Annoying things in games

[Anonymous No.1338031]

>Completely lost
>Finally, after hours you find an area you previously missed
>Yay, progress
>"YOU HAVE FOUND A SECRET AREA!"

[Anonymous No.1338056]

>No save feature
>Password system is ridiculously long
>Dragon's Lair on the SNES

>Horizontal spring facing horizontal spikes

>You have to beat the game twice to get the good ending

>You have to beat Normal to unlock Hard
>You have to beat Hard to unlock Expert
>You have to beat Expert to unlock Superhuman
>Beating Superhuman give you an extra 'congratulations' in the credits

[Anonymous No.1338059]

>Skinny teenage protagonist
>Party member who is a giant, muscular tank of a seasoned, veteran warrior
>The skinny teenager deals more damage

[Anonymous No.1338067]

>Savestating
>Visual filters
>Speed alteration
>Turbo buttons

[Anonymous No.1338078]

>that part in which you must look after for someone and if he dies it's game over
>that part in which for some reason you have lost your equipment
>every fucking time limit

[Anonymous No.1338082]

stop overusing green text it's very annoying

[Anonymous No.1338247]

>Capcom heatsinking divebomber enemies: Blader, Little Devils, and Red Arremer

[Anonymous No.1338251]

>>1338247
heatseeking

[Anonymous No.1338289]

>this thread

[Anonymous No.1338635]

>>1338082
>You must be new here

>incredibly difficult to get game breaking weapon, used for one boss that's not even necessary

[Anonymous No.1338914]

>older RPGs
>cant figure out how to progress the story
>do everything, talk to everyone up to that point
>spend countless hours scouring the game even back tracking a few previous towns
>You have to talk to a specific ubiquitous NPC several times in a row and say the right thing
>the dialogue counter resets if you leave the room

[Anonymous No.1339106]

>>1338914
>"For that you must give me one flawless diamond"
>Where did I sell the flawless diamond

[Anonymous No.1339116]

>>1339106
Good Powerup drops before boss comes onscreen. Disappears before you can move.

[Anonymous No.1339143]

>You get the best weapon only after defeating the most difficult boss.

[Anonymous No.1339184]

>>1339143
>And there's no New Game Plus

[Cube No.1339193]

>>1339143
>You receive the recipe to craft it
>Ingredients were in very specific locations
>Already used some of them for earlier weapon
>tfw no new weapon

[Anonymous No.1339195]

ITT: /r9k/ /vr/ edition
>tfw
>hurr durr
fucking faggots


I hate when you play a game for the first time and for some reason breeze right through it, no issues, no troubles on "where do I go now?" and such

And then the second time you play it, you get stuck. and then you finally find out what you were supposed to do, and you wonder how something so convolutedly bullshit never gave you trouble in the first place

[Anonymous No.1339203]

>>1339195

[Anonymous No.1339204]

>>1339195
>on 4chan doing 4chan things
>YOU FAGS HAVE PROBLEmS WITH a GAMES?
>HERES MINE!!!

did I miss something?

[Anonymous No.1339212]

>>1339204

Naw, man, that was pretty much my point.

[Anonymous No.1339225]

>>1339106
baldurs gate: the inconveniencing

[Anonymous No.1339683]

>>1338031
Are you playing ultima underworld, OP?

[Anonymous No.1339703]

>>1338056
I hate having to unlock difficulty settings. I want to play it on hardest the first time, not pussyfoot through a game three times first.

[Anonymous No.1339735]

>tons of consumable items
>never use them until last battle

>magic consume MP
>MP can be only restored in INN or by consumables
>never use magic until boss battle

[Anonymous No.1339738]

>area in game where I have no fucking idea how to pass it
>it never gets mentioned in any walkthrough or forum

[Anonymous No.1339751]

>taking fun of grinding or power leveling
>think that you fool the game
>game actually designed to be played like this

[Anonymous No.1339774]

>rpg
>start of the game
>no opportunities to grind
>first boss
>you barely do any damage to him
>one of his hits almost kills you
>ah this is one of those fights where you have to lose
>die
>game over
>title screen

[Anonymous No.1339780]

>>1339774
It's really the fault of the other RPGs for teaching people to be so submissive. Lay down and die, the plot will save you.

