Biggest bullshit in a video game

[Strangolapreti]

The latter. I only pulled up the article for the drop chance. My bad

But yeah, extremely bullshit farming just for a shitty weapon that is overpowered by every other from the same category
Only thing it has is that can is the only dagger usable at SL1

In the first Ratchet & Clank there is a section where you have to run through a level as it fills up with water and get out before you drown. The timing and margin for error on this is literally milliseconds, you either do it absolutely perfectly or you are fucking dead.

Also, there are hoverboard racing sections in the game and again to win the race you have to do it absolutely perfectly, hit every single boost pad and be absolutely spot on at every turn or the AI wrecks your shit.

Its unbelievable to me that this kind of shit is in a kids game, I struggled as an adult, I can only imagine little kids being permanently scarred by this shit.

That section of Rilgar wasn't as hard as you remember, it has some trial and error, but you can also spam the helipack to cover extra distance.

About the racing sections, the first one is optional, the second one is mandatory and i can agree with you over the difficulty.

It's a difficulty spike, I agree, but the second game had a couple of much worse ones, remember the yeti?

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

Playing RDR2 again. Hunting moose is bullshit. I remember them being around on my last playthrough but now it seems like they only spawn when you put out bait. And good luck getting one with a perfect pelt. I have better chances finding a moose irl and I live in a place where they aren't normally found. Did cockstar nerf moose spawn rates in an update or something because fuck those big bastards?

 

[Gourmet Race]

When you encounter a shiny Pokemon in the safari zone and it flees. It was my first and only shiny Pokemon I ever encountered, and of course it had to be in the safari zone of all places.

RNG sucks balls, especially when I'm playing competitively. Ever just play a match on Pokemon and some guy gets a 10% freeze chance on your Pokemon? The salt is unreal.

 

[Jarolleon]

Mods like 1257 AD for M&B Warband, which seem amazing but are full of holes when you start to play them.

Amazing soundtrack (half of it from classic TW games but still), detailed map with both town and battle scenes far better than the base game and a bunch of other features which ensure that it's consistently praised. But for some reason merchants buy your loot for 3% of its value, while in the base game it's 10 to 20%, so the most basic M&B reward loop is undercut completely. Also you can steal all the gear from your troops using the "Let me see your equipment" dialogue, some guild master quests like "Deal with Night Bandits" are made impossible by changes in the mod but are still offered, and who knows what else I'd find if I kept playing it?

Also the fact that weapons can't cut through weapons made of inferior materials, so a Ruffian with his shitty quartstaff can block my Goidelic Champion Sword or Engraved Axe over and over

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

people that shits about pure bladestones in demon souls being the holy grail of bullshit farming never heard about the non-jagged ghost blade from dark souls 1

I will hear none of this. Pure bladestone is infinitely harder because drop rate calculations are counter intuitive. Having luck over a certain amount now guaranteed you would get nothing, because the game rolls to see if you get a drop, THEN it would roll each drop individually to see what you got. At high enough luck, you are 100% going to get a shard or chunk, locking you out of the pure. You're better off farming with low luck and the sword of searching, because the sword only upped chances that there would be a drop, not what the drop would be.

 

[Strangolapreti]

I will hear none of this. Pure bladestone is infinitely harder because drop rate calculations are counter intuitive. Having luck over a certain amount now guaranteed you would get nothing, because the game rolls to see if you get a drop, THEN it would roll each drop individually to see what you got. At high enough luck, you are 100% going to get a shard or chunk, locking you out of the pure. You're better off farming with low luck and the sword of searching, because the sword only upped chances that there would be a drop, not what the drop would be.

Ok that's bullshit, never increased luck, got my bladestone by using the sword of searching and pure black tendency
It's a fast farm, as the skeleton behind the fake wall is pretty close to the archstone and easy to kill, unlike the banshee that requires you to kill a dozen ghosts before even be able to reach them.

