game design cliches that you dislike?

[nintara]

excuse me if there's already a thread like this, i searched for "cliche" and "pet peeve" and nothing came up.

anyways, mine is annoyingly long jumps in 3d platformers. why yes i would love to hold down the jump button for like 9 seconds while watching my character very slowly float towards the stationary platform! what a thrilling test of my abilities! especially when there's multiple right after one another, the fact that i've done this stupidly simple yet very slow task 5 times in the last 2 minutes really enhances the experience! (i can tolerate them if they're sparse though)

it's part of the reason why i consider battle for bikini bottom wildly overrated (and why i dropped it at the level where you jump from leaf to leaf at night), and one of my peeves with what little of crash of the titans i've played.

 

[otogirisou]

jump is overused

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Always bugs me when higher difficulty levels in games just change around the damage and health values and nothing else. I always prefer when it changes actual elements of the game or enemy spawns, like Ninja Gaiden.

 

[KirboDeku]

RPGs with ridiculously high encounter rates or if equipment is a linear progression with no other fun stuff attached to it. Also any game where the walking speed is ridiculously slow.

 

[quixotic_kimchi]

forced tutorial

i get it. i kno how catch a pokemon BIANCA *seethes internally*

 

[Graw]

Crafting. I'm so fucking sick of crafting in games. No I don't want to go collect a bunch of random bullshit so I can turn it into something useful. Just give me the useful thing. It was novel when Minecraft came out and if it was only used here and there it wouldn't be so bad but crafting systems are everywhere. I just find them so boring and tedious. I think I hit peak crafting fatigue with Skyrim. There was one play session where I spent 3 hours doing nothing but crafting and arranging my inventory. When I realized that I turned the game off and I haven't played it since.

 

[nintara]

Always bugs me when higher difficulty levels in games just change around the damage and health values and nothing else. I always prefer when it changes actual elements of the game or enemy spawns, like Ninja Gaiden.

in fairness this makes it easier to add a more customizable difficulty selection like in persona 4 golden, though this potential is usually unutilized and might arguably make the game too malleable

and that reminded me of another design choice i dislike: games that automatically make themselves easier when you fail repeatedly, i know mighty no 9 and the ratchet and clank games do this, at it's best it's not noticeable, but i don't think it should be there at all.

 

[Nidstang]

Unskippable walky talky sections

 

[Hourai]

Always bugs me when higher difficulty levels in games just change around the damage and health values and nothing else. I always prefer when it changes actual elements of the game or enemy spawns, like Ninja Gaiden.

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Numbers is the absolute worst way to up the difficulty, because it doesn't make anything harder. It just makes it more of a slog. There are so many games that try this, and without fail they make me just stop.

I'd say grinding. While it generally hasn't been necessary since 1989, some bad games show up every so often and decide that you need to waste time leveling up to progress. You should be having a hard time because your strategy is shit, not because you didn't waste enough time. This also ties directly into the difficulty = numbers mindset.

 

[moonbits]

I was never fond of the mandatory aim down sights mechanic to actually hit something; it's cool from a immersion perspective but tying it to game balance was a mistake.

 

[Fray Guillermo]

just change around the damage and health values and nothing else

One of the few games I'm okay with this are the 3d Ys, feels too easy on anything lower than nightmare lol also enemies are more aggressive and I think their attacks are also faster

 

[TotzOnGaming]

Mine are Corpse Runs. where when you die you lose your stuff and have to go back to where you died or risk losing them when you die again.

 

[Antilocal123]

When I move the joystick and the character moves, or when I press a button and an action is given!

I mean, what the hell? Playing games and doing something?! I’d rather sit back and complain! /j

 

[Bakuma1997]

Those "You are supposed to lose" bosses, they are meant to make the enemy look threatening, like, even all your cool crap and stats won't dent this guy...¿A CUTSCENE WON'T BE ENOUGH? especially since some of them look like reguar battles so either i end up quitting or wasting hard to or impossible to recover items

Always bugs me when higher difficulty levels in games just change around the damage and health values and nothing else. I always prefer when it changes actual elements of the game or enemy spawns, like Ninja Gaiden.

Beat me to it, i never has beaten any Kingdom Rush game in higher than easy, not because i suck, but because all they do is make enemies spongier in not a game, a GENRE where those enemies are frowned

 

[DunkeyKong]

I think you forgot the "s", there is a thread about it here https://retrogametalk.com/threads/pet-peeves-in-video-games.2400/. But anyway, I think that'd be lives and a timer in a platformer and unskippable cutscenes