Stupid things in videogames

[Bourne Endeavor]

- The fact in Fable/Fable II I can go on a mass genocide; blundage, maim, burn, shock, stab people; raise the dead, send people to suffer unspeaking torment for all entirety and lord only knows what else yet... the children in the game just stand there, completely immune to everything. Even worse that Bowserstone, every single person in the town was immune to death.

Even better, it is more evil to have your wife divorce you than to just kill her.

- In Onimusha 3, the setting is feudal Japanese and whilst watching the lengthly cut scene (which is awesome by the way) everyone speaks English. So why when the game switches to modern day France does everyone speak French?

- The card spreading rules in FFVIII. I swear, someone should be shot for that idea.

 

[L4Y Duke]

Ooh! I just remembered another one!

Level caps.

Why oh why can't I get to level 21 in the first KotOR? I have more Force Powers, attributes, feats and stuff that I can learn, so why can't I learn anything more?

Oblivion I can understand. I mean, there your level is dependant on your primary skills, so if those are maxed it makes sense that you can't level up anymore. You're as good a you as you'll ever be. All other skills are there as backup.

 

[Foolish Mortal]

This has been already said, but it needs saying again.
Quick-time events.
More specifically, button mash quick-time events.
More specifically, button mash quick-time events that punish you for not button mashing fast enough.
More specifically, the Warrior in the new Prince of Persia.
That killed the game for me. I can't play it now, because every time I think about it I remember 'oh goddamit the button mashing' and I go do something else.

Also eleventh-hour romance plots. Where do they come from? A man and a woman spend a few hours together, exchange precisely twelve lines of dialogue and then completely out of nowhere it's true love! Because that is how human relationships work.

 

[Letsrock456]

I have three, all in COD 4.

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1st. Doors, either the doors have been blown off, or are closed. Period, you can't open them, you have to wait for a freakin Npc to do it for you.

2nd. Cpt Mcmillan in the mission after all ghillied up when his leg gets mangled by a Helicopter, he can take twenty shots to the head from a RPG, yet his leg gets broken by a helicopter.

3rd. On the mission where your marine guy dies, the fact that that just happened, and also the fact that we would've survived if we hadn't gone back for a pilot....

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[Cowabungaa]

If you make your horse gallop in Assassin's Creed, everyone thinks your evil and will try to kill you, but if you hold down a button that makes you extremely slow, everyone fucks off.

What bullshit is that?!

Even in Medieval times there were speed limits.

In most MMOs you might be told to collect 10 boar livers. Then you kill 10 boars and most of them don't have livers. What the fuck?! How the hell are these boars alive? What, are they using that fucking sword that they somehow seem to be carrying as a liver instead?!

Very much this, I've played a couple of MMO's recently who did not have this, but especially WoW is guilty to this. WoW also has the odd tendency to completly mindfuck you by handing out the first 9 quest items pretty fast, then let you grind for half an hour for the last damned thing. But yes, boars without livers, basilisks without brains, it's stupid.

I was also really annoyed by the fact that in Far Cry 2, your enemy's weapons never jam or break down, and the fact that they can take 5 bullets to the chest while usually wearing nothing more then tank tops. The game has indeed a pretty realistic vibe to it, the whole physics and open world thing, but that stops when you start fighting.

 

[Master Kuja]

As much as I love Half Life, gotta be said.

How your flashlight battery is directly linked to your ability to sprint, as well as your ability to breath underwater, never quite saw the logic in that.

 

[fletch_talon]

In most MMOs you might be told to collect 10 boar livers. Then you kill 10 boars and most of them don't have livers. What the fuck?! How the hell are these boars alive? What, are they using that fucking sword that they somehow seem to be carrying as a liver instead?!

I think one theory (either that or I made it up) is that in battle you may have damaged the object, and the questgiver wants them in pristine condition.

Of course if this is the case then they should give items like "punctured boar's liver" or "scarred boar's pelt"

 

[hazabaza1]

In half-life 2 the fact that sprinting, oxygen and your torch all use the same energy, and doing all at once will deplete it faster.

EDIT: Dammit, I need to read through before commenting.

 

[Zersy]

When the annoying begger lady from Assassin's Creed does her thing

i swear everytime i saw her i would abondon my objective just to go kill to make sure she might not fail my mission !

Oh and in all the Halo games , the invisiblity ! Like WTF !! when it says invisible it means you can't see me ! it does not mean that i simply become see through !!

Also when a game has bad check point system

And most of all when you don't know where the F%CK to go !!

