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Title: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 26, 2014, 05:23:45 pm
I'll go first:

-Generic level design

-Highly-publicized gameplay gimmicks that end up being either under-utilized or ultimately useless

-Bland graphics

-Constant advertisements (mobile games)

-Predictable plot-twists

-Uninteresting characters that show no development whatsoever
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Ghost Killer on July 26, 2014, 05:28:51 pm
When a game's campaign is absolutely amazing, but is very short. Crysis 3 is a prime example.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Lith on July 26, 2014, 05:32:30 pm
Being really good at first and being fucking perfect in almost everything until the end where the game just fucks everything up and ruins a good experience because of its shit ending


















(http://i.ytimg.com/vi/fEQWfk8J85E/maxresdefault.jpg)
Fuck you
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Iced on July 26, 2014, 05:37:29 pm
PRESS B TO DODGE ON CUTSCENETHIS POST
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Niitris on July 26, 2014, 05:42:30 pm
Bad VG design choices that often prevent getting friends into X game.
http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/10/30/the-7-sins-of-bad-video-game-design/

Worth a read.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Speedpreacher on July 26, 2014, 05:51:17 pm
Iced said, July 26, 2014, 05:37:29 pm
PRESS B TO DODGE ON CUTSCENETHIS POST

Oh shit, I wasn't paying attention because there are too many cutscenesposts!
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Person Man on July 26, 2014, 05:56:49 pm
[avatar]http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e315/Tiger_Stripe/discordlamp_zpsd09305c3.png[/avatar]Bad aesthetic.  All the great gameplay in the world doesn't matter if I don't want to spend any time in the game's world. 
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Lith on July 26, 2014, 06:09:03 pm
Person Man said, July 26, 2014, 05:56:49 pm
Bad aesthetic.  All the great gameplay in the world doesn't matter if I don't want to spend any time in the game's world. 
yeah, final fight streetwise is a great game but its design, story, and sound design kills it hard for most people, underrated PS2 gem
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Bastard Mami on July 26, 2014, 06:09:33 pm
shades of gray.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: kakkoii superhero on July 26, 2014, 06:35:26 pm
bad voice acting
censored nudity
scarce ammo
linear storyline
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Titiln on July 26, 2014, 06:36:58 pm
framerate constantly going to shit makes me go "ugh"
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: タイタニックリバース on July 26, 2014, 06:40:10 pm
When it becomes luck based. Or like in PSABR, the general idea was just stupid...
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Titiln on July 26, 2014, 06:42:32 pm
メインキャラクター said, July 26, 2014, 06:40:10 pm
Or like in PSABR, the general idea was just stupid...
you don't understand the thread's concept as per usual. what does this even mean
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 26, 2014, 07:23:40 pm
メインキャラクター said, July 26, 2014, 06:40:10 pm
When it becomes luck based. Or like in PSABR, the general idea was just stupid...

Could you please elaborate on how Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale is "stupid"?

Also, you should start referring to games by their full titles instead of their acronyms. That way people will at least know what game you're talking about.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Tsunamidusher on July 26, 2014, 07:36:10 pm
For me, blatant money grabs. Mostly in exclusives or DLC

Instead of unlocking all of a games content by playing the shit out of a title, you are expected to buy their "premium" shit out of your wallet. It's become commonplace and accepted by most, but I still find it a huge turn off from modern gaming. That can ruin my gameplay experience from the get go, because in the back of my mind is the question "If I've already spent $50 on this game, was it worth it to spend more? Did I even get my money's worth in the first place?"
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: The Fisher King on July 26, 2014, 08:43:01 pm
DLC content. For real, I missed tons of games just because of it.

Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Toonar12X on July 26, 2014, 08:46:22 pm
Tsunamidusher said, July 26, 2014, 07:36:10 pm
For me, blatant money grabs. Mostly in exclusives or DLC

Instead of unlocking all of a games content by playing the shit out of a title, you are expected to buy their "premium" shit out of your wallet. It's become commonplace and accepted by most, but I still find it a huge turn off from modern gaming. That can ruin my gameplay experience from the get go, because in the back of my mind is the question "If I've already spent $50 on this game, was it worth it to spend more? Did I even get my money's worth in the first place?"

i feel the same way.
Playing Black Ops II Of Course... with no DLC.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Alpaca-San on July 26, 2014, 08:53:43 pm
I kinda hate it when indie games that use "retro graphics" and claim it's a unique art style when it's really a crutch. I understand that you don't have the resources to have character designs in a game that are any more intricate than a basic shape with eyes and limbs I really do. You don't need to bullshit me.

