E.T. was the worst thing to happen to gaming, it nearly destroyed the industry. Pretty much every post I've read is someone disliking a design mechanic. Not exactly game killing stuff.
Worst moments in gaming history (DOOM 3 RANT INCLUDED)
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I hated Praetorians more with their rapid fire & barrier regeneration chewing up my heavy weapons ammo. And they always float straight for Shepard. At least Scions were slow as hell. Granted I play on casual though.TeeBs said:
I hate Oblivion's level scaling with a passion, and I have it for 360 so rather than modding, I just never play it. Funnily enough, I can't think of too much I hate right now, I guess because I only buy a few games, so I make sure I'm not gonna hate them.
EDIT: Actually the Gamebryo engine's horrible plasticene faces. And I loved Dragon Age (not Gamebryo, I know), but DAMN, unforgivable clipping issues.
The day Psygnosis thought:
'Ah! Lets completely destroy Alundra in every way possible so that even if we wanted to make a newer version of it in future to exclusively use the PS Move, and get published by Sony as a first party title with all the cool nitty gritty things first parties have........we can't....because we made Alundra 2 shit -_-'
'Ah! Lets completely destroy Alundra in every way possible so that even if we wanted to make a newer version of it in future to exclusively use the PS Move, and get published by Sony as a first party title with all the cool nitty gritty things first parties have........we can't....because we made Alundra 2 shit -_-'
I don't like dissing my favorite game of all time but... Mass Effect 2: Nearly impossible to beat on insanity without using the soldier class, also they made biotics pretty much useless.
To be fair, you get some hilarious phone calls from Toreno if you stop trying in the middle of it.MiracleOfSound said:
Uhm, Oblivion's leveling system. Awful I tells you!
eggy32 said:
I must admit that I cheated a little and was advised by a walkthrough that merely running through that section to the ladder mysteriously disabled the amoeba spawning. Much lols was had as I simply had to wait for my ally to trudge through the empty silo to reach meMiracleOfSound said:Snap.... look above your posteggy32 said:
Seriously, it works and makes that section reasonable ^_^for my experiences... Water Temple, Ocarina of Time. Grr, even with a walkthrough it was bloody impossible, and even now when the rest of the game is a breeze that level still fucks me over :/
Fallout 3's story.
Everything past a certain point in the game
is abysmally stupid and lazy.
What started as a simple quest to find your errant father turns into one of the most idiotic and contrived McGuffin plots I've ever witnessed.
Everything past a certain point in the game
The whole Virtual Reality 1950s Norman Rockwell neighborhood.
What started as a simple quest to find your errant father turns into one of the most idiotic and contrived McGuffin plots I've ever witnessed.
You fight over the right to turn on a water cleaner. That's it.
This is such comically convenient bullshit writing I don't even know where to begin.
The instant you kill/capture the bad guy (who magically popped back to life after dying before your very eyes) the water cleaner is now ABOUT TO EXPLODE FOR ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING REASON. You have to make a decision NOW or we all die!
Here's the truly stupid part: The plot was never about CONTROLLING the water purifier; Just turning it on. Why?
Consider the following:
Why wouldn't the Brotherhood of Steel just WAIT for the Enclave to fix it/fire it up, then go over with their Optimus Prime knockoff and occupy it? Their main compound is less than 3 blocks away!
What was so goddamn time-sensitive about the whole thing? They didn't have the access code to turn it on! The next most logical explanation is that they were going to destroy it.
I have absolutely no idea why they would want to destroy it; it's a water purifier!
IT'S AN OBJECT THAT CANNOT POSSIBLY DO THE ENCLAVE ANY HARM!
It's not a military superweapon. Forget about that plot-irrelevant FEV virus you have, Colonel Plot Hole DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT. He TURNED on the Enclave AI! He has no fucking idea! To him, it's just a fucking water purifier!
Nothing about this plot makes any sense!
After feeding you that tremendous amount of bullshit, the game forces you to make an incredibly stupid decision:
1) Die "Jesus Incarnate" ending.
2) Force Major Metal Tits to take her life instead of yours, granting you the "Evil Twat" ending!
Oh! But there's more! Oh no, Bethesda could not have left us at THAT level of stupid. Oh no. We had to give the player one last kick in the groin.
