What gaming cliche annoys you the most?

[Scythos]

I'm going to go with restricted weapons in roleplaying games, whether by level or class, if I can pick it up, I'm pretty sure my character wouldn't realistically go 'Wow, what an ace sword! Better not use it yet, this club is doing the job juuuuuust fine.'

I had never actually looked at it like that I just blindly accepted, 'that no, why would a wizard want to use a mace, phooey'

My eyes are now open

Silly Matt =]

You're Silly

 

[Ashbax]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

Same actually. It would be nice to play as a normal, intelligent bloke instead of some muscle-bound idiot for once.

come on, its not like every protagonist is a.....wait a minute

*reviews list of game protagonist*

DAMMIT

There's probably a fair list of normal protagonists. Just none I can think of.

Has everyone already forgotten Gordon Freeman?

 

[Thediscoducky]

I just hate the image of us all being a bunch of sweaty, greasy, overweight nerdy guys who obssess about our games almost religiously and have little to no social life whatsoever... and therefore spend all of our times on forums angrily typing about how we hate being stereotyped as being a bunch of sweaty, greasy, overweight nerdy guys who obssess about our games almost religiously and have little to no social life whatsoever... and therefore spend all of our times on forums angrily typing about how we hate being stereotpyed as being a bunch of sweaty, greasy, overweight nerdy guys who obssess about our games almost religiously and have little to no social life whatsoever... and therefore spend all of our times on forums angrily typing about how we hate being stereotpyed as.......

Oh wait.

Bwahahahahahahahahaha. Made me lol (yes, literally)

 

[Hoxton]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

cough* Gordon Freedman

Who the hell ever said that Gordon Freeman is intelligent??!?! edit: or normal
Cuz he wears glasses and was working as a scientist (although i don't remember him doing anything scientifyc in the first half life, other than pushing a cart in the beginning of the game..) He never, EVER say anything and as far as i can recall he's always being bossed around by someone.
I think he's brain damaged or smth..

 

[Ashbax]

Another cliche that makes me furious is when in horror shooters your partner always says :"Hey, even though there are dozens of creatures creeping around and trying to rip our heads off, let's split up!" And if the game is a FPS, your character won't even try to protest, because he,, most likely, will be mute!

Why are so many main protagonists mute?

I think the game developers think any 8 year olds playing, say, COD, will want to imagine themselves as the character. Becuase they're dumbfucks xD

 

[Scythos]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

cough* Gordon Freedman

Who the hell ever said that Gordon Freeman is intelligent??!?! edit: or normal
Cuz he wears glasses and was working as a scientist (although i don't remember him doing anything scientifyc in the first half life, other than pushing a cart in the beginning of the game..) He never, EVER say anything and as far as i can recall he's always being bossed around by someone.
I think he's brain damaged or smth..

As someones already stated he graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He was one of the major contributors to the experiment in the first HL along with Kleiner. Not just hired muscle, that goes burrrghhh. Dey dook derr deerrrrbs kind of thing.

 

[Kinguendo]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

Same actually. It would be nice to play as a normal, intelligent bloke instead of some muscle-bound idiot for once.

come on, its not like every protagonist is a.....wait a minute

*reviews list of game protagonist*

DAMMIT

There's probably a fair list of normal protagonists. Just none I can think of.

Has everyone already forgotten Gordon Freeman?

Give me a reason to remember him
i serioulsy hate that guy...and half life....and valve...

Yeah, you need a VALVE to let shit out of the pipes!

 

[Hoxton]

He was one of the major contributors to the experiment in the first HL along with Kleiner. Not just hired muscle, that goes burrrghhh. Dey dook derr deerrrrbs kind of thing.[/quote]

and look where that got them ;P

 

[AzId]

Bad dialogue where there should be none (i.e. all the talking in any Mario game. Ever. All we need to know is how many stars we have (it is always stars, lol ZP refernce) and where we're meant to be jumping around. We know the Princess has been kidnapped, we know whodunnit, lets us carry on with the jumpage). Also, good voice acting with bad dialogue. It's an aural waste.

Wasn't the dialogue for Paper Mario 64 pretty good? I remember getting a few good laughs from some of the conversations (although unfortunately nothing springs to mind right now). I don't know how the series turned out from there, but it started well.

 

[Kinguendo]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

cough* Gordon Freedman

Who the hell ever said that Gordon Freeman is intelligent??!?! edit: or normal
Cuz he wears glasses and was working as a scientist (although i don't remember him doing anything scientifyc in the first half life, other than pushing a cart in the beginning of the game..) He never, EVER say anything and as far as i can recall he's always being bossed around by someone.
I think he's brain damaged or smth..

As someones already stated he graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He was one of the major contributors to the experiment in the first HL along with Kleiner. Not just hired muscle, that goes burrrghhh. Dey dook derr deerrrrbs kind of thing.

Yeah... except he didnt because he is pixels, and not Spacewar! which was invented at MIT... If he was called Spacewar! I could believe he graduated MIT... Is that his middle name?

 

[Tarmon'gaidin]

Ah the always availeble exploding barrels in shooters, they really bug me for some reason.

 

[Internet Kraken]

I hate that cliche with the person who betrays you. You know that guy who you worked with that was supposed to be good but was so obviously evil. Then when he does betray all your main characters act shocked as if this wasn't totally obvious.

 

[weirdbros]

slo-mo

 

[Scythos]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

cough* Gordon Freedman

Who the hell ever said that Gordon Freeman is intelligent??!?! edit: or normal
Cuz he wears glasses and was working as a scientist (although i don't remember him doing anything scientifyc in the first half life, other than pushing a cart in the beginning of the game..) He never, EVER say anything and as far as i can recall he's always being bossed around by someone.
I think he's brain damaged or smth..

As someones already stated he graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He was one of the major contributors to the experiment in the first HL along with Kleiner. Not just hired muscle, that goes burrrghhh. Dey dook derr deerrrrbs kind of thing.

Yeah... except he didnt because he is pixels, and not Spacewar! which was invented at MIT... If he was called Spacewar! I could believe he graduated MIT... Is that his middle name?

Last time I checked his middle name was ' Crowbar-to-the-face ' =]

 

[Kinguendo]

I don't like the whole stoic, apeman protagonist thing. I'd like to play as an intelligent and interesting character for once. Like commander keen

God damn that sexy spaceman

cough* Gordon Freedman

Who the hell ever said that Gordon Freeman is intelligent??!?! edit: or normal
Cuz he wears glasses and was working as a scientist (although i don't remember him doing anything scientifyc in the first half life, other than pushing a cart in the beginning of the game..) He never, EVER say anything and as far as i can recall he's always being bossed around by someone.
I think he's brain damaged or smth..

As someones already stated he graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. He was one of the major contributors to the experiment in the first HL along with Kleiner. Not just hired muscle, that goes burrrghhh. Dey dook derr deerrrrbs kind of thing.

Yeah... except he didnt because he is pixels, and not Spacewar! which was invented at MIT... If he was called Spacewar! I could believe he graduated MIT... Is that his middle name?

Last time I checked his middle name was ' Crowbar-to-the-face ' =]

Haha! Thats pretty bloody funny.

 

[ShotgunSmoke]

Oh, and don't forget the obligatory sidekicks - an afroamerican, who wears his pants around his knees and feels like he has to break the world record for the most swearwords in a videogame, a geek, who can fix almost everything with a paperclip, but doesn't know which end of the gun fires bullets and a skank, who barely has any clothes on.

 

[Totaltruth]

The Caucasian male short brown haired mute that has the emotional level of a fetus.