Also spouting internet memes, while not a totally ruining factor, annoys me. At least playing Pokemon has somewhat conditioned me against it...

It's hard to think of what really ruins a game for me besides being boring to me because even the features that have long worn out their welcome like escort missions and QTEs can be done in a way that works.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 26, 2014, 09:35:52 pm
For me, it's three little words:

FREE
TO
PLAY

Okay, maybe it's not something that totally ruins a game, but it is something of a double-edged sword IMO. On one hand, you're having fun without paying a dime. But on the other hand, some of that game's more enticing features are locked away behind a price tag. It's probably just me, but I really don't know where I stand when it comes to this model.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: MightyKombat on July 26, 2014, 09:54:14 pm
DLC when its fucktarded and blatantly an excuse to rush a game out. Especially when you price the DLC way too fucking much (Blazblue Chronophantasma selling fucking on-disc Terumi for £4.79 was dumb)

Memes being used as a crutch for humour instead of actually racking you brain for original funny material. If ASB2 even once has the "IT WAS ME DIO LOLOLOL" meme or any references to Kakyoin wanking to mothers I am throwing the fucking game in the bin.

References to other anime, films, games and shit for the sake of it, Not only does it remind me of better games I could be playing or better media I could be watching but it really just comes across as a roundabout vote of no confidence in your own ability to come up with something funny or cool. It gives me a poor opinion of you as a writer if you have to rely on someone else to do the work for you.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on July 26, 2014, 10:37:05 pm
-Horrible graphics and sound. Example a PS3 game that maybe has PS1 graphics damn there thats outdated.

-linear atmosphere. if it isnt like Castlevania SOTN game play atmosphere it gets boring to me after a couple of hours

-Repetitive game without any substance. just mindless same combo game play which makes it BORING

-No replay Value. Some games need a replay value where you can end the game with all those items and abilities UNLOCKED and can restart a NEW game on any difficulty you want with those same abilities. examples. Ninja gaiden 2, Bayonetta & Dantes Inferno were fun in replay value to me because of that. Again i said SOME not all need that.

-Constant Bug crashes. if every other time i start the game and the game freezes with bugs or i lose saves constantly it totally ruins the experience. I think Morrow wind (er elders scrolls) on XBOX G1 was the worst for that...youd fuck up your entire HD losing saves on everything from that buggy game

-Hard to enjoy. If the game is waaay too hard i get tired of it quick. Dark souls is one of them. I still have the game but ehh i just get bored fast of small weak enemies having the strength and power of a BOSS enemy.....Great looking game but it gets annoying and seem pointless to play most of the time Unlike Skyrim

-horrible level up system like Fallout Vegas. cap is 50 but the perks you are supposed to unlock on the list well exceed what you can reach in level. that was the dumbest shit ever. basically (for example) it was like seeing 1000 guns to choose from locked but you can only reach level 20 to get maybe 10 of them. does that make sense? Fallout 3 was NOTHING like that^^ You would at some point get to see all those perks how you played that game. but in Vegas once you reached 50 that was it.AND on top of that you needed the DLC story JUST to get to 50. you cap at 30 without buying that DLC. So yeah Youd be killing for nothing after 50. no level ups and no extra power in damage etc. that was horrible to me for a "RPG"....

-Overkill of DLC must haves. If DLC is the main back bone to enjoy the entire game then that Ruins it for me. IF the game is already hot without it then thats fine but if the game is half ass done and the DLC "Must buy" is needed to make it feel complete then that totally fucks up any chances for me to even care to buy it or keep it. Great examples of DLC are RYU & AKUMA stories in Asuras Wrath IMO. Very fun. BAD examples of DLC is the MVC3 DLC characters that were ALREADY on the disc locked and should have been there to use in the first place. Im from the days where you had beat the game from normal to hardest or under other conditions to unlock different contents hidden in the game. Some DLC extras are pointless to buy for even 5 bucks to me

-With fighting games when the controls are too crappy to enjoy. too stiff to control.

-Incomplete game. Example: KOF XII
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Jango Hakamichi on July 26, 2014, 10:46:35 pm
I agree with most of what was brought up (except Dorae's post [fun fact: the katakana in his name literally says "Main Character"]), lessee if I can bring up any more...

