Games cliches that really annoy you

Flammy

Flammy

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Heres a few to start:

1) Football Manager is like playing an 'excel spreadsheet'. People who say this always think they are being really witty and orignal, even though the same tired joke has been made countless trillions of times since 1992.

2) Fallout 3 is Oblivion with guns. Things Fallout 3 has in common with Obilvion: They both have open sandbox 'go anywhere' gameplay. They are both first person. They are both RPGs. Thats it.

3) 'Fun' is a tangiable legitimate criteria for rating a game. Similar to graphics, immersion, longevity, replayability, 'fun'. 'oh super interactive brain training family fortunes on Wii is good' - no it isn't, it has crap graphics, boring, easy, shallow, repetitive and simplistic - 'yes....but it's FUN...'
 
i hate when people say stuff like

"i dont care about the graphics its all about gameplay"

maybe 8 years ago but not now

i will find it hard to enjoy a game if it looks like crap no matter how good the gameplay is....
 
1 and 2 fair enough. But 3! come on, Fun is defiantly a criteria for rating a game, who wants to play a game that isn't fun?
 
Sem said:
i hate when people say stuff like
"i dont care about the graphics its all about gameplay"
maybe 8 years ago but not now
i will find it hard to enjoy a game if it looks like crap no matter how good the gameplay is....
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As a flight-sim nut I see that attitude a lot amongst the more "professional" "serious" simmers. They never seem to care for how good it looks but still they go out and buy FSX! Doh!
 
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Sem said:
i hate when people say stuff like

"i dont care about the graphics its all about gameplay"

maybe 8 years ago but not now

i will find it hard to enjoy a game if it looks like crap no matter how good the gameplay is....
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Meaning that basically 100% of console games are un-enjoyable (compare Forza 2 to GRID gfx for instance).
 
geuben said:
1 and 2 fair enough. But 3! come on, Fun is defiantly a criteria for rating a game, who wants to play a game that isn't fun?
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I know, thats sort of my point - if you like playing a game then it MUST be fun. But lately that word 'fun' seems to be a generic arbitrary buzzword for complimenting a game, even though by itself it means absolutely nothing.

Usually used by people trying to justify the latest Wii cash in 'family party' game, despite the fact that these games usually have less depth than the average online flash game...
 
A game needs a bit of everything. If its not fun then you just won't play it. If its not taxing or interesting then you'll get bored of the 'fun' very quickly etc etc.
 
Football Manager is like playing a spreadsheet. In fact, it is playing a spreadsheet. I love FM and have whiled away many happy days on it, but at the end of the day you are simply manipulating numbers in the most fun possible way.

Fallout 3 is like Oblivion with guns, in a different setting. It is a remarkably similar game. There is nothing wrong with this and in many ways it is a good thing...

Of course fun should be used to rate games. What's the point in a game that has stunning graphics, a vastly intelligent storyling and great sound effects but where nothing happens? Yes, fun is linked to gameplay, graphics etc, but if anything it's the most important criteria for a game.

EDIT: Granted "fun" is subjective, and the practicalities of using it as a measure are tricky, but then again this could also be said for gameplay and, indeed, the storyline. Some people love games where you just leg it about killing everything, others want something a little more measured.
 
rypt said:
Meaning that basically 100% of console games are un-enjoyable (compare Forza 2 to GRID gfx for instance).
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i dont get what your trying to say?

are you saying 100% of console games look like crap?
 
Flammy said:
Heres a few to start:
2) Fallout 3 is Oblivion with guns. Things Fallout 3 has in common with Obilvion: They both have open sandbox 'go anywhere' gameplay. They are both first person. They are both RPGs. Thats it.
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Having played both extensively... i can confirm fallout 3 is oblivion with guns and a desolate landscape.

Nobody ever said that's a bad thing though ;)
 
Any game glitch that stops you from progressing has to be the worst.

Warrior Kings for example was so bad that it would crash at the end of level 2 and sometimes 3 meaning that you had to go online and download someone else's save game just so you could continue the game. I however, could never bother to get past level 4 or 5 as it bored me.

Another is bad level design and physics in games, if you can't do them right, don't try! Devestation was a terrible game. You played an Eminem look-a-like, at one point I was walking up some stairs only to kick a cardboard box that then moved into me and killed me :O Awful game!!
 
the neXt time i play a game that has you crawling through air vents ill go crazy.


i have been conscious of this overused device in games for ages and they keep on using them..


:mad::mad::mad::mad:I HATE AIR VENTS :mad::mad::mad::mad:
 
Flammy said:
I know, thats sort of my point - if you like playing a game then it MUST be fun. But lately that word 'fun' seems to be a generic arbitrary buzzword for complimenting a game, even though by itself it means absolutely nothing.

Usually used by people trying to justify the latest Wii cash in 'family party' game, despite the fact that these games usually have less depth than the average online flash game...
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I don't think you actually have a clue what you are talking about. If it is fun, some people will want to play it. It might look crap, it might run crap, it might not even have any sound, but if it's fun to play, people will play it.

It sounds to me more like you are trying to justify or classify what could make a fun game, but because it doesn't tick the normal boxes of "looks good, is 'realistic', has good sound, is sandbox" you fail to do so.
 
lord filbuster said:
^ claimed

Forza 2 looks pretty good actually. grid just overdoes the hdr.
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And there he is, the one tiny little person who thought it would be oh so funny to carry on this pathetic 'claimed' pattern that for some reason people seem to find funny, although I suspect that most people, like myself find it increasingly tiresome and childish!

I knew it wouldn't take some muppet long to try and 'claim me"!

Anyway, now I've had my rant about that, back on topic :D

One thing that really does annoy me is dodgy multiplayer login/server systems.

Battlefield 2 has to be the worst for this! I recently reinstalled it as I really did enjoy the game (other than the jets) only to be met with that infuriating login screen. You know the one, you enter your info correctly only for it to take 10 minutes to return and error, you enter your details in exactly the same for it to work after a further 3 minutes wait!

After the first failed login attempt, I uninstalled the game remembering just why I did so the first time!
 
Don't actually annoy me but I'm puzzled by people who seem to hate WoW with passion for some reason. Maybe they are all just being ironic or something I don't know.
 
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