 

[Slightly Apathetic Mario]

>Spend 20 years downloading mods for a RP server for GMOD
>Get a gun and shoot a kid with an anime player-model
>Get banned for 100000 years for killing a "server supporter"
>Realize that the GMOD of old is dead and replaced with shitty RP servers
I just want servers that play random game modes like Melon Bomber or the like. (((

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

>Spend 20 years downloading mods for a RP server for GMOD
>Get a gun and shoot a kid with an anime player-model
>Get banned for 100000 years for killing a "server supporter"
>Realize that the GMOD of old is dead and replaced with shitty RP servers
I just want servers that play random game modes like Melon Bomber or the like. (((

Same reason I don't touch SS13 anymore tbh

 

[Lathe]

Darktide has a good example of bullshit; supposed 1.0 release with missing features but a fully functional cash shop. No thanks, I’ll just keep playing Deep Rock Galactic.

 

[POWER IN MISERY]

>Spend 20 years downloading mods for a RP server for GMOD
>Get a gun and shoot a kid with an anime player-model
>Get banned for 100000 years for killing a "server supporter"
>Realize that the GMOD of old is dead and replaced with shitty RP servers

that shit sucks dude. gmod rp used to be the funniest game because of just how many ways there were to mess with people but it's profound just how shit it is now. fuck those vip jobs, fuck those weird janky m9k guns, fuck how you can't do anything as mayor because you just get killed two minutes in, fuck those super thiefs, fuck those five fags that pile up in their fortress of solitude, fuck that you can't shoot crips as a blood, fuck how you gotta have a degree in retard law if an admin grabs you, fuck those seizure houses with the gayest music on the planet blaring on half the street, fuck having /advert before you so much as pick your nose, fuck reading the MOTD, fuck the servers trying to get me to join the fucking steam group and the discord every time i load in and fuck rp_downtown for being the only fucking map that servers are on.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

This monstrous beast that tries to maul you mercilessly and wear your carcass? Oh no he's just a misunderstood citizen who wants you to compliment their hairdo.

The creator of Undertale has never walked outside the safe zone of a city.

I like to call those games (like Death Stranding) "first world morality games". They are only able to be enjoyed by manchildren either rich enough or privilaged enough to live in a bubble where they think that the ideas of non-self defence and exposing yourself to danger for everyone else's gain is virtuous.
Of course the same kind of people who think those games are deep and meaningful are the same ones who will give you death threats for not thinking the same way as them.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

I like to call those games (like Death Stranding) "first world morality games". They are only able to be enjoyed by manchildren either rich enough or privilaged enough to live in a bubble where they think that the ideas of non-self defence and exposing yourself to danger for everyone else's gain is virtuous.
Of course the same kind of people who think those games are deep and meaningful are the same ones who will give you death threats for not thinking the same way as them.

It's not that there's no room for a game where morality comes up. But yeah, sometimes it feels like it's got all the subtlety of a Chick Tract and 75 percent less meme humor.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It's not that there's no room for a game where morality comes up. But yeah, sometimes it feels like it's got all the subtlety of a Chick Tract and 75 percent less meme humor.

It's not that there is no room for morality, but morality in games in general is just bad. The worst is the one where the only reason you are "good" is because it's a video game so risking your life to talk with someone attacking you isn't insane.
Other bad moralities are ones where it's binary good "pet kitten" and bad "rape kitten" it's merely flavour and the evil path is just you wanting to see how much you can fuck the world up.
Finally there's the "fuck you dad" where the morality is that there is no good and bad, a notion that is both incorrect and is only seen as deep by 13 year olds.

In the end of the day, because it's a game there is no element of real life finality, long term consequences and your own mental welfare. It's a game which you play to win, even if you try to patch those problems with something like perma death, by the third time the player sees those problems he won't care anymore.

