GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:

Enemies teleporting in behind my party in Dragon Age: Origins. I go through the effort of clearing out an area, only for another group of enemies to appear in a puff of smoke as soon as I start to leave.

kazil posted:

Romance options in pretty much any video game are really, really awkward.

SpookyLizard posted:

Thats probably because the only reason to go to westside is a companion quest.


And i hate you for not helping arcade until your third playthrough.


You monster.

My Lovely Horse posted:

The Missing Link DLC for Deus Ex, while having nice atmosphere and highlighting the darker side of the whole augmentation business, plays loving awfully. Unfortunately it's firmly integrated in the Director's Cut of the game. Doesn't just come with it, but is part of the storyline and can't be skipped. I'm probably never going to play Deus Ex again once I'm through just because of that bit, and it's a pity because I really enjoy the game otherwise. I think I'd rather deal with generic FPS boss fights using weaponless stealth Adam than go through Missing Link again.

Anatharon posted:

Fallout 4 really needs horses.

Anatharon posted:

Not taking forever to walk places you haven't found?

Doctor Bishop posted:

Counterpoint: Lucifer in Dante's Inferno. of course

...of SCIENCE! posted:

The first two were fun and technically impressive at the time but the "noir as written by people who have never actually watched noir" writing is pretty bad. It just came out during the time when gamers were clamoring for games to be mature and gritty and cinematic so they ate that poo poo up.

SourceElement posted:

I have to use a 3rd party program to force the PC port of Metal Gear Rising to 1920x1080 and 60hz because I use HDMI to connect my monitor to my video card. If I don't, the UI thinks that it's a much larger resolution, and the refresh rate drops down to less than half of what it should be. Without that program running, I get a headache from playing for five minutes.

Also because the refresh rate is so hosed over HDMI, a weird form of "burn in" occurs where the codec menu gets half-overlaid on top of my monitor for about an hour or so, even after the game is closed.

I'd say that the game's inability to work properly over an HDMI cable makes it a mediocre port at best.

swamp waste posted:

There were characters in the original version of Street Fighter 4 that had to be unlocked by beating singleplayer with every other character. Imagine being the guy who has to unlock everyone on every console for a big tournament like EVO or something. It'd be like those cartoons where Porky Pig smokes a cigarette and suddenly gets dragged down to cigarette hell and forced to smoke 1000 cigarettes

SpookyLizard posted:

And those folks and their strokes are wrong <>

Paper Diamonds posted:

No controller support for the PC version of Mass Effect 3.

Cleretic posted:

I still feel like Rockster just don't understand the sandbox genre

Hedgehog Pie posted:

I'm sure everything there is to be said about Dead Rising has been many, many times over. I've still tried to go back to it again though, after having recently enjoyed an LP of it.

I just forgot how ruthless it is! I don't mind the cheesy story and acting, but I kind of just want Dawn of the Dead: The Game (being a big fan of the original movie despite its ham-fisted elements). It has a ton of neat and fun ideas in this respect, but it's hampered by a bizarre save/life system and the notoriously bad survivor AI ("Frank! FRANK!!!"). I remembered after playing yesterday that it can be helpful to give all your survivors guns, so they don't mindlessly charge into crowds of zombies, so I might try that later... or I might just plough through zombies in the underground tunnels until Frank becomes marginally useful!

It feels particularly rough that the first real survivors you encounter are in the narrow Al Fresca Plaza, which is almost always brimming with zombies. To make matters worse, you're likely to get to them just as HE AIN'T MY BOY BUT THE BROTHER IS HEAVY starts appearing in the central park area.

I'm sure there are harder games, but I'm just not that hardcore, man.

Alteisen posted:

I would advise regular DR2 over OTR, in DR2 the survivors where tanks and could be left alone, they could also free themselves, in OTR they have less health and cannot free themselves requiring more babysitting.

Lotish posted:

A lot of games have a problem with playing coy about their plot twists when they're really obvious hours in advance.

Jaramin posted:

The "an alien is talking" sound clips from KOTOR make me turn off the sound whenever I need to have a long conversation with one. I would rather sit through a million badly animated conversations with real words than hear AGGABAGAWAHHH on repeat ever again.

LoonShia posted:

Less Fat Luke posted:

Divinity: Original Sin and Shadowrun Returns were pretty well regarded.

Oxxidation posted:

The ending and the script in general for Sleeping Dogs went completely to pieces due to a lack of time/funding in finishing the game. A lot of people here kind of brush that under the rug for whatever reason, but it's definitely a major weakness of the game.

The DLC is all terrible and answers nothing. Do not buy it.

Piell posted:

It's on the loading screen. It works out pretty great.

...of SCIENCE! posted:

Literally the only thing dragging it down is that you can miss out on the lyrical version of Sundowner's boss theme if you play it too well.

khwarezm posted:

How do you put 51 hours into a game you hate? Two whole days!

Sleeveless posted:

I think the big Les Miserables movie from a few years ago is why a bunch of games coming out now have musical numbers since games love to copy whatever is big in movies at the time.

ArtIsResistance posted:

Revenge driven storylines are very mature and will not be found in sub-YA novels, as it takes a mature man to truly understand the intricacies of getting back at someone who hurt you.

scarycave posted:

I don't think it would be so bad if it had multiplayer that wasn't purely online.
Because than you'd actually be able to use multiplayer mode.

Really bugs me when you get a game that you think its multiplayer, so you go to play it with someone else, and it turns out its online only.

Kimmalah posted:

This is true of pretty much every open world RPG Bethesda has ever made though. In fact it's usually good advice because the main quests are generally not the greatest (yes I'm including New Vegas).

The Moon Monster posted:

This is a pretty bold claim (nws)

Xander77 posted:

It's actually the Brotherhood to rear end Creed 2.

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The camera in Wasteland 2 is so goddamn clumsy and awkward and lumbering. I rather think a fixed camera position would have been easier and forced the team to put more of an emphasis on aesthetics (poo poo is UGLY in this game)

Gestalt Intellect posted:

One of them is a kickstarter game that mysteriously stopped being updated after receiving the kickstarter money and without saying anything (don't remember if it ever came back or not),

My Lovely Horse posted:

I played a warlock in Neverwinter Nights 2 and never wanted to take off my starting armor. Needless to say, didn't work out. (Kind of a bad example though because you can craft any armor into something that dwarfs any existing equipment and warlocks are the god-kings of crafting, but then I never got that far into it.)