Gaming Cliches That Must Die

[Jared]

Quests to get a key, to open a door...they are pointless, annoying and downright out-dated.

I know its an example which has been used before, and I totally agree with it, Borderlands, you need to go into an enemy stronghold, kill lots of bad guys in order to get a key, to open a gate...

It just infuriates me that in this day of age such an old, and over-used mechanic could still be popular...

Also Deus Ex return of bosses and bad guys...if you can't provide an adequate reason for them returning...either 1) Dont kill them in first place or 2) Dont bring them back and get original.

 

[Jenova65]

The Englishman is not your friend

It would be nice for an English character to make it to the end of the game both alive and still a good guy. Aside from Modern Warfare (and maybe Fall of Man) I can't think of any games where this remains he case all the way through.

This ^ In American movies too! I mean jeez, guys, thought we were friends......

 

[CptRumGuy]

FPS's in particular are guilty of this one: destroying the reactor/core/computer mainframe at the end.

 

[Lullabye]

Quests to get a key, to open a door...they are pointless, annoying and downright out-dated.

Especially when the door in question is hanging off it's rusty old hinges and you can see through the cracks running down it from top to bottom, and you just got/made a spell aptly named NUKE!!!!(with effects similar to what the name suggests) yet it doesn't make a fuckin dent(I'm looking at YOU Oblivion!)

 

[The_ModeRazor]

]The awesome hero of awesomeness can't get swimming lessons until the sequel.

Welcome to Italy.
OT: Han Solo turns up in every fucking game.
And the bad guys are always far more interesting then the good ones. Why is it so hard to make a good character that is not as relatable as a loaf of bread?

 

[Manicotti]

There are two that I'm absolutely sick of.

1) In RPGs, females are either two-bit butches with the manners of Attila the Hun, or spineless healers/sycophants. There's no personality realism.

2) The bad guy is almost always a Card-Carrying Villain: "This is going to satisfy my megalomaniac urges, so I'm going to pursue it balls to the wall!" Sure, every story revolves around its villain, and it makes a great contrast when you make a silent and noble protagonist, but seriously, would it kill the devs to make more villains like either Heath Ledger's Joker (who wants to just watch the world burn), or, lest I say something positive about Terry Goodkind's series, like Darken Rahl (who sincerely believed his actions were morally right, but just didn't put any limitations on them)?

 

[willard3]

This website: 6 Video Game Gimmicks That Need To Die [http://www.cracked.com/article_15230_p2.html]. Also includes 6 gimmicks that went away too soon over on page 1.

Courtesy of Cracked, only the best website ever.

 

[Zaizen]

Quicktime events they lost all value after the first 300 times they appeared
The Mass Effect elevator type loading sections .. just bring back loading screens

 

[Space Cowgirl]

Quicktime events. Oh, the quicktime events. They get on my nerves so bad, especially when you have to press that same button at least fifty times before the QTE is over. (I'm looking at you RE4!)

Then there's the timed chase sequences. Or any timed sequence in general. Okami is a good example of this.

 

[wizzerd229]

Elves who stand around, do nothing and expect the intrepid hero to do everything, yet still have the GALL to suggest that they, the Elves Who Do Nothing, are the superior race and that humans are scum sucking dirtbags who are fortunate that the Elves don't use their MIND POWERS to explode all our brains at once.


And squeaky-voiced foul-mouthed 13-year olds who abuse voice chat. They should all be shot out of a cannon.

With no safety net.

And with a 30 lb. cannonball loaded in before them.

Aimed at a downwards angle.

And they are in the cannon face-first.

tworad a pit of spikes goming out of lava

 

[wizzerd229]

Anyone find it funny that Stephen Fry = The Morgan Freeman of Gaming?

Nah, that title goes to whoever plays your CO in MW2 (He's also in Mass Effect as the Captain, as well as several other games which I am too lazy to list here). He has a good b-level movie carreer too.

you talking bout Kevin David?

 

[xplay3r]

Elves who stand around, do nothing and expect the intrepid hero to do everything, yet still have the GALL to suggest that they, the Elves Who Do Nothing, are the superior race and that humans are scum sucking dirtbags who are fortunate that the Elves don't use their MIND POWERS to explode all our brains at once.