 

[Capsaicin Addict]

It's not that there is no room for morality, but morality in games in general is just bad. The worst is the one where the only reason you are "good" is because it's a video game so risking your life to talk with someone attacking you isn't insane.
Other bad moralities are ones where it's binary good "pet kitten" and bad "rape kitten" it's merely flavour and the evil path is just you wanting to see how much you can fuck the world up.
Finally there's the "fuck you dad" where the morality is that there is no good and bad, a notion that is both incorrect and is only seen as deep by 13 year olds.

In the end of the day, because it's a game there is no element of real life finality, long term consequences and your own mental welfare. It's a game which you play to win, even if you try to patch those problems with something like perma death, by the third time the player sees those problems he won't care anymore.

Eh, I've seen a couple where they at least tried to make it work. This War of Mine, for example.

But it's hard. And all too often it's colored by the prejudices of the writers and programmers.

 

[Strangolapreti]

I comoleted Death stranding at hardest difficulty.
I won't comment the gameplay loop, it has some interesting elements but could've been made a lot better than what it currently is, but there's one thing I consider bullshit even for that game's standards, which is getting L/LL/LLL for timed missions involving that fucking truck: that thing was not designed to climb fucking mountains as fast as possible, it will slip down too easily, forcing you to reset because you barely have time to reach destination, the game also expect you to drive perfectly, when even just running over a fucking invisible pebble will almost always result in your cargo dropping from 100% to 96% condition (forcing you to reset again), with the exception of the one from the film dirdctor, every single timed delivery involving large cargo will give you depression after completing it as a standard delivery, while even just the idea of trying the premium delivery will make you wish you could trigger a voidout and level a city.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Weapon durability. You can make it work by putting the effort of having different effects and sounds from the weapon (like a gun firing slower), instead it's just a counter you need to remember exists that will just fuck you over. The durability itself ranges either from "made of glass" or "survives so long you forget the mechanic exists".

 

[Sniperwoof]

There's a fight near the end of Tales of Berseria where it's a one one fight between Rokuru and his brother, you can't use any other party members.

Why is this an issue? Because if you benched Rokuru early he'll be one shot and depending on how early you benched him you may need to reload a save and grind for hours or rage quit, your choice.

 

[Meat Target]

The guests in Rollercoaster Tycoon complain about the puke, litter, and vandalism that they cause.

 

[Viscious Seviper]

Illiterate retards in Destiny 2 LFG still kick people for not having a mic even after 50+ clears and the flawless shader and the raid title on Deep Stone Crypt and actually knowing what to do.

But these same tards will have infinite tolerance for some newfag tourist being a drunk/high faggot sperging out, purposely causing the team to wipe and wasting everyone's time to do something as simple as waiting for the scanner downstairs to say which of the 6 tubes to shoot currently. But apparently its too much to ask these British Tossers to glance over "Dark Left" in text chat or follow the scanner in the atraks encounter.

"dO YoU HAvE A mIC?" after you just said Hello and talked with them when you have push to talk on because you don't want these tards to hear everyone in a six block radius from your living room. Meanwhile they have no problems being complete assholes over the mic to where I just stopped using a mic at all and turned off voice chat or just play another game.

 

[ADN_VIII]

New one: mod authors not keeping archives of their mods for older versions of the games they're modding and then treating you like a weirdo when you ask for that version.

Yes, it's Arthmoor. Yet another reason modern PC modding sucks now.

Arthmoor, by and large, is the single biggest impediment to quality unofficial patches being released for Skyrim.

The unofficial Skyrim patch has massive changes to the world space to suit Arthmoor's tastes, including placement of torches, NPCs, visual design elements, and more. It's not so much a bugfix patch as it is a "conform to Arthmoor's preferred vision for Skyrim" mod. This also extends to certain decisions in Dawnguard, Hearthfire, and the last DLC.

On top of this, Arthmoor also has enough pull with Nexus staff to get other unofficial patch mods pulled to prevent "confusion in the community" as to which patch mods they should use.