One that that kills my interest in a game is when cutscenes get boring and drag on longer than they should. It also doesn't help when the script is badly translated.
Things that instantly kill your interest in a game
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Two things:
Hoop jumping: to get Foo you need to get Bar, which lets you get Bar2, which enables the getting of Bar3. Wait a minute, you say you actually just wanted to kill the Foozle? Well, let me tell you a story about the woman who swallowed the fly/spider/bird/cat/dog/goat/cow - no thanks, I think I'll just die.
Click-fests: yes Diablo 1 and 2 have killed that genre for me...
Hoop jumping: to get Foo you need to get Bar, which lets you get Bar2, which enables the getting of Bar3. Wait a minute, you say you actually just wanted to kill the Foozle? Well, let me tell you a story about the woman who swallowed the fly/spider/bird/cat/dog/goat/cow - no thanks, I think I'll just die.
Click-fests: yes Diablo 1 and 2 have killed that genre for me...
Graffics so super realistic that your practicly fighting a real war. There is such a thing as too real
That or "Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Uwe Bol."szakalt said:
But seriously I want a good story. Just like I want a good story from a book, a TV show or a movie. Doesn't have to be award winning, though it helps, just a story I can get into.
I hear that. Battle for Westnoth is worth checking out (especially since it's free and get updates all the time).Vhite said:
OT: I don't really have a gaming "turn-off", but any sport games that aren't racing (also any realistic racing game) makes me lose interest. Ever tried F1 Career Challenge? You have to drive a F1 car 60 rounds while hearing almost only engine sound for the whole hour it takes you to get through your first race. That game is one of the most boring games ever.
Revenge being the sole motivation of the main character.
In particular, The Saboteur. One of the stupidest beginnings ever. He enters race. Lose race because German man cheats. Gets revenge on German man by driving his car off cliff. Germans attack his home or some shit. Then he wants more revenge on that specific guy because apparently he lead the attack because of his car being thrown off? I don't know. I stopped caring when I realized the sole motivation for the character would be tons and tons of nonsensical revenge story lines stacked on top of each other. >>
Also pointless sex scenes. They tried so hard in Saboteur to make it characterize someone but both characters didn't get anything from it. All I got was that that chick was a slut and maybe evil too. And the main character is such a loser I wouldn't care if she had given him herpes.
But God of War does it too. Such a beautiful story ruined by people who seem intent on making what could be a remarkable character a void action hero. For every one moment of humanity Kratos had there was at least 10 bullshit moments where they were playing around with sex and violence like 13 year old boys. Look! It's head pops off and lots of blood comes out! Look! He can have sex with two women at once! Isn't he awesome?!
I also agree with the comment about multiplayer from the post just below me. xD
In particular, The Saboteur. One of the stupidest beginnings ever. He enters race. Lose race because German man cheats. Gets revenge on German man by driving his car off cliff. Germans attack his home or some shit. Then he wants more revenge on that specific guy because apparently he lead the attack because of his car being thrown off? I don't know. I stopped caring when I realized the sole motivation for the character would be tons and tons of nonsensical revenge story lines stacked on top of each other. >>
Also pointless sex scenes. They tried so hard in Saboteur to make it characterize someone but both characters didn't get anything from it. All I got was that that chick was a slut and maybe evil too. And the main character is such a loser I wouldn't care if she had given him herpes.
But God of War does it too. Such a beautiful story ruined by people who seem intent on making what could be a remarkable character a void action hero. For every one moment of humanity Kratos had there was at least 10 bullshit moments where they were playing around with sex and violence like 13 year old boys. Look! It's head pops off and lots of blood comes out! Look! He can have sex with two women at once! Isn't he awesome?!
I also agree with the comment about multiplayer from the post just below me. xD
Multiplayer being the main selling point, I have a terrible internet connection, and I always find troubling playing games I like with other people. Like when I tried to play Age of Empires (the first one) with a friend and we just couldn't get the damn session going.
I used to avoid stuff interfiring with my enjoyment of a particular good genre, for example, I avoided playing Thief because it had monsters and demons, and I only wanted to you know... infiltrate palaces, loot everything and escape without arousing anyone's attention.
So after reading that Warren Spector was involved in Thief, I decided to finally take a chance and play it.
If you haven't played that game and you love stealth, you should go ahead and play it, it's immersive as hell and it's quite impressive for a 13 year old game.
I used to avoid stuff interfiring with my enjoyment of a particular good genre, for example, I avoided playing Thief because it had monsters and demons, and I only wanted to you know... infiltrate palaces, loot everything and escape without arousing anyone's attention.
So after reading that Warren Spector was involved in Thief, I decided to finally take a chance and play it.
If you haven't played that game and you love stealth, you should go ahead and play it, it's immersive as hell and it's quite impressive for a 13 year old game.
Whenever a game boasts about a "extradinary, immersive, expansive, etc, ," and then gives you a three hour campaign that is easy even on the hardest difficulty, and you go to the multiplayer and you realize where all your money went. Into something that takes no thought to do at all.
When a stealth-based game screws you over on stealth because every enemy past the first level has heat-sense or something like that and kills you from three rooms over, through six walls, ricochets off every light fixture in the building, and cleaves through a concrete tub you're crouching behind. The same goes for any game that the stealth system is so easy to beat, such as Oblivion (even though I love the game).