And squeaky-voiced foul-mouthed 13-year olds who abuse voice chat. They should all be shot out of a cannon.

With no safety net.

And with a 30 lb. cannonball loaded in before them.

Aimed at a downwards angle.

And they are in the cannon face-first.

You know what the last thing that would go through there minds is? HINT: It's vulgar and it's appropiate to the level of inteligence the exibit.

When fired out of a cannon, face first, aimed straight at the ground, the last thing that goes through there mind, is theyre ass.

My gaming cluches I wish would die is how local muliplater is being shoved aside and hindered for online play, yeah I love online play, but I also love sitting in the same room as my best friend and playing together working togther or just screwing around blowing eachother up and shit. That's some of the best times I had with video games is when me and my friend just glitch and kill and screw around making jokes and trying to break the physics engine by blowing up our lifeless rogdolled bodys as much as possible. and that ability is sliping away because online gaming. I agree I love online gaming, but I don't see why we have to scrifice local for online, why can't we just have both?

 

[Lazy Kitty]

THE UNLIKELY HERO
you know you just happen to be in that jail cell you where born with the gift but you don't want it, you don't want to save the world you want an normal life. I want a hero were the cliche old wise man comes up and tells me I have the power and I'm destined to save the world , to be like fuck ya! I'm the goddamned hero fuck this field I'm going kill some demons and get laid. I want a hero who is happy to be a magic weilding badass.

Why does this remind me of Oblivion?
Personally I'd prefer it if I could do the exact opposite of what I'm supposed to do and join the villain, maybe overthrow him. Why does he need to get world domination, when I can take it for myself?

 

[mjc0961]

The Mass Effect elevator type loading sections .. just bring back loading screens

Too true, I forgot about that. I mean, come on. We know it's loading. Don't insult our intelligence with this fake "no loading because no loading screen lolol" nonsense.

This website: 6 Video Game Gimmicks That Need To Die [http://www.cracked.com/article_15230_p2.html]. Also includes 6 gimmicks that went away too soon over on page 1.

Courtesy of Cracked, only the best website ever.

Two thumbs down to that article. No more carrying everything? What, would they rather have one of those obnoxious "you can only carry so much stuff before you have to drop/sell something" systems? No thanks. And they actually want long obnoxious passwords back? Dude who wrote that must be high.

 

[Jenova65]

Actually I like the elevator rides they amuse me! Plus they aren't just loading listening to the elevator 'radio', spews up a coupla missions! I think there are far bigger gaming crimes than Mass Effect elevator rides.

 

[beholdmycape]

Crates, Enough with the fucking crates already.
Barrels too.

 

[TheLastCylon]

You are the motherfucking Chosen One!
You're better then everyone else for no fucking reason!
You will be the worlds savior!
Just be-fucking-cause.

I want to play a game that I play as a god damn marine that doesnt have any bloody magical armor of doom that protects him from bullets and makes his hp regenerate instantly.
I want to be a regular fucking mercenary with just a bullet-proof vest and a sniper.
I want to be shot down in a few fucking seconds
Where is the difficulty?!

Here ya go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMA_2

 

[nart_21086]

The AutoDoom mission.

Spend half an hour dodging bullets in an abandoned hospital to retreive some drugs and find out your girls a fed.
Kill dozens of undead to get your mother from out of prison to be captured...in the prison.
You finally secure an area and are flying off heroically when you hear word of a downed friendly heli. you save them and get blown to bits by a nuke.
You meet Bass for the first time and die.
You get betrayed.

All these are annoying especially if you lose all your items like in Fable 1 and KOTOR 1 or if your playing your game boy and turn it off every time you lose to Bass. And when you finally Find out Your SUPPOSED to LOSE you toss your gba down an up escalator. what is most annoying is that these types of events are placed in these "non-linear" games that claim that your actions affect the plot. And when you try again from an earlier part and results are the same you feel gipped. Yes these plot devices do enhance the story and such but so much effort lost is fuckin annoying. So enjoy the moment when you are captured by five enemies that you could otherwise kill in 2 seconds...

 

[Nannernade]

The fact in pretty much every FPS where nobody will move until you walk your sorry ass out into the death zone of spamming grenades.