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Name a flaw in your favouite game(s)
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I want to say I agree, but at the same time I like how the levels will change depending on which star you go after.
Whereas in B&K it would just be one version of the level.
I disagree with the complaints about a lot of the dialogue in Life Is Strange, but Chloe saying "bidness" is very dumb.
RDR2 is my favorite game of all time, but the way it assigns me random weapons on any mission where I'm not on my horse is mildly infuriating.
It definitely works in some levels, like Whomp's Fortress and Jolly Roger Bay, but it's just obnoxious in others like Tick-Tock Clock and Rainbow Cruise, where you'll just follow the same path multiple times in these linear stages just to get all the stars (and those levels don't notably change between stars)
I still love Mario 64, but on repeat play through (which I have done many of) it gets to me a bit.
Portal 2 made the single player puzzles a bit too accessible so anyone could experience the full story.
Not being able to suplex Villagers in RE4 Mercs as Leon was always pretty trash. It literally puts him at a disadvantage character wise when it comes to getting high scores.
FFX: Blitzball sucks
Persona 3: December sucks
Nier Automata: I'm fully on board with Route B being necessary and I don't regret playing it but it did kinda drag
Pokemon Black 1 and White 1: Loved the all new dex, but I can't help but feel like as a result a lot of NPCs' rosters were lacking in variety.
Undertale: Honestly wish it had an easy mode (though not for Genocide obviously). It took me quite awhile to get used to the controls and I would've had an even better time with it if there was one.
Persona 3: December sucks
Nier Automata: I'm fully on board with Route B being necessary and I don't regret playing it but it did kinda drag
Pokemon Black 1 and White 1: Loved the all new dex, but I can't help but feel like as a result a lot of NPCs' rosters were lacking in variety.
Undertale: Honestly wish it had an easy mode (though not for Genocide obviously). It took me quite awhile to get used to the controls and I would've had an even better time with it if there was one.
I love RDR2 as well, but this shit was so annoying. Quit changing my weapons dammit!
There's no perfect way to play MGS3, each version comes with caveats. The original is top-down which is just kinda bleh, Subsistence has the most content and was the best way to play... Until 3DS added Peace Walker style crouch walking and more forgiving controls in general, while running at a terrible frame-rate sometimes and being generally uglier outside of better face models.
The best Metal Gear collection would up-rez the 3DS version but I doubt Konami will ever fund that.
Edit: Also the crotch-grabbing yeah, but the boss characters being silly is a big part of the appeal and I'd have it no other way
The best Metal Gear collection would up-rez the 3DS version but I doubt Konami will ever fund that.
Edit: Also the crotch-grabbing yeah, but the boss characters being silly is a big part of the appeal and I'd have it no other way
Super Mario Galaxy felt a bit experimental sometimes, with the more open ended levels feeling a bit undercooked in what seemingly was a linear game.
Resident Evil 4: The island is a huge meltdown in comparation of the village and the castle.
Silent Hill 4: Isn't on steam or modern consoles.
Silent Hill 4: Isn't on steam or modern consoles.
Beat by a minute.
Devil May Cry (franchise) - platforming moments are terrible, even now somehow.
Bayonetta - The weird Space Harrier level is awkwardly balanced on every difficulty. Terrible addition
Dead Space - Meteor shooting segments are silly and there should have only been one, not 3.
Resident Evil - Invincible windows.
Street Fighter - terrible tutorials or lack there of.
This could be said about almost every Kamiya game.
It's ridiculous how much that man loves Space Harrier.
The free movement that enemies get when you spot them in XCOM Enemy Unknown is one of the worst, and sometimes incredibly unfair, game design decisions in a game that I otherwise love.
Xenoblade 2's gacha system for summons, the fact that it tethers each summon to a character and that it is very hard to transfer them between different characters is an unholy trifecta of what-were-you-thinking dumb game decisions.
Dark Souls 2 is at times brilliant, at times frustrating and frequently unfair in terms of its enemy placement but the single design decision I dislike the most is the homing of every melee attack and how fast enemies spin to face your character as if they were sitting on a record player. This flaw is specially notable when you are facing the "turtle knights" that were designed to counter backstabs but spin so fast that I reckon a lot of players didn't get to see that.
Breath of the Wild should have had a recipe book.
Most Classic Western RPGs - don't give stat choice decisions unless you explain those stats and their impact very well. Most games only do one or zero of those things.
