Topic: Things that shouldn't be a standard in Gaming but for some reason it is...

Everytime we play a game, there is always those things that appear no matter how many games we plays, We then found out it's a standard to make a Game ''a game'' because it's ''cool'', This thread is here to complain about them and how we could make it Better. Got it? 3,2,1, GO!!

I see things like this in casual games all the time... they're basically all exactly the same; doesn't matter who made them... Popcap is better than most, though. They seem to like to set the trends rather than follow them.

Anyway, my Mom showed me two games she's playing on her phone; both were exactly the same, they just had different themes/characters...

Forced motion controls and system gimmicks. Especially in Nintendo games, where things like Wii remote controls, waggle, the 3DS gyroscope, etc seem to be used to death even if they do nothing to improve the games they're used in.

That's about it I think.

Health regeneration in first person shooters. Oh and shame-less me too COD clones. You know the ones I'm talking about.

Bragging that you're 8 bit or 16 bit. At first it was kinda cool, but now it's getting annoying. If 8 bit is all you can do, that's ok, just don't brag about it. And don't brag you're "old-school" or "retro" gameplay either. Push the genre forward not back.

@SkywardLink98: I love games with a "retro" art style, when done right! Like Mutant Mudds and their "12-bit" art style, lol. That's the visual style I like best in video games; so far the games I've made myself have used a "retro" art style. I don't promote them as such (usually), but that's what they are. I kinda like using modern graphics effects along with retro-style pixelart.

Button mashing.

Forced Tutorials. That is all.

Would love to be able to skip tutorials. Theyre kinda pointless if youve played the game before.

Forced online multiplayer modes.

3rd person shooters with an emphasis on a cover system (Gears and Mass Effect are the only games where this was a good idea imo)

Forced XP systems
Insane inputs (Fighting games)
Kids online

Cutscenes galore and guns

To be quite honest, I haven't seen any hard to do inputs in a fighting game in years, outside of maybe one or two moves. They've realy been reigning it in since the late '90s.

yeah, it's sad that FPS and the like are so prevalent that even guns feel overdone and boring much of the time :V

I think half the reason I really liked Red Faction: Guerrila is that the game had a relative lack of guns.

overly complicated controls. i feel so much better when the game developer respects my intelligence and teaches me how to play by level design instead of flashy intrusive screen tutorials.

Swearing, sexualization of women and sexual content, and gratuitous graphic violence.

Text so small that it can only be read on an HD TV. I don't see how this benefits anyone.

The need to make everything so dang "gritty" and "mature" and "hardcore." Heaven forbid someone over the age of 20 enjoys fun things because they're fun.