Features that'll make you immediately drop the game

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

-FPSes where you can't turn off the life bars and damage counters
-FPSes where you can't turn off pointless HUD items (e.g. white boxes over interactables)
-Any game with lots of interruptions
-Dialogue boxes with voiced grunts, but not voiced dialogue
-Games where enemies can only be harmed with one weapon

[maidenhaver]

Furries.

[TKVNC]

Out of place melanin enrichment
Homosexuality

[Nooneatall]

Furries

[Jordy]

Furries.

[rusty_shackleford]

Furries

[Tangerine]

Furries

[Faceless_Sentinel]

@Vlajdimir Ermenović you should create topic named like "NSFW - Thread for posting attractive/sexy furries - NO EXPLICIT PORN" and post corresponding pictures to make all forum seethe.

[Jordy]

Tweed was right about Faceless Sentinels.

[Nooneatall]

@Vlajdimir Ermenović you should create topic named like "NSFW - Thread for posting attractive/sexy furries - NO EXPLICIT PORN" and post corresponding pictures to make all forum seethe.

IP banned for being a huge faggot

[rusty_shackleford]

Any game with an overly long and/or intrusive tutorial. If your game requires more than this:

Then you FUCKED UP.

I've quit so many games lately due to this.
And don't give me that "just disable the tutorials shit!"
They put "how to walk" and "here's how to operate the phase coupler to disable the trilithium power supply" under that same fucking setting

[DagothGeas5]

Forced stupid protagonist that talks modern slangs.
"Trans" bullshit.
Anything else I can give a try.

[Breathe]

@Vlajdimir Ermenović you should create topic named like "NSFW - Thread for posting attractive/sexy furries - NO EXPLICIT PORN" and post corresponding pictures to make all forum seethe.

IP banned for being a huge faggot

Thank you for your service

[rusty_shackleford]

Any game with an overly long and/or intrusive tutorial. If your game requires more than this:

Then you FUCKED UP.

I've quit so many games lately due to this.
And don't give me that "just disable the tutorials shit!"
They put "how to walk" and "here's how to operate the phase coupler to disable the trilithium power supply" under that same fucking setting

Tangentially,
I've seen a lot of talk about how Mario 64 standardized how 3D action games control, and perhaps 3D games in general.
There's not much about how Fallout standardized how bird's eye view RPGs control.

It's a shame so many of them(except for basically Fallout total conversions & ATOM) threw away the action cursor. It was a great addition taken from the adventure game genre, vastly superior to "click the big button and do awesome thing"

I guess the only other thing close is Diablo? Considering the Fallout demo released so early in '97 I doubt Fallout was influenced by it tho. [edit] And the E3 demo predates Diablo

[WaterMage]

Fucking pronouns.

[J1M]

When all of the dialog is repeated, also known as JRPG writing style.

[Roderick]

When the credits roll.

[Vlajdimir Ermenović]

Any game with an overly long and/or intrusive tutorial. If your game requires more than this:

Then you FUCKED UP.

I've quit so many games lately due to this.
And don't give me that "just disable the tutorials shit!"
They put "how to walk" and "here's how to operate the phase coupler to disable the trilithium power supply" under that same fucking setting

Video game autists who asked their teachers for permission before going out to recess think you need to be lead around on a leash. Yakuza 0 was a huge offender in this area.

[BobT]

Overused quicktime events. And:

Furries.

As to:

@Vlajdimir Ermenović you should create topic named like "NSFW - Thread for posting attractive/sexy furries - NO EXPLICIT PORN" and post corresponding pictures to make all forum seethe.

Better a containment zone.

[WhiteShark]

Head bobbing in FPSs if I can't turn it off or mod it out. Makes me motion sick.

[Vergil]

@Vlajdimir Ermenović you should create topic named like "NSFW - Thread for posting attractive/sexy furries - NO EXPLICIT PORN" and post corresponding pictures to make all forum seethe.

He'd better hurry up if he doesn't want to be beaten to it

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Any game with an overly long and/or intrusive tutorial. If your game requires more than this:

Then you FUCKED UP.

I've quit so many games lately due to this.
And don't give me that "just disable the tutorials shit!"
They put "how to walk" and "here's how to operate the phase coupler to disable the trilithium power supply" under that same fucking setting

You basically discluded 90% of games that came for the past 20 years.

[maidenhaver]

Any game with an overly long and/or intrusive tutorial. If your game requires more than this:

Then you FUCKED UP.

I've quit so many games lately due to this.
And don't give me that "just disable the tutorials shit!"
They put "how to walk" and "here's how to operate the phase coupler to disable the trilithium power supply" under that same fucking setting

You basically discluded 90% of games that came for the past 20 years.

Good.

[asf]

tutorial usually tells me the game was made for retards

[Breathe]

tutorial usually tells me the game was made for retards

It's amazing how many tutorials are "baby's first game." Also, just let us learn by doing. I hate when a game throws 10 info screens at you in 20 mins.

[Kalarion]

Furries.

[MrTwinkls]

Obnoxious modern juvenile characters.

[logincrash]

Any game with an overly long and/or intrusive tutorial. If your game requires more than this:

Then you FUCKED UP.

I've quit so many games lately due to this.
And don't give me that "just disable the tutorials shit!"
They put "how to walk" and "here's how to operate the phase coupler to disable the trilithium power supply" under that same fucking setting

Hogwarts Legacy is a tutorial mission for over half of the game.
A lot of GTA games are like this too.

[gerey]

Any game that subjects me to long cutscenes, or even worse, one of those walking sim levels where you get spoonfed exposition while your character walks as slowly as possible from one point of interest to another, especially if either is unskippable.

Older games rarely did this.

Of the games I recently played Deus Ex 1 sets you lose onto Liberty Island after a short run down the dock, free to go wherever you want within the level. Gothic 1 has a short, introductory dialogue with Diego (that you can opt out of immediately) before letting you roam free. Even games like Sekiro, Elden Ring or Dark Souls keep the bullshit short - they do have tutorial levels, but they are very short and to the point.

[logincrash]

Any game that subjects me to long cutscenes, or even worse, one of those walking sim levels where you get spoonfed exposition while your character walks as slowly as possible from one point of interest to another, especially if either is unskippable.

Older games rarely did this.

Of the games I recently played Deus Ex 1 sets you lose onto Liberty Island after a short run down the dock, free to go wherever you want within the level. Gothic 1 has a short, introductory dialogue with Diego (that you can opt out of immediately) before letting you roam free. Even games like Sekiro, Elden Ring or Dark Souls keep the bullshit short - they do have tutorial levels, but they are very short and to the point.

This. Fucking UNSKIPPABLE CUTSCENES, man.
The devs who won't let you skip cutscenes deserve unskippable torment in the most horrifying depths of hell.