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Stuff You Hate In Games You Love

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Everyone has a favorite game or games. But, in what seems to be a law of nature, there's always something--or several somethings--that mar the experience, be it a useless weapon, annoying boss, ridiculously easy/hard level, irratating glitch, etc.

So, what are the things you hate in the games you love?

Here's my list:

Twisted Metal: Head-On) Tower Tooth. I FREAKING HATE this boss. His speacial weapon is WAY overpowered, making him a total pain to fight. I know he's a final boss, but that's no excuse for being cheap.

Burnout: Dominator) Drift Challenge. There's nothing really broken or awful about this mode, but it simply doesn't fit the Burnout "mold". Burnout games are about tearing down the street and turning your opponent's cars into twisted, flaming wrecks, not drifting a certian distance within a time limit.

Riviera: The Promised Land) Special Attack cutscenes. They're cool at first, but get old FAST, and drag fights out unneccessarily(sp?) Thankfully, they can be turned off.

 

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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

This could have easily been fixed for both balance and realism if units had armor types and had expenses tied to how advanced they were.

Get this open source game by Steffen Gerlach (+ gang, btw) and you'll have such units & MUCH more.

Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Someone, call Adobe flashplayer imbecility.

WindowBlinds - Free yourself of the default settings, customize your desktop.
Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

And while you're there, tell them page switching flaws here causes repetitive posts.

Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

And, since firefox, opera, IE8 or any other particular standards can't cope with such silly refresh loading of any replies counted as +25 per page... we type for nothing unless censored by coincidental locking of threads.

So, yeah -- i'm forced into being the idiot; i always get caught on the 13x2 gimmick. Call me superstitious on failed techno bugs.

 

Reply #31 from Demigod Forums Top

Dynasty Warriors 6 - My favorite part of the Dynasty Warriors fanchise was getting the special unique legendary weapon for each character, but they completely removed that in DW6!!

Portal - Too Short!! (great game, played through it at least 5 times)

Marvel Ultimate Alliance - heroes compared to each other were way unbalanced.  Often would just load all the points into a single skill and spam that.  Looking forward to M:UA 2

WoW - very very limited appearance options; can't just wear the armor for how it looks and expect to perform well

Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Hey, luckmann - i **WASN'T** spamming and by far. }:)

I want SD staff to fix the darn flaws that trap us into producing double-posts when their own Forum pages switch into not recording the replies within refresh "time".

Spamming is flooding an eMail box with junk crap illicit & criminal stuff that MUST be defeated by ISP providers. But, that you knew, right?

(EDIT; soooo -- stop trolling for such silly reasons.)

Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top

Sins of Solar Empire- mostly diplomacy. I want to be able to force the AIs into giving me 3000 credits or destroying 15 enemy structures for 100 credits and 5 metal/crystal (haha lol).

On that note, being able to coerce an enemy empire into forming intelligence alliances would also be nice.

Other than that, Sins is the BEST.

Reply #34 from Demigod Forums Top

Fallout 3: RPG mode was hideously imbalanced and counterintuitive (try the sniper rifle at point blank-- it's amazingly effective because it always hits!)

Roach king, despite being an awesome and hilarious character, is a single encounter with the same difficulty as the average raider. Damn.

Map system was pretty funky.

Reply #35 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Zyxpsilon, reply 7
Hey, luckmann - i **WASN'T** spamming and by far.

I want SD staff to fix the darn flaws that trap us into producing double-posts when their own Forum pages switch into not recording the replies within refresh "time".

Spamming is flooding an eMail box with junk crap illicit & criminal stuff that MUST be defeated by ISP providers. But, that you knew, right?

(EDIT; soooo -- stop trolling for such silly reasons.)

Spam

  [spam] Show IPA noun, verb, spammed, spam⋅ming.

Use spam in a Sentence
1. Trademark. a canned food product consisting esp. of pork formed into a solid block.
–noun
2. (lowercase) a disruptive, esp. commercial message posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail.
–verb (used with object)
3. (lowercase) to send spam to.

–verb (used without object)

4.

(lowercase) to send spam.
Reply #36 from Demigod Forums Top

Spam

  [spam]  Show IPA noun, verb, spammed, spam⋅ming.

Use spam in a Sentence
1. Trademark. a canned food product consisting esp. of pork formed into a solid block.
–noun
2. (lowercase) a disruptive, esp. commercial message posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail.
–verb (used with object)
3. (lowercase) to send spam to.

–verb (used without object)

4.

(lowercase) to send spam.

 

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Reply #37 from Elemental Forums Top

Spam

  /spæm/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [spam] Show IPA noun, verb, spammed, spam⋅ming.
Use spam in a Sentence
1. Trademark. a canned food product consisting esp. of pork formed into a solid block.
–noun
2. (lowercase) a disruptive, esp. commercial message posted on a computer network or sent as e-mail.
–verb (used with object)
3. (lowercase) to send spam to.

–verb (used without object)
4.

(lowercase) to send spam.

Let's see...... he's not making money (or trying to)..... he's not disrupting anything...... this is a glitch I've seen before.... somebody on an old Elemental thread had the same thing happen except he got around 40 posts instead of 4....

Reply #38 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Scoutdog, reply 12
Let's see...... he's not making money (or trying to)..... he's not disrupting anything...... this is a glitch I've seen before.... somebody on an old Elemental thread had the same thing happen except he got around 40 posts instead of 4....
Esp. is short for "especially". A commercial message isn't a necessity. I'd say that posting nonsense four times in a row spread over less than 10 minutes when edits would've easily worked qualifies as disruptive. And given how it's derailed the thread, trolling.

