[Jam]

Wait for an interstitial ad to end before I can play the game I already bought (screw you Bungie).
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The King of America

[sponkmonkey]

[shnozlak]

I really like sneaky sequences if done well. That said I wish they should always be an optional method of advancement.
I mean assaulting a compound gun-a-blaze with 500 mean inside is just not a reasonable option in some scenarios.

I was going to post that the GT5 license tests are optional, but some one already said that. Also I'm inclined to wonder why you would want to play a racing game like GT5 if you couldn't pass them anyway.

Iracing sounds like exactly what Im looking for.
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Mixtapes galore ~ VG MUSIC
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[Toups]

Honestly, I think OOT's sneaking sequence is a rare positive exception to an otherwise tired and annoying trope.
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[BenoitRen]

[Toups]

Forced stealth sequences are rampant in all franchises and genres and existed before OOT.
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[TXTSWORD]

things i never want to do ever again in zelda

[Tulpa]

Even stealth games don't have forced stealth sequences
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[winkerwatson]

kill god
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tim?

[diplo]

[Gironika]

[Toups]

[Tulpa]

Yeah I know I was exaggerating. But seriously it's such a weird artifice to include in any game when the games that are entirely built around sneaking won't give you a game over screen if you are seen.
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[Iacus]

[P1d40n3]

The forced stealth bits of inFamous were surprisingly well done. Stalking dudes from the rooftops was hella cool.
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[Kinto]

Hacking minigames that are just fucking pipemania, or "make the symbols match" or other trivial bullshit. If you can make shooting a difficult mechanic to master why the fuck can't you do the same for something that could possibly feel really fucking cool?

Making me pray to carved idols of a God Of Random Numbers that I finally get that rare drop and I don't have to do this fucking quest anymore. I hate when games that are otherwise free of timewasting, like Monster Hunter, do this. Give me some control of the situation, make me do something so almost-impossible that I'd have to spend the same amount of time getting that good at the game as I would have waiting for it to drop randomly. ANYTHING but having me hang around paying my dues.

[Tlon]

Stealth sequences are bad. Stalking/follow that car sequences are worse. There was one in Timesplitters 2 that made me stop playing singleplayer and just play multiplayer with bots.
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Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jars

[BenoitRen]

[Ymer]

[haze]

the first 2 Zeldas also had mandatory musical instruments ok

they also had computer-hacking minigames but those were considered too hard for American players so they took them out when localizing them

[8128]

[protoblax]

Choose between clearly and obviously marked "good/evil" dialogue trees
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[spinach]

go broke
walk to a chainlink fence and not climb it
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[zombieman000]

[Toups]

[Youpi]

Redeem a voucher code before I play the game
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Twitter: @youpi

[negativedge]

[protoblax]

[analogos]

[SuperWes]

Play a multiplayer game that gives the people who are better at it some sort of weapon or tool that makes it significantly easier to kill beginners.

-Wes
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[mauve]

have to redo things over and over not out of any lack of skill, but because the inherent randomness of the game makes succeeding, regardless of skill, a total crapshoot. fuck the slot machine
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twit

[Tlon]

having to start an entire level, including multiple boss fights, again because I died on one part

thanks, Scott Pilgrim
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Someday somethings coming
From way out beyond the stars
To kill us while we stand here
It will store our brains in mason jars

[BenoitRen]

[L]

That was a joke.

Also:

[Sniper Honeyviper]

[spinach]

arcade games tend to have checkpoint systems or else allow you to pick up where you left off after getting killed, until all lives are lost and a continue is used
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[1CC]

use a continue
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pls ignore me i'm a shithead

[This Machine Kills Fascis]

Don't be shitty at games B]
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"Godzilla could be anyone."

[allensmithee]

[Talbain]

Shoot things with guns.
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[Jujyfruits]

choosing to be the bad guy or the good guy through a completely obvious and ridiculous choice. like in fallout 3.
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