Things in video games that immediately make you hit the eject button

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

Too much "fake difficulty". Stuff like button reading AI or enemies that take a million hits and kill you in 2.
Shallow combat in a lengthy combat focused game is another one. I need more engagement then mashing one button for 30+ hours.
Forced online gameplay in a single player game.
Gatcha and GaaS type stuff isn't a 100% dismissal, but it needs to really knock my socks off for me to stick around.

 

[The Prince of Misery]

- Fighting games where half the cast is dlc
- Artificial difficulty, in which I am forced to save states at all stages.
- unnecessary flashbacks in jrpg
- Lazy level design
- Story with adult themes being portrayed in an insensitive and immature manner
- Open world games with bloated content
- Unforgivable Villains Being Redeemed
- Mascot characters with obscene personality

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

Larger player hit boxes.
Enemies so tough you don’t know if you’re damaging them at all.
Steep difficulty curve.

 

[Leo-Dash]

• New installations of a game series that continues the story and decides to try to appeal to NEW players instead of staying faithful to their target audience! Causing a huge rift in their loyal followers!
  • Especially if the game's story has been going for over a Decade!
• Classic 2D game remade into HD2D with too many filters, visual flares and 3D elements!
• FORCED Minigames in order to advance the story
• Time Traveling that is so badly written it messes the story
• Higher Difficulty = Turning enemies into damage sponges while making them deal more damage + you deal less damage! That's it! No advance AI patterns, no new attacks, no new strategies!
• Action games with REGULAR enemies that are 100% immune to Staggering and have 0 weakness that makes them stagger!
• Open World! Wide as an Ocean, Deep as a Puddle
  • Extra if they take FOREVER to travel
  • And they are empty
• Visual Novels
• Another Japanese School Setting
• COOMERBAIT Game #9000 made to appeal to Straight Coomers!
  • Anything with 100% focus on Anime girls and Lolicons!
• Unreal Engine! The Obsession of Triple A with Unreal Engine
  • Brown, Grey and Yellow Graphics! Because they are "Mature"! Piss Filter!
• Over 200 GB Western PC Games
  
• Mascot Horror
• Jumpscares Overdose
• Indie games Roguelites with Card Deck building is GETTING there with the oversaturation
• Indie game with cute characters that has extremely morbid tones! This has done to DEATH!
• Hyper/Photo Realistic Graphics
• Gatcha games
• Marvel Quirks, Millennial + Zoomer Writing! and I'm a Millennial myself mind you
• Death of Sincerity in writing after a dramatic scene followed by forced comedy bit
  • Well that just happened
  • He is right behind me, isn't he?
  • *Pop Culture reference*
• Annoying Sidekicks/Partners/Followers that won't shut up
  • Extra if they are obnoxious cutesy
  • Extra if they exposition + story recap devices
• Nostalgia Pandering + Fanservice + Exploitation
  
• Power Creep, Features Bloat
• Motion Controls
• The FORNITE-ification of gaming and chasing trends
• Live Services, always online requirements
• Remakes/Remasters with censorship and worse optimization in graphics!
  • While they also use AI Texture Upscaling WITHOUT having a person future proof them

 

[Sfjeov]

gatcha
I'm a lover, not a payer

Post automatically merged: Yesterday at 7:35 AM

also i don't usually like grinding

 

[legsrjust4show]

MISSABLES! Though, I'm not opposed to playing a game multiple times over to find secrets and bonuses really, but keeping MAJOR character development behind SECRET EASTER EGGS THAT ONLY TRUE SICKOS CAN FIND WITHOUT A GUIDE BECAUSE YOU CAN LOCK YOURSELF OUT OF IT always drives me instantly nuts.

That being said, I love you Tales of series even though just about every single game did this nonstop in ways that makes me immediately follow a guide now whenever I start a new one.