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What features and aspects of games and gameplay should (and must) be consigned to the Gaming Graveyard?
Well, as a prize gravedigger, I have several game-related corpses I'd like to see buried for good.
(1) BOSSES.
My primary bugbear.
Why can't developers think of a new and different way of bringing an area/level/game to a climax!
But no, we have to sit through yet another tedious and frustrating boss battle which is almost identical to the previous boss battles we faced in the last adventure game we played!
The words: "Seen it all before" spring to mind!
(2) POP-UP.
We are seeing this hideous graphical affliction progressively less and less, so its burial day is not too far away.
But when it is present, especially in a serious racing game, it totally destroys it, as you find yourself constantly scanning the horizon waiting for the inevitable and ugly - POP!
(3) TURN-BASED COMBAT.
The main reason why I can't stand RPGs.
I wouldn't mind them so much if they didn't crop up every three minutes like a recurring and annoying itch!
(4) GHOST TOWNS.
Metropolis Street Racer & Project Gotham Racing take note: where the hell are the citizens of the cities?
Racing around the accurately recreated streets listening to sounds of the city on the radio, and there isn't so much as a single measly pedestrian!
The realism flies straight out the window from the off!
(5) CLICHED BEAT EM UP CHARACTERS.
The fast, agile and high jumping young female.
The slow but incredibly strong wrestler type - who's only effective in close combat.
The wise and cheeky old master.
The ultra cool and flashy blonde American.
The Japanese martial arts expert who is calm, slightly mysterious and stylishly adept.
Change the record guys!
So as the sun softly descends in the western mists, I fogmarch them all into the the Gaming Graveyard and push them one by one into my freshly dug pit without ceremony or respect.
R.I.P.
And burn in Hell.
Well, as a prize gravedigger, I have several game-related corpses I'd like to see buried for good.
(1) BOSSES.
My primary bugbear.
Why can't developers think of a new and different way of bringing an area/level/game to a climax!
But no, we have to sit through yet another tedious and frustrating boss battle which is almost identical to the previous boss battles we faced in the last adventure game we played!
The words: "Seen it all before" spring to mind!
(2) POP-UP.
We are seeing this hideous graphical affliction progressively less and less, so its burial day is not too far away.
But when it is present, especially in a serious racing game, it totally destroys it, as you find yourself constantly scanning the horizon waiting for the inevitable and ugly - POP!
(3) TURN-BASED COMBAT.
The main reason why I can't stand RPGs.
I wouldn't mind them so much if they didn't crop up every three minutes like a recurring and annoying itch!
(4) GHOST TOWNS.
Metropolis Street Racer & Project Gotham Racing take note: where the hell are the citizens of the cities?
Racing around the accurately recreated streets listening to sounds of the city on the radio, and there isn't so much as a single measly pedestrian!
The realism flies straight out the window from the off!
(5) CLICHED BEAT EM UP CHARACTERS.
The fast, agile and high jumping young female.
The slow but incredibly strong wrestler type - who's only effective in close combat.
The wise and cheeky old master.
The ultra cool and flashy blonde American.
The Japanese martial arts expert who is calm, slightly mysterious and stylishly adept.
Change the record guys!
So as the sun softly descends in the western mists, I fogmarch them all into the the Gaming Graveyard and push them one by one into my freshly dug pit without ceremony or respect.
R.I.P.
And burn in Hell.
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DaGroover wrote:
> This should be called Gaming Room 101, putting stuff in.
Yeah, you're probably right there.
> This should be called Gaming Room 101, putting stuff in.
Yeah, you're probably right there.
Craw wrote:
> I know a priest who'll do the service for 10 fags and a bottle of sherry.
His name is Goatboy.
> I know a priest who'll do the service for 10 fags and a bottle of sherry.
His name is Goatboy.
lol
RM18 wrote:
> can I add Army Men games?
Yes. The more evil things going into the grave the better.
> can I add Army Men games?
Yes. The more evil things going into the grave the better.
can I add Army Men games?
Another thing that should go in is fiddly jumping sections in 1st person shooters. They're annoying enough in 3rd person games where you can actually see what you're doing, but when you have to do them in 1st person it's just feckin annoying.
Meka Dragon wrote:
>Can we put in clichéd bosses,
> rather than all of them?
Of course. Yes, I should have said "cliched bosses". You're right.
>Can we put in clichéd bosses,
> rather than all of them?
Of course. Yes, I should have said "cliched bosses". You're right.
Craw wrote:
> I know a priest who'll do the service for 10 fags and a bottle of sherry.
so do I, his names Father Jack Hackett :D
slik ~_~
> I know a priest who'll do the service for 10 fags and a bottle of sherry.
so do I, his names Father Jack Hackett :D
slik ~_~
Maybe I should consider pushing you two into the grave as well.
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