- I haven't seen any other game do this, but getting Book of Fables entries in The Wolf Among Us killed the game for me. Basically, the entries give you more backstory on the setting, and you get them by doing certain actions, and they either unlock in normal play or by doing something at the right place at the right time. The problem comes from the fact that you probably won't get everything in one playthrough, so you're gonna have to replay it and make different choices to get there. When you do this, it becomes glaringly obvious how little impact your choices actually have on the game.

- On the opposite end of the spectrum, when I'm playing an open-world game like GTA or Skyrim, and then a really weird bug that happens that I'm quite confident I didn't trigger. Takes me out of the experience and turns it into... something else.

- In fighting games, game mechanics that reward a player for playing badly (ie: supers you can only use at low health, sudden power increase, etc etc).

- Games where you can see the developers TRYING to push something in their game to look like it could be a meme. For example, Killing Floor constantly reminds you that the mehanical man enemy in the summer events can dance, which kills the mood of "the last of humanity's survivors are trying to fight off genetic mutations."
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Lith on July 26, 2014, 10:52:02 pm
Jango Kayano said, July 26, 2014, 10:46:35 pm
kills the mood of "the last of humanity's survivors are trying to fight off genetic mutations."
that mood was never really present in KF though :/
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Speedpreacher on July 26, 2014, 11:00:39 pm
Jango Kayano said, July 26, 2014, 10:46:35 pm
- In fighting games, game mechanics that reward a player for playing badly (ie: supers you can only use at low health, sudden power increase, etc etc).

I know these are subjective, but I've always loved this because it allows something like a rope-a-dope into games.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Errdor on July 26, 2014, 11:03:47 pm
- A video game with bad camera angles.
- Bad voice acting.
- Crappy OST.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Niitris on July 26, 2014, 11:26:43 pm
- Lack of pretty females Bad aesthetic/art direction.
- Anything that disrupts game momentum.
- Bad netcode.

Speedpreacher said, July 26, 2014, 11:00:39 pm
I know these are subjective, but I've always loved this because it allows something like a rope-a-dope into games.

The rope-a-dope was a good defensive strategy even if it required some physical punishment. Comeback mechanics gives you a bonus for poor fundamentals and/or getting your ass kicked. Not a fan, but I can see the similarities.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Nomechy on July 26, 2014, 11:39:07 pm
Bad pacing is one of the biggest things for me and it can apply for a lot of things such as story, gameplay structure and difficulty curve. If I feel like a game peaks too early or is too slow of a boil then it won't do it for me.

A lot of other things, but they are all very specific for whatever kind of a game im playing.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on July 26, 2014, 11:54:36 pm
A adventure game that is complete but still WAY too short ...and on top of that a crap ending..
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: The Simplistic Fubini on July 26, 2014, 11:59:59 pm
Silent protagonists in story driven games. Fuck that.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Jango Hakamichi on July 27, 2014, 12:55:02 am
Lith said, July 26, 2014, 10:52:02 pm
Jango Kayano said, July 26, 2014, 10:46:35 pm
kills the mood of "the last of humanity's survivors are trying to fight off genetic mutations."
that mood was never really present in KF though :/
It is in the core maps and the first few DLC character packs.

Also this last update did a VERY good job of returning to roots, especially in the Objective Mode map.

Not to say that event maps can't be good, but the mood is definitely different.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 27, 2014, 05:40:10 am
Dumb-as-a-sack-o'-spuds enemy A.I.

Overabundance of ammo and healing items (survival-horror games only. *cough*DeepFear*cough*)

Unnecessary backtracking

Ridiculous difficulty spikes

Laughably horrible writing
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on July 27, 2014, 07:31:53 am
Chopped Liver said, July 26, 2014, 11:59:59 pm
Silent protagonists in story driven games. Fuck that.

lol that made me laugh for some reason thinking of GTA 3.....loved that game although the main guy didnt talk at all
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: yaminogun on July 27, 2014, 11:47:27 am
-trialware video game
-video game which cause headache . spyro for example
-video game which make lies about God, religion and brainwash most of you
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 27, 2014, 05:36:56 pm
Unimaginative character designs (A spiky-haired dude with amnesia and acute laryngitis? A chick with ginormous ta-tas? A Yaoi-bait villain? Gee! Sounds great!)

