Annoying Gaming Details

[Custard_Angel]

Well, when I was playing Fallout 3, I was having a good time, but one little thing began to bug me.

Why do all the magnums have scopes?

Surely in a post apocalyptic wasteland society, non-scoped magnums would be far more common to find. A gunscope can be easily damaged and difficult to repair. How didn't this happen after nuclear war?

It was just a little twitching detail, and it didn't cause me to storm out and delete the game, but it was enough to bug me into writing this post.

My question is this: What little details, in games you love, bug you?

Before anyone says it: Key fetch quests to get past flimsy wooden doors aren't valid because that little annoyance has been around since the dawn of gaming.

 

[Kelbear]

Boxes.

Boxes EVERYWHERE.

 

[GodofDisaster]

The bullet effects in cod4 online. "I shot you in the back at least five times why won't you die". The best of it is the guy your shooting, turns around fires two shots into your leg and you die instanly.

Note: Yes I know this doesn't happen all of the time, but when it does its very annoying.

 

[CargoHold]

When having a hand/arm/leg cut off = INSTANTANEOUS DEATH.

 

[Satin6T]

Donkey Kong isn't the monkey from the original Donkey Kong game

it's revealed in Donkey Kong Country that that was Cranky Kong

 

[thel1st]

any game where you move way too slow for the environment

 

[The European]

in almost every fps game the following happens. if you reload and you stil got ammo in the magazine then the bullets instanly appear in other magazine.

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

It's weird how my my Lightning Sword of Destiny (or its equivalent) can destroy designated walls but can't cut a log.

"Yes, this is my rocket launcher. Yes, that's a wooden door. No, I can't just blow it up; I need to find the key."

 

[Jerich0]

regenerating health.

i mean, has anyone actually ever sat and thought about it? if i got shot, SHOT, in the solar plexus, then hid behind a crate for fifteen seconds, what would i be?

if you answered 'perfectly okay' you are either extremely stupid, wrong in the head, or possibly both. people. do. not. regenerate. bodily tissue. in a matter of seconds. it just doesn't happen.

also, medkits. what the hell do these things have in them? do they contain jesus' tears or something? because the instant you touch them, you are immediately healed! no way! the average 'medkit' (emergency first-aid pack) contains some aspirin, gauze, a little bottle of alcohol, and some small gauze patches. rarely do they contain forceps, stitches, a needle, or a scalpel, which are the most basic necessities for treatment of a bullet wound!

health systems in videogames = totally whacked.

thank you for finally making a forum where i can rant about this.

 

[LaBambaMan]

Three words: Area Specific Damage.

If I put a M-16 round through a guy's calf, I expect his as to limp and move slower. If I put a few bullets in someone's gunning arm, they best drop their damn gun.

 

[Archer147]

weightless ammo in fallout 3.

ess tee ay ell kay ee arr had the right idea with weighted ammo, despite the fact it was annoying as hell. but in fallout 3, the 20 mininukes i was carrying around meighed less than a stick of squirrel meat on a stick.

 

[Tartarga]

In pretty much every shooter ever the commander of the military group or whatever is always like "Hey, I need you to go take out those enemies over there. I would do it myself but i'm far to important for that." Where the hell are all the other soldiers, getting him coffee or something?

 

[walls of cetepedes]

Boxes.

Boxes EVERYWHERE.

OH GOD THE BOXES.

Seriously, do we really need so many?!

 

[Optimus Hagrid]

Irritating things happen a lot in Mother 3. For example, there is one part where the is a castle you need to get into. The drawbridge is raised and you can't get in. So you walk back into the cemetary. You puzzle around for a while, wondering what to do.

You are feeling pretty irate. You walk back to the castle, but this time, you walk to the edge of the castle moat. Then suddenly the gravedigger in the cemetary finds it an ideal thing to into his house, and by following him you find a secret passage to the castle.

 

[Kollega]

Grenades. Oh god,GRENADES. When grenade explodes in real life,everything in 5 metre vicinity gets shrapnel-tastic. In games,they are as powerful as bunny farts.

also, medkits. what the hell do these things have in them? do they contain jesus' tears or something?

Nah,it's Chuck Norris' tears.

 

[Distorted Stu]

Mirrors Edge. Really.. they must be all blind from the sun glare of all those perfectly white and gleaming surfaces they put everywhere.

 

[Cylem]

In Legend of Zelda Games, Link's sword and shield aren't held up by anything. They're just... velcroed to his back when he isn't using them.

...That actually bugs me more than his ability to carry giant hammers and iron boots in his tunic.

 

[Rob Sharona]

health systems in videogames = totally whacked.

If a game had an accurate to real life health system, how fun would the game be? Not much at all!

If you got shot in COD4, like in the stomach, you would die slowly and painfully. You would have to find some cover, maybe another soldier would come over and hold your hand, then you would have a minigame where you tell him to tell your family you love them. Maybe if you're on your own, there could be a subgame where you write a letter to your loved ones, and the pen gets progressively more hard to control.

At the end of the day, if you got shot, no matter where on your body, you probably wouldn't be able to continue. Game over. If I got shot in a game and had to keep starting from the beginning I would go out of my mind with rage!

 

[Et3rnalLegend64]

regenerating health.

i mean, has anyone actually ever sat and thought about it? if i got shot, SHOT, in the solar plexus, then hid behind a crate for fifteen seconds, what would i be?

if you answered 'perfectly okay' you are either extremely stupid, wrong in the head, or possibly both. people. do. not. regenerate. bodily tissue. in a matter of seconds. it just doesn't happen.

also, medkits. what the hell do these things have in them? do they contain jesus' tears or something? because the instant you touch them, you are immediately healed! no way! the average 'medkit' (emergency first-aid pack) contains some aspirin, gauze, a little bottle of alcohol, and some small gauze patches. rarely do they contain forceps, stitches, a needle, or a scalpel, which are the most basic necessities for treatment of a bullet wound!

health systems in videogames = totally whacked.

thank you for finally making a forum where i can rant about this.

Well, the alternative is complete inability to heal since it's kinda hard to do surgery on yourself during a firefight (or so I think). How many games actually had it that you had to bandage yourself up anyway (L4D)? That would be a nice alternative to instant healing, though it's still a little unrealistic. And what the hell is in those bottles that Sam Fisher use in Chaos Theory?

"Hey, look. An emergency med box. If I take half a second to down this bottle of pills then I'll be fine.

 

[laughing man z]

fences. why is it i can kill 800 zombies, carry rpg`s in my pocket, absorb heroic amounts of damage......yet i have to walk all the way round a fence to get into a house.....many games are guilty of this