Xenoblade 2's gacha system for summons, the fact that it tethers each summon to a character and that it is very hard to transfer them between different characters is an unholy trifecta of what-were-you-thinking dumb game decisions.
Dark Souls 2 is at times brilliant, at times frustrating and frequently unfair in terms of its enemy placement but the single design decision I dislike the most is the homing of every melee attack and how fast enemies spin to face your character as if they were sitting on a record player. This flaw is specially notable when you are facing the "turtle knights" that were designed to counter backstabs but spin so fast that I reckon a lot of players didn't get to see that.
Breath of the Wild should have had a recipe book.
Most Classic Western RPGs - don't give stat choice decisions unless you explain those stats and their impact very well. Most games only do one or zero of those things.
Breath of the Wild
- Food system is totally broken. Being able to eat anything you want during combat makes a lot of stuff too easy. There's not a great correlation between how rare something is vs how effective it is (e.g. relatively rare beetles are weaker than fish that you can easily find in schools of 30). There are a bunch of neat-looking recipes for health restoring food, but they all suck compared to just cooking a single common hearty radish.
- Could use more enemy variety.
- Rito portion of the main quest was very much lacking in content, like they just didn't get around to fleshing it out.
- Big missed opportunity by not having more dungeons similar to the castle around the world.
- I don't hate the weapon degradation conceptually, but the extra inventory management that came with it is pretty annoying
- Food system is totally broken. Being able to eat anything you want during combat makes a lot of stuff too easy. There's not a great correlation between how rare something is vs how effective it is (e.g. relatively rare beetles are weaker than fish that you can easily find in schools of 30). There are a bunch of neat-looking recipes for health restoring food, but they all suck compared to just cooking a single common hearty radish.
- Could use more enemy variety.
- Rito portion of the main quest was very much lacking in content, like they just didn't get around to fleshing it out.
- Big missed opportunity by not having more dungeons similar to the castle around the world.
- I don't hate the weapon degradation conceptually, but the extra inventory management that came with it is pretty annoying
BoTW Master Mode isn't much fun because the vastly increased enemy health + health regen breaks the core combat balance of the game. It also has poor enemy variety.
Nier Automata has serious pacing issues, and the open world does more harm than good.
Bloodborne's vial system can lead to very boring moments if you wind up stuck at a boss long enough to run out. That forces you to go out and grind, which sends the game's progression and pace grinding to a halt. And its chalice dungeons suck.
Nier Automata has serious pacing issues, and the open world does more harm than good.
Bloodborne's vial system can lead to very boring moments if you wind up stuck at a boss long enough to run out. That forces you to go out and grind, which sends the game's progression and pace grinding to a halt. And its chalice dungeons suck.
Dragon's Dogma feels incomplete, which it kinda is as it was scaled back massively from their original design. It doesn't have enough enemies and has repetitive encounters with them, and the graphics are kinda bland most of the time. Still the best game ever though.
Sonic 3 and Knuckles dropped some of the unique otherworldness of the first 2 games for more "realistic" locations, and used darker colours and dithering to make it work. Still looks great though. Oh yeah, and Carnival Night with the barrel, what were they thinking...
Sonic 3 and Knuckles dropped some of the unique otherworldness of the first 2 games for more "realistic" locations, and used darker colours and dithering to make it work. Still looks great though. Oh yeah, and Carnival Night with the barrel, what were they thinking...
Super Mario Galaxy 1/2 has too many motion controlled gimmicks.
Smash Ultimate has subpar online
God of War (2018) has a terrible and slow traversal system
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is stuck on a 240p screen.
Smash Ultimate has subpar online
God of War (2018) has a terrible and slow traversal system
Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate is stuck on a 240p screen.
In Saint's Row 2 the vehicles have no sense of weight and are often unwieldy when going fast. It also has terrible rubber banding when it comes to police chases.
All time faves:
Fallout New Vegas: Bugs/glitches in an (unmodded) game - fortunately PC doesn't really have this issue with all the mod community, but it still hurts that we'll likely never see another.
VtM:B: The Sewers, in all its combat-heavy (which can be all-but-force-a-restart on certain characters if you're unaware), easy-to-get-lost, terribly designed glory - sucks that Troika ran out of time, here, too - fortunately, another one that mods can help with if you so desire.
