Biggest bullshit in a video game

Bethesda's Creation Club. Thanks for breaking my script extender 5 days before I even started a new Skyrim character. Why didn't I just play Oldrim? That 64 bit exe.
 
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So I was replaying Dark Souls 3 after playing a bunch of le current year games and I realized why I like Soulsborne games so much.

It is nice as fuck to have everyone else dead and you can defeat the dark lord or whatever without the world's most annoying intended to be "quirky" retards constantly screaming in your ear. Seriously, the vast majority of games released in the last couple of years have the world's most annoying NPC characters constantly calling you on whatever communications device you have and either screaming or making really cringy jokes. I don't know what started this trend but I suspect it's the Borderlands franchise.

I'd rather play rpg maker hentai games than have one more blue hair female npc dial me a suicide inducing quip.
 
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Persia is actually pretty hard in HOI4 Afghanistan usually isn’t hard to conquer but from there you have nothing but difficulty. Greece is worse and restoring Byzantium is pretty hard.
 
Ruin said:
So I was replaying Dark Souls 3 after playing a bunch of le current year games and I realized why I like Soulsborne games so much.

It is nice as fuck to have everyone else dead and you can defeat the dark lord or whatever without the world's most annoying intended to be "quirky" retards constantly screaming in your ear. Seriously, the vast majority of games released in the last couple of years have the world's most annoying NPC characters constantly calling you on whatever communications device you have and either screaming or making really cringy jokes. I don't know what started this trend but I suspect it's the Borderlands franchise.

I'd rather play rpg maker hentai games than have one more blue hair female npc dial me a suicide inducing quip.
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I always like Souls games because they don't hold your hand, you're just kind of pointed at a goal and told to "go do that" and how you go about that is more or less your business. Like playing D&D with a very permissive DM.

Which reminds me, I've been playing Fallout 4 recently, despite my better judgement—I really only use it to play around with cool gun mods, like it's some kind of overpriced, even less optimized version of Gmod. Because of my obsessive modding I sometimes have to start the game over which usually means going through the first handful of missions to see what my mods have changed.

In one of the first missions, you meet the infamous faggot, Preston Garvey. I know there's that meme about him constantly dumping terrible quests on you like you have nothing better to do (which I suppose you don't if you're willingly playing Fallout 4), but I feel like most people undersell how annoying he is as a character. Like, look at this motherfucker's first line of dialogue: "I've got a group of settlers inside, the raiders have almost broken through. Grab that laser musket and help us, please!"
The first line is whatever, it's fine, but then he tells you to pick up the laser musket. He will always tell you to pick up the laser musket unless you've already picked up the laser musket, which I find myself forced to do every time so that he doesn't tell me to pick up that can the laser musket. Like, you'll have a gun at this point, a handgun with plenty of ammo if you've scavenged about, but even so this nigga will tell you to pick up the laser musket and help him. It's gotten to the point where I dismantle that shit the second I get ahold of a workbench out of sheer, autistic spite.
That's not even getting into Preston's voice acting. Ye gods, if this wasn't Bethesda I'd be totally baffled as to how this motherfucker managed to get a voice role in a AAA game.
 
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I always like Souls games because they don't hold your hand, you're just kind of pointed at a goal and told to "go do that" and how you go about that is more or less your business. Like playing D&D with a very permissive DM.

Which reminds me, I've been playing Fallout 4 recently, despite my better judgement—I really only use it to play around with cool gun mods, like it's some kind of overpriced, even less optimized version of Gmod. Because of my obsessive modding I sometimes have to start the game over which usually means going through the first handful of missions to see what my mods have changed.

In one of the first missions, you meet the infamous faggot, Preston Garvey. I know there's that meme about him constantly dumping terrible quests on you like you have nothing better to do (which I suppose you don't if you're willingly playing Fallout 4), but I feel like most people undersell how annoying he is as a character. Like, look at this motherfucker's first line of dialogue: "I've got a group of settlers inside, the raiders have almost broken through. Grab that laser musket and help us, please!"
The first line is whatever, it's fine, but then he tells you to pick up the laser musket. He will always tell you to pick up the laser musket unless you've already picked up the laser musket, which I find myself forced to do every time so that he doesn't tell me to pick up that can the laser musket. Like, you'll have a gun at this point, a handgun with plenty of ammo if you've scavenged about, but even so this nigga will tell you to pick up the laser musket and help him. It's gotten to the point where I dismantle that shit the second I get ahold of a workbench out of sheer, autistic spite.
That's not even getting into Preston's voice acting. Ye gods, if this wasn't Bethesda I'd be totally baffled as to how this motherfucker managed to get a voice role in a AAA game.
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On the other had Fallout 4 gave us Nick Valentine who is probably the best Fallout companion. Shame he isn't in a better fallout game.
 
