ITT: Tropes you hate
>gender-ambiguous protag
>beat the shit out of boss
>they hit you once and implies you were on equal ground in the cutscene
>some philosophical or deeply rooted societal problem
>solution is to just use brute force like always
>story-driven game
>protag is a silent, voiceless drone
>every other character forcefully pretends that protag has a personality, which is always a likable, friendly chad
>can make female party members barefoot
>camera cant be adjusted to see them properly
>sure, I'll help you out
>but first you have to prove yourself to me by beating the shit out of a bunch of my followers
This varies so much depending on the game. Some games like Chrono Trigger did it really well, and even though Crono never says a word he still has an obvious personality, kinda like Wind Waker Link. Then there's stuff like Xenoblade X where your character is a mindless doll who stands around like a statue during cut-scenes. One step even worse is Dragon Quest IX where the entire party consists of mindless dolls.
>Man of a few words, aren't you?
>Prophecy, ancient evil, chosen one
>Ending zone is a destroyed starting area
>Sequel makes everyone dumb shits aka "ah yes, "reapers""
>Sewer levels
>You must swim better to take on this mission
>A ton of valuable shit surrounded by red barrels
>here's the part of the main quest where you go to a big new area
>just kidding you have to farm side quests for gold to get a pass into there
>indie game
>bittersweet ending
It's not a fucking movie. If I go through the wholw game just to get told "LOL WHY BOTHER PUTTING IN EFFORT NOTHING WILL WORK OUT ANYWAYS" then your game is maximum overAIDS.
>play video game
>its bad
is anime a trope
because jesus christ there isn't a single good anime game
Anime literally means nothing besides "Japanese animation", so what you're saying is totally meaningless.
>game tries to be funny with "witty" dialogue
>ENOUGH
>I grow tired of this meaningless fighting
>antagonist leaves and you must play for another 10 hours until you can meet him again and the process repeats itself
>boss could easily kill you
>doesnt and leaves you alive for no fucking reason
>indie game with shit nes graphics
>indie game about being pacifist or some other gay shit
>games with Tumblr shit in general
>AI teammate goes cutscene mode and epic kills the enemy infront of you to then give you some snarky remark afterwards
Fuck this so much, that was my kill
To be fair with Mass Effect it's implied the Council knew about them but didn't want to cause mass panics across the galaxy that an ancient race of all-destroying tomb warships that can irreversibly brainwash people and have successfully culled the galaxy of all intelligent life for millions of years every 50k years is coming to kill everyone
and also that, even if they knew about them and accepted the threat, they were probably dealing with a million more immediate crises every day, so it was at the bottom of their list even though it was serious
sort of like politicians and climate change
>we're not so different, you and i
The entirety of Far Cry 5
>get kidnapped or held hostage TWELVE TIMES by the lieutenants
>they do absolutely fuck-all except for the rare bad thing that happens one time except for John, but it's making you kill Eli via Jacob's brainwashing and Faith making the marshal kill the mayor and then open the prison doors before killing himself
>Joseph Seed spares you during the nuclear ending even if you and him are the only people in your group that have managed to survive
>That fistpump chrono does when his Mom gets lost in the time vortex
Chrono is the best
That sounded like any Far Cry game's Hurk dialogue...they kept bringing that fucker back, even in the PRIMAL one
This RPG has DEEP and MEANINGFUL choices
>Good choice: but you get nothing
>Bad choice: but you get something
>[Skill] or item you found literally 5 rooms away: Good choice andYou get something
or
>Good
>Neutral
>Bad
>series is known to be heavily about politics
>new entry is only about gender bullshit
>no taxes
>no government surveyllance and control over the masses
>no corporations
>just gender and race shit because that's politics now
utter garbage
>tropes
Doesn't exist. Stop over analyzing and have fun.
But if you really have to
>the waterfall doesn't have a hidden cave with treasures
I like it more when good choice impacts story and is helpful long-term while bad choice impacts gameplay and is impactful short-term.
No clue what neutral choice could even do differently though but maybe that's because we need to move from the alignment choice style and have something like preference choice style
doing things worth more than telling things, for that reason philosophy is dead and science stills.
>beginning of the game is tutorial heavy or slow paced so that it's a chore to replay to get to the part where you actually start playing the game
Villain's "tragic backstory" about how they must purge the world because their sister was raped, or their family was murdered, or some sort of birthright was stolen from them. What ever happened to villains who are evil and fucked up just for the sake of it?