RE4: The Island is a biiiit of a slog compared to all the zaniness of the town and craziness of the castle. That, and 60FPS mode on PC breaks the hell out of the mashing QTE's.
Witcher 3: I get the complaints about combat, but don't necessarily personally agree - that being said, the weight/inventory management, even with all the tweaks and such, is teeeeeeerrible.
Nier Automata: 9S' hacking mingame, (and most of route B, TBH) - maybe it's just that I never really warmed up to him, but his weakened combat potential and being forced to go through the same minigame over and over was not particularly enjoyable. Also, the overworld doesn't really give a good backdrop/work well with the story that's being told (the story works despite it)
FFIX: The slowness of the battle system is something I cannot believe I slogged through as a kid. Everything else about the game is a treasure, but that battle system (and the frequency of random battles)....woof.
Oh, and the Prima guide majorly, MAJORLY sucked.
FF:Tactics - the way the leveling system scales enemies and such can utterly ruin your playthrough if you don't know ahead of time - and that's not even counting the Wiegraf fight.
More recently (not sure where it falls on the overall fave list), RE:2 remake: 'Second run' being a literal repeat with only minor puzzle variations was pretty disappointing - especially when side A has basically the same story beats, so there's less of an incentive to play through the 'other' way.
Fallout New Vegas: Bugs/glitches in an (unmodded) game - fortunately PC doesn't really have this issue with all the mod community, but it still hurts that we'll likely never see another.
VtM:B: The Sewers, in all its combat-heavy (which can be all-but-force-a-restart on certain characters if you're unaware), easy-to-get-lost, terribly designed glory - sucks that Troika ran out of time, here, too - fortunately, another one that mods can help with if you so desire.
RE4: The Island is a biiiit of a slog compared to all the zaniness of the town and craziness of the castle. That, and 60FPS mode on PC breaks the hell out of the mashing QTE's.
Witcher 3: I get the complaints about combat, but don't necessarily personally agree - that being said, the weight/inventory management, even with all the tweaks and such, is teeeeeeerrible.
Nier Automata: 9S' hacking mingame, (and most of route B, TBH) - maybe it's just that I never really warmed up to him, but his weakened combat potential and being forced to go through the same minigame over and over was not particularly enjoyable. Also, the overworld doesn't really give a good backdrop/work well with the story that's being told (the story works despite it)
FFIX: The slowness of the battle system is something I cannot believe I slogged through as a kid. Everything else about the game is a treasure, but that battle system (and the frequency of random battles)....woof.
Oh, and the Prima guide majorly, MAJORLY sucked.
FF:Tactics - the way the leveling system scales enemies and such can utterly ruin your playthrough if you don't know ahead of time - and that's not even counting the Wiegraf fight.
More recently (not sure where it falls on the overall fave list), RE:2 remake: 'Second run' being a literal repeat with only minor puzzle variations was pretty disappointing - especially when side A has basically the same story beats, so there's less of an incentive to play through the 'other' way.
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Xenoblade Chronicles X probably has the worst sound mixing I've encountered in a video game. Also, the text is horrendously small, some combat encounters are poorly designed, it has the least interesting main story out of all the Xenoblade games, and the game has some incredibly iffy fetch quests that can oftentimes be insufferable.
It's still my favorite game ever made by a large margin, but it is by no means perfect.
It's still my favorite game ever made by a large margin, but it is by no means perfect.
Street Fighter 4:
Added a new mechanic (FADC) and totally gimped it with the huge damage scaling. Long, difficult combos with cancels use more meter while doing less damage.
Fallout 1:
Time limit. It wasn't that bad but it's the only flaw I can think of right now.
Diablo 2:
Balance was way off IMO. Maybe they patched it or changed it in the expansion, I only played the original.
Witcher 3:
Too much following tracks in Witcher vision.
Dota 2:
Full of alt & boosted accounts that ruin medium level matchmaking but Valve doesn't seem to care.
Added a new mechanic (FADC) and totally gimped it with the huge damage scaling. Long, difficult combos with cancels use more meter while doing less damage.
Fallout 1:
Time limit. It wasn't that bad but it's the only flaw I can think of right now.
Diablo 2:
Balance was way off IMO. Maybe they patched it or changed it in the expansion, I only played the original.
Witcher 3:
Too much following tracks in Witcher vision.
Dota 2:
Full of alt & boosted accounts that ruin medium level matchmaking but Valve doesn't seem to care.
