Things you just find ridiculous or stupid on games.

[LikeDustInTheWind]

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

Because being engulfed by an exploding sun and impaled by gods of death will knock you out and a teeny little impalement will kill you immediately. Makes perfect sense. Still, the game wouldn't make sense if she just magically came back to life.

 

[isnosche]

The fact that someone sometimes magicly receives 15 years of knowledge with weapons.
Have you ever held a sword and shield ? its shithard to do battle with...
Hey 15 year old, here's a shortsword, go battle that warhardenend orc with the skulls for shoulders.

THE THING THAT I REALLY HATED .....

this ..... when i started as a young orc in wow, you get a quest to invistigate the centaurs (you're around lvl 9 ?) and you discover their plans to invade orgrimar !!!! oh noes!
this was in vannila wow - i saw 3 full raids wipe on High Overlord Saurfang (god he'z awesome btw )but no no, the lvl 11 centaurs could certainly raid orgrimar and kill everyone there /facepalms

 

[wolf thing]

the large amount of huge breast in planescape torment. it is just ridiculous that there is so many. annah is suppose to be stealth how could she be with such huge breast.

its still a great game

 

[daftalchemist]

Tits that jiggle absurd amounts when the owner breathes or turns slightly. I've attempted to test the accuracy of it, and even without a bra on they just don't bounce around like that.

You do realize we require proof of this?

Then you should probably find a girl willing to jiggle her boobs for you.

 

[Mordekaien]

Sex in games as mini game or QTE.

And also the encumbrance thing:
"I can't carry this magic dagger, so let me sell it to you for 2000/3000 gold pieces...."

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

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)

Worst offender for the IWHF is Zeno Clash for sure.

 

[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

Because being engulfed by an exploding sun and impaled by gods of death will knock you out and a teeny little impalement will kill you immediately. Makes perfect sense. Still, the game wouldn't make sense if she just magically came back to life.

Good point. It surprised em mroe that someone didn't jsut come back alter on with "Life" materia though and bring her back to life, or does that one only revive KO'd people as well? I can't remember.

 

[burgbrand22]

Openinig Cinematics, mailman quests, ripoff dlc, and Tutorials! Smokes those suckers back into the black abyss from whence it came.

 

[eggy32]

Pokemon: One thing that's always stuck in my mind, perhaps the most glaring plot hole in anything ever.

Professor Oak sends you out t research pokemon adn get informatino on all the pokemon you see. He entrusts you with a pokedex to record this information.
Once you pooint the dex at a pokemon it tell you everything about it, from it's height to it's weight and even its eating habits or its past. Such as telling you that Yamask used to be human or Cubones wear their mothers' skulls.

What I'm getting at here is that the Pokedex already has all the information about every pokemon in existence. Why do Oak and the other Profs. send out children to find information on Pokemon right after giving them something that knows everything bout all Pokemon!?

However, none of the professors can tell if you're aboy or a girl and in some cases can't remember the names of their grandhildren, so maybe they're all just retarded. Or maybe all Pokedex's have a glitch that makes all the info hidden until you point it at a pokemon or something.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Actually I'm surprised nobody has come up with a probable explanation for where bodies disappear to when you're not looking. I mean your enemies are everywhere and then just conveniently clean themselves up.

 

[hazabaza1]

ATTENTION FANTASY RPG BANDITS:

THE 7 FOOT TALL ENTITY IN SHINING PLATINUM ARMOR WITH THE SWORD AND SHIELD OF THE GODS WALKING DOWN THE ROAD COVERED IN BLOOD WOULD PROBABLY NOT MAKE A GOOD TARGET TO TRY AND EXTORT MONEY FROM.

I think that if the bandits have the same gear they'd be at least a bit comfortable.
*coughoblivioncough*

Anyway, while I really like Dragon Age 2, if mages are so taboo, why can I go around using fireballs and "fist of the god damned maker" willy nilly in town?

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

How money in most games is weightless.

 

[zaiggs]

Huge inventories that get filled with mostly crap items.

I love games like Diablo and Resident Evil with smaller inventories that force you to make decisions about what you wanted to carry. Games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age give you huge inventories that end up getting filled with nearly identical items.

