossible. There is no situation in that point where you can't fire the Harpoon Cannon.

^ As a fan of shoot 'em up games, welcome to my world when reading/watching reviews. So many times people will set it on the highest difficulty and skip over tutorials then complain about the game being hard and obtuse. Its also sad/hilarious to read reviews of Giga Wing where they complain about unavoidable bullet patterns because they somehow never found the shield button.


The bullshit that bothers me the most is padding and shit that wastes your time. I feel like padding is the #1 plague of videogames, especially nowadays where it seems like reviewers and casual consumers demand that there be one "hour of gaempleh" for every dollar they spent on the game, regardless of how terrible that hour is. "Hey, liked fighting that enemy? Here do it again! And Again! ... And again again again! Okay, now you can move on to the next room, and fight that enemy again! And again! Okay, now go backtrack through three empty rooms then shove a box in a straight line for a full minute to get a key to unlock this door!" I also can't stand developers' strange obsession with interrupting you with cutscenes pointing out obvious shit like the existence of doors or enemies in a room or having an exposition fairy tell you that you can press X to attack.

The other big bullshit thing I can't stand is excessive unlocks and restrictions on things. I mean, ffs people its a videogame, I came here to have fun, not grind currency/exp to unlock the ability to make the game playable or only be able to run in short spurts because lel gauges tied to everything = balance! The unlocks are really bad in the early parts of some games like Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds where you literally can't even have a fair fight with the bosses because you've been stripped of basic functions that the game is designed around.

author=amerk
I really hate the fetch quests that has you doing nothing more than playing messenger between two towns, a full world apart, and usually takes you at least a few minutes or longer to run between them, and you'll be running between them multiple times before the quest is over. Double the rage when such a fetch quest is required for game advancement, and not optional.

Whatever you do then, avoid Okamiden like the plague. LIKE THE GODDAMNED PLAGUE!


There's a lot of other minor annoyances I could point out, but I'll just stop myself here.

author=turkeyDawg
Whatever you do then, avoid Okamiden like the plague. LIKE THE GODDAMNED PLAGUE!


There's a lot of other minor annoyances I could point out, but I'll just stop myself here.

This is truth for so many reasons. It's like they took Okami, and took out all the fun parts while making it generetic and even musically boring.

Which reminds me of .. bad sequels. Oh yes. The sequels.

author=Ralphrius
I usually have a pretty high bullshit tolerance. However there's one thing that I'm just not a fan of at all.
LEVEL-SCALING-ENEMIES.
I cannot fathom the thought of it. If I'm playing a game where enemies get stronger as I get stronger as well, what's the point of getting stronger in the first place?

I'm on the same page as others in that I don't find this to be an issue. It keeps the player on his toes throughout the game, and if everything becomes too easy at any point, the game kind of feels boring.

However, there is a right and wrong way to handle it. Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is one game that handles it well because (1) It compliments the open-ended style of gameplay that really doesn't force you to progress in a linear path, and (2) there are plenty of skills, from smithing, weapon usage, etc. that get better as you gain the perks to level them up. Even though the game gets tougher, you still feel like you are getting stronger with each level. I think if it's added in a game that doesn't have such specific stats and doesn't have the same non-linear progression, it doesn't really work as well.

On a side note, I feel bad for the player who encountered this Pokemon in their Battle Maison playthrough:

Dude, I'm going to be straight up; SaGa Frontier, Oblivion and FFVIII are really the only objectively pretty-really difficult (mainstream?) games with level scaling. You'd pretty much have to be functionally retarded to have much of a struggle with Skyrim.

author=LockeZ
Cast a buff on your party member to make him likeable? Craft a potion? Crouch down briefly? Buy and sell a bunch of items? Whoops you just levelled up, causing you to gain 10 max HP and let you improve your crouching skills, while all enemies gain 100 max HP and get free access to better equipment and stronger fire magic.

No dude, no. No, no, no. You're making shit up. Yes, leveling up any individual skill will give you EXP towards leveling up, however, you can invest into any skill or stat you want when you level up.

Meaning, you can smith a bunch of shit or sell a bunch of shit, yes, completely non threatening activities and when you level up, you can instead invest those points into something else entirely, such as murder axes to the face and fireballs.

Meaning that you can spend an entire games worth of doing jack shit such as making potions and leather strips, get levels for it, and invest those points into becoming a killing machine, whether or not you've actually ever fought much. EVEN IF YOU DON'T, even the non combat skills are extremely exploitable. Invested all of your skills into smithing instead of actual fighting skills? Great! Who needs to actually know how to take a hit when you can craft armor that makes you literally invincible.

The game can get tricky depending on what you do, but it gives you so many options to get powerful you are rarely if ever backed into a corner ever.

Come on, dude. If you're going to criticize something, come at it straight.

See, that was why I played sniper. Enemies can't kill you if they can't see you~
(Fuck those big cats though. Seriously.)

And you're both right - while you can increase purchase new skills just by blacksmithing and doing other bits of work, you have to have the requisite level of the other branches in order to actually get the skills unlocked to purchase. That is, while you may have the point to buy the Quick-shot perk you will first have to have 70 levels in Archery as well as already learned Power Shot. Thus, never picking up a bow won't allow you to get stronger in the Archery skill at all.

Of course, that said, the game, with the right builds, can be downright easy, even on hard mode. How you play, what build you go for and the perks you have do have a huge effect on how easy or hard the game is. Melee attackers tend to be a lot harder a style of gameplay, while long-range attackers are middling. Mages make the game easy as balls, especially if coupled with certain enchanted armours.

And this is without even playing mods.

That said, I'm sure we can all agree that dragons are easy as shit - and they shouldn't be since they're fucking dragons.

There we go, another bullshit thing - big, scary enemies that are amped up all game to be something to fear that you then take down with nary a scratch. Like, is... that it? Really? Nothing like a built-up fight that was anticlimatic as fuck to get your rage on.

author=LockeZ
Maybe you were playing on a lower difficulty setting than me if you think that having good armor makes you invincible. I was playing on the hardest difficulty level. Having good armor made me die from two power attacks instead of one (if I was buffed with barkskin and wearing platemail).

It literally does. By the middle of the game, most players who invested in their Smithing and Alchemy skills end up creating the most mathematically possible powerful armor in the game entirely by accident.

Having to log in and connect to the internet for a single-player game.

author=Link_2112

author=LockeZ
Maybe you were playing on a lower difficulty setting than me if you think that having good armor makes you invincible. I was playing on the hardest difficulty level. Having good armor made me die from two power attacks instead of one (if I was buffed with barkskin and wearing platemail).

Did you pick the hardest difficulty the first time you played the game?

Yeah, this is something I pretty much always do in RPGs these days. I want a challenge, it's why I'm playing.

I didn't actually find the game too difficult, I just found a lot of my attempts to improva my chances had very much the opposite effect, which annoyed the shit out of me. I guess on an easier mode if you can win every battle without trying the balance doesn't matter much.

I tried lowering it one difficulty notch down from the max, and then it was pathetically easy. I enjoyed that even less. So I raised it back up. Eventually just quit playing though. Unenjoyable to me either way.

Level scaling has a place but I personally hate the idea of it.