So what kills you? Radiation apparently. This is a problem because:
1) You have access to a RADIATION IMMUNE SUPERMUTANT WHO RETRIEVED THE LITERAL PLOT DEVICE FOR YOU EARLIER
2) Access to an intelligent robot who is perfectly capable of punching in codes.
3) Access to a ghoul. Who, like the Super Mutant, is immune to radiation (LIKE ALL OTHER GHOULS ARE).
In the DLC-updated version, Bethesda actually addresses this. So all of that bitching I just did was meaningless, right?
WRONG.
Bethesda did the impossible, and FORCED THE PLAYER TO PAY REAL MONEY FOR A MORE SENSIBLE ENDING.
You cannot get this ending unless you buy the DLC (if you have a copy of the original FO3) or GOTY edition!
Never before in my life have I seen incompetence rewarded so lavishly.
This is such comically convenient bullshit writing I don't even know where to begin.
The instant you kill/capture the bad guy (who magically popped back to life after dying before your very eyes) the water cleaner is now ABOUT TO EXPLODE FOR ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING REASON. You have to make a decision NOW or we all die!
Here's the truly stupid part: The plot was never about CONTROLLING the water purifier; Just turning it on. Why?
Consider the following:
Why wouldn't the Brotherhood of Steel just WAIT for the Enclave to fix it/fire it up, then go over with their Optimus Prime knockoff and occupy it? Their main compound is less than 3 blocks away!
What was so goddamn time-sensitive about the whole thing? They didn't have the access code to turn it on! The next most logical explanation is that they were going to destroy it.
I have absolutely no idea why they would want to destroy it; it's a water purifier!
IT'S AN OBJECT THAT CANNOT POSSIBLY DO THE ENCLAVE ANY HARM!
It's not a military superweapon. Forget about that plot-irrelevant FEV virus you have, Colonel Plot Hole DOESN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT. He TURNED on the Enclave AI! He has no fucking idea! To him, it's just a fucking water purifier!
Nothing about this plot makes any sense!
After feeding you that tremendous amount of bullshit, the game forces you to make an incredibly stupid decision:
1) Die "Jesus Incarnate" ending.
2) Force Major Metal Tits to take her life instead of yours, granting you the "Evil Twat" ending!
Oh! But there's more! Oh no, Bethesda could not have left us at THAT level of stupid. Oh no. We had to give the player one last kick in the groin.
So what kills you? Radiation apparently. This is a problem because:
1) You have access to a RADIATION IMMUNE SUPERMUTANT WHO RETRIEVED THE LITERAL PLOT DEVICE FOR YOU EARLIER
2) Access to an intelligent robot who is perfectly capable of punching in codes.
3) Access to a ghoul. Who, like the Super Mutant, is immune to radiation (LIKE ALL OTHER GHOULS ARE).
In the DLC-updated version, Bethesda actually addresses this. So all of that bitching I just did was meaningless, right?
WRONG.
Bethesda did the impossible, and FORCED THE PLAYER TO PAY REAL MONEY FOR A MORE SENSIBLE ENDING.
You cannot get this ending unless you buy the DLC (if you have a copy of the original FO3) or GOTY edition!
Never before in my life have I seen incompetence rewarded so lavishly.
Probably. Even I who love the grind of training my skills up hate how they changed it so that gaining your 10th major skill level causes a freeze on the progress for the current level. I might forgive that if you didn't have to find a sleeping bag or an inn in order to actually level up. If there is no purpose to staying on my current level, just give me the damn level so I don't need to pointlessly sleep!-=Spy=- said:
Just one more reason why I thought Morrowind was a better game.
OT: Subscription MMOs. Drove games away from being about fun and money to just being about money.
Well, Ashely/Kaiden had a hissy fit when they found out that you were alive.Pirate Kitty said:
The Scions are bitches. I don't see a cool way to kill them, and if you are a Biotic, you are f**ked. Nuking them is the safest way to kill them.
I'm with the OP on the Doom 3 Cyberdemon. The game overall was pretty damn good. (You gamers just like to whine about the most trivial things... Really?! A flashlight?! who cares!).
The PDAs strewn about the levels were fantastic. E-mails tied into the story excellently, and the audio logs added to the overall sense of atmosphere.
Yet, everyone went on to praise Dead Space for doing pretty much the same thing... BAH! I hate gamers.
