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Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Austrian mook posted:

Twilight Princess :colbert:
I liked the fishing in that game too. But gently caress the fishing quests in the Monster Hunter games. Boring waste of time. I can get behind the egg carrying missions because I like the tense atmosphere but the fishing quests are just worthless.

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Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
As someone who's played Mass Effect 2, there is nothing sexier to me than harassing some poor guy while he's trying to work. :allears:

Also, I never play as male characters in general so I wouldn't know about dude Shepard's romance choices but lady Shepard's picks are not very good. There's a really boring guy who becomes useless in combat early on and will later cheat on you, a spiky alien who is just awkward to talk to and the mopey frog single dad who will die in the next game anyway.

The thing I do like about playing as female Shepard is that her voice actor does a much better job.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Another thing I don't like about Mass Effect 2: Miranda is terrible and I hate her. She's kind of like Morrigan from Dragon Age in that there is nothing to like about her and if you bring her along, she'll just bitch at you for helping people. But at least Morrigan actually had a pretty crappy past. Miranda's tragic backstory, from what I can remember, is "Oh boo-hoo, my dad genetically engineered me to be perfect!"

Celery Face has a new favorite as of 06:34 on May 26, 2014

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Leal posted:

I hate how you cannot raze city states nor capitals. If they're in a lovely area you have a useless or inefficient city. I remember how much it ate away at me when I captured a city state that if it were just a single hex to the left it would of been the perfect spot fuuuuuck why couldn't it of been that one spot why can't I just raze this and build another city nearby god dammit.
You can't raze holy cities either. It sucks if your enemy founds their religion in the rear end-end of nowhere.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
GTA V's radio stations are not very good. GTA IV had way better selection and I miss the Russian station.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Walton Simons posted:

Civilization V
You ask a friendly civ what they want for a luxury resource. They want 4 of your resources, a couple of strategic resources, open borders, 50 gold and 5 gold per turn.

You offer 5 gold per turn and two resources.

'That is not even close to a fair deal'.

It's an outrageously loving generous deal, you absolute dicksplash!
Unless you're asking them to trade their last luxury resource of that kind, that civ is probably one of the more backstabbing ones. Never trust Dido, Wu Zetian, Catherine, Augustus Caesar, Napoleon and especially Ramkhamhaeng. Whenever I find out that last one is my neighbour, I just start a new game.

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Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
I love Oblivion, I get nostalgic for it but it's got a lot of flaws. The dungeons are insanely boring (never even bothered with them unless if it was for a quest), the faces are hideous, there was a glitch in my game that prevented me from getting the Anvil mansion, NPCs would get killed out in the wild for no reason, there weren't enough voice actors and magic is just terrible. People complained about different characters in Skyrim having the same voices but it was a hell of a lot better than Oblivion having like 8. In a game with hundreds of NPCs, of course there's going to be identical voices.

One thing that Oblivion has over Skyrim is The Shivering Isles. It was fantastic.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
The only thing I hate about God Of War III is that stupid rhythm game part. I love the music in God Of War but I am terrible at rhythm games and it took me like 15 tries to pass it.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Bully is funnier than any GTA game.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
I've been playing my old PS2 games for the first time in years and while most of them have been holding up pretty well, they've certainly got flaws.

Spongebob Squarepants Movie: This can be really frustrating for a kids game.

King Kong: Hearing Adrian Brody's heavy breathing every time you move gets irritating fast, there aren't enough parts where you play as Kong and the game is pretty short.

Monster Hunter: Now I get why the critics didn't like this at first. I love the newer Monster Hunter games but it had a ways to go back in 2004. The controls are godawful (right analog stick to use your weapon), there's no lock-on camera, there's no free-hunt mode or farm, the smaller monsters scattered around the maps are insanely annoying, the Monster AI and hitboxes are pretty bad, the egg carrying quests are the worst, it's too hard and I can't even charge my great sword.

Turok Evolution: Holy poo poo, this game sucks. I liked it because it was the first M-rated game I ever played and 8 year old me was obsessed with dinosaurs but it is just so bad. It feels like it got released halfway through development, the graphics are horrible even for 2002 (the big dinosaurs don't even have eyes), more dinosaurs instead of lizardmen would have been cool, I only played it with cheats because it was so hard, the flying levels are terribly designed, the story makes no sense and the voice acting is crappy. The soundtrack is pretty cool though.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Brain In A Jar posted:

Plus, the miniboss battle with the armored suit and the RPGs in the storm is just tedious because if you make a small mistake with kiting the enemies around, too bad, 1-hit killed.
That part was insane. You could only see the enemies if they were firing something off and they were everywhere. It probably took me over 20 tries to get past that on easy.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Eternal Sonata is a fun game but hoo boy, if there's one thing I can't stand in games, it's not having any checkpoints. It's such bullshit to have to start over from where you last saved just because you got ambushed or whatever (and save points are rather far apart in Eternal Sonata).