[Anonymous No.1339784]

>>1339738
Or the walkthrough mentions it in passing, as if it's of no consequence.

"Next up is the cave of nondescript multiple loops. At the end is the boss, NeedAParticularItemOrStrat. Once you're past that, continue on to..."

[Anonymous No.1339796]

>large, multilevel cookie-cutter RPG dungeon with no map system

>running jumps that require pixel-perfect timing

>any AI controlled partner that must be kept alive

[Anonymous No.1339816]

>tfw you accidentaly save state instead of load state while dying

[Anonymous No.1339836]

>>1339816
One of the reasons I stopped using save states. That and accidentally loading one in a game where you are relying on the game's actual save function, then you load the save state from 15 hours earlier and all that progress is gone.

[Anonymous No.1339848]

when your character moves slowly and super stiffly and you are expected to dodge fast flying enemies with wavelike patterns

[Anonymous No.1339891]

>>1339683

Nah, I was particularly thinking of Doom, DN3D or Tomb Raider.

[Anonymous No.1339950]

>>1339735

What is this supposed to be a picture of? If its a Genesis to SNES comparison some of those games look Like nintendo games as,I have,played the SNES versions and they don't look like that.

Also back,to the thread:

I hate having to play the game to unlock characters for fighting games but when you shut off the console it resets.

Why do we have story mode plus arcade mode plus versus mode.

Why don't people leave the demo disks in the case with the game they come with.

Why include items for characters that are already dead.

Why give you an option in the text box if only one option advances and the other just says but you must and gives you the same option again.

[Anonymous No.1339967]

>Kill enemy on the right of the screen
>Move left, screen pans left
>Move right again, screen pans right
<enemy respawned

[Anonymous No.1339968]

>game with lots of text
>no 'message speed' option

[Anonymous No.1339989]

>>1339950
there is a real version o that floating around and his is just a parody of that.

[Anonymous No.1340008]

>>1339738
>>1339784
Oh god, this.

>reading walkthrough
>"make sure you have your berzerker armor equipped for this next battle! If you don't you will be forced to use up all of your revives!"
>ctrl+F search "berkerker"
>1 instance found. The instance I just read.

I cant tell you how often this happens. Then you find out the item has a DIFFERENT NAME but the author just gave it a shorthand nickname because it real name is "st georges holy anger armor" or some other horse shit like that.

[Anonymous No.1340035]

>"You have returned with the shards!"
>"Now I can reforge the sword you will use to save us all from this dark torture prison!"
>"That'll be 20 gold"

[Anonymous No.1340039]

>>1339989
Heres the original image haha, I made it to just compare resolutions because I was sick and tired about hearing how the SNES is higher res even though it NEVER runs in that mode. Whoever made that other image is awesome though I had a good laugh at that. Asterix for lost vikings hahaha

[Anonymous No.1340119]

>>1339774
this.

i used to get so pissed off.

[Anonymous No.1340907]

>>1338056

>Dragon's Lair on the SNES

/thread

[Anonymous No.1340951]

>>1339968
>>Text speed options
>Duke Nukem Forever Development
>Dragon Ball Z Plot
>Charge speed of Arc of Obliteration
>Commodore loading times

[Anonymous No.1341067]

>Mandatory tutorial
>Use the right analog stick to look around. Try it now!

>Boss you're supposed to lose to
>Use up all your items trying to win

[Anonymous No.1341089]

>>1339891
>getting lost in Doom

It has a map man, i mean i can see you having problems with E2M5, E2M7 or E3M7 but come on.

[Anonymous No.1341114]

>>1340907
>>Dragon's Lair
/thread

[Anonymous No.1341129]

>High Score.
>3 Letter input.

>Any Pkmn.
>Your pkmn faints and right next the oponent does.
>No exp to any of your pkmns.

[Anonymous No.1341571]

>>1341089
Maps in late Doom tend to look like someone spilled Tinker Toys and K'nex all over a black tarp.

