Little Details That Piss You Off

[cojo965]

You know what pisses me off in shooters? When a gun model clearly has rounds attached to it but I'm somehow out of ammo. *****! I CAN SEE UNSPENT BULLETS ON YOUR GUN! USE THEM!

I hate how often Art films seem to think it's acceptable to put a PowerPoint presentation in theaters as opposed to an actual film. I'M LOOKING AT YOU 2001, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, AND ONLY GOD FORGIVES!

And that's the thread. It's small, probably irrelevant to everything else, but it never stops pissing you off when you see it.

 

[Zhukov]

There's a game out there called Silent Storm.

In a nutshell it's XCOM combat in WWII with some sci-fi bollocks thrown in. Decent little game actually.

HOWEVER

Whenever you get a character to fire a LMG from a crouching or standing stance they proceed to hold it one-handed, tilt the weapon to one side (think "gangsta style" but tilted outwards instead of inwards) and hold their other arm out to the side as if for balance before firing.

This in a game where every other firing stance and animation is grounded and sensible.

It drives me fucking nuts. Actually discourages me from playing the game.

 

[Chanticoblues]

I hate how often Art films seem to think it's acceptable to put a PowerPoint presentation in theaters as opposed to an actual film. I'M LOOKING AT YOU 2001, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, AND ONLY GOD FORGIVES!

I don't even know what that means.

One thing that really bugs me is costuming. So many films spend so much time making their clothes look like they're period, and then they do nothing to make it look like these clothes were ever worn by their characters. It's really tough to get drawn into a western where some mangy tracker with dirt on his face is wearing fresh leather.

 

[Erttheking]

There's a game out there called Silent Storm.

In a nutshell it's XCOM combat in WWII with some sci-fi bollocks thrown in. Decent little game actually.

HOWEVER

Whenever you get a character to fire a LMG from a crouching or standing stance they proceed to hold it one-handed, tilt the weapon to one side (think "gangsta style" but tilted outwards instead of inwards) and hold their other arm out to the side as if for balance before firing.

This in a game where every other firing stance and animation is grounded and sensible.

It drives me fucking nuts. Actually discourages me from playing the game.

Same thing with me, only with the snipers in XCOM Enemy Unknown. Seriously, what the FUCK are they trying to do there?

 

[Zhukov]

There's a game out there called Silent Storm.

In a nutshell it's XCOM combat in WWII with some sci-fi bollocks thrown in. Decent little game actually.

HOWEVER

Whenever you get a character to fire a LMG from a crouching or standing stance they proceed to hold it one-handed, tilt the weapon to one side (think "gangsta style" but tilted outwards instead of inwards) and hold their other arm out to the side as if for balance before firing.

This in a game where every other firing stance and animation is grounded and sensible.

It drives me fucking nuts. Actually discourages me from playing the game.

Same thing with me, only with the snipers in XCOM Enemy Unknown. Seriously, what the FUCK are they trying to do there?

That stance the XCOM snipers use is actually a thing.

It's rather old fashioned but I've heard it's still taught in British marksman/sniper training. Either way, it's not something one would use often since it'd be much better to go prone, use a bipod or rest the weapon on something in front of you. Given that the game's animations don't allow for any of that that then it kiiiinda-almost makes sense for them to shoot that way.

Granted, I was never taught to shoot like that. Mostly it just reminds me of Tintin.

This is all second hand info from a conversation I once had with an Australian Army marksmanship instructor. We probably have some resident gun enthusiasts who could tell you more or tell you different.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

When pornstars change specialties within professions in-between scenes. Call me old fashion, but I like a cohesive universe for my wank material, and all this switching back and forth is just poor universe building.
I mean how many times have we seen Julia Ann as a Doctor? A dozen?! And its never the same type! Here she's a cardiologists, there she's a physical trainer specializing in penial recovery, over yonder she's a sex therapist for busty teens. And it throws me completely out of the experience! How am I to trust in this woman's expertise that this situation does in fact call for a three-way when as far as I can tell she's just making up doctorates and certificates left and right?!

