The ten commandments of gaming

[TheFrost]

what are the ten commandments of gaming? The things that annoy you the most when playing games caused by bad game design for example: thou shall not infinitely spawn enemies.


1.Thou shall not infinitely spawn enemies in shooters.
2.Thou shall use checkpoints and/or autosaves fairly.
3.Thou shalt not create a cliffhanger ending in a game that is not a sequel
4.Thou shalt not have day 1 DLC
5.Thou shall must innovate over sequals
6.Thou shall not release stand alone expansions as "sequeal" at full price
7.Thou shall not be greedy and fight against 2nd hand purchases
8.Thou shalt not give enemies inhuman aiming ability
9.Thou shall honour your female characters
10.Thou shall not discard story

 

[OldKingClancy]

Thou shall use checkpoints and/or autosaves fairly.

 

[mitchell271]

thou shalt not create a cliffhanger ending in a game that is not a sequel
thou shalt not have day 1 DLC
thou shalt not release an extremely buggy game

 

[Mallefunction]

Thou shall not abuse camera angles.

 

[twistedmic]

Thou shalt not give enemies inhuman aiming ability.
Thou shalt not make a weapon weaker when held by the player.

 

[Servallier]

Thou doth not need that many snipers in one area

 

[LostCrusader]

thou shalt not create a cliffhanger ending in a game that is not a sequel
thou shalt not have day 1 DLC

repeated for emphasis, also
thou shalt not disregard story

 

[Jakub324]

Thou shalt not be a wanker when playing online.

 

[Cheezeypoofs]

Thou shalt not release a full-priced game with only 4-5 hours of gameplay (Looking at you Medal of Honor)

 

[the spud]

Thou shall not be EA.
Thou ought not enforce always online DRM.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Thou shalt not be a wanker when playing online.

This. A thousand times this.

Also, "thou shalt not have unskippable cutscenes, particularly at checkpoints."

 

[Dawning Age]

Thou shalt not develop another Call of Duty or Final Fantasy game

 

[RubyT]

thou shall not infinitely spawn enemies in shooters.

Hear, hear!

 

[Kevon Huggins]

Thou shalt not develop another Call of Duty or Final Fantasy game

2nd that the ff part
Ot:
Thou shall must innovate over sequals
Thou shall not release stand alone expansions as "sequeal" at full price (mw3 i am looking at you)
Thou shall not be greedy and fight against 2nd hand purchases
Thou shall not camp hack or grief

 

[Son of a Mitch]

Thou shall not let pre-teens play online.

Thou shalt not release a full-priced game with only 4-5 hours of gameplay (Looking at you Medal of Honor)

Also this.

 

[ms_sunlight]

Hmm, these are all the 10 commandments of gaming, Authorised King James Version by the sounds of it!

How about:

You will not make every single protagonist a boring white male space marine.

Honour your paying customers and do not treat them like criminals. Do not use DRM that slows load times, locks players out or causes crashes to desktop.

Include at least one incredible and unusual weapon, for gamers love turning the other players into chickens, manipulating gravity and killing giant flying monsters with forks.

Honour your female characters; do not give them boobs bigger than their heads or make them run like they are mincing about in high heeled maribou feather mules.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Thou shall complain on gaming boars over minor difficulties and annoyances as if they were major problems.

 

[Hagi]

Honour your female characters; do not give them boobs bigger than their heads or make them run like they are mincing about in high heeled maribou feather mules.

this.

Also:

Thou shall not port games without optimizing their graphics settings and control schemes.

Thou shall not sell DLC including only weapons, armors, abilities or items, thou shall only sell downloadable content with actual content.

Thou shall patch thy game's bugs no matter the age of thy game.

 

[tyzon31]

Thou shalt have built in troll banner

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Thou shalt not give the NPCs a weapon that the player cannot use.

Thou shalt not have shoddy hit boxes.