Absolutely
Say what you want about the walking dead games, people still have rhetorical fist fights about whether saving Kenny was the right thing to do and so on, it's a lot more interesting than do you want to be a good boy or a bad boy, pick.
>chosen one scenario in a MMO
Don't get me wrong, chosen one is already a bad scenario but in a MMO, it's completely stupid. Single player questline in a MMO is an instant deterrent for me. So I guess every single modern MMO.
>Main villain is morally ambiguous
I'm so sick of this, why do so many recent games recently do this? I just want an unequivocally bad dude you can throw bullets at
I think the reason a lot of MMOs do this is because of the release style of expansions. They want the player base to get hyped so each expansion they keep upping the scale of things more and more, but then you get to the point of WoW where you've stopped the end of the world a 1000 times and be a literal god among men, everyone should known your name, but instead some random dude asking you fetch berries for him is insulting you and calling you a worthless piece of shit.
>final boss isn't actually ""evil"", he actually wants to save humanity
>his plan is to turn humanity to mind goop or trees or some other bullshit
>Game has a moral choice system.
>All the choices are cartoonishly black and white.
>There's no point in switching back and forth between good and evil, so the game might as well just ask you if you wanna be good or bad from the start and skip the choices all together.
Honestly fuck morality systems in general.
>health pickups spawn out-of-bounds/in invisible walls
>preference choice style
>yes
>sarcastic yes
>no
>more information
>more information
>*attacks*
>sarcastic ok
>ok
>boss where you're supposed to lose
>status effects aren't worth using on generic monsters
>bosses are immune to it
Though this trope has been dying out, a lot of modern RPGs I've seen nowadays do make an effort to actually make status effects/debuffs and the like useful.
>dialog options
>Yes
>Maybe(Yes)
>No(Yes)
>Sarcastic(yes)
Moves that debuff or buff certain stats. They're usually not worth using over straight up attacking.
>use a paralysis weapon in Monster Hunter
>hit small monsters by accident
>they get paralysed on the very first hit
>only credential the big baddie has for his morally ambiguous plan to fuck everything up is "he believes it'll work lol"
>holy SHIT this man quest is immediately very bad unhappy things happening! You'd best get the FUCK on that right now before the dungles are all wrungled shibnibbet!/holy SHIT is this main quest objective like ten feet away and literally the most logical thing I should do next
>Wow you dumbass, you actually DID that? Say good fucking bye to all these sub-quests and hidden shit you could use because you were enough of an IDIOT to believe this was time-sensitive!/Haha oh wow did you not LISTEN? Now you've fucked up user, we TOLD you it was very important and time sensitive!
Some games do it better or worse, but I honestly can't think of a single game that hasn't made me have to either break immersion to avoid the main quest because I fucking KNOW the good shit is elsewhere or its more prudent to do it first, or the alternative of making me wonder why the hell there's all this shit to do if you don't fucking want me to do it.
I liked LISA.
>villain brings up good points
>protagonists just mock him
You got it all wrong
>yes
>sarcastic yes
>not now
>more info
>villain laughs maniacally
>starts coughing
Game devs are dweebs, they don't understand how a Chad thinks, acts, or speaks. You write what you know.
>Black woman in game is either sassy with an afro or Bald and angry
I'm so sick of this shit
>"going back to the series' roots" marketing
>real world politics in videogames
>anime art style in video games
You're a bullshitter. Every anime has practically the same art style with some slight variation.
>bad guys are bad and racist and hates everyone while everyone hates them back yet somehow they are still in power
>beat the shit out of a boss
>he escapes in a cutscene through teleportation or some bullshit
Example?
>monkey good
>nonmonkey bad
and yes im talking about those autistic bigots aka antifurs
There's really no prompt in Prey when the Apex Typhon attacks and almost every side-quest at that point is cancelled
>game writer thinks the villain he wrote is morally ambiguous
>he's not
>oh shit player don't fight that boss he's too strong for you
>get the fuck out of there, he kicked my party's ass a few years ago
>holy shit you're so fucking dead bro
>haha, player, there's no way you're going to beat my right hand man
>it's a piss easy early game boss
>endboss is god
>Villain does evil laugh
>Starts choking
>Coughs up blood and red, gritty paste
>Dies within 2 minutes
This. I'm not even a /k/ fag but this is so stupid
>bosses are just scaled up versions of the grunts you've been slaughtering for the past hour