Biggest bullshit in a video game

It didn’t bother me since it was the first game in the series I ever played and I enjoyed the game a lot, but the big twist in Star Ocean 3 that recontextualized all the previous games really pissed off fans of the series as a whole. I didn’t find out about the outrage until years later though.
 
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There's a lot of cases I can think of with smaller, sketchier devs of online games where hackers will seem to get the work arounds to their security systems within minutes of it going live. The devs will then procede to do a fat lot of nothing to stop them.

Obviously some tin-foil hat going on, but I wouldn't put it past some russian fuckwits like Nikitia, (or Activison for that matter) to be the ones selling the hack, letting the script kiddies ruin their game for a short time, putting out a banwave, re-selling the game, selling new hacks, and repeating the process.

Most of Tarkov's players are pretty fucking sure this is at least what those devs are doing.
 
All of Randy Random in Rimworld. It's amusing bullshit, but still bullshit.

Sends no threats my way when I'm actually decently prepared but hits me with 2 mechanoid clusters and a raid right as 2 colonists have a mental break while the rest were recovering from 30something rabid dogs that attacked the previous day as I was expanding my wall.
 
All of Randy Random in Rimworld. It's amusing bullshit, but still bullshit.

Sends no threats my way when I'm actually decently prepared but hits me with 2 mechanoid clusters and a raid right as 2 colonists have a mental break while the rest were recovering from 30something rabid dogs that attacked the previous day as I was expanding my wall.
At least you know it with Randy. Cassandra can go fuck herself.
 
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Oblivion Gates

I really don't get what they were thinking putting them all over the fucking map. I've never met anyone that did any of them outside the ones you have to do during Aid for Bruma, and even then a lot of people still skip them. They're relatively low on the bullshit scale because you don't have to do them, but sometimes you can have a bunch spawn close together (especially around Leyawin) and then have a bunch of annoying fucking daedra running around killing your horse and shit.
 
There's a lot of cases I can think of with smaller, sketchier devs of online games where hackers will seem to get the work arounds to their security systems within minutes of it going live. The devs will then procede to do a fat lot of nothing to stop them.

Obviously some tin-foil hat going on, but I wouldn't put it past some russian fuckwits like Nikitia, (or Activison for that matter) to be the ones selling the hack, letting the script kiddies ruin their game for a short time, putting out a banwave, re-selling the game, selling new hacks, and repeating the process.

Most of Tarkov's players are pretty fucking sure this is at least what those devs are doing.

Much easier to create cheats than it is to defend against them, that goes for all games.

Tarkov is different though, theres a few reasons why people suspect foul play. Guy who owns the studio talked about how cheating can help drive profits in f2p games (contract wars), also there are obvious things that they could be doing to ban/detect cheaters but they don't (esp concerning the in-game market).
 
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People reeeeeeeee extensively and make lots of clickbaity Youtube vids whining about the "fetch me 20 dragon dicks" side quests in RPGS but I don't actually mind these. They're almost always optional and just there for people who want a little extra exp/cash.

If they're forced sure then that's bad design but in like 99% of games they are a totally optional side thing that you can ignore in favor of the main campaign.
 
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Stage based action games that rank your ability are already an autism magnet, but it's really ridiculous when each stage is a fucking hour without the ability to just rush through the enemy gauntlets. In general just split your stage at least into maximum half an hour so replaying the game isn't a massive task.
 
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This is a symptom of my own autism rather than a flaw with the game, but trying to get back into ESO is a fool's errand for me. I have an insatiable urge to steal everything and complete every bit of Thief/Dark Brotherhood content available, which means I don't progress in the main campaigns, but it does unlock more places to steal from and more assassination contracts, but then I'm still not progressing and ajfuudisksksjduciienns

To this day I still don't know how the primary storyline turns out.
 
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Yes, I am left-handed, and I learned from a very early age how to swap the left and right mouse buttons as I use the mouse in my left hand, and the standard configuration of "wasd" is rather inconvenient for me.
I don't really understand the left-handed problem. You might be fuming right now but hear me out.
I've known plenty of righty people that adapts to right-click being the main click because at some point the left-click button starts acting up. Then they just keep going that way on every computer they subsequently own. (it's slightly confusing to use their computers. For 10 minutes, then you "get" it)

I knew one guy that became a lefty mouse user(and skilled FPS player) because he was too lazy to rearrange the mouse and keyboard every time his lefty brother used their shared computer(90's).

Programs like Blender used to have right-click as selection by default. It's nice enough to ask you know when first starting it.

"But you don't know our plight!" Ok, listen, everyone here has used emulator and if you used them back in the past to play Super Metroid, Mario, Ninja Gaiden or whatever then you most likely used the directional arrows on the keyboard as the d-pad and had all the buttons on the left hand (shift, ctrl, z, c whatever). The layout was the mirror image of a joypad. Any right handed person here remember really struggling or never being able to adapt to that? I don't, I never even considered that I was supposedly using a "left handed" setup until some years ago.
Do lefty people have trouble playing Mario on a normal joypad? Probably not.

I don't remember my point and I refuse to read my post, but I understand the plight of you people because of all the right-handed "ergonomic" mice, with those there's not even a choice. Then there's advanced "bi" mice that no one is happy with. Yeah.
 
People reeeeeeeee extensively and make lots of clickbaity Youtube vids whining about the "fetch me 20 dragon dicks" side quests in RPGS but I don't actually mind these. They're almost always optional and just there for people who want a little extra exp/cash.

If they're forced sure then that's bad design but in like 99% of games they are a totally optional side thing that you can ignore in favor of the main campaign.
People REEEing over those quests in general is peak gamer retardation.

"It's so silly that you are required to show proof that you murdered the thing the guy wants you to murder"
 
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People REEEing over those quests in general is peak gamer retardation.

"It's so silly that you are required to show proof that you murdered the thing the guy wants you to murder"
Well, that's called accountability, and most people who 'REEE' online for money have no concept of that.



As much as I adore it, making your characters backstory 'choose your own' has become a crutch to the industry these days. For every Mass Effect (say what you want about the series, but it handled backstory very well for Shepard), or even Conan Exiles, there's a dozen Hogwarts Legacy's that answer plot relevant questions with a wiggle of their fingers, and a cheery 'it's up to you, it's your story!'

If it's my story, then I choose to have been a lunatic crucioing people on street corners until I was found out and dragged to Hogwarts on pain of death. No? Then answer why the fuck I'm in 5th year with no knowledge of what the fuck I'm doing!

It's a minor gripe, yes, but the amount of times I see it is getting to be grating. Even FFXIV, famed for story as it is, has no real answer to why my character has never seen literally any part of the world before.
 
Has it been said yet? Can't remember but Romance options.

The romance itself doesn't really bother me. Click some buttons and get a fade to black or clunky animation of two models humping like a brother sneaking in to play with his sister's barbie dolls. Whatever.

I just hate how much gamers are into romance options in their games now. Special remaster of a game? One of the features is new characters to romance. Biggest announcement is that certain characters can be romance.

It's just so strange and likely a sign of a decaying society because people go wild on being able to select some text choices and fulfill a need in their personal life to be loved
 
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