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Posted: Feb 04 2009 03:53 pm

Mr. Bomberman wrote:

Case in point, the first 3 Final Fantasy games on the NES which is basically YOU'RE THE LIGHT WARRIORS FIND THE CRYSTALS AND SAVE THE WORLD and then they throw you out into the middle of a fucking field, not even giving you a vague hint where to go.

Go to the town, buy weapons and spells, then go northwest to the dungeon and fight the boss?

Posted: Feb 04 2009 03:58 pm

DarknessDeku wrote:

Mr. Bomberman wrote:

Case in point, the first 3 Final Fantasy games on the NES which is basically YOU'RE THE LIGHT WARRIORS FIND THE CRYSTALS AND SAVE THE WORLD and then they throw you out into the middle of a fucking field, not even giving you a vague hint where to go.

Go to the town, buy weapons and spells, then go northwest to the dungeon and fight the boss?

Yeah...I always found the giant castle five steps away, and the towns surrounding it, to be a rather big clue. *shrug*

Now Morrowind, THAT game throws you to the wolves. But in the best possible way. Very Happy

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Feb 04 2009 04:13 pm

I hate the fact that in Castlevania II there's that one part where you can jump ahead to an area you aren't supposed to get to yet, and when you get over there, you get your ass handed to you...

Posted: Feb 04 2009 04:36 pm

Mr. Bomberman wrote:

Case in point, the first 3 Final Fantasy games on the NES which is basically YOU'RE THE LIGHT WARRIORS FIND THE CRYSTALS AND SAVE THE WORLD and then they throw you out into the middle of a fucking field, not even giving you a vague hint where to go.

Actually, that's only how the first game starts. FF2 starts with your party in a battle you have no hope of winning before most of them find themselves in a building. FF3 starts with your party falling down a hole in a cave before they're chosen as the Light Warriors.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 08:02 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Games with easily exploited glitches that make the game retardedly easy.

RE1 on the Wii is a good example of this. With Jill, there's a glitch that lets you dupe grenade shells. Once you know about it, you can't NOT use because the game ammo starves you, but it makes the mindlessly easy.

I have a question on that one, Syd. I see where you're coming from, if only because easy exploits like that are a sign of lazy programing (or bad testing.) But I never did understand why people complain that they *exist* (beyond the reasons I mentioned above.) I mean, if you don't like the cheat/exploit/whatever...don't use it. Granted it shouldn't exist in the first place, but its not like the game *forces* you to make use of it. The way I see it, its kind of like walkthroughs. I know that gamefaq.com exists, and that I can find an easy solution to the puzzle I'm stuck on...but I don't have to use them.

The problem is that people are weak, and when faced with a frustratingly hard game, they will often cheat if they know they can, especially if it is super easy to do. I have tried so many times to play through RE on the GCN on the hardest difficulty with Jill, and every time I end up cheating no matter how hard I try not to. I find myself down to my last bit of ammo and there's no more ammo to be had in the area, so I find myself duping grenade shells so I can stay alive.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 08:08 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

SoldierHawk wrote:

Syd Lexia wrote:

Games with easily exploited glitches that make the game retardedly easy.

RE1 on the Wii is a good example of this. With Jill, there's a glitch that lets you dupe grenade shells. Once you know about it, you can't NOT use because the game ammo starves you, but it makes the mindlessly easy.

I have a question on that one, Syd. I see where you're coming from, if only because easy exploits like that are a sign of lazy programing (or bad testing.) But I never did understand why people complain that they *exist* (beyond the reasons I mentioned above.) I mean, if you don't like the cheat/exploit/whatever...don't use it. Granted it shouldn't exist in the first place, but its not like the game *forces* you to make use of it. The way I see it, its kind of like walkthroughs. I know that gamefaq.com exists, and that I can find an easy solution to the puzzle I'm stuck on...but I don't have to use them.

The problem is that people are weak, and when faced with a frustratingly hard game, they will often cheat if they know they can, especially if it is super easy to do. I have tried so many times to play through RE on the GCN on the hardest difficulty with Jill, and every time I end up cheating no matter how hard I try not to. I find myself down to my last bit of ammo and there's no more ammo to be had in the area, so I find myself duping grenade shells so I can stay alive.

It's not cheating if the game let's you do it.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 08:23 pm

Fighting game bosses with SNK boss syndrome. I like my bosses to be challenging, and maybe even beat me a few times. I don't like bosses with multiple lifebars, multiple forms, and screen filling/undodgeable/unblockable/homing attacks.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 11:17 pm

1up mustve read this thread because:
http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3172592

Posted: Feb 04 2009 11:24 pm

PIKACHU IN ANY NONE POKEMON RPG GAME.

