Things you just find ridiculous or stupid on games.

[valkeminator]

So, I was just having this discussion today with some of my friends, and somehow we just went over things that we just find ... out of place, illogical, bizarre, and stupid in JRPGs. Don't ask me why JRPG out of all genre, but I guess I'll just start out with JRPG (feel free to use other genre).

Final Fantasy 7 -

Note: Cloud's hair is just way too easy, you probably dont even want to know how much hair gel or wax he uses.

1. Improbable Armor : Okay, so your armors are primarily bangles, armlets, and even WATCHES (Precious watch). I wish my watch can withstand cuts, bites and even gunshots from enemies. It just simply does not make sense. Okay, maybe the materia has these magic effect that deflects those shots or whatever, but I am sure as hell something like this :

Spoiler

Is not going to protect you from ANYTHING.

At least other entries put more sense in naming and describing their protective gears like say... a suit of ARMOR?

2. The ATB battle system (Most of what the whole modern FF series is built on): I just find this completely stupid and ridiculous. So my character have to run BACK AND FORTH and PAUSING after each action?!? If this is to translate to a real time combat sequence I would probably draw out a gun and shoot the crap out of them, and kite them the whole time leading to a likely perfect (no damage) victory.

Just like what Yahtzee says : its like as if the final fantasy world is just blessed with asthma that makes them having to take a big breather every 5 seconds.

3. The infamous phoenix pinion- Okay I have so many phoenix down which I can use on my dead party member which in effect will ressurect them (not into a zombie of course) even after being sliced, eaten, blasted by cutscene power to the max, etc. and yet Aerith cannot be revived with it.

 

[UnknownGunslinger]

The thing I find ridiculous and stupid in RPG's:

- How when you kill a wolf he drops his hyde, couple of gold coins a rusty fork and a broad sword in a convenient shimmering pouch next to the dead body

- How your character often is this great men on an epic quest but all you actually do in-game is being a glorified postman.

- Do actual heroes spend so much time looting the corpses of their victims?

 

[The Wykydtron]

The stalwart hero of the land must do everything himself... It's not like can get his party members to complete a fetch quest for him right?

Also i call bullshit whenever an Insurmountable Waist High Fence presents itself (worst offender is the Fable series i think)

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

but I am sure as hell something like this :

Spoiler

Is not going to protect you from ANYTHING.

ORLY?

but yeah in oblivion mudcrabs sometimes drop silver forks...really keen gourmet perhaps :S
and in WOW the gorestusks have no livers and murlocs have no heads :< someone needs to get the Fringe team to take a look at that shit.

 

[Sticky Squid]

The fact that Toad doesn't have his own spinoff series in 3D.

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Random "Hit/Miss" chances - Why is it that occasionally when one character swings a weapon at another, and the weapon clearly connects with the other character's body, the word "MISS!" flashes above their heads and there's no damage done?

Any game that allows you to carry 99 healing potions.

Difficult games that force you to waste time going through menus/sitting through loadscreens/watching overly long death animations every time you die. No, I don't want to watch the dude that killed me transform/reveal his evil plan for the 20th time, I don't want to go back to the main menu, and I don't want to wait for the game over music to finish. I just want to get back into the fight!

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Modern AAA Titles that still don't allow you to skip cutscenes.

The fact that Toad doesn't have his own spinoff series in 3D.

It was called New Super Mario Bros. Wii. They only put the Mario Bros in to sell better.

 

[Laser Priest]

- Do actual heroes spend so much time looting the corpses of their victims?

The cool ones do.

BUT One thing that bothers me in shooters is when you remove a partially full clip, apparently all of the bullets magically transfer to a new clip.

I blame bullet elves.

 

[Arkynomicon]

The stupid narrative in Dead Space 2 comes to mind. I always shrug when Isaacs helmet opens at convenient/nonsensical times for no other reason when the plot requires it.

 

[Vivace-Vivian]

When an enemy is clearly using an awesome weapon, but you can't loot it from them despite the fact that you can loot other corpses.

Also, armor that doesn't effect your appearance.

 

[Subbies]

Recently only one thing : in assassins creed 2 when your uncle says "It's me, Mario!" ... So goddam stupid

 

[blind_dead_mcjones]

probably the fact that the badguys always seem to have infinite ammo only when they're shooting at you

So, I was just having this discussion today with some of my friends, and somehow we just went over things that we just find ... out of place, illogical, bizarre, and stupid in JRPGs. Don't ask me why JRPG out of all genre, but I guess I'll just start out with JRPG (feel free to use other genre).

Final Fantasy 7 -

Note: Cloud's hair is just way too easy, you probably dont even want to know how much hair gel or wax he uses.

