Your most hated mechanic or things used in game design still?

[Gizmo_Duck]

I absolutely hate TIMERS. Whether its for individual missions or worse, entire game playthroughs.

Ex.

Timers are one of those lame carry-overs from the arcade era. perfect way to ruin a good game is essentially make them all speed runs. Persona is less of a problem but you also feel like with those games if someone tells you you can 100% it in one play-through you’re pretty much glued to a strategy guide.

And if you don’t use a strategy guide you will most likely get locked out of the entire expansion and the reason you probably bought Royal, 100 hours in with no way to go back.

 

[Khalil's_Black_Excellence]

I hate auto-fail missions where you fail even if you didn't actually get killed. I'd love for games to be more dynamic that if those sort of situations happened, you'd still have opportunities to continue on and the game just has different circumstances and endings perhaps if you did bad on a select mission, but didn't die.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I hate auto-fail missions where you fail even if you didn't actually get killed. I'd love for games to be more dynamic that if those sort of situations happened, you'd still have opportunities to continue one and the game just has different circumstances and endings perhaps if you did bad on a select mission, but didn't die.

Metroid Dreads entire game design in a nutshell

I guess thats more like insta-death enemies, which is probably a worse version of that

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Weapons/armor degrading has always been to me

I was only able to tolerate it in BotW because the overall sandbox was so good and it encouraged creative play but even still I would’ve preferred it not to it be a thing

Absolutely hated that shyt in Fire Emblem Awakening despite it being one of my favorite games ever. Managing weapons for 20+ units like that

 

[SmallWars]

- MMORPG escort missions.

- Any scenario in a game where you have to walk with an NPC, mothafukkas move slow af for no reason and you gotta keep standing still to wait on them.

-Assassin's Creed modern day segments, shyt is trash as fukk. Why does Ubisoft think that shyt is fun? Make that shyt skippable.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

Souls like games punishing you for dying. The game is already hard as fukk and you want to punish me every time I die…fukk you…

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

Finding loot to grind up

Invisible walls (Yakuza TLOU)

First person melee combat

Rubber band AI

Meaningless side quests to open up the map increase the hours

 

[duck]

Water levels. It seems any game that featured any type of underwater level, that was the worst part od the game

 

[DaSk8D00D]

Souls like games punishing you for dying. The game is already hard as fukk and you want to me punish me every time I die…fukk you…

I think that’s part of what makes those games so compelling. There’s a real risk/reward dynamic that constantly evokes an emotion out you either way

You’re either “thank god I made it, but how much further can I go before I start losing runes?”

Or

“OMG fukk THAT bytch ASS MONSTER THATS SOME STRAIGHT BULLshyt YOU SON OF A bytch “

There is no inbetween you either riding that wave of hard-fought accomplishment or salty as fukk, either way your hearts pounding

 

[Regular_P]

I'm over crafting. Whether it's combining a bunch of shyt for a potion or collecting five of this and three of that to upgrade a weapon.

Walking sequences in games. Just make it CGI again or use the in-game engine. Don't force me to walk through a section to hear a bunch of dialogue. That is not engaging me.

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

The square button.
I mean.
As a PS5 gamer.
I swear that's the only button I ever press.
Might as well give us a Ms. Pac Man controller for the PS6 and call it a day.

 

[Arcavian]

I hate escort missions and timed missions

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I'm over crafting. Whether it's combining a bunch of shyt for a potion or collecting five of this and three of that to upgrade a weapon.

Walking sequences in games. Just make it CGI again or use the in-game engine. Don't force me to walk through a section to hear a bunch of dialogue. That is not engaging me.

I haven't played the Diablo IV beta but if they OD on this shyt like they did 3...

That game has 2 different currencies, 4 different ways to craft weapons and armor, and like 7 classes of items

Regular
Magic
Rare
Legendary
Ancient rare
Ancient legendary
Sets
Ancient sets

Oh and also hyper rare items that are needed for crafting. To this day there is an item that is in act 3, in a cave in adventure mode which spawns like 20% of the time only, and a boss which has a 30% spawn rare, and an item with 3% drop rate

And I'm still farming

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Invisible walls (Yakuza TLOU)

Whats the alternative?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

I think that’s part of what makes those games so compelling. There’s a real risk/reward dynamic that constantly evokes an emotion out you either way

You’re either “thank god I made it, but how much further can I go before I start losing runes?”

Or

“OMG fukk THAT bytch ASS MONSTER THATS SOME STRAIGHT BULLshyt YOU SON OF A bytch “

There is no inbetween you either riding that wave of hard-fought accomplishment or salty as fukk, either way your hearts pounding

Also, Suicide runs in souls games are my favorite things. Like, “fukk it, i lost all my souls/runes/blood echoes time to go run past these things and get that item on the cliff or (and most likely) die trying”