Eternal Sonata is also the only game I skip the cutscenes for because it has some of the preachiest, dumbest dialog I've ever heard. The characters have really annoying voices too.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

RBA Starblade posted:

Isn't that the one that ends with a giant monologue about how you should have just gone outside?
Do you mean the part with the caterpillar and the snail? Because I have no idea what the gently caress that had to do with anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NkrX_h6Rms

The credits scene is ridiculous too. Normally I don't mind when things get preachy but that was just too much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8w2e8mbq8

Celery Face has a new favorite as of 23:50 on Sep 6, 2014

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
The AI for the followers in Skyrim is so bad that whenever I try them out, I end up telling them to gently caress off back to wherever they came from within five minutes.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

FactsAreUseless posted:

It's not just the AI, it's the combination of bad AI with tiny corridors everywhere. Also followers can't permadie unless you hit them. "Yes, Lydia, please run ahead, block the entrance, then exchange melee blows with a monster for five minutes. I'd shoot it, but if I use any of my magic right now you will die forever."
It's also stupid that you can't choose what weapons they'll use. You could give Cicero another daedric dagger but he'll likely only use one and when I upgraded Mjoll's sword and a cool shield I had lying around just for her, she got out her useless bow instead.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Captain Lavender posted:

I'm playing Dragon Age: Origins again. This time I picked a human male, sword and shield character.

I picked his voice type as "Cocky", because, I don't know, I liked the timbre of it. But now, about every 4th or 5th right-click - to interact with things or move - he says, "Shall I get you a ladder so you can get off my back?!" And he just keeps doing it all the time. I'm about 5 hours in, but I have to start a new file, it's that bad.
I picked that voice for my human noble because it fit her perfectly and that really got on my nerves. Even the dev team hated that line apparently.

An NPC in that game who really annoyed me was that dwarf voiced by Steve Blum in the market square who would go "Dwarven crafts! Fine, dwarven crafts!" every time you passed him.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Captain Lavender posted:

Steve Blum is a little thing that drags down about 90% of the games I play.
Ever since someone mentioned that all of his voices sound the same, I can't unhear it. He's just got this weird gravelly thing in his voice that totally gives him away. But the main problem is that he's just in so many goddamn video games. I can think of a few voice actors who don't have much range (Cam Clarke, Barry Dennen, etc.) but at least they're not in every video game ever (they're still awesome though).

Accordion Man posted:

Steve Blum has a lot of range, he's just typecasted as hell.
It's probably because of Cowboy Bebop, isn't it?

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Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Tiggum posted:

I picked whichever one it is that makes her say "Warden sense tingling!" which I didn't mind.
I always picked that voice too and it was hilarious how it also gave The Warden a permanent "I have a giant stick up my rear end" facial expression. Or maybe that was just normal for the elf player character.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Spiderman 2: Tobey Maguire and the citizens of New York City sound bored as hell.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

muscles like this? posted:

The voice acting in Spider-Man 2 and 3 are both just god awful.
"Oh no, my balloon!" :argh:

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Junpei Hyde posted:

There's also the bit in (I think?) MGS4 where Otacon tells the tragic story of why he doesn't watch anime anymore.
Pretty much any scene with Vamp in it is awkward to watch in front of other people too. Once, I was on the fight scene between him and Raiden and when my dad walked in, he asked me why I was buying gay porn.

Then there's also the cutscene in Red Dead Redemption where the rebel dude bangs a chubby Mexican girl. My mom happened to be in the room when I got to that part.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Nuebot posted:

Some JRPGs are specially bad about this. Like Okage: Shadow King.
Another thing about that game is that if there was more than one of the same kind of enemy in a battle, which there always was, you couldn't even choose which one to target. It'd just be Sewer Rat X 4.

The escort missions in Dragon's Dogma are loving impossible. The people you're supposed to protect just stand right in front of the monsters and get themselves killed.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
I love Xenosaga III but there's this one dungeon where every 15 seconds, you hear a woman on the intercom say "If you have seen the pilot of Omega Res Novae, please contact security immediately." Had to mute my TV over that.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

moosecow333 posted:

Can we add Rhythm mini-games to the bad list? I'm not bad at them, but every single time I've seen one pop up in a game its either incredibly jarring, or kills the flow of the game completely. I'm looking at you Sly Cooper!
That one in God Of War is pretty cool but I suck at rhythm games and it took me 20 tries to pass. Totally killed the flow.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Training the dolphins in Endless Ocean 2 takes way too long and is boring as hell.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

kazil posted:

The newest Tomb Raider and Anniversary are really the only Tomb Raiders I would recommend to anyone.

(And Anniversary only until that final, bullshit level)
I couldn't get past the Centaurs because of the bullshit wiimote controls.

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
The worst thing about the Just Dance games is that Alfonso Signorini is a PAL exclusive. It'd be hilarious to trick other people into trying it by going "Do this one, it's really easy."

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
In my first Oblivion playthrough, one of Skingrad's NPCs fell off the bridge and died. He happened to be involved in the Paranoia quest (he's one of the people the crazy elf dude thinks are gang stalking him) so if I hadn't started the quest before that happened, I'd have been locked out of it. Would have been a shame, because it's a pretty fun quest.

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Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012

Lord Lambeth posted:

Never kill Solaire. :colbert:
Blew my mind when I learned why his voice sounded so familiar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2Q6AwrGUkQ

Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
When I bought a New 3DS and played Monster Hunter 4U on it, it made so much of a difference that now I can't play it on the original 3DS. Too uncomfortable.

As for things dragging Monster Hunter down, I'm a huge fan, but they really should let people join quests after they've started. It'd make things so much easier for everyone.

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Celery Face
Feb 18, 2012
Those pizza missions on Spider Man 2 kept me from 100%ing the game. I still cringe whenever I hear Funiculi Funicula.

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