CitizenKain posted:

I hit a mission in BT where it was a few medium mechs, and icons for vehicles. Turns out a bunch of those vehicles were SRM carriers, and had 6 SRM4s or something on them, and they could basically drive straight up, fire everything and have a good chance of crippling a mech. They also all got to go before I did.

Kinda stopped playing after that.

Evilreaver posted:

The only problem I have is the combat barks the heroes say. On each kill, there is a chance one of your heroes (up to 6) will say something; you know what it's like. Well, that means there might well be 200+ opportunities per night (up to like a dozen per turn) for 1-6 folks to quip one of WAY TOO FEW lines. They're fine lines, don't get me wrong, but holy bones they need to add more lines. Duplicates lines per night are unavoidable; duplicate lines per *attack* are common. I almost just want to email the devs a doc with 300 new barks. Like, the game is so important to me that I'm almost ready to do this completely unprompted just to help improve the game I like.

As a minor side note, the tone of these barks are all over the place. There's no personality/consistency checks, so one guy might say "oh no there are so many! Don't panic!!" Then the next line "I'm an unstoppable god of BLOOD". The game's overall tone is "fighting a nearly-hopeless fight against the end of the world, and we have to be ready to sacrifice our lives to end the threat to humanity"... But there is also a "folks REALLY HATE the mages for ending the world" theme, so the heroes who spend all game defending the mages (fighting alongside them for the same goal) also treat them like poo poo, often out of nowhere since the common barks are so wildly tonally different. (And because the only meaningful interaction with mages is at the end during a victory, where everyone should be celebrating, or at least relieved)

Tunicate posted:

Splicer posted:

Yeah, it was good for knowing what I wanted to beeline for.

Making you choose how your guy works before you know how the game works is such an entrenched piece of bullshit that it's not even that game companies are scared to move away from it, it's that the idea of even questioning it doesn't really cross their minds.

Away all Goats posted:

Really annoying when devs decide a game should have 4 players and only 4 players by making you play with bots. My gaming group is often just 3 of us and it can be frustrating having a bot running around with us, especially when they do stuff like loot items or get stuck. I know L4D and Vermintide is guilty of this and it looks like GTFO has the same problem. Just let us start the game without the bot!

Coolness Averted posted:

tbf I would probably bring the same or maybe a wobbuffet

Cleretic posted:

A lot of this is just a me thing, but: Tears of the Kingdom, the koroks that need to be carried to their friends, have two different problems that crop up for me basically every time:

A: Too cute not to help, I have a weakness for really cute, childish characters in settings that aren't entirely about that. So every time I see them, I have to stop what I'm doing, and figure out what sort of weird contraption they want me to make to reunite these two little guys.

...Except that, B: most of the time, it's just easier to carry them. Sure, cobbling together a car out of available parts and driving to the destination or something is supposed to be faster, and is clearly the intended solution, but there's so many times where it's just so fiddly to do, or the path is too difficult for my dumb-rear end jalopy, that it's just easier to use Ultrahand to pick the guy up and walk. The verticality-based ones are usually immune to this, but they're few and far between.

Honestly, I'm either too smart or too stupid for this game, and I can't tell which, because I feel like I've spent about 70% of this game so far either solving problems with L-shaped wooden structures, most of the other 30% realizing I don't have to build anything and can just walk/climb/glide (possibly while jamming something between rocks as an ersatz bridge).

Evilreaver posted:

Oxygen, in particular, has AND gates that are 2x2 (characters are 2x1). Why??? Just give me a breadboard so I can have 2000 gates in a 1x1 square. There's no excuse! In these settings computers already explicitly exist!! AAAUGH

Splicer posted:

Nobody ever really cared that you couldn't jump in e.g. alien isolation, they cared that a one foot tall one foot wide row of luggage was presented as a (literally) insurmountable obstacle.

DontMockMySmock posted:

Does that make the puzzle too obvious? Maybe Blow thinks so, but it makes the puzzle accessible, so who gives a poo poo?

Rockman Reserve posted:

I play Baba is You in fits and spurts with months of putting it down in frustration in between, and I genuinely do not remember if I’ve gotten to that/figured it out or not.

Mr E posted:

I don't care too much about the yellow paint but I would like an option to remove it especially when it's overdone like in the RE4 remake which I liked otherwise. I did not need every single box, barrel, shootable thing to open doors, and ladder to be splashed with yellow paint. There has to be another way to indicate something is interactable as games become more "realistic" in their graphics - I'm thinking how Half Life 2 did it with supply boxes being a different model than other boxes so you didn't feel the need to smash every box.

