13 Worst gaming innovations of all time

Yes, swimming sucks. I'm looking at you, Fallout 3 and New Vegas.

I really hate 3D COMBINED with swimming, i mean, itrs actually sort of fun in mario, as in, the 2D mario games, but if its 3D, you waste breath while you are changing the camera, and ultimately die. most of the time.
anyway, i dont hate, but its a bit annoying, when games have preset text time, where the text runs itself. what about the poor semi-blind and dyslexic gamers? do developers CARE that the poor kid on your street with broken glasses missed half the storyline? i dont care that the text goes with the opening of the guys mouth, or whatever, i want to KNOW what he said, not see him say it!
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but what i do like, is where you get badass characters that either have a soft side or are actually pretty funny.
and example would be Detective Badd, in the 5th Ace Attorney game, who reaches inside his tattered coat for... a mirror, and has in his mouth a white stick... which is a lollipop.
heh.

Don't forget ice worlds. Wonderful, wonderful ice worlds. Although not as prevalent as they used to be, every time I play a game and I get to a level with snow in it, I can expect to slide 3 feet for every one in the direction that I actually move in.

I hate leveling up in stuff like ff causeit takes for eva

the things that i hate moe than 11 of the 13 of these combined are swimming and stealthing. i hate swimming because u run out of air really fast. i hate stealthing because its annoying it was almost the reason i stopped playing wind waker because i couln't get past the forsaken fortress

Hey neofile, maybe if you post a resume along with the 'article' you wrote, GR will hire you to work for them. Your words here are very well thought out, and very well put together. You make some good points about how nonsensical certain aspects of game (loved the part about armor shards). What i hate most is certain bosses (such as Big Daddies, and more recently, Brumaks) that at the beginning were thought of as a challenging fight, but by the end, they were barely more than a gnat in your way that you could swat at your leisure. Escorts in WoW, are the worst escorts ever. The NPCs you are escorting almost never (almost being about 2% of the time) move faster than a slow crawl, and the fact that random monsters appear to kill your escortee piss me off more than dying and finding out your last checkpoint was 20 minutes ago. I especially hate the homing beacon escorts where you have to escort that stupid little chicken, who for some reason cannot fly until he does some "self-repairs" at the end of the mission, and flies off. Why can't the damn chicken just repair itself and fly off on it's own.

bullettime=slow motion in fall out 3 they probably said semi-fuck that :) you can use a watch to stop time and shoot at what ever body part you like :D but you only have so many shots in vats.. cuz well the watch has AP...exactly... and after u accept your shooting it goes in slow motiton tho .. which u still get hit in. You crippled a guys head...he will just laugh at you.. cuz it more than not does nothing.. you cripple a guy/mutant's arm (he had a 2h weapon)he will drop it then pick it right up ... just like he didnt get shot in teh arm over 5 times. :D

Yeah, escort missions are the worst. It's really the poor AI IMHO. Because in real life, if you were trying to ambush a convoy or pirate the convoy or even assassinate the person you're escorting, you'd either plant a bomb to assassinate the person or snipe that person, both of which you can't defend against.
SO, what do developers do? They send in wave after mindless wave of enemies that ignore you entirely, even while you're cutting them to pieces. In real life, you'd probably want to target the security first, then capture the target. It'd also be nice to have decent AI for the escortee...

But hey, they're busy filling games with bloom lighting, undersaturated color schemes, brown lens filter and making realistically reflecting water. (or doing the complete opposite and making cell shaded games. I mean, come on, it's either cell shaded or brown/bloom games anymore) Who has time for AI with commonsense?

I like stealth games, even though, like Xplosive59, MGS4's Act 3 was kinda boring.

teapotking i know what you mean! and it's when the AI are able to do whatr you can't do when they are intelligent, like they know where you can go and you can't, you don't know that so you hide in a corner and suddenly find them bearing down and unl;oading an entire clip of bullets into your face because they know of a conveniently placed glitch that allows them to do that >:(
and escort missions! don't get even started on those, I think we should slap the person who came up with that shiyat!

im a huge mgs fan i (direct your antention to my avatar/picture) but act 3 (europe) in mgs4
was so boring and almost fell asleep while following the guy thanks to the annoying wistle on loop... and i agree escort missions suck

escort missions stink, al least when youre defending a building or something it can take more than one hit and doesnt run right at every enemy you see

Agreed with these escort missions. Who the fuck thought those up?