[Anonymous No.1341808]

>get to new town
>item shop has Derpsword for 1000G more than you've got
>grind for half an hour
>buy Derpsword
>go to next dungeon
>find Derpsword in first chest

[Anonymous No.1341823]

>>1341129
>3 Letter input
>Typing AAA defeaults it to a dev name instead

I feel bad for any kids who were named like Arthur Alan Adams or something.

[Anonymous No.1342449]

>>1339774
>RPG
>facing new boss
>it's a hell of a struggle to stay alive, dealing out a little bit of damage and rationing my MP and curative items to stay alive
>use my best items, exhaust every option, no more phoenix down, no more elixirs
>finally lose to the boss after putting up such a fight
>it was a fight I was supposed to lose and I just struggled and used up my items for nothing

[Anonymous No.1342460]

>RPG
>grind for money to buy equipment in current town
>buy weapons and armor one by one
>find new town
>better equipment avaliable
>obviously much more expensive

Kind of a pet peeve, but it made me drop a couple of RPGs before (DQ3 for example)

[Anonymous No.1342469]

>>1342460
I don't understand your problem. Having better, more expensive equipment in each successive town is so common in RPGs that it's a mainstay of the genre.
Is your problem that the towns are too close together? Like, you can access one so soon after the other that you might as well have passed up on buying that previous tier of equipment?

[Anonymous No.1342486]

>>1342469

That's it. I think I don't quite express it right.
Also, it's usually much more expensive and the monsters don't even drop that much money. Still thinking of DQ3 as I type.

[Anonymous No.1342496]

>>1342460
More like

>grind to get the best equipment possible from the town
>go to dungeon
>find equipment in chests

[Anonymous No.1342508]

>>1342496
>kill final boss
>loot his choice gear
>game ends

[Anonymous No.1342559]

>>1342496
I'm looking at you, Chrono Trigger.

[Anonymous No.1342854]

>>1342559

[Anonymous No.1342893]

>>1342559
>>1342854
Chrono Trigger was actually worse, because you'd find BETTER equipment in treasure chests just minutes into the next area. Might as well just spend all your G's on tonics and ethers at that point.

Also, since we're talking about CT:

>plot-related weapon is hyped up to be extremely powerful and legendary
>go on long, tedious adventure to get it
>finally obtain it and find out it kicks ass and is fucking awesome, but
>gets slightly stronger weapon at next town

Now, I'll cut CT some slack here, because the Masamune -does- get upgraded at the end of the game, but I still hate it when games do that. Completely takes you out of the game.

[Anonymous No.1342967]

>Beat game on hard
>Stuff on easy/normal don't unlock

[Anonymous No.1342972]

>>1338078
>that part in which for some reason you have lost your equipment

Those parts in games rock, I don't know what you're smoking. Usually the game gets all stealth-like just for that segment, even if it's not a stealth game. Plus you know you're gonna get your equipment back soon anyway, so I'm not seeing what the big deal is.

[Anonymous No.1343019]

>>1342559
>>1342496
>grind
>Chrono Trigger

[Anonymous No.1343021]

>RPG
>making good progress, party leveled up nicely
>new party member joins
>lvl 1

[Anonymous No.1343030]

>>1343021
You can usually get those characters up to speed in about 20 minutes.

[Anonymous No.1343054]

>>1343019
sauce on your pic?

[Anonymous No.1343076]

>>1343021
It depends on the game, but I usually get those characters up to speed rather quickly.

[Anonymous No.1343079]

>can only use 3 characters in battle
>have more than 3 characters in total
>have to level 3 up, then swap them out for another 3, and so on
>fuck that, I'll just pick 3 and stick with them for the rest of the game
>30 hours later
>those 3 characters are unavailable for a segment of the game, because they're in prison/captured/whatever
>have to use other characters to get them out
>fuckthisgame.gif.png.exe.rar.7z.tiff

[Anonymous No.1343080]

>>1339950
>Why do we have story mode plus arcade mode plus versus mode.
Story and Arcade mode can obviously be different enough, but never really got single player Vs. mode. If you have so little time you can only have one match, why not just play the first fight in Arcade mode, or not play period?

[Anonymous No.1343116]

>>1338031
Yoshi's island, I hate that

[Anonymous No.1343169]

>>1340039
What's the game above joe & Mac?

