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[Parsely]

* GUNINANRUNIN explodes from Radiant Historia spoilers.

[Neonivek]

Fixed even though it REALLY isn't a spoiler...

Besides we all know no one here has or will play Radiant Historia... Even though they probably should it is a pretty good RPG for the DS... Albeit a surprisingly hard RPG in general.

[Shadowlord]

Ha, those are great.  Star Control 2 had this too.  You can eventually surrender to one of the antagonist factions, giving them your unique Precursor battleship.  This probably changes the fate of the galaxy, saving dozens of intelligent species from eradication.  The game doesn't tell you, because you're executed for insurgency.  It's not a trap, they tell you upfront.  It's an interesting choice.

Star Control 3 had one, too, but I think it was just a trap or something.  SC3 wasn't all that bad but it was a letdown.  My peeve: those horrible claymation faces.

In SC2:
I don't remember ever seeing this choice, but regardless:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Your ship is only a tugboat. The Sa-Matra is a precursor battleship, but it's offline when you attack it at the end of the game.
Wiki page about the flagship.

If you could surrender to the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (green ur-quan), everyone in the galaxy would almost certainly still get killed because the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za haven't the numbers to stop the Kohr-Ah (black ur-quan), because of the Shofixti's destruction of a substantial part of the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za fleet in the first war (and because the Kzer-Za refuse to use the Sa-Matra in the Doctrinal Conflict).

The game's outcome doesn't change even if you go on a rampage killing Kohr-Ah instead of doing what you have to do, so it doesn't seem possible that giving the Kzer-Za your ship would make any difference (if they would even deign to use it).

[Parsely]

Fixed even though it REALLY isn't a spoiler...

Besides we all know no one here has or will play Radiant Historia... Even though they probably should it is a pretty good RPG for the DS... Albeit a surprisingly hard RPG in general.

I'm playing it. Right now. x_x

[Shadowlord]

I played it, but never finished it. Discovered I needed to grind before I could continue the story, and didn't really feel like doing that.

[Rolan7]

Ha, those are great.  Star Control 2 had this too.  You can eventually surrender to one of the antagonist factions, giving them your unique Precursor battleship.  This probably changes the fate of the galaxy, saving dozens of intelligent species from eradication.  The game doesn't tell you, because you're executed for insurgency.  It's not a trap, they tell you upfront.  It's an interesting choice.

Star Control 3 had one, too, but I think it was just a trap or something.  SC3 wasn't all that bad but it was a letdown.  My peeve: those horrible claymation faces.

In SC2:
I don't remember ever seeing this choice, but regardless:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Your ship is only a tugboat. The Sa-Matra is a precursor battleship, but it's offline when you attack it at the end of the game.
Wiki page about the flagship.

If you could surrender to the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (green ur-quan), everyone in the galaxy would almost certainly still get killed because the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za haven't the numbers to stop the Kohr-Ah (black ur-quan), because of the Shofixti's destruction of a substantial part of the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za fleet in the first war (and because the Kzer-Za refuse to use the Sa-Matra in the Doctrinal Conflict).

The game's outcome doesn't change even if you go on a rampage killing Kohr-Ah instead of doing what you have to do, so it doesn't seem possible that giving the Kzer-Za your ship would make any difference (if they would even deign to use it).

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That's a valid point, but I think it's a gameplay limitation more than anything.  (Nearly) all races have an unlimited number of ships in their spheres of influence.  Amusingly, it's unclear exactly how many Ur-Quan were destroyed:

The description of the losses suffered by Ur-Quan fleet varies from source to source: the Yehat assert that nearly thirty percent of the entire Ur-Quan war fleet had been destroyed, the Melnorme say that over a hundred Dreadnoughts had been caught in the miniature nova and the Shofixti allege that there were hundreds of Dreadnoughts destroyed. According to the Chmmr, this act also resulted in the Kohr-Ah fleet vastly outnumbering the Ur-Quan, which gave them a very significant advantage in the Doctrinal Conflict. Fwiffo, on the other hand, states that the blast only destroyed "dozens of Dreadnoughts", implying that a relatively small number of ships were lost.

