Things you hate about different genres

[Scooter]

Imagine you're flirting with a girl at a pub and she says "To get laid with me, press X and O randomly"

Well, for one, it would certainly make things a whole lot easier.....

[Jrecee]

RPGS: Everything except the sprites. Overhead graphics are cool.

Platform Games: N64 era ones where you had to find 100 coins to earn a golden statue, and get 100 golden statues to get a special coin, and 100 special coins to get a crystal orb, and 100 crystal orbs to get.........

Fighting games: Press Up left down right up left punch punch kick left right left up block kick punch kick punch down right left kick up down left kick kick punch to execute the uppercut.

All: Unksippable cut scenes.

[sbsm]

Side Scrollers: Birds. I fucking hate birds or anything else that flies and pushes me off a cliff.

Quoted for truth.
I just hate to jump and need to attack too, whem most of the time you jump to avoid danger. This is especially annoying on those plattformer/beat em up hybrids

[Mr.White555]

Fighting games: You are required to do a full circle combo yet the Up button is jump. How am I suppose to make a full circle with out jumping!

Generic: Any game that doesn't have a save feature AND doesn't have continues. I am fine with one or the other or both, no saves ok... but no continues is bull shit.

Run-n-Gun: Side scrolling games that will randomly throw in a filler top down level. Top down games fine but stick to the damn same perspective.

3rd Person shooters: The ridiculous cover systems that are apparently mandatory now. They always seem to either to give you too much cover and you can't do anything or there is too little cover and you are fucked.

1st Person shooters: One hit kill melee attacks.

[J T]

Depends on how it's done. I recently started Nocturne, and I've been doing some grinding. But they keep it interesting. While I'm fighting demons over and over and over, I'm also talking to them and fusing them and seeing what happens. This makes the grinding quite a bit more entertaining than most RPGs.

As for checkpoints, constant checkpoints take a lot of challenge out of a game. There's something to be said for being forced to be damn sure you're ready for a dungeon before you head into it.

Have you reached The Matador yet? I was having fun with fusing my demons and learning about how different magatama effect my experience, but it was really frustrating to suddenly get throttled by the Matador and just have a brick wall in your game progress that you can't get past until you have done some serious grinding. Thankfully, after the Matador, there is less of that.

[Octopod]

Shmups that let you continue. No fucking continues. Not that I use them but I get sick of hearing people say they beat a game when all they did was continue through the whole damn thing.

[BoringSupreez]

I hate when FPS's have a lame story, and try to get you care about bland characters, ala Medal of Honor: European Assault, COD 2: Big Red One, COD 3, etc. Don't try to get me to care about the characters unless they are actually unique and likable.

[MrPopo]

Depends on how it's done. I recently started Nocturne, and I've been doing some grinding. But they keep it interesting. While I'm fighting demons over and over and over, I'm also talking to them and fusing them and seeing what happens. This makes the grinding quite a bit more entertaining than most RPGs.

As for checkpoints, constant checkpoints take a lot of challenge out of a game. There's something to be said for being forced to be damn sure you're ready for a dungeon before you head into it.

Have you reached The Matador yet? I was having fun with fusing my demons and learning about how different magatama effect my experience, but it was really frustrating to suddenly get throttled by the Matador and just have a brick wall in your game progress that you can't get past until you have done some serious grinding. Thankfully, after the Matador, there is less of that.

Matador is less about your level and more about your weaknesses/resistances. I believe he uses a wind spell (it's been ages since I've played that part of the game), so if you can find a null wind demon he suddenly becomes MUCH easier. Also if you can get a Sukunda or Fog Breath effect (should be easy to get Fog Breath on the MC at that level) to nullify his speed boost.

[Hatta]

Yep, I just beat him last time I played actually. Took a couple tries to figure out what he was resistant to, but then it wasn't too bad. I did do a bit of grinding first, but the enemies at the end of the highway near the rear entrance of Nihilo net a ton of experience, so that was no problem. And I had fun catching all the demons I could to fuse into new stronger demons, so it didn't feel like a grind anyway.

[GSZX1337]

Shmups that let you continue. No fucking continues. Not that I use them but I get sick of hearing people say they beat a game when all they did was continue through the whole damn thing.

...What's wrong with continuing a game? If they beat the game with continues, they still beat it.