[Anonymous No.1343183]

>>1343169
Ys. I don't remember which one, though.

[Anonymous No.1343336]

>>1343116
...What?

[Anonymous No.1343649]

RPGs with equipment that are all functionally the same but with different stats.

When you have equipment of differing effectiveness but also have unique attributes, that makes for more interesting situations. Normal attack strength is important, but is it as important as boosting certain spell types? This armor might be weak against physical attacks, but is better against magic.

[Anonymous No.1343654]

>>1338078
>that part in which for some reason you have lost your equipment
This was my favorite part of Tomb Raider 3, I remember. The only thing that sucked about it was on the PC version, if you wanted to cheat to skip the level, you had to find your guns because the code includes drawing your guns.

I played it on the PS so it didn't matter, I guess.

[Anonymous No.1343657]

>>1341823
Aaron A. Aaronson must have had a tough childhood.

[Anonymous No.1343664]

>>1339836
just pull a "hard" reset in the emulator; most emulators store save-states and legit saves as different files.

[Anonymous No.1343665]

>>1338914
I like Phantasy Star, too.

[Anonymous No.1343668]

>Come up to title screen
>Press 'Start
>Game begins

What a design oversight! Such an elementary error as well.

also
>Level up character
>All his stats are increased
>i never asked for this

[Anonymous No.1343669]

>get a new doom wad
>assume default map designer's principal that the map was made to be played with a limit-removed doom engine only
>get stuck in a level for hours
>turns out, map designer was a faggot and designed the map with zdoom jumping in mind

or

>spend hours trying to get a working Famicom Disk System BIOS + emulator working so that you can play the japanese versions of games that in the US required long passwords for saving
>get far into the game; save; quit
>come back later
>all progress lost; the emulator doesn't support FDS FDD image rewrites/patches for saving
>tfw you spent hours just to get a version of a game that you can't even read, just so you could ditch save states, only to find out that you need to rely on save states because your emulator is a shit

[Anonymous No.1343680]

>Mod
>It sounds good
>Has explanations and reviews
>Install mod
>It's in fucking BR despite the readme and reviews being in english

[Anonymous No.1343683]

>>1343680
This is my peeve.

>Mod
>Guy can program pretty well but his spelling is so bad he'd fuck up the lyrics to Hollaback Girl.

[Anonymous No.1343824]

>Only thing that really annoys me is excessive backtracking

[Anonymous No.1343920]

>mandatory tutorial after you have already used the skill or move it is teaching

>cannot view button configuration in game, have to do it from external config program

>player animations are long and drawn out, enemies attack with quick movements

>all doors are locked, instead of obviously being barricaded or boarded up, when you carry equipment that could level the whole building

[Anonymous No.1343924]

>Watch cutscene
>Die
>Watch cutscene
>Can't skip
>Die
>Watch Cutscene
>Die
>etc

[Anonymous No.1343931]

>having trouble with a game
>ask someone for assistance
>get called a faggot for not being good at vidya

[Anonymous No.1343938]

>>1343924
HMM HMM HMM HMM!

[Anonymous No.1343943]

>>1343938
>filename
God dammit it's true.

[Anonymous No.1343973]

>>1339193
>>FFIX.

[Anonymous No.1343975]

>>1343030
>>1343076
go play earthbound zero

[Anonymous No.1344043]

>need to push a block onto a switch
>grunts, pushes block a little bit forward
>grunts, pushes block a little bit forward
>grunts, pushes block a little bit forward
>grunts, pushes block a little bit forward
>grunts, pushes block a little bit forward
>block finally lands on switch!

[Anonymous No.1344157]

>>1343938
Do you know if they're adding a cutscene skipping feature to FFX HD? If not, it's not even worth playing.

[Anonymous No.1344167]

>>1344157
It's worth playing even if they did. If you want to play an RPG with in battle instant character swapping, just play Breath of Fire 4.