Yes escorts suck i play WoW and about most escort missions the retarde npc gets killed or moves at a snail pace.

You forgot escort missions (I'm looking at you Bioshock and RE4!). Next to stealth games, escort missions really piss me off.

I definitely agree with the swimming part. Though they add "variety" to games, it's usually an unwelcome variation.

I agree with this topic and with pelos_locos about escort missions.

hey i like stealth games as long as it's not ALL stealth. While as action games with little bits of stealth are gay, stealth games with little bits of action are cool. Take Hitman, for example.

i think swimming can be fun
like in farcry2(sometimes) when your gettin nailed or doin the sneaky sneaky just go for a swim
stealth some dudes out
its fun

and no, i thought the interactive boss cutscenes in god of war were awesome
especialy after gettin your ass kicked by a camp looking statue

but yea i enjoyed reading this article
lets hope for a sequal

I'm not sure I'd entirely agree that 3D itself is a step backwards, but I think that the very considerable moves forward in graphics and game engines don't solve many, if any, inconsistencies and implausibilities in the game world. My personal hates:


Leveling up. The whole deal, bigger guns, end-of-level bosses, tougher NPCs, is *old*, a hangover from when games weren't attempting to be realistic anyway. Actually, a hangover from 2D which requires you to get from one end of the game to the other, literally, moving in just the one direction. Time we moved on. Give me the Damn Big Gun NOW, when I can do serious damage with it, not way down the line when it will be about as useful as a pistol is now. Let's go do serious damage from the start. And PLEASE give me challenges that don't involve dumb-but-dangerous end-of-level bosses, I'm fed up with the obvious contrivances needed to create them and all the running madly around (often backwards) needed to kill them.

Plausible, consistent Interaction with objects, or not. There's never an explanation for why the ammo/medkit/cash should be laying there anyway, nor why the NPCs haven't noticed and taken it for themselves. And WHY, since my character is able to pick up ammo, medkits, tools and whatever else happens to be laying around,why oh why can't I pick up the Bigger Gun Than I've Got from the dead arms of the nearest alien NPC? I mean, the guy had me pinned down with the darn thing for ages till I finally got him, it's a dead useful weapon and apparently has unlimited ammo, too. So now I'm standing here looking at the corpse and wanting its weapon, but suddenly my arms are paralysed. Oh hang on, if I walk on this soldier here, I get to pick up 20 rounds from his machine gun. I don't want the miserable 20 rounds, I want the Big Alien Gun, please.

And speaking of which, I'm already carrying a chainsaw, pistol, machine gun and sniper rifle, but hey that's no big deal, pile 'em on, there's always room. Oh and while I'm at it, what the heck is an Armor Shard? I'm wearing armor made up of these things all glued together somehow? And how come it's hidden in the air conditioning system? We have armored repairmen? Is anyone else wearing this stuff? And if armor shards are bits of armor all broken up, then it must have been crappy armor to start with, right? And if this Damn Big Gun which I got on level 25 is a one-of-a-kind experimental weapon, how come the dangerous, experimental ammo is scattered all over level 26? Some guy went around chucking the ammo for this thing around the rooms at random? Oh please. Still, never mind because I've got heaps of room in my invisible backpack for a bunch of this ammo, I just need to rearrange the machine gun, sniper rifle, energy rifle, pistol and chainsaw to make a bit more space.

There's way less realism in the 3D game world than there seems to be when you're beguiled by graphical glory. Don't get me wrong though, I love beautiful 3D worlds to bits. But it would be fun to know exactly what a MedKit is supposed to do, and why someone left three of them in the restrooms.