Opopanax posted:

Then there are also achievements for using hints on every level, and skips on every level. You can at least burn though those pretty quickly but it's still pointless busy work.

SubNat posted:

The only acceptable dye system in games is where you get a dye/skin/effect once, and it unlocks it for unlimited use and application.

Different colors, materials, effects, etc are fun, but most games have terrible systems where you have to buy a bunch of dye and apply it to individual pieces of armor etc. (Often without the ability to even preview the end result.)
If it's not just a menu where I have access to my 'silver, azure, chainmail, animated flaming hot cheetos' colors/effects and can easily assign them to any of my gear then you've all hosed up, devs.

One of the few games I can recall with a system like that was probably Guild Wars 2, where dyes permanently unlocked that color/material for that character, and you could just assign them at will.
This post was sponsored by me remembering how disappointed I was when I bought my first vial of dye in Baldur's Gate 3.

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

There is always gonna be a massive gulf between how the narrative and the gameplay handle death, and while I wouldn't say BG3's writers always manage it gracefully - particularly in Karlach's case - trying to bridge that gap rather than gloss over it is always gonna make it way worse. Would Ketheric's story have been better if they'd tried to explain why he couldn't just buy a Scroll of Revivify for Isobel rather than sell his soul to the god of necromancy? No, that would've sucked

Owl Inspector posted:

It extremely Bothered me when I unlocked the ability to directionally swarm pikmin from the first two games because it came from a quest that requires completing almost all of the game. That was functionality I was wishing for the whole game but just assumed they hadn’t include it in P4

Turned out they did include it and just chose not to let you use it almost at all!

The Wicked ZOGA posted:

I've said this before and probably in this very thread but even though Nintendo generally makes some good games their post-game challenges generally suck dick. Give me some midpoints motherfuckers.

Actually saying that Wonder did have some checkpoints in its marathon level so I guess they're getting better.

Rockman Reserve posted:

- one of the "safehouses" turns anyone you send there into monsters, this isn't exactly telegraphed

Pulsarcat posted:

I like how there is a way to figure out what's going on ahead of time, but nearly everyone is going to miss it their first play through.

This is from memory, so some of it may be off:

The lady running the clinic gets replaced at some point, but it's hard to tell because you talk to her though a door.

When you meet her, she gives you a healing item, but her dialogue only really updates if you use it and come back for another.
She eventfully warms up to you and becomes friendly.

But at some point, she starts acting differently, which is a big hint that the woman on the other side of the door is someone different, and she murdered the first woman.

If you don't keep coming back and replacing the unique healing item, you'll never notice this.

Pulsarcat posted:

Too be fair:

While it's true the overall practice of blood healing may have caused one....maybe two small, minor, don't worry about it okay, issues.
The actual act of giving your blood to another is usually framed as a kind and even intimate act, and it's heavily implied she's giving you her own blood.

So within the context of the games world, her giving you vials of human blood isn't really a tell that something evil is going down.
If anything it's perfectly normal and even kind that a woman working in a clinic while poo poo is going down is willing to help out a hunter while most other people are hiding in their homes.

Oxxidation posted:

in addition to that, the opening cutscene isn't at the same clinic. sort of. it's not iosefka's in any case

the_steve posted:

It's gonna sound dumb, but what really turned me off from FO4 was when I was trying to put together my first little base. I was putting down fencing, and it was bad enough that the area is asymmetrical, but there was this one section where the fence would NOT map to the ground. No matter what I did, the loving thing would decide to pop a wheelie and jut up into the air at a 45 degree angle. I got fed up and decided to ragequit for the night, and then never got around to picking it back up.

Byzantine posted:

Honestly by this point I believe that if Bethesda had made New Vegas instead of 3 people would bitch about it for violating the series' continuity so Bethesda could revive a faction canonically dead to spawn a loving Elder Scrolls Imperial knockoff with Caesar's Legion. Plus you can go to Las Vegas in Fallout 1 and it's a bombed out ruin, certainly not spared from the nukes by not-Tony Stark, Bethesda, quit loving up. They even hosed up Interplay's story by having the Brotherhood go to war with the NCR for some reason so they could turn the BoS into another Vault grr grr robble robble

Rockman Reserve posted:

it’s funny that fo4 has so many problems with the plot and base building aspects that nobody ever even comments on how abysmal the leveling/perk system was