things in video games that are consistently shit >getting

getting on a ladder from the top

>>384113290
why must literally every game have their own way of handling this

make some sort of standard, I don't even care what it is, I'm just tired of guessing

bumping with changing ammo types

>>384112868
stealth

>inb4 thief or chaos theory

they're still awkward to play

>>384113290
This is actually cancer. Literally the worst part of deus ex

Save game
>Save Menu - pick a save slot
SAVE SLOT 1
>are you sure?
YES
>this will overwrite the current save game - continue?
YES
>Saving...
>Saving complete!
OK
>Save Menu
BACK

... I hate it when there are a lot of steps when saving a game.

>>384115631
that's for retards like me who use the menus too fast and overwrite the wrong save files

>>384115414
This shit is great, shut up. Not as good as being able to change the firing style, like burst, single shot, auto and all that.

>>384112868
Menus with only two items where text color is the choice indicator

>>384112868
Hands/gun/weapons not being relative to character model

>standing still, unarmed, hands at side
>on screen, hands in your face like you're a t rex

I know my hands are there, i dont need a visual aid. Just make the character model match what i see on my screen

>>384115521
What? Stealth is great, ever play Crysis or Dishonored or anything? As long as it's not that bullshit boring forced third person stealth sections in Ass Creed and shit.

>>384115754
it's a cool idea, a very cool one, but no fucker can put it in their game properly

>>384113290
to be fair this is also shit in real life

>>384115778
>START
>QUIT
Okay let me just hit Start here
>YOU SURE WANT TO QUIT?
>YES
>NO
FFFFUCCCCKKKKKKK

>>384112868
"realistic" artstyle/graphics

>When this icon is showing the game is saving. Do not shut off the console/PC when this icon is showing.

Yeah, perhaps this happens to be someones very first game, but every fucking game does this. Is it really necessary?

>>384115778
Fucking this. The best way to show something is selected is when it has like a box that fills it in and spills out a little. I think persona does this.

>>384115946
Examples anon.

>>384116208
Yeah, this or like an arrow or something.

>>384112868
>AI
there will never be good ai in video games

Unskippable cutscenes.
This should not still be a problem. At the very least, let me skip them the second time I have to see them.

>>384112868
Water movement in general

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>>384116403
>cutscenes are part of gameplay

Walking without a weapon drawn in FPS games
Always feels like floaty, unsatisfying bullshit
I hate Wolf TNO but it felt okay in that game I suppose

>>384113290

SIXTY NIGGERS

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Sex scenes

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>road splits into 2
>one is main other is optional
>'time to find out'
>take one step towards the apparant main road
>massive cutscene that fucks me off a mile further
>either can't go back or replay the whole level.

>>384113290
>End up walking off or the platform the ladder is on and die

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>>384116847

THIS DEAR GOD WHY!?

>enemies have a 100% chance of landing statuses on you
>Your statuses land 15% of the time

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>>384117294

>bosses can remove all your buffs, wasting all the time you spent buffing up your guys

Fucking Dragon Quest 8, holy SHIT.

>do quest
>make 100 gold and 1500 XP during the quest
>quest reward: 10 gold and 100 XP

Why would anyone do quests in such a world? You make more just running around killing stuff. And the quests never feel rewarding since you don't gain anything.

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>enemy with high hp and defense uses an evasion boosting skill

>>384116359
>What is F.E.A.R.?

>>384115631
>Save game
>Go to save again
>New slot is highlighted
>End up making a new save instead of overwriting the old one

>Go to save game
>Save files always move
>It isn't obvious which save file is yours
>End up making a new save every time

>Save game
>End up saving over your older brothers save
>he was almost finished so he beat you up

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>Following an NPC character to a destination

>>384117720
Scripted

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goblins don't hop around when you hack a leg off

>>384116403
>Unsure if pressing start will skip the cut scene or pause it
I fucking hate that

>>384117294
>>384117395
>bosses are immune to everything except for one specific status (which is different for each boss) that also trivializes the entire fight
Fuck status mechanics in JRPGs in general.

>>384115946
Yeah, games like Battlefield or Ace Combat should look more like World of Warcraft instead

>get the GOTY edition of a game
>game showers you with mid or end-game gear making the entire early game trivial


I mean I could just not use it, but it bothers me it's in my inventory, when it would be more pragmatic to use it.

