Gaming cliches and features I'm tired of, annoyed with and pissed at.

[midnight_hawk]

(I've seen most of these done well, I've just seen them done so many times they make me groan.)

• "I am your father's brother's cousin's former roommate." Big bad bosses with ridiculously tenuous connections to the main character: e.g. "I'm going to kill you because your mother looked funny at me once!"

• "You killed me, but you have to fight me again

Comments

[plutospawn]

HAHAHA!

"I am a party member/character you trusted but I am totally working for the bad guy/am the real bad guy and am going to kill you /kick your puppy now!" After the first time this happened in one game, I'm not surprised by betrayals in any game anymore, I just get annoyed by seeing a really obvious twist coming up.

See, I like it when there are characters that don't automatically like you because you're "Teh Hero!" And backstabbing can be awesome, but I see what you mean about seeing it a mile away. That sucks and then you hate your main character for being a dumbass.

"I'm the main character's love interest. I'm horribly insecure and will bitch you out constantly. I also have mommy/daddy issues."
I think that's some sort of fanservice that I just can't grasp. It's the female love interest for the alpha male hero, isn't it? Bleh.

[midnight_hawk]

See, I like it when there are characters that don't automatically like you because you're "Teh Hero!" And backstabbing can be awesome, but I see what you mean about seeing it a mile away. That sucks and then you hate your main character for being a dumbass.

Yes it's not the duplicity, it's that there's usually no option to say "Hay, I totally noticed you trying to stick that Knife of Betrayal +1 in my back, peon!"

I think that's some sort of fanservice that I just can't grasp. It's the female love interest for the alpha male hero, isn't it? Bleh.

Actually it applies to both genders, so many romances require the main character to baby their love interest, but the female characters are usually the most obvious examples.

[lord_valentai]

And the love interest in all the games I've played (admittedly I've not played that many) is usually the righteous/holy/LG character who pisses you off.

NWN2 I'm looking at you. Especially for the female love interest. They're all so needy and annoying.

[kosiah]

This list makes me want to finish playing Oblivion and NwN2 -- although now I am afraid that lovable demon girl is going to betray me.

And yeah... unskippable dream sequences that are only interesting the first time you see them are the worst.

I played Kotor right after Morrowind and spent the whole game going, "so when do I find out I'm the Navarene?" And of course I wasn't the Navarene, but Revan might as well have been. Still, I think it was one twist done well.

[midnight_hawk]

I'm also worried the tiefling will betray me. It's always the rogues, isn't it? Almost as if their entire profession is based around stabbing people in the back...oh wait.

[plutospawn]

Let's make a holier than thou Paladin turn us in to the bad guy. None of this, "I can't stand your perky, hero ways, but you are on the side of right so I must fight with you!" Just, "I thought you were a stupid asshat and here's a lot of silver, be-yatch."