Repetitive combat

Lack of customization options (multiplayer games)

Terrible art direction

Using "FROM THE CREATOR/S OF [GAME YOU LOVE]" as an excuse to sell copies

Optional missions designed to shock players but usually end up failing to do so
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: タイタニックリバース on July 27, 2014, 06:17:45 pm
When the community becomes a bunch of dbags. (Mostly talking about LBP.)
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Jango Hakamichi on July 27, 2014, 07:16:24 pm
JustAGuy92 said, July 27, 2014, 05:36:56 pm
Using "FROM THE CREATOR/S OF [GAME YOU LOVE]" as an excuse to sell copies
Most of the time, yes. To be fair, though, if I hear that Tim Schafer was involved, that's usually enough to ensure a buy from me.

And unrelated to video games, hearing that Coraline was FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS made me realize that Henry Selick and Tim Burton are different people. Also that Burton is a one-trick pony and whilst Selick is not.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: MightyKombat on July 27, 2014, 07:20:55 pm
I got another one

Any game, particularly indie games, prioritizing being hard because "retro" or even just hard for the sake of hard, at the expense of, you know, actually being able to enjoy the game. Its possible to be hard but fun you know, why can't people even reach that balance? Why don't they want to? Just because a game's easy doesn't mean its not fun.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: sweetfire13 on July 27, 2014, 09:21:03 pm
When games wants to enforce some sort of deep plot and story line in favor of gameplay.

When games wants to be progressive by adding a token gay/transgender character and make the character based around the fact that they are gay/transgendered.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 27, 2014, 10:16:48 pm
Moments where certain charaters are killed off just to add to the story

Padding out the roster of collectable critters in the most idiotic way possible: introducing recolored versions of said creatures and calling them "dark" or "evil"

Wonky physics

Super-last-gen character models

Brain-dead ally AI

Out of place stealth missions
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Erroratu on July 27, 2014, 11:13:04 pm
-The fact that the game did not come out for my console

-Not having the quote "Not even a hair of yours will be left in this world" in the game

-Completely dumbed down gameplay
-lol big breasted women who wear completely revealing clothes held together by wishful thinking because we make games for men and they have dicks and dicks buy games that boobs sell.
-Stealth Missions in games that are not designed to have stealth missions
-Platform levels in games that are not designed to have platform levels
-Having waaaay too many characters and not being able to introduce them properly,and when a character gets a little more screen time than usual you know he is gonna die
-"Almost every level is now a maze!What can go wrong there!?" - Creators of Syphon Filter 3
-Games that force you to kill puppies.Fuck you CoD
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: タイタニックリバース on July 27, 2014, 11:34:41 pm
Games with dumb achivements. Like that one in Dead or Alive: If you lose 20 times in a row online, you get a achievement, but get 0 Gamer Points. Also, having a Star Wars reference (Be it a level, or :Insert name here: I am not your :Insert relation here:) Another is when you have to multitask many things at once(VJ Red Hot Rumble) or when they want you to go for 100% with hard to pick up extra stuff.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Japanese Jesus on July 28, 2014, 12:01:22 am
JustAGuy92 said, July 27, 2014, 05:36:56 pm
Unimaginative character designs (A spiky-haired dude with amnesia and acute laryngitis? A chick with ginormous ta-tas? A Yaoi-bait villain? Gee! Sounds great!)

You could have just said 'Final Fantasty 7'.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Umezono on July 28, 2014, 12:08:28 am
generic faux john williams orchestral set pieces for background music
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: TempesT on July 28, 2014, 12:17:39 am
No butt sliders.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: supervegeta on July 28, 2014, 02:21:21 am
free to play games that force you at one point to spend money on it. DeNA's Blood Brothers had a shitty way to sugarcoat forcing the players to buy upgrades from it,
they basicly let free players and premium players (who have a shit ton of upgrades and powerful monsters) compete against each other, instead of separating their servers.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Bastard Mami on July 28, 2014, 03:51:42 am
メインキャラクター said, July 27, 2014, 06:17:45 pm
When the community becomes a bunch of dbags. (Mostly talking about LBP.)

mugen is not a game.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on July 28, 2014, 04:05:35 am
Japanese Jesus said, July 28, 2014, 12:01:22 am
JustAGuy92 said, July 27, 2014, 05:36:56 pm
Unimaginative character designs (A spiky-haired dude with amnesia and acute laryngitis? A chick with ginormous ta-tas? A Yaoi-bait villain? Gee! Sounds great!)

