Showing a long plot-explaining intro right after start, before I have a chance to get to “options” and set the resolution, subtitles, etc. I also “love” unskippable short logo videos at start. And a few screens with only “press any button to continue”.
Luckily, at least in my experience, most of those are just a .mkv that you can either rename or delete and the game will just skip it entirely. Unfortunately that can’t be done on consoles
Games that refuse to let you change the difficulty once you begin a game. More broadly, single player games that worry too much about preserving some sort of honor associated with doing well and make it annoying to play. Like rougue likes that have no save and quit for fear of people save scumming.
No quick restart options for arcade-style games like shmups
Games that end up being too easy once you unlock of figure out one mechanic or technique like dash-dodge or iframe rolling and now the entire game is just the same loop
Unskippable or long intros or cutscenes (I sold Guilty Gear Strive because of that eagle thing…)
The spam garbage ripoffs on the Nintendo eShop that shouldn’t be there
Code in a box
When DLC characters are visible on character select even if you didn’t buy them (looking at those 10 greyed-out characters on SF6 are so annoying)
Artificial difficulty. If I can only finish a game by grinding for hours on end or after endless tedious fetch quests, I am going to be very disappointed. Like there’d better be something else real strong in the title’s favor or I’m likely to drop it altogether.
There was a time when making games more difficult by way of time investment made more sense from a design angle, but that time has long since passed. It’s just lazy design in 9/10 cases theses days.
Ayyyy plus one on both Carrion and Supraland! Loved both of those. I can’t wait to get the latest Surpaland game (Supraworld iirc?). Such a fun puzzle platformer.
I was scrolling looking for this one too! Really excellent game. I’ve been enjoying it and it scratches my metroid itch better than what most people are listing off.
I can’t remember which ones, but I recall some games out there that were putting out new console versions, and kind of sputtered when marketing them for PC.
It’s Game, from 15 years ago!
Yeah, we know. Steam still sells it.
But can it run in HD?
Yes.
Oh. Uh……is it really still available for sale?
Yeah, it-…Hey, wait, you just pulled it!
$60!
I have multiple saves with Dyson Spheres around black holes.
They were played consecutively.
I watched, while playing that game, every single episode of classic Trek, and SNW. I believe a few movies are sprinkled in there too.I only stopped playing to play Clair Obscur.
Those darn millenials and their forcing everyone to drink their fancy drinks and then Karen gets mad at me, the poor veteran just trying to give this business my dollar!
And even if they did upsell like that, it was probably because some boomer insisted (at least at the time of this comic). Out of all the things I associate with “millenials”, wanting to upsell shit to make their employer more money isn’t one of them.
Yeah but how often do they persist after the first decline? I mean, it comes more down to the individual than there generation, but it’s more common to hear “sorry, I have to ask this, but upsell? No, ok cool, that’ll be total” than seeing someone try to argue after the first no thanks.
I often enjoy a simple black coffee, myself, and have never had anyone try to convince me otherwise as if they are dying to do more work. It’s just an ‘other people having choices feels like a threat to my tradition’ kind of comic, I guess. The lady yelling at him is kind of funny, though; I have seen worse boomer humour.
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