Game design choices that should be outlawed
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Fuck restricted saving. When I play a single-player game, I'm always thinking about who I am as a character, and trying to think of the game as a single long session in the character's mind. When the game forces me to find a save point, or to retry an easy segment 50 times because it precedes a difficult segment, I break character. I stopped playing Silent Hill 2 after it forced me to find a save point, because I could no longer relate to the character. Also, I could no longer feel assured that I could turn on my PS2 and simply play - I had to start playing with the knowledge that nothing important would come up and force me to leave the game without saving.
I'll give Shadow of the Colossus and simple platformers a pass on this one, but it's inexcusable in any game where the player might want to roleplay a character rather than just kill some dudez.
On the other hand, some people feel that games should be programmed with restricted saving because they prefer to save infrequently. That's a ridiculous objection because free saving doesn't force you to save at all. Please, people who enjoy save points, don't ruin it for the rest of us. Resist the temptation to save before a boss fight if you prefer to walk 15 minutes and then fight the boss. For all I care, there could be an option in the menu that turns off easy saving. But don't make it a part of the game and ruin it for players who like to follow the story.
Also, fuck Captcha. "Sensual exorcism".
I'll give Shadow of the Colossus and simple platformers a pass on this one, but it's inexcusable in any game where the player might want to roleplay a character rather than just kill some dudez.
On the other hand, some people feel that games should be programmed with restricted saving because they prefer to save infrequently. That's a ridiculous objection because free saving doesn't force you to save at all. Please, people who enjoy save points, don't ruin it for the rest of us. Resist the temptation to save before a boss fight if you prefer to walk 15 minutes and then fight the boss. For all I care, there could be an option in the menu that turns off easy saving. But don't make it a part of the game and ruin it for players who like to follow the story.
Also, fuck Captcha. "Sensual exorcism".
Persistent stats in online multilayer, especially shooters. It stifles creativity as people refuse to fight in interesting ways, favouring the efficient.
Never worried about it when I played Call off duty 2, but now whenever I fireup the xbox 360 and hit the First person shooters I'm quickly informed that my "KAYDEEE" is sub par and that, where I less off a noob it would be awesome like theirs, reguardless off the giant "You win!" before me.
Never worried about it when I played Call off duty 2, but now whenever I fireup the xbox 360 and hit the First person shooters I'm quickly informed that my "KAYDEEE" is sub par and that, where I less off a noob it would be awesome like theirs, reguardless off the giant "You win!" before me.
-Unfulfilling endings
-Stereotypical characters (ditzy girls, boisterous men, racial)
-Invisible walls/ceilings
-Time limits on search or fetch quests
-Lazy voice acting
-"Realism" (we play games to escape from it, why would we want to play games about it?)
Not really a problem, but more of a question, why in most Japanese ported games/anime do the adults put the fate of the world in the hands of children? While it's a typical focus on the "coming of age" story, I think it's giving kids way too much credit, especially since the ones I've come across would destroy the world instead of save it.
-Stereotypical characters (ditzy girls, boisterous men, racial)
-Invisible walls/ceilings
-Time limits on search or fetch quests
-Lazy voice acting
-"Realism" (we play games to escape from it, why would we want to play games about it?)
Not really a problem, but more of a question, why in most Japanese ported games/anime do the adults put the fate of the world in the hands of children? While it's a typical focus on the "coming of age" story, I think it's giving kids way too much credit, especially since the ones I've come across would destroy the world instead of save it.
I think that any developer under the notion that cheep = hard, and places insta-kill death traps in places where you'll only know about them AFTER you've ran headlong into them should be taught differently.
Really pisses me off when developers just throw in traps I can't really know about untill it's too late. It put me off of DKCR, and it's put me off some other platformers as well. (I think so, anyway.)
Really pisses me off when developers just throw in traps I can't really know about untill it's too late. It put me off of DKCR, and it's put me off some other platformers as well. (I think so, anyway.)
only those who care about multiplayer rankings. of course, MP seems to have become the main focus of FPSs... to the detriment of the singleplayer...Bags159 said:
speaking of which: i like being able to play against "bots". practice, see?
i also hate online-only multiplayer. seriously. there's a reason why there is more than one controller port.
If they don't count a quit game as a loss, what is to stop players from quitting a game that they are losing 1 second before it ends, and having a perfect record? The whole concept of having winners and losers for matches would become meaningless.Stammer said:
Pfft ...
3 lives with no continues? I don't mind that .. anything that rewards skill is a plus. If you can't take the heat, lower the difficulty level.
Releasing the same game every year? There's a very good reason why guitar hero died.
3 lives with no continues? I don't mind that .. anything that rewards skill is a plus. If you can't take the heat, lower the difficulty level.
Releasing the same game every year? There's a very good reason why guitar hero died.
^^^This.Zechnophobe said:
Well, not so much escort missions - although I hates dem I does - but unskippable cutscenes are awful, especially before bosses. I know it's possible to make it unskippable the first time you see it and skippable the second time; I've seen it done and I don't understand why it can't be done every time.
games that force tedium experiences, such as trek here do something, trek back the find out they want you to do something back were you just came from, really pisses me off and is just padding.
also invisible walls, i understand that they cant creat a world when designing a game, and i dont mind the occasional collapsed hallway or boarded up doors etc, but when theres just a wall with no legitimate reason for you to stop.
prime example would be fallout 3, when you reach the boarder the game just says its too dangerous to continue, when i first saw this i had just fought off 3 bears and a death claw and was running from enclave....so yeah
also invisible walls, i understand that they cant creat a world when designing a game, and i dont mind the occasional collapsed hallway or boarded up doors etc, but when theres just a wall with no legitimate reason for you to stop.
prime example would be fallout 3, when you reach the boarder the game just says its too dangerous to continue, when i first saw this i had just fought off 3 bears and a death claw and was running from enclave....so yeah
