Your Pet Peeves *in* Games?
I hate games with slow text scrolling. Like Zelda Ocarina of Time. Especially when I've died 100 times, and I want to skip the dialogue, but the game forces you to s-l-o-w-l-y re-read the same old stuff.
I prefer the games with adjustable text speeds.
Text scrolling is a minor one, although not really that much of a big deal for me.
What I do dislike is games where you can't save very often or on regular basis, or games that have borring auto battles without any real chance for player control or input, or having to scour 100 towns to find one *(!(# person to advance the plot. At least tell me which freaking TOWN to check!
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Slow text scrolling annoys the hell out of me as well in console games. Especially RPGs. Then again, perhaps I'm spoiled from playing computer RPGs most of my life.
-Any game where I can literally read a book during battles
-Games that give me 10,000 save points because they think I suck and i might scream in frustration like a sissy if I "lose" 10 minutes of work.
-RPGs that never put you in the threat of dying
-RPGs that treat everything outside of the allmighty storyline as a distraction to be gotten through as quickly as possible (always have enough money, always strong enough to advance). In otherwords, almost every RPG made in the last 8 years :P
I hate games with too much text like Sword Mana or games that are msotly just story without much gameplay like Xenogears. I also hate 3D games where you can't adjust the camera angle.
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i hate when you can only do something once in a game, and if you miss it, you can never get it again and can never get 100% completion without redoing the entire game....
ex... Metroid Prime and scanning the enemies so their info goes into your records....if you miss certain enemies, you can never scan them again and you wont get a complete game....
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I *want* to save anywhere. I'm not a pussy, but when you can only game inbetween everythign else in your life, having to be a freaking hour late just to find a save spot to something because you didn't want to lose the ast 3 hours of gameplay becomes a serious issue.
Sloppy control is probably my biggest pet peeve, right there with time wasting puzzles that have no real basis in the game's make up (read: most eidos games).
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Slow text, and a non adjustable camera are both big ones, but the thing that bugs me the most is when you can't advance through cut scenes. Nothing is more annoying to me that playing a game for an hour or so, 45 minutes of which is cut scene and then accidentally dying and having to sit through another 45 minutes of what I've just seen, man that sucks. Sqaure Enix are you reading this?
what pisses me off?
ridiculously hard jumps in games (a la castlevania adventure or super ghouls n ghosts). giving no real in-air control of jumps (see previous to games) also tends to piss me off.
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I dislike cameras that don't cooperate.
And I don't mind being able to save often. Between working and everything else, it's nice to be able to stop what I'm doing, save, and come back later to it.
I dislike games with cliched endings. I want a game where the heroes actually fail to save the world. Why? I dunno.
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You are not alone. I've often wondered this very idea. Although as a gamer, I'm not sure if I would feel like my time was wasted, or not, it would be interesting.Originally Posted by Crush Crawfish
Batman Dark Tomorrow had 2 endings and both invovled failure to save the world. There is no end to that game where the hero wins. Then again, the game was so bad, that I think the developers where just reaffirming that if by playing that game, everyone loses.
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Technically, any time you die you technically fail to save the world. You could just not pick up the game and there you go.You are not alone. I've often wondered this very idea. Although as a gamer, I'm not sure if I would feel like my time was wasted, or not, it would be interesting.I understand what you mean though. I think I would feel a bit empty inside if that ever happened though. It would kill the replay value at least in my mind.
My biggest pet peeve in a game is when the plot twists are too predictable. Granted that some are always going to be predictable, but at least blindside me with others. Tales got me good on this. I saw a couple ones coming, but one in particular just floored me. I loved it!
I hate escort missions, because most of the time the person you are escorting can't protect themself, and they end up dying and you fail the mission.
I absolutely loved Tales, but I had one of the major twists figured out from the beginning. It was still pulled off well, though, so I'm happy.
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i hate games that wont let me change the button configuration, or at least give me different layouts to choose
Turok, where you have to listen to that dam girl talk for 10 minutes and you cant skip. And constant ingame loading
Ports from cartridge games to CD or similar media that have loading times constantly...
Final Fantasy Chronicles/Anthologies being a prime example
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