Poll of the Day > Do you have any video game deal breakers?

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Lokarin posted...

Having to Skip rope 1000 times or Dodge lighting 200 times

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• Loot boxes / microtransactions / pay to win / gacha / etc...
• First person perspective (like FPS games, or Cyberpunk 2077)
• Online only (as in, even to play at all....I don't play games that are designed specifically for online, so I mean when it's forced even on the single player mode)
• Draconian censorship measures (ex: MK11)
• Can't believe this one is even a thing, but...games that launch completely fucking broken w/ the notion that, "we'll patch it later!" Cyberpunk again being the obvious example to most, but the one that first comes to mind for me was that Batman game a few years back that'd crash and freeze on PC all the time and Warner Bros. actual response was, "we can't fix that right now, we're busy working on the DLC". I have no idea why consumers just accept that shit and keep buying from the companies that do it. (O_O)

streamofthesky posted...

Can't believe this one is even a thing, but...games that launch completely f***ing broken w/ the notion that, "we'll patch it later!" Cyberpunk again being the obvious example to most, but the one that first comes to mind for me was that Batman game a few years back that'd crash and freeze on PC all the time and Warner Bros. actual response was, "we can't fix that right now, we're busy working on the DLC". I have no idea why consumers just accept that s*** and keep buying from the companies that do it. (O_O)

Dude I finally finished Skyrim this week for the first time (I'd never completed the main quest) and I'm flabbergasted at how many quests are still broken in that fucking game. Like, they release a new version on a new platform every other year and they literally release the game with known bugs - many of which have mods on PC that fix them - yet they still release and re-release the game in this perpetually fucked state

This last playthrough I had at least a half dozen quests I couldn't complete for whatever reason. This is on PS4. How is this not fixed?

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I won't play any Activision-Blizzard games after their Hong Kong mess. Otherwise I'll at least consider pretty much any game.

The last game that I bought, started playing, and then decided I hated it enough to quit was The Messenger. The Timekeeper boss was so boring and irritating that I just deleted the game.

Far-Queue posted...

Dude I finally finished Skyrim this week for the first time (I'd never completed the main quest) and I'm flabbergasted at how many quests are still broken in that fucking game. Like, they release a new version on a new platform every other year and they literally release the game with known bugs - many of which have mods on PC that fix them - yet they still release and re-release the game in this perpetually fucked state

This last playthrough I had at least a half dozen quests I couldn't complete for whatever reason. This is on PS4. How is this not fixed?

Because people keep buying it and re-buying it, so they have no incentive to actually do shit? Yeah, skyrim is the grand daddy example of this deal breaker. Never bought skyrim, and I never will.

(warning: foul language, lots of it, even in the video title; I broke up the link, so no one's gonna "accidentally" view it)
https://youtu.be/ wZvSPjQe9Hk?t=103

I've encountered a lot of bugs in Skyrim but nothing that really ruined the game for me. I've also done far from everything though. I don't know if I'd really care if a quest bugged on me unless it was like a huge guild one, but if it's some stupid ass quest where I was just going to get 500 gold then whatever

Far-Queue posted...

Dude I finally finished Skyrim this week for the first time (I'd never completed the main quest) and I'm flabbergasted at how many quests are still broken in that fucking game. Like, they release a new version on a new platform every other year and they literally release the game with known bugs - many of which have mods on PC that fix them - yet they still release and re-release the game in this perpetually fucked state

This last playthrough I had at least a half dozen quests I couldn't complete for whatever reason. This is on PS4. How is this not fixed?

Because all those rereleases are just ports or in the case of the Special Edition just shinier graphics.

CoorsLight posted...

I've encountered a lot of bugs in Skyrim but nothing that really ruined the game for me. I've also done far from everything though. I don't know if I'd really care if a quest bugged on me unless it was like a huge guild one, but if it's some stupid ass quest where I was just going to get 500 gold then whatever

I encountered some but don't remember what it was. I just used the console to fix them which isn't possible on non PC version. The one I remember the most was my horse completely disappeared from my game and I had to get a new one.
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It depends. If we're talking going into a game, there are some genres I'm much more likely to skip. Then there's a lot of shit that, if I know beforehand, I'm less likely to want to play it. Of course, a major disqualifier is DLC since I generally wait to see if they'll be doing a GOTY or complete edition down the road.

If it's a miniquest or side-content, it could depend on the time or difficulty involved. If it's something vastly different from the game genre, that's also a disqualifying factor.

As for what would get me to stop playing a game I already started, well... examples include the fucking Goron Dance in Oracle of Ages. The previous dance sequence was bad, but this I just couldn't get right for whatever reason and eventually just gave up on.

Otherwise I hate escort/protect missions, off-genre minigames you need to beat to continue the game, timed missions (which I think kept me from finishing LostMagic, despite liking the game -- and there was zero reason in-universe for that timer), missable content (especially characters), etc.


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Zeus posted...

a major disqualifier is DLC since I generally wait to see if they'll be doing a GOTY or complete edition down the road.

Pretty much why I haven't gotten Civ 6 yet.
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