Cliches in Gaming

[Shadowfaze]

double jumping! seriously dont try it, it kind of hurts in real life when you land

 

[Mysticgamer]

stim packs.. health packs.. medikits.

WHAT THE HELL DO THE PUT IN THEM THINGS COS IT SURE AINT BANDAGES!

I've always imagined those items as syringes with morphine or some powerful painkiller in them...

 

[Jedamethis]

Only you can stop him.

Yeah, but that guy over there has a gun, I only have a stick...

You're not listening. You're the chosen one. You've got a symbol/birthmark which doesent give you any abilities (and no-one will help you) but it might aid in the final confrontation.

At least give me a level in badass first...

 

[TJM8]

RPGs that start with you in jail (usually for crimes you didnt commit), or living a simple life on a farm which is torn apart. Or living a simple life on a farm that is torn apart because you got thrown in jail for a crime you didnt commit.

Well it makes you seem more just, like you have a purpose for insane motivation that enables you to ignore the need for eating and sleeping, surviving on health and mana potions alone. Starting as a rich man in power doesn't really lend itself to a game, unless its one of those "you're the bad guy" games that you dominate people. I guessing you could always be fighting to get your wife and/or family and/or land back... *starts writing this down*

 

[Yumi_and_Erea]

Main character starts the game with amnesia.

Seriously, if there is any gaming cliché bigger than this, it only exists in the sick and twisted imagination of Hideo Kojima, which he will sprawl all over the world before dying from all the toxins in the LSD he was doing while writing MGS2.

 

[zidine100]

Your the only one who can beat him, due to the fact that everyone else is lazy as hell and wont help you whatsoever.

and the final ultamite unstopable boss, can easily be defeated, come on if your suppost to be increadably stong and neigh invincible why cant we have this shown to us by him handing are asses to us. (in most rpgs, and on further thought most games in general.) (or am i just that good)

oh did i mention the univodiable love interest in every single game that ive seen lately, i would quote yahtzee here but honestly i cant be bothered.

edit: i forgot one, your saving the world from ultimate evil, everyone knows about this, yet they still expect you to BUY YOUR OWN ITEMS FROM THE SHOP, i mean come on, im saving your ass here, the least you can do is keep me supplied for free.

 

[The Bandit]

Short brown hair, and grizzled-ness.

My favorite is still the Locked Door Can Only Be Opened With X, X Is Way The Hell Over There, There's A Bunch Of Bad Guys Between You And X, Go Get X scenario. 'Cause, you know, you can't just whip out one of your many, many rocket launchers and blow the fucking door open.

You two must be clever.

How about big breasted women that fight in high heels? That's probably the most annoying, in my opinion. At least get rid of the heels. It's ridiculous.

 

[Discon]

I think it's silly that shots that land in enemies' hearts aren't near-instant kills, while shooting someone in the foot three times will kill them.

 

[HentMas]

STOP LINKING TO TVTROPES PLEASE!!!!

i am at work and cant lose my self in there again (jajajaja)

okok

OT: i guess the super weapon that when you finally get it it just works so that you can kill the end boss

or at least thats what i think cliché

 

[Spitfire175]

Someone in a place of great power going rouge/betraying the main character. I hate those things.

 

[MissTwist]

Short brown hair, and grizzled-ness.

My favorite is still the Locked Door Can Only Be Opened With X, X Is Way The Hell Over There, There's A Bunch Of Bad Guys Between You And X, Go Get X scenario. 'Cause, you know, you can't just whip out one of your many, many rocket launchers and blow the fucking door open.

You two must be clever.

How about big breasted women that fight in high heels? That's probably the most annoying, in my opinion. At least get rid of the heels. It's ridiculous.

I shall have to agree.
I defy anyone to run in heels while trying to accomplish anything else, yet heroines in recent years have started looking like this.

Insurmountable waist height fences.

Yes.
This makes me want to tear my hair out.
The red key incident to open a gate in Resident Evil 3 springs to mind...

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Insurmountable waist height fences.

Yes.
This makes me want to tear my hair out.
The red key incident to open a gate in Resident Evil 3 springs to mind...

Yes, common is the case where you can be carrying around a nuclear stockpile to shame both N. Korea and Pakistan combined, but you can still be foiled by one inconveniently placed chair.

 

[Lullabye]

This pretty much covers it for me

http://www.cracked.com/article/190_5-plot-devices-that-make-good-video-games-suck/

Especially going BACK THE WAY YOU CAME, lol

Yay Cracked! They do good work there.

Now, I can't belive Im going to say this but I reallllllly hate the cliche of shit working out with the love interest. I like it when they die. The Darkness did good by this and actually motivated me to kill the antagonist.

 

[lvl9000_woot]

Always playing the good guy/ hero. I know not all games do this but I'd like to see maybe more of an anti-hero type game or even one where you're the "bad guy" kinda like Overlord....but better. That way, I can give my bad guy speech, pwn the main character, and then laugh manically as I dance on his corpse

 

[GamingAwesome1]

Only you can stop him.

Yeah, but that guy over there has a gun, I only have a stick...

You're not listening. You're the chosen one. You've got a symbol/birthmark which doesent give you any abilities (and no-one will help you) but it might aid in the final confrontation.

At least give me a level in badass first...

Ah! TV-Tropes! So many hours of pointless clicking!!

But anyway my cliche is that when something big is going to explode and kill your ass there's always a timer telling you how long you have until you go kaboom!

How does the main character know this information?!

 

[Lilani]

I am the hero of the world and nobody can possibly do what I can do which is the ability to be cliche.

Especially in MMOs. You are always the only one who can stop evil from taking over the land. That's not really necessary, I wouldn't mind being one of an unstoppable horde, or a member of the main hero's team. Frankly I get stage right when I'm the only one out there. >.>

 

[The Bandit]

Short brown hair, and grizzled-ness.

You two must be clever.

What is that supposed to mean?

It means: quoting someone who is funny does not make you funny. Stop doing it. It's annoying.