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These fuckers in dead rising 2 a lot of the bosses are a pain in the ass to fight but these fuckers take the prize
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
That wasn't an unusual Konami move.



Oh god Faxanadu and games like that with passwords. The password had many characters and the character set was huge as well, not only upper and lower case. Try to decipher and write down these different characters on a sheet of paper and decipher them correctly later: ' ‘ ’ “
I don't remember the set of character but it was complete bullshit. Good game though.
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I recall the font being weird in Faxanadu so I had to make notations. I didn't want to go back to grinding and hoping for bread drops before I died. :mad:

I had issues with Legacy of the Wizard too because of long passwords and a weird font choice. I played the MSX version and I think you just saved the file but I can't remember.

Didn't Faria for NES have that weird "hold down reset to save" thing?

Thank the gods we don't have to deal with that stuff anymore.
 
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Ruin said:
So I was replaying Dark Souls 3 after playing a bunch of le current year games and I realized why I like Soulsborne games so much.

It is nice as fuck to have everyone else dead and you can defeat the dark lord or whatever without the world's most annoying intended to be "quirky" retards constantly screaming in your ear. Seriously, the vast majority of games released in the last couple of years have the world's most annoying NPC characters constantly calling you on whatever communications device you have and either screaming or making really cringy jokes. I don't know what started this trend but I suspect it's the Borderlands franchise.
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Table Country said:
I always like Souls games because they don't hold your hand, you're just kind of pointed at a goal and told to "go do that" and how you go about that is more or less your business. Like playing D&D with a very permissive DM.
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Funny you guys bring this up. I've made another attempt at Dragon's Dogma recently, and now that you say as much, it brings something to mind. It's more bullshit about video games rather than in them, but whatever.

For all of their monolithic culture of conformity, Japanese games are much more likely to give you a goal and cut you loose, trusting in the game to have enough substance to entertain. Conversely, western games have been slowly backsliding into a "my way or the highway" mindset in spite of how much stock we put in individuality, like they don't trust the player to enjoy the game properly.

Seriously, when was the last time you heard about Japanese devs going out of their way to get into thermonuclear Twitter slapfights over their product (aside from the guy who made Bayonetta) or actively run potential customers off out of bloody-minded spite?

Jap devs trust their customers, western devs don't. That's some bullshit.
 
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Bethesda's Creation Club. Thanks for breaking my script extender 5 days before I even started a new Skyrim character. Why didn't I just play Oldrim? That 64 bit exe.
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The Creation Club ™️ is one of the biggest bullshit things in gaming history and I will never support it or anything like it. I don't know what things are like nowadays as I haven't played Skyrim for years but if it's like it was when I did last check, Oldrim had more mod support still and less bullshit so there wasn't really any reason to use 64 bit Skyrim unless you just wanted to run the game better with more shit, but mod creators got around the main limitation of 32 bit memory access long ago, so I never saw the fruit from playing 64-bit Skyrim.

Bethesda is bullshit as a company.

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everything to do with war thunder
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Played for years, starting in the beta, and Gaijin really likes bullshit. I quit some time ago, it's never going to get better.
 
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Considering the resurgence of Halo Reach and its up coming tenth anniversary...

The mission Long Night of Solace and its space combat is what many fans wanted in multiplayer... Thanks to additions to Forge World, this could be recreated to some extent. Problem is? The mission itself is fucking garbage on Legendary though. There's challenging, then there's plainly frustrating design. The AI for the most part is too spot-on with their aiming, similar to Halo 2 on Legendary, especially playing Gravemind on Legendary. Not worth revisiting in a Legendary playthrough at all.
 
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Ruin said:
So I was replaying Dark Souls 3 after playing a bunch of le current year games and I realized why I like Soulsborne games so much.

It is nice as fuck to have everyone else dead and you can defeat the dark lord or whatever without the world's most annoying intended to be "quirky" retards constantly screaming in your ear. Seriously, the vast majority of games released in the last couple of years have the world's most annoying NPC characters constantly calling you on whatever communications device you have and either screaming or making really cringy jokes. I don't know what started this trend but I suspect it's the Borderlands franchise.

I'd rather play rpg maker hentai games than have one more blue hair female npc dial me a suicide inducing quip.
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comedy reliefs and sardonic characters are constant with american media in general, i've also really grown more annoyed at it the older i get.

I definitely appreciate the dark soul worldbuilding being organic, characters are memorable without telling you their entire life story as soon as you meet them you explore the level and wonder about stuff as you play rather than what rpgs usually do which is give you journals or book pages with long ass written lore you will never experience in game . One of the things i dislike the most is lazy exposition.

Fuck Patches though, Patches is a cunt.
 
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