Just pick a fake profession and stay with it! And Doctor Johnny Sins, don't think I didn't notice that's not the proper way to use the Stethoscope to check for lung functionality! And that is not how you treat nymphomania, you're only going to exacerbate things! You guys are playing this too fast and loose!

 

[cojo965]

I hate how often Art films seem to think it's acceptable to put a PowerPoint presentation in theaters as opposed to an actual film. I'M LOOKING AT YOU 2001, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, AND ONLY GOD FORGIVES!

I don't even know what that means.

One thing that really bugs me is costuming. So many films spend so much time making their clothes look like they're period, and then they do nothing to make it look like these clothes were ever worn by their characters. It's really tough to get drawn into a western where some mangy tracker with dirt on his face is wearing fresh leather.

I'm refering to the habit of so-called Art films to linger on shots of no importance for so long that the film may as well be a slide show, be it shit floating in space or some fuckwit standing in a room.

 

[Just Ebola]

I hate how often Art films seem to think it's acceptable to put a PowerPoint presentation in theaters as opposed to an actual film. I'M LOOKING AT YOU 2001, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, AND ONLY GOD FORGIVES!

Thought I'd include this because it's very relevant to the editing in No Country For Old Men, and because it's just a massively underrated channel.

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Oh, and it's a great fucking movie.

EDIT: Whoops, didn't mean to say that twice.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Shows or films who's cast (especially females) consist of purely tall, thin/athletic actors and anybody fat or not shaped to this conformity are there purely to be the fat one or weird one. It really grates my glitterbox, we should be past this bollocks by now.
Also those "romantic" films that try to sound like they're teaching a non-shallow message, except they use the shallowest tactics and end up coming off as pretentious, shallow and insufferable instead. Examples are films attempting to use the "you don't need looks to fall in love" while still promising the main character their good-looking prize at the end, or even just flat out throwing a scar onto a model actor and being like "oh he ugly now...see?" Go and fuck off to your 13 year old tween dream room please and don't waste my time with your bullshit. OK, it is me wasting my time, but I have some friends with bad taste.

Also can we stop using pale-skinned long-black-straight-haired girl as a horror trope pleaaaaaaaaaaass?? Is there no self-awareness or even sentient thought in the horror film industry anymore? Do they even know what fear is or do they just try to imitate what they can from our media?

Who started the "the hype is real" phrase? I don't like the violent feelings it brings when some twitching amoeba barely capable of independent thought parrots it for seemingly no discernible reason other than somebody they perceive cooler than them said it once.

*And breathe*
Calm. Blue. Drowning. Sea.

 

[Chanticoblues]

I'm refering to the habit of so-called Art films to linger on shots of no importance for so long that the film may as well be a slide show, be it shit floating in space or some fuckwit standing in a room.

Ah, ok. I thought you were calling them obvious or didactic. It's cool if those movies aren't your speed, but there are far, far slower or less eventful movies you could have used to make your point. I never really saw No Country as being that slow. 2001 I get a lot of people have a problem with, and Only God Forgives is just all-round a bad movie.

 

[Dizchu]

I can't remember if it's the animations or the ragdolls/physics objects, but in Bioshock they move at 30FPS while the game is not locked to 30FPS. It pretty much ruins the game for me, I tried replaying it a while ago and it just killed it.

I like to rag on the Bioshock series, sorry.

 

[Fox12]

When soldiers forget their training in a movie, throw their hands in the air, break formation, and charge each other.

I hate how often Art films seem to think it's acceptable to put a PowerPoint presentation in theaters as opposed to an actual film. I'M LOOKING AT YOU 2001, NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, AND ONLY GOD FORGIVES!

I don't even know what that means.

One thing that really bugs me is costuming. So many films spend so much time making their clothes look like they're period, and then they do nothing to make it look like these clothes were ever worn by their characters. It's really tough to get drawn into a western where some mangy tracker with dirt on his face is wearing fresh leather.

I'm refering to the habit of so-called Art films to linger on shots of no importance for so long that the film may as well be a slide show, be it shit floating in space or some fuckwit standing in a room.

