Trends in Video Games that Suck Shit

Riiiiight.

Hmm... yeah that kinda makes sense.

Still, the constant threat of monsters would leave mankind in a desperate state if the world was like in an RPG...

So? Does that mean that just because an fps uses wolfenstein's basic idea for gameplay makes it a direct copy of it? No.

Another game about the nazis it's becoming really dull! It's not even a new game because there was a Wolfenstein game with the same name way before this one.

So what? You make it seem like it's a big deal.

A lot of these I agree with.

Here's another: when a game tries so hard to be art that it ends up diminishing the gameplay or having no gameplay experience. There's nothing wrong with trying weird ideas, or even making unplayable art games if that is one's aim as a dev, but it bothers me that reviewers then go out and claim these games are amazing because of their artisticness when really they are unplayable. I want to play games that were designed for me to play and enjoy. If they also happen to be artistic or innovative, even better, but I don't want to play something that was designed to prove a point or satiate someone's artistic ego and basically ignores the player.

See "The Path," though to a lesser degree, I thought BioShock suffered from this a little. Everyone raved about the awesome story and world, but the game was really repetitive and got boring fast in terms of actually playing the game. I haven't played it, but it sounds like Heavy Rain suffers a little bit from it too, and that if the dev had spent a little more time making the game coherent rather than trying to be artsy and cute with it, it would have been amazing.

That reminds me of a PS2 game called Fahrenheit (AKA Indigo prophecy). It was very very similar to heavy rain, but the control scheme in 'action' moments was slightly different. It was a cool game, but having to memorize those random buttons in order to get through 'boss' moments was a pain.

I don't know if anyone has posted this yet but..


DLC (Downloadable Content)
I paid for your game already, why would you make me pay 5 - 10 Dollars for like a few maps or maybe like an Item of some sort in game? For something like the Sims perhaps i understand the concept of it but i see some First Person shooters now who have those gun packages "Haha pay 15 dollars and you can have this package of sniper rifles" the only DLC there should be are expansions to a game and they should be significant not something you can clear in like 5 hours.

good point... it's just a business tactic that users can just wish to remove...

Nope at least in Fahrenheit something actually happened. Heavy Rain can be called as "Heavy Normal Boring Life" For most of its moments. But Heavy Rain gets better once you go to the climax.

Lulz I didn't bother to check. Makes sense then.

Not going to read through the whole thread, but it's pretty irritating how many games are by default so easy-mode for gamers nowadays because people don't want to adapt and can't handle a challenge.

Speaking of difficulty, I agree that a lot of games are too easy nowadays, but there's also the problem of some games being too hard. It's like there's no middle ground. Either the game is too easy, for the so-called casual gamers, or too hard, for the so-called hardcore gamers.

Another thing that pisses me off, though it doesn't have much to do with actual games, is the division between "casual" and "hardcore" gamers. It's as if you're either one or the other. It's apparently not possible to like games with good, serious gameplay and at the same time like games that are simple and fun.