That includes puzzles, dungeon crawlers, ranching games, camera games... AND ESPECIALLY SMASH BROS.

Dammit. Fucking cheap ass mouse. He wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't built to spam.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 11:42 pm

I actually don't have an issue with him in Smash Bros. He's one of the most popular characters Nintendo has. Now, shit like Lucario I don't get.

Posted: Feb 04 2009 11:43 pm

I was pissed when I found out that they got rid of Mewtwo for Lucario....

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Ba‘al wrote:

I was pissed when I found out that they got rid of Mewtwo for Lucario....

Ditto.

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God of War 2 on Titan difficulty. Ugh.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 10:19 am

JRA wrote:

Ba‘al wrote:

I was pissed when I found out that they got rid of Mewtwo for Lucario....

Ditto.

Actually Ba'al was right. They replaced Mewtwo with Lucario, not Ditto.

And that did indeed suck.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 10:59 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

JRA wrote:

Ba‘al wrote:

I was pissed when I found out that they got rid of Mewtwo for Lucario....

Ditto.

Actually Ba'al was right. They replaced Mewtwo with Lucario, not Ditto.

And that did indeed suck.

Actually, I don't think that's what JRA was trying to say.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 11:11 am

Keeping on the subject of replacements, not being able to play with Donkey Kong in 2 of the 3 DKC games. I mean it's his own trilogy and he's barely in it. If I want to play with a monkey, I want that monkey to be a big fucking monkey and not a girl or baby or even a little shitty monkey with a baseball cap. Yeah I'm sure they are fun games but I will never know because I refuse to play with shitty monkeys.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 11:25 am

I hate having to buy Final Fantasy XI and give them my credit card just to get the 2 week free trial. Bullshit.

Posted: Feb 05 2009 07:18 pm

One thing that pisses me off is trying to find something to do in Mario Kart Wii. That's right, you heard me. There are only 10 fucking characters and 16 tracks in the beginning of the game. More then half of the tracks suck. There's nothing to do but drive, drive, drive, and then wonder why you're fucking playing. Not to mention the incredibly cheap POW Blocks and falling off the goddamn stage (which is the main reason for more then half of the beginning tracks sucking)

Posted: Feb 05 2009 08:01 pm

Ba‘al wrote:

I was pissed when I found out that they got rid of Mewtwo for Lucario....

They could've at least placed Mewtwo in Super Smash Bros. Brawl alongside Lucario. They also removed Dr. Mario, Roy, Young Link and Pichu.

I liked most of those characters. Sad

Posted: Feb 05 2009 09:43 pm

Dead Rising's crap AI. Trying to escort eight people at once is a total freaking nightmare.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 12:07 am

Oh, crap! How could I have forgotten about Nintendo's Friend Codes? Those things suck!

Posted: Feb 06 2009 06:56 pm

Games where you don't play on your '0th' life. If I'm playing a game expecting that one extra'0' life, I'm expecting that rebound dammit!

Not so much a video game problem as it is a video game experience problem; playing video games with friends who suck at gaming. I'm not the type of person who 'lays off' on newbies, either. I tend to keep my gaming skills on the level of EXTREME.

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People who bitch about Killer7 because "the controls suck." The control work fine assholes, it just isn't a rail shooter where you can wave a gun at the screen and rapidly pull the trigger. This game requires actual thought.

As a note, I like rail shooters.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 09:33 pm

nihilisticglee wrote:

People who bitch about Killer7 because "the controls suck." The control work fine assholes, it just isn't a rail shooter where you can wave a gun at the screen and rapidly pull the trigger. This game requires actual thought.

As a note, I like rail shooters.

People have bitched about Killer7? That game was awesome.

Posted: Feb 06 2009 11:34 pm

Ky-Guy wrote:

nihilisticglee wrote:

People who bitch about Killer7 because "the controls suck." The control work fine assholes, it just isn't a rail shooter where you can wave a gun at the screen and rapidly pull the trigger. This game requires actual thought.

As a note, I like rail shooters.

People have bitched about Killer7? That game was awesome.

People have bitched at Killer7, for good reason.

Its a bizarre surreal muddle, the rail nature of the beast turns a lot of people off, the puzzles are Resident Evil quality, and the enemy difficulty is not that high.

I loved it though (^-^)