Biggest bullshit in a video game

Can there be just one (1) game without an ugly dyke, a smug nigress, or some soyboys as the main cast? And if you do find one, like Nathan Drake, then he gets his ass whooped by characters like these.
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Hotline Miami meets Splinter Cell. Be a blue collar 2nd amendment supporter who stalks and guns down druggies who murdered your brother in a mugging.

Here's another one I've been digging. Be a Christian crusader knight who's unironically a good guy (though there is an evil route if you choose)!
 
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Also in the lore, the kingdom of Drangleic has been in a war with the giants for at least three generations. You can see soldiers fighting them in the streets. But if you show up, they stop fighting and immediately gang up on you. They have friendly fire but what the actual fuck??

The last one happens in other games too. Hey let's stop fighting to kill that motherfucker. That's bullshit if I've ever seen it.
I like that FromSoft has fixed that in Elden Ring, at least. I've come charging in on what I think was a 3-way fight before, and everyone was more or less swinging at targets of opportunity (myself included if I got too close) rather than focusing on the player exclusively.
 
I like Noita, but it's only so many times I can laugh when I fire a wand and it explodes in my face before it gets annoying.

Most wands are worthless and 9/10 games you will not get a good wand or spell. I don't care if there are 100000 gajillion combos, getting wands with shitty spells and circle of air is full.

Roguelites like TboI and Noita can actually suffer from having too much content, because it diminishes the occurrence of good combos and makes shit items just clutter.

Also the frame rate oh god why?
 
Also, I like Darkest Dungeon, and I have no problem with its difficulty, BUT...I really hate it that the Final Boss has the attack "Come Unto Your Maker" that forces you to kill two of your characters outright in a game with permadeath. If you are going to have permadeath in a game, it is a really bad design for an enemy to have an unavoidable guaranteed kill attack instead of it being subject to the same resistances or RNGs as everything else.

Just grab a ton of plague doctors and a leper/highwayman to buff enough for an instakill.
There is a recorded playthrough of someone straight up murdering the final boss with a Jester.

Now that's what I call a power chord.
 
Who hasn't heard this rant a million times, but I'm sick of "diversity" in games. You can feel the virtue signalling and checklists being marked just looking at shit like this:


I can't stand the fucking expressions and designs of western game characters these days, they're constantly getting worse. Abby from TLOU is starting to look good by comparison already.

Can there be just one (1) game without an ugly dyke, a smug nigress, or some soyboys as the main cast? And if you do find one, like Nathan Drake, then he gets his ass whooped by characters like these.

It's like you have no choice but to weeb the fuck out, but I'm bored of anime looking games. All I can find instead is this cancer.
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and now 90% of characters in entertainment mediums look like that too

I really can't imagine anyone likes the smug black girls showing up in everything. They're never well developed as characters because of the whole diversity push. Can't ever have them show any weakness, can't have them show a range of emotions, can't have them act like human beings. You end up with a cast of characters that all have the same personalities with no depth, unironically celebrated under the flag of diversity. Because the word "diversity" doesn't mean "a unique and colorful cast of varied characters", it means a very strict set of stock tropes with very little deviation. Just like how "science" means a strict set of rules and processes that cannot be questioned, not a series of ever-growing tests to discover how the world works.
 
Because the word "diversity" doesn't mean "a unique and colorful cast of varied characters",
Yeah, to these retards the word "diversity" simply means "no white men" remember how Black Panther is "The most diverse movie in hisory" even though 90% its cast belong to a singe race?
I really can't imagine anyone likes the smug black girls showing up in everything
Only the NPCs who like what the media tells them to like and hate what the media tells them to hate, I'll give you an example: back in 2014 I was doing some homework on the college cafeteria, a classmate of mine sees this Star Wars wallpaper I had and she says "I hate Star Wars and nearly everything related to it but your wallpapaer actually looks kinda cool". Fast forward to 2017, and she is now constantly defending the Last Jedi, and claims to be a "Star Wars geek"
 
Yeah, to these retards the word "diversity" simply means "no white men" remember how Black Panther is "The most diverse movie in hisory" even though 90% its cast belong to a singe race?
Black Panther is so fucking white washed it's almost satire.

