Video Game Cliches

[Twilight_guy]

You are given the objective to walk across the room to a guy and punch him. Halfway there, the roof collapse and you need to take a huge detour to the hell and back in order to move the rubble and punch that guy.

The real worst one through is that the main character is always a dude and within the first few minutes of the game he always meets(if he doesn't already know) a girl that is vital to the storyline(and usually the universe/world/land) and she either follows him around for the rest of the game or he has to go and save her for the rest of the game.

 

[InsanityWave]

8 year olds and halo
zombies being created by an experiment

 

[Psyco Slim]

In Pokemon..

Any pokemon that you choose from any of the professors.

Your rival ALWAYS chooses a pokemon that that has your pokemon's weakness.

Like you choose a charmander, he takes a squirtle.

It's like a fucked up game of rock paper scissors.

 

[ampa451]

it is always stars.

 

[Marv21]

The one trenchcoat charcter that is in and out of the story and you get seperated with at all times before you can team-up, pisses me off.

 

[Omnidum]

Good/Evil diagram.

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Apologies if its been done already but...

people not seeming to mind if you stroll into their house and rob them blind (im looking at you final fantasy)

Items left randomly in crates, especially perishables. Who puts a chicken in a crate? There are many good places for chicken, but in a wooden packing crate (or barrel, or Vase)?

Aaaand, for that matter, said chicken healing stab/bullet/ wounds, splinters, STD's, erectile dysfunction, broken limbs. Not posion though, need antidote. LOOTED FROM THE CORPSE OF A WOOD NYMPH (andtey are renowned for their lack of pockets... and trousers)

 

[Sketchy]

Metal Gear...?

For Metal Gear Solid anyway.

Plot twists for sure.

 

[dr_scitt]

"Warning, warning. The self-destruct sequence has been activated. All personnel must evacuate immediately."

 

[manicfoot]

That when someone else grafts another person's arm onto their body, the soul belonging to said arm will begin to take over. I'm sick of it. Its in EVERY GAME :O

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

That when someone else grafts another person's arm onto their body, the soul belonging to said arm will begin to take over. I'm sick of it. Its in EVERY GAME :O

I smell a sitcom!

 

[Super_Nintendo_Chalmers]

I think that in children's games, the cliche tends to be that when you save the day and rescue whoever it is,
why is no adultery shown beyond that?
i mean i'm sure that mario was banging peach all the way through the credits, but can the older players atleast get some kind of hint that it's actually going on?
This is why i like the original Conker so much, it wasn't afraid to think outside the childish, adult thought free zone.

 

[manicfoot]

Haha... You could get a shitload of masturbation jokes out of that. "What? Why am I touching my.... *tuts, smiles* Liquiiiiid"
"Hey, they're my balls too!" *laughter*

 

[scatmanfan]

The fact that in any metroid or metroid-style game, you always get an ability like two rooms away from where you need it to progress.

 

[the_tramp]

it never pays to drive like a sane person, in any game.

I disagree. In Mafia you were penalised for driving badly (wrong side of road, running traffic lights etc). Obviously there were times that you were forced to drive badly, but ultimately that game rewarded good driving.

 

[Yuriatayde]

Do a google search for "Video Game Tropes" and click the first thing that comes up. Big long list of every videogame idiom currently in existence. My favorite is "But thou must"

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

Haha... You could get a shitload of masturbation jokes out of that. "What? Why am I touching my.... *tuts, smiles* Liquiiiiid"
"Hey, they're my balls too!" *laughter*

Now we just need a catchy theme tune! What are the Rembrandts up to nowadays?

 

[manicfoot]

Haha... You could get a shitload of masturbation jokes out of that. "What? Why am I touching my.... *tuts, smiles* Liquiiiiid"
"Hey, they're my balls too!" *laughter*

Now we just need a catchy theme tune! What are the Rembrandts up to nowadays?

They're probably lying dead in a ditch like most 90's legends haha. I'm sure we could kick a tune out of them though

 

[Endangered Puma]

That every soldier has 1 primary gun, a pistol, a knife(or some sort of melee weapon) and a grenade. And you can never go around a boss. (I swear when you beat that little freaky dude in RE4 and saw where it when I just would of swam across to the other side of the island)

 

[Vanilla Gorilla]

To friends theme:
"My arms attached to you..."