Any game that has a selling point of "realistic universe" and has a stickman holding a steel beam over his head on the box.
Any fighting game, they're too easy to spam, and if they aren't, all i've ever had to do to beat everyone I know is just dodge, jump, and basic attacks.
Any RPG with a short main plot(i consider short for this to be 20 hours or less) and then the rest of the game is fetch, escort, and puzzles you can't see from the only angle they give you. Or a game with voice acting and then the voice acting makes a serious scene into something you can't help but make fun of (ME1 male shep "we have to get to illos")
A game that decides to associate with Kinect, Eyetoy, ps3 equiv., or any game on the wii (with the exception of that dance central 2 or something, music makes that game better) anything nintendo past gba,
And why, why, do developers say they're going to release a series and then stop after the second download (*cough*Valve*cough*)
and pretty much any console-only RTS, come on people, to actually get the full experience, you really need a mouse and qwerty to get everything in it.
When a stealth-based game screws you over on stealth because every enemy past the first level has heat-sense or something like that and kills you from three rooms over, through six walls, ricochets off every light fixture in the building, and cleaves through a concrete tub you're crouching behind. The same goes for any game that the stealth system is so easy to beat, such as Oblivion (even though I love the game).
Any game that has a selling point of "realistic universe" and has a stickman holding a steel beam over his head on the box.
Any fighting game, they're too easy to spam, and if they aren't, all i've ever had to do to beat everyone I know is just dodge, jump, and basic attacks.
Any RPG with a short main plot(i consider short for this to be 20 hours or less) and then the rest of the game is fetch, escort, and puzzles you can't see from the only angle they give you. Or a game with voice acting and then the voice acting makes a serious scene into something you can't help but make fun of (ME1 male shep "we have to get to illos")
A game that decides to associate with Kinect, Eyetoy, ps3 equiv., or any game on the wii (with the exception of that dance central 2 or something, music makes that game better) anything nintendo past gba,
And why, why, do developers say they're going to release a series and then stop after the second download (*cough*Valve*cough*)
and pretty much any console-only RTS, come on people, to actually get the full experience, you really need a mouse and qwerty to get everything in it.
Game: MMO
me: "well, so much for that game. Hope they don't ruin the next sequel in my other favorite series..."
me: "well, so much for that game. Hope they don't ruin the next sequel in my other favorite series..."
If you haven't done all of Sarah Oakheart's escort quests in LOTRO, you don't know how bad they can get.Gunner 51 said:
and to make it worse, later on you realize she's and evil queen of darkness type who could have squashed any of the foes that had "captured" her.
I've pretty much abandoned MMO's at this point. $15 monthly payments just amount to too much of an unjustifiable drain. Free-to-play/microtransaction based payment models look like a solution, but I have yet to find an MMO that is actually fun to play. (I am excluding EVE online because, while I like the game as a concept, the time investment needed to be anything but a microbe in the gameworld is ludicrous.)
Also, Games For Windows Live. I beseech the, Dead Gods who writhe in the Obsidian Crypts of the First Stars, to tell me why that.. whatever the fuck it is exists. Whether it is supposed to be some kind of content delivery system, DRM-thing, or automated patching software, it does whatever it's supposed to do terribly.
Straight sword & sorcery medieval fantasy is all but dead to me at this point.
Finally, murder water. While extremely lethal water is not as common as it once was, I loathed games that thought to use water as a means of level restriction. It boggles the mind to have that many platformer/action game protagonists who could not swim.
Also, Games For Windows Live. I beseech the, Dead Gods who writhe in the Obsidian Crypts of the First Stars, to tell me why that.. whatever the fuck it is exists. Whether it is supposed to be some kind of content delivery system, DRM-thing, or automated patching software, it does whatever it's supposed to do terribly.
Straight sword & sorcery medieval fantasy is all but dead to me at this point.
Finally, murder water. While extremely lethal water is not as common as it once was, I loathed games that thought to use water as a means of level restriction. It boggles the mind to have that many platformer/action game protagonists who could not swim.
Whenever the game replaces the "s" with a "z", you just know its going to be an utterly awful game 
I'm usually more than willing to give any game a fair go, with the exception of anything that has the words "Liesure Suite" in it. Although the one thing at drives me nuts is when a game let's you walk through the tutorial levels, and then throws at you a massive, all powerful enemy as soon as the game is done teaching you basics. Basically I'm complaining about a MASSIVE difficulty spike early on in a game.
Also, a sequence in a game where you are forced to lose to progress the story.
Also, a sequence in a game where you are forced to lose to progress the story.
Normally when I find out a game is an FPS, p0rtal doesn't count since it's a puzzler & Metroid doesn't count since it's nintendo, Halo I like but I don't love, apart from that FPS's generally suck and there are too many of them anyway, TB-RPG's I normally hate too but i'd at least give them a chance...
True story, so I heard Valve was making this game called DOTA 2 which I knew nothing about, but I saw the trailer and it looked like this.
Then I saw the actual gameplay and it looked like this.
For once in my life, I decided to not buy a game from Valve.
Then I saw the actual gameplay and it looked like this.
For once in my life, I decided to not buy a game from Valve.