Exploding barrels.
Money/Rupees/Valuables being hidden in dumb places (in grass)
Enemies who can throw grenades 500 yards with perfect aim.

5/31/2009 12:04:56 AM

i don't play many video games, but from watching i've never understood why there are so many pallets in video games.

5/31/2009 12:13:01 AM

barrels, boxes, zombies, etc.


http://theexplodingbarrel.com/?p=85



Games where part of the challenge is remembering how to get somewhere. The ONLY reason this is hard is because games are not immersive enough. In real life, it would be no problem. This is just lazy game design.

[Edited on May 31, 2009 at 12:19 AM. Reason : 1]

5/31/2009 12:16:04 AM

over the top trams

5/31/2009 12:22:33 AM

the idea that good graphics > gameplay.

5/31/2009 12:25:03 AM

Also, I don't like rubberband racing.

5/31/2009 1:31:18 AM

random medpacks laying around that somehow magically heal you, ah well i guess that doesn't really bother me since it's necessary for the gameplay

5/31/2009 2:42:13 AM

in need for speed games, when you use nitrous, the screen does a speed-blur effect

5/31/2009 3:06:21 AM

Quicktime events

5/31/2009 8:53:03 AM

sorry girls, but playing a female character

5/31/2009 9:00:37 AM

Fetch quests
The sugary-sweet, super-nice chick in fighting games and Japanese RPGs
Androgynous men
Ridiculously proportioned women
The pseudo-bad guy who's just a cover for the REAL bad guy

5/31/2009 10:21:54 AM

The fact you can get shot a hundred times and still live but shoot the bad guy once and he dies

5/31/2009 10:48:22 AM

^^so you hate JRPGs

[Edited on May 31, 2009 at 11:03 AM. Reason : ]

5/31/2009 10:48:35 AM

The princess is never in the castle.

5/31/2009 10:49:07 AM

the other guy beating me on the oracle rush simply because thebes had more marble near it

5/31/2009 11:29:40 AM

cheesy cutscenes

5/31/2009 11:53:17 AM

very slow elevators

5/31/2009 12:22:20 PM

Quote :

"Enemies who can throw grenades 500 yards with perfect aim."

sounds like CoD WaW on veteran mode

5/31/2009 12:25:02 PM

Female characters in fighting games have virtually no armor or other protective garments on, as if their perfectly-toned mid-drifts and luscious thighs are somehow bullet-proof/sword-proof.

5/31/2009 12:53:51 PM

Quote :

"so you hate JRPGs Final Fantasy"

eh, I still like them, but they need to get away from those archetypes.

5/31/2009 12:57:59 PM

Quicktime events

5/31/2009 1:33:45 PM

zombies/gateway to hell/lab gone wrong on a spaceship or colony

multiplayer games where people can run and jump constantly

special suits/battle armor

5/31/2009 2:52:37 PM

please escort this stupid fucker with a deathwish through this horde of people trying to kill him

5/31/2009 3:15:53 PM

mass cheap units always wins and has no counter.

one of the reasons i quit playing RTS took all the fun out of it online.

[Edited on May 31, 2009 at 3:25 PM. Reason : .]

5/31/2009 3:22:23 PM

Perform some special move/dodge/action that makes the boss expose their weakspot, then shoot the weak spot and repeat until boss is dead.

Actually I hate how enemy characters can take literally hundreds of bullets to kill in the gameplay, yet in cut scenes main characters and bosses point guns at each other as if they were not immune to bullets. (Metal Gear Solid mainly... still good game)

Also: self destruct sequences (aka backtrack entire level with a couple of blinking lights and sirens to escape explosion)

[Edited on May 31, 2009 at 3:36 PM. Reason : k]

5/31/2009 3:35:45 PM

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"Also: self destruct sequences (aka backtrack entire level with a couple of blinking lights and sirens to escape explosion)"

Zillion. If anyone besides me played and beat it.

^^^That's the quickest way for me to put down a game and never go back. Bonus points if the idiot (with what I call moth to the flame AI) can die from friendly fire and has a penchant for jumping in your line of fire.

