Poll: Your about to murder 1 video game clishe...What will it bee?

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Escort missions. I HATE escort missions.

Oh, Jesus dude. You spelled it "clishee"? Really?

 

[Penguinness]

Got to say quick-time events, especially when they're not needed in cutscenes and I put the pad down, or when they just flat out replace boss fights or just normal fights with them.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

The losing all abilites cliche. Not because I have to find them again, but because of the shit way this is usually implemented (I'm looking at you Samus Aran).

"Time to start a new adventure with all my power ups!"

*trips over and all her crap falls down a drain*

"Nooooo, my power ups!"

Isn't that from the decline of video games? The quote I mean?
If so, do I get a cookie?

 

[Srdjan]

I can't remember any of game clishes, maybe it's because of my amnesia.

 

[wammnebu]

its players

 

[Calcium]

I voted "Graphics Over Gameplay", but after playing Battlefield 2, I'd have been severely tempted to vote "BAD Stories" if it were an option.

I'm entralled by it's multiplayer, but you can't base a campaign on cliches and ripping off Call of Duty and try to hide it by making cringey "LOL COD SUCKS" references, aimed at some kind of non-comformist audience.

 

[RA92]

I went for QTEs simply because I fear Ace Combat: Assault Horizon might integrate them for maneuvers. Becoming a Tom Clancy subsidiary in the story department is bad enough - it doesn't need any more downgrading.

 

[veloper]

Backtracking and long uneventful walks.

 

[Kadoodle]

Why graphics over gameplay? Graphics are important if you're the type of person who playes videogames to escape to an alternate reality. I like the world where I play to look good, I want to be sucked in; see, graphical quality is the most important part of immersion.


Now some of you might say: HEY WHATABOUT MINECRAFT????!1eleven


Well I say: good game, good graphical style, immersive due to the good graphics. Minecraft has good graphics, it just uses an uncommon style. But the low res textures...they look good, no?

Graphics provide immersion.

Immersion provides escapism.





I choose the lives system. Videogames don't need my quarters anymore, and I don't need a limited lives supply.


Also, I'd think that games should try to end the time old habit of having rubble, blood, debris, and bodies fade out of existence. I want to see my carnage and destruction. Don't get rid of it all.

 

[Drummodino]

Bloody graphics over gameplay, I'm tired of playing the same game in a different, slightly shinier (or grittier) skin.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Underwater level, I NEVER thought one was fun, and I sure as hell wont now.

 

[Denamic]

"Games are for kids."

 

[Manicotti]

I chose "graphics over gameplay" like a bunch of other people, but then it stood out to me because it's not really a mechanical cliche the way everything else here is (other than maybe cliffhangers, but that's a storyline/development cliche more than anything).

If we're talking about game mechanic cliches, let's get rid of fetch quests altogether. My idea of adventure is not living out some latent fantasy as an interplanar postal worker.

If we're talking about story cliches, then get the fuck rid of token characters. Diversity for its own sake is just as offensive as no diversity at all.

 

[Drummodino]

Why graphics over gameplay? Graphics are important if you're the type of person who playes videogames to escape to an alternate reality. I like the world where I play to look good, I want to be sucked in; see, graphical quality is the most important part of immersion.


Now some of you might say: HEY WHATABOUT MINECRAFT????!1eleven


Well I say: good game, good graphical style, immersive due to the good graphics. Minecraft has good graphics, it just uses an uncommon style. But the low res textures...they look good, no?

Graphics provide immersion.

Immersion provides escapism.





I choose the lives system. Videogames don't need my quarters anymore, and I don't need a limited lives supply.

What about the likes of classics such as FF VII? That is one of the most immersive games I've ever played and its from the PS one era... And I only played it this year so don't go saying it had good graphics for its time (not even sure if that is true?)

 

[Kadoodle]

Bloody graphics over gameplay, I'm tired of playing the same game in a different, slightly shinier (or grittier) skin.

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You're using graphics as a scapegoat for lackluster gameplay. Just because the graphics are better than the gameplay doesn't mean that more effort was put into graphics while forgetting gameplay, or that effort SHOULDN'T be put into graphics at all. You should demand that good graphics be kept, and that gameplay simply be better.

 

[Drummodino]

Bloody graphics over gameplay, I'm tired of playing the same game in a different, slightly shinier (or grittier) skin.

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You're using graphics as a scapegoat for lackluster gameplay. Just because the graphics are better than the gameplay doesn't mean that more effort was put into graphics while forgetting gameplay, or that effort SHOULDN'T be put into graphics at all. You should demand that good graphics be kept, and that gameplay simply be better.

I have nothing against graphics, please don't misunderstand that. I agree that good graphics are a good feature, what I am annoyed at is clones of the same game (eg. COD) being released reguarly without any significant gameplay changes, just a different skin.

One game with amazing graphics that I loved is Vanquish. Not only was it stunningly beautiful, it had innovative gameplay. That is an example of good gameplay AND graphics. Best of both worlds.

 

[teutonicman]

I would destroy bad grammar. "Oh, what? That's not a video game cliché?" Ok then the second cliché I would destroy are mandatory escort missions.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The losing all abilites cliche. Not because I have to find them again, but because of the shit way this is usually implemented (I'm looking at you Samus Aran).

"Time to start a new adventure with all my power ups!"

*trips over and all her crap falls down a drain*

"Nooooo, my power ups!"

Isn't that from the decline of video games? The quote I mean?
If so, do I get a cookie?

Yes, it is from Decline. You get a huge cookie for such an elusive reference.

 

[The Night Shade]

1.Graphics over gameplay
2.Losing abilities
3.Instantly respwaning enemies

 

[meece]

Either amnesia or fetch quests. Neither of those add anything to the game. The first is just a plot device to prevent then having to either write a decent backstory and the second is just to pad gameplay with.