What if Africa was super civilized but it's actually just barbaric and insular.
 
It's Dark Souls II again, although it's not a new encounter, just something I forgot.

FUCK. OGRES.

They're strong, fast and lots of hp. Kinda predictable but the opportunity window to hit them is short. You can kill them with arrows or soul arrows but it feels like cheesing them. When you're a game that's supposed to be about skill and learning enemies, you're not supposed to make an enemy that's just so stupid strong that players want to cheese them.

Gitting gud isn't enough against them because they have a grab move that has a tell, but is very quick and its hitbox sucks you if you roll away, even if you are outside its reach. Even if their hp bar is empty and you hit them, they gain the bullshit defense buff during their attack and they grab you anyway. Nah if you have less than 1% of your hp and you get hit, you fucking die. What are you, a shonen character?

Their grab move is an instakill where they chew your head, or at least I've never been able to survive it. Mimics chews you but leave you with a tiny amount at least. The bullshit sharks in Bloodborne also have a bullshit grab and eat you, which means From Soft knew but didn't care. Idk why they decided to make vore OP. Maybe Miyazaki has something else beside giant girls and bare feet.

Also Dark Souls 2 loves the bullshit defense buff. The boss is changing form, enchanting their weapon, changing stance, etc? Does it take them 10 seconds to do so? "No please, I will only take 2% of your damage because no you can't hit me while I'm doing my thing! Unacceptable! You're supposed to watch and do nothing!"

That's like, extremely unfair. Just have better gameplay or at least do a short cutscene.
 
Also Dark Souls 2 loves the bullshit defense buff. The boss is changing form, enchanting their weapon, changing stance, etc? Does it take them 10 seconds to do so? "No please, I will only take 2% of your damage because no you can't hit me while I'm doing my thing! Unacceptable! You're supposed to watch and do nothing!"

That's like, extremely unfair. Just have better gameplay or at least do a short cutscene.
What do you mean you don't like that the final boss Aldia negates 95% of all damage taken except if you attack him during the window between him attacking and him repositioning, and there's no visual cue that that's when you're supposed to attack because absolutely nothing changes. And God forbid you're not great at that fight and use that window to heal because Aldia hits like a truck.
 
What do you mean you don't like that the final boss Aldia negates 95% of all damage taken except if you attack him during the window between him attacking and him repositioning, and there's no visual cue that that's when you're supposed to attack because absolutely nothing changes. And God forbid you're not great at that fight and use that window to heal because Aldia hits like a truck.
That's fair bro what the fuck.

I mean I have perfect reflexes and frame-perfect timing. Not my fault you're physically stunted and can't min-max your guy on the first playthrough.

1000 people beat it. If you can't do it, it's probably you. Check yourself for ALS or MS, you inbred fuck.
 
I thought the sharks were OK, but then again I did run a magic build in Bloodborne so I'm not your usual player I guess?
Can't get grabbed if you're 10m away
 
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and now 90% of characters in entertainment mediums look like that too

I really can't imagine anyone likes the smug black girls showing up in everything. They're never well developed as characters because of the whole diversity push. Can't ever have them show any weakness, can't have them show a range of emotions, can't have them act like human beings. You end up with a cast of characters that all have the same personalities with no depth, unironically celebrated under the flag of diversity. Because the word "diversity" doesn't mean "a unique and colorful cast of varied characters", it means a very strict set of stock tropes with very little deviation. Just like how "science" means a strict set of rules and processes that cannot be questioned, not a series of ever-growing tests to discover how the world works.

