Current Events > What videogame mechanic you really hate.. besides escort missions

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I assume everyone hates escort mission gameplay

Am I right?

Random encounters

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Invisible walls

The fact that bad guys in FPS games never have to stop and reload, but I do.

WTF is up with that

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>get shot
>blood covers up 90% of screen
>die because you can't see shit

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Enemies that are invincible until they expose their one weakness, which results in you having to just wait before you can damage them.

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Fishing minigames.

Literally no such thing as a good one.
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Nintendo Bosses.

Kind of similar to
MC_BatCommander posted...

Enemies that are invincible until they expose their one weakness, which results in you having to just wait before you can damage them.

But also involve using a specific item to expose said weak point and attacking it until it resets to the next phase of the fight. Repeat 2 more times.

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Definitely invincible phases during a boss fight. Fuck you path of exile.

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I'm not a fan of insta fail stealth sections in an otherwise non stealth game.

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> Kick someone's ass
*Cutscene happens*
>You get rekt for no reason

Also checkpoint starvation. Let me fucking save, if I have to redo the last four hours because you refuse to give me a chance to save my progress during a difficult portion of the game, that's not "difficulty". It's just unfun.

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Jabodie posted...

I'm not a fan of insta fail stealth sections in an otherwise non stealth game.

Spiderman ps4

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MC_BatCommander posted...

Enemies that are invincible until they expose their one weakness, which results in you having to just wait before you can damage them.

thats like every zelda game

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Invincibility frames

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Also bosses where it's adds are the bigger threat/problem than the boss itself is (or the adds are just straight up annoying to deal with).

Blocking in melee combat, especially when it fully negates all damage regardless of what the enemy is using to block with. A wooden club or a dagger being able to easily block/parry a greatsword or a polearm is ridiculous.

I'd sacrifice a village to Odin to avoid doing a single sliding-tile puzzle.

EDIT: Well, I guess that's not a mechanic, but whatever.

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Also bosses that are just wars of attrittion, i.e. you just beat on each other and hopefully it dies before you do

No strategy whatsoever

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Srk700 posted...

Also bosses where it's adds are the bigger threat/problem than the boss itself is (or the adds are just straight up annoying to deal with).

fucking Omega Pirate
also Metroid Prime's final phase

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HylianFox posted...

The fact that bad guys in FPS games never have to stop and reload, but I do.

WTF is up with that

Hey

This just open my eyes just now, yeah!! Whats up with that??

Screwing up a password back in NES days.

l or I

O or 0

going through all permutations... still fail.
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Vanilla WoW had the absolute worst escort missions in gaming history.

> Rescue a random human
> He'd walk slow as fuck back to town
> Random baddie would show up
> HE'D RUN FAST AS HE CAN TO THEM
> Defeat enemy and walk slowly back to where he was before the fight
> Start walking slow again

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Beat the boss and then he beats you in the next cutscene

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Tailing people

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_____Cait posted...

Beat the boss and then he beats you in the next cutscene

Especially as I am always over leveled and just completely spanked the last boss... maybe hanging around 30 turns to steal their items

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Durability

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_____Cait posted...

Beat the boss and then he beats you in the next cutscene

Freaking Kai Leng in Mass Effect 3

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Lootbox and ads. On Android.

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undodgable attacks
forced defeat (in some stories)

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Turn-based combat
Forced slow walk
Taking away abilities/weapons/supplies
Invisible enemies
Instakills
Not being able to carry a bunch of weapons

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Gear repair

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Nathaniel2018 posted...

I assume everyone hates escort mission gameplay

Am I right?

cant be true considering RE4 is one of the most popular games of all time

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Weapon durability

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Stealth missions. I don't mean having the option to be stealthy, but when an otherwise not-stealthy game forces you to be stealthy because... reasons.

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Underwater exploration of any kind. Visibility is usually terrible, you need to be careful of drowning, it's easy to get lost or disoriented. Its just not fun for me.

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The Catgirl Fondler posted...

Fishing minigames.

Literally no such thing as a good one.

Trash-tier opinion tbh

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The losing your gear trope you see in Castlevania and Metroid games.

Getting "Night at the Roxbury'd" by multiple enemies.

Long introductions to characters, especially in RPGs. Even worse, long tutorials (Twilight Princess is among the worst).

Accidentally buying the wrong item then having to sell it back for less gold.

Wasting healing items because I pushed the wrong button (Dark Souls did it).

Collectables that have no consequence or purpose.

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Rapid99 posted...

Tailing people

Oh man, that was the least fun thing in BotW by far.

QTEs that make you wiggle the thumbsticks.

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Quick Time events

Unskippable cutscenes

Forced stealth

This is restricted to one series in my experience but

Same turn reinforcements that can move and attack on the same turn

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Games with character customisation that don't let you change your character's appearance mid-game

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Freddie_Mercury posted...

>get shot
>blood covers up 90% of screen
>die because you can't see shit

Why do game designers do this?

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Why do game designers do this?

Immersion, bro.

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pfh1001 posted...

Blocking in melee combat, especially when it fully negates all damage regardless of what the enemy is using to block with. A wooden club or a dagger being able to easily block/parry a greatsword or a polearm is ridiculous.

Even worse are enemies that "block" gunshots with those melee weapons

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missables
realtime limited events

both together? goodbye

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Dialogue choices that change absolutely nothing.
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