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Annoying/distracting game design choices.
- Thread starter Lightning Count
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Well now you have to buy Ac Unity for better or worse.
Lightning Count
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I posted Alien Isolation in the op, but yeah this does frustrate me, especially since they created a full character model with torso and head for cutscenes.
nkarafo
Member
Me too but it's not my fault. I've been spoiled by older racing games in older (6th gen) consoles with weaker hardware and old arcades ofc. Playing 30fps racing games now feels like a huge step back to the PS1/Sat/N64 days.Not being sarcastic: I feel very sorry for you not being able to enjoy PGR and Driveclub.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
I actually really loved the maps in the first Thief game.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Which is why I mentioned it specifically.
Erin S Kittens
Member
Goddamn, is Batman three feet tall?
Mandatory mini games that fall outside the genre of the main game. There was a time when every platformer felt the need to shoehorn in a racing mini game and require you to beat it to move on, and since nobody is going to take the time to polish the mechanics of a brief mini game they were always awful.
Fbh
Member
Forced walking sections with dialog. It's basically a cutscene, but because it's "in game" you can't skip it.
I don't mind them in my first playthrough but they become really annoying when replaying the game. Gears of War had several of them and, sadly, Platinum also tends to like them (though at least they only have 3-4 in some games)
I don't mind them in my first playthrough but they become really annoying when replaying the game. Gears of War had several of them and, sadly, Platinum also tends to like them (though at least they only have 3-4 in some games)
Lightning Count
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The crouch jump in Half Life 1 was a nightmare and made to feel so bad when Black Mesa came out.
Lol, I need more info on this. Is this Arkham Knight?
Looks like console footage of Arkham Origins
Tye The Czar
Member
I agree that it's a cool idea in theory, as long as it could be pulled off in practice.
Maybe it's me, but I'm more interested in being a master thief, able to take multiple paths instead of figuring out which location in the game matches up with the map.
Kaffeemann
Banned
A HUD that covers half of the screen.
I want to see the GAME not the stupid HUD.
Every HUD should be minimal or at least adjustable.
I want to see the GAME not the stupid HUD.
Every HUD should be minimal or at least adjustable.
Iorv3th
Member
shrapnelmagnet
Member
Not really a "Game Design" choice...
Zombegoast
Member
Looking at the minimap is overrated anyway.
They just need to make the screen a cluster fuck to make it harder to see.
Lightning Count
Member
Could equally be the PC version, the format doesn't matter, drop the elitism.
Lightning Count
Member
This thread isn't dead yet.
John Kowalski
Banned
Absolutely disgusting.
Naw... That's just Batman's other bat-mobile. The beater, the daily driver, you know...
I had a bug in Unity when they went to kiss they were like 6 inches apart and never touched lips. I couldn't stop laughing.
DaciaJC
Gold Member
I would call any example of obscuring the player's screen to let them know they're low on health (a post above mine shows MW2's bloody jam effect) or that they've been hit (such as Call of Juarez: Gunslinger's awful bullet hole effect) a clear case of shit design. Why developers feel the need to annoy the player with needless clutter instead of a clean UI is beyond me.
Gnome Scat
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Heavy panting and screen shaking while sprinting.
You are made of strawberry jam
Looking at the minimap is overrated anyway.
They just need to make the screen a cluster fuck to make it harder to see.
Have you not played bf4 in a while? There are massive hud options now where you can turn all the indicators off.
Is that Arkham Knight?
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
N° 2048
Member
Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance.
"Oh, Hey let's force you to switch characters every 30 min."
The Drop system was so damn stupid.
WTF, I never did that once the whole game. How??
"Oh, Hey let's force you to switch characters every 30 min."
The Drop system was so damn stupid.
WTF, I never did that once the whole game. How??
I actually really dislike the placement of guns in most FPSs.
It really irritates me (and I do find it distracting) when the gun is a) large and b) in the bottom left/right)
IRL your gun is more central/slightly to one side. I like the first pistol in Half-Life 2, because it has a realistic (low, small, central) physical position in relation to Gordon's body. But then you get other games like the shotgun or submachine gun, and those are stuck right down at the bottom right and point almost sideways into the middle of the screen. In HL2's case they're not that big though, so that's a plus.
Tbh, I think this may be our top slot.
My gf and I played and completed The Vanishing of Ethan Carter yesterday, and it was bloody great. Amazing world, atmospheric, creepy, beautiful, with some really good writing. The person you're playing is stoic and interesting and believable. Then you look down and... There's nothing there. You're just a fucking camera. A floating, invisible camera.
I understand it takes more resources, needs a lot of tweaking, and brings in a whole raft of new design/animation aspects to think about – but having a body makes such a big difference in an FPS for me. I remember when I looked down in Thief: Deadly Shadows and for the first time had a properly realised FPS body, it was just a game changer. It was so immersive and felt so real.
More like "hey, let's force you to edit your deck every 20 minutes to take a couple drop-me-nots" for me.