6/1/2009 10:16:56 AM

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"The pseudo-bad guy who's just a cover for the REAL bad guy"

This happened in final fantasy 9. There's buildup throughout the game that Kuja is the ultimate bad guy. Then when you beat him in the Crystal World, Necron shows up. There was no mention of Necron anywhere else in the game until he appears and grand crosses the shit outta you.

6/1/2009 10:21:22 AM

Quote :

"mid-drifts"

6/1/2009 10:44:08 AM

^^ um... welcome to final fantasy?

6/1/2009 10:49:23 AM

ff7 had a good buildup for sephiroth. ff8 had mentions of sorceress ultimecia throughout the game starting on disc 3. im pretty sure zemus was mentioned in ff4 shortly before battling him. but there was never a single mention of necron throughout the entire game of ff9, so its different.

6/1/2009 10:57:15 AM

any game with guns

6/1/2009 10:59:56 AM

Quote :

"please escort this stupid fucker with a deathwish through this horde of people trying to kill him"

And not really a cliche but more of an annoyance... CUT SCENES THAT YOU CAN'T SKIP.

6/1/2009 11:12:32 AM

Yeah the escort or protect levels are very common, and never appreciated, haha.

Also, under-water levels where you can magically find ways to get air be it "air bubbles" or some magic power bestowed upon you by a suit of armor(yeah I'm looking at you Link).

6/1/2009 11:17:23 AM

when a sports game activates the "no-effing-way-you're-winning-this-game" chip in your console.

6/1/2009 11:19:01 AM

This thread is very amusing

6/1/2009 11:19:23 AM

^^^On a related note, I find it odd how you can see perfectly clear underwater in fps's. Sometimes it's explained away by you having a helmet or goggles or something, but how come shit isn't blurry if you don't have that stuff?

6/1/2009 11:35:35 AM

running into bad guys hurts me, but not them (excluding neutrals)

puggsy is the only game i can think off off-hand where you both got hurt

6/1/2009 11:47:50 AM

Indestructible objects that shouldn't be indestructible.

To go along with that, unkillable NPCs.

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 11:52 AM. Reason : :]

6/1/2009 11:51:20 AM

can't target or kill children.

6/1/2009 12:07:51 PM

Gran Turismo 4:
CPU cars can nudge your car off-balance with very little effort, yet you'd have to literally T-bone them in the corners to get the same effect.

FF-series:
Girly boys as main characters.
English dubbing.

COD4:
Sometimes I can break the dogs' necks, sometimes I can't. Seems completely random.

6/1/2009 12:21:49 PM

I guess more in tune with cliches...

Platformers where a desert level, a snow level, and water level all have to make an appearance.
FPSs where things would splatter on your visor, obscuring your vision.

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM. Reason : -]

6/1/2009 12:48:09 PM

dead bodies vaporizing/melting away

6/1/2009 12:54:05 PM

half of these statements can be classified as "video game cliches that are totally awesome and necessary"

[Edited on June 1, 2009 at 1:06 PM. Reason : .]

6/1/2009 1:05:54 PM

Haha, I just thought of this, not thinking about the OP.

"You must find and bring me six pearls!"
"Hmm...perhaps there are some ON THE ROOF OF THIS HOUSE."

-Oblivion

6/1/2009 1:06:40 PM

You find the Sword of One Thousand Truths(tm) near the very end of the game, but by that point its mere existence is useless since you've already killed everything without its assistance.

6/1/2009 1:14:55 PM

Cliche: Jumping from a ledge to a 1 foot square pillar with a camera that has ADD and decides to switch positions mid flight, and the save point was a half hour back >.<

Man, sometimes it seems the camera is more of a threat than any sort of enemy

6/1/2009 1:18:15 PM

collecting orbs, stars, flags, etc...

6/1/2009 1:20:21 PM

In most racing games the computer won't let you get too far ahead (and sometimes too far behind) of your opponents.

And I dunno if any of you guys remember RC Pro Am from NES, but sometimes they had that one car that went like 3 times as fast as you could even if you raced perfectly.

6/1/2009 5:43:40 PM

side quests that will give you an awesome item but are not fun and hard as hell to complete

dodging lightning bolts comes to mind

6/1/2009 6:00:47 PM

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"Quicktime events"

I think in Metal Gear Solid it was the gameplay events

6/1/2009 6:08:03 PM