Im going to have to join the long list of people who think the "soul eater" mechanic ruined the MotB module of Neverwinter Nights 2.
Games that you felt were ruined by one game mechanic
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TESIV: leashless mobs, psychic guards, watertight towns/cities
Having anything that aggroes on you proceed to chase you from one end of the countryside to the other was beyond annoying. You'd think that bear would eventually just get tired and wander back to his normal stomping ground eventually, right?
Every guard in the world could tell if you've done something rude (or sometimes just stupid, like getting on the wrong horse outside the city walls. And if you did something REALLY bad, they could track you down from just about anywhere, no matter how stealthy you might think you are.
Add in the fact that every town and city seems to require entry via an airlock system, which always has a pair of guards on each end, and playing someone who's supposed to be comfortable working in the shadows and walking among the darker elements of society becomes a tedium of keeping in the good graces of the constabulatory, whether you want to or not.
Note: I didn't have to deal with the default leveling system, as I played with a HEAVILY modded game that negated the leveling system for a more straightforward system.
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Having anything that aggroes on you proceed to chase you from one end of the countryside to the other was beyond annoying. You'd think that bear would eventually just get tired and wander back to his normal stomping ground eventually, right?
Every guard in the world could tell if you've done something rude (or sometimes just stupid, like getting on the wrong horse outside the city walls. And if you did something REALLY bad, they could track you down from just about anywhere, no matter how stealthy you might think you are.
Add in the fact that every town and city seems to require entry via an airlock system, which always has a pair of guards on each end, and playing someone who's supposed to be comfortable working in the shadows and walking among the darker elements of society becomes a tedium of keeping in the good graces of the constabulatory, whether you want to or not.
Note: I didn't have to deal with the default leveling system, as I played with a HEAVILY modded game that negated the leveling system for a more straightforward system.
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I'd also argue that having to use save points was a killer. An I'm happy someone agree's with me on this. I love every Zelda game I've played except for Majora's Mask.DragonChi said:
I can't stand the old "party leader dies,the whole party dies" mechanic,particularly in FFXIII where you don't have an option to choose a party leader or cure effectively.
Enemies who level up with the character,what's the point of leveling up 10 times just to find out that the monster who was giving you a hard time earlier now has 10 times more health?
And on a final note Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, the whole thing about the BoF games has been the ability to trasnform into a dragon which gives you the upper hand in fights but in Dragon Quarter the game ends if you turn into a dragon too much!! The game is often hard enough that it forces you to make the change effectively pushing you towards failing!
Enemies who level up with the character,what's the point of leveling up 10 times just to find out that the monster who was giving you a hard time earlier now has 10 times more health?
And on a final note Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter, the whole thing about the BoF games has been the ability to trasnform into a dragon which gives you the upper hand in fights but in Dragon Quarter the game ends if you turn into a dragon too much!! The game is often hard enough that it forces you to make the change effectively pushing you towards failing!
to be honest it would be a bit of a bad move to include co-op in fallout 3 as it is all about you and your fight for survival in a vast land that would use your vertebrae to make luxury toothpicks. also no two characters in fallout 3 are equally balanced due to the whole CND bullshit. seriously if you want fallout 3 with co-op go play borderlands which isn't an fps RPG no matter how much they tryUnderCoverGuest said:
seriously how is making 2 classes shit and the other two merely weighted towards solo or co op and giving them 3 trees of which only 1 is useful a good idea.
OK that's the mechanic I hate, borderlands taped on RPG elements!
Indigo Prophecy, great game but LOADS to QTE's that were needed for the gameplay, but were too repetitive.
Resident Evil 4, I cannot play this thing, yes, I'm sure it's amazing, but if the control scheme is actively plotting against me it doesn't really matter how great everything else is. Seriously I have NEVER played a game that made it harder to aim then Resident Evil: 4.
Have you actually played any Elder Scrolls games? Cause that's not how they work, like at all. They aren't "Random skills" you pick them out yourself, it's actually the very first thing you do in most of them. The skill you pick are the ones you use to level, did you pick lots of magic skill? Then you level up by getting better at magic. How is using magic when playing the magic class that YOU picked out abitrary?evilthecat said:
Why does Dragon Age get a pass on its scaling. The DA scaling was much worse with the weekling demons that you fight early and the super wolves and town guards that you fight late. With the way Oblivion delivered new encounters it sure seemed like the lesser of two evils.Proverbial Jon said:
Really? I had fun with that little pie game. I cooked enough people with that to where if I got into a street fight a bunch of people would help out.
I think the prize for me goes to the god damn 'jobs' in the Fable games (2&3 haven't played the first one). Come on Lionhead can't you make it any more interesting? Mix it up a bit, i don't want to have to do basically the same QTE for every job!
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The Gambit system in FFXII was awesome and IMO not frustrating at all if you took the time to learn the way the system worked and set it up correctly exploit the weaknesses of the enemy you would be facing. Sometimes it actually made the game too easy. For example the in the Cataract battles would barley get to over the 5 second mark as the gambits i set up were so effective that both my mages would automatically target different a enemy and nuke them with Holy while my other character just moped up the rest.
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You can turn the film grain effect off in Mass Effect 1 & 2. The option is in the graphics section of the menu
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Mass Effect was a game based around conversation AND combat, unlike many games that just focus on combat. The game did give you the freedom to explore the conversations to a grater depth (Select options from the left hand side of the conversation wheel) or to just get by on the bare minimum you need to advance the plot (Select options from the right had side of the conversation wheel).
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The Gambit system in FFXII was awesome and IMO not frustrating at all if you took the time to learn the way the system worked and set it up correctly exploit the weaknesses of the enemy you would be facing. Sometimes it actually made the game too easy. For example the in the Cataract battles would barley get to over the 5 second mark as the gambits i set up were so effective that both my mages would automatically target different a enemy and nuke them with Holy while my other character just moped up the rest.
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You can turn the film grain effect off in Mass Effect 1 & 2. The option is in the graphics section of the menu
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Mass Effect was a game based around conversation AND combat, unlike many games that just focus on combat. The game did give you the freedom to explore the conversations to a grater depth (Select options from the left hand side of the conversation wheel) or to just get by on the bare minimum you need to advance the plot (Select options from the right had side of the conversation wheel).
I remembering getting that at around level 10ish I believe. From that moment forward every lock became a matter of time.DeadFOAM said:
I loved that key.
Actually for me, it was that damn conversation wheel. The stupidity of it all was enough to make me think less of the game.danintexas said:
I found that riding Pegasus around would win you most levels in that game quite easily. Took a lot of the fun out of it!Toriver said:
It might sound petty, but the repair system in Fallout 3. I hated it with a passion and it's one of the main reasons I never got around to beating it.