TheChundertaker
Member
They show up when you are at the docks and at Azura. Not many appearances but they are pretty annoying on harder difficulties so I didn't mind much.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Glide over cars and press square(or x if you're on xb1). If you're close batman will hop onto the car and pull the driver out.
He probably meant Arkham Origins Blackgate (which it is) and by console he meant that it's not the original Vita/3DS version.
it's really got it like that,though?
I wish this could be toggled on an off, it's a cool effect but I'd rather see more of the screen.
Eeek at Batman having something more in common with Dracula besides the bat imagery!
Funyarinpa
Member
A non-trial game does this?
Lightning Count
Member
That's actually a good thing having a separate run button, games where the main character always runs are annoying as hell.
This is going to be a MGS heavy post because I love those games but sometimes they have annoying things in them.
MGS3 - overhead camera. Who thought this was a good idea when the game takes place in a jungle and there is no soliton radar anymore, but weaker types of radar systems? I know Subsistence fixed this, but I played the initial release, and it's become one of the few reasons why I don't hold the "best MGS ever" opinion like so many people seem to.
MGS3 - The bigger reason why I didn't like this game as much. Repeatedly having to go into the menu, food, camo, healing, system, items held limit. Was more of an added annoyance rather than something innovative or intuitive. Unfortunately they didn't change it in subsistence, and apparently it's even worse from what I've heard in the HD collection because the menus take longer to come up (again not sure if true because I haven't played it). I'm glad they threw out most of those systems for MGS4.
MGS4 - Cutscenes repeating info we were told earlier, over and over again, and recappping stuff that happened in the past games. I understand the need to do that as they wanted people who haven't played past MGS games to understand the story, but that stuff should be optional separate videos available through the menu.
Cutscene ---> 20 seconds of gameplay ---> cutscene. Stupidly annoying. MGS2 and MGS4 both had this at certain parts that did that. Don't give me back control for that short amount of time, especially if it's something as trivial as running 20 yards or going up a ladder or something. I'd take a longer cutscene over that.
non MGS, general:
Extended/repeated forced walk sections. Hate that stuff. If you want to push the narrative I'd rather you show a cutscene instead of doing that. (short walks like 10 seconds or less are okay)
MGS3 - overhead camera. Who thought this was a good idea when the game takes place in a jungle and there is no soliton radar anymore, but weaker types of radar systems? I know Subsistence fixed this, but I played the initial release, and it's become one of the few reasons why I don't hold the "best MGS ever" opinion like so many people seem to.
MGS3 - The bigger reason why I didn't like this game as much. Repeatedly having to go into the menu, food, camo, healing, system, items held limit. Was more of an added annoyance rather than something innovative or intuitive. Unfortunately they didn't change it in subsistence, and apparently it's even worse from what I've heard in the HD collection because the menus take longer to come up (again not sure if true because I haven't played it). I'm glad they threw out most of those systems for MGS4.
MGS4 - Cutscenes repeating info we were told earlier, over and over again, and recappping stuff that happened in the past games. I understand the need to do that as they wanted people who haven't played past MGS games to understand the story, but that stuff should be optional separate videos available through the menu.
Cutscene ---> 20 seconds of gameplay ---> cutscene. Stupidly annoying. MGS2 and MGS4 both had this at certain parts that did that. Don't give me back control for that short amount of time, especially if it's something as trivial as running 20 yards or going up a ladder or something. I'd take a longer cutscene over that.
non MGS, general:
Extended/repeated forced walk sections. Hate that stuff. If you want to push the narrative I'd rather you show a cutscene instead of doing that. (short walks like 10 seconds or less are okay)
Conkerkid11
Member
I thought that was cool though.
Was shooting for that whole Metroid Prime look and feel.
MilkyJoe
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BouncyFrag
Member
The godawful map, broken quest markers, and Vergen's layout in The Witcher 2.
I have no experience of how LOL does this but in Dota2 the changes always help to keep the game fresh and accommodate new heroes. It's how it has to be for it to evolve.
My pet peev has to be tutorials. Zelda is out of control especially Skyward Sword. Anything that hand holds you for a long period of time is agonising. Just give me the option to skip this, I understand some people need this but if you could just skip it that would be beautiful.
Text fonts where the numbers are not all the same width.
The number 1 should have space around it so that it is as wide as the other digits. Particularly in racing games with timers and speeds that are continuously changing, when the numbers vary in width, it looks like there are moving objects in the corners of the screen, which can be very distracting when you want to keep your eye on the course:
Wipeout is an amazing series with otherwise impeccable design. I can't understand why this was allowed to happen.
The number 1 should have space around it so that it is as wide as the other digits. Particularly in racing games with timers and speeds that are continuously changing, when the numbers vary in width, it looks like there are moving objects in the corners of the screen, which can be very distracting when you want to keep your eye on the course:
Wipeout is an amazing series with otherwise impeccable design. I can't understand why this was allowed to happen.