You could have just said 'Final Fantasty 7'.

At least Cloud could talk.

Also, LOL "fan-tasty"
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Bizarro Santamorphman on July 28, 2014, 06:58:46 am
メインキャラクター said, July 26, 2014, 06:40:10 pm
When it becomes luck based. Or like in PSABR, the general idea was just stupid...
Alright this is like a normal response (I guess), but then you just sorta ignore all the replies you get. And I don't mean like, you have to reply to every single post that replies to one of your own, but you have a very big habit of not trying to participate in conversations at all. It's distracting, it's no fun for anyone else, and stop.

This is a forum. This is a platform for conversations between people, not just a place to drop off your random thoughts. All communities are enriched by discussions between all kinds of people, but that requires, you know, actual discussions.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: DrZaius on July 28, 2014, 07:20:52 am
Anime tropes.
Bad voice acting.
Awful dialogue.
Stupid characters.

Though none of those things really stopped me from enjoying Bravely Default. The gameplay in that game is THAT GOOD.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: DAN_HIBIKI on July 28, 2014, 03:30:51 pm
- When it's not working on XP, or at least Windows7x32
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Makkah on July 28, 2014, 04:05:07 pm
DrZaius said, July 28, 2014, 07:20:52 am
Anime tropes.
Bad voice acting.
Awful dialogue.
Stupid characters.

^ These pretty much. It's kinda why I don't play JRPGs anymore. Not that WRPGs don't have their fair share of bad VO and such, but they don't seem to be quite so egregious.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on August 03, 2014, 06:00:20 pm
Item management that consists of slogging through countless menus

Bullshit checkpoint placement

No means of fast-travel

Unskippable cutscenes

Motion controls that are neither responsive nor necessary (better with Kinect, my sack!)
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: [DKG] on August 03, 2014, 08:41:15 pm
quick time events, god I hate qte's
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on August 03, 2014, 09:17:46 pm
[DKG] said, August 03, 2014, 08:41:15 pm
quick time events, god I hate qte's

-This right here but TOO MUCH of it where you hardly doing the big moments but instead youre watching quick time
-Boring story and very very bland atmosphere
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Cazaki on August 04, 2014, 08:30:34 am
Convoluted stories and plot exposition that doesn't make sense. This is usually because:

1. I need to play a previous game, which I hate in most cases because it should be clearly explained to me anyway. Maybe have it mean something to people who did play it, but I see no reason why I can't just jump in and be immersed.

2. The game was originally japanese so that specific part makes no goddamn sense due to translation or something.

3. The developers are full of shit and decided to pull something out of their ass.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Lith on August 04, 2014, 09:24:58 am
when they repeat shit like plot twists or stuff like that

like in persona 4 where it's
Spoiler, click to toggle visibilty
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Lichtbringer on August 04, 2014, 11:43:12 am
1. That game unlockables are mostly replaced by achivements and DLC's. In the "old days" we got tons of unlockables like costumes, bonus levels, extra modes, art/ending galeries etc. for beating the games or doing something special, now most of the time we only get some stupid achivements or we have to pay extra money for a DLC.

2. Day one DLC and on disk DLC, I think I don't have to explain why.

3. If Game companys wasting time and money to force some extra Multiplayer content into a game that was 100% designt for singelplayer, instead of using there resources to add or improve singelplayer content, like in the last Tomb Raider game.

4. No Cheats and Modding because of Forced always online DRMs and achivements.

yaminogun said, July 27, 2014, 11:47:27 am
-video game which make lies about God, religion and brainwash most of you
I'm confused did you mean this for real or is this a Joke? o_O
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on August 13, 2014, 05:43:22 pm
Clunky tank controls

Ridiculous achievements that take eons to unlock

Drab level design

Overpriced DLC

Terrible platforming segments

Multiplayer maps that look too similar to each other
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Ghost Killer on August 13, 2014, 05:50:03 pm
Online-only games that have a serious lack of customization. Titanfall suffers from this.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Snakebyte on August 21, 2014, 11:04:09 am
I dislike feeling like a game was built to get my money.

I know this is a really vague thing, but if it feels thrown-together and there's DLC later, it just doesn't have... soul.

