Gaming Cliches

[duke o' york]

This is far beyond just games, but:

Advanced races wanting to take over the earth.

If they are really so advanced that they can make it here from another world, then why the hell would they want to take it over? Surely it would make more sense to either just find somewhere uninhabited in the vastness of space, or, if they really need something that only the earth can offer them, then why don't they just negotiate? I'm sure that any world leader would happily swap a supply of whatever it is that this advanced race requires for access to some of the aforementioned advanced knowledge.

[Adagio]

Healing is one of the most stupid things... in most games you just happen to find something on the floor, and the same time you step on it, you're healed
And in side-scrollers it's even worse... by blowing up some box you often finds hamburgers and chicken... eating a whole hamburger in 0.5 sec is no problems... even though you've already eaten 10+ of them since the round started... And for some reason the player never complains about the state of the food, so I assume the hamburgers are still hot

[Dis]

Originally posted by Arnelos
Lag.

It's probably the chief cliche of online gaming - a perpetual game mechanic we could all live without. I think the first online games included it, so of course everyone else had to copy-cat it as part of the genre. It's really time that someone just did away with it... as a player, I have to say that I really don't need it.



Corollary: People who complain about lag by typing things like "//lag" in the text window as though everyone else needs to be informed of the reason why nothing is moving or everything is choppy. This staple gameplay element to most online games has definately become a tiresome cliche.

Oh wait, that includes me. Well, shoot. At least I've come up with some more colorful and hopefully entertaining ways of complaining about lag in the text box (most of them never read by anyone since being lagged out typically results in being disconnected).

or people who blame lag for dying. Of course that includes me sometimes

[:) Smiley]

From RTS...

All-purpose resources that can be used to build anything.

Said resource just lying around in the middle of cities, on the ground. Original source of this was from the DUNE II game, but that game was based on the Dune books that had a good reason for this.

[Urban Ranger]

Don't they need spices in Dune 2 to build things, and you need to go out to a desert to collect it, with them sand worms lurking about?

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Smiley
From RTS...

All-purpose resources that can be used to build anything.

Granted, some games make this resource "money", which is highly accurate

But yeah, I feel your pain.

[ZargonX]

In both RPGs and FPSs....

Locked doors that your character/party, despite massive strength and armorment, are apparently incapable of even trying to force open, or just plain blow up.

[Adagio]

RPG's:

People are always happy to welcome you to their house, even if all you do is to go into their house and steal all their things they've got...

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Arnelos
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Aside from that issue... what exactly is in the bottle anyway?

Kosher wine? Golan Vineyards, Cabernet Sauv, 1999?

Or, alternatively, chicken soup?

[Zero]

BTW going back to exploding barrel.

if anyone hates exploding barrel as being cliche in games....

Play the level barrel o' fun in Doom2.

[:) Smiley]

FPS/RPG: one person being able to singlehandedly accomplish what normally takes several armies.

RTS: being able to build sophisticated weapons on the battlefield.

TBS: Incredibly slow movement, leads to same result as that of RTS.

In short, action games have exaggerated destruction, while strategy games excessive construction.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by duke o' york
This is far beyond just games, but:

Advanced races wanting to take over the earth.

If they are really so advanced that they can make it here from another world, then why the hell would they want to take it over? Surely it would make more sense to either just find somewhere uninhabited in the vastness of space, or, if they really need something that only the earth can offer them, then why don't they just negotiate? I'm sure that any world leader would happily swap a supply of whatever it is that this advanced race requires for access to some of the aforementioned advanced knowledge.

Because every world they grab means one less world for their enemy to grab, even if theres a crappy magnate race on the planet its still cheaper to grab a somewhat developed and populated world then it is to colonize a world.

But their methods leave alot to be desired, I always move in with force when I want to sieze a world in Moo.

[alva]

In short, action games have exaggerated destruction, while strategy games excessive construction.

Oi, none of that fancy thiking here ok, we don't take kindly to them thinking folks here!!! got it !!!

[Verto]

This thread is a classic.

[Barinthus]

One thing I've always hated about RTS single player campiagns is that if you win a battle or whatever, you get to move on to the next one and most of the time you have to start all over again. Why can't you bring your troops along with you?

And if you lose a battle, it's game over. Eh? It's not how it's in reality. When someone loses a battle, it doesn't neccessarily means that the war is over. Just regroup somewhere else and continue the fight.

That's why I fell in love with Wing Commander game for Nintendo - how you performed during a mission will affect the next mission you get and how the war's progressing. If you lost every single mission, the last mission you have to fight out a rearguard action as your carrier (Tiger's Claw IIRC) retreats from the sector. If you won every single mission, you get to launch a strike against those cat-like people's headquarters.