I'd like to think I'm good at inventory organization, but when you end up carrying 100 of the same item after a mission/quest there should really be a "sell all" button cause generally the weapon I already have equipped is the one I'm gonna keep using. The really good items are given to you with enough fanfare that you almost always equip them immediately. Once you get back to the shop, you just end up selling everything and keeping the handful or two of good items that you'll use.

 

[LadyMint]

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

SO MUCH THIS. One of the things that agitates me the most in games where your hero's feet are cemented to the ground is how they can't gather the strength of thigh muscle to simply step over a damn fence or ledge higher than their shins. Yet if you pull off some amazing combo, they can leap tall enemies with their epic finishing moves. BAH.

 

[DrStupid87]

I hate predicatable/unoriginal characters.

You know, the "In-your-face-and-fiercly-independant female soldier", the "Drunk Hobo who turns his life around" and the all important "Stick-up-his-arse-friend".

It's not that I think some of these characters (That woman out of Bulletstorm) are all that bad, its just that I really hate stereotypes. I know that they're measuring sticks but we've got so many measuring sticks that half of Brazil was destroyed to provide the wood for them.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

A single gun shot on a high security military base:
"OMFG, this must be an intruder! Quickly, everybody abandon your posts and head to the exact location of where the gun was fired. What's that? A faint shadow of somebody's bum, which disappeared after a second glance? SOUND THE ALARM! Mission failed."

 

[2733]

why do creatures not alway drop the right stuff, how is it that on 10% of the lets say red dragons I kill will drop red dragon teeth? are the rest of them old so they don't have teeth anymore and if so why don't I get "red dragon dentures"

how do you make a 9 foot sword out of 8 inch fangs.

why do you have a 9 foot sword but no armor? if you used a normal person sized sword you could move faster, and if the party member that attacks with a gauntlet or something equally small is any indication you are not inflicting any more damage.

I just killed 237 "guards" and can kill them on one shot and they can hardly hurt me but four ambush the party anyway, and the party surrenders! what's the matter? is 4 one more then you hit with your 9 foot sword?

the character returns home and mom or dad has a secret super powerful weapon that they kept hidden. you are an awful parent, you had this the whole time and you didn't give it to the hero? do you want him to die? a good parent would have sent him off with the family sword, a good suit of armor, and a picnic basket full of cookies and sandwiches.

why do I have to pick the lock? I have at least nine things in my inventory that could be used to pop that sucker right off.

where did I get all these clips? if i took the off of enemies why are they all full?

do you see the obvious traitor/badguy? the one with the evil goatee, the mha-ha-ha laugh, and the name of Traitor Mctraitor-Abouttobetrayyou, yea him, shoot him.

if i had the opportunity to pound one piece of info into every developers head it would be this, Dodge moves do don't work unless they are fast and they cancel the players attacks. if I cannot use them mid attack to get away from attacks that start after my combo starts and end before my combo ends it has no point. to see a near perfect example of good dodge mechanics please see "Bayoneta"

 

[jawakiller]

Turn based combat... WTF?!! That makes absolutely no sense. Oh and GTA's inventory solution. Just carry a fucking arsenal around wherever you go. And inventories in general. You have five broadswords, a buckler, a long bow, four quivers, a hunting lance, a battle mace, two stone clubs and forty-two potions. I'd like to see a goddamn mule carry that much shit. And duel wield swords? How much do you need to bench press in order to swing two fucking swords around? And they make skinny chicks do it all the time! Come on. And how does a hat increase your armor? A butter knife could cut through that. A helmet maybe but a cap?

And why can master chief jump six - seven feet into the air, flip jeeps over with a push and jack someones plane WHILE THEY'RE FLYING but can't swim? What'd he cut class that day?
Master Chief -Hey guys, lets go to that grunt rave party!
Other Spartan -Don't we have class?
Third Spartan -I don't think we're learning anything important, we won't miss much.
Master Chief -Yeah, I think they're doing survival swimming today...

 

[mrdude2010]

one thing i thought was a little ridiculous was in the first mass effect game you're called back to earth to deal with a rogue VI. this implies that of the massive military bases in the solar system and the 13 billion person population center, the only one who can deal with an angry robot is commander shepherd.