Compare MVC3 to Tekken Tag 2. TTT2 has so much soul and love it hurts. I'm really thankful to Harada for making a game that people will enjoy, rather than one that people will buy.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: タイタニックリバース on August 31, 2014, 06:14:19 pm
Fighting games where you can get hit on the ground. Kinda broken feature, at least in the ones I played...
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on November 26, 2014, 10:12:39 pm
Constant references to dumb internet memes heavily peppered into its script.

For mobile games: constant prompts to basically advertise the game on social media sites just so you can play some more.

For mobile games: being on the Top Grossing list in the app store. That basically says that it's just a massive cashsuck (though I have found a few faves on that list, but that's beside the point).
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Duos on November 26, 2014, 10:13:50 pm
*Bugged mechanics
*Stuff not happening even when I press buttons
*Hideo Kojima
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: タイタニックリバース on November 26, 2014, 10:50:50 pm
Heavy lag online. I have a good connection, too.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: FeLo_Llop on November 26, 2014, 11:31:26 pm
Excessive LONG loading screens. Did you just open a thin wood door? just take a seat and have a drink!!

Nina: Death by Degrees(PS2) was full of these.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Black Hatter on November 27, 2014, 12:23:53 am
*Shitty shooter mechanics (Shadow The Hedgehog, Dirge of Cerebrus)
*Certain characters not playable (Donald Duck and Goofy in Kingdom Hearts 1 & 2 >:()
*Horrible CGI art (Tekken 6 on PSP)
*Favorite character dies (Zack Fair in Crisis Core: FF7)
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on November 27, 2014, 03:50:40 am
Bad level up system.....what i mean is an example of Fallout Vegas. I liked it but then i really hated it...i just wanted to end it and get it over with. which a bad sign that i dont like the game much

Anyway It had tons of perks to achieve but you could only go to lvl 60 but from that stand point you STILL couldnt obtain more after maxing out.
For those not familiar with the game it had a good 80 perks i think (special abilities features that help you). It was like the perks were there for show. at best after maxing out to level 60 i could only get to a good 12 maybe and thats it once i maxed my lvl out. Its hard to explain but it was stupid. once you hit max level 60 you were leveling up for nothing with no effects to your character where as fallout 3 (which i loved) let you unlock ALL the perks if you played the game a particular way. In FOV it didnt matter what you did. Its like they threw in perks just to be shown there and unusable. I didnt understand the concept of that shit at all. It didnt make sense.

Its like (for example) Borderlands having all those upgrades and weapons and even though you max out to lvl 99 there's like a trillion more upgrades that are there but you still cant get regardless...Thats not the case with that game but im giving an example where its just NOT balanced and how retarded it was to me. So for those who played the game F.O.V feel free to jump in. I wont get salty if you tell me a different point of view. I just want to know who got to unlock ALL those perks.

well that was my lil vent on that,...


タイタニックリバース said, November 26, 2014, 10:50:50 pm
Heavy lag online. I have a good connection, too.

yeah i agree. i had that issue with KOF XIII. the net code was horrible. my connection was fine with everything else but with that game it was hot garbage on the net code smh.....
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: TempesT on November 27, 2014, 06:22:11 am
Legendary DeMoNk@I said, November 27, 2014, 03:50:40 am
Anyway It had tons of perks to achieve but you could only go to lvl 60 but from that stand point you STILL couldnt obtain more after maxing out.
For those not familiar with the game it had a good 80 perks i think (special abilities features that help you). It was like the perks were there for show. at best after maxing out to level 60 i could only get to a good 12 maybe and thats it once i maxed my lvl out. Its hard to explain but it was stupid. once you hit max level 60 you were leveling up for nothing with no effects to your character where as fallout 3 (which i loved) let you unlock ALL the perks if you played the game a particular way. In FOV it didnt matter what you did. Its like they threw in perks just to be shown there and unusable. I didnt understand the concept of that shit at all. It didnt make sense.

