Game designers I am requesting a moratorium on . . .

[Akafrank]

Gaming devices that just keep happening over and over again. In no particular order the ones getting to me are:
1. Amnesia as a plot device. I seem to remember having forgotten all of this before.
2. QTE. The digression of gaming to "press this button now to win. Now this one. Now these two."
3. Elves and Dwarfs versus Orcs
4. Checkpoint. Long Cut Scene. Boss fight. Please I beg of you put the checkpoint after the cut scene.
5. Escorting suicidal and/or dreadfully slow npc's. I really get the idea is the designer getting back at gamers for dissing their last game.
6. Magically appear behind you mobs. I know you're there.

 

[Mykee_PWNAGE]

Saying what the sane population is thinking

espesially the checkpoint issue, its just common sense.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

8.) Real dudes... Not tommy testosterone tits

 

[shatnershaman]

10. Loooong acroynms(LOTR:TBFM:TROFL) or names ( White Princess the second ~ Love Adventure in the School That Follows the Principle of Convenience, Where It's Okay to Stray From the Path or Stay on the Path)

 

[Credge]

11) Stop developing FPS games unless they support mouse and keyboard; and if a company's hardware platform won't let you (I'm looking at you Microsoft), don't develop for them.

Include RTS to this list as well.

12) Stop calling tower defense games RTS. They are not. Just because it is in real time does not make it an RTS.

 

[shadow skill]

I say support both mouse and keyboard and controllers, just make sure mouse and keyboard players only play with people using the same thing.

Stop making games without fully customizeable button layouts.

 

[Rooster Cogburn]

Less games that use Halo health would be nice.

Halo 2 Health. Sorry for being bitter about my beloved CE!

 

[DARKLARK]

fantastic writing and great voice actors that would be great to see/hear

 

[mrnelsby]

crates!

 

[ShadeOfRed]

13) Grey. Add some colour.
14) Movie based games made to release the date of the movie.

 

[videot76]

15. Unskippable tutorials. Insufferable when replaying a game.

 

[onethought99]

16. What i like to call Gordon Frohman Syndrome (google him), excessive explosive barrels just for the sake of those pretty explosions (Im looking at you BF:BC).

 

[M0rp43vs]

gordon frohman.corcerned HL2 comic fan, eh?
"the zero gets stuck!!"

17.making your main charaters(especially platformers) bad asses

 

[Dommyboy]

18. Creating painfully short video games that aren't worth the cost.

 

[Copter400]

19. Infinite respawning enemies. Never again, you hear?