Cobelo said:
Genetically-enhanced supersoldiers. Seriously, if you want to play one, go oldschool and play a Schpess Mahreen. Those are the cool ones. (though apparently shoulders are vulnerable.) People have been copying the bejeezus out of Halo for way too long.
What I want to know is why almost none of the supersoldiers these days are like Captain America, or even better. I mean, he was made about 60 years before any other supersoldiers and he can STILL top them all. You know what would be cool? A nano-augmented agent who can use plasmids without going bonkers. Sure, he'd be kind of overpowered in a modern environment, but set him in a future where everything's gone to hell and he's really needed.
I agree with basically everything said, and I want to add more things:
Almost entire game's emphasis on combat - JRPGs spring to mind when I think of this, like the
Final Fantasy series and
Star Ocean: The Last Hope. While
Star Ocean: The Last Hope's combat was pretty decent, it got old really fast because the field was basically overrun by monsters who attack me for... some reason. Look, I know it's perfectly normal for territorial predators to attack trespassers, but I'm certain that not ALL overworld enemies are territorial predators! In any event, games focus too much on direct combat these days.
Flash Transition - Seriously JRPG developers; cut this out. I understand why it was first used: in the ironically named
Final Fantasy, the developers wished to make a huge, epic world to explore, which you did. But with the maps being disproportionately small, how would you fight monsters? You grew to about 50 feet once you were on the overworld map and other monsters that did that would just look weird, and the dungeons could be quite small, thereby making the rooms squashy when monsters were there, so they had to take the combat to a wide area that would make the battles look realistic. That was fine back then. But now, with our wide open areas (
Star Ocean: The Last Hope and
Final Fantasy XIII), there's no excuse for it. Seriously, Square-Enix; you knew this with
Final Fantasy XII, so why repeat mistakes?
Dragged on combat - Again, even the best combat systems will get old if they go for too long and/or are too frequent. While turn-based combat can be quite spectacular and brain-stimulating, it's still very slow and it doesn't make sense. And then there's the JRPGs that go with combat systems apparently named after the pet combat robots of Mary Sues (Namco, what the hell inspired you to call a combat system the 'Evolved Flex-Range Linear Motion Battle System'?). Just pressing one button to mash someone on the head is good, and, like
God of War showed us, being able to press another button to mash someone on the head in a different way is even better, so why the need to bloat it with RUSH gauges and Stagger bars?
And yes, I do feel that JRPGs are normally littered with bad design choices, including the god-awful grind.
