Lemming42
Arcane
Thread for stating your unpopular gaming opinions, and then having everyone else absolutely savage you over them.
The blackjack ruins Thief. The guards are so stupid that running around the map KOing everyone is a trivially easy task, and players who rely on the blackjack miss out on the best elements of the game. I don't really know how they could have improved on this, other than having guards wake up after a set time which would have probably just become tedious very quickly, but the perma-knockout blackjack is still stupid as fuck.
Metal Gear Solid is shit. All of them, from MGS1. And they generally get worse as they go on.
Most otherwise great DOS-era RPGs are held back by inexplicably stupid user interfaces, and would be improved if remade with streamlined interfaces and controls.
Weapon and armour durability/breakability is stupid and exists only to waste the player's time. No exceptions that I can think of. One of many mechanics that people seem to think is "hardcore" or "challenging" when they actually just mean "annoying".
The infinity engine is an absolute travesty. The best infinity engine games succeed in spite of it.
System Shock 1 is a far better game than System Shock 2.
Literally every card game except MtG is just a worse version of MtG.
Add your own.
The blackjack ruins Thief. The guards are so stupid that running around the map KOing everyone is a trivially easy task, and players who rely on the blackjack miss out on the best elements of the game. I don't really know how they could have improved on this, other than having guards wake up after a set time which would have probably just become tedious very quickly, but the perma-knockout blackjack is still stupid as fuck.
Metal Gear Solid is shit. All of them, from MGS1. And they generally get worse as they go on.
Most otherwise great DOS-era RPGs are held back by inexplicably stupid user interfaces, and would be improved if remade with streamlined interfaces and controls.
Weapon and armour durability/breakability is stupid and exists only to waste the player's time. No exceptions that I can think of. One of many mechanics that people seem to think is "hardcore" or "challenging" when they actually just mean "annoying".
The infinity engine is an absolute travesty. The best infinity engine games succeed in spite of it.
System Shock 1 is a far better game than System Shock 2.
Literally every card game except MtG is just a worse version of MtG.
Add your own.