The little things that slay your gaming experience.....

[KaiRai]

Didn't search this one tbh.

But one thing I noticed the other day is that some small things completely destroy my gaming experience.

One example: I love Saints row 2. It's so unrealistic to the point of sheer awesomeness.....but only a day or two ago, I was driving in it when I noticed all the cars have only 3 gears, and while this seems like a pathetically small thing for such an unrealistic game anyway, it's really got to me.

Anyone else have this weird, borderline OCD issue? Post your experiences if you have!

 

[Marter]

Sometimes the menu layout in a game really makes me not want to play it. Even if it works completely fine, if it doesn't look at least decent, it turns me off.

 

[Wadders]

Ejection ports and charging handles and other such external gun parts being on the wrong side of the gun. I'm looking at you, CS:S and Far Cry 2!

WTF? To load another round, you would have to take the gun out of your shoulder, turn the gun like 90 degrees, work the bolt, and then get a bullet case in your face as it ejected. GRR!

Also, on company of Heroes Opposing Fronts, they call the British guys in maroon berets who parachute and glider into battle commandos, even though they are blatantly from the Parachute regiment, and even have para cap badges and Pegasus patches! How could they?!

 

[Larsirius]

Weapon mechanics being unrealistic, and scale(I'm looking at you, Halo: Reach).

 

[TerranReaper]

Lack of options (especially the very limited option in terms of audio settings) and major imbalances in multiplayer.

 

[Selef]

two words, invisible walls.

 

[Nin9Worlds]

I will comment on the 2 last games i have played.

Alan Wake: the episode system. It breaks my gaming immersion. Stop making games as if they where films, much less tv series, for the love of God.

Red Dead Redemption: headbutting against the walls for 1 minute trying to walk throught an effin' door!

 

[fer1wi]

Bad music really gets to me. It shouldn't, but it does. It can have the best controls, a really immersive plot, unbelievably believable characters, but if I can't stand the music, I just abandon the game.

 

[likalaruku]

Games where you keep smashing crates & barrels & killing monsters & only about 5% of them have any loot.

 

[micky]

i really hate driving in open-world fps games like farcry 2, if you lose your car you are going walk for a long time and borderlands its just so damn empty.

 

[Wayneguard]

when character's mouths don't move when they're talking (i.e. gears 1 when marcus does the radio thing). when you shoot water and there aren't any splashes (gears 1). When rain is falling and there's no splash when it hits the ground (hitman blood money, especially noticeable because hitman contracts had a rain splash effect and it came before). Those are just a few...

 

[Flying-Emu]

HOW DO YOU EAT

 

[MattyJ]

Red Dead Redemption: Couldn't throw someone I had hogtied and draped over my shoulder off a cliff. :[

 

[Singularly Datarific]

When they get their planes wrong.
In Just Cause 2, they went through all the trouble of making a model of a Harrier Jump Jet, and yet, they don't bother making it vtol! It would've been awesome!
Another harrier problem is in MW2. No, they don't hover for that long, they run out of water-injection for the thrust augmentation, and the engines would overheat, and it'd crash and burn. Not only that, but it does NOT HAVE A TURRET!! It is a gunpod FACING FORWARDS. If you want a turreted gun on a hovering platform, GET A HELICOPTER.
One more thing, why does every game assume jet engines permanently have their afterburners engaged? Even jets that do not have afterburners on them have plumes of fire shooting from the back of anything with the word "jet" related to it.

Spoiler: picture comparison

compare this screenshot

to this picture

In the second pic, you can see that it is just hovering, without afterburners, and has NO gun turret.!

And why can't they make a halfway decent missile for these planes that can LOCK ON to the enemy aircraft instead of blindly shooting stupidly forwards?!?
Also, any propeller-powered cargo plane is now suffering from Modern Warfare Syndrome; everybody thinks they are automatically AC-130's. Not only is that only a specific plane, but a specific VARIANT of that plane.

 

[cornmancer]

Didn't search this one tbh.

But one thing I noticed the other day is that some small things completely destroy my gaming experience.

One example: I love Saints row 2. It's so unrealistic to the point of sheer awesomeness.....but only a day or two ago, I was driving in it when I noticed all the cars have only 3 gears, and while this seems like a pathetically small thing for such an unrealistic game anyway, it's really got to me.

Anyone else have this weird, borderline OCD issue? Post your experiences if you have!

I never noticed this, but then about 2/3 of the way through cars and motorcycles were just means of transporting me to the airport or nearest helipad, and even then I just used a boat sometimes.

As for me, I'd say Prince of Persia's lame combat, or Half-Life 2 always trying to convince me there's hardly any ammo and that I should conserve it, when in actuality there's enough to make the president of the NRA weep tears of joy.

edit: Wait no, I know exactly what it is. The tiny little thing that infinitely annoys me in any game. Running or walking animations that just don't look quite right *cough* mass effect *cough* or when characters have loud foot steps. I can't STAND when people have loud foot steps.

 

[Flour]

If the game looks somewhat realistically, grass moving through legs or even the model clipping in to itself ruins the game for me.

It almost made me stop playing Mass Effect the first time I played, but I gave it another chance because it was the intro area.