Cameron wrote:

When games like God Hand support negative stereotypes of minorities.

Your pissing me off Cabrone!

Things that you can miss forever, especially when its not particularly intuitive. That is to say, theres no reason to know that your never going back or you won't have the opportunity again. FF9 is a huge offender here.

Arbitrary RPG systems tacked onto games of different genres. Sometimes, there's no need.

Required minigames, especially really hard ones or worse yet ones that come down to luck. Yakuza 2 suffered for this.

Games with good systems but no challenge. Once again, yakuza 2, with 56 different heat moves, 3 counters, dodging, multiple grapples, and 12 distinct weapon types. Total types of enemies, 3. Difficulty, nil.

RPGs with crappy systems. Morrowind immediately comes to mind, where the name of the game was manipulating the custom spell and item system for instant win, using a few tricks to max out skill levels, and carefully controlling your leveling in a very artificial fashion to keep up proper with the non-static environment. It kind of misses the whole point of leveling if all that does is cause golden saints to spawn on the road.

Bland worlds in RPGs. Planescape: Torment had so much to see, the sense that the planescape multiverse is so interesting, the multiple playthrough aspect, the mature story, the whole shebang. The witcher was suprisingly good, maybe because its polish roots made the familier dwarves and elves feel interesting or maybe the small details like the minutia of potions. Persona 4 has a style all its own. Neverwinter Nights 2 had... a gruff dwarf warrior, a wacky gnome bard, and a snobby elven wizard. You fight orcs, lizardmen, and other humanoid(read: easy to animate) creatures, the occasional gaint spider and some fire giants. Every fight is won by resting right before you get to the next room, running away so your partners auto res, and other manipulations of the system. Nobody notices your lvl 20ness, so the whole game falls victim to the big pitfalls of bad DnD games, lack of drama or sense of vermissilatude, bland creature/humanoid fights, and stereotype fallbacks.

Options that aren't viable. If blocking is going to be worthless, don't add blocking. If countering is a novelty, dont bother. Don't give the goddamn top spin, thats not a weapon.

Items that are a pain to use, or are big fat complex keys for like one dungeon. LoZ, with your iron boots and your owl statue rods, I'm looking right at you.