Gaming's most annoying features....that suprisingly, we've gotten used to.
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As a long time console gamer, I can say that joysticks/ thumbsticks only get under my skin when they get to sticky to use accuratly, most of the time I can use them pretty well..loc978 said:
OT: A.I. never having to reload. My most recent tale of intrest involves Halo Reach. Singhelli capitan with a concussion rifle, after a solid 2 minutes of unending bombardment the only thing left to say is "Calm down you ADHD alien lizard thing!"
Oh, your post sort of implied that you thought Halo had the first SPESS MEHRINES. Needless to say, I was saddened by such a sentiment.Cobelo said:
Third person, cover based combat. I get what its trying to do, but most of the times the AI is so retarded I only need to place the cross aim exactly where the head used to be to get a headshot, since 99% of the times they are just going to pop up there.
That turns most encounters into battles of endurance of two characters taking turns to fight until one of them is death. It looks like that scene in The Naked Gun 2 1/2 where they are trying to shoot each other from opposite sides of a barrel.
That turns most encounters into battles of endurance of two characters taking turns to fight until one of them is death. It looks like that scene in The Naked Gun 2 1/2 where they are trying to shoot each other from opposite sides of a barrel.
Games claiming to be realistic, and then botching almost all realism.
On a related note: My friend and I once went into great detail on what a GOOD modern war shooter would be like... I mean a good realistic one. Do you know what we came up with? A good, exciting, and challenging (in the good way) shooter. It can be done developers, try it.
On a related note: My friend and I once went into great detail on what a GOOD modern war shooter would be like... I mean a good realistic one. Do you know what we came up with? A good, exciting, and challenging (in the good way) shooter. It can be done developers, try it.
I don't see the problem with realism which alot of people dislike. When they are talking about realism, they mean things like how people die, physics, gun-play mechanics, breakable cover etc. I prefer to have that rather than the classic Goldeneye death animations where you shoot someone in the leg and they hold their head, before promptly falling over and disappearing into nothingness. Red Dead Redemption incorporated physics into their death animations, which made it look believable and it could further the immersion into the game.
OT: I really dislike Over-the-shoulder aiming. If you are gonna use 3rd person, put some sort of auto-aim in there that is at least optional for God's sake!
Also, when you are killing a boss or something, at first if you have, say, a minigun or high-powered revolver, you shoot him and blow him to bits, and he flies backwards in a bloodied corpse. Right after it skips to a cutscene where he is on his knees, and you are holding a generic assault rifle pointing it at his face.
OT: I really dislike Over-the-shoulder aiming. If you are gonna use 3rd person, put some sort of auto-aim in there that is at least optional for God's sake!
Also, when you are killing a boss or something, at first if you have, say, a minigun or high-powered revolver, you shoot him and blow him to bits, and he flies backwards in a bloodied corpse. Right after it skips to a cutscene where he is on his knees, and you are holding a generic assault rifle pointing it at his face.
Quite easily pal point of fact many prefer stics to mice, now me I can work with either but my current mouse kinda sucks so at the moment I'm better with stcks than mice, but only just.loc978 said:
Frankly those that complain just need to spend a little time adjusting and you'd have it down.
OT Loading screens nothing Loading... breaks up the action quite like a loading screen just when Loading... you're getting in to the swing of things you Loading... have to stop and wait fo Loading... r that bastard screen to go away,
luckinly we've gotten so used to them only the really bad ones bother us, the worst are when you've just watched a cutscene biggying up a boss fight and you get the loading screen, the smarter games load during cutscenes though so it's gettLoading... ing less noticLoading... able over tiLoadinDISC READ ERROR
50 Cal. weapons have huge kickback. Either you've got a machine gun on some sort of base to increase accuracy by decreasing kickback (Which also means it ain't exactly mobile, else it'd be just about the least accurate thing in existence), or you got the sniper, which also couldn't be fired unless the kickback is countered in some way (Which means firing from the hip wouldn't work at all, firing from the shoulder standing up would be extremely difficult). Unless you don't consider complete inaccuracy a downside, these weapons ain't perfect by any means.Tankichi said:
Reloading is part of where skill comes into play, and it is kind of a fundamental concept to any genre featuring bullet-firing guns. Taking out reloading just means you'd never take out the leader because he's reloading, and he'd continue to take you out by catching you by surprise. More likely than not this would be a disadvantage for you.pulse2 said:Reloading: There is nothing more controller breakingly, wall kickingly annoying then when you get shot and killed just as you about to take someone else out, ONLY because you thought it the best time to reload, drives me absolutely mad.
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I personally dislike QTEs. I'm not a fan of platformers, but I can ignore those if I want. Nothing ruins a potentially fantastic game more than a QTE, and they've slowly invaded other genres, genres I like. When I lose a boss fight because of a .01 second window on the last hit, I tend to get annoyed.
Doom. Quake. Halo didn't start the concept, nor did they popularize it. They just brought it to console gamers, who proceeded to believe Halo was the origin of the Space Marine at all (Not all console gamers, just the ones who don't touch PCs for fear of catching Nerdiness). I am not a fan of those kinds of console gamers.Cobelo said:
It is even worse for PC gamers, since there are load screens where there doesn't need to be any! I have 4 gigs of freaking random access memory, why in the heck do I have loading screens for a game whose total size is about 6 gigs! Oh right, console port. Jeez, couldn't they have improved the memory allocation for the port?Asuka Soryu said:
Oh, right, i forgot about Doom. I've never really owned a Quake game, that really isn't my cuppa tea. Honestly, of late, FPS's have fallen out of my favor. They get boring way too quick. (Minus Fallout 3, though that's an FPSRPG hybrid thing, and i enjoy RPGs immensely.)Imat said:
Yeah, I have bad memories of furiously mashing the Skip Dialogue button when trying a boss for another time in the Paper Mario games. Could any of these bosses just fight me without a long, tedious soliloquy?canadamus_prime said:
I know how you feel on that. Especially FO3, which I found to be immensely entertaining.Cobelo said:
And it is somewhat sad that Doom hasn't been able to remain in the public's eye nowadays. That game, and Doom 2, provided so many hours of childhood enjoyment...Makes me wanna play them again, along with WarCraft 2 and Duke Nukem 3D...
Or if they must have the long tedious soliloquy, could they put a checkpoint after said soliloquy so that I don't have to listen to it over and over and over and over and over and over...subject_87 said: