[Tulpa]

Fight in a Role Playing Game
Level Up
Explore boring caves
Not be able to interact with people without resorting to violence
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[Youpi]

Not be able to interact with annoying people by resorting to violence

[Tlon]

[cavefish]

be in a helicopter that is spinning out of control and about to fall down

[remote]

Yeah, that kinda freaked me out in GTA IV.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Talbain]

I'd be fine if QTEs never existed. Can gamification go away too? Cutscenes?
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[internisus]

I never want to fight non-unique enemies. If both the game and I know that I can beat an enemy, I do not want to walk into a room and have fifteen of them attack me one by one. I certainly do not want to do this for the rest of the game. I don't want to fight some pack of goons in the intro and find that the same pack of goons is the basic "hold up you got to fight here" fodder for the the next eight hours. Look at Shadow of the Colossus and learn something. Make every single thing I do unique and special.

Similarly, I never want to play another game where I spend more than 20% of my time in some form of combat. If I play a horror game, I don't ever want to fight monsters all the time. I want encounters to be rare. Let me feel suspense. RPGs, too. Just because combat models were the meat of Dungeons & Dragons doesn't mean you should interrupt my explorations with the same random battles over and over again. Why not multiply the experience gains by twenty and reduce the encounter rate likewise? I don't ever want to feel like fighting things is the point of a game unless it says Gears of War or Call of Duty on the tin. I don't ever want to feel like my platformer or my RPG or my horror game is 90% shooting people who look the same. I don't ever want to be bored. I know you don't want me to, either, and that's why you make me shoot things all the time, but you need to learn that that is boring.

I don't ever want a game to take perspective control away from me to show me something that I have just accomplished or to let me see my avatar pull a level up close like a two-second cutscene. Things that happen this way become bullet points in my game journal, a Platonic list of Things That Must Be Done To Complete The Game, removed from the normal sense of time and space of my play experience, removed from my agency.

I don't ever want to see an environmental object or weapon or item shining to indicate that I can interact with it ever again.

I don't ever want to see the intrusive and unnecessary HUD elements like the autosave icon in Lords of Shadow plastered almost in the center of the screen or the overly ornate health bar in Ninja Gaiden 3. My eyes feel claustrophobic. This should be incredibly obvious.

I don't ever want to go through a tedious, shiny-so-go-here-next, flashing HOLD R2 TO GRIP message every time it's time to HOLD R2 TO GRIP (jesus christ), completely linear pseudo rip-off of Shadow of the Colossus only to have the final blow wrenched from me by a cutscene that forces my guy to fail to HOLD R2 TO GRIP and then get rescued by another guy voiced by Patrick melodrama Stewart who proceeds to kill the thing with a single blow from my own friggin knife after I had already stabbed it a hundred times all over. Worst videogame sequence I have ever experienced.

I don't ever want to see text that shines at me to press start to continue every two seconds while the pre-stage story narration is still fucking going. I get it; you finished loading, and I can skip this tosh now. But holy hell would you shut the fuck up and let me read along as Patrick Stewart miserably describes his insights into my character's secret special feelings? Isn't that what you wanted me to do when you put that shit in there?

Yeah, I'm still hung up on how flabbergastingly stupid all kinds of little and big things alike are in Lords of Shadow. I just can't wrap my mind around that level of dumb.

[Lucaz]

Anything involving a closed door with a itemshaped keyhole and an itemshaped key. Specially if they are many and need an obtuse order, or are color coded. Meaning, any puzzle from Silent Hill or Resident Evil.

Bossfights that are actually puzzles that include levers, crates, and/or waiting for the boss to show it weak point.

Be asked what are the numbers.
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[HarveyQ]

i should clarify that i don't have a problem with tutorials. i have a problem with unskippable tutorials.
the implication being either

1) the game is only intended to be played once, ever
2) the player is an idiot who can't be trusted to remember how to play the game

i hate unskippable cutscenes for the same reasons, except regarding story instead of play mechanics.
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[ionustron]

Massive menu-based crafting systems. With sliders.

Be told achievements.

Tweet.

Actually most of the things in this thread I don't mind except unskipables and lock icons.

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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[ninjafetus]

- Talk to a villager who tells me that a place I've already attempted to explore is a really good place to try and explore, and now that place is accessible because someone mentioned it. (fuck RPGs)
- Get an item which has no use other than allowing me to access areas which I previously could not access. (i.e., Jewel of Open vs. Super Missile)
- Use menus to perform actions which would have been more fun to perform manually. (fuck RPGs)
- Manually do mundane activities that could be streamlined via menu or interface improvements. (e.g., manually dragging items one at a time from a box to an inventory, rather than letting me just "shift-click" it over, or even a "get all" mechanic)

[Loki Laufeyson]

you don't want to watch animal-eared people have sex in a shooting game, dais?
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play as the generic modern marine, in whatever setting.

[Clumo]

I hate when your character gets captured by the enemy just for being surrounded in cutscene, though he much stronger than them.
Another thing i hate are the moments that cut your mutant aliens killing action with a puzzle about pushing a washing machine. (im looking at you half-life 2.)

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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

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downgrade the aesthetics of my gear in order to get better stats.

I would like a game that had a more complex system for like.. armor or whatever. In which the aesthetics and functionality were more customizable. Say, you get a piece of armor that has slots for aesthetic qualities and slots for statistical qualities. You unlock the parts that go to these slots via idk purchase, crafting, loot, rewards, whatever variety of ways. Same for weapons. Keep the same weapon the entire game but it keeps changing to all kinds of different shit and evolving and becoming more personalized. Doesn't even have to stay the same weapon TYPE. Or perhaps you have a variety of base weapon types that you're customizing idk. The point is that you can make armor and weapons that are as good and look as good as you want them to through your own efforts.

[Broco]

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[Rud31]

See extensive copyright text before I play my game unlike every other medium in existence.
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[Toups]

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Yeah, toups, I have that problem with my girlfriend as well. They're so overwhelmed by not really knowing how to play videogames that they don't even try to figure it out. They need someone to hold their hand through every step. I got my girlfriend to be able to play some amount of portal/portal 2 but she would completely lose a sense for any kind of critical thinking pretty regularly. Probably doesn't help that I'm there watching her and she feels pressured. Also, games that require two sticks to walk are out of the question.

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[Loki Laufeyson]

[geinou]

[Gironika]

[geinou]

[Gironika]

[Iacus]

[internisus]

Agree to a EULA.

[geinou]

[Loki Laufeyson]

[BenoitRen]

I don't want to ever again play a Legend of Zelda game that is modeled after Ocarina of Time. This includes, but is not limited to:

• a mandatory sneaking sequence
  
• "You picked up [ITEM]! You can use it like this and do this with it omg omg omg!"
  
• having to fetch some number of small items within a dungeon/field (though I guess that's more like Twilight Princess urgh)
  
• having to suddenly collect the Master Sword just because
  
• having to take along a mandatory sidekick

[BotageL]

Yes, I think we can all agree that Modern Zelda is not something to be imitated by anyone ever again. Playing one of those titles is a good way to compose your list for this thread, though!
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[sponkmonkey]

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