Well, that's typically done to establish a setting, set a tone, a pace, or create a specific emotional response from the audience. Alternatively it can also be an aspect of the pathetic fallacy, where the external environment is meant to reflect the internal struggle of the character. There are a lot of reasons why a film would do this. These scenes can be slow, but they typically do serve an important purpose.

Edit: and go put you Godzilla post in spoiler tags : P

 

[Casual Shinji]

When you make a character exactly the way you want in games like Skyrim, Dragon Age, ect. but they turn out somewhat differently once the game freaken starts >:/ like seriously?! I worked 2+ hours on them and you guys lie to me on how they looked in my character creation menu.

Or better yet... not allowing you to save your character design. This would be so easy to implement, yet no games ever do, except Bloodborne.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

When you make a character exactly the way you want in games like Skyrim, Dragon Age, ect. but they turn out somewhat differently once the game freaken starts >:/ like seriously?! I worked 2+ hours on them and you guys lie to me on how they looked in my character creation menu.

I recall this being a huge issue for me in Mass Effect too...I wound up just picking a pre-built character I kinda liked and changing their hair, eye-color...you know, the less-nuanced aspects of their appearance. Messing with those size and depth sliders is a killer.

Single player games seem to have dropped cheat codes and I just don't know what that is. When I found out I can give myself 9 lives in Mighty No. 9 I felt pretty damn excited but I just don't get what happened to cheat codes. I think the main excuses has to do with trochievos but again; this is a single-player game that I spent $15 - $60 on in the first place. Let me play my single player game my way, even if it means I'm playing a game I absolutely can NOT lose. Part of why I liked Duke Nukem Forever is the fact that it gives me cheats after a while. Saint's Row also gives you cheats if you earn them through the side-missions.

 

[Saelune]

Inspired by Ezekiel, characters being changed from how they were originally written. Happening a lot in comic movies, though I am against it in all cases in all directions. (Turning white characters black, turning black characters white, male into female, female into male, etc, all of it)

And no button mapping in games. EVERY GAME should have it. I don't care if there is only one button used, let me pick what does it.

 

[WindKnight]

When a game decides to include a separate animation for reloading where a mag is empty, and where it isn't - ie fully emptying the mag gets the slide or a lever pulled to chamber a round - but then doesn't give you the +1 round you'd have from a 'partial' reload because you already have a round in the chamber.

 

[Barbas]

*****! I CAN SEE UNSPENT BULLETS ON YOUR GUN! USE THEM!

Made me think of this immediately - they have a very direct way of talking sometimes.

Having just watched Touch of Evil, I'm gonna say Hollywood whitewashing. No, I don't care about being fair to minority/foreign actors. It's just that it's dumb seeing Charlton Heston in face paint playing a Mexican. Thankfully, Orson Welles stole the show.

John Wayne donned yellowface to play Genghis Khan in The Conqueror, cowboy drawl and all. Worse, there was radiation poisoning involved in the filming - thirteen weeks of it:

By 1980, 91 of the 220 cast and crew had been diagnosed with cancer. Forty-six then died of it, including John Wayne, Dick Powell and every leading supporting cast member. Pedro Armend?riz would also be diagnosed, but committed suicide after hearing the news, shortly after filming From Russia With Love in 1963. Numerous American Indians who served as Mongolian warriors contracted cancer in later years, and even John Wayne's son Michael died in 2003 of cancer, after visiting his father on the set at age 22.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/the-conqueror/making-of-movie-that-killed-john-wayne/

OT: I'll be boring and say a lack of FoV sliders. Just put them in. And give us an option to turn filters and film grain off. Do you want your audience to suffer headaches, dizziness eye strain or vomiting when you could easily prevent it? Do you harbour some sort of contempt for them? Don't you want them to see the game you made??? >:c [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z0Pm7tccvc]

 

[Vanilla ISIS]

I've got OCD so the details are in my face all the time.
For example, when someone puts something on the table and it's not parallel to at least one of the sides of the table, it really pisses me off.
Symmetry and angles are a big part of my messed up brain.
It's incredibly annoying that I'm this way but there's not much I can do.