Limited perks was done intentionally in New Vegas to avoid having super OP characters. Also you are given a perk every 2 levels and if you have all the DLC (max level 50) you can get 25 perks (not including implants, companions and special perks), I'd say there's plenty of room to get all the perks you could want. I find it a lot more interesting than just having a godmode character at level cap that is good at everything.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on November 27, 2014, 04:56:45 pm
TempesT said, November 27, 2014, 06:22:11 am
Limited perks was done intentionally in New Vegas to avoid having super OP characters. Also you are given a perk every 2 levels and if you have all the DLC (max level 50) you can get 25 perks (not including implants, companions and special perks), I'd say there's plenty of room to get all the perks you could want. I find it a lot more interesting than just having a godmode character at level cap that is good at everything.




yeah youre right. It was max level 50. I double checked. Been so long since i picked up and played that game. Only thing i could remember was playing that game, running through it and it feeling a bit annoyed like even though i was pretty high in level i didnt even put a dent in unlocking perks. It seemed like it was a shit load of them though.

But anyway i strongly agree its way more interesting not to have an OP character. OP char wasnt what i wanted but it just seemed odd to me at the time how you only hit 50 and it was way too many perks to get to that you'll never have at the end of that list even after maxing out. FO3 was 30 but when i played that game through and i unlocked a lot of perks it felt full enough. Eh maybe its just me being spoiled after playing Borderlands 1 too much before having FOV haha

Thanks for the input on that
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on December 11, 2014, 11:23:23 pm
Shitty marketing schemes. Prime examples include the "Your Mom Hates This" Dead Space 2 TV spots and that fake religious protest against Dante's Inferno.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 12, 2014, 02:48:50 am
when they dumb the entire game for the civilian and console public

www.uesp.net/wiki/Differences_Between_Morrowind,_Oblivion,_and_Skyrim#Skills
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Bastard Walt on December 12, 2014, 03:18:09 am
Wow, I can't believe they tried to make it... *gulp* ... ACCESSIBLE?! UGH Filthy casuals man, I'm telling you!
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 12, 2014, 03:32:37 am
Bastard Walt said, December 12, 2014, 03:18:09 am
Wow, I can't believe they tried to make it... *gulp* ... ACCESSIBLE?! UGH Filthy casuals man, I'm telling you!

bad meme.... but when you see the community saying 2 year later that Oblivion had better RPG asthesics and skills than skyrim, you know how they fucked up the game
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Snakebyte on December 12, 2014, 11:35:23 am
This might sound petty, but when a sequel is missing tiny details from the previous installment that I really enjoyed.

For example, Diablo 3 not having different characteristics for different types of elemental damage. Like what the fuck?
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Nanashi_1337 on December 12, 2014, 09:14:36 pm
Legendary DeMoNk@I said, November 27, 2014, 03:50:40 am
Bad level up system.....what i mean is an example of Fallout Vegas. I liked it but then i really hated it...i just wanted to end it and get it over with. which a bad sign that i dont like the game much

I really didn't hate New Vegas system that much (and there were ways to speed it if you knew what you were doing), but I too agree that a bad level up system kills the game. I've played some hard RPG games that either have terrible EXP gains for things like jobs and others that rely on plain luck to be able to get proper stats when leveling. I don't mind grinding, but there is a limit before it becomes ridiculous, and the last I want is to rely on luck when leveling up, specially since my luck stat is F in all the games I play.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 13, 2014, 12:04:47 am
NV system was far miles better than fallout 3, but the perk system being halved for 1 for every 2 levels was a bit too much(fallout was 1 at every 3 levels), anyway you can still make a ridiculously "i kill behemoths and legendary deathclaws with 1 shot" Courier Six with a the certain perks, and a Fully Modded AMR with armor penetrating bullets or the Turbo Plasma Caster with Max Charge Cells, Plasma Spaz, Meltdown, and a jury rigging repair(Or lucky with special bullets)


also Unarmed and Melee is Underrated, but that shit makes Dead money so easier that is ridiculous
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on December 13, 2014, 07:01:37 pm
Hmm...interesting input on the NV: Fallout subject fellas. yeah i ran through the game but it just seemed like that perk system this time was a bit painful to enjoy...eh thats just me but i sure hope they out do themselves with the new game thats supposed to be in the works
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 14, 2014, 12:58:34 am
try tale of two wastelands mod someday, its Awesome
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on December 14, 2014, 01:45:50 am
hmm ill look into that...

But when you say its "Its Awesome" was that sarcasm that the game is actually hot garbage or you are serious that its that cool?^^ haha
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 14, 2014, 02:26:10 am
Legendary DeMoNk@I said, December 14, 2014, 01:45:50 am
hmm ill look into that...