1. Improbable Armor : Okay, so your armors are primarily bangles, armlets, and even WATCHES (Precious watch). I wish my watch can withstand cuts, bites and even gunshots from enemies. It just simply does not make sense. Okay, maybe the materia has these magic effect that deflects those shots or whatever, but I am sure as hell something like this :

Spoiler

Is not going to protect you from ANYTHING.

At least other entries put more sense in naming and describing their protective gears like say... a suit of ARMOR?

2. The ATB battle system (Most of what the whole modern FF series is built on): I just find this completely stupid and ridiculous. So my character have to run BACK AND FORTH and PAUSING after each action?!? If this is to translate to a real time combat sequence I would probably draw out a gun and shoot the crap out of them, and kite them the whole time leading to a likely perfect (no damage) victory.

Just like what Yahtzee says : its like as if the final fantasy world is just blessed with asthma that makes them having to take a big breather every 5 seconds.

3. The infamous phoenix pinion- Okay I have so many phoenix down which I can use on my dead party member which in effect will ressurect them (not into a zombie of course) even after being sliced, eaten, blasted by cutscene power to the max, etc. and yet Aerith cannot be revived with it.

so...wait a minute. you can accept the planet having a 'lifeforce', that life force being used as a fossil fuel by a blatantly evil corporation, in a pseudo steampunk-esque world, a silver haired megalomaniac created using the cells of an alien virus /creature that was hitching a ride on a giant meteor crashed into the planet thousands of years ago, all manner of weird, strange and outright physics defying monsters, magic, a talking canine...thing, a talking cat robot on the back of a stuffed animal, an undead bodyguard who has been spliced with a centuries old demon, people surviving the most rediculous of vertical falls, a MASSIVE gold plated amusement park in the middle of the freaking desert that looks like a giant mutated mushroon, an equally giant energy cannon that uses an entire citie's power supply to charge it, etc...but you can't accept the use of a wrist bracelet as armour when for all we know the could incoropate force fields or something, and one character dying permanently for the sake of plot progression? (btw she wasn't the only character who suffered a permadeath, anyone else remember biggs, wedge, and jessie? don't see anyone kicking up a fuss about them dying....)

also, you do realise that one of the key words in final fantasy 7's title is fantasy right?

 

[GenericPCUser]

Enemies that like to telegraph their attacks with a long ass wind up before every action that clearly tells me what they are going to do.

When surrounded by enemies, they all just stand there and do nothing until eventually attacking one at a time, as if they were arguing over who would get to try killing me first instead of just all jumping me at once.

Fighting anything in waves (Dragon Age 2!!!) Why is it they all decide to attack in groups of 4-7 people instead of getting all 40 of them to attack and probably wipe me out instantly?

Characters who lack any and all ingenuity. Doom guy can't do anything to hold a flashlight and gun at the same time? Altair and Ezio never even thought of using something to slow their pursuers (Caltrops perhaps) instead using some ridicules spider man ability thanks to all living in places with convenient notches and cracks to use as foot or hand holds.

 

[eggy32]

You can't revive Aeris because she was killed. If you ever read the description of a Phoenix Down/Pinion you'd see it only revives KO'd people.

OT: In Assassin's Creed when enemies jsut stand around you in a circle taking turns to attack you, it's like playing a JRPG.

 

[Qizx]

One thing that has ALWAYS confused me is level requirements (mostly for food in this case) I mean come on. I can understand why they do it for armor and whatnot but it makes no damn sense for food. "Awww man I'm hurting and I wish I could eat this/drink this potion." "FUCK, how do I do this? I don't know how to eat this, I'm too low level." The same thing goes a bit with armor, how hard is it to put on a certain piece of armor?
Lemme clarify: I know exactly WHY they do these things It just always strikes me as a bit asinine.

 

[Scarim Coral]

How about I got some explosives but not one of them can destory a door? Also a boss is holding a rare weapon and once you kill it you can't loot that rare weaspon? What is it showing respect for it? In that matter why are we looting the boss in the first place if we aren't looting the boss rare weapon.

 

[Smooth Operator]

In RPG's noone minds if you steal all everyone's sh*t, yet make a snarky comment and they got their panties in a bunch...

Why am I the only one saving the bloody world every single damn time, how about I get some help damn it!

Decades ago developers figured out how to put minigames into loading screens, yet now noone can work out how that works, progress in reverse FTW...

 

[Vykrel]

being given orders to do EVERYTHING in war games. they should really have the AI do some things too, just to make it look less obvious that youre doing all the work and that they are completely useless.

loading screens that you can wiggle around...... whats the point? Killzone 2 is a good example. it seems that they only did it because there is only one instance in the entire game where the motion control is actually required, and one more where you can use it but its a terrible idea.

and glitches that thousands of people run into, on their first playthroughs, no less. it seems that just a bit of testing would have led to the developers running into that stuff, but noooooo

plus a bunch of other stupid things i cant think of right now