 

[Rock Beefchest]

And here comes the rant! (mild, very mild spoiler alert by inference)

On fallout 3 I have my second level twenty character and this time I actually wanted to get all the bobbleheads. Unfortunately I have 19 out of 20 because the one in Arefu is behind a door that requires a higher degree of lockpickdom than my character possesses. Now any other freakin door in the entire game has multiple points of access, but NOO not that door. Hell the owner of the house doesn't even have a key to place that you can pickpocket or jack from his shotgun shell ridden corpse. So there I am waiting for the level cap to be raised so I can boost my lockpicking skill to get the damn thing. Why doesn't the owner have a way into his house that doesn't make sense.

Also why doesn't he ever go back home to sleep like every other character in the freakin game. before I completed the android sidequest I thought for sure that this guy was it because the fucker doesn't EVER SLEEP!

I fired a mini nuke at the damn house trying to get in. A FUCKING MINI NUKE, the house is made of millimeter thick rusting sheet metal and bird shit, but that damn bobblehead is locked up like a fuckin safe.

2 simple solutions 1 use mentats 2 put more points in lock picking like every sane person(science lock picking repair and medicine invest in those and you'll be unstoppable)

I will try the mentats thing, but if I was still getting levels I would jack up my lockpicking skill. I didn't want an well rounded character I wanted a science and repair nerd so I intentionally neglected lockpicking. SO I hear tomorrow the level cap is supposed to raise and then i can raise my lockpick skill enough to do it.

Back to the point of the article though I think it was BS that every other sidequest had multiple ways of completion and most doors building have multiple entrances for different classes of character, but not that door that door only has one entrance.

and why the hell doesn't the houses owner ever go home?

 

[Supernova2000]

If you make your horse gallop in Assassin's Creed, everyone thinks your evil and will try to kill you, but if you hold down a button that makes you extremely slow, everyone fucks off.

What bullshit is that?!

Not only stupid but game breakingly annoying too. I never went back to it after finishing it.

plus you have to sit through those fucking cut scenes every time you switch on. what a load of shit.

Add to that the fact that Altier and his target are temporarily teleported to some weird alternate dimension, away from prying eyes, long enough for him to dribble in your ear before you're teleported back to town, when you then have to escape to the assassins office so that everyone completely forgets what happened so that you can go to the next town and do it over-and-over-and-over-and-over-and-over again!

 

[Nanissimov]

One i dont think people are playing their games before they release them, I played fallout 3 and had so many bugs and i dont think the creators never bothered to freaking look at it before they booted it out the door, and same thing for the game alone in the dark, a little more shine and you could have had jesus in a box!

 

[WeirdNeville]

Right, so the evil super-mega-globo-corp has spent millions and possibly billions researching and building a huge, unstoppable killing machine to further its plans for global domination. This behemoth is armoured to the point of invulnerability, armed to the gunnalls and unstoppable. It should also walk, because walking armoured death bringing robots are the coolest thing ever.

Only somewhere in the design brief they forgot to delete the line saying "Incredibly vulnerable reactor-core MUST be left exposed, and that exposed point should glow bright RED! This fatal flaw will allow this machine to be destroyed by a single man bearing only small-arms, but hey, he'll probably not get lucky, right?!"

Also, games that purport to be realistic and yet you can carry 8 rifles or something.

And why can I carry 450 assault rifle rounds (heavy and extremely bulky) but only 24 shotgun cartridges?

Pistols being stupidly powerful. 2 pistol rounds do not hurt as much as 20 assault rifle rounds! Neither is a pistol as accurate as even a crappy AK47!

Driving games where you can't flip the car, or in Forza how you hit treacle at certain points if you run wide, immediately knocking you back 2 places and slowing you to 30 Mph (I suspect these are there to prevent online cheating by cutting corners, but still...)

Baddies who are impervious to everything up to and including a tactical nuclear strike and yet a mix of two herbs and a diamond aimed at a point on their tail kills them outright. (I'm looking at you, Blue Dragon).

I'm sure more will come... there has been plenty of stupidity in the history of game design.

 

[Internet Kraken]

In most MMOs you might be told to collect 10 boar livers. Then you kill 10 boars and most of them don't have livers. What the fuck?! How the hell are these boars alive? What, are they using that fucking sword that they somehow seem to be carrying as a liver instead?!

It doesn't make any sense. A boar is carrying around some random magical trinket yet it doesn't have a fucking liver. One of the things I hate about MMO games.

Why the hell does a quest giver want a boar liver? And why does he need 10 of them?

 

[Bluebacon]

Bushes and shrubs and even small patches of grass that are totally solid. That makes no sense at all, I can even see that fact that it's not solid so why cant I go through it? This probably only applies to older games.

 

[BolognaBaloney]

games like dead rising where you cant move whilst aiming your gun thats frickin retarded imo.

Yes....that is very annoying. Capcom, take notice, I can multi-task, therefore let my character!