But when you say its "Its Awesome" was that sarcasm that the game is actually hot garbage or you are serious that its that cool?^^ haha

im being serious its awesome, look my custom sydney companion on the screenshots and what are you playing thread
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on December 14, 2014, 02:27:12 am
Ah ok cool ill check that out then!
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: TempesT on December 15, 2014, 02:04:03 am
If you dislike the perk system that much, download Project Nevada from Nexusmods, you can change a lot of stuff in the game including having a perk every level. (plus it makes the game harder)
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Vordh0sbn on December 15, 2014, 02:21:25 am
Hmm, let's see...

- excessive fanservice
- lolis
- complicated puzzles
- dlc's or expansions
- obligatory net connection to play (i really hate that shit)

:(
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 15, 2014, 02:40:52 am
TempesT said, December 15, 2014, 02:04:03 am
If you dislike the perk system that much, download Project Nevada from Nexusmods, you can change a lot of stuff in the game including having a perk every level. (plus it makes the game harder)

Legendary DeMoNk@I said, December 14, 2014, 02:27:12 am
Ah ok cool ill check that out then!

ShadowArm said, December 14, 2014, 12:58:34 am
try tale of two wastelands mod someday, its Awesome


My load order in A minor(it has some things that i still need to finish like the conversion for DaeJones Enclave armors, the Ported Goth appearance for Bittercup, my custom Sydney and the other mad max jacket)

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Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on December 15, 2014, 03:27:07 am
TempesT said, December 15, 2014, 02:04:03 am
If you dislike the perk system that much, download Project Nevada from Nexusmods, you can change a lot of stuff in the game including having a perk every level. (plus it makes the game harder)

Hmm..ill have to try that out at some point when i get this new Pc this month...
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: ShadowArm on December 15, 2014, 03:45:55 am
Legendary DeMoNk@I said, December 15, 2014, 03:27:07 am
TempesT said, December 15, 2014, 02:04:03 am
If you dislike the perk system that much, download Project Nevada from Nexusmods, you can change a lot of stuff in the game including having a perk every level. (plus it makes the game harder)

Hmm..ill have to try that out at some point when i get this new Pc this month...

if you are planning to go full TTW if you own the steam version of Fo3 and NV, there's a patch that unifies both fallout 3 and NV eve in 1 patch, and is compatible with the FOOK-PN convergence
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Legendary DeMoNk@I on December 15, 2014, 04:42:20 am
Thanks for that tip man. ill keep that in mind
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on December 30, 2014, 02:27:55 am
When its fanbase turns one of that game's chars into a fucking stupid meme. To this day, I cannot enjoy Xenoblade as much I used to before everybody on the internet turned Shulk into BACKSLASH McI'MREALLYFEELINGIT as soon as he was announced for Smash 4.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Duos on December 30, 2014, 02:31:19 am
You can't be serious lol.  You know those phrases are actually in Xenoblade right?  And that they were beaten into the ground catchphrases before Shulk in Smash was even remotely a possibility.

Furthermore I think like half this topic is posts from you.  Do you like ANYTHING about video games?
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Umezono on December 30, 2014, 02:43:44 am
Umezono said, July 28, 2014, 12:08:28 am
generic faux john williams orchestral set pieces for background music
5 months later and this still pisses me off
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Anti-11 on December 30, 2014, 02:48:42 am
not much of a challenge
poor storyline, gameplay, and replay value due to focusing more on graphics
lack of originality or customization
the fans (depends on the fans)
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: JustAGuy92 on December 30, 2014, 02:52:09 am
What I meant was that I discovered Xenoblade way too late and I was enjoying it until soon after Shulk's being confirmed for Smash 4, when the memes started. After that, I just decided to stop playing it and move onto other things.
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Umezono on December 30, 2014, 02:54:46 am
JustAGuy92 said, December 30, 2014, 02:52:09 am
What I meant was that I discovered Xenoblade way too late and I was enjoying it until soon after Shulk's being confirmed for Smash 4, when the memes started. After that, I just decided to stop playing it and move onto other things.
the memes were already there smash just spread them to a new audience and also wtf, how do emmes affect your gameplay just dont browse the net while you play
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: Duos on December 30, 2014, 02:56:26 am
It would be one thing if they were shoehorning memes into the game but all Smash did was have him say the same stuff he said in Xenoblade so uhhhhh...
Title: Re: What ruins a video game for you?
Post by: タイタニックリバース on December 30, 2014, 03:01:36 am
I didn't even know Xenoblade had memes.