It just plays into the stereotype that black girls have attitude problems. I don't really play many western games but I hate the female character designs a lot of the time. Because in modern games you get a lot of goblins. It's supposed to subvert the overly sexy chain mail bikini Barbie design. But the reality of that design is extremely overstated. "Average" looking girls don't have to look like they have extra chromosomes. They don't need to look like they might be hiding a surprise penis either. And yes we all know I'm mostly talking about Abby.

Are the ugly girls there to make ugly girls feel better or to make trannies feel better? I'm a woman and I would rather play as someone attractive. If you are going to have to stare at a character's face for hours it shouldn't have to be one that makes you nauseous. It also shouldn't be an insult to your gender by saying "This is what the average woman looks like" and there's someone like Abby having what looks like bareback gay anal. You know, just like every other woman. :roll:

I hope the trend dies off and people realise that there's actually a middle choice between Barbie and Quasimodo.

I guarantee most of the women who claim to love this diversity make their sims a hell of a lot prettier than the troglodytes they praise as looking just like real women.
 
It just plays into the stereotype that black girls have attitude problems. I don't really play many western games but I hate the female character designs a lot of the time. Because in modern games you get a lot of goblins. It's supposed to subvert the overly sexy chain mail bikini Barbie design. But the reality of that design is extremely overstated. "Average" looking girls don't have to look like they have extra chromosomes. They don't need to look like they might be hiding a surprise penis either. And yes we all know I'm mostly talking about Abby.

Are the ugly girls there to make ugly girls feel better or to make trannies feel better? I'm a woman and I would rather play as someone attractive. If you are going to have to stare at a character's face for hours it shouldn't have to be one that makes you nauseous. It also shouldn't be an insult to your gender by saying "This is what the average woman looks like" and there's someone like Abby having what looks like bareback gay anal. You know, just like every other woman. :roll:

I hope the trend dies off and people realise that there's actually a middle choice between Barbie and Quasimodo.

I guarantee most of the women who claim to love this diversity make their sims a hell of a lot prettier than the troglodytes they praise as looking just like real women.
I keep telling these motherfuckers they should base female archetypes on famous women from the 20th century. Use them as a baseline. Capcom did that with RE8 beautifully.
 
Are the ugly girls there to make ugly girls feel better or to make trannies feel better?
Yes. I mean, that's gotta be the case, right?

I'm a woman and I would rather play as someone attractive. If you are going to have to stare at a character's face for hours it shouldn't have to be one that makes you nauseous. It also shouldn't be an insult to your gender by saying "This is what the average woman looks like" and there's someone like Abby having what looks like bareback gay anal. You know, just like every other woman. :roll:
Yeah, and men feel the same way. There's a reason heroes in games never look like:
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Speaking of which, earlier in the year I gave a second look to Rage, a game with very good graphics for 2011, and still very good by today's standards. Then I came across this character, and, well, I didn't realize I was so used to uggos in western games. She oddly made the game feel like it was from another dimension. I know that sentence sounds gay, but I can't really think of a better way to put it. An actual attractive, but not trashy lady in a modern-looking western game, who has agency but isn't a girlboss. That's just something you never see anymore.
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and then later i found out she's in rage 2
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just fuck my shit up fam
 
Speaking of which, earlier in the year I gave a second look to Rage, a game with very good graphics for 2011, and still very good by today's standards. Then I came across this character, and, well, I didn't realize I was so used to uggos in western games. She oddly made the game feel like it was from another dimension. I know that sentence sounds gay, but I can't really think of a better way to put it. An actual attractive, but not trashy lady in a modern-looking western game, who has agency but isn't a girlboss. That's just something you never see anymore.
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and then later i found out she's in rage 2
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just fuck my shit up fam
Rage was ID Software's thing. Rage 2 was like an 8 year development gap after the first game and had the weird aesthetic shit tied to it and went off in a totally different direction. It was like they were trying to ape borderlands with the mad max style characters.

That being said, neither was either as badly done as the new wolfenstein games. Those needed more work on them they fucked up a lot of shit from a mechanics standpoint which made them annoying to play through.
 
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