Gaming Turn-offs

Dowbocop wrote:

jiggles wrote:

Seven Posers Posing wrote:Games creating false urgency by having some dudebro shouting at you to reach a checkpoint or move to the next area or whatever. Just stop hassling me and let me play the game at my pace. CoD, I'm looking at you.

"Hey, Ramirez, sorry to ask, but when you have a second, could you pop down to Burger Town and see if you could help out? I think it might need defending, or something? You'll know when you see it. Only if you're heading that way, mind. No big rush. Cheers, pal."

Mind out CJ, there's a train.

Mafro wrote:

Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge wrote:

Hans Bubby wrote:

Mafro wrote:That child in God of War was an instant nope not buying that.

Atreus? Boy is one of the best things about the game, the relationship and the way it changes throughout the game with Kratos and Atreus is fantastic

I can understand his being a "nope" upon initially hearing of him, but to not play the game even after all the positive noises media and players made? That's just cutting off your nose to spite your face.

Speaking of cutting: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/god-o ... 0-6458294/

I'm strawberry floating bored of Sony's AAA first party games, they always fall into the same cinematic shite. Couldn't care less about the mass wankfest over GoW. Zero interest in it. Sony could really do with diversifying their output next gen rather than just having a bunch of generic, highly polished third person action games once again.

kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:...the timer always gave me anxiety. It's also why I keep putting off buying Katamari Damacy on Switch.

OrangeReindeer wrote:Procedural generation is a technique, it's how it is implemented and designed (because it /is/ designed) that determines how good the game is. I don't think it should be an instant turn off for anyone, no more than if I said I don't like levels that have been hand designed just because I've played some badly designed games. SteamWorld Heist for example has procedurally generated levels, but honestly if I hadn't known that I would have thought every level was hand designed, given how each is uniquely constrained to give a specific challenge. I think the stigma comes from games that do use it as a crutch in place of good design, which gives the technique a bad name. It also gets strongly associated with rogulike design, but they are separate things - roguelike design just uses procedural generation. Not every game using procedural generation is built around permadeath and repeated runs for example.

As Fat as Santa wrote:

Caroller wrote:Agreed with all o' y'all who hate forced stealth sections (apart from in Rayman Legends for some reason), but what's wrong with couch co-op.? I've been trying to find a good game for me and The Lady to play together on the Switch for ages! (She doesn't like puzzle games, which limits our options a bit.)

She not interested in Overcooked and Overcooked 2?

OrangeReindeer wrote:Procedural generation is a technique, it's how it is implemented and designed (because it /is/ designed) that determines how good the game is. I don't think it should be an instant turn off for anyone, no more than if I said I don't like levels that have been hand designed just because I've played some badly designed games. SteamWorld Heist for example has procedurally generated levels, but honestly if I hadn't known that I would have thought every level was hand designed, given how each is uniquely constrained to give a specific challenge. I think the stigma comes from games that do use it as a crutch in place of good design, which gives the technique a bad name. It also gets strongly associated with rogulike design, but they are separate things - roguelike design just uses procedural generation. Not every game using procedural generation is built around permadeath and repeated runs for example.

Jerusalime wrote:This is a turn off, but not enough for me to ditch the game.


Customisation of vehicles in Mario Kart.


It made sense when you had character that had high top speed but slow acceleration, small ones with lower top speed & high acceleration, and your all rounders.

The game already has weapons, shortcuts and relies on skill to get round the track. I don't have the time/inclination to work out that if I drove a pram with monster truck wheels and a net curtain for it's 'hanglider wing' it would thrash the crap out of my lap times, and be invincible against being bumped off the track. Just pointless and annoying. There are so many combos I would have to google the attributes of each and draw up a spreadsheet. Nope.

Jerusalime wrote:This is a turn off, but not enough for me to ditch the game.


Customisation of vehicles in Mario Kart.


It made sense when you had character that had high top speed but slow acceleration, small ones with lower top speed & high acceleration, and your all rounders.

The game already has weapons, shortcuts and relies on skill to get round the track. I don't have the time/inclination to work out that if I drove a pram with monster truck wheels and a net curtain for it's 'hanglider wing' it would thrash the crap out of my lap times, and be invincible against being bumped off the track. Just pointless and annoying. There are so many combos I would have to google the attributes of each and draw up a spreadsheet. Nope.

Caroller wrote:I could try to rationalise this (e.g. I like learning the levels and finding favourite bits), but honestly, if a human hand didn't put the level together I won't be interested and part of that isn't rational. Level design is my favourite thing in games when done well, full stop. It deserves the attention of a human.

Lazy Fair wrote:...I feel like I’m cheating the game, so I don’t use it, but then I also feel like I’m missing out on something by not using it, so I sit and get wound up...