The guy that posted 40 times in a row (XD ) was obviously the victim of some glitch. Check the timestamps. It's obviously not the same thing.

:D

Edit: Trying to veer this back onto the track;

Baldur's Gate II - the fact that it lacks any kind of exploration á la Baldur's Gate.

Reply #39 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I'd say that posting nonsense four times in a row spread over less than 10 minutes when edits would've easily worked qualifies as disruptive.

Yeah, of course... even you can't hit the "View edits" button either for each of the 3 supplemental (but still **ACCIDENTAL**) posts from having to click POST REPLY more than once since the refresh paging doesn't acknowledged acquisition of reply #26.

Yo takin' me for an idiot?

Sooooo, here;

SPAM is also about insisting to mock & provoke another member on a forum for stalking or harassing reasons beyond civil manners in public.

Got that?

Reply #40 from Demigod Forums Top

Xcom: Ethereals....enough said

WoW: I'm playing for friends and family at this point...not for fun

Empire Total War: Why the hell do the Indians with bows kick so much ass?

Warcraft III: Horrid population control, a cap at 90? AND we have to pay for how many units are on the field?

 

Reply #41 from Sins Forums Top

Halo 2: The SMG, what a peice of junk almost useless by it self.

Halo 3: Assult Rifle still acts like an SMG. (played some halo for the first time in nearly 6 months)

Overlord: Minions act so stupid at times

Half Life 2:  AI is pretty dumb.

Quake Wars: that stupid map energy cores that blow up the strogg ship

Crysis: The level inside the alien ship

Thats about all I can think of up the top my head.

Reply #42 from Elemental Forums Top

Fallout - It hasn't aged well. Not well at all.

Quoting Zyxpsilon, reply 14
[...]
Yo takin' me for an idiot?
[...]
Not until just now, homie yo fo' shizzle.
Quoting Zyxpsilon, reply 14
Sooooo, here;
SPAM is also about insisting to mock & provoke another member on a forum for stalking or harassing reasons beyond civil manners in public.

Got that?
I'd call it trolling, but I suppose a more relevant point is that if you were a nonsensical hobo shouting gibberish over and over again in public too, I'd probably ask you to cease then and there aswell. But I think I'd end up punching you instead of being drawn into a retardation duel like here - you know, sticks and stones as they say.

Reply #43 from Demigod Forums Top

Okami:

The fights in Okami are so easy it's depressing, even the bosses. I played through the game at least 3 times and only died once when I was doing one of the more challenging side quests. I'll admit the third time was on god mode but that's beside the point.

Another thing I hated were the Blockheads. In order to get past them you had to remember a specific pattern of dots(weak spots) that appeared on the Blockhead's surface and hit them in the exact same place and order. Some of the later ones were so incredibly frustrating.

Halo 3:

The Cortana level in the campaign. Dozens of flood and terrible level design makes playing through Cortana one of the most annoying things I have ever done in a video game.

Gears of War 2:

Laaaaaaag. Seriously, how the **** did you chainsaw me when I was 10 feet away from you?

Quoting Kitkun, reply 23

Call of Duty: Infinitely respawning enemies until you cross a certain unknown, invisible line.

Thankfully, they're taking this little "feature" out of Modern Warfare 2.

 

Reply #44 from Elemental Forums Top

Myst 5: The rushed-seeming introduction of the Bahro, and the fact that we NEVER learned what happened to make D'ni fall. Or how Catherine died. Or what Esher's angle was. In short the loose ends in general. And the loss of the photograpy zoom feature. Todelmer was cool, though.......

Reply #45 from Demigod Forums Top

Legend of Zelda games -- long monologues from the owl (it's worse in Link's Awakening than in Ocarina of Time because the text goes slower) or some other character -- especially when they ask something to the effect of "Should I repeat that?" and Yes is highlighted by default.  So as you hammer the buttons to skip through it you end up asking to hear it again.

Reply #46 from Sins Forums Top

Star Wars Empire at War: Ok, it isn't actually a game a love, but it really should have been. Star Wars was basicly made for RTS's, and yet they still found a way to royally f#$% it up. The ground combat sucked like none other, and the rebels just got shafted in space.

Then the expansion came out, and they somehow managed to turn it into an even bigger pile of sh!t. The Empire got a couple more space heros, because they didn't have enough to begin with, the SSD which took forever to kill, and a Death Star that could kill capital ships. The only advantage the rebels had (and you can't even call it an advantage) was weakened when the number they could have in a raid was decreased.

And for good measure, they decided it was a good idea to throw in the Corruption, the cheapest, most unfair race ever devised, and they weren't even cool. They got basicly unlimited resources, and weapons that were pretty much cheating. Their magic mass drivers bypass all shields, killing the only other advatage the rebels had, their shields that couldn't be destroyed. And almost every unit, space or ground, had them. Plus their capital ship with the special weapon that could one-shot almost any ship hardpoint.

All in all, it should have been a good game, but a lot of things turned it into a steaming pile of sh!t.

Reply #47 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Luckmann, reply 17
Fallout - It hasn't aged well. Not well at all.

I'd beg to differ. Although, I never really cared for the combat, which admittedly is just a watered down tabletop RPG type deal.

Reply #48 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

AFAIC... locked & ignored & stuff you love in games you hate.

Sims(x); real people are much more virtually dumb than they might have thought.

So long.

:banhammer: