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[UXLZ]

World of Assholes

50% of why I don't like Fable (the first one, but I imagine the others are much the same). Everybody is an asshole, a sycophantic follower, or totally neutral to your character. Nobody is nice, nobody is helpful, everybody just plain sucks. Not to mention that 90% of NPCs have the most obnoxious, gimmicky fake British accents imaginable. I actually kind of like Fable's gameplay and I don't mind the graphics that much, but by God is everything else about the game annoying.

Your mother
Sister
Whisper (iffy)
Guild master
Rose lady (Branded Rose?)

All these people seemed pretty 'nice' to me. Of course, they weren't exactly tripping over their own feet trying to help you and there was definitely some odd... *ahem* tension in Rose's case. Whisper was the classic 'I'm better than you' rival but she wasn't really too much of a jerk. It was just kind of the way she was raised by her brother.

Anyway, I really liked Fable, though I'd say it's 40% rose-tinted-glasses.

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Hey, hey, Skyrim, you know your really 'meh' vanilla game? F*ck that!

Peeve: Mediocre or bad games lauded as really awesome.

[Neonivek]

I think Fable was the best in its series to be truthful... and while the second game did bring a lot of needed improvements to the table... it lost its edge and was a pathetically easy game.

Not that Fable wasn't too easy and was perfect all the way through... far from it. Fable was a very flawed game, but the sequels take some of its more prominent flaws and amplifies them.

[UXLZ]

I really disliked the removal of armor, to be honest. Freaking guns, always ruining everything.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I hated how the third had no variety whatsoever
Just like 3 sets of 'armor' or something and very few weapons to choose from

[Parsely]

I hated how the third had no variety whatsoever
Just like 3 sets of 'armor' or something and very few weapons to choose from

^^This. Mass Effect had the same problem for me but at least fighting was still enjoyable.

[UXLZ]

I hated how the third had no variety whatsoever
Just like 3 sets of 'armor' or something and very few weapons to choose from

^^This. Mass Effect had the same problem for me but at least fighting was still enjoyable.

I think Mass Effect went way overkill with all the different armor, and weapons and weapon mods and all that that in the first game and then scaled it back too harshly. There was more variety in the third if I remember correctly. Still a good game though. Besides, it probably let them focus more on the story and character interactions.
(Second ME is the best in my opinion.)

[NullForceOmega]

Bosses with bullshit abilities (oh so very many games, but right now Warframe), most specificly the 'spawn minions or activate some other ammo-sink target that makes me invulnerable' shit.  I am so sick of this bullshit, contrived, mindless way to artificailly draw out a battle.  If you want me to have to think about what I'm doing, then give the fucking actor some real A.I. and stop dicking around with this recycled stupid garbage!

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I too hate bosses with invilnerability just to draw out battles.

I also hate games with way too many weapon types/different ammo types because it makes it way to hard to keep one gun with enough ammo.
Fallout new Vegas went just ever so slightly over the line, not nearly far enough to anger me but just enough for me to dislike the over variety of ammo
Both borderlands (one and two, haven't played the new ones yet) had just the right gun/ammo varity for my taste

[UXLZ]

The newest one is basically Space Australia. Or at least, Space Australian Stereotypes (with a British urchin stereotype thrown in just 'cause.)

If you don't know a lot about Australian culture you probably won't get a lot of the references.

Oh, and Jack has these arm cannon things that look ridiculous.
Think of it more as an expansion pack to BL2 than an actual new game.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

The newest one is basically Space Australia. Or at least, Space Australian Stereotypes (with a British urchin stereotype thrown in just 'cause.)

If you don't know a lot about Australian culture you probably won't get a lot of the references.

Oh, and Jack has these arm cannon things that look ridiculous.
Think of it more as an expansion pack to BL2 than an actual new game.

That sounds perfect
I never even finished BL2
I have this problem where I will love the game but run into a patch where I can't play then I try to pick it back up and I forget how to play or everything I was doing

[UXLZ]

As far as I'm concerned it's a slightly-worse-in-some-ways slightly-better-in-some-ways slightly shorter BL2 (game play wise) but for the most part it's just more of the same. The new abilities are faaaiirly interesting but nothing too amazing.

Nisha - Aimbot + Buff
Athena - Damage Soak
Wilhelm - Mobile turret drone and some other drone.
Claptrap - LOLSORANDOM

At least, that's how I'd describe them.

[Tawa]

I know I'm way late on nonstandard game overs, but my favorites were the Paper Mario ones. Always show up right before the final boss and seem like insanely counter-intuitive choices, but they're there anyway.
I just can't stand games where they're usually quite good, but then one little spelling or grammar error ruins the mood. Flash games are really prone to this--action/adventure games where the designers forgot periods existed, RPGs where the final boss terribly misspells a word in his pre-fight monologue, the list goes on. On the other end of the spectrum are games that suck (especially RPGs with poorly-thought-out gameplay) but have flawless text.

Oh, I also can't stand games where there should be a plot, but there isn't. Usually RPGs. Nintendo's been a big offender here for a while (looking at you, Link Between Worlds and Sticker Star), but I see it way too often otherwise, as well.

[Neonivek]

Here is a HUGE pet peave of mine

When what is being said in the voice over, and what is being said in the text are not the same.

I don't care if the person is saying "It is" while the text it "It's"... it BUGS me.

and to add onto this

When you can name the main character only for the text to refer to you but the voice over to just not mention your name

Seriously man if that was the case I'd have preferred a fixed name. At LEAST give me a nickname. I didn't mind being called Little Sparrow in Fable 2.

[UXLZ]

Here is a HUGE pet peave of mine

When what is being said in the voice over, and what is being said in the text are not the same.

I've got to agree with this one a lot. It really is quite irritating. Sometimes I'll change to another language for the voice-overs so the subtitles aren't mismatched (to my knowledge, at least. xD)

On the other stuff, I really did quite like the Titles system from Fable. It made you feel like you were moving up a bit. Somewhat related to this, my pet peeve is:

Games that declare the player-character as the 'Super Special Chosen One / Ultimate King of Awesome You Are the Best there Ever Was' way too quickly and way too readily. Looking at you, Skyrim.  Also looking at you, surprisingly, Divinity: Original Sin.

[Neonivek]

In all fairness though when Divinity does it

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

it is because you already did it.

I am thinking of games that did a twist on this concept...

I mean there is Whispered World of course... OHH and Avalon Code

and Avalon Code probably does the "Destined most awesome person who ever lived" REALLY interestingly. I mean honestly the framing of Avalon Code is probably one of the greatest of ALL videogames.

Yet it wastes it.

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Basically you are the holder of a book, everything you record in the book will survive to the next age... because you see the world is ending and there is nothing you can do about it. As well the book can alter anything written into its pages, changing people, monsters, places, items, or even creating them on the spot.

And no, the game never EVER gives you a cop out. This end of the world WILL happen. Your role isn't to prevent this, but to record.