[Anonymous No.1344172]

>>1344167
It's NOT worth playing

fuck I hate typos that change the entire meaning of a sentence

[Anonymous No.1344726]

>>1344043
too many rpgs here
>side scroller beat em up
>flying/jumping-while-on-crack bosses
>the only way to hit is timing a jump+ kick
>meanwhile he napalms you like there's no tomorow

Sometimes I spend more credit in that specific motherfucker than in the rest of the game

[Anonymous No.1344752]

>Now this part should be easy if you've been reading my walkthrough up to here, so I won't get into it

[Anonymous No.1344761]

Can they be specific annoyances in certain games? I've been pissed off by quite a few games, but it's always in the games themselves, not in all games in general.

[Anonymous No.1345124]

>>1339735
I remember in Phantasy Star 2 I was so conservative with TP. There was no way to restore it outside of visiting a clinic. If you were deep in a dungeon and ran out of heling items, without enough TP to use healing techs you were screwed if you forgot to bring along an escapipe and telepipe. If you had the visiphone you better watch where you save otherwise you could be stuck somewhere near death.

In games where you get consumables that cast decent spells I usually don't end up using them because I'm afraid I'll need them later. So I end up at the last boss with tons of them. Older games are just more stingy with that stuff. So now when I play modern games that toss tons of items at you, I still don't use them.

[Anonymous No.1345128]

>>1344726
>block pushing
>RPGs

Did you not play Tomb Raider or Soul Reaver?

[Anonymous No.1345614]

>>1343657

[Anonymous No.1347745]

>>1343680
>>It's in fucking BR despite the readme and reviews being in english

oh wow

[Anonymous No.1348131]

>>1339774
> every enemy is overpowered
> you use all of your items to survive
> you are supposed to lose anyway
>too far from last save point to redo that part plus its in a storyline sequence

[Anonymous No.1348139]

>>1344172
I dunno, I've clocked over 200 hours on it total.

[Anonymous No.1349972]

>>1338056
>>Password system is ridiculously long

Hi there.

Also,
>okay, the password isn't that bad
>limited lives, then a game over, back to the menu
>only get a password every chapter
>7 chapters
>only 7 saves in the whole game
>password saves how many lives you've lost so far
>give up

Pity, it's such a great game otherwise.

[Anonymous No.1349992]

>>1343054

Flash Gordon.

[Anonymous No.1350025]

>This stat determines how accurate you are
>You have to hit enemies to level up said stat.

[Anonymous No.1350051]

>fight boss
>scripted attacks kill all, leaving one alive with1 hp
>old character returns to save the day and re-join the party
>battle starts over
>rest of the party is still dead/1 hp

[Anonymous No.1350052]

>>1344752
>this part is really easy, so I don't think I need to say anything about it

[Anonymous No.1350060]

>be playing fightan games
>enemy always techs your throws
>enemy manages to throw you from practically half screen away
>enemy just throw fireballs all day

It's not impossible to get around, but it gets really frustrating at a point. The worst is in Marvel vs Street Fighter, when fighting Cyclops is actually harder than fighting Cyber Akuma.

[Anonymous No.1350078]

>easy mode
>only the first 2 levels

[Anonymous No.1350089]

>>1340035
Hey dude, just because some jive cat be running through the abyss shouting about being some "avatar" doesn't mean you gotta foot a loss on his sword repair. Hell, you're the only fucking dude who can even repair shit in the entire abyss. Gotta reputation to hold up, get me?

[Anonymous No.1350110]

>/vr

[Anonymous No.1350143]

>Main character gets powered up and can fight the main villain alone
>Significantly weaker party members join in a couple turns later because "lol we gotta help him!!1'
>Villain focuses on one-shotting weaker party members
>Death is permanent

[Anonymous No.1350181]

>game makes you to play every level again and collect everything to unlock the final boss
As much as I liked Ape Escape, getting 100% in a game shouldn't be a requirement.

[Anonymous No.1350209]

>>1350181
It wouldn't be so bad if games didn't usually run out of decent rewards to give you around the 70-80% mark.

[Anonymous No.1350220]

>>1350078
>Normal mode
>only the first five levels

>ALL the levels only available on hard or higher

[Anonymous No.1350280]

>>1339774
>boss is hopelessly overpowering
>struggle in vain to stay alive and maybe hurt him a little
>it's a supposed-to-lose moment

>a few minutes later you're expected to beat it