I think we can trust the Chmmr and the Melnorme, and perhaps the Yehat.

Despite that crippling blow, the two fleets are closely matched.  And the player's ship, despite being an oddly modular tugboat, is nearly invincible once fully upgraded with Melnorme weapons technology.  It could easily destroy hundreds of Kohr-ah per month, shifting the balance of power back to the Kzer-za.

That's my speculative headcanon.  And despite their reasons, a Kzer-Za victory is hardly ideal anyway.

I'd have wanted to take this to the SC2 thread, I mean Star Control 2 thread, but there pretty much isn't one 

[Delta Foxtrot]

Fixed even though it REALLY isn't a spoiler...

Besides we all know no one here has or will play Radiant Historia... Even though they probably should it is a pretty good RPG for the DS... Albeit a surprisingly hard RPG in general.

Sounds like a rather self fulfilling prophesy.

Not that I'm going to play Radiant Historia, so there's that

[Shadowlord]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Despite that crippling blow, the two fleets are closely matched.  And the player's ship, despite being an oddly modular tugboat, is nearly invincible once fully upgraded with Melnorme weapons technology.  It could easily destroy hundreds of Kohr-ah per month, shifting the balance of power back to the Kzer-za.

That's my speculative headcanon.  And despite their reasons, a Kzer-Za victory is hardly ideal anyway.

I'd have wanted to take this to the SC2 thread, I mean Star Control 2 thread, but there pretty much isn't one 

Sure, I can agree with that.

[dorf]

Does anyone else hate puns and stereotypical characters?

I'm fine with TF2, but Awesomenaut and Block N Load are just horrific in this regard.

[SealyStar]

DLCs that don't fit with the base game.

I'm looking at you, FNV, where three out of the four don't let you go back until you're done with their microcosmic quests, you can't bring your companions and in some cases inventory with you, and the basic gameplay even feels different. Each one really feels like an effort to simulate a completely different genre/game with the FNV engine: Bioshock, Bioshock/Portal Hybrid, Generic Supersoldier Shooter 12...

[MaximumZero]

Fixed even though it REALLY isn't a spoiler...

Besides we all know no one here has or will play Radiant Historia... Even though they probably should it is a pretty good RPG for the DS... Albeit a surprisingly hard RPG in general.

I'm playing it. Right now. x_x

Maybe I'll pick it up after I'm finished with Suikoden Tierkreis.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I may have already said this but I hate it when games (outside of beta/alpha etc testing) have massive but fix updates. Most notably Battle field 4.
I have very limited amounts of internet and when they throw a 2GB update at me
1-it take all or two hours to download
2- I have to get my parents approval to pay for extra internets to get the update
And may I say that when they do this my parents have to pay extra money for me to play their game because they made so many fuckups in making the thing and rushing it's release that people like I must pay to continue to play their half assed game.
I'll be honest I was pissed when they did that because I baught that game specifically for multiplayer stuff and only a month after buying it the updates got too big and I had to stop playing it for months until I got only slightly better/larger internet

[alexandertnt]

Inconsistant pixel art zooming

Where an object is more zoomed in/out than others. This can be OK when used as an occasional special effect (like a fireball flying at the screen or something), but when various things in the scene have seemingly arbitary zooming, it looks real bad.

Rotating pixel art

Rotating pixel art ends up looking noisy and messy.

Pixel graphics that are made from already pixelated sprites

Not quite sure how to explain it, but if you open up some sprite sheets, the objects are already zoomed in, so that what looks like one pixel is actually stored as, say, a 4x4 coloured box.

This results in weird looking rotations, where each pixel is rotated as if it were a coloured box, and the pixelated effect breaks down and it ends up looking like blocky vector art or something.

Can also result in objects that are side by side not having pixels that align up, for example, the back of your characters foot lies inbetween a ground pixel.

Spoiler: Images are better than words (click to show/hide)

[Sergius]

Hard to say if this is a "pet peeve" but I suppose it could be expanded to games in general, anyway: Saints Row 3-4 fake gear shifting annoys the heck out of me. (pretty sure GTA didn't do this)

[pisskop]

I dont know what it does.  Is it the standard tap to shift?