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Lack of enemy variety always gets me!

It seems like a very common offense.

From Software does not commit this offense however. One of the reasons I enjoy their series.

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Escorting people who move faster than your walk speed and slower than your run speed.

Edit: Just slightly slower than run speed is fine since you can at least catch up when you stop to fight. It's the blatantly in the middle crap that bugs me.

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Escort quests. How am I supposed to deliver you safely to the target location if you keep trying to get yourself killed?

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Tutorials that pop up once and never again, are only on screen for a moment, and you have no way to look up what was just stated.

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Bosses with invulnerable phasing.

This is a really minor one, but I hate when collectibles basically confirm a plot point ahead of time, but then the actual characters are shocked when it happens. Like in Dishonored 2, it's really obvious from items around the hospital (and the Heart's info) that Hypatia accidentally Jekkyl and Hyde'd herself and her alter ego is the Crown Killer, but Emily is shocked when she transforms.

trappedunderice posted...

Bosses with invulnerable phasing.

Oh, and this is the one thing that annoys me about Hades. I don't know why they decided bosses have to go invulnerable if you whale on them too much at once, but it's really annoying. The last boss in particular doesn't do exactly this, but he does go invulnerable when he summons adds which has fucked me a couple of times already.

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When a cutscene ends and I regain control of my character, but only to move five feet and trigger another cutscene.

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Different strokes for different folks. That's the rift.

@theonebetween, @chaos

I really hate weapon durability. It just exists to be an annoyance, I don't give a fuck how realistic it is.

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pegusus123456 posted...

This is a really minor one, but I hate when collectibles basically confirm a plot point ahead of time, but then the actual characters are shocked when it happens. Like in Dishonored 2, it's really obvious from items around the hospital (and the Heart's info) that Hypatia accidentally Jekkyl and Hyde'd herself and her alter ego is the Crown Killer, but Emily is shocked when she transforms.

Oh, and this is the one thing that annoys me about Hades. I don't know why they decided bosses have to go invulnerable if you whale on them too much at once, but it's really annoying. The last boss in particular doesn't do exactly this, but he does go invulnerable when he summons adds which has fucked me a couple of times already.

Yea path of exile is real bad about that shit and it makes me angry.

• unskippable cutscenes
• sliding-tile puzzles

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The one with NPCs having a set pace that doesn't match yours has already been posted, so another one I've realised recently is when scripted dialogue/banter gets cut off because you stopped to look at something, or the length of the conversation doesn't match the time it takes to cross an area and trigger the next scene so you never get to hear the end of what they were talking about.

The recent Guardians of the Galaxy game was terrible for this. I feel like I missed half the dialogue because I went off to pick up a collectible or some components.

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LividDK posted...

the length of the conversation doesn't match the time it takes to cross an area and trigger the next scene so you never get to hear the end of what they were talking about.

God, the Witcher 2. I would just not walk at all to hear the conversation.

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rockstar's mission indicator that requires you to drive to another destination/actual mission location

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unskippable cut scenes

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BipBapBam posted...

I really hate weapon durability. It just exists to be an annoyance, I don't give a fuck how realistic it is.

It's not even realistic though. Real weapons last far longer than they do in games.

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BipBapBam posted...

I really hate weapon durability. It just exists to be an annoyance, I don't give a fuck how realistic it is.

I hate this too, especially when it just makes things even less realistic, like in Fire Emblem. Like what kind of shitty sword can only be used 20 times before it breaks? And the tomes having durability just seems weird...Can things only be read a certain number of times in their universe?

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Bad tutorials

information overload (looking at you darkest dungeon)

Fetch me quests.

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RPGs with too many mechanics. If I have to spend hours online reading complicated tutorials just to understand the basics of the battle system, I'm dipping.
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Unskippable cutscenes and cutscenes that repeat for a boss that you lost to.

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K181 posted...

Unskippable cutscenes and cutscenes that repeat for a boss that you lost to.

Onimusha Warlords omfg

Or at least something similar.

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