Game designers I am requesting a moratorium on . . .

[Dommyboy]

20. Games that are just a tech demo. Erhem, Half Life 2, Crysis. We want a game, not a bloody demo!

 

[TheBadass]

I think I might be the only person alive who likes quicktime events.

21. Make the sniper rifle actually useful or chuck it. If it sucks, replace it with an atomic bomb or something actually helpful in combat.

 

[L4Y Duke]

22. Throwback weapons in shooters. Honestly, if the gun is as effective as a peashooter without the peas, then why bother having it at all?

In survival games, I can understand, but NOT in shooters!

 

[God's Clown]

I unno why you guys complain about the females with the breasts, I personally think they need to be there for now, because otherwise I'd completely lose interest.

23. Making us have to find a pebble(key or such) back on the otherside of the lake(level, GAME.) I really hate having to back track WAY WAY WAY the hell back, it annoys me, greatly

 

[Imitation Saccharin]

If you want choice then you could choose not to play a First Person Shooter on a console and start playing on your PC.

"I'd like a hamburger with cheese, please"
"You mean a cheesburger?"
"Hamburger with cheese, cheeseburger, same thing"
"Listen here bub, we don't sell hamburgers with cheese on them. We sell cheeseburgers. Now it may seem trivial to you, it may seem like some tiny insignificant little thing that I'm making a big fuss out of for no reason. But guess what? We get to name the food here. WE do. Not you. That's our thing. Our hamburgers taste terrible, our buns are flat, pretty much everything we do you could do infinitely better at your house, but this is the one thing we've got over you. Ho yes! No matter what else happens, you have to jump through our hoops! Obey our laws! No matter how stupid, inane, pointless or counter-productive! Because it means we're in control! And I will lose this fucking job rather then let you order a hamburger with cheese.
Say cheeseburger OR GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY MCDONALDS!"
"...alright, can I have a cheeseburger?"
"Damn straight"

 

[Rob Sharona]

20. Games that are just a tech demo. Half Life 2, We want a game, not a bloody demo!

Yeah no more terrible games like Half Life 2.

(are you serious??)

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

25.Having to play through flashbacks.
26.Excessively long cut scenes.
27.If you have checkpoint saves let the player choose which checkpoint to go back to.
28.All cliche plot devices, such as family slaughtered, then get revenge.
29.If any part of the game is sub standard, redo it, don't just release it and moan.
30.If extra content is finished before release include it, and don't make us pay extra.

 

[TaboriHK]

Terrible voice acting. Don't pay a famous person to phone it in for your game. This leads into the next one: decent script. Half the time, these names are phoning it in because your dialogue is GARBAGE. Mercs 2 is a good example of that, Jennifer Hale's lines are all delivered with the verbal equivalent of an eyeroll because they STINK. Either write a decent script or don't have a plot.

 

[SimuLord]

31. If you're going to make a game with a bunch of features and a great deal of depth, don't ship it with a five-page manual and a five-hour tutorial. I understand that most gamers don't RTFM, but a beefy manual I can read on the can (even if I have to print it from a PDF because your publisher insisted on not spending the money on a beefy manual) is a must. Sports and strategy developers take heed.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

32. Orbs - we get it, you heal and gain XP when you kill things, we don't need the hippy light show to rationalize it.

 

[jackanderson]

33. Anything that has the name "Petz" in it.
34. Endless System Updates.
35. Sports games that just update the teams and nothing else. (For god sake, release it as a patch you money grubbing bastards!!)

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

36. Repetitious Canned Animations - it's 2008, buy the damn middleware and make my attack transitions fluid and dynamically reactive.

 

[TaboriHK]

This is mostly for PCs, but games that treat my computer like a leper based on arbitrary standards. I have a pretty sweet rig, it's more than capable of playing Fable at the highest settings, but you won't let me play because my "profile is corrupted"? Strange, every other thing I've EVER installed has been okay with my profile's Machiavellian political maneuverings. Now I have to make a separate account on my PC just to play Fable, aptly named, "Account for Fable (Gay)."

 

[Xalmar]

37. Bring back health meters. There's more strategy and challenge involved when you can't just hide behind a corner for a few seconds and then you're all better again. This was the only real issue I had with COD4's gameplay.

38. Don't have enemies that can hit you from hundreds of yards away with a machine gun. It's not challenging, it's frustrating.

 

[Aurora219]

33. Anything that has the name "Petz" in it.

Ugh, kill me now..

 

[jackanderson]

39. Random installations. I bought the fucking game on a disc! Why do I have to wait 20 fucking minuets and waste 4.5 of my precious fucking gigabytes when I want to play it!

 

[Copter400]

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

I happen to absolutely love infinite respwaning enemies. As long as they're fun to fight against and they give you something when you kill them.
That's the essence of grinding my friend.
Isn't it fun to be like 100 levels over the boss when you get there?

That bit's fun. But I'm talking about infinte respawning enemies in games like tr Republic Commando, where the enemies fly around and you have to make sure the other four guys haven't done something retarded and the machine gun is so frustratingly weak, so you end up trying to stab the bloody things...

I don't like that.