>>384112868
- Melee weapons in most FPS games.
The animation is almost never fit to these weapons' actual (or logically/visually expected) range and usually I have to directly bump into something and then attack to cause damage.

- Tank character builds in RPG games.
Their dmg mitigation/avoidance/resistance with their general slowness is usually not THAT good be to survivors, compared to non-tank builds. They are just the designated target, but they don't get significantly LESS dmg even with proper gear and skill use.

- You can't delete multiple saves at once.
I think I can only do this in Stellaris.

- Hunger and thirst mechanism in roguelike games.
You have to eat at every corridors' end otherwise you are hungry, and you don't have any indication how hungry you are or how it is hindering you until you die.

>>384112868
>press space
>BRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBRBR

>do optional side content that is a hundred times more time consuming and difficult
>rack up maybe 500 XP from 3 hours of game time

>do one story quest
>talk to some people for 10 minutes
>1500 XP

level scaling

>>384116546
No medium can get this right

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>>384117659
>enemy pokeyman used double team!
>it's evasion goes up by 10%
>MISS
>MISS
>MISS
>MISS
>MISS

>>384115778
>beat Chrono Trigger (DS)
>watch the final cutscene
>watch the credits
>watch the credits AGAIN
>do you wish to save the game?
>its on "no" by default for some reason
>end up confusing the colors and not saving
>need to beat the final boss again

>>384119143
What is level scaling exactly? I see it in these kind of threads and I'm unsure what it means

>>384119325
>the weak shall fear the stronk.

>>384112868
First person platforming.

>>384119452
as you level so do enemies

>>384119452

Enemies get stronger as you do, they level with you. It's total bullshit, it essentially means you can go anywhere and do anything in games like Oblivion and Skyrim. But because nothing is particularly stronger or weaker than you there's no real challenge and no areas gated off by powerful enemies who you have to be such a such a level to fight. It's just bad game design.

>>384119452
As you level up, all the enemies level up too.
The perfect example of it is Oblivion. At high levels, everything, even random bandits, has the strongest armor, weapons, and 10000000 hp.

>>384116403
Unskippable credits also

>>384119452
Enemy strength scales with player level
Oblivion is notorious for how bad it handles scaling, you're just fighting the same bandits but they get increasingly better gear until they're all running around with full Daedra armor and weapons and fucktons of health

>>384119325
Pokémon is a goldmine of shit like this

>your mon gets paralyzed and is unable to move by three turns in a row
>Zubat used confuse ray
>move has a chance to make the foe flinch and works three times in a row against your mon
>Muk used minimize
>low level wild shitmon crits you before you can one shot it

>>384112868
Psychic alert system in stealth sections

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>>384119719
>stealth sections in general

>>384119719
I'm going to add to this and say:
>being penalised for being detected even if the witness dies

Why is Blood Money the only game in existence that has a proper witness mechanic?

>>384119719
>carefully sneak up on enemy for 10 minutes
>you need a prompt to hit him from behind
>prompt doesn't activate
>HUH? WHOSE THERE?
>everything ruined turn off the game fuck stealth sections

>>384119858
Skyrim does as well

>Fetch quest
>in the vast ass desert

NO.

>>384116049
Every game could be someone's first, anon.

Stealth has been shit in videogames for over 20 years now

>retarded vision cones
>fixed AI pathing
>AI paths don't change randomly
>alert cooldowns wipe the memory of the guards
>*extremly loud punch noise 5 feet away* MUST HAVE BEEN RATS

>>384120000
Skyrim is a terrible game. A Stealth Mage is better than a Stealth Archer.
You can make magic completely silent, and it staggers every hit. So you can kill people without anyone noticing.

A bow and arrow will alert the entire city if it is not a one shot.

>>384120000
IS SOMEONE THERE?

>>384119325
are dogs robots or something? how did they sync their tongues like that

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>>384119719
>guy spots you sneaking
>kill him before he can alert the rest or make a sound
>every enemy in the whole fucking place knows where you are at all times and swarms you

This shit makes me laugh everytime it happens, especially in TimeSplitters 2

>>384120220
Go tell someone who cares

>>384113290
Nier Automata did this perfectly.
>>384115521
>akward
you fucking noob
>>384115946
This.
>>384116546
Faggot
>>384112868
Escort missions

>>384120208
Half of those are need for a stealth game to work.

Stealth games are basically puzzle games in disguise and puzzles rely on consistency in order to work.