The PDAs strewn about the levels were fantastic. E-mails tied into the story excellently, and the audio logs added to the overall sense of atmosphere.
Yet, everyone went on to praise Dead Space for doing pretty much the same thing... BAH! I hate gamers.
Agreed. Doom 3 shot itself in the foot at the beginning where they gave you crap weapons, but once you got further into the game, it was damn good. Granted I played it with a flashlight mod, so maybe that did change the experience a bit for me. The Cyberdemon was underwhelming, but he was damn cool too.Zer_ said:
What is it with everyone thinking that Fallout 3's plot is-and this is a quote used on a youtube video-"crappy fan fiction"? Fallout 3's plot was FINE. Ok, so the ending was horrible, but broken steel made it OK. I think that New vegas's ending was worse then Fallout 3's, because IT DIDN'T LET YOU ACTUALLY SEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF YOUR ACTIONS. Those voice-overs about the factions and your companions don't count.Atmos Duality said:
as for what I think was one of the worst moments in gaming:
Fallout 3's Mother-Fucking-ship Zeta. No amount of cool weaponry was worth that trip to space. It was way to linear for the game. Oh, and did you forget to get the unique weapon in the area you just finished? Well, fuck you. You can't get it now, because we decided to seal off the area after you sabotaged it, ha ha. But if you have it installed and want the alien blaster... (groan).
The fact that you can't swim in Assassin's Creed 1. I had the bright idea to dive into the water to evade some guards who were eyeballing me... DESYNCH. Altair did not learn the fourth tenant of the Assassin's Creed: "Just because we live in a desert nation does not mean we don't need to know how to swim".
After a certain point in Beyond Good and Evil, the stealth sections get nearly impossible. why? Fucking one-hit kill laser sentries, and the fact that you can no longer cause leaks in the Alpha Section's gas tanks, causing them to fly off into space.
The decision of game designers en-masse to decide that it would be more challenging to the player to give enemies telescopic vision.
it's not better in any way, it's just retarded and annoying. fleeing over rooftops in the Saboteur, for example, and getting 2 blocks away from the enemy lookout tower, only to STILL be getting shot perfectly in the spine by one determined Nazi.
So I ran back to him (expecting him to have a sniper rifle which I needed) and killing him to find he only had a normal rifle, with no form of scoping on it. SO HOW THE FUCK WAS HE DOING THAT TO ME!? If the Nazis had people who could aim like that, why station looking out over a city of surrender-monkeys? Put them on the front line of defences at Normandy for fuck sake! Stupid Hitler!
On the same game: making every enemy immediately able to turn and fire with perfect accuracy as soon as they hear a gunshot. I get it, my gun isn't quiet, but a troop of Nazis on ground level should not, the split second they hear a gunshot, be able to immediately discern that the enemy is located on the top of a 3-story building across the street, turn and unload their entire clip into his face before he's even able to THINK of having a celebratory pint of Guinness!
it's not better in any way, it's just retarded and annoying. fleeing over rooftops in the Saboteur, for example, and getting 2 blocks away from the enemy lookout tower, only to STILL be getting shot perfectly in the spine by one determined Nazi.
So I ran back to him (expecting him to have a sniper rifle which I needed) and killing him to find he only had a normal rifle, with no form of scoping on it. SO HOW THE FUCK WAS HE DOING THAT TO ME!? If the Nazis had people who could aim like that, why station looking out over a city of surrender-monkeys? Put them on the front line of defences at Normandy for fuck sake! Stupid Hitler!
On the same game: making every enemy immediately able to turn and fire with perfect accuracy as soon as they hear a gunshot. I get it, my gun isn't quiet, but a troop of Nazis on ground level should not, the split second they hear a gunshot, be able to immediately discern that the enemy is located on the top of a 3-story building across the street, turn and unload their entire clip into his face before he's even able to THINK of having a celebratory pint of Guinness!
Thank you.Atmos Duality said:
You saved me the time of typing up a similarly lengthy rant about the stupidity of Fallout 3's plot that for some damn reason was nominated for an award by the Writers Guild of America. Its just stupid, the plot is stupid, your dad is stupid, the whole damn story is stupid!
Plus, there was a water purifier in Megaton. And they were working and actually making progress on one in Rivet City, even managing to grow radiation-free food. And your father wants them to drop all that for a 30-year old project that nobody would logically choose to continue.
Just... stupid.